One Nascent Soul and a Whole Crowd of Them [Monthly Votes, Please]

After Ji Yuan returned from Coastal City, he stopped by Carefree Island on his way home.

He had spent months cultivating in seclusion without once coming to pay his respects. Ji Yuan felt something was a little off.

Fortunately, he had brought plenty of Wishful Wine with him this time... When he arrived on Carefree Island, Hua Yaoyue was, unusually, neither resting in the pavilion nor up on the mountaintop.

Instead, she was strolling along the sandy lakeshore.

"Disciple greets Master."

Ji Yuan landed and cupped his hands to Hua Yaoyue. At the same time, he offered her a Storage Bag. "This is the wine I've brewed lately."

Inside were not only Wishful Wine and Peerless Wine, but also some spirit wines enhanced by the Wine Cellar.

Hua Yaoyue, walking ahead, did not turn around. She merely raised her right hand. With a slight motion of her snow-white fingers, the Storage Bag dropped into her palm. She tucked it at her waist and said,

"Kong Xifeng has left."

"What?!"

Ji Yuan's head snapped up.

"She went to meet the Nascent Soul Cultivators from the other sects."

Only after Hua Yaoyue explained did Ji Yuan relax. "I thought... I thought the ancestor had passed away."

"As long as she doesn't fight anyone with all her strength, she should live another few decades."

"So they went to... discuss the matter of the Abyssal Continent?"

"Yes. We'll see what they choose."

Clearly, the matter had weighed on Hua Yaoyue's mind. Otherwise, she would not have been walking by the lake.

"Oh, right, Master. That Fourth-Tier old turtle beneath the Boundless Marsh asked me to pass along a message."

The moment Ji Yuan finished speaking, Hua Yaoyue whipped around and looked him up and down before slowly withdrawing her gaze. "Behave yourself when you