The Taoist temple stood tall and majestic, but the paths on either side were covered in withered yellow leaves. There was an eerie silence all around, yet suddenly a baby's cry, plaintive and piercing, echoed from within.,And yet, their view was that holding her back for only a year would bring them to near bankruptcy.,At first, he wouldn't have fought for her if he hadn't seen that her bones were extraordinary and she was a rare gem in the world of metaphysics. He wouldn't have fallen to his current state.。