Baipu Domain, Toad Village.
In the backyard of a shop at the corner of the street, a young-looking female cultivator, dressed in blue with silver ornaments, knelt before a middle-aged woman wearing dark purple Witch Clan attire.
"Shopkeeper, I won't leave!"
The purple-clad female cultivator turned around, the moonlight illuminating a weathered face. Though her beauty retention techniques were effective, they were unable to conceal the traces of time in her eyes, and some gray hair adorned her temples.
She looked down at the person kneeling at her feet, who, like her, had Late-Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivation. Only she was truly young, while herself was already at an age where half her body was in the grave.
"Get up, Nian'er. If it weren't for knowing you were Tao Fengnian's descendant back then, I wouldn't have taken you in until today."
