"What is this?"
Su Ruyi looked curiously at the stone Zhang Hao held in his hand.
Zhang Hao smiled slightly and said, "It's for fortune-telling."
Su Ruyi snorted, finding him mysterious.
Zhang Hao didn't answer, because the System's prompt had already sounded.
"Ding dong, a knowledge seeking stone has been detected. Do you want to use it?"
"Use it," Zhang Hao silently said in his heart.
"Please ask your question."
Zhang Hao asked the question he wanted to know.
Soon, three words appeared on the stone: General Temple.
When Zhang Hao saw those three words, he was as excited as if he had found a treasure. He looked at Su Ruyi and asked, "Ruyi, is there a General Temple in this Batian City?"
Su Ruyi was a local and quite familiar with Batian City. She nodded and said, "Yes, in our Batian City, there are at least a dozen General Temples!"
Zhang Hao was slightly surprised, so many. However, the knowledge seeking stone only gave this little hint. So he said, "Then Bai Xiaojun's Mother is in a General Temple. Let's go find her."
"Zhang Hao, are you sure she's in a General Temple?" Su Ziyi looked at Zhang Hao with some doubt.
Zhang Hao knew that Su Ziyi didn't quite believe him, so he said to her seriously, "Ziyi, believe me, I wouldn't joke about this."
Seeing how serious Zhang Hao was, Su Ziyi nodded. The group began to search separately.
After searching over a dozen General Temples, they found nothing. Everyone was a bit disheartened. Su Ruyi looked at Zhang Hao and asked, "Zhang Dage, could you have made a mistake?"
Zhang Hao shook his head and said, "That's impossible. I couldn't have made a mistake. I'm sure Bai Xiaojun's Mother should be in a General Temple."
Su Ruyi looked at Zhang Hao somewhat dejectedly and said, "But we've searched all the nearby General Temples and found nothing."
Zhang Hao pondered for a moment, then looked at Su Ziyi and asked, "Ziyi, are there no other General Temples nearby?"
Su Ziyi thought for a moment and said to Zhang Hao, "That's not entirely true. There's one more General Temple nearby, but I heard it's going to be converted into a Martial Emperor Temple. It just hasn't started yet."
Hearing this, Zhang Hao's eyes lit up. He said to Su Ziyi, "Let's go, then we'll go to that place."
The group was a bit surprised to see Zhang Hao so insistent, but they still nodded and followed him towards that General Temple.
This General Temple had a history of a thousand years. However, after a millennium of turmoil, this once flourishing General Temple had become quite dilapidated.
Zhang Hao and the others entered the General Temple and found an old woman lying on the ground. Her face was haggard.
"Wake up, Dama!" Zhang Hao said, looking at the old woman.
After Zhang Hao and the others shook her, the old woman opened her eyes and asked somewhat confusedly, "Where... where am I?"
Zhang Hao quickly looked at the old woman and said, "Dama, you are currently inside the General Temple."
After Zhang Hao and the others communicated with the old woman, they learned that this old woman was indeed Bai Xiaojun's Mother, named Ye Suniang. She had come to the General Temple this time to pray for her son Bai Xiaojun's safety. She had simply fainted from hunger because she hadn't eaten for a while.
"Are you all Xiaojun's classmates?" Ye Suniang asked.
Su Ziyi quickly nodded and smiled, "Yes, Dama, we are all Bai Xiaojun's classmates."
"Good... Where is Bai Xiaojun? Why hasn't he come back?" Ye Suniang asked with concern.
Su Ziyi quickly said, "He still has a task to do, so... so he hasn't come back yet, but he entrusted us to come and see you."
Su Ziyi and the others naturally couldn't bear to tell the old woman the truth of the matter.
After finding Bai Xiaojun's Mother, Zhang Hao and the others unanimously decided to buy a house for the old woman in Batian City. Then they would hire a few skilled maids to take care of her.
Of course, these expenses were considerable, but for Zhang Hao, it was just a drop in the bucket.
After everything was settled, it was time to leave. Zhang Hao, the Su Sisters, and Dai Dacheng were in a restaurant.
"Zhang Dage, are you really leaving? Can't you stay?" Su Ruyi looked at Zhang Hao and asked plaintively.
Zhang Hao shook his head and sighed, "Ruyi, all banquets must eventually end. Your Zhang Dage, I, have to leave sooner or later. Is leaving late or leaving early any different?"
"Then Zhang Dage, will you come back often to see us in the future?" Su Ruyi looked at Zhang Hao and asked.
Seeing Su Ruyi's hopeful eyes, Zhang Hao naturally couldn't bear to refuse her. So he nodded and said, "Yes, your Zhang Dage, I, will come back to see you whenever I have free time, okay?"
Upon hearing this, Su Ruyi was indeed overjoyed. She extended her small hand to Zhang Hao and said, "No, let's pinky swear."
Zhang Hao was a bit dumbfounded. Did this other world also have this childish game of pinky swearing? Although he was surprised, Zhang Hao still extended his hand.
"Pinky swear, hang yourself, won't change for a hundred years," Su Ruyi said.
It seemed that after completing this ritual, Su Ruyi felt reassured, and the smile on her face increased.
Su Ziyi looked at Zhang Hao and asked, "Zhang Hao, when are you leaving?"
Zhang Hao thought for a moment and said, "Tomorrow!"
"Then we'll see you off!" Su Ziyi lightly brushed the bangs from her forehead and said indifferently.
The next day
At the city gate of Batian City
Zhang Hao smiled at Su Ruyi, Su Ziyi, and Dai Dacheng and said, "Seeing someone off for a thousand miles still ends in parting. This is far enough."
"Take care!"
"Take care!"
After Zhang Hao entered the Demon Wild Forest, he found the teleportation point. After taking out the token, the hidden teleportation array reappeared.
Zhang Hao didn't hesitate and stepped into the teleportation array.
When Zhang Hao entered the teleportation array, it began to rotate.
About half an incense stick later, Zhang Hao found that the teleportation array had stopped operating. He realized that he was now on the desolate mountain outside Watt Country.
"This teleportation array is really quite useful. In just half an incense stick's time, it teleported me from the Balong Empire, which is thousands of miles away, to Watt Country," Zhang Hao said generously.
This time, Zhang Hao had been in Wasi for over ten days. Zhang Hao didn't know how Ning Xue and the others were doing staying at the Zhang Family. Therefore, he hurried towards Watt Country.
When Zhang Hao returned to the Zhang Family, he found that everything was as usual, without any significant changes. Zhang Hao breathed a sigh of relief, but he asked a guard of the Zhang Family, "Oh right, where are Ye Yunshang and Miss Ning Xue now?"
"Young Master, those young ladies must be at the Tianxiang Courtyard right now. They've been staying there these past few days. If you go now, you'll definitely find them," the guard looked at Zhang Hao with a strange expression.