“Who let this slip? Is someone trying to kill me? Do you realize that I’ll be targeted by all those ancient people, and maybe even their descendants? And…” Lu Yin angrily began shouting at Long Xi.
Long Xi felt guilty, so she quietly waited as Lu Yin yelled. After he finished ranting, she answered, “One of our elder’s nephew let this news slip. He was in charge of the clan’s intelligence gathering, and he was quite sharp. Nobody thought that he could be one of the Celestial Frost Sect’s jade butterflies.”
Lu Yin was left confused. “This isn’t something that he would have lightly revealed. He must have known that doing this would expose him.”
Long Xi kept her eyes on Lu Yin. “That’s actually something I need to ask you about. Just what did you do that forced Yu Chen to sacrifice such an important jade butterfly to deal with you?”
Lu Yin gulped. That woman had to be insane! He had not done anything, so why would she give up such an important spy just to deal with him? Something had to be wrong!
Ruminating, Lu Yin went over his recent actions. He really had not done anything particularly shocking. Back in the Fifth Mainland, he had trashed Daynight Flowzone and unified the entire Outerverse; compared to that, he had kept quite a low profile in the Perennial World.
Long Xi sighed helplessly. “Never mind. Just ignore her. Keep waiting where you are for Elder Long Kui to bring you to the White Dragon Clan’s Junior Progenitor Planet.”
“You’re fine with me going to the White Dragon Clan’s Junior Progenitor Planet?” Lu Yin asked.
Long Xi frowned. “I know that my brother made you a promise. I didn’t want to agree to it at first, but you’re in a rather unique situation right now. There aren’t many places where you can openly walk about in the Perennial World. Even on Dragon Mountain, there are quite a few people who still hate Kui Luo, so they will not be polite to you here either. The only safe place for you is on the White Dragon Clan’s Junior Progenitor Planet as that place is a reward for the Junior Progenitors due to their potential to become Progenitors in the future. Only members of the same generation can enter the planets, and no one else is allowed there. Therefore, once you are on the planet, the Junior Progenitor is the most powerful individual there, and my brother will protect you.”
Lu Yin nodded. “Alright. Actually, I don’t really want to go to the Dominion Realm since it sounds so dangerous.”
“I know. As long as you don’t become an Enlighter, my brother won’t force you to go with him.” Long Xi was worried that Lu Yin would misunderstand her, so she continued to say, “That’s not because he’s worried about you, but rather because he won’t want to take you since you won’t be able to help him unless you manage to become an Enlighter.”
“”I understand,” Lu Yin replied.
Long Xi reminded him of a few more details before ending the call.
Lu Yin felt troubled, and he looked up towards the Higher Realm. Yu Chen had made trouble for him, and sooner or later, he would get even with her.
***
Elsewhere in the Middle Realm, Liu Hao stood beside the Sword Monument as Elder Gao walked towards him. “You’ve come to a decision?”
Liu Hao nodded and respectfully answered, “Xia Shenfei.”
Elder Gao smiled. “Out of the four ruling powers’ Junior Progenitors, Xia Shenfei is one of the better ones.”
Liu Hao replied, “At least I won’t have to worry about being betrayed if I’m with him.”
Elder Gao turned around as Liu Tianmu approached from another direction and bowed.
“Young one, have you considered who you will support?” Elder Gao asked.
Liu Tianmu replied, “Long Tian.”
Neither Elder Gao nor Liu Hao were surprised. Bai Shaohong was not an option, as there were many powerhouses within the Celestial Frost Sect. Liu Hao could potentially replace one of them, but there was no way that Liu Tianmu would ever be considered an option, especially since no one in this place had seen her Thirteen Swords. Thus, her only option was to go to the White Dragon Clan’s Junior Progenitor Planet and try her luck if she wanted to try to visit the Dominion Realm.
“Let’s go. I’m going to go to Shenwu’s Sky’s Junior Progenitor Planet, so I can escort you along the way,” Liu Hao offered.
“Thank you,” Liu Tianmu calmly accepted.
***
Within Seed Garden, Nong Sanniang was rubbing her back out in the field. “Am I getting older? I feel exhausted.”
Nong Lie smirked. “Yes, you’re old.”
Nong Sanniang glared at him. “What did you just say? I’ll beat you up!”
Nong Lie grinned. “Who are you going to help, sis?”
Nong Sanniang wiped off her sweat with a towel. As the towel unwrapped from around her head, her long black hair billowed out with the wind. Although she only had average looks, she had a special aura as she stood in the field with her muddy feet. “I guess Wang Su. We’re both women, so I should help her.”
Nong Lie nodded enthusiastically. “I think that Wang Su’s a good choice as well! The other three are guys, and you’ll just get annoyed if you go with them.”
Nong Sanniang rolled her eyes. “As if I’m that charming.”
A Guo fruit suddenly rushed up from the field and leaped into Nong Sanniang’s arms. It chittered adorably, seemingly attached to her a lot.
Nong Sanniang laughed happily.
In the distance, Qiu Shi quietly sat on the ground in the middle of a golden wheat field.
Then, she opened her eyes and leaped into the wheat field. The field suddenly gathered around and began to rapidly grow. Stars revolved around Qiu Shi before converging into the Celestial Sword. She slashed her sword towards the wheat field and managed to break some of the plants, allowing her to see beyond the wheat field for a split second before the wheat continued its rapid growth.
No matter how many slashes Qiu Shi unleashed, she was still unable to escape the field. The field even moved with her as she moved around, trapping her within a circular area.
