"At that time, I remember... there should only have been seven or eight of the Divine Race left, and Yin Li's condition seemed not to have declined. With my reminder of their flaws and the solution to the Killing Formation, they should be fine!"

"If that's the case, under normal circumstances, Yin Li and Master should have also come to the Canglan Realm eventually. I will be able to reunite with them sooner or later!"

Mu Jinyu gazed up at the starry sky, his eyes gradually brightening with hope, thinking that this possibility was very, very likely!

After all, at the time, I had no combat power whatsoever and eventually survived, so Yin Li, as the descendant of the Silkworm King, the only progeny, who also extracted my Divine Dragon Blood for battle, has no reason not to survive!

But soon, the light emanating from Mu Jinyu's eyes dimmed again.

He thought of Mei Yinxue and Gu Xiyan, far away on Earth.

Most importantly, it's the child in Mei Yinxue's belly...

This caused waves of piercing pain in his heart!

At the time, he was fully focused on helping Yin Li and Master, who were in a desperate state, and preventing these Divine Race members from barging into Mount Tai, completely disregarding the consequence his family would face should he perish in battle.

And now, he didn't die in battle, but nevertheless couldn't return to Earth. He felt extremely lonely and desolate!

But he didn't regret the decision he made then!

Otherwise, had he chosen to escape, Yin Li and Mu Shao'ai would have fallen to those Divine Race members. At the time, Bai Xiaosheng hadn't completely sealed the spatial barrier yet. If those people entered Earth's side, it would have resulted in total annihilation, with no peaceful outcome for their family.

Now, while he may not be able to return home, Mei Yinxue, Su Zijin, and those family members most important to him remain safe, and that's enough.

"Ah-Xiang, this must be how he feels..."

Mu Jinyu muttered to himself.

He suddenly thought of Xiang Mantang, who for the greater good managed countless demons solo to suppress the Demon World.

More than a year has passed, with Xiang Mantang living alone in a world absent of people and filled only with ghosts. His experience must be even harder than mine!

At least here, in the Canglan Realm, he still has humans whose appearance differs little from Huaxia people accompanying him, even if the language remains temporarily inaccessible.

"Unfortunately, until I left, I couldn't bring you back..."

Mu Jinyu muttered in disappointment.

"Big brother... what are you saying?"

As Mu Jinyu was silently digesting his loneliness, a gentle girl's voice sounded beside him.

Mu Jinyu was startled, not expecting his Divine Sense to have regressed to the point that he didn't even perceive someone's approach.

Then, Mu Jinyu turned his head and saw the pretty little girl he had noticed that afternoon sitting next to him, her big eyes shining like stars, curiously watching him without blinking.

Having managed to learn a bit of the local human language, he didn't dissect the girl's words with Spiritual Thought and understood what she meant.

The little girl obviously threw the question carelessly without expecting a response from Mu Jinyu. After speaking, she continued to talk to herself: "I guess you're thinking about your parents, right? I miss my dad and mom too. I remember Grandpa and them saying that after people die, they turn into stars watching over us, so sometimes I can't sleep at night and I'll go out to see the stars... I didn't expect to see you looking at the stars tonight too..."

Hearing the little girl's words, Mu Jinyu was silent.

He didn't expect such a young girl, only about seven or eight years old, to have already lost her parents!

Evidently, the living conditions for humans or the Human Race in the Canglan Realm must be far harsher than Earth's or Kunlun Ruins'.

"What's your... name?"

Listening to the little girl's self-talk, Mu Jinyu gradually analyzed the meaning with Spiritual Thought, learning quite a bit of the local language, and finally asked hoarsely.

"Huh?" Hearing Mu Jinyu ask her name in the local language, the little girl was shocked, staring dazedly at Mu Jinyu.

After quite a while, the little girl exclaimed in surprise and joy: "Big brother, you can talk!"

Mu Jinyu was speechless. What do you mean I can talk? You're making it sound like I was mute.

It's just that we're somewhat linguistically challenged; clearly you heard me when I was soliloquizing earlier.

With a slightly helpless shake of the head, Mu Jinyu said, "Well, I just learned from you, what's your name?"

