Occasionally, Li Yan and Zhao Min would enter Tuban and sit for a long time beside the river, where green grass spread like a woven carpet, reminiscing about the life-and-death trials they had shared on the Lost Continent.
Before Li Yan's wedding, Zi Kun had also received his mental message and chosen to interrupt his cultivation to attend. Qianji, however, was still trying to break through to the middle stage of the golden core realm, so Li Yan had not disturbed him.
More than half a year passed in the blink of an eye. One day, Li Yan and Zhao Min sat facing each other in his courtyard.
"Mother is finally going into seclusion again. I hope she succeeds this time!"
They had just returned from Wei Zhongran's residence. As they were leaving, Zhao Zhi had told them of her plans to enter seclusion once more. ??
Upon hearing this, Zhao Min and Li Yan had exchanged a glance, each seeing joy in the other's eyes.
Above all, a person needed the will to fight. If even that was lost, then a cultivator's path to immortality had reached its end.
Whatever the eventual outcome, at least Zhao Zhi had truly regained her confidence.
"Yes. Master has also begun preparing to refine the 'Immortal Illumination Powder.' With that medicine to help her, Master's wife will have a good chance of breaking through her cultivation bottleneck!"
At Zhao Zhi's request, Li Yan had continued using his former form of address.
Zhao Zhi felt that, as a Nascent Soul patriarch of the Wangliang Sect, Li Yan could perhaps call her "Mother" in private out of affection for his master and his family.
In public, however, it would seem rather inappropriate. After all, he represented the Wangliang Sect.
When Li Yan mentioned Wei Zhongran