Ning Zhongzi left as soon as she said she would.
Accompanied by the two Beast Immortals, Ox and Horse, she boarded the Black Lotus fast boat painted with an azure phoenix and flew straight for the White Lotus Sect at top speed. They would arrive in roughly half a day.
Ox and Horse Immortals had spent ten days with Fan Ni in East Floating City and formed a deep friendship with him. If Ning Zhongzi brought the two of them along, perhaps they could use that connection to gain entry into the sect.
She had also brought a thousand jin of Kun meat as a gift, hoping to win the chance to consult the alchemy classics.
To avoid being mistaken for unsavory rogue immortals along the way, she hoisted Azure Phoenix City's banner high aboard the ship. The procession was grand and spectacular—after all, Azure Phoenix City had delicious Void Kun, as well as Li Wuxie's daughter. Its name now rang loudly throughout the East Floating District.
Ning Zhongzi stood at the bow with her hands behind her back, clutching Lu Ya's Protective Bamboo Slip tightly against her chest. The whistling gale made the front of her robes billow like green bamboo waves.
With Lu Ya's Protective Bamboo Slip on her, she felt as though no evil in the world could touch her. Even though Lu Ya had specifically warned her to be careful, she did not take it to heart.
The reason she was so eager for Liu Xuanye to have a child, aside from pregnancy benefiting Liu Xuanye's body and mind, was another important one: men always doted on their daughters.
Li Wuxie was proof enough—even though having a daughter had caused him to fall from Immortal Emperor to Immortal Venerable, even though his half-human, half-serpent daughter was