"Xue'er, go on back. It's time for your martial uncle to leave too," Li Dalong told Zhou Xue.
"Martial Uncle, can't you stay at the sect for a few days before leaving?" Zhou Xue was reluctant to see her martial uncle leave so soon.
"No, you should focus on your cultivation too! I'm also going to travel around the Immortal Realm and see the sights." Li Dalong politely declined Zhou Xue's invitation.
"All right, Martial Uncle. You have to come and visit me often," Zhou Xue said to Li Dalong, reluctant to part.
"All right, I'm off!" Li Dalong waved to Zhou Xue, signaling for her to return to the sect, then turned and left.
With reluctance written all over her face, Zhou Xue watched her martial uncle's receding back, her eyes full of longing.
Only when Li Dalong disappeared into the distance did she return.
About half a cup of tea's time after Li Dalong arrived at the Limitless Immortal Sect's mountain gate, Sect Master Ye Xingchen received a disciple's report.
Li Dalong had met his niece Zhou Xue outside the mountain gate, and while Ye Xingchen was considering whether to summon Li Dalong for a meeting,
Li Dalong had already finished speaking with Zhou Xue, handed her the Nine Extremes Immortal Fruit, and left the Limitless Immortal Sect.
By the time the person Ye Xingchen sent to invite Li Dalong arrived, he found no one there. Unable to meet Li Dalong, he could only return helplessly to report to Sect Master Ye Xingchen.
Seeing that Li Dalong had left after merely meeting Zhou Xue, Ye Xingchen sent no one else to look for him. Inexplicably, he also breathed a sigh of relief. It was just as well not to meet for now.
After leaving the Limitless Immortal Sect,