After returning safely,
The spirit puppet containing the sealed ancestral soul fluttered about everywhere. Having spent so long inside the Celestial Illusion Sanctuary, ancestor
"Who would have thought that after a thousand years, the
"Ancestor Ye Yan, you'd better stop thinking about it. The Thunder Lightning Family was destroyed long ago. The current city lord is from the Wind Snow Family!" Nie Li opened his eyes and said.
"You little brat, what would you know? The Wind Snow Family descended from the Thunder Lightning Family — they're a branch of our line! Even your city lord would have to respectfully call me 'grand ancestor' if he saw me! How dare you be so disrespectful toward me..." Ye Yan huffed twice and said with haughtiness.
"The city lord? You think I care about the city lord? If he weren't my father-in-law, I would've forced him to step down long ago!" Nie Li dismissed Ye Yan ancestor's words with contempt. "The strongest beings you've ever seen are only at the Legendary realm!"
"Quite the big mouth, kid. Don't tell me you've actually seen someone beyond the Legendary realm?"
"Of course I have. Legendary is just the very beginning of cultivation. Do you know how the demon beast outbreak during the Dark Age happened?" Nie Li said with a faint smile.
"How would I know? Those demon beasts were probably provoked by something!" ancestor Ye Yan retorted stubbornly.
"It wasn't that the demon beasts were provoked. It was that one demon beast advanced in rank, awakened its intelligence, and reached a level beyond the Legendary realm. The three hundred or so most powerful Legendary experts across the entire Sacred Spirit Continent sensed that demon beast and decided to hunt it down. That only enraged the beast, and in the end, they reaped what they sowed — they were the ones slaughtered. In its fury, the demon beast commanded every demon beast across the entire Sacred Spirit Continent to hunt humanity. The great empires of mankind crumbled within mere months. That year marked the beginning of the Dark Age!" Nie Li said leisurely.
"So that's how it was!" Ye Yan exclaimed in sudden realization. No wonder, after the demon beast outbreak began, the top experts of the great empires had seemingly vanished without a trace.
"To you, perhaps a demon beast beyond the Legendary realm seems like an invincible existence. But in another realm, it's nothing more than the most basic creature! At the peak of my power, I could obliterate it with a mere thought!" Nie Li gazed into the distance with far-off eyes. Though he sat perfectly still, he seemed as immovable as a mountain.
At that moment, suddenly, Ye Yan sensed a powerful spiritual aura rushing toward him.
This spiritual aura had weathered countless ages. Though its strength was still feeble, there was an inkling of something terrifyingly powerful within it — a force that only someone like ancestor Ye Yan, existing as a soul, could perceive. It was so frightening it made one tremble.
What kind of person was this kid, really?
Though Nie Li possessed only Silver-level cultivation, ancestor Ye Yan's soul felt as though it were caught in a raging tempest.
Even a Legendary-realm powerhouse wouldn't have been enough to make ancestor Ye Yan feel such terror.
"Ye Yan, would you like to rebuild your physical body and go see that wondrous realm?" Nie Li withdrew his gaze, looked at ancestor Ye Yan, and smiled.
Ancestor Ye Yan was momentarily stunned. That terrifying spiritual aura had vanished in the blink of an eye, as though it had never existed at all. Nie Li clearly looked like a teenager — so why did he give off such a horrifying impression?
Seeing Nie Li's calm smile, ancestor Ye Yan suddenly felt an uncontrollable seed of desire and anticipation sprouting within his heart. What kind of place was that realm Nie Li spoke of?
"I want to go!" ancestor Ye Yan's gaze sharpened. Without even realizing it, his tone when speaking to Nie Li had become humble.
Though he didn't know why Nie Li had the body of a child, ancestor Ye Yan was now certain that the soul dwelling within that body belonged to an incredibly powerful being!
Only he, as a soul entity, could sense it — and only for the briefest of moments!
After sealing ancestor Ye Yan's soul into the spirit puppet, he had technically been under Nie Li's control. But from this moment on, he truly submitted to Nie Li.
Without saying anything more, Nie Li entered a state of secluded cultivation, preparing to break through to Gold-level Demon Spirit Master as quickly as possible.
The Du Clan.
Du Ze's family lived in a rundown village. The village had just over three hundred people, all of them members of the Du Clan.
Du Ze walked along the country path. When the clan members who were farming spotted him returning, they waved and called out, their faces beaming with smiles.
"Du Ze is back!"
"Hello, uncles!" Du Ze replied with a smile. The Du Clan was poor, but the bonds between its members were warm and harmonious.
The elders looked at Du Ze and chatted with admiration: "The Du Meng family is truly blessed, having a son like Du Ze!"
"Indeed. He's still so young, and already a Silver-level Demon Spirit Master. Remarkable! The entire Du Clan will rise in pride because of him!"