"Because you are not dead yet, on the Zi Xiao Continent."
"What?" Zhou Hong was greatly shocked. He thought he had died and his soul had been reborn on Earth, only to be told that he was not dead on the Zi Xiao Continent.
"So I'm not dead on the Zi Xiao Continent? How did my soul get to Earth?" Zhou Hong quickly asked.
"On the Zi Xiao Continent, you are only in a coma. Your soul was attracted by this subordinate world, so your soul traveled to Earth and possessed a person with the same name, surname, and similar mental state."
"My heavens, then what happened to the original owner of this body?"
"After your soul entered his body, his weak soul couldn't bear it and dissipated."
"So if I go back to the Zi Xiao Continent, do I just need to withdraw my soul?"
"Yes, after your soul withdraws from Earth, you can return to your original Zi Xiao Continent. To everyone there, you will have just woken up from a coma. Even everything on Earth will feel like a dream to you after you wake up."
"Oh, oh!" Zhou Hong suddenly had an indescribable feeling.
"Young master, if you want to return to the Zi Xiao Continent now, you can do so at any time. Do you need me to send you back immediately?"
"This... if my soul goes back, what will happen to this body?"
"This body has no soul, so it is naturally equivalent to death."
"But what about the friends I made here?" Zhou Hong thought of Qiao Xiaoyu, Changsun Qinghe, and others. If his soul left, wouldn't he be abandoning them here?
"It's equivalent to knowing them in a dream," the old man with the white beard said with a smile.
At this moment, Zhou Hong remembered the deep underground pit he had seen before. It seemed to be connected to another world.
"Senior, I discovered a deep underground pit on Earth before. It was very deep, and it seemed to have a passage to another world. Can I go to another world from there?" Zhou Hong quickly asked. Sudan Novel Network
"Young master, call me Old Ma. Don't call me senior. I am just a soul from this subordinate world. I have no strength myself. At most, I can chat with you."
"Alright, Old Ma it is. You should answer my question first." Zhou Hong didn't care about how he addressed him.
"I know about the deep pit you mentioned. It does connect to another world, but it's impossible to determine which world it connects to. Moreover, even if it's confirmed to connect to the world you are in, you cannot pass through that passage."
"Why?"
"Because that passage is sealed by a very powerful beast cultivator. This beast cultivator was once sealed by your grandfather, King Sheng Gu Xian. Although you have reached the Nascent Soul stage, you are only a cultivator, and you are still far from it."
"My former grandfather sealed it? No wonder I felt a sense of familiarity when I went to that underground cave and saw the sealing pillars."
"Yes."
"So, does this mean I can't bring people from Earth back to the Zi Xiao Continent?" Zhou Hong looked somewhat sad.
"Young master, who told you it's impossible to bring them back?" The old man suddenly smiled.
"Didn't you just say that if I return to the Zi Xiao Continent, I'll just withdraw my soul and wake up there, and the connecting passage is impassable?"
"That's right. However, you have now inherited the subordinate world. When you wake up on the Zi Xiao Continent, the subordinate world you inherited will still exist. You just need to have your friends enter the subordinate world, and then they will be successfully brought to the Zi Xiao Continent by you."
"Hahaha, that's great!" Zhou Hong was immediately relieved.
"Are you leaving now? You have been in a coma on the Zi Xiao Continent for a long time. Your family there worries about you every day. In fact, many people said you would never wake up, and even if you did, you would be useless."
"No need to rush to wake up. I still have some things to deal with on Earth."
"That's good. You can return to the Zi Xiao Continent anytime anyway."
"Mhmm."
The old man said no more and immediately disappeared into the giant light sphere.
Zhou Hong also instantly left the subordinate world and returned to Earth.
"Zhou Hong, you're finally out." When Zhou Hong returned to Earth, Qiao Xiaoyu, Qiao Wanli, and others were waiting in the Taoist temple at the exit. Seeing Zhou Hong finally emerge, their worried hearts were finally put to rest.
"Have you been waiting here for me all these months?" Zhou Hong asked.
"Otherwise, you said you wanted to explore the Kunlun Zi Region, and you've been exploring for three months. If we could still enter, we would have come looking for you."
"Heh heh, don't worry." Zhou Hong smiled. The entire subordinate world now belonged to Zhou Hong. With a single thought, he could shrink it into his body.
"It's good that you're out."
"Let's go back to Kyoto, handle some matters, and then...!" Zhou Hong remembered his relatives on the Zi Xiao Continent. It was time to go back.
Now it seemed that Zhou Hong's sudden appearance on Earth was his mission to inherit his former grandfather's subordinate world. He had now completed the inheritance and could return at any time.
No wonder he had inexplicably come to Earth. Everything was clear now.
Soon, Zhou Hong took a helicopter back to Kyoto.
Qiao Xiaoyu also returned to Kyoto.
However, Qiao Xiaoyu already knew that during the half year she had been away, Zhou Hong had acquired three fiancées in Kyoto.
Although Qiao Xiaoyu felt a little regretful, she could do nothing about it. Zhou Hong was such an outstanding man, and she, an ordinary woman, could not possibly have him all to herself.
"Zhou Hong, we're back in Kyoto. I want to see Mengxue first." After getting off the helicopter, Qiao Xiaoyu quickly said. She had learned from her grandfather that Qin Mengxue had also come to Kyoto. As a good friend, she naturally wanted to see her first.
"Okay." Zhou Hong nodded.
Zhou Hong was currently unsure how to handle the women on Earth and how to tell them about himself.
Therefore, Zhou Hong planned to stay on Earth for another month or two, and then leave when the time was right.