There was nothing he could do about it. Anyone would have felt guilty in his place.
It was just like the saying: stomp your foot, and it goes numb too.
····· Lin Fan returned to the Netherworld, the Empress had already come back first.
When the three met again, they exchanged only a few brief pleasantries before setting off back to Earth—the "ancestral land" in the words of the First Emperor and the Empress.
The distance between Kunlun and Earth had now grown increasingly vast.
It was actually rather metaphysical.
Because the two still maintained a sort of "relative size." That might sound strange, but the problem was that even though Kunlun was now countless times larger than before, from Earth's perspective...
When one looked up, it still appeared just like the moon had back then.
It was as if Kunlun were still the moon, without having grown any larger.
At least, that was how it looked to ordinary people's naked eyes.
However, because Kunlun had grown by an unknown number of times, the distance between the two had likewise become N times greater.
Unfortunately, there was no Teleportation Array between them, so they could only fly over.
On the way, Lin Fan suddenly grew curious. "By the way, why do you call Earth the ancestral land? Is it because that's where you originated? Or is there another explanation?"
"It's probably just a saying passed down since ancient times?"
The Empress looked at the First Emperor. "At least, that was how things were in my era."
"It is indeed a saying that has existed since ancient times."
The First Emperor nodded and continued, "As it happens, in my era, the Earth—that is, the ancestral land—was not as it is today."
"The land of the Nine Provinces alone was larger than