Chapter 804: Answers!
Chapter 804: Answers!
Su Yi sat in his wicker chair, silently waiting.
It seemed that so long as the other party didn’t speak, he would wait as long as it took.
As a result, only the sound of fierce gales emanated from the other side.
Time slipped by.
The light of the Psychic Connection Edict carved on the child jade gradually faded.
When its power ran out, it would shatter.
But Su Yi didn’t wait any longer.?He tightened his grip, and the Psychic Connection Jade crumbled into powder and dissipated.
It wasn’t that he’d run out of patience, but that he saw no point in drawing this out any longer. It would only waste time.
But although he wasn’t sure of just who this mysterious person was, there was one thing Su Yi dared say with certainty: it was someone he’d been familiar with in his past life!
Who could it be?
It was a bit difficult to guess, and?Su Yi couldn’t be bothered to try.
Whoever they were, now that they knew he was alive and in the Netherworld, they’d come looking for him sooner or later.
Furthermore, it was highly likely that they’d return to Yama’s Floating Mountains in search of leads!
“No matter who you are, I’m quite eager for the day we meet…” muttered Su Yi.
This was someone capable of breaking the seal he’d left in his past life, yet they’d chosen not to take away the Sky-Stealing Umbrella he’d left in that hidden realm.
It seemed that whoever this person was, they’d anticipated that he’d proceed to the Wei Family territory and seek out Wei Daoyuan for clarification. Thus, they arranged for a Thousand-Faced Ghost Monkey to hold onto the child jade and wait for him.
Despite this elaborate arrangement, the mysterious person seemed to bear him no ill will. It seemed their only goal was to confirm whether he was alive or dead.
If all that were true, it was unlikely that anything bad had happened to Wei Daoyuan.
That was enough.
That old fogey Cui Longxiang warned me not to reveal my identity after returning to the Netherworld, but now, it seems there are already people out there who know that Su Xuanjun has returned…
But it doesn’t matter. I’ll know whether they’re friends or foes when I see them.
As Su Yi pondered, he rose from his wicker chair and headed out of the immortal cave.
Outside, dawn had already broken, and the skies were bright.
Quite a bit had happened last night, but to Su Yi, the only thing really worth his attention was the identity of the mysterious person who’d arranged his.
For now, he’d just leave the Heaven-Stealing Umbrella where it was.
He’d promised the Vermillion Bird to return in three years.
He just hoped that this mysterious person would appear within that time frame.
……
A world of turmoil and bloodshed.
A grand, terrifying battle raged over the distant horizon.
Dazzling divine light tore through the skies, and the radiance of various treasures swept out in all directions. Roaring, like the cries of demonic gods, shook heaven and earth.
Deity-like figures were locked in fierce combat, their divine majesty blanketing the earth, terrifying beyond limit.
Peerless Imperial experts fought without reservation, killing in a mad frenzy.
Enormous, bestial figures soared through the sky. Their auras alone collapsed the skies and shattered mountains.
This was a chaotic battlefield. The fighting was so fierce that the moon and sun seemed dimmer, as if the entire world had sunk into turmoil, upheaval, and apocalyptic destruction.
Far away from the battlefield, an enormous, dazzling spatial rift hovered in the air, like a heavenly rift splitting the entire plane in two.
One side of the spatial rift was turmoil, bloodshed, and fierce combat.
The other side was an endless wasteland.
Nothing grew there, not even an inch of grass. It was barren, withered, and perpetually shrouded in dusk.
There was nothing there save for howling, bone-chilling winds. It emanated a sense of boundless desolation.
A graceful figure sat on a hill within this barren landscape, her arms wrapped around her knees. Beneath the dusky light, she seemed utterly alone.
She had curved eyebrows, and she wore a lotus crown and a form-fitting black dress. It offset her slender figure, and what skin was visible was as fair and delicate as lamb suet.
She’d obviously just undergone a grand battle, and her body was riddled with bloody wounds.
However, she didn’t seem to care in the slightest. She just sat there in silence, arms wrapped around her knees, her beautiful eyes flowing with silent, unending tears.
A piece of black jade lay on the ground in front of her.
The tears dripped onto the jade’s surface, like pearls that bloomed into flower petals as they landed.
Even though she was crying, she seemed to be holding something back. She made no noise even as her tears fell like rain.
However, there was no sign of sadness on her peerlessly beautiful face. On the contrary, she seemed relieved, delighted, and excited.
“You’re finally back. I just knew it! I just knew you’d come back…” the woman muttered, her quavering voice choked with sobs. 𝙗𝒆𝒅𝒏𝙤𝒗𝒆𝙡．𝙤𝒓𝙜
Whoosh!
Someone appeared out of nowhere.
“Senior, what happened?”
This new arrival was a tall, stalwart man in warrior’s robes. His energy surged, and his presence was imposing, but when he saw the woman’s tears, he couldn’t help but worry.
“He… He came back…!” The woman took a deep breath, then looked up. Her tears silently dried, replaced with heartfelt delight.
The man in warrior’s robes was briefly stunned, but when he saw the black jade in front of the woman, he seemed to realize something. He couldn’t help but blurt, “Don’t tell me it’s His Excellency Su!?”
