After the meal, at the entrance to Oxheart Village, Li Huowang and Bai Lingmiao saw Li Sui off.
"If you run into trouble, contact me through hallucinations. I'll definitely get there at once," Li Huowang instructed Li Sui.
"Dad, don't worry. With your current status, if anything happens, I'll definitely notify you."
"That's good. If anyone bullies you, tell me too."
"Dad, there probably aren't many people left in Great Liang who can bully me. I'm leaving." After saying that, Li Sui's body vanished with a pop like bursting foam.
Looking at the snow-covered village entrance, Li Huowang exhaled a cloud of white breath and headed back with Bai Lingmiao. "I forgot to tell her to write home every few days."
"Senior Brother Li, she'll write even if you don't tell her to. Should we call her Sui Sui from now on? Xuanpin feels rather distant."
Li Huowang thought for a while, then gently shook his head. "It's fine to call her Sui Sui at home, but outside, we should still call her Xuanpin. That way, she won't lose the dignity of the Director of the Celestial Surveillance before outsiders."
"Besides, isn't my Daoist name Xuan Yang? One yin and one yang—Xuanpin is a pretty good name for my daughter."
"That's true." Bai Lingmiao nodded in understanding. "Senior Brother Li, don't give Sui Sui your flesh and blood anymore. She's no longer that child from back then."
Li Huowang turned his head and looked once more in the direction Li Sui had vanished. "For this promise, she waited a full hundred and sixty years. I just want to find a chance to make it up to her properly."
"Since she's family, there's no need to be so distant. If you had been thrown back a hundred and sixty years, you