Half a year later.
Chen Lin had waited a full six months before finally securing passage back to the Northern Immortal Cultivation World and returning to Xuanguan Immortal City.
The first thing he did was visit Xuanguan Immortal City's Management Office to demand an explanation for the malfunction of the teleportation formation all those years ago.
For cultivators, twenty years or so was not a long time. Xuanguan Immortal City did not shirk responsibility, offering a formal apology and some compensation.
The compensation consisted of two opportunities to use a long-distance teleportation formation, along with one opportunity to use the city's Spirit Liquid Pool.
None of it was anything tangible, but Chen Lin could only take what he could get and leave it at that.
There was no rule of law in the cultivation world. The other party had admitted fault and offered compensation to preserve the good image of a super immortal city, not because they truly feared him making trouble. If he failed to recognize that and kept pestering them, all that awaited him was a merciful extermination.
After leaving the City Lord Manor, he went to the Chen Family Firm Branch.
"Greetings, Master! Congratulations on successfully forming your golden core!"
Tian Haifu looked a little older, but his cultivation had improved considerably. He had already reached the third layer of foundation establishment and would soon be able to break through to the foundation establishment middle stage.
Foundation establishment cultivators could live up to two hundred and fifty years. Tian Haifu still had more than a hundred years left, so his lifespan was not a concern.
Of course, he probably had little hope of achieving Ascension to the golden core realm.
"There's no need for such formality."
Chen Lin waved a hand. "Has everything been well these past