Chapter 917: By Coincidence (I)
The lake waters rippled gently beneath the Heavenly Glow Dawn Cloudliner. Li Yuanqin stood at the prow of the vessel, hands clasped behind his back and white mist curling beneath his feet. He gazed quietly down at the cultivators moving below. His mourning robes fluttered lightly in the air, yet his expression remained calm and composed.
Ning Hemian stood quietly behind him, sorrow still lingering in her eyes. Her eyes swept across the faces of cultivators on either side, those of the Chi Family in green, and the Si Family’s confidants in white, all carefully observing Moongaze Lake.
Ning Hejing, unsurprisingly distrustful, had sent someone to accompany her. He was a junior with lower cultivation, who now stood quietly at the back with his head lowered.
Ning Hemian had always been sharp, but now she could no longer understand her elder brother. Ning Hejing was clearly aligned with the Chi Family’s second lineage, yet he still stubbornly and viciously defended the first lineage’s last fig leaf of dignity. The more she watched, the more unbearable it felt.
She thought, It’s just patching a broken window; what’s the point? Why risk everything for Chi Zhiyun with our family in such a state?
When she saw the growing silence among the Chi Family's second lineage cultivators, she only felt he was courting disaster. But since there was little affection left between them, she simply went along with it.
"My lord, we've arrived at Moongaze Lake." A cultivator behind Li Yuanqin reminded gently.
Li Yuanqin acknowledged the man with a nod, and seeing the cloudship gradually come to a halt, casually said, "Wait for Li Chengliao to come aboard."
His intent was clear, prompting the Chi Family cultivator in green to nod. The Heavenly Glow Dawn Cloudliner came to rest over the lake, its radiance spreading across the sky and painting both lake and heavens in a wash of rainbow-colored light.
Seeing that no one from the Li Family had come down by windflight, someone was soon sent to invite them.