The Endless Promise

94. Fate's Will 1

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Five days had passed, and Luoyin sat at a table, a hot cup of rich green tea before him.

After leaving Yue City, Yinying had still been able to hear his cub's cries from miles and miles away, so he opted to remain in Luoyin's Spirit realm, which left only Yin Xing, and Immortals Bao and Kai sitting around the table with Luoyin, each occasionally sipping from their respective cups of tea, more out of habit than need.

The four were in an expensive looking tea house called 'Jade Cloud' within Jade City, a large canal city along the western edges of Baishan, and certainly far from Yueyan Mountain!

This city was also one of the few cities which had survived more than three black dragon attacks, meaning it was closely monitored by Sky Realm...

And so Luoyin briefly shut off the constant seal on his aura and unleashed his aura in bold waves, which would surely trigger the fate mirrors, or any other immortals watching...

They had done this in four other places so far, each time, leaving almost at once, before anyone arrived.

It would be enough to make Tianlong realize Luoyin wasn't in Yue City anymore, and it was only a matter of time before the enemies realized as well.

So both sides would hopefully leave the Yueyan region alone!

Luoyin's irises shifted around the tea house, empty except for the four of them.

His aura was invisible to mortal eyes, but it did leave an immensely oppressive pressure in the air, so every mortal within or around the teahouse would find it unbearable.

However, the tea house owner didn't mind, and even merrily skipped away, leaving the tea house to them...

Immortal Kai had given him a chest filled with gold!

"I think this will do." Luoyin glumly stated, killing his aura. "A few more and we can return to Lotus Lake in peace."

"Xiaobai, I must say, for a mortal, your aura is something else!" Immortal Kai fanned himself. "What is your cultivation level now?"

"I don't know." Luoyin's reply was soulless, but true. "'One mustn't overlook the basics', but I grew too fast to keep up with the mortal cultivation levels..."

He had merely strived to be stronger than he was each passing day, and with a combination of his medical knowledge, the resources he had gotten his hands on, and the Starlight furnace, he had grown by leaps and bounds.

At first, he simply wasn't bothered, but even after studying the mortal cultivation levels, he would have moved on to a higher stage, before he could even find out what a particular stage meant...

He had lost interest at some point!

Yin Xing was aghast. "Elder brother, How can you not know your own cultivation leve-?!" He began, but Immortal Kai shook his head.

~"Do you think this fellow will listen to anything you say?"~ Old man Bao asked through telepathy, and Yin Xing fell silent.

Luoyin's thoughts were indeed in turmoil as they danced around his last night in Yue City... the feeling of Weiyan in his arms, her warmth, her scent, and the softness of her lips...

Or the same thoughts insisted on envisioning what might happen if he stayed at Yueyan- or brought Xu Weiyan with him- and then something bad happened.

And he lost Xu Weiyan...

He sighed.

His wedding to Weiyan was really just a matter of days ago, yet she had affected him to this extent.