"Li Sheng, Aunt only came to see you, and to take this opportunity to deliver Futian's relics." Gu Qingyan smiled. "Let us not speak of anything else."
"...Yes."
Gu Lisheng's expression grew somewhat weathered. He clasped his hands and said, "Aunt, if the Immortal Voyage faces danger, Li Sheng will certainly come to its aid."
"Good." Gu Qingyan smiled warmly. After giving Gu Lisheng a deep look, she turned and left.
Gu Lisheng gazed after Gu Qingyan's retreating figure for a long while.
By age, Aunt was little more than a young girl before him. Yet Father Emperor's generation had roamed the world from an early age, slaying demons and exterminating evil, treating life and death as though they were nothing. He could see that Aunt, too, carried an unspeakable grief in her heart.
But he did not dare ask further.
"Wait!!"
Suddenly, surging radiant light flashed across the heavens, seemingly arriving in great haste. "Ancestor Gu, wait!!"
That impatient voice was all too easy to recognize. Ke Ding had arrived—the old scholar who studied the immortal history of the ages. His face was utterly animated; no matter what, he could not let this person get away.
"...Fellow Daoist." Gu Qingyan turned around, her expression astonished. It was rare to see an Immortal in such a frantic state.
The Ominous Ancestor's expression turned solemn. He silently cupped his hands toward Ke Ding. He did not dare show disrespect toward the Dao Ancestor's friend through life and death.
"I am Ke Ding, Dao Master of this generation's Heavenly Secrets Dao Palace."
As Ke Ding rode the clouds, he excitedly clasped his hands. "Greetings, Ancestor Gu. Since you have already come, why must you leave in such haste? Now that the Immortal Realm has opened, with heavens high and seas vast, is