“You came out of seclusion! Last time, I heard Yan… Ahem, I heard Sect Master Yan say that you were cultivating in seclusion, and that you were at an important breakthrough point in your cultivation, so I didn’t even dare to disturb you out of fear of affecting your cultivation.” 

Zu An wasn’t telling a lie. The two of them were newlyweds, and yet they had already been separated for so long.

When she felt the sincerity in his words, Chu Chuyan’s expression finally became a bit less cold. She said, “I was going to spend some more time in seclusion, but master suddenly came back to tell me that rather than cultivating alone in seclusion, it could be better for me to cultivate in the secular world for a while. That, and she told me to go and have a contest with the Devil Sect’s Saintess. That’s why I came out.”

Zu An was surprised and happy. He asked, “Yan… The sect master returned? Was she injured at all?”

He had suspected that she...