Lu Nan Zhi left Little Barren Mountain.

She didn't look back.

The light of the lantern was stretched further and further behind her.

As she approached the foot of the mountain, she saw a familiar shadow standing in the bushes.

Lu Nan Jin was draped in a windbreaker, the contour of the windbreaker at her waist propped up by three long and short knives into a bulge. She didn't know when she had arrived here, standing silently, not going up the mountain.

Lan Qie is the ability to control the flow of wind.

Every wisp of wind on Little Barren Mountain could be her eyes.

Lu Nan Zhi stopped.

She looked at her younger sister and softly asked, "Did you see everything?"

"I saw everything before the lantern was lit." Lu Nan Jin calmly looked at the mountaintop. "After that, I couldn't see anything."

"Now... the lantern is about to go out."

Madam glanced at her sister's windbreaker.

Three knives.

Bringing knives at this time... the intention was self-evident.

"Do you still want to go up and take a look?"

"No... no need." Lu Nan Jin shook her head and said, "Many things don't require you to see them with your own eyes to see the truth... I already know the truth, the rest is not that important."

After ten years of bitter cultivation, Lan Qie ultimately was not drawn.

After Qin Ye appeared, this knife would no longer be drawn against Zhao Xi Lai.

"How did you know?" Lu Nan Zhi walked aimlessly along the mountain path, she didn't want to go back yet.

This trip to the meeting was all on a whim, she didn't notify Nan Wan or Zhou Ji Ren, and she specifically told Gu Shen and Gu Nan Feng to keep it a secret... all in order to reduce trouble.

Of course.

Her own sister was also a trouble.

Judging from Nan Jin's previous performance, in this kind of peaceful negotiation scene, she might have a counterproductive effect... Since she was determined to attend the meeting, Madam still hoped to resolve the dispute peacefully.

From the result.

The disturbance in the capital ended more peacefully than she had imagined.

And her own sister... was not as "reckless" as she had imagined. After the Apostle War ended, Nan Jin restrained herself the first time, and tonight she restrained herself the second time. These two times of restraint were enough to show that perhaps her previous view of her sister was somewhat biased.

"Have you forgotten that there is still a patient in the hospital bed?"

Lu Nan Jin walked out of the forest.

She followed behind her sister... like many years ago.

Madam was slightly stunned, and then realized... this trip was indeed very rushed, so much so that she had overlooked the one lying immobile in the hospital bed.

"Is Ying Ji alright?"

"Don't worry... he won't die." Nan Jin said indifferently, "I went to the ward to see him. His injuries are very serious, but fortunately his spirit is recovering quickly. He looks lively... just a little bored."

"Lively?"

Thinking of the mummy lying stiffly on the hospital bed, Madam couldn't associate it with the word "lively"...

"Because of the full body bandage, the area that can move is limited." Lu Nan Jin added calmly, "So it's his eyebrows that are lively."

"...I see."

Was this a cold joke... While realizing this, Madam suddenly felt that her sister was a little unfamiliar. This didn't seem like the stern little girl in her memory.

But the next moment, she had a familiar feeling again.

A long time ago.

She and Nan Jin also walked like this in the night wind on the mountain path, one on the left and one on the right, one in front and one behind, aimlessly, chasing the scattered fireflies... Now the fireflies could no longer be seen.

And the pair of big hands that held the sisters' hands could no longer be seen.

Perhaps it was because they had been separated for too long, the Nan Jin in her memory had only the appearance of holding a long knife and looking stubborn when they parted. The little girl who looked cold on the outside but would cry at the slightest grievance, looked mature and powerful enough after returning home ten years later.

Sometimes she would rather time stop ten years ago.

She had grown into a towering tree that could provide a shelter for her sister.

The two walked slowly in the mountain forest, step by step, and the distance was no longer so distant, as if they were walking back to that childhood of lush grass and warbling orioles.

"The things that belonged to Old Lu... I took them back."

After walking for a long time.

After careful consideration, Lu Nan Zhi calmly shared the good news: "...This should be good news, right?"

"Of course it is." Lu Nan Jin lowered her eyebrows slightly, "Congratulations on getting back what belongs to you."

"It's not just what belongs to me..." Madam frowned and gently corrected, "You also have a share in the shares of Hua Zhi..."

This was an incomparably huge industry, so huge that it could only be calculated with astronomical figures.

"You know what I'm talking about... Many years ago, you didn't have to worry about these things. Compared to money, you have more lofty ideals and greater ambitions." Lu Nan Jin said seriously, and congratulated again, "Congratulations on taking over the banner of Hua Zhi and standing on a larger battlefield."

Madam was a little speechless.

She murmured softly, "Battlefield... that's an apt metaphor."

This banner has already been raised very high.

But it's not high enough, it can be even higher, even higher!

And the distance is the new battlefield...

"What about you?" She turned to look at her sister, "If you are tired of the life of the Tribunal... why not stay in the capital..."

"Sister, I thought you knew me very well."

Before she could finish speaking, Lu Nan Jin smiled and shook her head, saying, "I won't stay in the capital. This place is not suitable for me."

From the moment she grasped the knife, the meaning pursued by her life became different.

"I have to admit... the me from a long time ago was really a naive and ridiculous guy."

Lu Nan Jin said in a low voice, "The reason why I joined the Tribunal without hesitation was because I wanted to become a 'Grand Arbiter' like the teacher, using my swords to crown justice... In that case, the grievances of Lion Lane would be redressed."

"Naive."

"Really naive."

In the long mountain road, echoed a girl's ridicule of her past.

Moonlight sprinkled down.

The further she walked, the more clearly she saw the shadow of that year being trampled under her feet.

"Justice is not above the crown, and adjudication is not under the swords..."

Layers of mist were unravelled.

The mastermind behind Lion Lane, besides the Federation's investigation team, also had the Apostles of the Source Tower, and further back was the Throne of the Source Tower... This was simply not a problem that could be solved by holding a knife and cultivating in seclusion for ten years.

"This result is already very good." Lu Nan Zhi could only comfort her.

"What about that mastermind..." Nan Jin asked her sister with a smile, "Did he bleed, did he regret, did he pay the price?"

The one she was asking about was the Sky Throne high on top of the Source Tower!

How could a god bleed?

How could a god regret?

"I have to become stronger, this time... not just for revenge." Lu Nan Jin raised her head, her eyes full of the shocking scene she had seen in the old city district.

Countless gusts of wind swirled, Lan Qie was twisted into a sharp blade.

Even with only a wooden knife, it could still burst out with unparalleled majestic power.

After Gu Nan Feng delivered that knife.

She saw hope.

And she also saw... the direction of her future progress.

Lu Nan Jin said in a deep voice, "I want to... leave the capital."

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(End of Volume 1, I will post a chapter tomorrow morning to write a summary of the end of the volume)