Leaving Cloud-Leaning Pavilion's Branch Residence, one found oneself before a peach grove spanning several thousand acres.
Monan lay upon a plateau, where the climate was dry and cold, with enormous temperature swings between day and night. Though summer had already arrived, the temperature remained low. The peach blossom variety in this grove had clearly been specially cultivated; under careful tending, the branches were still covered in blooms even now.
Under the moonlight, the luxuriant peach blossoms resembled patches of rosy clouds, indescribably romantic and beautiful.
However, Zuoqiu Qingyun had no mood to appreciate the peach blossoms. Not long after flying out of the Branch Residence, he landed and darted through the grove close to the ground.
He did not dare fly through the air. For one thing, he was being cautious, afraid of being intercepted.
For another, the reason he could fight above his level was Elder Jiang's possession of his body with his divine soul. What it enhanced was chiefly the power of his divine soul, not the amount of Profound Qi he possessed.
If he kept flying through the air by consuming divine soul power, Elder Jiang, now no more than a remnant soul, would soon run out of oil and the lamp would go dark.
Zuoqiu Qingyun moved swiftly, occasionally kicking off the ground or tree trunks. He was both light and fast, as nimble as a sparrow flitting through the woods and as agile as a swimming fish, silently speeding onward.
"Elder Jiang, who exactly is that damned woman?" Filled with resentment and unwillingness, Zuoqiu Qingyun could not help roaring inwardly.
If that mysterious woman had not interfered, he would already have gotten Fairy Tianyan in his hands today.
She was a Celestial Realm Heavenly Prodigy. Once he had her as a cultivation furnace, his cultivation