บท 204: Understanding Purpose

"Of course I won't forget to make something for my dearest sworn sister," Wu Ling said, smiling broadly and reaching into his cosmos bag and pulling out several sketches. "For Mei'er, the comb is just an object. I hope she finds it pretty, but I won't be putting any grand designs or power into it," he explained. "I may make something more special for her later, I just don't have the right materials to work with at the moment."

Later in this journey, Warden Mu had asked Wu Ling to hunt a specific spirit beast and bring her back the beast core if he was able to. While the Red Mist Wolves and their eclipse empowered cousins weren't appropriate for the icy cultivation Yao Meifeng had begun to practice, Warden Mu's target was a different matter entirely. By then, he hoped his skills would also have advanced to make a truly worthy token for the doll-like musician who was slowly coming to occupy a space within his heart.