Fulfilling a Vow

By the time Li Qi finished reading through those rules, two days had already passed, and the family had returned from Annam to Xuanjing Mountain.

Of course, Shen Shuibi had driven along the way.

There was nothing particularly unusual about the rules, but they were exceptionally detailed. They meticulously laid out what a fourth-rank practitioner should not do, how much power they ought to use, and, whether deliberately or not, even specially marked the patrol routes of the Heavenly Patrol Officers...

It was as though they wanted people to exploit loopholes.

Though these things were tedious, they were not complicated and were easy enough to understand. Broadly speaking, they merely set limits on how much force fourth-rank practitioners could exert.

If those limits were exceeded, the Heavenly Patrol Officers would arrive soon enough.

During those two days of travel, Li Shiwei, much like Li Qi of old, faced the terrifying place known as "the world" in astonishment.

Whether it was the Gale Layer, the wonders scattered throughout the world, gods and Earthly Deities, or all manner of customs, even merely passing by filled her with excitement.

Though the little brat had been born in the world, she had been away for far too long. Besides, she had only been in her teens then, whereas she was now over a thousand years old. Naturally, everything struck her as incomparably strange.

Watching Li Shiwei and Shen Shuibi, mother and daughter, one asking questions and the other answering them as they discussed what they had seen along the road, Li Qi could not help but smile.

Children were truly happy. The world was filled with wonder and the unknown; every day brought a fresh and fascinating world.

But as one grew older and more experienced, one's own experiences, education, accumulated knowledge and skills,