“My lord, now all the great sects have agreed to form an alliance. When shall we head to the Ancient Sage Realm?” Xuan Yun, nestled in Lin Fan’s arms, asked softly.
Lin Fan gazed at the woman in his embrace and smiled gently. “Soon. Just wait until I finish one last task.”
“There are many powerful experts in the Xuan Huang Realm, some of whose cultivation has long been stuck at the peak of the Great Heaven Stage. Once the barrier is lifted, everything will naturally progress, allowing them to reach even greater heights,” Xuan Yun explained.
“Hmph, these old fellows have been pent up for too long. Before, they saw no hope of eternal cultivation, losing their passion once they reached the Great Heaven Stage. But now, with the barrier gone and limitless cultivation possible, this may truly be the moment for humanity in Xuan Huang to rise again.”
Lin Fan was confident. In his view, although humans lacked the innate gifts of the great races from the Grand Dao, they possessed boundless potential. Nothing was impossible.
“Oooooo!”
Ji Zai lay beside Lin Fan, letting out a few low cries, followed closely by his three little chicks.
“Ji Zai, I think I found your kind in the Ancient Sage Realm. Perhaps we can learn about your parents’ whereabouts,” Lin Fan said.
“Ooo!”
Ji Zai didn’t even lift his head, clearly indifferent.
To Ji Zai, the first person he saw upon birth was Lin Fan, and for years, he had enjoyed a carefree life. He had no interest in knowing who his birth parents were.
“Hey you, you useless chicken, can’t you show a little emotion? Why do you look so gloomy?”
Lin Fan sensed a hint of nostalgia in Ji Zai’s eyes.
“Oooooo!”
Ji Zai stood up, flapped his wings, preened his feathers, and then gazed into the distance. With a sweep of his wings, he flew toward the horizon.
“Huh? What’s wrong with Ji Zai? Honey, shall we go check it out?” Lin Fan suggested.
“Mm-hmm,” Xuan Yun nodded.
…
Since the Saint Devil Sect had been established at the previously nameless peak of the Saint Sect, nothing had changed. Even after his two disciples left to establish their own sects, the Saint Sect had not reclaimed the peak.
Atop a hill on the nameless peak,
Ji Zai stood silently before a gravestone, then stretched his wings and gently brushed the stone.
His three little chicks stood motionless beside him.
Lin Fan stepped forward and his expression turned strange.
This was truly mind-blowing.
Engraved on the gravestone were several large characters:
“Beloved Wife, Chicken’s Grave.”
Lin Fan knew the three chicks were born from Ji Zai and a common chicken, but he never expected Ji Zai to truly regard the chicken as his beloved.
All beings possess spirit. Ji Zai had been quite lusty in his youth, but surprisingly, he had become so devoted over the years.
“Ji Zai, I never expected such a change in you. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t have believed it,” Lin Fan sighed.
“Oooooo!”
Ji Zai shook his head slightly and nodded calmly, seemingly agreeing with Lin Fan.
Ji Zai belonged to one of the Ten Ancient Ferocious Beasts, possessing noble bloodline. That a common chicken could give birth to three chicks with him was truly a miracle.
At that moment, a wild rooster appeared from nowhere, hopping from side to side, spreading its wings to show off.
Hearing the noise, Ji Zai suddenly turned his head, captivated.
“Oooooo…”
Ji Zai flapped his wings, a stark contrast to his earlier demeanor.
“This…”
Lin Fan was stunned. Just moments ago, he had been praising Ji Zai for becoming so faithful, yet now, before he could even turn around, Ji Zai was already lured by a hen.
“Oooooo!”
Ji Zai flapped his wings vigorously, clearly eager to pin that beautiful hen beneath him.
“Hahaha!”
But at that moment, a red flash appeared.
Out of nowhere, Ji Pang’s plump body suddenly trembled, then leaped up. His chicken claw extended, delivering a Heavenly Silken Leg strike directly at the hen.
Pah!
Ji Pang shook his body, watching the hen fly into the sky. Sighing in relief, he turned to glare at Ji Zai.
“Oooooo!”
The message was clear: a protest. Ji Zai’s three chicks were protesting, upset that their father was being seduced so easily, betraying their mother.
“Hahahaha!”
At that moment, Lin Fan burst into laughter, as if witnessing the funniest sight in the world.
“Oooooo!”
Ji Zai looked deeply saddened, his expression downcast. He returned to the gravestone, weeping bitterly, as if his right to choose in life had been unjustly stripped away.
“Yun Xian, let’s go. Ji Zai is now under someone’s watch,” Lin Fan chuckled.
“But who watches over you? Could you end up doing something reckless?” Xuan Yun teased.
“How could that be? I’m not like Ji Zai,” Lin Fan quickly replied, defending himself.
However, thinking about the Water-Fire Emperor made Lin Fan’s head ache.
What if the Emperor emerged and encountered him? How would he handle it?
But as the saying goes, meet soldiers with generals, and floods with earth. When the time comes, there would naturally be a solution.
“Like master, like pet. Excuses are just cover-ups, my lord. Don’t try to hide it,” Xuan Yun smiled.
“Oh, so you don’t know my strength yet? Looks like I need to drag you into the woods and properly train you.”
“No, no…”
…
A few days later.
Lin Fan floated in the void above the Xuan Huang Realm.
“Will, is there any requirement for refining the Xuan Huang Realm?” Lin Fan, hands behind his back, prepared to take the final step.
His only thought now was to merge the Xuan Huang Realm with his cave heaven, integrating it into his inner world.
“Master, refining the Xuan Huang Realm and absorbing it into your inner world is no easy feat. It requires a force capable of bearing the entire will of the Xuan Huang Realm. Otherwise, even if refined, you would be crushed by the Realm’s will. However, with my help, you needn’t worry about that,” the Will of the Xuan Huang Realm explained.
“Good. As long as it can be refined, then when the time comes for the Great Opening of the Ten Thousand Realms, the Ancient Race’s Will won’t dare dream of devouring the Xuan Huang Realm.”
After returning to the Xuan Huang Realm, Lin Fan’s plan was to refine it and merge it with himself, forever embodying the Xuan Huang Realm.
To the Ten Thousand Realms, this feat had never been accomplished before.
Because the Will of the Realms was inviolable, never allowing its world to be refined by another.
“Let’s go!”
Lin Fan, together with the Will, descended into the abyss beneath the earth—the core of the Realm.
This was the source of the Xuan Huang Realm’s power, the very essence of its Will.
When Lin Fan arrived at the core of the Xuan Huang Realm, his expression was one of shock, stunned by the sight before him.
In that vast space, a core burned like a blazing sun, radiating intense heat.
What shocked Lin Fan even more was that around this core were coiled thick chains, resembling dragons, winding around the core.
“Will, what is this?”
Lin Fan asked.
“This is an imprisonment,” the Will replied solemnly, gazing at the chains.
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