Mo Wuji opened his eyes to see a yellowed ceiling. He suddenly sat up, and a burst of needle-like pain shot through his head.

“Whew—” Mo Wuji let out a long breath, trying to calm himself down. The pain in his head finally eased up with his efforts.

Where is this place? What happened to me?

Mo Wuji frowned. He just thought of Thousand Talisman Mountain, and another unbearable pain surged through his mind. Mo Wuji had no choice but to stop forcing himself to remember anything, and he began to examine his surroundings.

This was a room that could be considered quite large. Besides the yellowed ceiling, the bedsheets were also yellowed. Mo Wuji turned his head to look at the bed he was sitting on. It was a rusty iron bed frame, and there were a few used medicine bottles on the peeling wooden cabinet beside the bed...

Wait...

Mo Wuji's eyes widened. He understood. He should be in a hospital.

Another violent pain surged through his mind, but Mo Wuji endured it this time. After a few minutes, he completely understood what had happened.

He sought the Spatial Rend Talisman in Thousand Talisman Mountain, then entered the Saint Dao Talisman. As a result, the space within the Saint Dao Talisman was distorted, and he was almost seized by Fu Jiujiang. Then, he summoned the Kunwu Sword in his sea of consciousness, and that sword strike...

That's not right, Mo Wuji suddenly thought. He should be inside the Saint Dao Talisman. How could he be sitting on a hospital bed?

Mo Wuji almost tore off the IV tube and needle from his arm at the fastest speed possible. He froze just as he was about to get out of bed.

On his arm were two faint marks, a common sword mark suppressed a talisman mark...

This is the Kunwu Sword and the Saint Dao Talisman? Mo Wuji quickly confirmed that he was not mistaken. The two faint marks on his arm were definitely the Kunwu Sword and the Saint Dao Talisman.

Mo Wuji recalled his last wish after unleashing the Kunwu Sword. His wish was to return to Earth.

Could it be that the Kunwu Sword sensed his wish, suppressed the Saint Dao Talisman, and sent him back to Earth at the same time?

Mo Wuji quickly tried to communicate with the Kunwu Sword with his spiritual will. The moment he prepared to use his spiritual will, his brain almost ripped apart, scaring Mo Wuji into quickly retracting his thoughts. After only a moment, he understood. Apart from his strong physical body, he no longer had any other means.

"Eh, you're awake?" A slightly surprised voice rang out at the door, followed by a young man in his twenties who looked very honest.

"Why did you pull out the IV drip?" Behind the young man was a middle-aged nurse. When she saw Mo Wuji sitting up, she quickly scolded him loudly.

"This brother, this is to inject antibiotics for your wound infection, you must, eh, the wound on your body..." The young man stopped talking, realizing that the terrifying wounds on Mo Wuji's body seemed to be gone.

The middle-aged nurse also saw this situation and looked at Mo Wuji with the same surprise.

Mo Wuji reacted quickly and said, "I have an ancestral external injury medicine. I applied it, and the injuries on my body recovered quickly."

Just when Mo Wuji thought the two would ask more questions, he found that the nurse and the young man did not find it strange, as if it were normal.

"Where is this? I can't quite remember what happened before?" Mo Wuji asked in confusion.

The young man quickly said, "This is the Xingda Affiliated Hospital, the largest hospital in Qishu City. I saw you covered in blood at the foot of Mount Luoyang, and it looked like you fell from the mountain, so I carried you here for treatment."

Mo Wuji really knew about Qishu City. He had been there before; it was the capital city of Qi Nan Province. It seemed that the Kunwu Sword had indeed sensed his wish and brought him back to Earth. Not only that, but the Kunwu Sword had also suppressed the Saint Dao Talisman. This Kunwu Sword was indeed extraordinary.

But…

This broken place is the largest hospital in Qishu City? A dilapidated bed, yellowed blankets, a dull yellow ceiling? It would be too ridiculous if the largest hospital in a provincial capital was this dilapidated.

Also, when he left Earth, the random use of antibiotics was prohibited. How many years has it been? Why are they still using IV drips of antibiotics?

"Thank you for saving me. I don't know how to address you yet." Mo Wuji quickly thanked him.

The young man smiled and waved his hand. "Don't mention it. It's just a small matter. My name is Xian Zhiyang, a student in the Space Biology Department of Xingwu University."

Mo Wuji smiled. "It's a small matter to you, but not to me. By the way, my name is Mo Wuji."

Although Mo Wuji knew that even if Xian Zhiyang didn't save him, as long as he was on Earth, he shouldn't be harmed. With his physical strength, even if he encountered wild beasts, it would be difficult for them to hurt him. If beasts were to eat him, that would be taking his life, and his physical body would definitely form a divine barrier to stop them. This IV drip was different; it wouldn't cause him any harm.

"Since you're okay, go settle the bill," the nurse said to Xian Zhiyang. She entered the ward and began to collect the medicine bottles and some tools.

