Ning Zhishui nodded to him with an even deeper smile, and then he saw his figure flash and disappear in the crowd.

"Thank you very much."

Ning Zhishui clasped his fists towards everyone.

Ren Muqing wiped her tears and leaned on her husband Ning Cheng's shoulder.

Standing beside her were her two sons, Ning Chengfeng and Ning Chuanzhu.

The four of them looked at Ning Zhishui who was surrounded by people, their eyes flashing with an expression that was unclear whether it was relief or pride.

"I never had the chance to see her in my previous life, but in this life I've always wondered what it would be like for my younger sister to reach the Chaos Realm and become a powerful being. Although I already believed her words, that image always lacks a certain sense of reality when I think of it."

Ning Chuanzhu said with a sigh, "Now that I see all this, I finally feel it."

Ning Chengfeng also nodded, grinning foolishly, "Yeah, with such a charming demeanor, I can't believe she's my sister, but she is! Hehe..."

In their previous life, they could not accompany Ning Zhishui to the end of the road, and could only let her experience the hardships alone, but this life is different.

They each shine with things that Ning Zhishui cannot see. Maybe they are not together, but they can still accompany each other all the way and understand each other's hearts.

While Ning Cheng was paving the way for his business, he also did not stop practicing. He exchanged his wealth for rare treasures that could improve his cultivation. He took them together with his cultivation, and his cultivation improved as fast as a flying boat.

Ren Muqing embarked on the path of alchemy. Although she entered the field late, she made rapid progress and she was able to speed up her practice by taking pills.

Ning Chuanzhu focused on swordsmanship, and after putting aside love affairs between men and women, he devoted himself to it. He even entered the Sword Mountain and obtained the sword manual. His cultivation improved by leaps and bounds, and he has become a well-known figure in the entire sect.

Ever since Ning Chengfeng acquired a new technique and became the disciple of the Sect Master, he seemed to have been given a cheat code and was no longer an ordinary person like before. There were even female cultivators who often came to him and wanted to become his Taoist partner.

However, Ning Chengfeng felt that he had not yet opened up to the world of love, and he was still young. He had such a good time doing anything else. Why did he have to fall into the whirlpool of love during such a rare golden period of cultivation?

If you're lucky enough to meet a kind woman like my mother and become her Taoist partner, that's fine. But if you're unlucky enough to suffer a broken heart like my elder brother...

It's really chilling!

Ning Zhishui said goodbye to the people from the Alchemy Society and looked around for something, but he never saw that figure again.

I'm afraid he has really left. Seeing how hurried he is, could it be that he came here specially to take a look?

What are you looking at? To see if you can get first place and get what you want?

Ning Zhishui didn't think any more and walked towards his family.

"Why are you all here?" Ning Zhishui looked at his father and two brothers. "How are you doing lately?"

"Everything is fine." Ning Cheng nodded with a smile, holding his wife's hand. "How could we not come to such an important day for you and your mother? You've worked hard these past few days. I've reserved a table at the Jinzun Restaurant next door. We can have a reunion dinner as a way to congratulate you."

"Yes, yes, Jinzunlou is the most famous restaurant in the entire Moxuan Continent, and the Quanling Banquet is priceless. It's not easy for Dad to book it, so we must go." Ning Chengfeng said excitedly.

Ning Chuanzhu also nodded with a smile, "Mom, little sister, you must be very tired, right? Go over and have a meal first, then you can have a good sleep, and come back after you wake up."

Ning Zhishui and Ren Muqing naturally agreed.

Each family member has his or her own life, and things will only get busier in the future, making it difficult to get together again.

Just like today, my aunt Ren Fei also wanted to come, but the sect happened to have a mission, and her position was very important, so she really couldn't be absent.

While eating, several people talked about their next plans.

"I plan to go to Linlang Valley with the people from the Alchemy Association to search for herbs. It may take more than a month." Ren Muqing said, "A seasonal spiritual flower will soon mature in Linlang Valley. Once it is picked, it must be made into elixirs immediately, so the alchemist himself needs to go there."

"I plan to expand the Ning family's materials business to several neighboring cities and build up relationships in Gaoling. Once things are stable here, I will hand the business over to Ning Lan." Ning Cheng said unexpectedly.

Seeing everyone's surprise, he explained.

Ning Lan was also a descendant of the Ning family, and had some blood relationship with Ning Cheng, but not a particularly close one. It was only after observing Ning Lan for a few days that Ning Cheng finally considered him his successor.

"Chuanzhu and Chengfeng have no ambitions here, let alone Zhishui. Entrusting this business to you would be a waste of your talents. It will take another three hundred years for the next Heavenly Staircase to open. Our goals are very much the same: to ascend to heaven. Leaving this world is inevitable, so the family business at hand definitely needs the right person to take over."

"I'm busy with business not because I'm obsessed with it, but because in today's world, if you don't have enough status, you will be looked down upon. If you want to protect your family, you must have a status and influence that others don't have. So I can't be content with being ordinary. Only when I stand at the top can I have the right to freely choose my life."

"With money and status, if you encounter danger in the future, my place can be a safe haven. If you don't need it... you can abandon me at any time."

Ning Cheng smiled cheerfully and for the first time expressed his plans for his life.

I have always thought that not only Ning Zhishui, but also Ren Muqing thought that Ning Cheng’s mind was focused on business recently. He seemed to be really obsessed with it and almost neglected his cultivation.

However, they didn't expect that he just wanted to leave a way out for everyone, so that if they could no longer stay in their own sect, they could just go home and live peacefully under his wings.

Just as he said, under the influence of Ning Zhishui, the whole family regarded ascension as the ultimate goal of their cultivation, which was completely different from the pursuit of most cultivators.

Others hardly dared to dream of ascending, only wanting to improve their cultivation, the stronger the better. As for ascending, it wasn't that they didn't want to, but they simply didn't dare to think about it.

Since the Ning family is wholeheartedly pursuing ascension, wealth is just a means they need to rely on along the way.

It's easy to imagine that the so-called wealth here will most likely be useless after ascension.

So in this situation, other than cultivation itself, other ambitions and desires are superfluous.

Ning Chuanzhu and Ning Chengfeng also talked about their plans. They planned to gain more experience to hone themselves.

Ning Zhishui listened, and nodded after they finished speaking. "Don't leave for the next few days. I'll go make some elixirs for you to protect yourselves and lives. I'll also prepare some formations and talismans for you. If you need any magical tools, you can tell me. With these, I'll be at ease no matter what you do."

No matter whether it was training or something else, it was more dangerous than practicing in seclusion, but Ning Zhishui had no intention of obstructing it.

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I'm sorry to tell you that this book may be forced to finish early. In the next two days, I will post a brief outline of the later plot, and then apply for completion. Due to grades, the website's full attendance system, and reduced traffic, it's hard to say too much, but if I have a new book after this, I will probably post it on Qidian Chinese website or Yunqi, and will no longer post it on Dian Nvx.com (but it won't affect your reading, you can still find me under the pen name, it's just a matter of the release website).