Fortunately, Zi Xunyang had taught them to read, otherwise they would have just stared at each other blankly.
"This is the cultivation method. You two try it now according to this!"
The old man's eyes burned as he looked at Zi Yishan and Zi Tianhai, his gaze filled with even more intense hope.
Upon hearing this, the two immediately sat down cross-legged and, following the method recorded in the scripture, began to guide spiritual energy to temper their bodies.
Perhaps because the Tianyuan Continent had not seen any cultivators for ninety thousand years, and spiritual energy was almost unconsumed except for natural dissipation, the dense spiritual energy was constantly tempering ordinary people's bodies.
As a result, Zi Yishan and Zi Tianhai's physical strength had reached a monstrous level.
Now, with just a slight guidance of spiritual energy, their bodies had reached a state of saturation.
Coupled with the old man's meticulous guidance by their side, their progress was extremely rapid. In just half a day, both of them had reached the third level of Body Tempering.
Time flew by in the Sumeru space.
Zi Yishan and Zi Tianhai were both intelligent and quick learners, which greatly pleased the old man. He wished he could pour all his understanding directly into them.
Outside the Sumeru space, Zi Yishan and Zi Tianhai still stood amidst the wolf pack. The difference was that their eyes were lifeless, devoid of any spirit.
If any cultivator were present, they would be astonished because their current state was the legendary soul departure.
The surrounding wolf pack also remained exactly as they were before the soul departure, without the slightest change.
Time and space were frozen!
That's right! Time and space were frozen!
While the old man brought Zi Yishan and Zi Tianhai's souls into the Sumeru space, he also froze the surrounding time and space, keeping everything as it was.
Of course, the old man could have annihilated the Moon Howling Celestial Wolves with a wave of his hand, but he didn't.
He wanted to keep these Moon Howling Celestial Wolves for Zi Yishan and Zi Tianhai to practice against, thus consolidating their cultivation.
Meanwhile, when Zi Xunyang returned to the entrance laden with loot, he found that Zi Yishan and Zi Tianhai were nowhere to be seen.
His heart skipped a beat, and he became utterly panicked.
After all, Zi Yishan and Zi Tianhai were the lifeblood of him and his wife!
It was good for them to venture out and gain experience, but if they encountered any danger or something happened, how could he explain it to his wife?
However, at this moment, the sky was dark, making it impossible to find any traces left by the two children.
What should he do?
Zi Xunyang forced himself to calm down, furrowed his brows, and pondered.
Perhaps it wasn't as bad as he thought? Well, he would first thoroughly search the safe zone!
No sooner had he thought it than he acted.
In the forest shrouded by darkness, a tall figure shuttled through. This figure was Zi Xunyang.
To avoid missing any clues, he had lit the only torch he had brought.
After a full two hours of busy searching in all four directions, he still hadn't found any sign of Zi Yishan and Zi Tianhai.
There were still the southeast, southwest, northeast, and northwest directions to check.
Zi Xunyang took a deep breath, forcibly dispelling the clamoring fatigue from his body, and gathered his spirits to search again.
This time, he still couldn't find Zi Yishan and Zi Tianhai, but his efforts were finally rewarded when he discovered a faint trace left by them.
At this moment, the sky was already dimly lit, and a sliver of fish-belly white had appeared on the eastern horizon.
Zi Xunyang extinguished his torch, took a hearty gulp of water, and prepared to follow the trail.
Although the exit was about to open soon, it no longer mattered.
If he couldn't find his two children, that exit would be meaningless to him.
At this moment, his legs felt as heavy as lead, and every step was a torture.
One day and two nights of continuous travel had pushed his body and mind to their limits.
However, rest was a luxury he could not afford.
Because, judging by the traces left by the two children, they were definitely no longer within the safe zone.
Therefore, as a father, it was absolutely impossible for him not to worry about their safety.
Thus, all his current actions were driven by the obsession in his heart.
Find them! He had to find Yishan and Tianhai!
Zi Xunyang's consciousness was becoming blurred, but he still didn't give up.
The fish-belly white on the eastern horizon quickly turned a crimson color.
Against the backdrop of the crimson sky, two young figures approached, walking together.
They supported each other, their clothes stained red with blood, and numerous wounds appeared all over their bodies.
Although they were all superficial injuries, the dried bloodstains and tattered clothes spoke of a fierce battle they had endured.
These two young figures were naturally Zi Yishan and Zi Tianhai.
Zi Xunyang, his consciousness hazy, finally saw the familiar figures just as he was about to collapse.
"Yishan... Tianhai..."
He muttered a sentence, his vision went black, and he fell into the grass.
Fortunately, the place where he fell was on the path the two children were taking, so the three of them soon collided.
"Daddy!"
The two exclaimed, throwing themselves onto Zi Xunyang.
Zi Yishan, being slightly older, quickly reached out to check Zi Xunyang's breathing amidst his panic.
After checking, he breathed a sigh of relief and said to Zi Tianhai, "Little brother, Daddy is alright. He must have fainted from exhaustion."
"Really?"
Zi Tianhai's tears, which had been on the verge of flowing, suddenly stopped. The tear streaks on his eyes slowly dried.
Zi Yishan nodded, then lay down beside Zi Xunyang and slowly closed his eyes.
Zi Tianhai let out a relieved laugh, only to find that Zi Yishan was also emitting faint snores.
"This is good!"
He mumbled to himself, then lay down on the other side of Zi Xunyang and quickly fell asleep.
After receiving the cultivation method in the Sumeru space, they had immediately started cultivating.
With the old man's guidance, their breakthroughs were as simple as eating and drinking.
In just three days, they had transformed from ordinary people into cultivators at the initial stage of Qi Induction, and under the old man's guidance, their cultivation was thoroughly stabilized.
They had initially intended to continue cultivating in the Sumeru space, but the old man told them that haste makes waste on the path of cultivation.
Besides meditation and practicing techniques, one must also constantly temper oneself with external forces to use spiritual energy skillfully and avoid pointless waste.
Therefore, after the two of them stabilized at the initial stage of Qi Induction, the old man gave them a token and told them that the Sumeru space they were in contained the inheritance of an ancestral god.