It was the first ti Luo Mingyu saw people actually die. She was already familiar with the concept, as she was not a naive girl. But knowing sothing and actually seeing it happen is very different. Wu Long could ask her to close her eyes or look away, but he knew that it was a very important step in the process of the creation of her own path to comprehending the Dao, as well as her own ntal developnt. The sheltered life Luo Mingyu led prior to eting Wu Long was what was limiting her own developnt, and now that she ca out of this shell she had to see the world as it was.
It did not an that he could not comfort her after, as he did just that, sitting her on his lap and hugging her as she burrowed her head into his embrace and tried to calm down the tumultuous heart that ca with witnessing the scene before. As she gradually settled a little, she was able to talk about that experience as she was processing it. Hua Ziyan, Ye Ling, and Shen Min were also supportive of her, sharing their insights with her until she was able to concentrate on the aning the scene before had in the Dao of life.
"Mingyu, take your ti, there is no need to rush"
He said after so ti.
"What do you an? I am not..."
She tried to brush it off but when she saw his eyes, she lowered hers a little and nodded, as she realized that she was seen through. She had a lot of things to comprehend now that she was experiencing life more fully. Their dual cultivation sessions, the knowledge about Martial Dao from teaching martial skills and techniques to others, the new understandings from their conversations, as well as the life and death struggles of the cultivation world. The food for thought she had was so abundant that she now had trouble processing it all, but she tried to take it in all at once, in order to show that she was capable of keeping up with Wu Long.
He brought her face up by her chin a little to look her in the eyes.
"You are not only a Dao Cultivator, and you do not need to worry about being always perfect. It is great that you want to improve, but you need ti to properly digest everything"
He then smiled at her.
"Besides, you are already doing great"
She nodded slightly and went for a kiss which he reciprocated. She smiled and sat a little more comfortably on his lap to continue her discussion with the others a little more relaxed.
"Those assassins... are they related to the people you talked about before?"
Wei Lan asked Wu Long in the anti. As Wei Lan heard the conversations between the man in gray and Wu Long, as well as heard her forr sect master allude to a certain power that influences everything from behind the curtains, she naturally had suspicions so he explained to her in general terms about the situation, though he did not tell her any of his speculations regarding the culprits as that was not verified information, and would also cause a lot of questions about the knowledge that allowed for these speculations to be plausible.
"I cannot say for sure, but it does not look that way, or at least not completely. The reason I decided to stay here instead of moving out imdiately was precisely because of the probability of those people in the shadows trying to attack falling to the floor when I killed that man next to your sect leader. So I am fairly certain that these people were moving independently, besides, they belong to another major power"
"Hm? Why would the probability of an attack from them fall? Wouldn't they be even more eager to hunt you down now that you have ssed up even more of their plans?"
"It is because of suspicion that I might be related to so of their peers. The fact that I continuously ruined their preparations and had defeated so many of the experts sent against which were supposed to be undefeatable by anyone not related to major powers is making them nervous"
"You an that they might suspect soone is backing you or even sent you specifically to ss up their plans?"
Wu Long nodded.
"You see, the circle of powerful people is actually not that wide, and they all know each other. About now so of them, including the ones who are planning and scheming in the kingdoms are looking at the others with suspicion since they cannot be sure who sent since they do not believe I could pop out of nowhere on my own without a hand of a major power"
"But even if they are cautious, they should at least do sothing to interfere with you, right?"
"Hmm, sending more of the sa level people would just be spending resources without much result, and human resources such as these are valuable. You cannot find highly trained people in the Foundation Building Realm that easily, as they take ti to be brought up.
But they cannot send more competent people since then they would have to send their own, and that could bring them into a direct conflict with soone they are imagining backing or giving orders. In other words, I am now protected by their caution against other big players on the gaboard. My leisure in staying here is sowhat playing on that caution and intensifying it since it looks like I am provoking them into attacking "
He explained and she nodded with understanding.
"But we should start moving shortly as so of the clueless people are going to start to annoy us here soon enough"
"You an those who would want to see if there is anything left of value here?"
"Exactly, unlike those people moving with caution despite their power, these powerless people will move without vigilance since they do not have the sa considerations, and therefore will take their chances"
Wu Long confird that it was ti to leave this place to travel further to the Liugwei Kingdom.
After so final preparations, they soon set off. They traveled on foot as that was faster, but this ti they chose their route so that they could stay in inns at night, as while Wu Long did not particularly care even if he had to lodge under the open sky, he did not want the sa for his won. They also had training sessions in the mornings, which took ti. So they traveled at a slightly slower speed than Wu Long did alone.
The Liugwei Kingdom was located at the southern tip of the continent, the furthest from the Azure Eagle Empire. It was also the only kingdom that had access to a relatively safe sea.
It was clear to Wu Long that the three continents were once part of one giant continent, but in the battle that fractured this world, the centermost part was lost while around 70% of the landmass was either completely obliterated or subrged under the water.
The parts that survived were the outskirts of the past continent, laid out in long and relatively thin if compared to the forr continent, strips of land. The center of the world was still severely damaged, and the Spiritual Qi that flowed to this world from the rest of the Seven Boundless Worlds, as well as the Spiritual Qi that was produced by this world's World Root, was sucked in by the damaged parts to heal the impairnt, hence the lack of quality and quantity of the Spiritual Qi. That was also the reason travel to and from the other worlds was severed, as the channels were turbulent with Spiritual Qi that headed in to heal this world.
The Seven Boundless Worlds was like a living and breathing organism, with every minor world being parts of its flesh. All of them were connected to form a system that constantly exchanged Spiritual Qi which was like its blood. The link to the other worlds was in the case of this world located in the forr center of the continent.
The 'fractured' in the fractured world held double aning, as the world was both damaged and also in a way fractured off from the Seven Boundless Worlds.
The travel between the continents lay through the three seas in between them, bypassing the center part riddled with broken space, and the outer ocean was too dangerous for any kind of activity as demonic sea beasts there were incredibly powerful for the current world inhabitants.
Wu Long and the company arrived on the northwestern border of the kingdom a few days later. As they visited one of its border towns, smoke rose from one of the nurous kingdom army forts that were located throughout the border since kingdoms engaged in warfare quite often.
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