Qiu Shi had been trapped within this wheat field ever since she had first landed in the Perennial World. She knew that someone must have intentionally done this, and that person was unwilling to let her go no matter what she said or did.
Two sprouts of wheat moved past her and disappeared into the wheat field.
Qiu Shi was confused; what was this place? There were many weird things here, but they were all very friendly and never fought. How could she escape?
***
A great distance away, there was a city and an army on the unmoving yellow stripe of the Bifrost.
The Bifrost was controlled by Shenwu’s Sky.
Yao Xuan looked up as an enormous creature flew towards him. It landed, and a middle aged man motioned for Yao Xuan to approach him. “Given your strength, you’ll definitely be able to draw a Junior Progenitor’s attention. When you achieve success in the future, don’t forget about me.”
Yao Xuan smiled. “I could never forget your help.”
“Hahahaha, let’s go to Shenwu’s Sky’s Junior Progenitor Planet.”
Multiple powerhouses were making their way towards the Junior Progenitor Planets. Although the trip to the Dominion Realm was always dangerous, it was also an opportunity that had to be undertaken if one wanted to become a Progenitor. Even if the people who went on this trip were never able to become a Progenitor themselves, they would still have a good life after getting closer to a Junior Progenitor.
Even people who were not particularly powerful would head to the Junior Progenitor Planets. Oftentimes, their goal was to get a look at the young powerhouses and make sure that they did not offend them in the future.
After half a month passed, Lu Yin also started making his way towards a Junior Progenitor Planet. Long Kui felt annoyed when he saw the youth.
The elder had realized that more and more problems had arisen ever since Long Qi had become engaged to Long Xi. Long Kui had initially believed that Long Qi was a quiet person and that his only task would be to protect the youth. However, many incidents had recently taken place, and in particular, Long Qi had become a target even for other members of the White Dragon Clan after his connection to Kui Luo had been revealed.
People kept asking Long Kui and Princess Long Xi about Long Qi’s secrets. The elder had become quite annoyed by all of the hints that people kept dropping, and people had even started searching for the elder’s mount, Gui.
The worst part was that some of Long Kui’s old friends had broken things off with him, which made the elder truly understand Semi-Progenitor Kui Luo’s influence. Long Kui felt disgusted that he was even being associated with Kui Luo, and this had led to his terrible mood.
Meanwhile, the source of all of Long Kui’s troubles, Long Qi, still appeared completely calm and relaxed, which made the Envoy even more frustrated.
“Apart from leaving you his inheritance, did Semi-Progenitor Kui Luo leave you any information?” Long Kui asked angrily.
Lu Yin did not understand the question. “Like what?”
“Any secrets?”
Lu Yin immediately shook his head. “Definitely not.”
Long Kui glanced at the youth. “Are you sure? A lot of my friends have reached out to me, and even people from the other ruling powers have contacted the White Dragon Clan, hoping to discover what you know. If he left any secrets to you, then you cannot tell anyone about them. Do you understand?”
Lu Yin was left speechless. “Elder, I’m not lying! I only received some old materials and cultivation resources. The battle techniques that I received were just normal ones like the Overlaying Stacks Path as well as a few techniques to train my spiritual force. There was nothing else.”
Long Kui stared at Lu Yin. “Our trip to the Junior Progenitor Planet might not be all that smooth. As soon as people find out where we’re headed, a lot of people who want to find you will be after us. Be careful and don’t say anything wrong.”
Lu Yin regretted choosing Semi-Progenitor Kui Luo as the excuse for his strength. However, even if he had not done so, there were no other choices. He would have never been able to explain his extreme physical strength or his extremely powerful spiritual force while being a mere Hunter.
Despite that, Long Kui was overly worried. The Middle Realm covered a huge area, so it would not be easy for anyone to catch up to them even if they knew where the two were headed to.
***
At this same time, at one end of the Middle Ocean, there was a floating piece of land. This was Island of Hope, and it was connected to all four Junior Progenitor Planets. Anybody who wanted to go to the Junior Progenitor Planets had to go through Island of Hope and cross one of the bridges connecting the planets to the island.
There was a huge restaurant on Island of Hope called Hope Restaurant. It stood directly in front of the bridges that connected Island of Hope to the four Junior Progenitor Planets, and the unique bridges were all clearly visible from the restaurant, as were the planets at the other ends of the bridges.
As the trip to the Dominion Realm drew closer, groups of visitors of all ages arrived at Hope Restaurant, and not all of them were planning to continue on to the Junior Progenitor Planets. Most of these people only wanted to take a look at who had earned the right to go to the Junior Progenitor Planets while others just hoped to gain a bit of reputation.
Hope Restaurant was huge and had seven levels, and each level had a radius of 100 kilometers. Despite that, cultivators were easily able to take in the situation of each entire level.
Although fighting was not forbidden inside Hope Restaurant, the building had not decayed or been destroyed by the fighting because it had been built from the Mother Tree.
Wood from the Mother Tree could only be destroyed by Semi-Progenitors at the minimum, and even such powerhouses could only cause minimal damage. This was why Hope Restaurant had managed to stay relatively intact, not being destroyed even if battles occurred on a daily basis.
Furthermore, the most special thing about Hope Restaurant was that there were no waiters or chefs. Still, as long as there were customers, various dishes would appear on the tables for them. Nobody knew where the dishes came from despite countless people trying to find out; all efforts had proven fruitless.
