"You've arrived!"
Dao Sage Wang Taixu slowly turned. His figure, standing at the end of the divine阶 (divine steps/ranks) in the void, seemed to be the embodiment of his own Great Dao laws. Initially, his eyes were filled with divinity, like a deity.
However, with Yu Zhibo's arrival, the divinity in his eyes gradually gave way to humanity, finally making him appear like a person.
Wang Taixu's benevolent gaze fell upon Yu Zhibo.
His slender build, simple Daoist robe, and gray-white long hair tied into a Daoist bun, adorned with a brown crescent crown that looked like it was made of wood. He was spirited and exuded an aura of returning to simplicity, precisely the image of the Dao Sage familiar to Yu Zhibo.
Seeing the Dragon Country's battle ceiling once more, even with Yu Zhibo's composure, he couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement.
"Grandpa Wang, hello!" Yu Zhibo waved and greeted.
Wang Taixu nodded slightly and said with a smile, "Although I've long seen your extraordinary origins, the speed of your strength improvement has still exceeded my expectations. I originally thought it was a great fortune for the Dragon Country to produce a Chongtóng (double-pupiled) prodigy like Shouyi, but I never imagined you would be even more astonishing than him."
Facing Wang Taixu's undisguised praise, Yu Zhibo quickly replied humbly, "Although I have also reached the 99th divine阶, in terms of controlling laws, I am far inferior to my father-in-law. I don't deserve such praise from you, Grandpa Wang."
When he entered Wang Shouyi's Chongtóng world, he had personally witnessed the terrifying laws swirling around Wang Shouyi's spiritual will manifestation. It wasn't twenty or thirty, nor forty or fifty, but a staggering over a hundred laws, each representing a different principle.
It was important to note that he had only mastered a mere twenty laws so far. While they were all fundamental laws, without the fusion of chaotic energy, he likely wouldn't have been able to defeat Wang Shouyi on Earth.
Of course, if Wang Shouyi were to fight him in this realm-vein land using Earth's laws, he would undoubtedly lose. This was because laws fused with the chaotic energy of the realm-veins were on an entirely different level from Earth's laws.
Hearing Yu Zhibo's response, Wang Taixu chuckled, "Don't be so self-deprecating. You, who now control the essence of multiple laws, can isolate the chaotic characteristics within those laws and travel to any world without being rejected. This saves the trouble of recasting laws during ascension. Currently, the threat of demons and ghosts on Earth has not been eliminated, and I must control the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Great Array (Cosmic Star Array) to defend against invasions from extraterrestrial demons. The future hidden dangers of Earth will be left to you and Shouyi to resolve."
"Extraterrestrial demons?" Yu Zhibo asked with some confusion.
Wang Taixu nodded slightly, "The Ghost King of the Ghost Country and the Dragon King of the Demon Country are manageable. Although they tread the path of ghosts and demons, and ascend the ghost and demon ranks, their connection with the Middle Thousand Worlds and Great Thousand Worlds has been completely severed, preventing other world powerhouses from coveting them."
"But the Demon Country is different. The Demon Queen of the Demon Country was originally a demonic thought manifestation of a Demon Emperor from the Demon Realm. When she guides all demons in their ascension, they draw power from the Demon Abyss, naturally attracting much scrutiny. Fortunately, the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Great Array serves as Earth's strongest protective formation. Although I don't know who laid it, I have managed to control three-tenths of its formation patterns, making the extermination of these demons a trivial matter."
As he spoke, Wang Taixu cast a meaningful glance at Yu Zhibo. He vaguely felt that the existence of the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Great Array was related to Yu Zhibo's origins, but whenever he tried to investigate further, his Dao sense would be forcibly erased by an unknown force, preventing him from probing the secrets within Yu Zhibo.
Although his status on Earth was akin to Hongjun's status in the Great Desolation after his Dao integration in mythology, it was completely insignificant when compared to the Middle Thousand Worlds and Great Thousand Worlds.
After all, Earth was merely one of the three thousand small worlds, and with its severed realm-veins, it wasn't even a complete small world.
However, what right did such a world have to be protected by a Zhou Tian Xing Chen Great Array?
Wang Taixu looked at Yu Zhibo, his face showing a pensive expression.
Yu Zhibo, on the other hand, was quite shocked by the information revealed in Wang Taixu's words: the Demon Queen was merely a wisp of a Demon Emperor's manifestation? And the Demon Abyss...
Yu Zhibo couldn't help but recall when his Heavenly Demon clone had contacted him some time ago, mentioning that the Queen had dispatched him into the third layer of the Demon Abyss to find the Heart Demon and hunt for Demon Origin.
The objective was to use the Demon Origin to evolve into a Heart Demon, allowing the Heavenly Demon clone to become a Heart Demon, causing upper realm cultivators to fail in their ascension, and then seizing their Dao bodies, thereby achieving clandestine passage.
After all, Earth was too dangerous. The path to S-class had been severed under the Dao Sage's suppression. Without it, they were like meat on a chopping block on Earth. Once the Dragon Country decided to abandon Earth, they would have no choice but to perish.
If the Dragon Country did not intend to abandon Earth, they would not easily provoke them, because once a conflict erupted, a level 99 attack could instantly turn the entire Earth into shattered celestial bodies in the universe.
It was somewhat similar to a pre-superpower planetary war; countries possessing nuclear weapons would not easily engage in combat.
His previous instruction to the Heavenly Demon clone was to play it safe and drag things out to prevent the Demon Queen from making a clandestine escape. Looking back now, it seemed like a slight miscalculation.
'Could I instantly kill the Demon Queen or the kings of the Demon and Ghost countries if I returned to Earth?' Yu Zhibo asked himself. It seemed unlikely. If he were in the realm-vein land, he might still be able to act.
After all, he couldn't use chaotic laws on Earth. If he did, it was likely that the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Great Array would automatically obliterate him in an instant.
Even though the Dao Sage controlled three-tenths of the array's formation patterns, the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Great Array was, in essence, a self-actuating guardian. This was evident from the strong sense of crisis he felt when he previously attempted to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to return to the country.
'What if I activate the Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan?'
Yu Zhibo pondered this in his heart but quickly dismissed the idea for a simple reason: what if he entered S-class?
It was important to remember that in this realm-vein land, located in the chaotic space, there was no suppression of realms. Once he entered S-class, let alone anything else, the entire Earth would likely collapse the moment he arrived, and he himself would be annihilated by the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Great Array.
After discussing Earth's situation and his cultivation insights with Wang Taixu, Yu Zhibo withdrew his consciousness from the divine阶.
He slowly opened his eyes.
As if sensing his awakening, the wooden door of the basement was kicked open with a bang. A figure of a golden-haired little loli appeared before him amidst the swirling dust, immediately questioning him in an angry tone:
"Eight years! Do you know how I've spent these eight years? My phone is broken, and I have no food!"
Yu Zhibo blinked in surprise, then checked the time—
"Holy crap! October 4th, 2030?"
He was dumbfounded.
He hadn't felt the passage of time while evolving laws and nurturing Yin and Yang. He never expected that upon waking, eight and a half years would have passed.
Doesn't this mean his child with Bai Chanyi is already over eight years old?
Yu Zhibo completely lost his composure!