"Okay, Mo Wuji, let's go together. After we settle the bill, let's go grab a meal," Xian Zhiyang said, patting Mo Wuji's shoulder happily.

Mo Wuji didn't have any luggage. Although Xian Zhiyang didn't know how Mo Wuji took out the external injury medicine, he was clear that Mo Wuji didn't seem to have any cash or ID or anything.

"Then thank you. The air in here is a bit stuffy, so let's get out of here as soon as possible," Mo Wuji said quickly. He always felt that something was wrong, and he decided to ask Xian Zhiyang more questions.

Xian Zhiyang laughed. "Wuji, the air in here has been purified. The air outside the hospital is what you'd call stuffy. But our country is about to develop the latest urban air purification machine, so it won't be like this in the future."

"Zhiyang, the Xingda Affiliated Hospital seems very dilapidated. How is it the largest hospital in Qishu City?" Mo Wuji took the opportunity to ask while heading to the payment counter with Xian Zhiyang.

Xian Zhiyang sighed. "These are all equipment from decades ago. Qishu City can't be compared to other cities. Our city's space aviation industry isn't developed. After entering the space aviation era, Earth's atmosphere was damaged, and the air was polluted. Wealthy and capable people have chosen to leave Earth and go to Diyuan Star. Our country still has a very strong position in the world, and we already have a piece of land to live on Diyuan Star. As long as you have the ability, you have the opportunity to go to Diyuan Star."

The two had already reached the payment window. Mo Wuji saw the payment slip that Xian Zhiyang took out. It was 631 yuan. The key was the date on it: 2077. Those few words made Mo Wuji's eyes a little dizzy.

After this departure, half a century had passed. He didn't know how many acquaintances he still had on Earth.

"Let's go, let's go eat at our Xingda. By the way, where is your hometown? How did you come to Qishu City?" Xian Zhiyang said very casually to Mo Wuji after paying the fee.

"In Changluo, I worked in Jingyang for a while later. By the way, it's the Xia family of Jingyang, do you know them?" Mo Wuji was a little dazed. At this moment, he didn't even have much of an idea of asking Xia Ruoyin about it in person. What he wanted to see the most was Wen Xiaoqi. He wondered if she was doing well after these decades. Did she already have grandchildren, or had she gone to the Diyuan Star that Xian Zhiyang mentioned?

"Of course I know the Xia family of Jingyang." Xian Zhiyang looked at Mo Wuji with admiration and said, "The Xia family has the qualifications to go directly to Diyuan Star, and even has its own starship. The Xia family's Xia's Body Tempering Elixir is something that the whole world craves. I heard that Diyuan Star is not as stable as Earth. Although that planet has fresh air and a beautiful environment, it has many powerful fierce beasts..."

Speaking of this, Xian Zhiyang seemed to remember something, looked at Mo Wuji and said, "Wuji, the external injury medicine from your family is also very good. It can actually make you recover in such a short period of time, and you don't even need to inject antibiotics. In the future, if you can establish such a company, specializing in selling this kind of wound medicine, maybe it will have a big market in Diyuan Star."

Mo Wuji secretly clenched his fists. The Xia family's Body Tempering Elixir? That was his Meridian Opening Elixir, okay. It was just that the Meridian Opening Elixir formula he had saved in his notebook was not complete. He hadn't recorded the main medicinal materials and formula integration methods in the notebook. Xia Ruoyin took the incomplete formula after scheming against him.

Now that the Xia family had a Body Tempering Elixir, it was obviously modified from his incomplete formula. But since it belonged to him, he would take it back.

"I don't have a formula either. That bit of medicine was left by my ancestors, and it's gone after I use it." Mo Wuji was very accurate in judging people. He knew that Xian Zhiyang was not trying to subtly inquire about his formula.

Sure enough, Xian Zhiyang sighed. "That's really a pity... Wuji, the Xia family's Space Aviation Pharmaceutical Group is one of the best companies in the world. You finally got in, why did you come out?"

Mo Wuji sighed and said, "I was kicked out because I didn't have the skills, and I was almost killed."

Hearing Mo Wuji say that he was almost killed, Xian Zhiyang didn't seem surprised, as if he thought what Mo Wuji said was normal.

The two walked out of the hospital. The air outside the hospital was indeed more turbid than inside, filled with an indescribable smell.

Mo Wuji looked up at the somewhat gray sky and sighed inwardly.

Xian Zhiyang sighed. "If it weren't for a planet exploding at the edge of Earth decades ago, destroying Earth's atmosphere, Earth wouldn't be like this."

Although Mo Wuji wanted to ask what happened to the planet that exploded, he restrained himself. It would be a bit strange for him, an Earthling, not to know about such a thing. Listening to Xian Zhiyang's words, Mo Wuji understood that Earth had become like this, it didn't seem to be entirely caused by humans. That was right, when he left Earth, environmental and atmospheric protection were top priorities.