The solar system, the moon.
Having recovered their memories, Ye Ling and Xuan Yu landed back on the moon, gazing at the distant azure Earth.
Xuan Yu’s face still held a faint smile as she reminisced about her adventures with Ye Ling over the years.
“Thank you, Ye Ling. I will cherish these precious memories.”
Xuan Yu looked at Ye Ling beside her and said with a smile, “I haven’t had this much fun in a long time.”
Ye Ling replied, “If you wish, I can continue to accompany you on your travels.”
“This experience is enough.”
Xuan Yu looked back at Earth. After a moment of silence, she called out, “Ye Ling…”
“What is it?” Ye Ling turned to Xuan Yu.
Xuan Yu looked into Ye Ling’s eyes, opened her mouth, and then said, “It’s nothing… It’s almost time, I have to go.”
“So soon?”
“Yes,” Xuan Yu nodded. “My father is planning something big. If I stay out too long, I might become a burden to him. I need to return quickly.”
Ye Ling quickly asked, “Then when will we meet again?”
“We will meet again someday,” Xuan Yu smiled at Ye Ling. “Goodbye! There are people waiting for you on Earth, so I won’t take up your time.”
As Xuan Yu spoke, her body slowly began to fade.
“Xuan Yu!”
Seeing Xuan Yu about to leave, Ye Ling instinctively reached out for her hand but grasped only air.
On the moon, Ye Ling was left standing alone.
Looking at the spot where Xuan Yu had disappeared, Ye Ling felt a slight sense of disorientation for some reason.
The years spent adventuring with Xuan Yu in the Origin Upper Realm were also special memories for Ye Ling.
In that period of love and hate, Ye Ling forgot all the troubles of the Primordial Chaos, focusing solely on the pursuit of the peak of martial arts, constantly cultivating.
However, Ye Ling was not one to dwell on memories. After a brief moment of sorrow at their parting, Ye Ling reorganized his emotions and looked forward again.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen Xiao You and Ruo Xue. I wonder how they are doing?”
Ye Ling smiled, took to the air, and headed towards Earth.
As Ye Ling departed, an astronaut on a reconnaissance mission on the moon happened to walk nearby. Seeing Ye Ling take off, he couldn’t help but blink hard, stunned on the spot.
“What’s wrong?” another astronaut walked up from behind and asked the one who had seen Ye Ling.
“I… I just saw someone fly away.”
“How is that possible? Do you really think there’s Chang’e on the moon?”
“It was a man, and rather handsome…”
“Then you must have seen Wu Gang?”
“Doesn’t look like it… that person wasn’t carrying an axe, and there are no osmanthus trees around here.”
“Old Yu, I think your eyes are playing tricks on you. You’re actually discussing this seriously with me. Wu Gang is also a mythical figure; he doesn’t exist.”
“Absolutely impossible! I really saw someone! That’s right! My recorder should have captured it!” Saying this, the astronaut, to prove his point, transmitted the footage he had captured to the other astronaut.
“Holy cow! There really is someone! We need to report this immediately!”
As the two Chinese astronauts who landed on the moon saw Ye Ling and transmitted the footage back to China, the entire high echelon of China was shaken. The news was immediately classified.
A living person appearing on the moon was a major event for the entire nation!
China, Dragon Department.
Wang Liren, having just concluded a meeting with the president of the Overseas Association of Anomalies, returned to his office, removed his tie, and lay down on the sofa, ready to rest.
At that moment, Wang Liren’s secretary quickly knocked on the door and entered with a tablet, saying, “Minister Wang, there’s an emergency.”
“No matter what the emergency is, put it aside first. I’ve been in meetings for three days and three nights, finally dealing with those foreigners. I want to rest!”
Wang Liren slumped on the sofa, waving his hand at his secretary without the strength to even open his eyes.
After becoming the Minister of the Dragon Department, he thought he had reached the pinnacle of his life. But what greeted him was a schedule packed to the brim every single day, with no holidays.
