# Chapter 323: Heart Eager to Return
No one came after him. Yun Che walked out of the Bing Yun Fairy Palace, traversing the icy, snowy landscape. Gazing at the vast, white Ice Extreme Snow Domain, he felt a profound sense of helplessness and confusion for the first time from the bottom of his heart.
*Little Fairy, where are you... where exactly have you gone... How can I find you...*
Mo Li could clearly sense his state of mind and said blandly, "Perhaps you don't need to deliberately search for her. The news that you're still alive will spread quickly along with your current influence. She should hear about it soon enough, and when she does, she'll naturally come to find you."
"No!" Yun Che shook his head and sighed. "You don't understand her. Her temperament is too cold. She's accustomed to solitude and isolation, never willing to have any form of contact with outsiders. After becoming pregnant and having her profound arts crippled, to protect the child, she would certainly avoid places with people even more desperately... Otherwise, having left the Bing Yun Fairy Palace for so long, with her unparalleled beauty and aura that would cause a stir anywhere she goes, why has there never been any news of her being discovered by anyone? Even Senior Sister Xue Ruo didn't know she had been expelled from the Bing Yun Fairy Palace... She must have gone to a place completely cut off from the world, as cold and lonely as the Bing Yun Fairy Palace, not letting anyone disturb her, nor letting anyone harm her and my child... She won't be able to learn that I'm still alive... and I don't know where to look for her either."
"Someone's coming after you!" Mo Li suddenly said.
Yun Che quickly turned his head. From the direction of the Bing Yun Fairy Palace, a white shadow rapidly swept through the air and soon came into view.
It was a massive, snow-white beast—a profound beast. Three *zhang* in length, its entire body was white as snow. Its body resembled a falcon but was stronger and more imposing; its head was like an eagle's but more noble and proud. Its claws were like white hooks, its eyes like cold blades. It was majestic and awe-inspiring, and its speed was as swift as lightning. On its back, a woman dressed in white, with jet-black hair reaching her waist like the night, stood like a solitary plum blossom amidst thousands of mountains and snow, radiating a beauty that was both holy and almost enchanting.
"Chu Yue... Li?" Yun Che frowned slightly. He halted, silently watching Chu Yueli draw near.
The Snow Profound Beast's speed was extreme. It quickly rushed to Yun Che's front. Chu Yueli twisted her slender waist lightly, her white veil dancing in the wind. Amidst a faint, chilly fragrant breeze, she gracefully landed before Yun Che like a snow maiden descending from the heavens, her icy eyes staring coldly at him.
Yun Che's brows arched involuntarily but then relaxed slightly, because from Chu Yueli's body, he sensed no killing intent... and not even any hostility, it seemed.
"Don't worry, I'm not here to cause you trouble. Right now, I'm no match for you anyway." Chu Yueli spoke before he could. Her voice was like water falling on cold crystal—icy and clear: "Back then, because of my sister, I hated you to the bone. But now, I suddenly don't hate you anymore... You may have wronged the Bing Yun Fairy Palace, and today you trampled our palace, destroyed our gates, and wounded our palace master... but at least you have been true to my sister."
"You chased after me just to say these things?" Yun Che said.
Chu Yueli lifted her jade-like arm and made a simple gesture. Immediately, the massive pure-white bird circled in the air once before swiftly descending, folding its wings and obediently landing at Chu Yueli's side... From its body, Yun Che distinctly sensed an aura of the Heavenly Xuan Realm!
Was this a Heavenly Xuan Beast?
"This is a Snow Phoenix Beast, a powerful Heavenly Xuan Beast that exists only in this Ice Extreme Snow Domain. In the entire Ice Extreme Snow Domain, there are only three in total. Although it is a Heavenly Xuan Beast, its temperament is extremely gentle, much easier to tame into a contracted profound beast than many Earth Xuan Beasts." Chu Yueli said lightly, "Your current strength is extremely astonishing, but it seems you are limited by your profound strength realm and cannot fly. You also don't have a contracted profound beast's profound imprint on your hand. I'll give you this Snow Phoenix Beast as your contracted profound beast."
When Chu Yueli reached the middle of her speech, Yun Che had vaguely guessed what she intended to do. The value of a Heavenly Xuan realm contracted profound beast was not at all inferior to a Heavenly Xuan artifact! Even for the Four Great Sects, this level of contracted profound beast... Meeting Cang Yue in New Moon City had been a huge turning point in his fate.
He still remembered that the reason he had gone to New Moon City back then was to follow Xiao Lie's wishes and find Sikong Han at New Moon Profound Beast, hoping to get a foothold. But then he had directly entered the New Moon Mystic Palace... However, in the New Moon Mystic Palace, counting everything, he had only stayed for less than two days.
After a moment's thought, Yun Che received the Snow Phoenix Beast into his contracted profound imprint and then directly descended into the New Moon Mystic Palace.
"...Have you heard! Yun Che didn't die back then! He returned alive to the Cangfeng Imperial City, snatched Princess Cang Yue back from Fen Tian's Young Master on the wedding procession, and severely injured Fen Juecheng... I heard that accompanying Fen Juecheng on the wedding procession were eight Heavenly Xuan experts... eight Heavenly Xuan! They were utterly humiliated by Yun Che alone! It's incredibly powerful, domineering, and awe-inspiring beyond all bounds!"
"Nonsense! Who doesn't know about this! But your news seems a bit off. Those eight Heavenly Xuan... I heard there were twenty Heavenly Xuan experts accompanying Fen Juecheng on the wedding procession. Senior Brother Yun Che knocked them all down with one sword strike each. The usually arrogant Fen Tian Young Master was beaten like a dog and was lucky that Yun Che showed mercy and spared his life, allowing him to slink back to the Fen Tian Gate in disgrace. Senior Brother Yun Che is practically a divine son descended from heaven for our Cang Feng Kingdom!" The young man speaking had stars in his eyes and a look of ecstasy when he said the words "Senior Brother Yun Che." Thinking that Yun Che had once stayed at the New Moon Mystic Palace, allowing him to legitimately call himself his junior disciple, he felt so fortunate he could faint.
The moment Yun Che landed and stood in a concealed spot, the first words he heard were rumors about him.
He didn't yet know that because he had briefly been a disciple of the New Moon Mystic Palace, the New Moon Mystic Palace's popularity had exploded exponentially over the past two years, completely overwhelming all other branch mystic palaces, second only to the core Cangfeng Mystic Palace.
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