Zhou You still did not meet Ao Donglai. Over the years, he had been inside the Heavenly Pillar while Ao Donglai guarded its exterior. They had both remained there for so long that there was no need to meet after such a long separation.
So, after sending out a wisp of fist intent, Zhou You left the Southern Border and entered Lihuo Prefecture.
Lihuo Prefecture was a vital thoroughfare connecting the several southeastern prefectures and the Southern Border. Back when the Ten Southern Demons had been exterminated, it had served as an important rear base.
This place had not received much attention either. At the very least, after the Sealed Lord had been replaced, there had been no time to appoint a new prefectural governor.
Lihuo Prefecture was still under Zhou Nanwang, a Grandmaster expert. His best-known identity was that of Zhou Daqian's father, as well as the patriarch of the Zhou Family and the Qi Family, the two great lineages locked in ceaseless war across the southeastern prefectures.
The two great lineages of the southeastern prefectures fought without end, while the Southern Border battled over the Heavenly Pillar, gaining and losing ground. Yet Lihuo Prefecture, wedged between them, seemed incomparably peaceful, making Zhou You feel as though he had returned to his youth.
The turmoil of the outside world seemed sealed away behind a transparent barrier. Everywhere in Lihuo Prefecture was generally calm and peaceful, its people maintaining the rhythm of men tilling fields and women weaving cloth, rising by day and resting by night.
"..."
Within the Prefectural Office of Lihuo Prefecture, Zhou You paid Zhou Nanwang a visit as an uninvited guest.
After so many years, father and son met again. They should have had a thousand words to say, yet both were remarkably calm.
"Grandmaster, you