Chapter 87: Departure

The morning sun hung high over Azure Cloud City's outer slums. Its rays filtered through the cracks in the dilapidated roof, casting long beams of light across the living space. The ambient noise of the outer city—the shouting of merchants, the crying of hungry children, and the clatter of broken carts—drifted through the walls, a constant reminder of the squalor they resided in.

Inside the bedroom, Bai Qingyue sat gracefully on the edge of the bed. Despite the Soul Transformation restriction that had crippled her cultivation and left her body paralyzed from the waist down, her peerless beauty remained completely untouched. Her delicate hands rested calmly in her lap, while her posture remained perfectly straight and composed.

Standing near the small table, pouring a cup of boiled water, was her cousin, Bai Chen.