Su Yi thought for a moment. “What am I most interested in? Pursuing the Grand Dao, naturally. Beyond that, my only other interests are life’s pleasures.”

Qing Ya giggled, “Then we’re a bit similar, except that I’m only interested in life’s pleasures. Big Brother Su Yi, why are you so fixated on pursuing the Grand Dao anyway?”

“.....” Su Yi suddenly realized that the girl was full of seemingly endless questions. If they continued chatting like this, she could keep going for a long time.

Fortunately, Ling Yunhe took out a plump, ripe Fire Peach just in the nick of time and passed it to Qing Ya. She instantly focused all of her attention on devouring it, and soon, she was happily chomping away. 

The four of them continued their journey to the Great Xia together.

They encountered no major incidents along the way.

Half a month later, the ninth day of the eighth lunar month. 

Around noon, Ling Yunhe pointed at a range of rolling mountains and said, “Fellow Daoist, after we pass through the Cloud Python Mountains, we’ll enter the Great Xia.”

Su Yi nodded.

He first left the Great Zhou on the second day of the seventh month. A month and seven days had passed since then.

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