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Outside Fufeng County City, the Ten Mile Pavilion.
Just like how every city has a few ancient streets that have meandered unchanged for hundreds of years, so too does the area outside every city always have one of those lengthy pavilions filled with weeping willows.
It's just a pity that it had already entered winter, and the Ten Mile Pavilion was withered and pale, with slender willow branches bare without the means to offer a farewell to parting friends by gifting willow branches.
The man in black was already waiting with his carriage ten paces away.
Thanks to days of sitting in meditation and the power of elixirs, his injuries had mostly healed. At that moment, as he sat in the driver's seat, a longsword lay casually next to his knee. The sword was without a sheath, simply wrapped haphazardly a couple of times in black cloth, yet the faint glimmer of the blade was still noticeable.