After bai feng jiu's coronation, donghua felt totally helpless for once in his long long life. He didn't know how to get relief from this soul-crushing ache in his heart. Everything felt so bleak at this point. It couldn't be compared to how it had been before his little fox barged into his life. Everything had a new novice quality to it but now without her, all seemed to be lost again.

Even his powers weren't what they had been before. That had been a huge miscalculation on his part. His magic had misfired hugely in the mortal realm. For the love and happiness of a handful of days, he had put the safety of all the realms on the line. But still, he could not regret that decision. That handful of days had given him the happiness for his lifetime. He knew he couldn't be with her so, those days had given him the love he needed, to last his whole life.

But now it was time for him to recover what he had lost. He couldn't delay this anymore, the safety of the realms hanged in balance here. He called for si ming and Zhong lin.

Si ming bowed, "si ming greets dong hua dijun."

"I have called both of you for an important reason. Zhong lin, seal taichen place. Nobody is allowed entry under any circumstances. I will be placing a barrier on the grounds, anyone who enters the grounds, other than you will be burnt to a crisp at that very moment. Si ming, spread the news that I am going into seclusion for an indefinite period of time in the holy blue sea."

Both of them nodded. They understood the reason behind dijun's seclusion, he needed to recover his cultivation. They curtsied and left to complete the tasks assigned to them.

When dong hua declared his seclusion, he couldn't have known that his little fox was already one step ahead of him in this case. The day after her coronation, she had already made arrangements for hers. Bai feng jiu can handle anything for dong hua but what she couldn't handle was for her to be the cause of his pain. That day at ruoshi river she had seen the pain and suffering in his eyes. All because she couldn't give him up. He had gone through so much pain just to give her a little bit of happiness. She couldn't let him continue this way, no matter how much it broke her from the inside. She would do it just to save him. She would break her own heart if that meant he could live peacefully. No price was big enough.

With that resolution in mind, she had talked to her father and grandfather about going to the mortal realms. Her father had told her multiple times that as a ruler it was her duty to go experience the mortal realms. She had been delaying that for a long time. But now, the time had come for her to fulfill the duties of a ruler. So before the news about donghua's seclusion could reach her, she was already gone.