The girl didn't give it much thought, happily replied, "I'm Ji Xiaoyun, big brother, and you?"

"Surname Ji?" Upon hearing this surname, Mu Jinyu's expression subtly changed.

On Earth and in Kunlun Ruins, Mu Jinyu had encountered people with the Ji surname, such as the Crown Prince Ji Changxin of the Dayan Dynasty.

He didn't feel the Ji surname was particularly high and mighty.

It felt just ordinary!

But hearing this surname in the Canglan Realm brought about some inexplicable, complex emotions in Mu Jinyu.

After all, it's one of the eight oldest surnames on Earth.

He wondered if the Canglan Realm might be connected to it.

Then, Mu Jinyu thought of the peculiar phenomenon on Mount Tai when Spiritual Energy Revival appeared, the various corpses and bones seen within Folded Spaces, and the Sword Scroll from the Armament Martial Scripture he found!

Perhaps, early Earthlings knew about Mount Tai's passage to the Canglan Realm, battling and preventing people from the Canglan Realm coming or slaughtering their way into the Canglan Realm.

So...

Mu Jinyu continued pondering the astronomical formation set with Earth's famous mountains as flags, which he initially believed was designed to suppress demons. Thinking about it now, it's likely not purely for suppressing the Demon World!

It might, in fact, be sealing the passage connecting Mount Tai to the Canglan Realm?!

And the Demon World there was just incidental?

Or perhaps...

Mu Jinyu thought of Xilin's method to easily obliterate demons, as if she had encountered these indestructible demons in the Canglan Realm before!

Thus, when meeting the founder of Paradise Lost, who summoned demons, she habitually eradicated those demons!

So, these demons are not Earth's eerie creatures but alien beings from the Canglan Realm? Ghost Clan? Or some other species, eventually suppressed by ancient powers on Earth?

"Big brother, what are you thinking?"

After Ji Xiaoyun introduced herself, waiting for a long time only to see Mu Jinyu sometimes frowning, sometimes realizing something, she finally got impatient and pushed him, asking sharply.

"Oh? I'm Mu Jinyu..."

Mu Jinyu snapped out of his thoughts, shaking off the clutter, and quickly introduced himself.

After which, he began talking leisurely with Ji Xiaoyun, further accelerating his grasp of the local language.

When Ji Xiaoyun started dozing off, Mu Jinyu stopped the conversation, advising her to go to sleep.

After Ji Xiaoyun returned to the little house next to the one Mu Jinyu currently resides in, he realized why she ventured out to find him in the middle of the night.

They were living next door!

Afterward, Mu Jinyu felt sleepless, since he learned from their conversation that he had been picked up by the village elders and brought to the village over ten days ago, and had already slept for more than ten days.

As sleep wouldn't come, he decided to cultivate...

But after cultivating, Mu Jinyu unexpectedly discovered he couldn't cultivate anymore!

Unlike when his True Essence Source Root was destroyed and his cultivation body was half-crippled, preventing cultivation, this time he couldn't cultivate because...

All his Divine Dragon Blood within him was drained by Yin Li!

And to cultivate the Green Emperor Wood Emperor Scripture, he originally needed the sparse Azure Dragon Bloodline to convert into Wood Attribute True Essence, along with a top-grade Spirit Root as the life-bound Spiritual Root for cultivation.

He had lost his mystical little tree as a life-bound spiritual root but had the Three-Leaf Youlian for support; however, without this Bloodline Power now, he couldn't continue cultivating the Green Emperor Wood Emperor Scripture!

Feeling uneasy, Mu Jinyu hastily resumed cultivating the Black Emperor Water Emperor Technique!

Luckily, the Black Emperor Water Emperor Technique doesn't have as many constraints as the Green Emperor Wood Emperor Art, allowing Mu Jinyu to absorb hints of water spiritual energy into his body!

But what puzzled and irked Mu Jinyu is that despite the cultivation realm's upper limit clearly being much higher in the Canglan Realm than on Earth, the air's spiritual and elemental Qi was surprisingly inferior to Earth's!

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