Another year passed, and Lin Yuhua married as well, building a new home next door to Zhou Heng.
She married an honest, simple man who was not good with words but wore a guileless smile. Zhou Heng also regarded Lin Yuhua as family. When the two married, he made an exception and used his power once, improving their constitutions while they slept.
It could not grant them great strength, but it would keep them free from illness for the rest of their lives.
Three years later, they had a son named Lu Tong.
The little fellow had a tiger-headed, tiger-brained look from birth and was incredibly mischievous. He loved clinging to Zhou Heng, following him to the fields and up the mountains, just like his mother had back then.
Six years later, a cultivator happened to pass through. After noticing the boy, he said Lu Tong had good aptitude and asked Lin Yuhua and her husband whether they would allow Lu Tong to return with him to the Raging River Sect to cultivate.
The couple discussed it for three days and even specifically sought Zhou Heng's opinion. In the end, they agreed to let Lu Tong go to the Raging River Sect.
The Raging River Sect lay thirty thousand li from the village. Although humans of the Bright World were born with cultivation at the Spirit Transformation Realm, the Bright World's gravity far exceeded that of the Mortal World. Thirty thousand li was still an unimaginably vast distance for ordinary people.
Every two years, Lin Yuhua and her husband went to the Raging River Sect to visit Lu Tong. Each time they returned, they would tell Zhou Heng how much taller the boy had grown and how much his cultivation had improved.
This continued for ten years, but after Lin