Realization

Xia City.

"Whoosh!"

Baili Qingfeng streaked through the air.

As he looked at the rolling mountain ranges stretching across the edge of his vision, his mood lightened considerably. "Whew! I'm back!"

He had spent more than a month in the Aurora Empire, yet it had felt as though he had been gone for half a century. Now, looking at Xia City and Qingyuan Mountain again, everything seemed familiar and comforting.

Baili Qingfeng slowed down slightly. As he neared Qingyuan Mountain, he seemed to think of something...

He had actually failed to sense Old man Zhao's aura!?

Was he not in Xia City?

With that thought, he shifted his direction slightly. Before long, he saw Zhao Si repairing an irrigation ditch in the fields.

"Morning, Old man Zhao. Irrigating the farmland?"

"Young brother, you're back?"

As Zhao Si spoke, he gathered his true energy and drew a finger across the ground. Amid a series of faint rumbles, a ditch more than ten meters long and over a meter deep was carved open. Water from the channel beside him immediately flowed into the ditch he had drawn across the ground, streaming toward the rice paddies nearby.

"I'm back. The Aurora Empire wasn't fun at all. Their equipment wasn't complete enough, I couldn't even get online, and the place I slept wasn't very comfortable. But since I was a guest in a foreign land, I was too embarrassed to say anything..."

"That's right. A golden nest or a silver nest is no better than your own doghouse. No matter how grand and splendid the outside world is, your own home is always the most comfortable place to live."

"Exactly."

Baili Qingfeng looked Zhao Si up and down. "Old man Zhao, have you mastered that domain already? There isn't any of that aura constantly