Watching Xiao Ran rekindle his fighting spirit,
Li Xuanxiao could not help but nod.
Keep growing stronger, boy.
If no one pushed you, you would never know just how strong you were.
Only then could Elder Soul be saved from the midst of fire and water.
As for where that fire and water came from, do not ask.
His left and right brains had not fought each other in vain, putting on this grand performance.
Sure enough, after going through this affair,
Xiao Ran once again returned to the state of cultivation he had had in his early years.
Training through the bitter cold of winter and the scorching heat of summer.
Living one day as though it were two.
Yet without Elder Soul's guidance, Li Xuanxiao was rather worried about Xiao Ran's cultivation.
Would he suffer cultivation deviation? Would the child go bad? Would others twist his values...
Li Xuanxiao tossed and turned.
It felt like watching his own child leave home for school for the first time.
Still, Li Xuanxiao understood that he could not watch over Xiao Ran for his entire life.
In the end, he had to see the results of his own teaching.
If things went wrong, he would abandon him when the time came.
Lest he become a thorn in his own flesh instead.
"..."
Great Xia Capital.
The Grand Chancellor lowered his eyes at the young man kneeling below.
"Zhang Haoran, when you vanished without warning while guarding the Dragon Vein, what exactly happened?"
Back then, Zhang Haoran had been one of the Dragon Vein's guards.
Yet he had disappeared together with Shi Hao, the Minister of Rites.
Shi Hao, the Minister of Rites, was later found, but he had already lost all memories of that period.
Zhang Haoran let out a deep