North of their current location was the Ice Phoenix Mountain Range, which passed through the border between the Shang and Zhou Kingdoms. A sprawling forest lay at the mountain range’s base. That forest was where Zhou Lihua’s and Master Wong Jiu’s were currently racing through.
Zhou Lihua did not know how long she had been running for. She’d left Wu Jian at the river, which must have been several dozen lî away at the very least. It did not sit well with her that she was being forced to flee while Wu Jian fought to protect her. She understood it was because her martial prowess could no longer keep up with his because of the path she had chosen, but it still galled her.
“Lihua… I… I think we should be… far enough… away… now…”