"Time to go out and take a look again!"
After thoroughly arranging the affairs of Bountiful Continent, Fang Qing traveled throughout its lands for some time.
During this period, something unexpected yet entirely reasonable happened to Yang Qi.
Yang Qi's mother, the mysterious "Saint Mother of Suspended Mountain," made her move.
She dispatched an elderly man whose aura was as deep as an Ancient Well, seemingly gravely ill. He was, astonishingly, a terrifying ninth-stage Great Sage known as the Sick Old Man.
The Sick Old Man brought a message and token from the Saint Mother, demanding that Yang Qi return with him to Suspended Mountain.
The reason was that Suspended Mountain was about to hold a Supreme Trial, one for which an edict would descend directly from the Immortal Realm. Such an opportunity came only once in a millennium, and the Saint Mother hoped Yang Qi would participate and obtain a fortunate opportunity.
Yang Qi's feelings were complicated.
Toward the mother he had never met, the woman who had given him life and his special bloodline, he felt both an instinctive curiosity and yearning, as well as lingering resentment over her years of abandonment.
Yet the name of the Supreme Trial and the Immortal Realm, along with the temptation of possibly unraveling the mystery of his origins, ultimately led him to decide to go.
As Yang Qi's most trusted cousin and protector, Fang Qing naturally would not allow him to face the unknown environment of Suspended Mountain alone.
Thus, after giving further instructions to the Bountiful Continent incarnation and the core members, Fang Qing and Yang Qi followed the Sick Old Man on a journey toward the plane where Suspended Mountain was located.
They arrived in a vast plane completely different from Bountiful Continent.
Suspended Mountain might have been called