Just Thinking About It Makes Me So Excited

If you can't find a good master, you might end up a nameless apprentice for life, never learning any real advanced alchemy until you die.

Without high-level pills, your cultivation will hit a wall too...

The Sun Family doesn't have much sway in politics or the military, but in the world of spiritual alchemists? They call the shots!

If she wants to blacklist Grace, who would dare take her as an apprentice?

......

Grace let down the carriage curtain, pulled out Cutie Pie, and rewarded it with a kiss: "Mwah! Cutie Pie, you’re seriously amazing!"

Cutie Pie looked like it was thoroughly enjoying itself.

"I’m so jealous of you! If only I could get some dragon aura too," Grace said. "Wouldn’t that mean I could run wild in the Eastern Wilderness Forest?"

You’re already my woman, so of course you have dragon aura.

It’s just that I sealed it.

"By the way, now that the competition’s over, are you coming back to me, or do you still want to go to the General’s Manor?"

Cutie Pie touched its head and tail together.

"Go to the General’s Manor?"

The Antler Serpent nodded.

It wants to leave right now.

Leon Zane is still waiting to be rescued.

"Alright," Grace said. "Train hard, grow stronger, and become even more awesome."

Grace felt really reluctant to let it go.

But whether you’re human or beast, you have to keep improving if you want greater cultivation and a bigger world.

So, whenever it needs to go, she’ll always let it.

The Antler Serpent nodded again, rubbed against her lips a few times, then nuzzled her cheek, and suddenly darted out of the carriage.

"Eh? It just left like that?" Grace lifted the curtain, but it was already out of sight.

After thinking for a moment, Grace called for the carriage to stop.

Then she told Minister Zhuo she wanted to go find Evan Xiao.

Honestly, if Grace said she wanted the stars in the sky, Minister Zhuo would build a ladder and fetch them for her.

He just smiled and said, "I know, you can’t wait to share this with him. Go ahead! We’ll handle everything else when you get back!"

So Grace got herself a horse and rode straight to Evan Xiao’s manor.

But Evan Xiao wasn’t at the General’s Manor.

Not only was he gone, but Quentin Chin and Louis Lin were missing too.

When Grace asked where they’d gone, the guards said the General had been out for days and hadn’t come back.

When she asked for the details, it turned out he’d left on the very day they went to see the Scarlet Sky Sword being forged.

So basically, he rushed back today, skipped the General’s Manor, and went straight to the Royal Palace.

He probably still has things to take care of, but once he’s done, he’ll definitely come home, right?

Just like her dad said, she couldn’t wait to see him and share her ultimate victory—and the news that she’d soon be granted a royal marriage.

That feeling was just so urgent!

She decided to wait for him at the Frostmoon Quarters.

Inside the Frostmoon Quarters, everything was just the way it used to be.

Even in the Cozy Nook where she’d worked as a maid, her things and spare clothes were still there.

Standing there, she remembered all those feelings she had for him during her night shifts—the longing, the torment—and she couldn’t help but laugh at herself.

Now, once they get married, she can come back here again!

When the time comes, the two of them will eat together, drink tea together.

During the day, he’ll help her cultivate, and she’ll keep him company while he deals with those endless official documents.

At night, they’ll sleep in the same bed.

Just thinking about it makes her so excited...

Oh right, before they get married, isn’t he supposed to take her back to the Vermilion Kingdom to meet his parents?

Or maybe, they’ll get married in the Vermilion Kingdom?