Now that his work was finally done, Wang Liren wanted to take a break, not wanting to deal with anything.
The secretary said, “Our astronauts captured a person on the moon. Elder Qin is afraid it might be an extraterrestrial invasion, and he needs your judgment.”
“Extraterrestrial invasion? That’s hilarious.” Wang Liren sat up from the sofa and sneered. “What kind of situation haven’t I seen? Even if a visitor from another world appeared before me, they would have to prostrate themselves! Let me see what they captured.”
Wang Liren took the tablet from his secretary. The moment he clicked on the video, the smile on his face froze.
“Minister?”
Seeing Wang Liren’s strange expression, the secretary cautiously called out.
Wang Liren’s hands began to tremble, the tablet slipped from his grasp, and he muttered repeatedly, “Holy… holy crap… something big has happened… He’s actually back!”
“Minister? What happened?” Seeing Wang Liren’s reaction, the secretary also became serious. “Should the Dragon Department initiate emergency protocols and go on Level One alert?”
“Initiate what nonsense!”
Wang Liren sprang up from the sofa and strode out of the office, shouting to his secretary, “Prepare a plane immediately, notify all S-class powerhouses of the Dragon Department to reach the airport within ten minutes, and accompany me to Jiangcheng!”
“Min… Minister Wang…”
The secretary stared blankly at Wang Liren’s retreating back, her mind still in a daze.
This was the first time she had seen the steady and reliable minister display such a flustered demeanor.
…
Meanwhile, in Jiangcheng.
Ye Family Manor.
After Ye Ling left Earth, Ye You moved the Snow Hidden Sect to Jiangcheng, transforming the Ye Family Manor into a sect and recruiting disciples widely.
However, although Ye You was the sect leader of the Snow Hidden Sect, she generally did not manage affairs. All matters of the sect were handled by her disciple, Feng Ke.
Under the diligent efforts of Feng Ke, the senior disciple of the Snow Hidden Sect, the Snow Hidden Sect had surpassed Shushan and Zhengyi Sect, showing signs of becoming the foremost sect in the martial world.
It was often joked in the martial world that the Dragon Department was heaven in the imperial court, while the Snow Hidden Sect was king in the martial world.
The influence of the Snow Hidden Sect in the martial world had already surpassed that of the Dragon Department. Even the GDP of Jiangcheng, the entire city, had soared due to the presence of the Snow Hidden Sect, showing signs of surpassing Shanghai.
One day, as the Snow Hidden disciples were practicing their morning routines, Ye You, the sect leader, wearing bear-patterned pajamas, was intently staring at the television screen, her fingers rapidly manipulating a game controller.
She had been playing games in her bedroom all night to clear a newly released game.
At this moment, Feng Ke knocked on the door and then entered the room with breakfast. Seeing Ye You’s disheveled appearance, she sighed slightly and said, “Master… As the sect leader, you should at least look the part. Tomorrow is the day of the Martial Arts Convention, and as the Alliance Leader of the Martial Arts, you should say a few words on stage, shouldn’t you?”
“What’s so fun about the Martial Arts Convention? Ke’er, you go for me.” Ye You said indifferently.
“I’ve already attended three sessions for you. People who don’t know would think I’m the Alliance Leader of the Martial Arts,” Feng Ke sighed, placing the breakfast on the table. “Master, you can’t just ruin your body like this just because you have an immortal body. You still need to eat.”
“I know! I’ll eat!” Ye You said, but her gaze never left the screen.
“Alas, perhaps only when Martial Uncle returns can he persuade you.”
Feng Ke, knowing her master’s personality very well and realizing she couldn’t persuade Ye You, sighed again and prepared to go to the training grounds to teach the disciples.
But as she left the room and saw a person descending from the sky in the courtyard outside, she froze on the spot.
“Martial… Martial Uncle?”