After dismembering the Cloud-Swallowing Python and storing it in his Storage Ring, Liu Changxu chose not to rest there, but set off for home that very night.
He was so eager to return because his wife, Li Zhenxin, was waiting for him at Skylark Mountain, south of Black Tiger Mountain!
It was not until the hour of Chou, deep into the night, that Liu Changxu reached Skylark Mountain aboard the Nine Heavens Chasing the Moon Boat.
When Liu Changxu entered Li Zhenxin's camp, he found that his wife had stayed awake, waiting for him all this time.
The moment she saw her husband return, Li Zhenxin could not help throwing herself into his arms. She always appeared strong, and only when they were alone would she reveal her vulnerable side.
"My dear, there's no need to worry. Haven't I come back safe and sound?"
Liu Changxu spoke to Li Zhenxin with a cheerful smile.
"Husband, it's too dangerous here. Let's go back to the sect!"
Li Zhenxin spoke timidly to her husband.
She had never imagined that eighteen third-tier middle-grade Flame Jujubes would draw three third-tier Great Monsters to fight over them. Had the Green Fox and the Blue-Scaled Flood Dragon not become third-tier Great Monsters, her husband would probably have faced more peril than hope today!
Ever since Li Zhenxin had married Liu Changxu, her only dissatisfaction had been that the Liu Household's surroundings were far more dangerous than those of her birth household.
Like the other members of her lineage, Li Zhenxin felt a profound lack of security deep in her heart. Even Liu Changxu's becoming a Golden Core cultivator had only eased that feeling somewhat.
She had simply never voiced those thoughts, and what had just happened had stirred the fear in her heart once again!
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