The woman’s eyes shone, and she nodded seriously. “Mm!”
The man in warrior’s robes was overcome with delight. “It really is him! I just knew that someone like him wouldn’t just up and die for no reason! Right, did he say anything?”
The woman instantly fell silent.
A while later, she looked into the distance, her gaze seeming to penetrate time and space. She gazed at the distant, chaotic battlefield and whispered, “I… I didn’t say anything, and he didn’t say anything either…”
The man in warrior’s robes was stunned. “He didn’t say?anything?”
The woman pursed her lips and nodded. “That’s right, but I know he already obtained the child jade I left with that Thousand-Faced Ghost Monkey.”
She spoke with incontrovertible assurance.
The man in warrior's robes asked in confusion. “But why didn’t you speak with Senior Su?”
The woman shook her head. “The moment I opened my mouth, he would have realized who I was. I don’t want him to know where we are.”
“Why hide it?” the man still didn’t understand.
The woman smiled, a hint of softness on her?matchlessly?beautiful features as she murmured, “You don’t understand. If he knew I was here, he’d definitely worry, and I don’t want to make him worry ever again…”
Her voice was tender and full of sentiment.
The man in warrior’s robes was instantly silent.
“Little Wei, thanks a bunch. Three hundred and thirty years ago, if you hadn’t cooperated with me to make arrangements on Yama’s Floating Mountains, he… Even if he returned to the Netherworld, I’m afraid he wouldn’t have been curious enough to activate the child jade.”
The woman rose, her black dress swaying around her, offsetting her slender, graceful figure.
Beneath the dusky skies, her lotus crown shone with faint, misty light. This gave her an additional imposing air.
The man in warrior’s robes said hurriedly, “Senior, you needn’t be so polite. I was just doing as I ought to do. It’s just… I suspect that with Senior Su’s wisdom, he’s already guessed quite a bit…”
His voice trailed off, and he couldn’t help but feel a bit nervous.
The woman smiled and said softly, “Rest assured. Even if he learns the full truth, he won’t blame you.”
She paused, and her soft lips curved into a smile. “For now, at least, he most likely hasn’t realized that I’m the one who made those arrangements in Yama’s Floating Mountains.?I understand him far too well. That’s why I hid my aura then; not even the malevolent soul of the Vermillion Bird could tell who I was. This is what piqued his curiosity, and why he activated that child jade.”
The man in warrior’s robes thought back to what happened years ago, and he couldn’t help but feel a bit helpless. “Senior, why… Why do you have to keep this hidden from him?”
The woman didn’t respond. Only she knew that if she let him guess who she was, given his disposition, he’d likely hide from her…
“Little Wei, when will the Yin-Yang Road to the outside world open in the Dark Capital?” the woman suddenly asked.
The man in warrior’s robes didn’t so much as pause to think. “The Yin-Yang Road opens once every hundred years. It’ll next open nine years from now.
“However, we’re currently in the seventh of the nine great hells. If we want to return to the outside world, we’ll have to return to the first hell a year early. Only then will we make it in time.”
The woman shook her head. “I’m asking for a specific date.”
“Uh….” The man in warrior’s robes thought for a while, then laughed bitterly. “That’s hard to say. When the old drunkard of Yellow Spring’s Palace returns, ask him. He’ll know.”
The woman took a deep breath, then muttered, “Alright. It’s just nine years. I’ve already waited tens of thousands of years. What’s a few more…?”
Beneath the dusky skies, the woman fell into a daze.
Her name was Ye Yu.
A long, long time ago, she’d been honored as the first Empress in the history of the Ghost Serpent Race!
……
The River of Forgetfulness Territory, Yama’s Floating Mountains, the Wei Family.
“Fellow Daoist Su, I have a perhaps unreasonable request. Please don’t spread word of our patriarch's situation,” said Wei Zhongxi with a bow.
Su Yi inclined his head. “Alright.”
After leaving the immortal cave, he told Wei Zhongxi and the others that their patriarch, Wei Daoyuan, was most likely unharmed. The three of them relaxed considerably.
However, Wei Daoyuan had, after all, been missing for hundreds of years. Until they confirmed his whereabouts, Wei Zhongxi did?not?want word of his absence to spread.
Never mind the rest; if this leaked, it would lead to untold upheaval in Nightdemon City!
After all, it was because they had an Imperial Realm expert like Wei Daoyuan that the city’s heretics and fiends behaved themselves.
“Fellow Daoist Su, what should we do with him?” Wei Zhongxi indicated to the elderly Thousand-Faced Ghost Monkey.
“Imprison him for now,” said Su Yi. “That mysterious person will come back sooner or later. Let them decide what to do with him.”
Wei Zhongxi nodded.
That very day, Su Yi, Cui Jingyan, and the old blind man departed Yama’s Floating Mountains.
Half a month later.
After weeks of travel, the group finally left the River of Forgetfulness Territory and entered the Six Paths and entered the Six Paths Royal Territory.
A long, long time ago, the ancient Cui Family, the Overseers of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, had established themselves in the Six Paths Royal Territory’s Ziluo City!