"Something has changed in Xuandu City. I may return in a hundred years."
The Great Mage had gone to Xuandu City? And he would not be back for a hundred years?
The instant Li Changshou received the jade talisman Xiao Yin had delivered from the Water God's Mansion, the tension in his Dao heart rose by thirty percent, and a faint anxiety seeped through him.
At such a critical juncture, the Great Mage had gone to Xuandu City. Without the support of Human Teaching's "conventional strongest combat power," the pressure on Li Changshou's shoulders abruptly intensified.
Xiao Yin had come to the Water God's Mansion with this message, so it must have been Laojun's instruction.
The implication was that while the Great Mage was away from the Five Continents, all matters of Human Teaching would fall upon him, this Lesser Mage.
And if Li Changshou moved against Lu Ya, or encountered any perilous situation, he could no longer count the Great Mage among his available forces.
By the pool on Black Pool Peak, Li Changshou rose and paced back and forth.
He wanted to call off Ling'e's trial, but when he saw her small face in the image on the pool—expectant and earnest—he hesitated.
"What is troubling the Water God?" Bai Ze asked from the side, holding a teacup. "Is there something you are worried about?"
"The Great Mage has gone to Xuandu City. It seems there is some trouble there."
Li Changshou returned to his seat, lifted the white tea mug he had refined in his idle hours, inhaled the fragrance of goji berries, and mourned the life he had lived in the final stretch of his previous life.
When it came to his kidneys, he had taken good care of them even in his previous life.
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