Behind her, nine figures stood there stunned by what she said. The minute she left they followed her because they thought that she was a spy, forgetting the fact that they were looking for her and that Renyu brought her here. Now hearing what she said, they felt slightly guilty.

"My lady, do you not like it here?" asked the little eagle.

"I would have stayed longer if they didn't think I was a threat but whatever, I've played along with their sister-in-law bullshit for long enough now." ending it there, she sat down on the ground and grabbed one of the spirit stones.

"Little one, I am going to cultivate now, make sure no one bothers me."

Voicing its disapproval it answered, "How am I supposed to do that when the master of this place is a Sovereign, nevermind him, even that fish will kill me if I oppose him."

The spirit stone paused at her lips when she heard the word "fish." Looking at the pink eagle from the corner of her eye she asked, "fish?"

"Mn, you know that one that always comes and goes as he pleases."

Yueguang, "Ah, you mean Renyu?"

"Yes him!"

Yueguang, "What were we talking about again?"

If the eagle had hands it would facepalm.

"You have a tendency to just do what you want and say what you want, were you like this in your past lifetime too?"

Yueguang, "I can't remember, the only things that come to mind are all the bad stuff and the day I died then waking up here."

"That's sad, what were your parents like?"

"After I was born... I was blamed for everything but who told them not to use protection?"

The spirit stone in her hand dropped to the ground scaring the little eagle with its loud thump. Then it noticed that Yueguangs mood was off. It went up to her pushing the spirit stone with its beak towards her and said, "I won't ask anymore. Please don't be sad."

Rubbing the eagles head she smiled. "Go pick jasmine flowers for me and orange sapphire fruits."

After bowing, it flew off returning two days later.

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After the eagle flew off, she picked up the spirit stone and placed the string spirit weapon around her ankle. Closing her eye, she placed the spirit stone against her lips kissing it then slowly extracting the martial power inside it.

After a few minutes, her body became translucent making her become an image reflecting inside a river.

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The nine stood there watching her and became alarmed seeing her like this. Roc and Renyu were first t react and rushed to her side. Renyu reached out to touch her but his hand touched nothing. Roc tried oo but it was the same. "We can see her but not touch her, what's happening?" asked Renyu with slight panic in his voice.

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Looking around at each other, they couldn't answer him.

Feng Huang, "Brother, maybe this has something to do with the legend of the "Eun Hwanje" remember there is much that we don't understand about Miss Jiang and also I think she felt the hostility we showed after hearing her say that she wasn't from here. I also believe that we should give her some time because she seems troubled... When Miss Jiang comes out from her secluded cultivation how about you travel with her to visit the Kingdoms to strengthen the union between you two and I am sure aunty and uncle would love to meet her."

Kang Rong looked at Feng Huang but did not answer him. He instructed them to guard this place, taking turns looking after her and to bring her to him when she is done. Although they did not need to guard her because the Red Dragon Valley is the safest place to cultivate, this was because of the conversation she had with the little eagle.

They were afraid that she would leave without them knowing and finding her was near to impossible after trying before. The only reason why they were able to meet her was due to luck - there was no way they would lose her after waiting for her for almost twenty years.

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As she was cultivating time seemed to slow down for the guardians, Kang Rong too was having a hard time because he was needed in the Howling Kingdom and he had to meet up with the sect masters of the other sects to discuss the plans for the upcoming tournament four months later.

He did not want to leave because he was worried that his bride might disappear but because the others reassured him that they wouldn't let her out of their sights, he felt at ease but not really which lead him to add a restriction barrier of who was allowed to enter and leave the sect while he was gone.

The little eagle returned two days later with a pouch filled with jasmine flowers. Leaving the pouch on the table inside the palace, it searched for another pouch. After finding it, it headed out again with the pouch in its mouth to pick the orange sapphire fruits Yueguang asked it too.

The days went by slowly and it had already been a month since she went into cultivation with no sign of exiting.

Kang Rong became agitated and he too took up the position of guarding her while he was in the sect; the little eagle too did not return to the sect making them a little worried because Yueguang would most likely look for it when she's done.

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The second month was coming to an end when the little eagle returned but now it was no more little but the size of a four-year-old toddler, well more like it was a toddler and no more in its beast form taking up the form of a human child.

It came running in through the barrier and yelling at the top of its lungs. Finally in managing to arrive at Yueguangs palace and throwing itself on the ground falling fast asleep with the pouch beside it.

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Baohu Zhe who was standing guard recognised the eagles form due to its aura and noticed that it raised in its realm of cultivation but couldn't understand why it was suddenly in the form of a human child.

The little human slept on the ground with its stomach showing and snoring very loudly.

Three weeks passed and during the night a slit opened in front of where Yueguang was sitting. Feng Huang was on guard duty opened his eyes when he heard it open.

The tear widened as it opened and sent out a hot blast of wind out into the surroundings covering a distance of five valleys attracting everyone's attention. Kang Rong and the other guardians headed into her direction after reassuring everyone that they weren't in any danger.

Arriving at her palace they stopped beside Feng Huang and the eagle that was chewing on the orange sapphire fruit.

The guardians noticed that the little eagle wasn't at all panicky like them asking it why this was happening. It assured them that Yueguang was a little special but okay. When it came to cultivating due to her techniques and their origin. It also tried explaining the reason behind the sudden heat wave realising that it too did not really understand what was going on. "Originally I thought that it would be because of her techniques but she was also absorbing the martial powers inside the rainbow spirit stones... I really don't care!"

Shrugging, it continued eating the fruit ignoring them.