Hua Xiaotian didn't know how Demi Immortal Qilian had found out that the source of the disaster was the Qiantang River. He only knew that Demi Immortal Qilian was deeply disappointed and furious, and that he himself was the cause of it all.
The command, "Do not come to see me until you've reached the Middle Stage of the Gang Realm," had invisibly sealed the terms of their separation.
"Yes, Master!"
Knowing Demi Immortal Qilian's unyielding nature was like knowing an arrow, once loosed, could never return. Though he had a thousand things to say, they all condensed into that simple reply. With that, Hua Xiaotian rose from the ground, his spirit dazed and his expression forlorn. Turning his back to the old figure meditating cross-legged before the cliff, he began to walk, step by step, down the mountain path.
「At the same time.」
