After about half a day, Shi Liuli returned from Donghua Sect as expected.

"Husband." After returning to Tiangong Workshop, she explained the situation to Luo Yan in general. It was basically the same as what Qiu Changtian had seen. "...In short, this is what happened."

"I see." Luo Yan thought that my wife was really open with me and had no secrets, so he asked curiously, "So what treasure did you get back from the cardinal hall of the Donghua Sect?"

"This is it." Shi Liuli calmly took out the compass magic weapon, "This thing can use the stars to locate. Some things that cannot be calculated by traditional magic methods may be calculated from astrology."

She looked at Luo Yan calmly, and saw Luo Yan just say "oh" with no expression on his face.

...So, he had no idea that his fate was being concealed?

Thinking of this, Shi Liuli put away the magic compass - when he put it away, he took a look and saw that the needle was indeed pointing at Luo Yan.

Locked.

Very good, Shi Liuli thought to himself.

Of course, she was not the kind of wife who liked to install surveillance cameras for her husband, but because Luo Yan’s fate could not be calculated, if something happened during his training outside, she would not be able to find him!

I'm doing this for his safety... Thinking of this, she hid the magic compass deep in her storage bag, intending not to take it out until the critical moment.

"Liuli." Seeing that she was in a good mood, Luo Yan asked tentatively, "Your husband has already cultivated to the Golden Core Realm and has reached perfection in the God-storing Stage. He is just waiting for an opportunity to break through. How about you help your husband figure out where to find this opportunity?"

"Perfected the Soul Conservation Stage?" Shi Liuli asked in astonishment, "How come it was so fast?"

"Ahem." Luo Yan tentatively said perfunctorily, "Maybe your husband is gifted and is upgrading very quickly?"

Shi Liuli looked at him speechlessly, with an expression that seemed to say "Can you make up a more fake excuse?"

Luo Yan suddenly felt ashamed. This Miss Shi was not as easy to fool as Senior Sister An!

"Okay." Seeing that he refused to explain, Shi Liuli could only sigh and took out six copper coins.

"Hmm." She looked at the hexagram she had cast and said thoughtfully, "It is better to go in the southwest direction... eh?"

"What's wrong?" Luo Yan asked.

"It's okay." Shi Liuli said calmly, "I'll go with you."

"Sure." Luo Yan agreed readily.

After reporting the matter of the Donghua Sect to the headmaster Xuandu, the two of them flew away from Penglai on their swords and headed southwest.

After arriving in Shenzhou and entering the Yangzhou area, Shi Liuli took Luo Yan on a long-distance sword flight and finally landed on the outskirts of a city.

Luo Yan looked closely and saw the words "Hongdu" engraved on the city gate.

"Liuli?" he called softly.

Shi Liuli didn't say anything, but took him through the streets and alleys to the door of a private house.

On the street outside the door, a child of three or four years old was sitting on the stone steps at the door, cutting a wooden sword with a file in his hand.

When Luo Yan saw his profile, he was stunned for a moment. The child seemed to have noticed something, raised his head and looked at the two of them, suddenly revealing a blank, familiar smile.

"Liuli." Luo Yan said in horror, "That's not..."

"Alas." The wife beside him sighed faintly, then walked to the boy, half bent down and asked, "Child, what's your name?"

The child didn't want to answer the stranger's question, but when the words came to his lips, he accidentally told the truth:

"Shi Mian, my name is Shi Mian."

"Hmm." Shi Liuli's eyes were complicated. He slowly took out a scripture from his storage bag, handed it to the child and said, "Here you go. That's not how you make a sword. There are many tricks involved."

The child looked at her timidly, but did not reach out to take it. He just said hesitantly:

"My mother won't let me accept things from strangers."

"Really? Your mother is right." Shi Liuli sighed, then sat down beside him and said gently, "How about this, I won't give you this book, but I will tell you the knowledge in this book, so that it won't be considered as asking you to accept things from a stranger."

The child thought it was right and immediately came over with joy, listening attentively to Shi Liuli's explanation.

Luo Yan watched the two of them silently from the side, with an extremely complicated expression.

He saw Shi Liuli explaining to the child very patiently, gently and meticulously, just like how the elder Shi Ding in the past had patiently explained the knowledge of casting to Shi Liuli.

However, although Miss Shi at that time could understand what Elder Shi Ding taught, she had basically no interest in learning. She always found an excuse to go out and play, which made Elder Shi Ding sigh and feel helpless.

Although the child now did not understand Shi Liuli's explanation, he carefully memorized it in his mind, as if he had realized what important knowledge it was.

Shi Liuli was afraid that he would not be able to remember it, so she deliberately repeated it three or four times and asked him to recite it again. It was not until the child could repeat it haltingly that she slowly revealed a sad smile of relief.

"Sister," the child asked timidly, "why are you crying?"

Shi Liuli was stunned for a moment, silently wiped the tears from her face with the back of her hand, and said with a smile:

"It's okay. I just remembered... to teach these things to my elders."

"I understand, sister." The child said, not quite understanding, "When my father went out to do business, I missed him very much and cried every time I thought of him."

"I think that person must be an elder who is very important to you, sister. That's why you are smiling so sadly...please don't cry, okay? I'll give you some of the candy that my mother bought for me."

He took out a precious cloth bag from his sleeve, which contained two or three pieces of malt sugar. He gave one piece to Shi Liuli and another piece to Luo Yan who was standing opposite him. The child had already seen that this brother was a very close friend of his sister.

Luo Yan was flattered and took it, but couldn't bear to eat it on the spot. Shi Liuli put the maltose in her mouth, and her tears finally stopped.

"Actually, I don't really understand what you just said." The child said somewhat depressedly, "Is it enough to just remember these?"

"That's enough." Luo Yan smiled and said to him, "When you start studying formally and can understand the meaning of the scriptures independently, you can understand the meaning of these words."

"Then, you can go find a sect to practice cultivation... It doesn't matter if you don't understand what a 'sect to practice cultivation' is. You will understand it in the future."

"I understand." The child said solemnly, "You and your sister are also from this cultivation sect, right?"

"We are from Yuqing Temple in Penglai." Luo Yan answered seriously, and suddenly he felt a subtle trance.

He realized that he was guiding this child into Penglai, just like when he was first introduced by Elder Shi Ding.

The mutual echo between the past and the present gave Luo Yan a sudden sense of "destiny". Suddenly, there was a crisp sound in his sea of ​​consciousness, and then it seemed as if the whole world was shining brightly.

He broke through to the stage of spiritual storage.