Morning on the eleventh day of the seventh lunar month.

Su Yi circled Ziluo City’s walls with Cui Chang’an to accompany him.

Ziluo City had existed since antiquity, and its sheer scale boggled the imagination.

Cui Chang’an and Su Yi traveled quickly, only occasionally stopping for a brief conversation. Even so, traversing the full length of the city walls took a full eight hours.

In the end, the two of them stood atop the eastern city gate.

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Twilight, the twelfth day of the seventh lunar month.   

Po Suo returned the Heaven’s Writ Lotus Lantern to Su Yi.

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The thirteenth day of the seventh lunar month.

When Su Yi awoke from his meditation, something stirred within him, and he wrote a line of text: “I call to the radiant moonlight filling the skies, reflecting a heart as pure as the ice and snow and ambitions as grand as the convergence of one hundred rivers.”

On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the Netherworld’s skies would have no moon. However, throughout its territories, countless Celestial Lanterns of the Grand Dao would illuminate the night sky, casting away the darkness and dispelling evil spirits.

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