"Temple of Destiny? What kind of place is that?" Even when she heard the response from a voice she had never heard before, Xian i kept on talking, not realizing she was no longer speaking to Monk Xu Tianhua.
But she paused when she turned to look at the monks, who were looking behind her, startled at the sight of sothing.
It was then she realized… sothing was wrong!
Her breathing stopped, and her eyes widened. The voice she heard replayed in her mind.
When her instincts kicked in, Xian i jumped forward away from the source of the sound and turned around.
She finally saw the owner of the voice, a young man she had never seen before. His golden eyes glanced towards her curiously before they moved towards the others present in the area. He drew closer to the group as his loose black kimono fluttered in the air with his long, wavy hair.
And the man was not alone.
Accompanying him was a beautiful woman, dressed in a black gown with laced boundaries.
She had the sa golden eyes, but unlike the man's, they held no emotions towards them.
The young lady from the illusionary lotus sect was not shocked to see the appearance of soone else who she did not know about in this area.
Like the unknown rogue cultivator who managed to reach this place, others also had the qualification to co to this place.
But the thing that shocked her the most was the fact that these two unknown people managed to reach so close to them and no one among the strongest cultivators present sensed their arrival until the man himself made his presence known by speaking up.
And she was not the only one disturbed by this fact.
'An assassin?' The unknown rogue cultivator, who had also healed up and opened his eyes, thought with fear gripping his heart. 'What have I gotten myself into? I should not have co here…'
While he was cursing his luck inwardly, Xu Tianhua managed to get his wits together.
"Who might this fellow Daoist be?" He asked cautiously.
"Call Noah," he greeted them with a nod, not minding their wariness.
Xian i got flustered when she saw Noah looking at her. She kept recalling how she kept talking to him, thinking she was talking to soone else.
She was getting the secondhand embarrassnt of acting all friendly with a total stranger, thinking they were soone she knew, only to realize that she had made a fool of herself.
This ti even her composed facade could not hide the small blush that appeared on her face.
Seeing the amused smile on Noah's face made her blush deepen.
"Temple of Density is kind of a fitting na for this place, from what I think." Noah noticed her embarrassnt and evasive look, but even then he did not mind replying to her question.
"From the mont we entered this domain, everything we did, the choices we made, the turns we took, and the decisions we made throughout your journey are all the reason you are present in this place and not sowhere else."
"Destiny… fate… choices we made." Hearing his words, Xu Tianhua's expression sharpened and his back straightened. He might not have thought much about it before, but now hearing Noah's words, he felt like he understood.
"I see, so that's how it is. Thank you, fellow Daoists, for enlightening this poor monk." Seeing the rciless Monk lowering his head to show his gratitude not only to the younger monk behind him but even to Xian i, who did not understand what he ant, appeared to be shocked.
'Does he really have to be so serious about it?' The rogue cultivator, who had the least presence, cowered in the corner and listened to their conversation without speaking, so that attention would not be drawn to him.
After all, he was the weakest of them all.
"What you are saying is that if we did not take the paths we took during those trials, we would not have reached this place at all." Hearing the new sound joining the conversation, everyone, including Noah, looked at Lei Yiran, who was completely healed at this point.
He was currently analyzing Noah with a scrutinizing gaze. From the corner of his eyes, he shot Xian i a sneaking glance before acting like he never saw her.
The woman seed to have caught his gaze and felt a wave of annoyance in her heart. 'Hmph! What's with that look?! Master was really right. I thought she was spouting nonsense in her anger, but the disciples of the Wind Lightning sects are really annoying. With the way he is acting like I owe my life to him and his stuck-up attitude… ah!!! He is really annoying! God, what have I done to deserve to owe him a favor? I swear I will never contact their sect once I leave this place.'
"Precisely, if you take the destined path, you are the fated ones, but if you don't, you were never going to reach this place." Noah shrugged and pointed at the vast lands in the distance.
"Look at the places you ca from. Do you realize how vast those plains are? Even with your cultivation, the fact that you could reach this place in such a short ti speaks volus."
The frowning young man from the Wind Lightning sect now fell into deep thoughts. Just like the others, he also took a contemplative look at the area he ca from and realized the absurdity of it all.
"Even if that was true, how do you know all of this?" Even when he felt there was credibility in Noah's words, Lei Yiran did not stop questioning him. "Even we who should be aware of this place the most have no such information about this place, and you just arrived here."
"Who said we just arrived here?" Elysia, who had chosen not to speak from the start, broke the silence with a sharp look in her eyes; she did not like Noah being questioned like he was so kind of criminal.
Now her words left the group in silence. Elysia pointed at the makeshift chairs and stone slab not far away and said, "We have been here for the past three days, long before any of you even reached this place."
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