Fate determines whether to stay or go

This time, there wasn't such a big commotion. Di Yi simply pointed a finger at Xu Ke's glabella, and then made no further movements.

Xu Ke touched his forehead, but seemed to feel nothing.

“When the time comes, you will naturally know its use,” Di Yi said.

“What is this, all riddles. It’s really making me angry,” Xu Ke muttered under his breath. He glanced at Di Yi, but ultimately didn’t have the courage to flare up.

He could only endure it unwillingly.

“Now that this matter is settled, the Southern Underworld is not a place where humans should stay for long. I will take you all away.”

In the space below, the Ten Thousand Yao Beast gathering also had its final outcome.

“Resolutely uphold and support His Majesty Di Yi’s great decision!”

“Under the leadership of His Majesty Di Yi, our Demon Beast race will surely usher in a better future!”

“The small Xuanhuang World, it’s fine to leave it!”

…

The Yao Beasts cheered like a tsunami, having reached a consensus.

As for how much sincerity was truly in it, perhaps one could glean a hint from the faint, mocking smile that appeared on the child Di Yi’s face, looking down from above.

The child Di Yi led Xu Ke through the winding, uninhabited passage and arrived at the large door where they had first entered.

“You all may go,” Di Yi said, stopping.

Xu Ke hesitated to speak.

“Don’t worry, you and I…

“Will meet again someday,” Di Yi’s words held a hidden meaning.

While His voice still echoed in the air, His figure had already vanished.

Xu Ke couldn't help but feel a sense of loss.

Clutching the sphere, which seemed to have a continuously beating heart inside, Xu Ke summoned Xiaoqing and left with Li Fan.

On the return journey across the Southern Underworld Ocean, perhaps due to Di Yi, they encountered no other Yao Beasts.

The journey was peaceful, and they were getting closer and closer to the Beast Taming Sect.

Li Fan, meanwhile, was flying, standing on the sphere that Di Yi had given to Xu Ke.

He seemed very interested in it, and his eyes revealed a greedy desire to swallow it whole.

“Xiaohei, what are you doing?!”

Facing Li Fan’s covetous gaze, Xu Ke hugged the sphere tightly, his eyes full of vigilance.

“This is something I need to report back to Senior Brother Lu Ya. You can’t just get greedy and secretly eat it.”

Li Fan rolled his eyes at Xu Ke disdainfully, gave him a paw, and offered no explanation.

The reason he had been staring at this sphere for so long was solely because he felt a familiar aura emanating from it.

After careful identification, he confirmed that this faint sense of familiarity originated from the Void-Rending Whale pods that wandered outside the Immortal Severing Grand Formation in later generations.

“Although Xu Ke and I found Li Realm Whales before, they are clearly very different from what I saw in later generations.”

“Not only in terms of size, but more importantly, according to the information provided by the Empire, later Void-Rending Whales were able to reproduce themselves simply by devouring energy from the Void Realm.”

“Only in this way could they proliferate so prosperously in the vast Void Realm, developing such a large number of populations to complete the plan of completely separating the Small World from the Xuanhuang World itself.”

“The ones Xu Ke and I found earlier clearly didn’t have such characteristics.”

“But this little fellow…”

Li Fan was lost in thought.

The Beast Taming Sect must have used the Void-Rending Whales and this spherical creature to crossbreed, thereby cultivating a new, suitable subspecies.

“So, after all this effort, it’s still because of Mr. Bai’s mission?”

Li Fan couldn't help but feel a little confused.

This Fallen Immortal Realm story seemed a bit too long.

Even now, he hadn't figured out what the obsession maintaining this period of time and space was, or how to break it.

However, Li Fan had a premonition. When he returned to the Beast Taming Sect, he might be able to unravel this mystery.

The journey from the Southern Underworld back to the Beast Taming Sect was long.

Less than halfway through the journey, the duration of his stay in the Fallen Immortal Realm this time had already expired.

His vision blurred, and Li Fan returned to the real world.

“Di Yi Beast…”

Li Fan recalled his experiences in the Fallen Immortal Realm again, and a question arose in his mind.

Did the Yao Race’s overall relocation plan succeed later on?

If it succeeded, such a huge movement could not have been hidden from the Cultivators of that time.

And if there was a successful example of escape, then the Cultivators would certainly follow suit.

They would also try various methods to shatter time and space and break free from the shackles of the Xuanhuang World.

“Back then, the Great Dao Sect had three Chang Sheng Realm Cultivators living in seclusion. Not to mention other Sects, the number of Chang Sheng Realm Cultivators in the entire Xuanhuang World was not small.”

“Now, they are all nowhere to be seen. Perhaps some of them left back then.”

Li Fan suddenly remembered Di Yi’s words.

“Among the Demon Beast race, there are many disagreements about completely leaving the Xuanhuang World.”

“Not to mention us human Cultivators.”

“Some want to leave, and naturally, some want to stay.”

It was simply different choices made by different people when faced with an unprecedented great calamity descending upon the world.

Li Fan was deep in thought.

—

Upon returning from the Fallen Immortal Realm to the real world, the groundbreaking ceremony for Congyun Immortal City was about to officially begin.

And Zhou Kebao, as promised, had brought the Immortal City Immortal Cave.

“Fellow Daoist, please see!”

He extended his right hand, and a miniature city radiating five-colored light appeared.

Its appearance was exactly the same as the Immortal Cities in various states of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.

“This place is not suitable for display. Please come with me, Fellow Daoist Li.”

Zhou Kebao smiled faintly and handed over a white jade sculpture in the shape of an exquisite pagoda.

“This is…” Li Fan looked at the small object in his hand, feeling a bit familiar.

“It is precisely the key to the Vanguard Realm. Fellow Daoist only needs to use it as the core for the ritual array to go to the designated Vanguard Realm,” Zhou Kebao explained to Li Fan.

“So that’s how it is.” Li Fan had once rented the White Bone Vanguard Realm to deceive the people of the Li Realm.

Naturally, he was not unfamiliar with this.

After a moment of contemplation, he held the exquisite pagoda sculpture and activated the ritual.

After a slight dizzying sensation, when Li Fan opened his eyes again, he had already arrived inside a celestial palace enveloped in white clouds.

Besides Zhou Kebao, another group of Cultivators had already been waiting there for a long time.

“We have long heard of Fellow Daoist Li’s great name, and it is truly our good fortune to meet you today!”

“Haha, Fellow Daoist Li Fan, we can also be considered to have become acquainted through conflict, can’t we!”

Upon seeing Li Fan, they all enthusiastically stepped forward to greet him.

Li Fan also smiled and responded to each of them.

“Alright, let Fellow Daoist Li inspect the goods,” after the pleasantries, one of the Cultivators with a square face, who looked stern without being angry, said in a deep voice.

Zhou Kebao nodded and immediately controlled the Immortal City Immortal Cave in his hand, expanding it to its largest size.

In an instant, a massive suspended city appeared above the cloud palace.

“Fellow Daoist Li, please!”

Zhou Kebao said, then took the lead and flew into the suspended city.