Li Shen flew roughly out of the place, accompanied by strong gusts of wind and flying dust. The two practitioners guarding the mine were stunned, then focused their attention upwards to see Li Shen's departure from the place.
The two practitioners didn't care about the spirit stone or anything, Li Shen didn't take the slave he wanted, so the practitioners had no duty to return the spirit stone.
From the sky, Li Shen continued to fly without caring about anything. In the direction ahead, he saw the Gong City where the Li Family lived.
As the two practitioners explained, the former practitioners who had their cultivation destroyed were bought by the cultivator family.
'The situation is completely different now,' Li Shen explained.
Although he grew up in the Azure Pillar Sect, he still couldn't forget his family. They still lived in Gong City, taught cultivation, and traded.
At a glance, Li Shen saw that there were some middle-aged men wearing shabby black clothes, they were slaves.
Slowly, Li Shen stepped down from the sky. Now, his figure was in front of the gate of the Li family compound, one of the three most respected families in Gong City.
Just as Li Shen stepped forward, he felt a cultivation field blocking him from entering. For the other family members, they felt the cultivation aura of strangers entering the Li family residence.
Three Li family elders flew out from their room, right above the sky before Li Shen. Li Shen smiled, the three elders were in the Nascent Soul early realm.
"Who are you, Fellow Dao?!" asked one of the elders, pointing at Li Shen.
"My name is Li Shen."
"Li Shen? We've never had a family member with that name before," replied one of the three elders.
"Go back to your place. Maybe your parents gave you that name because he couldn't join one of the big families in city!"
The three elders stepped inside after forbidding Li Shen to approach the Li family residence. Li Shen gasped, he had to go inside no matter what, to find his enslaved elders.
"Is Li Xun here?" asked Li Shen, shouting loudly for the three elders to hear.
The three elders flew out again and met up with Li Shen. Obviously they snapped at Li Shen because he had the audacity to call the Li Family Head Lady's name disrespectfully.
"How dare you call the Li Family Head Lady's name like that!" snapped one of them.
'Li Xun became the Li Family Head Lady?Good, Xun'er,' Li Shen explained.
"Is she here?" asked Li Shen, the three elders didn't answer, instead they acted even more rudely driving Li Shen out of the Li family residence compound.
"If you don't leave, I'm afraid I'll have to violently kick you out, Fellow Dao!" they said.
"Kick me out? You still don't have the right!"
Li Shen increased his cultivation level in an instant, taking him from Mid Stage Nascent Soul realm to Peak Soul Formation.
The three elders were stunned, then hit by the qi pressure coming from Li Shen's energy.
"I am a member of the Li family. I didn't even recognize you guys when I was playing in the front yard!" snapped Li Shen.
"W-We'll tell you where Lady Li Xun is," explained one of the elders.
One of the elders said that Lady Li Xun was attending a banquet hosted by the Ping Family. The big families invited to the banquet were the Li Family, Gong Family, Ping Family, and Nan Family.
Li Shen listened, it was enough for him to know the whereabouts of Li Xun. Even so, he couldn't possibly go there and disrupt the banquet.
The Li Family's good name would be tarnished in front of the citizens and other cultivator families.
He swung his hand sideways, relieving the qi pressure on the three Nascent Soul practitioners in front of Li Shen.
Again, Li Shen returned his cultivation level from Soul Formation to Nascent Soul Mid-Stage.
The man flew up to the top of the Li family's protective dome, sitting in the lotus position as if cultivating. No one could disturb him, the three Li Family elders also chose to leave him alone so that Li Shen could meet Li Xun soon.
Time passed so quickly. The Li Family's children continued to practice regardless of Li Shen's presence at the top of their family dome. Slowly, the sun began to lose its rays, signaling that night had fallen.
Li Shen's eyes opened slowly, the reflection of light clearly visible in his eyes. He saw Li Xun's entourage coming with two men.
'A Nascent Soul Peak.Good, what an accomplishment,' Li Shen explained.
She was young, with long flowing black hair, fair skin, and dazzling round eyes.
She appeared to be wearing a blue long robe typical of the color of the Li family, her two bodyguards wore uniforms of a similar color, they were still at the Nascent Soul Initial stage.
Li Xun stopped flying and stepped on the floor of the sky, facing quite far away from Li Shen.
Although Li Xun saw his cultivation, but she didn't know his name, his face also felt familiar but Li Xun forgot to remember who it was.
"Who are you?" asked Li Xun, sternly.
"You've grown up, Xun'er," replied Li Shen, still sitting in lotus.
"That voice and demeanor. It's like I've heard it before," explained Li Xun, squinting suspiciously.
Li Shen smiled. He stretched out his hand to bring forth his blue qi energy. The energy was absorbed in his right hand, then he raised one finger and touched the sky floor.
[Dao of Dreams Activated]
Instantly, the area transformed into a forest filled with beautiful animals, blooming flowers, and soothing rivers. Li Shen's Dao of Dreams only targeted Li Xun, making her trapped in Li Shen's dao conception.
"C-Conception of Dao?" asked Li Xun.
Li Xun looked back, seeing the figure of her young self cultivating on the rock near the waterfall. There, she wasn't cultivating alone, but rather with her father and mother.
"H-How do you know about ...."
The beautiful woman gasped at hearing the exact same voice she had heard from Li Shen, saying the same words as Li Shen.
Li Xun's heart raced, realizing and seeing the figure of her father who had been present before her, still alive after being separated for thousands of years. Her eyes glazed over, feeling happy and touched that her dream had come true.
"Father?" asked Li Xun, tears falling from her eyes.
Li Shen smiled. He stopped his dao of dreams, returning the situation in that place to its original state.
"How are you, Xun'er?"