The matter of the mental illness had more or less been resolved.
Everyone immediately continued the feast.
The scene grew lively again.
Yunxi was delighted to have gotten the jade fragment. She pulled Li Fan along to cut squid, and he tied an apron around her.
"You're cutting it wrong. Here, let me show you..."
Li Fan guided Yunxi as she obediently tried to learn. She worked hard, but her cuts were still uneven and crooked, making Li Fan smile.
Elsewhere, Aunt Wang, Uncle Zhang, and the others were busy tossing huge chunks of tuna into pots to stew and braising lobsters as long as a forearm...
The children circled the pots, brimming with anticipation, while the elders sat with Second Uncle, talking animatedly about their fishing trips at sea when they were young...
The whole place was bustling with activity.
Luo Xingchen, meanwhile, had been left alone.
Even so, the fear in his heart did not diminish.
He looked at the figures moving about, his old eyes filled with ever greater shock.
What kind of place was this?
Even the legendary place that could not be spoken of probably couldn't hold so many heaven-defying, forbidden beings...
He couldn't help looking at Li Fan.
This terrifying, supreme big shot was wearing an apron, cooking and flipping food in the smoke and flames...
And the woman known as the endpoint of all paths stood beside him, plainly like an carefree, innocent girl, her smile so pure and kind.
Her eyes were full of starlight as she stood by his side.
"The 'one' you set out to seek all those years ago... was it him?"
For a moment, Luo Xingchen was dazed.
Before this, the woman known as the endpoint of all paths had undoubtedly been the most powerful being in his