After quite a while, Ling Pengyun finally steadied his mind. Forcing a faint smile onto his face, he bounced lightly on his feet and spoke to Yang Qiuyun.
"Mother, your son is fine."
"During this trip to the Central Province Cultivation World, the things Si Yi and I sought were simply too rare. We traveled through many regions, which was why it took us so much longer."
"I made Mother and Father worry."
His gaze shifted, and he nodded toward Ling Xiaoshun, who had remained silent but whose face was full of worry.
Then, he turned his eyes to Ling Chengxia, the black-clad middle-aged man, and said sternly.
"If you had entered the Golden Core Realm, it would have been safer for you to go to the Central Province Cultivation World to find me. With your current cultivation, I'm afraid it would have been you, boy, who was in danger. From now on, stay obediently in the Northern Wilderness Cultivation World. Don't cause trouble for your mother and me."
After saying this, his tone softened considerably.
"In only nine years, you cultivated the body-refining path alongside your regular cultivation and rose from nothing to Qi Training Late Stage. That is quite good."
"Cheng Yuan also told me about your intention to attempt the Golden Core Realm alone."
"That is a good thing. If you truly succeed, your Dao Path may well stretch even farther than mine."
"I still have quite a bit of Golden Core Realm demon beast flesh left from the Demon Beast Uprising. After some time, I'll have your mother cook it into third-rank spirit food beneficial to body refiners for you to consume, helping your cultivation in the body-refining path."
Hearing this, Ling Chengxia felt that his father, Ling Pengyun, who always wore such a sour expression,