Chapter 992: A Perfect Closed Loop

What?!

Upon learning that the Qi Yuan before her had already become an Immortal, Ji Chaner couldn't help but widen her beautiful eyes, her entire being completely dazed.

Despite her confidence in a certain someone having long since inflated to an incomparable degree after witnessing countless miracles, seeing her own husband return from the Immortal Realm with her own eyes still made her heart surge with emotion, making it difficult to contain herself, feeling as if she were in a dream.

A legendary Immortal was actually standing right in front of her, alive and well!

Moreover, this Immortal was her own Dao Companion. Even though Ji Chaner had always possessed a steady Heart-Nature and a calm, composed demeanor, she still couldn't help but rush forward and hug his waist tightly, as if afraid this scene was a false hallucination.

Qi Yuan didn't speak, but merely smiled as he embraced the soft and slender waist of the Holy Son of the Demonic Sect, bragging with a straight face:

"Not only did I achieve Ascension to the Immortal Realm, I even got a taste of what it's like to be an Immortal Emperor. Right now, I'm being hunted by the Immortal Court… Of course, the current Haotian Immortal Emperor isn't anything good either; your husband will kill Him sooner or later…"

For some reason, Qi Yuan's mood would always unconsciously relax in front of Demoness Ji. This time, he even felt a rare bit of vanity, intending to let his woman know about his great achievements in the Immortal Realm.

"????"

Hearing these incredible words, Ji Chaner was once again greatly shocked, her small heart pounding wildly, feeling as if she were listening to a myth.

In her eyes, an Immortal was already an unreachable existence, let alone an Immortal Emperor who controlled the Immortal Realm.

If it were anyone else, Ji Chaner would only think they were talking nonsense, but since the one speaking was this fellow Qi Yuan, then it was absolutely true!

Even if Qi Yuan said he was the Immortal Emperor's great-uncle, she would believe him without hesitation and offer a look of utter adoration!

How could the man she, Ji Chaner, set her sights on be an ordinary, mediocre person?

After a brief moment of intimacy, Qi Yuan released the demoness in his arms with a look of lingering fear, while simultaneously quickly restraining his aura to prevent any further accidents.

Looking at Ji Chaner, who was working hard to calm her cultivation, Qi Yuan couldn't help but sigh softly, a sense of inexplicable sentimentality rising in his heart.

No wonder the world said there was a difference between Immortals and mortals; there was an insurmountable chasm between Immortals and mortal Cultivators, one could even say they were two different species.

Just by inhaling a trace of the Immortal Qi emanating from his body, Ji Chaner, who was at the Late Stage of Soul Transformation, almost couldn't withstand it and was nearly burst alive.

If he hadn't noticed something was wrong and immediately helped her regulate her energy, it really might have turned into a tragedy amidst the joy, and the consequences would have been severe…

After quite a while, Ji Chaner finally managed to stabilize the turbulent mana within her body. She looked at Qi Yuan not far away with a complex expression and said somewhat sadly:

"The gap between the two of us is currently too large. If I don't work hard to improve myself, I'm afraid I won't even be able to hold your hand in the future."

Hearing the worry and helplessness in Ji Chaner's voice, Qi Yuan was first startled, then said with a serious expression:

"Chaner, no matter what happens, you are my, Qi Yuan's, Dao Companion. This will never change."

"The current ruler of the Immortal Realm is the Reincarnation of the Chaos Demon God Rahu. His personality is cruel and his methods are vicious; he is by no means a kind person. Blindly achieving Ascension there would be a curse, not a blessing."

"Once I've handled matters in the Lower Realm, I will take you to a place not in the least inferior to the Immortal Realm and help you Breakthrough to the True Immortal Realm in the shortest possible time. Then, you can accompany me for a long, long time."

He wasn't speaking empty words; he truly intended to settle his group of cherished Dao Companions and relatives in the Yuan Realm after completing his series of tasks in the Lower Realm, thereby eliminating any future worries.

After all, Qi Yuan was now an enemy of Tai Hao. Once his tracks were discovered, not only would he himself be in danger, but even this Yunmeng Great World might be affected.

Compared to the Immortal Realm, the Yuan Realm, guarded personally by Wu Miaozhen, would obviously be much safer.

As for whether a harem conflict would occur… Qi Yuan expressed that he would rather have his backyard catch fire than let any of his confidantes meet with an accident; this was a matter of principle.

On the other side, Ji Chaner didn't know that a certain someone said the same thing to all his Dao Companions. Hearing this guarantee, she immediately broke into a smile, her expression full of sweetness:

"I'll listen to you."

After coaxing Demoness Ji into a comfortable state, Qi Yuan suddenly thought of something and asked with a strange tone:

"By the way, does your Ji Clan have any family trees or similar things passed down? I want to confirm something."

When he was in the Immortal Realm, he suspected that the Ji Clan of the Yunmeng Great World was a branch of descendants of Ji Fan scattered in the Lower Realm.

The most obvious evidence was that True Scripture of the Great Beginning Demonic Path he had once bestowed upon Ji Fan during the Primordial Era.

And the True Scripture of the Great Beginning Demonic Path was precisely the Legacy Cultivation Technique of the Demonic Sect's Ji Clan, which later became one of the Demonic Sect's foundational Demonic Techniques.

In other words, the Holy Son of the Demonic Sect gave the Demonic Technique to Ji Fan, Ji Fan left the Demonic Technique to his descendants, the Ji Clan—as Ji Fan's descendants—offered the Demonic Technique to the Demonic Sect, and the Demonic Sect passed the Demonic Technique to the Holy Son… it formed a perfect closed loop…

So now the question was, where exactly did this True Scripture of the Great Beginning Demonic Path spring from?

It couldn't have come from nothing, appearing out of thin air, right?

If this closed loop were verified, it meant that the timeline since the Primordial Era had an error, and this obvious error had never been corrected by the Heavenly Dao.

Combined with the fact that Chu Xueqian had once used a forbidden art in the Yuan Realm that disrupted Karma and Reincarnation, the answer seemed ready to emerge:

Because of this forbidden art, a certain bug appeared in the operation of the Yunmeng Great World's Heavenly Dao, leading to a series of incredible changes that have continued to this day.

What made Qi Yuan even more unsettled was that the System on him was also full of errors and utterly absurd, having not the slightest connection to reality, as if it were just playing around.

But did this also mean that the script in the System's hands was what the world was supposed to look like in the eyes of the Heavenly Dao…

In fact, this seemingly insignificant question had troubled Qi Yuan for a long time. Now that he was back, it was the perfect time to verify it.

If it were true, the conjecture in his heart would be completely confirmed!

Meanwhile, facing Qi Yuan's inquiry, Ji Chaner was first startled, then nodded and said seriously:

"The Ji Clan does indeed have a genealogy passed down. It has always been enshrined in the Ji Clan Ancestral Hall. Usually, only the Old Ancestor and Grandfather can enter. I will take you to see Grandfather right now…"