Fang Chen returned the baby girl to the woman. She held her close and breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'll see this through to the end—send the Buddha all the way west. Let me take you home," Fang Chen told the couple.
"Thank you, Immortal Master!"
The couple were overjoyed to hear his words and kowtowed to him again.
"No need for that. I'll take you back."
With a thought, Fang Chen summoned countless mysterious Runes and gathered them into a small boat. "Get aboard. I'll take you home."
"But I don't know the way home anymore," the man said.
Fang Chen smiled faintly. "Neither do I."
"How can you not know? You're an Immortal Master," the man asked.
"Immortal Masters are human too. We can't do everything," Fang Chen said with a smile.
The man frowned and glanced at his wife and daughter. "Does that mean we can't go home?"
Fang Chen smiled lightly. "Let's leave it to fate. If the heavens want you to go home, you'll make it back."
"All right."
The man nodded slightly at Fang Chen's words.
Fang Chen steered the boat, carrying the family slowly forward through the air.
An hour later.
"Wah, wah, wah..."
The baby girl in the woman's arms suddenly began to cry.
"Don't cry, little one. Mother will feed you now," the woman told her.
She loosened her clothes and began nursing the baby. She sat at the bow with her back to Fang Chen, so he could not see anything—and he had no interest in looking.
Fang Chen sat at the stern, his eyes closed as he rested.
They disappeared?
Fang Chen's eyes narrowed. He had known from the start that this was a special space inside the inheritance statue, and he had not believed the three people he