Ling Yushi’s eyes flickered as she waited for him to continue, a spark of curiosity bloomed inside her heart.
“You said that you hoped to be of help to me in the future. You said you didn’t want to become my burden, hoped to keep up with my footsteps…” Qin Lie looked at her and for the first time grabbed her hands on his own. While Ling Yushi’s eyes fell into a mess, he softly continued, “I can tell you right now that if you continue to stay in Ling Town, you will never keep up with my footsteps. Only by leaving, only by going to Seven Fiends Valley can you catch up to me…”
“No, it shouldn’t be like this, I don’t want to hear it.” Ling Yushi was close to tears as she shook her head repeatedly.
“Go. Leave Ling Town, join Seven Fiends Valley and work hard for the future when you and I can be together once more.” As Qin Lie said with a heavy voice, he took out the first spirit tablet that he had spent more than half a year to successfully create and pushed it into Ling Yushi’s soft palm, saying, “This is the one and only spirit tablet that I have successfully made. It is my first step on the path of Artifact Forging. To make it happen, I have spent countless sweat and hard work, and today… I gift it to you.”
Ling Yushi’s hand shivered, she bit her lips tightly, and tears flowed from her eyes.
“If you want us to have a future, then you must leave Ling Town. Only Seven Fiends Valley can truly bring out all your talent!” Qin Lie roared.
Ling Yushi’s body shuddered intensely.
“So go. Go out and tell your father, tell that Jiu Liuyu or whatever that you’ve figured it out and that you want to go to Seven Fiends Valley.” With a heavy expression, still holding her hands, he forcefully pulled her out of the stone house before immediately shutting himself inside the house. He growled through the door, “Put on your best and wait for me at Seven Fiend Valley; wait for me to come for you in the future. I, Qin Lie, swear this now! I will come for you!”
Ling Yushi stood at the doorway, listening to Qin Lie’s croaked growls; the tears would not stop.
After an unknown amount of time, under her father’s hopeful eyes, she finally stood up with dead eyes and walked towards the direction of the rich carriage.
Inside the house, Qin Lie was curled into a ball behind the door, his eyes crimson, and his teeth gritted to keep himself from screaming.
On the other side, surprise flowed out of Lu Li’s stern eyes when she saw Ling Yushi coming over. She stood up and walked over to a window that was once of Du Jiaolan’s room and spoke through it, “Master, she has come to a conclusion.”
“Very good. Find that kid and give him a Natal Ordering Pill. Tell him to forget about Ling Yushi forever.” from inside the room, a cold, crony voice resounded.
“Understood.”
Lu Li answered once before she walked in the direction of Qin Lie’s stone house. When she and Ling Yushi crossed paths, her body shivered slightly, and it wasn’t until after she turned back to look at an indifferent-looking Ling Yushi before she finally resumed her steps.
Not long later, she arrived in front of the door of Qin Lie’s stone house and slipped a delicate little medicine bottle from the gap beneath the stone door. She said coldly, “If you can break through to the Natal Opening Realm, the Natal Ordering Pill will greatly increase your chances of success and reduce the risk of your body exploding and killing you when you ascend from the early stage to the middle stage of the Natal Opening Realm.”
She paused for a second before continuing, “Your decision surprised me a little, but I still need to tell you this. From today onwards she is my junior, and no longer a simple girl in Ling Town. She has stepped into a completely new world of cultivation, and in the future, she will have broader landscapes to see. She will no longer be in the same world as you are… I hope that this Natal Ordering Pill will make you forget about her, to forget your desires for her. It will be better for the both of you.”
Once she finished, not bothering to even listen to Qin Lie’s reply, she stood up and prepared herself to leave.
“Wait right there!” Qin Lie suddenly opened the stone door and flung the Natal Ordering Pill right into her palm. His handsome face was as cold as ice as he said impulsively towards Lu Li, “You and your master do not deserve to decide anything between her and me! You do not have the rights! Seven Fiends Valley, is it? One day I will come looking for her, and you will bear witness!”
“What an interesting fellow. Sure, I’ll wait.” Lu Li curled her lips. She smiled arrogantly and indifferently before withdrawing the Natal Ordering Pill. She even whispered, “How ungrateful…” before she finally walked away.