At the end of the year, Yellow Cloud True Person arrived as promised. Seeing that both Li Ling and Mu Qingsi had reached Foundation Establishment, she nodded in satisfaction. "Very good. Now that you have both established your foundations, you have Eight-Hundred-Year Lifespans. Only then can you settle down securely and put down roots for the long term."
Li Ling was slightly surprised. "Old Ancestor, do you really intend to settle us overseas?"
Yellow Cloud True Person said, "Didn't I tell you about this before?"
Li Ling said, "Old Ancestor, we aren't ready yet. There are the workshops here, the personnel, and all sorts of odds and ends..."
Yellow Cloud True Person said impatiently, "Just find someone to handle them when the time comes. You can bring everything you need, along with the servants. It will merely take a little time."
Li Ling listened in a daze and sighed inwardly. Once someone embarked on the path of cultivation, their outlook truly changed.
The Old Ancestor wanted to arrange his move, packing up even the servants and all his businesses here to take along.
Mortals clung to their native soil and dreaded moving, regarding even a hundred miles as an impassable chasm. Yet cultivators thought nothing of moving tens or hundreds of thousands of miles. They merely had to summon a commerce guild's flying boat or employ some other divine ability.
Why would she consider those mortals' parents, families, relatives, and neighbors?
Still, on reflection, most of the servants at the Prince Consort's Residence had brought their families to serve there. They were typical dependents under the feudal codes of propriety.
Following him, their master, was indeed their only path.
Li Ling himself had little attachment to kinship. He had been reborn into this life with his memories intact; wherever his