Chapter 385
Relocation—planned and executed.
A few days later, Lin Hui hosted a final farewell dinner for the Pine Wind Sword Hall and announced its dissolution. The core disciples were asked to make a choice; everyone else was free to leave.
Among the core disciples, all chose to go except Wu Anning.
Unburdened by any remaining ties, only Wu Anning followed Lin Hui as he entered the peripheral mountain forests where the Yin-Yang Pavilion was situated. There, they built a small courtyard beside the Mountain Man Meixin's dwelling and settled in.
After the core disciples scattered, many joined the revolutionary army. As the daughter of a senior official in the new forces, Liu Xuezhen was deeply reluctant to part from Lin Hui. Yet, unable to follow him into seclusion, she could only bid him farewell through tears.
In an instant, the once-lively sword hall fell silent and empty.
Moving in step with the changing age, Lin Hui's Grand Yin-Yang Time Reversal Sword Art continued to sense the thrumming strings of time. His cultivation surged ahead at a blistering pace. Two years after settling in the mountains, he achieved perfection in the second layer and began cultivating the third.
In its baseline state, this sword art could momentarily reverse the fleeting tides of battle. When actively invoked, its time-reversal ability could rewind his own physical condition by a full day. Having reached Perfected in the second layer, Lin Hui now possessed two charges of this reversal.
He kept them in reserve.