The most important thing is.
He missed her.
He missed her deeply, yearning to hold her in his arms, to kiss her twice.
A smile appeared on his lips.
As for the failure to advance, he didn't care much.
Or rather, he was already prepared for it.
Pure Cultivation is about cultivating a heart that sees through the world's desires.
But his heart was easily grasped in the palms by his Sect Hierarch.
He was pulled into the mundane world.
This Heart Demon, it seems, won't go away.
And he didn't want it to go away.
If he cannot Pure Cultivate, then he won't.
There must be a way.
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In Guan Ning Valley, chaos had already erupted by this time.
The atmosphere had shifted from the initial calm with underlying turbulent waves,
to now overtly tense and confrontational.
Some Cultivators were glaring angrily at Su Yan,
"Demon! You are truly arrogant!!"
Looking on, the table beside Su Yan had been overturned.
She still sat there, seemingly unaffected.
At her feet.
