Chapter 316 – The Enigmatic Far West, A Marriage Alliance with the Ice Folk - Part 3
A few days later.
Li Yuan finally decided to abandon his search for now. With a tug of his thousand-mile thread, he returned to the Tang Sect’s restricted grounds. He paid a brief visit to Yan Yu, Xue Ning, and Tang Nian before returning to his usual routine of polishing his blade skills.
That was when an odd development occurred.
The Flying Nimbus Group, now riddled with spies, sent Xue Ning a letter of conciliation. The sender promised to withdraw every undercover agent they had planted. They also asked her to do the same with the spies planted in the Windfall Group. They claimed that the two sides weren’t enemies, so there was no need to cause unnecessary friction.
Neither Li Yuan nor Xue Ning believed a word. When the world contained items like memory-altering soup and human-skin manacles, trust and contracts were meaningless.
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May arrived, and Cloudpeak Province’s long winter had finally broken.
Snow melted, streams gurgled, and Li Yuan was outside practicing his Park-Grandpa-Style Slow-Motion Blade when someone arrived with urgent news.
The messenger happened to be the esteemed matriarch of the Tang Sect herself. Of course, having only turned 27 this year, Tang Nian was only a matriarch in name.
“Pops, we may have found a lead on the Ice Folk.
“My people heard that an old hunter from Fullspring Village dragged home a frozen girl he found while trapping on the tundra. She calls herself Jen’gal Snow, but there’s no Jen’gal Clan anywhere in Cloudpeak Province.
“The girl was sealed inside a block of ice; when the hunter thawed her beside his hearth, she came back to life. She’s fiercely withdrawn, knows nothing of the outside world, and trusts only the hunter. Yet whenever he asks where she lives, she refuses to say.