After weighing it over and over, Li Qingqiu still decided not to go after Yuan Li.
Unlike Zhao Zhen before him, Zhao Zhen had needed to survive a tribulation before he could transform, and he might have died in the process.
Yuan Li, however, had already awakened. If Li Qingqiu rashly tried to stop him, he might interfere with the awakening.
Li Qingqiu felt that the Indestructible Hegemon Body might be even more powerful than he had expected. As long as Yuan Li's outburst of aura was strong enough, he would be able to sense it.
The higher-ups couldn't understand why Li Qingqiu wasn't going to look for Yuan Li, but they trusted him, so no one tried to persuade him further.
Ji Ya was weighed down with grief. He had only just returned, and had just learned that Yuan Qi was dead.
Though he and Yuan Li weren't particularly close, they were still fellow disciples. After all these years together, he grieved for Yuan Li, too.
He wanted to go help Yuan Li, but Li Qingqiu stopped him.
"You should focus on healing first." Li Qingqiu's tone left no room for argument, and Ji Ya could only let it go.
Then Li Qingqiu sent Xiao Wuqing to look after Xiao Wudi. Once Xiao Wudi woke up, Xiao Wuqing was to bring him over.
Xiao Wudi had actually been knocked unconscious? Li Qingqiu had reason to suspect the man had done it on purpose.
Other Nourishing Yuan Realm Ninth Layer cultivators might really have been caught off guard and knocked out by Yuan Li, but Xiao Wudi was different. He was a body cultivator, too, with a body even stronger than Yuan Li's. How could he have been knocked unconscious?
Li Qingqiu asked Ji Ya to continue recounting what had