The next day, he sent the two women back to Icefire Basin.
Ah Yin sat beneath the Golden Ancient Tree, nursing Lan Si'er, while Xiao Mei lay nearby, gently teasing Lan Li'er asleep in the cradle with the tip of her tail.
The two little ones slept soundly with their eyes closed, their tiny mouths occasionally moving as if they were still eating in their dreams.
Lan Tian distributed the things he had bought in Heaven Dou City to the three women one by one. Louise had picked out a bolt of deep-blue satin for Ah Yin. Ah Yin looked at it for quite a while, her fingertips repeatedly stroking the fabric. Though she said nothing, the curve of her lips lifted a little more than usual.
That night, Lan Tian sat in his workshop organizing the newly purchased Soul Tool materials, sorting away the Guiding Stone blanks and silver-patterned copper wire.
Halfway through, he suddenly stopped what he was doing and leaned back in his chair, thinking of something.
The distance between Icefire Basin and the Fief was too great.
It did not matter much for him, but if his family went out in the future, they might inevitably encounter bandits or the like. It was not very safe.
It was best if nothing happened, but if something did happen while he was away, he would definitely regret it.
If he could construct a Teleportation Array Formation between the two places, linking them so travel back and forth took only an instant, that would completely solve the problem.
He searched through every piece of Soul Tool information he had on hand: the Soul Tool Compendium, the various scattered materials he had purchased at auction, and the array diagram notes he had recorded in the Fief.
There were plenty of