In any case, the Northern Underworld Sea was the most barren place on the Desolate Moon Continent. Apart from cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage or above, no one could know where it ended.
And with no spiritual energy there, even Nascent Soul Cultivators rarely ventured into that place, leaving precious few people familiar with it.
So it was entirely possible for something unknown to have happened there. Besides, Li Yan and Zhao Min reckoned that others would not dig too deeply into the matter.
"No, nothing like that. We kept out of sight the whole way!"
Li Yan offered that as an excuse.
Li Wuyi nodded. As long as Zhao Min and Li Yan had not suffered at the hands of those bald donkeys, that was enough.
After they talked a little more, Zhao Min and Zhao Zhi left first. Mother and daughter naturally had endless private things to tell each other...
Wei Zhongran also summoned Li Yan into a secret chamber. The two talked for well over two hours, and no one else had any way of knowing what they had discussed...
Late that night, a round, golden moon hung directly overhead. Broad swathes of pale yellow light filtered through the swaying bamboo leaves and fell into a bamboo courtyard.
This was Li Yan's old residence. Apart from Zhang Que and the other junior disciples, everyone was gathered there, including Wei Zhongran and his wife, Li Wuyi, and the others.
They had also been joined by the voluptuous, alluring Li Changting.
When Li Changting received Zhao Min's voice transmission, she could scarcely believe that Zhao Min had returned. After standing stunned for a moment, she hurried over like a whirlwind.
She had once heard Li Wuyi mention that Zhao Min and Li Yan had appeared on the Qingqing