When we returned to Great Arrival Island, the verdant landscape was gradually tinged with the glow of the setting sun.
Zhang Xian received Chen Shuangbai.
Chen Shuangbai also spent about a year traveling at sea. Great Arrival Island, True Person Xu officially founded a sect called [ Floating Light Sect ], and recognized a cultivator named Daoist Fuqing as its founder.
True Person Xu was the second-generation patriarch, while Zhang Xian was the third-generation chief disciple.
Not long after the founding of the Floating Light Sect, people naturally came to join it.
True Person Xu selected two more talented individuals from among the many promising talents, a man and a woman, and took them as his disciples. They are now following Zhang Xian in his cultivation and work.
True Person Xu was Golden Core True Person, he naturally didn't concern himself with the mundane affairs of the island, so the responsibility fell to Zhang Xian.
As the current head of the Zhang Xian Zhang, it wouldn't be unreasonable for Zhang to offer appropriate assistance.
However, the Zhang family has staked their entire fortune on this, and now they are showing signs of arrogance, putting Zhang Xian in a difficult position.
However, judging from his confident and spirited appearance, he should be able to handle it.
"Brother Chen, it's been a long time! You still look as distinguished as ever!"
Zhang Xian smiled and flattered, knowing the reason for Chen Shuangbai's return, and explained, "Your sect's True Person Mei left the island before the storm season and returned to your sect."
That makes sense. As Golden Core cultivator, how could True Person Mei possibly wait here for Chen Shuangbai to finish his travels and return?
Zhang Xian added, "However, True Person Mei left a message, saying that if you return, you should return to your sect as soon as possible."
After bidding farewell to Zhang Xian.
Chen Shuangbai rode the Flowing Cloud Flying Pouch, crossed the strait between Great Arrival Island and the mainland, and then stepped back onto the land.
First they crossed the territory of Ning Country, then followed the border between the Xu Kingdom and Zhao Kingdom, and finally returned to the Jing Kingdom.
Although Jing Kingdom is close to the Spirit Gauze Sea and has a relatively humid and warm climate, with only a few areas experiencing heavy snowfall, it still gave Chen Shuangbai a slight jolt compared to the sea, which is warm all year round.
However, Feiguang adapted very well.
That makes sense. It naturally prefers cold and dry places, and the dry and cool autumn in the Jing Kingdom is indeed more comfortable for it than the humid and warm environment at sea all year round.
Before returning to his clan, Chen Shuangbai went back to White Water County and left all the things he had bought for his family there.
Only a few people in charge of the Lineage have seen him.
Chen Shuangbai couldn't stay any longer, so she inquired about the family's situation and, upon learning that they were thriving, left with peace of mind.
The closer one gets to the Sunken Jade Valley, the richer and purer the Spiritual Qi becomes. Occasionally, one can see the escape lights of other cultivators streaking across the sky, all heading in the same direction.
It seems... they must be disciples who have gone out for training, or members of the Ward Off Evil Hall who patrol the four directions.
Sunken Jade Valley remains as warm and humid as ever.
The Shattered Star River flows through it, where the cool river water and the warm earth energy meet. The rising water vapor is then gathered together by the protective array, making this valley area shrouded in clouds and mist, surrounded by peaks, with ever-changing scenery, just like a blessed land of immortals.
That's not entirely wrong.
"Within the territory of the Jing Kingdom, only my Jade Spring can truly be called a blessed land of immortals."
Upon returning to the sect, Chen Shuangbai immediately went to pay her respects to her master.
Yi Chongyue remained the same as always, never leaving his home.
Each month, aside from the fixed teaching time at the Scripture Transmission Hall, he spends the rest of his time either cultivating or refining elixirs.
He and Yan Heng's father, Yan Nanlai, were the only two second-tier Alchemist in the sect. If the sect needed second-tier pills, it was basically the two of them who could succeed.
"What a pity... that Aging-Delay Pill was only a first-grade top-quality pill. If I had refined a second-grade one, I could have been considered a second-grade Alchemist."
That Bai Nianyuan quite formidable, to be honest.
Even a pill like the Aging-Delay Pill, which can slow down aging, is only at the first-tier level. Other Life-Extension Pill would be at least at the second-tier level.
Deer Deep Waters Peak.
Inside the main hall.
Chen Shuangbai bowed deeply to the middle-aged Daoist priest seated in the main seat, "Master, Shuangbai has returned from her travels across the seas and pays her respects."
Yi Chongyue sat in the main seat, dressed in a blue and white monastic robe. A rockery-like object hung from his waist, along with a gourd. His black hair was tied up with a jade crown, and he truly had the appearance of a handsome man.
Chen Shuangbai bowed deeply to the female Daoist priest sitting in the guest seat beside him and said, "Uncle-Master has emerged from seclusion? Greetings, Uncle-Master!"
This female Daoist was none other than Peng Yu Yupeng Shangxiu, Chen Shuangbai aunt and Yi Chongyue's junior sister.
Looking at the charismatic Chen Shuangbai, Peng Yu smiled and gestured for him to skip the formalities. Then, turning to Yi Chongyue, she said, "Second Senior Brother, your ability to judge character is truly remarkable. My nephew... I'm afraid he'll reach the Golden Core in less than fifty years!"
Yi Chongyue smiled, but humbly said, "Junior Sister, please don't flatter him too much..."
Seeing that his two teachers were there, Chen Shuangbai took the opportunity to give them the local specialties he had purchased from the Sea Fairy Market.
"This sea has everything, except for an abundance of all kinds of precious pearls."
Peng Yu has two disciples, and his Shi Yubai also has two disciples. In addition, Chen Shuangbai has some friends in the sect. He has purchased a lot of things, intending to give them away when he returns.
"I brought some back with me on this trip, mostly just some inexpensive trinkets."
Yi Chongyue received several large jars of well-sealed, Spiritual Qi deep-sea spiritual tea, all made from tea varieties unique to the sea, giving them a distinctive flavor.
Peng Yu received bracelets, necklaces, and other trinkets made of exotic spirit Shell Pearl and deep-sea seven-colored coral branches. Although they were not Spirit Artifact and were only at the level of low-grade Law Artifact, they were brilliantly shiny, uniquely designed, and had the effect of calming the mind and beautifying the skin, which was obviously more to the liking of female cultivators.
"I didn't expect that I, as his senior apprentice, would do something like this. How thoughtful."
In addition, there are various kinds of precious stones.
Seeing how tactful and considerate Chen Shuangbai was in her dealings with people, Yi Chongyue Chen Shuangbai at her with even more warmth. "The scenery at sea is very different from that inland. Your attention to collecting these things is certainly broadening your horizons."
"However, for those who cultivate themselves, external things are ultimately only aids; they must not be allowed to distract them from the true path."
But besides these, Chen Shuangbai took out another item.
It was the hush money that White Feather Cave gave to Chen Shuangbai, that Sea Heart Jade Marrow Ganoderma.
He had not forgotten that his master possessed the Spirit Root of water and earth, and that the Sea Heart Jade Marrow Ganoderma was perfectly suited for Yi Chongyue to refine in order to increase his cultivation.
Yi Chongyue didn't want to accept it, but Chen Shuangbai threw it down and ran away, also leaving behind the Pill Formula for the Aging-Delay Pill. He left a message saying, "Master, please study this Pill Formula first and see if there are any improvements." Then he returned to his cave abode in the sect, Verdant Hills Stream, without looking back.
Only Yi Chongyue and Peng Yu remained, looking at each other in bewilderment.
Verdant Hills Stream.
The rising steam and the interplay of blue and red hues gave it a distinctly autumnal feel.