CHAPTER 723: CHAPTER 723: ULTIMATELY DESTINED BUT NOT FATED

About half an hour later, Lu Xiao and Chen Fei arrived at Lamp Street.

Just as Chen Fei had said, the scenery was beautiful.

The street was long and winding, with dazzling lights.

In the middle flowed a wide river, and on both banks, small lights stretched, connecting to the far distance, which was somewhat blurred.

"It’s really nice," Lu Xiao said as he looked at the shops lining both sides of the river and the people coming and going. He couldn’t help but sigh.

Previously in the Divine Continent Realm, the world seemed dead after nightfall.

The people of the Divine Continent Realm might have been accustomed to it, but Lu Xiao had never been able to accept or get used to it.

"Yeah, I also like Lamp Street the most. It feels a lot like outside," Chen Fei also softly replied.

After arriving here, she initially felt uncomfortable as well, especially due to the sense of disconnection in daily life, which made her almost despondent at times.

It wasn’t until she discovered Lamp Street that her melancholy began to ease gradually.

"So, when do you plan to go back?" Lu Xiao asked as they walked.

He didn’t know Chen Fei’s plans, but he himself had nearly finished organizing his own.

In a little while, he would return.

He didn’t really like either the Divine Continent Realm or the West Continent Realm.

The strife was too naked, with no rules to speak of.

Basically, it was a situation where the strong took all.

Beyond that, it was overly monotonous.

Apart from strength, there were no retreats, no detours, and no ordinary paths left for ordinary people.

The outside world was better, though. Even though there was injustice and the strong still oppressed the weak, there were laws to follow and reasons that could be argued.

Even if one were a very ordinary person, most could live out their lives peacefully and ordinarily.

"I don’t know," Chen Fei shook her head.

Her purpose in coming to the West Continent Realm was to become stronger, because by becoming stronger, she could protect Lu Xiao.

But now... that purpose seemed to have lost its meaning.

Lu Xiao didn’t need her protection at all; he was alarmingly strong.

"How about, in a few days, you come back with me?" Lu Xiao said.

Next to Lu Xiao, Chen Fei stopped walking, opened her mouth, but remained silent.

"Is it... that you don’t want to come?" Lu Xiao’s voice came again from a few steps away.

Chen Fei pursed her lips and then gently shook her head, "It’s not that, I’m just not ready yet... and I haven’t... caught up to you."

Lu Xiao raised an eyebrow and his lips curved slightly.

In the past few days, he had probably understood the reason for Chen Fei’s sudden departure back then.

The reason was simple, just as Chen Fei herself had said, she wanted to become stronger.

But he hadn’t understood the purpose of becoming stronger until now, which he now realized was to make him, Lu Xiao, safer.

The basis for this conclusion? Chen Fei was willing to follow him.

"Actually, there’s basically nothing that can threaten me now," Lu Xiao said.

Upon hearing Lu Xiao’s words, Chen Fei was stunned again, her eyes slightly reddening. He had finally understood.

"The main thing is, I’m not content. I want to see exactly what a Master Level is all about."

Lu Xiao pursed his lips. Despite Chen Fei’s high talent, achieving the Master Level was no easy feat.

It might take a year or two, or maybe five or six years, or even eight or ten years... that is normal.

Could he stay that long? It seemed that he could not.

Lu Xiao didn’t try to persuade Chen Fei to leave with him anymore.

They were quite alike in having their own steadfastness and pursuit.

Just as Chen Fei could not persuade him to stay, he couldn’t persuade her to leave either.

"I will probably stay at most another week."

"Alright, then I’ll catch up to you as fast as I can."

"And then what?" Lu Xiao suddenly turned back, reflecting on their situation where one could leave while the other could stay, with no specific time for their next meeting.

Chen Fei fell silent, unsure of how to answer.

Should she let Lu Xiao wait for her? But she herself was not certain how long it would take to achieve the Master Level.

Three years, five years, ten years — there was no certainty. How could she ask someone to wait?