The Firmament Realm and Imperial Heaven Realm

"You call me Grandmaster?"

Bai Qiuran, then asked in surprise, "You're Bai Li's apprentice?"

"Yes."

The Red Dust Immortal Elder bowed his head and replied, "I am the third disciple of the First Immortal Emperor Bai Li. Twenty-seven thousand years ago, I was fortunate enough to become a disciple of the First Immortal Emperor."

Judging from your cultivation level, you should already be an Immortal Emperor, right?

Bai Qiuran looked the Red Dust Immortal Elder up and down.

"Yes."

The Red Dust Immortal Elder replied, "This disciple is currently Immortal Emperor in the Firmament Realm."

"And what about Bai Li?"

Bai Qiuran asked curiously, "What is your master's current cultivation level? Has he reached the Return Ruins Realm?"

Because Bai Qiuran hadn't fully explored the Return Ruins, his deduction of that realm could only go halfway. However, every Cultivators would be interested in such things, and Bai Qiuran was no exception. He also wanted to know what level the Return Ruins Realm would be after it was fully completed, and whether his disciples had reached that level.

"No."

The Red Dust Immortal Elder shook his head and said, "According to the information I have received, Master is currently still Immortal Emperor in the Imperial Heaven Realm."

"Wait! Wait!"

Bai Qiuran sensed something was wrong.

"Why are there two realms for Immortal Emperor? I thought you disliked the name [Imperial Heaven Realm] that I was given, so you changed it to the Firmament Realm. What's the Firmament Realm all about, and what's the Imperial Heaven Realm all about?"

"Grandmaster, you misunderstand. No matter how unpleasant the names of the cultivation realms you set are, we dare not change them."

The Red Dust Immortal Elder replied, "It's just that when Master cultivated to the Imperial Heaven Realm, he discovered that the difficulty of cultivating to the Imperial Heaven Realm was actually two completely different realms. Therefore, he split the Imperial Heaven Realm, adding the Firmament Realm between the Imperial Heaven Realm and the Reincarnation Realm. According to the realms you originally deduced, the process of illuminating the Stars in the Heavenly Cycle within the Purple Mansion is the Firmament Sky Realm, and the process of raising the Immortal Infant within the body to the Heavenly Apex is the Imperial Heaven."

"Oh, I see, it's just like the Virtual Foundation Realm."

Bai Qiuran was greatly pleased.

"As expected of my disciple."

"Grandmaster, what is the Virtual Foundation Realm?"

The Red Dust Immortal Elder was greatly puzzled.

"This is a realm I've reached after gaining insights and understanding since my return."

Bai Qiuran explained proudly, "It can be considered as completing the foundation of Cultivation."

"Our grandmaster is truly a genius."

The Red Dust Immortal Elder exclaimed in admiration, then asked, "I wonder at which realm this Virtual Foundation Stage was completed?"

"Since it's the foundation, it naturally lies between Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment."

Bai Qiuran answered casually.

"Huh? Doesn't completing Qi Refinement directly lead to Foundation Establishment?"

The Red Dust Immortal Elder was taken aback.

What do you know?

Bai Qiuran sneered, "Anyone who hasn't gone through the Virtual Foundation Stage is trash."

Isn't your wife the same...?

The Red Dust Immortal Elder only dared to say these words in his heart, and with Bai Qiuran's strength, it would not feel out of place for him to say them out loud.

"Grandmaster is right."

He bowed and said.

"Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. Get up."

Bai Qiuran waved his hand and asked again, "Speaking of which, you're already Immortal Emperor, why didn't you go to the Immortal Realm with him? What are you doing still in our newbie zone? Smashing newbies?"

"I have been ordered by my master to come here on urgent business."

The Red Dust Immortal Elder paused for a moment, then said, "Isn't our Grandmaster still in this Mortal Realm?"

"I'm not like you."

Bai Qiuran said quite naturally, with a hint of gloom, "I haven't even Foundation Establishment yet, so isn't it only natural for me to stay here?"

"???"

The Red Dust Immortal Elder looked completely bewildered, not understanding what Bai Qiuran meant.

However, reason told him that for the sake of his safety, it was best not to delve too deeply into this issue.

"So, what exactly is Bai Li's purpose in letting you stay in the Mortal World?"

Bai Qiuran asked again.

"Naturally, it's to protect our master's safety."

The Red Dust Immortal Elder replied.

"My safety?"

Bai Qiuran somewhat bewildered. Through practice, he had discovered that even Immortal Emperor-level being was no match for him. Bai Li probably knew this as well. Based on Bai Qiuran's understanding of him, this guy wouldn't do something like leaving an Immortal Emperor-level combatant in the Mortal World to waste resources for the sake of appearances.

Seeing the puzzled look on Bai Qiuran's face, the Red Dust Immortal Elder roughly guessed what he was thinking, so he explained, "Grandmaster, please don't misunderstand. With my meager skills, I am naturally nothing in front of you. However, what I want to protect is not the current you, but the you of the past."

"Hmm? You mean?"

"When you were a child, I watched you grow up..."

The Red Dust Immortal Elder spoke these words somewhat cautiously, and then began to explain the whole story to Bai Qiuran bit by bit.

It turns out that after he left the Divine Age, when Bai Li finally led the Human Race, the Monster Race, and other races to defeat the Heavenly Gods, the Eastern Emperor Bell, which was originally placed in the Heavenly Palace, rang three times, driving the power of time and space, and fell into the earth with the entire sky.

Bai Li later found the sky that had fallen to the earth, and the Eastern Emperor Bell inside the sky, but he discovered that with their power at the time, they were simply unable to completely destroy the Eastern Emperor Bell.

Moreover, the Eastern Emperor Bell could not be moved. It used the power of spacetime to almost completely seal off the area within a few meters around it, and even Bai Li, who was already Immortal Emperor at the time, could not penetrate it.

Bai Li had no choice but to give up, and this news also reached Jiang Lan was living in seclusion on the sacred tree Fusang at the time.

After much deliberation, Jiang Lan approached Bai Li and revealed to him the news that Bai Qiuran came from the future.

The Eastern Emperor Bell possesses the ability to travel through time and space. Whether Bai Qiuran goes to that era or returns to this era, it is through this Divine Artifact. And in the end, Eastern Emperor Taiyi's last attack before his death may have been because he knew that Bai Qiuran did not belong to this timeline.

Even if Eastern Emperor Taiyi died, it's hard to say whether he didn't tell the Heavenly Gods this news. Although the Heavenly Gods were defeated at that time, there were still many remnants who wanted to rebuild the Heavenly Palace.

If some Heavenly Gods were to cause trouble, using the time -Superpower of the Eastern Emperor Bell to travel to the future Bai Qiuran, then Human Race might be Extinction without even knowing why.

Although the Heavenly Dao has extremely strong control over the River of Time, its attitude towards time travelers depends on the strength of the time traveler.

Beings like Eastern Emperor Taiyi and First Immortal Emperor Bai Li would naturally die if they dared to enter the River of Time, but if an ordinary, lowest-level celestial being were to travel through time and space, the Heavenly Gods Heavenly Dao might just make a fuss and then turn a blind eye.

If they're lucky, this celestial Heavenly Gods has a very high chance of encountering Bai Qiuran, who is still wandering the battlefield as an orphan.

"That's why my master assigned me this task after he established the Immortal Realm and led all the immortals to Ascension heaven."

The Red Dust Immortal Elder explained, "In any case, your safety is something that the entire Human Race must guarantee. In fact, when your master accepted you as his disciple, I was watching from less than a hundred meters away."