Time to Decide 

For the next few months, the family would talk avidly about Rowan and Sarah's choices, with their mothers talking a lot with them about the opportunities of Zocarro, as well as the difficulties they would have staying behind.

As much as they wished well for the empire and the family left behind in the Spiritual World, they wanted their children to be close to them and have better opportunities to grow up.

Gloria, and especially Ruth, made it clear to both of them that once they were left behind, it could be more than a century before they had another chance to go to Zocarro. 

This meant they wouldn't be able to advance as many levels of cultivation while their siblings would improve rapidly, but also that they would have to deal with problems without their father's help.

Although things are going well now, there is a potential risk of external forces encroaching on Minos' territories in the next two to three decades.