"Perhaps joining Xi Rong isn't such a bad thing after all." Ink Plum True Immortal could not help smiling. "Perhaps our immortal fate doesn't lie in the Prehistoric Heaven and Earth, but in your Xi Rong."
"Not at all, not at all." Jiu Cai Rong looked rather pleased. "It's all thanks to the wise leadership of our Xi Rong Manor Lord. He personally issued the order to help Jiumu Qing break through to the Esteemed Immortal level."
After a round of mutual commercial flattery, they began discussing the plan itself.
Rob them, and help Jiumu Qing awaken while they were at it.
"The Jiumu Clan originated in the Prehistoric Heaven and Earth from a piece of divine metal that gained intelligence. After enduring all kinds of hardships, a piece of Jiumu Origin Gold eventually became an Esteemed Immortal—namely, Jiumu Esteemed Immortal, who controlled the metal law beneath the three great laws of time, space, and life."
"The Jiumu Clan ruled over a branch of the timeline. In that timeline, all other races had been artificially exterminated. Only the Jiumu Clan remained—the entirety of the world's living beings."
"It was a world of metal."
"After that, our story begins in the branch of this special metal timeline. Jiumu Qing was an utterly ordinary metal child from a Jiumu mine."
As he recounted the story,
Jiu Cai Rong explained everything they had gained over the past few days.
The Jiumu metal race possessed a special pyramidal structure. All of them instinctively felt close to and depended on their mother, becoming fanatical believers of Jiumu Esteemed Immortal.
She had endured the long tribulations of a storybook protagonist. In the end, she had risen to the summit, stood beside her mother, become one of her fanatical believers, and become the Esteemed Immortal's daughter.
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