After the battle, she hadn’t seen Feng Miaojun around Yun Ya again, suggesting something unusual had occurred.

Yun Ya’s expression remained unchanged, not even blinking an eye. She couldn’t fathom this man’s thoughts, so she could only continue: “The wolf demon from the Kingdom of Yao was about to harm her, but instead was controlled by her and ran into the northwestern forest.”

“So, you didn’t send anyone to follow her?”

Xu Guangxiang opened her mouth but couldn’t find words. Was Yun Ya blaming her?

Feng Miaojun was merely a minor maid, while she was a general controlling a section of the battlefield. How could she possibly abandon the battle to chase after an insignificant maid?

Well, perhaps the maid named An’an wasn’t so insignificant after all.

Yun Ya’s dissatisfaction vanished in a flash, so quickly it seemed like her imagination. This handsome man even smiled at her, his expression becoming warm again: “My injuries are severe and difficult to bear, so I’ll go back now. Military affairs are busy; General Xu should also rest early tonight.”

Xu Guangxiang could only respond with a “Yes,” and then watched as his figure grew more distant.

Yun Ya returned to his tent, lowered the soft curtain, and lay down by himself.

Lu Ming stood in the outer chamber and asked him: “Sir is seriously injured and needs someone to attend to him. Perhaps we could borrow a maid from Consort Ru?”

Consort Ru was the King of Wei’s beloved consort who had accompanied the army, bringing two maids with her.

Yun Ya closed his eyes and responded languidly: “No need, too troublesome.” Women were all too troublesome and affected by his presence.

Wasn’t An’an untroublesome? Lu Ming couldn’t help saying: “Miss An’an must have had some reason… there could be dangers amidst the chaotic battle…” Although An’an had some cultivation, she could have encountered trouble in the chaos of battle. If the master cared, why not send people to search for her?

Yun Ya suddenly let out a cold laugh, interrupting his words.

Lu Ming felt a chill down his spine and immediately fell silent. What… what great resentment this was.

“Out!”

Just these two simple words, yet Lu Ming grasped their essence immediately. He turned on his heel and made a swift exit.

After months apart, the State Preceptor’s peculiar temperament had reached new heights.

Once alone in the tent, Yun Ya laboriously turned over. He wanted sour plum soup. Before today, he would have only needed to give the word, and someone would have taken it out of the small bottle for him, chilled to perfection, with osmanthus fragrance, and tiny droplets of water on the outside of the glass cup. But now…

Forget it, he wouldn’t drink it! He had long since reached the realm of abstaining from food; eating and drinking were merely for sensual pleasure.

The night grew deep. The duel with An Ruzhen during the day had depleted too much spiritual energy; the best way to recover was to have a good sleep. He lay down facing outward, where normally beyond the thin gauze curtain someone would be keeping night watch, the puffy sleeping bag completely concealing her beautiful, graceful curves…

Now, that space was empty.

Yun Ya turned over again, facing inward to sleep.

Lu Ming was still making excuses for her, worried she might have encountered danger. Hmph, besides the two of them, who knew about the Heart-Fixing Worm in her body? She had removed it herself!

Just now, Xu Guangxiang had said she had ridden a wolf demon and fled northwest, which was only a few li away from the northern mountains.

When he dueled with An Ruzhen, he always felt someone watching him intently from afar.

Could that have included An’an?

He had treated her so well, yet this ungrateful white-eyed wolf had been plotting to escape all along! He killed An Ruzhen and suffered serious injuries, this wretched girl must have seen it all, yet she still heartlessly fled without looking back.

Yun Ya pressed his thin lips together.

Fine, very well, Feng Miaojun, just wait!

Once his injuries healed, once he dealt with Wei’s troubles, he would meet this untamable wildcat again!

Hmm… he closed his eyes slightly, finally feeling somewhat drowsy.

Thinking back now, this girl had been with him for months, yet never spoke of her past, always cautious, so that when she left, she vanished from the world like steam, leaving no useful clues.

Fine then, he would start investigating the Feng family business.

Feng Miaojun sneezed twice in succession, feeling a bit uneasy. Who could be thinking of her?

On second thought, who else could it be?

The place where she was now was both safe and prosperous, beyond the reach of wind and snow, with all four seasons like spring. Even if the great State Preceptor Yun wanted to send troops to search mountains and plains, they couldn’t capture her again.

Hehe, she was in the Golden City.

She planned to sneak back into the Kingdom of Yao, but traveling alone over the Wufu Snow Mountain and riding a thousand li would be exhausting. So she thought of a shortcut, hoping to have Miao Fengxian take her part of the way.

After the Battle of Wufu Snow Mountain ended, the Yao army cleared the battlefield and treated the wounded. Miao Fengxian then loaded the army back into the Golden City and flew back to the Yao capital on his colorful phoenix. There were many female soldiers in the Yao army; Feng Miaojun only needed to secretly knock one out, replace her appearance and clothing, and she could blend in.

Miao Fengxian was preoccupied during the return journey and wouldn’t notice a stowaway among the tens of thousands of troops.

Since arriving in this world, this was Feng Miaojun’s first experience of flying a thousand li of landscape in a single day, the entire journey spacious and comfortable without turbulence.

After landing, the army had to disperse from the Golden City, as it was still the Yao King’s palace. How could miscellaneous people normally enter and exit? Feng Miaojun easily mixed out, and once she shed her armor and changed her appearance, no one could recognize her.

Looking back at the magnificent and imposing Golden City, she couldn’t help but sigh:

Just this one portable spatial magical item of enormous capacity had changed the course of the war. She believed the King of Wei’s plan to fly over the snow mountain was thorough, but once the Golden City entered the battlefield, it disrupted everything.

It was said that before the current era, there were many such movable giant spaces in the world, some also called small worlds. Their owners were no longer constrained by time and space in warfare, and the form of war then was naturally completely different from now.

Fortunately, the maximum capacity of the Yao King’s palace was only about a hundred thousand people, not enough power to overturn the world. Moreover, she could also see that such a behemoth couldn’t be easily mobilized. In an age where the world’s spiritual energy was increasingly depleted, each time the Golden City was used, the spiritual stones expended each hour must be calculated in units of ten thousand tons.

No matter how rich the Kingdom of Yao was, even with the financial and material resources of the entire country, it wouldn’t be enough to drive this war fortress more than a few times.

Even standing on the prosperous streets of the Yao capital, Feng Miaojun still had a sense of unreality.

Had she escaped? Had she rid herself of Yun Ya?

Had she regained her freedom again?

Without that demon making things difficult for her every day, at this moment, she felt even the air was sweet!

Familiar with the streets and alleys, she walked faster and faster, with a sense of longing for home.

An hour later, Feng Miaojun found the Renhe Hall medicine shop.

She had just slowly enjoyed two cups of hot tea in the quiet room there when the curtain was lifted, and a graceful figure rushed in with the cold wind from outside. Feng Miaojun had barely blinked before being embraced fully by the other person.