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Then he looked at Li Zi laughing with the other young disciples and couldn't help shaking his head.

She hadn't cultivated her composure one bit.

Yu Lin nodded. "Yes, she does too. But I don't know whether she's comprehended her own Dao."

Li Zi paid no attention to what they were discussing. Instead, she picked up plenty of gossip from the disciples around her.

The Sect had changed greatly over the years. Its disciples now numbered seven or eight thousand, and the elders had taken on more than thirty additional Direct Disciples.

Only the Fifth Elder still maintained publicly that he had just seven Direct Disciples. He refused to acknowledge Ran Zirou and had shown no intention of taking another disciple in the dozen or so years since.

The disciples of the other Sects had returned too. After greeting Li Zi and her companion, they went back to sit with their respective Sects.

Yu Lin glanced back at Li Zi. Seeing her listening to the disciples beside her chat, he relaxed a little.

He sent a voice transmission to the Fifth Elder. "Master, Little Junior Sister asked about Sixth Junior Sister."

The Fifth Elder's expression shifted slightly.

Fu Ruolan's situation was best not discussed in front of outsiders.

Fortunately, what they feared did not happen.

Once the wedding ceremony began, Li Zi watched it with her full attention. She seemed to have put Fu Ruolan entirely out of her mind.

Yun Dong'er and Qu Feng had become engaged more than a decade ago. Now that they were marrying, things had come full circle.

After the ceremony, as the singing and dancing began, the Spirit Sword Sect Master smiled at Li Zi. "You've only just returned. Go have a look around the Sect. Your Cave Abode has been redecorated too."

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