Unlike their outward journey, Li Qiuzhi and the others returned by land, mainly hoping to fight some monsters and find some treasure chests along the way.
Having seen the scenery on and beneath the water, they ought to see what the land had to offer too.
This meant returning to Ritou a little later than they would have by boat. After all, monsters and treasure chests on land were not as easy to spot as those in the water.
Even so, they successfully returned to Ritou after two days.
Over those two days, fighting monsters was only a side activity. They fought whatever they encountered and did not mind if they found none, so they only gained around twenty thousand Experience Points.
Their total Experience Points reached one hundred and fifty thousand.
Apart from that, Li Qiuzhi also practiced his swordsmanship whenever he had time over those two days, hoping to develop his own philosophy of swordsmanship and raise his Myriad Style Swordsmanship to Secret Art level.
He had also used this swordsmanship to defeat monsters over the past two days.
Unfortunately, ordinary monsters were so easy for him to defeat that even without knowing any swordsmanship, a few casual swings would do the job. There was no way to get any meaningful practice out of them.
During one of those nights, Li Qiuzhi also helped Lumine complete her level eighty ascension.
They made a little too much noise, and it went on for rather a long time. Mona, who had been sleeping next door, could not stand it anymore and teleported back to Fischl, her face flushed crimson.
When she returned the next day, Lumine had only just barely finished her ascension.
After all, ascensions required more energy at higher levels. It was only thanks to Li Qiuzhi's Charging