"One day? Sure enough, I could only reach you through this number." Xia Ruizhe sounded delighted on the other end of the phone.
"Brother Ruizhe, I just came up from the underworld. If I had been any earlier, your call wouldn't have gotten through either." I smiled. I had just noticed several unfamiliar numbers. One of them should have belonged to Brother Ruizhe.
But as I listened to his calm, unruffled voice, I suddenly sensed that something about him had changed.
"Maybe. Oh, right, Yitian, I attained enlightenment and remembered some things." Brother Ruizhe spoke.
"Congratulations. Are Mom and Xiaoxue there?" Since Brother Ruizhe was there, Yu Xiaoxue and my mother should have been nearby as well. They were both women, after all, and naturally had more reason to worry.
"They're here, and they're both fine. The three of us have stayed together this whole time. We experienced quite a lot on this journey north. You're going to the Four Directions Daoist Sects Conference too, right? I contacted some of my former colleagues, and they all said you're riding high now. You've become the sect master of a Daoist sect in your own right, and you've even joined the ranks of the first-rate sects." Brother Ruizhe answered me.
"Of course I'm going. I'm already on the way." I didn't know what else to say to Brother Ruizhe. His tone was simply too tranquil, as though he had weathered countless storms and seen every mortal affair under the sun.
While I was on the phone, several figures suddenly appeared beside me. In an instant, my wife tugged at my clothes!
I didn't even turn the steering wheel. I slammed down on the accelerator! The engine roared, the vehicle jolted with a bang, and I knew I had hit someone—but I tore