Li Dazhi said: "I let him stay at Mount Lingjiu as a guardian. If Ping'an finishes attending his lecture, he can quickly make his way to wherever he needs to go."
"Then let me see you off, Daoist friend."
The Great Mage casually summoned the Measure of Heaven and Earth. One strike shook the cosmos; the other opened a path, leading directly to the void near the Primary Realm.
"Please! Many thanks to you, Daoist friend, for battling the Innate Gods and Demons here!"
"Thank you, Great Mage."
Li Dazhi glanced at the masters meditating around him, cheerfully concluding this leg of his monster-slaying journey.
He stepped through the fissure in the cosmos, turned back toward the Great Mage from within the void, and made a formal Daoist salute. Then, cloaking his presence and concealing his tracks, he watched as the fissure in space quietly disappeared before setting out on the road back to the Primary Realm.