Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Jiang Yi asked a clever question. There were many deeper questions encapsulated in that one question. He was trying to get exactly what he wanted. He Wei smiled gently, not minding at all. Instead, he gave Jiang Yi a look of admiration.
His lips moved, and he sent a voice transmission to Jiang Yi: “Little Brother, don’t expect to find this friend of yours in the short-term. The Higher Domain receives each person who ascends from the Lower Domain in turn. This year is Earth Emanations Domain’s turn to receive new people, and this month is Blue Eagle Prefecture’s turn to receive new people. However, do you know how many God-Receiving Formations there are in Blue Eagle Prefecture? A hundred!
“The Earth Emanations Domain is boundless, and Blue Eagle Prefecture is one of the eighteen biggest prefectures. It owns tens of thousands of cities. We don’t even know which city we are headed for now! Thus, there is no way you can get a complete name list of people in Blue Eagle Prefecture. Basically, forget about finding your friend within the next few years. Of course, I can confirm that your friend is in Blue Eagle Prefecture for sure.”
This person can send voice transmissions?
Jiang Yi trembled slightly. His divine senses could not reach out. He guessed that this man’s soul spirit must be very powerful. At that moment, he recalled that this man’s father was a commander in Demon-Killing Pavilion. All these started to make sense to Jiang Yi. He frowned and mumbled, troubled. “The next few years? I don’t have much time. A few years is a long time.”
“Keke!”
He Wei smiled bitterly and shook his head. He sent yet another voice transmission: “I’ll give you another free piece of news. Once you receive this piece of news, you will understand. A year here is equivalent to a hundred years in the Lower Domain! When I talk about a few years, in the Lower Domain, it is equivalent to a few hundred years. What’s more, when Lord An Wu mentioned a day and a half earlier, in the Lower Domain, it is equivalent to more than a hundred days!”
“What?”
Jiang Yi’s eyes widened, his face a mask of terror. His expression was filled with fear and panic. If what He Wei was saying was true… he needed to spend hundreds of years just to locate Jiang Xiaonu? His gaze turned cold as he asked in a low voice, “Lord He, are you sure you’re not lying to me?”
“Why should I lie to you?”
He Wei shrugged and continued, “You will find out about these things sooner or later. This is common knowledge. I have nothing to gain from lying to you.”
We’re in big trouble!
Jiang Yi’s expression darkened. The Higher Domain was much bigger than he imagined. Just one Blue Eagle Prefecture alone would take him hundreds of years to explore? Would that not mean that it would take him tens of years to just travel across the prefecture alone? Traveling to Ten Thousand Saints Domain and Saint Spirit Domain aside, it would take him more than ten years to just get out of Blue Eagle Prefecture.
Ss, ss…
Jiang Yi sucked in two deep breaths and forced himself not to panic. He pulled himself together and asked again in a low voice, “Is it possible to go to Ten Thousand Saints Domain and Saint Spirit Domain in ten years? I mean ten years in the Lower Domain.”
“Impossible!”
He Wei responded with a confident voice transmission: “Unless you have someone to depend on in Blue Eagle Prefecture and someone equivalent to the Prefecture Lord at that, you will not be able to get out of Earth Emanations Domain in a thousand Higher-Domain-years, much less ten Lower-Domain-years. My father is a commander of one of the Demon-Killing Pavilions in Blue Eagle Prefecture. Even he, with his wealth, would not dare to enter a teleportation formation at his will. Otherwise, he would have fetched me a long time ago.
“One divine artifact is only worth one divine root in Earth Emanations Domain. You need a hundred divine roots to teleport between the cities in Blue Eagle Prefecture, at least ten thousand divine roots to travel between prefectures, and an unimaginable amount to travel between domains. Apart from a Prefecture Lord or an equivalent, nobody would be able to afford that…”
Boom!
Jiang Yi felt his entire body tense up as if he had just heard thunder from a clear sky. If he had not been through so much over the years, he would probably have fainted by now.
He finally understood what divine roots were. Divine roots were a sort of currency in the Higher Domain. One divine root was equivalent to one divine artifact, and he needed ten thousand divine artifacts in order to teleport between prefectures. Was it that easy to obtain divine artifacts? Jiang Yi had no idea, but his experience told him that it would be very difficult. In ten years, how many divine roots would he be able to collect? Would he be able to teleport between prefectures?
