A most unadorned lone boat drifted on the sea outside Hidden Spirit Island.
"Don't mind it. Let it drift with the wind—wherever it goes, it goes." Xu Fan lay in the lone boat and spoke to Zhang Weiyun, who was grilling meat for him.
"Do you like this, Husband?" Zhang Weiyun asked with a smile.
"Sometimes, you feel like you can control everything. But sometimes, you realize that everything you control may have already been arranged long ago."
"Rules within rules are still rules. Great Daos within Great Daos are still Great Daos." Watching the rippling surface of the sea, Xu Fan spoke with feeling.
"Your insight is rather like the insight of someone standing at the peak of a Minor World, just about to ascend," Zhang Weiyun teased as she grilled the meat.
"Haha, that is a very fitting description."
Xu Fan felt the route the boat took under the wind and sea waves, narrowing his eyes as he looked at the Xiong Er Cloud in the sky.
"All right, Husband, the grilled meat you wanted. It has only been lightly seasoned with saltwater." Zhang Weiyun placed a piece of bone-in meat, still dripping with juices, before Xu Fan.
"This is the most unadorned kind of grilled meat."
The little boat was enveloped by the Disorder World. Xu Fan and Zhang Weiyun were now both in the state of Mortals.
They lived this drifting life for a month, and the little boat floated across the sea for a month as well.
At times the wind was calm and the waves still; at times furious waves towered to the heavens; at times rain fell without end; at times wild winds and torrential rain raged.
Yet Xu Fan weathered it all with the strength of a Mortal.
From Xu Fan's perspective,