Li Yuqi had already been in a poor mood. As soon as she heard me ask about her father, sorrow welled up in her eyes. "We never found him. After you shut down the Grand Array, we sent people to search again, but still found no trace of Father..."
I took out Li Xiangan's treasures and returned them to Li Yuqi. "We were enemies before. Your father wanted to rescue Li Yingchi, so I had no choice but to attack him. This is his storage pouch. I didn't touch a thing inside. I'll return it to you now."
In truth, even if I had kept these things, the Li clan of Yunzhou couldn't say anything to me. They were spoils of war, and by common custom, there was no way to reclaim them.
Li Yuqi accepted the storage pouch. After opening it, she naturally found quite a few of her father's belongings inside, which brought her considerable comfort. The surrounding immortals also began offering words of consolation.
"Your father had already become a disembodied spirit at the time, so he certainly wouldn't have broken out through the outer perimeter of the Grand Array. He must have burst out through the Grand Array from beneath the sea. The seabed was affected by the power of the boundary, so he was very likely transferred elsewhere. You needn't worry too much. Perhaps returning to your lineage was too far away, and after something happened to the young sect master he had been protecting, he felt he had wronged the Supreme Sect Master. He may have decided to fake his death to preserve the family's dignity. That would explain why, even if you searched for him, you still couldn't find him." I offered this reminder.
When Li Yuqi heard this, delight immediately filled her