"It's time to go back. I wonder how my big brother is doing."
"I'm already at the peak of the Foundation Establishment Realm now. How big is the gap between him and me?"
Li Tianchen, who had escaped from the Heavenly Burning Forbidden Land, gazed into the distance.
"Talk about good luck. I nearly got buried in there."
Elder Ling, within Li Tianchen's ring, was still shaken. The image of that existence—which had stood in the Heavenly Burning Forbidden Land for who knew how many tens of thousands of years—collapsing still lingered in his mind.
"Elder Ling, do you really not know what happened?"
Li Tianchen rested his hand on the ring and asked Elder Ling. The scene of the Secret Realm within the Heavenly Burning Forbidden Land collapsing surfaced in his mind, along with that sensation of something bound suddenly breaking free. Everything pointed to something extraordinary having occurred this time.
"I don't know. Several thousand years have passed since my physical body was destroyed. It wouldn't be strange if some tremendous change had taken place in the Cultivation World."
"Take those Evil Demons from before. In the era when I was alive, they existed only in legends."
"Yet now, they've suddenly emerged."
The Remnant Soul within the ring gently shook his head.
"Still, you might find some news when you return to Lingxu Sacred Land."
"Don't forget—you've got an incredible big brother!"
Elder Ling teased.
At the mention of Li Tianwei, Li Tianchen's brows furrowed slightly. He could not help tightening his grip around the ring, his inner turmoil plainly palpable.
"I'm curious why there's such a rift between you and your big brother. Could it be that he did something to wrong you?"
Seeing this, Elder Ling became interested and asked Li Tianchen.
At Elder Ling's prompting,