Lu Chen stayed at the Tianxuan Stone Workshop for several days, during which the elderly Wei Yi offered him considerable guidance in cultivation.
This gave him a deeper understanding of Severing the Dao and made the road ahead clearer in his heart. He was not far from crossing that threshold.
"There's been no news of you for eight years. Were you cultivating in seclusion?"
Fairy Zixia arrived in the Holy City and met Lu Chen. At that moment, the trace of worry deep in her eyes seemed to ease.
Lu Chen had spent over five years on Earth, while the journeys along the Starry Sky Ancient Road had taken another two years or more. He had vanished without a trace for nearly eight years, and no one knew where he had gone.
For such an extraordinary prodigy to disappear completely for so many years made many people wonder whether something had happened to him.
After all, the Primordial Myriad Races had emerged over these years, throwing the world into turmoil. It was entirely possible that some dazzling young geniuses had been secretly killed.
Zixia and Lu Chen had faced life and death together at the Ruthless Daoist Grounds and traveled together for a long time in the Immortal Mansion World in the Central Plains. He had even imparted the Jade Pool Holy Land's Western Emperor Scripture to her.
Proud though Fairy Zixia was as Heaven's Favored Daughter, she was not heartless. With all these things combined, faint feelings had already begun to blossom in her heart.
Only now, seeing him safe and sound, did that almost imperceptible worry disappear completely.
"I took a trip somewhere." Lu Chen smiled faintly, heated water from the Divine Spring, and took out two wondrous tea leaves to steep.
"Enlightenment tea leaves!" Zixia's beautiful lashes