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“Ah, look…”
“There’s someone on the mountain!”
“There really is someone!”
“Could it be an immortal?”
“It must be an immortal!”
Lady Calico stood there with a serious expression, listening for a while, then glanced down for a bit, her face unreadable. When she heard her Daoist’s footsteps growing more and more distant, she didn’t hesitate. She turned on her heel and scurried off in quick little steps to catch up, following right behind him.
“We’re leaving, meow?”
“Of course,” the Daoist replied without turning his head. “What we came to do is done. This was never our palace.”
“That’s true…”
“I’ll pack my things.”
“I will pack!”
“Shouldn’t you go round up all those mice you’ve been free-ranging on the mountain?”
“Oh… right…”
“Go on then.”
“Okay!”
The cat spun around again and bolted away like the wind. She really did seem a bit… erratic.
The Daoist, however, took his time packing his travel bag.
Meanwhile, the swallow transformed into his human form to help.
Clouds once again drifted over the mountain, shaped by the wind into visible forms, dragging long tails behind them like banners fluttering in the breeze. From the palace atop the peak, they were surrounded by this shifting mist, so that it felt as though they truly stood upon the clouds, at the place closest to the heavens.
“Purity of mind is cultivation. To do good is to receive blessings,” Song You murmured to himself, then lifted his head to look at the sky.
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