"I need to inform my family."
After putting away the Immortal Wine, Li Qingyuan bowed respectfully. "I'll go back and settle a few matters with my family, then come follow you in cultivation, Senior."
Zixiao nodded. "Go."
A spatial vortex opened, and Li Qingyuan stepped through it and disappeared.
Zixiao rested her chin on her delicate hand, thought filling her beautiful eyes. "Ten Absolutes, oh, Ten Absolutes. At certain crucial moments along Li Qingyuan's journey, there seemed to be traces of you."
"His methods and habits when setting up arrays seem to descend from the same lineage as your Ten Ultimate Array Codex."
"But where exactly are you?" Confusion appeared on Zixiao's face. "There isn't the slightest trace of your presence on him. Where on earth are you?"
"Ten Absolutes, I need you. The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths need you."
Zixiao stepped down from the swing, her delicate feet treading the green lawn, and could only let out a quiet sigh. "Alas..."
"If you were here, the chance of successfully Opening the Immortal Path could rise by another twenty percent."
This time, Li Qingyuan returned to the Qingyuan Cave Mansion on Wind Thunder Peak, summoning only his three Dao companions, Miao Le, Luo Ling, and Bing Ling'er, and the siblings Li Xianhuang and Li Changsheng.
Bing Ling'er, whose cultivation was the weakest, was now a Grotto-Heaven Immortal Venerable as well. She had already begun condensing True Blood and had surpassed ten drops.
Miao Le and Luo Ling each had more than ninety drops of True Blood. They were approaching perfection in both the True Blood Realm and the Blood Refinement Realm, not far from the Fusion of Treasures Realm.
Li Xianhuang had thirty drops of True Blood.
Li Changsheng had caught up from behind and surpassed them. His