He had thought at first that as the Mystic Thearch’s first descendant in Stellarsky Domain, his talents would get him far in the Higher Domain. He thought he would make a name for himself very quickly up here. Even if he could not become a formidable martial artist, he thought he would at least get to find the Mystic Thearch and Yi Piaopiao. Now, it looked like he was a joke after all!
Ten years was too short. He probably would not even be able to leave Blue Eagle Prefecture. How would he cut across domains to look for the Mystic Thearch and Yi Piaopiao then? How would he think of a way to fight the Netherworld Realm Army?
If he could not fight the Netherworld Realm Army, Stellarsky Domain would be destroyed. Everyone in it would be killed mercilessly. Just thinking about this caused Jiang Yi’s eyes to redden. He looked at He Wei and gritted his teeth, saying, “Can I go back to the Lower Domain?”
If he could go back and if Jiang Yi failed to fight the Netherworld Realm Army up until the very last second, he was prepared to return to the Lower Domain and be buried together with his loved ones. Even if they were to die, he wanted to die together with them.
“No!”
He Wei smiled bitterly. “It is easy to come to the Higher Domain from the Lower Domain. Once you reach the God Realm, you can naturally make it up here. For people to go back to the Lower Domain from the Higher Domain? You aside, even the Prefecture Lords would not be able to do so! You must be the sovereign of Earth Emanations Domain to do something like that.”
“…”
Jiang Yi’s body began to sway. He almost landed on the floor on his bottom. He did not want to ask any more questions. Instead, he turned and walked back unstably. The Black Deity quickly helped him to sit back down. The former did not dare to ask too many questions. Instead, he only looked at Jiang Yi, concerned.
“I also wish I could come back. However, I cannot. There are many things that I cannot explain to you. You should be good and cultivate more. Once you have transcended, you will understand many things…”
At that moment, Jiang Yi recalled the last words that the Mystic Thearch left behind. Suddenly, he had a realization: it was not that the Mystic Thearch did not want to go back; it was that he could not at all. The Mystic Thearch seemed to be the City Lord of Stellarsky City, in the extreme south of Ten Thousand Saints Domain. Yet, he was only a City Lord. He was not even a Prefecture Lord. How could he go back to Stellarsky Domain?
If the Mystic Thearch could not even go back to the Lower Domain, he probably could not go back to guard Stellarsky Domain as well. It would be useless even if Jiang Yi could locate him then.
Jiang Yi closed his eyes, pained. It seemed like just a while ago that he was looking forward to ascending to the Higher Domain, heroically and full of determination. Now, not only had he lost Jiang Xiaonu, but he was also dealt with such a hard blow. In ten years, he would not make it to Saint Spirit Domain. He would not be able to find a way to save Stellarsky Domain. He would not be able to find Jiang Xiaonu. He would not even be able to turn back!
“Black Deity, we’re in trouble. We’re in trouble, and we won’t be able to solve it!”
After a long, long time, Jiang Yi finally opened his eyes and talked to the Black Deity without any energy in his voice. The Black Deity’s expression remained cool. He looked at Jiang Yi with passion burning in his eyes, saying, “Young Master, no matter how big the problem, we will be able to face it. I believe in you.”
“Keke!”
Jiang Yi lowered his head, not able to deal any more blows to the Black Deity. He looked through the transparent walls, at the frightening waves in the sea beneath them. Suddenly, he felt like he did not dare to play around in the Higher Domain at all. He was directionless and aimless.
This was because… the goal seemed too far away. It was like he would never reach it.
“Little Brother!”
On receiving two more divine artifacts, He Wei exchanged more information with two more people. Once he confirmed that no other people had divine artifacts with them, he walked over to Jiang Yi and patted him on the shoulder. He said, “You don’t have to feel so hopeless. There are many possibilities in the Higher Domain. As long as you become stronger and as long as you have a lot of divine roots, you will be able to do anything. Come with me to the Demon-Killing Pavilion. You’re still so young, and yet you could ascend. For all we know—once you cultivate for tens of years, you might become a commander of the Demon-Killing Pavilion.”
“Tens of years?”
Jiang Yi smiled bitterly. Whether that was tens of Higher-Domain years or tens of Lower-Domain years, Stellarsky Domain would cease to exist once that time was up.
