"How could it be... Is that Sky City your home?" Qing Limo asked, eyes widening in surprise.
I nodded. "That's right. Back then, Lord Hua kidnapped the entire old Sky City to evade the encirclement of my army—or no, to complete his own plan of destroying the Heavenly Dao Law and rebuilding the laws he imagined. He gathered countless realms and completed the creation of a massive fireball capable of destroying heaven and earth. We called it a thermonuclear core..."
I slowly recounted the entire matter from beginning to end. From the establishment of the new Sky City to our years of effort opposing the thermonuclear core, I explained every detail. Although it had nothing to do with saving the Nine Immortal Lands, it was still a cautionary example from the opposite direction. Lord Hua's strength had far exceeded everyone's imagination, including mine.
"Then your family... didn't they all..." After hearing the end, Qing Limo couldn't help looking at me with sympathy.
"I don't know how they're doing. I want to fly to the Ninth Heaven immediately to find out... but I can't leave right now either, can I?" I sighed.
Qing Limo nodded. The look in her eyes was no longer as sharp as before. Clearly, my defeat in Sky City had made her empathize with me. Of course, Lord Hua's strength had also shaken her to the core. "Who would have thought all of this was the work of Lord Hua, the Son of Destiny? Even the disaster in the Three Immortal Realms was caused by him. And now he even wants to kidnap the Nine Immortal Lands and turn them into another thermonuclear core... It's utterly hateful! What are we supposed to do now?"
"Putting all the people in the midst of fire and water... Surely you