[In the 2,014,239th year, the passage home had become even more unstable, so you were not as fast as on the way there. It took you four years to return to Qingming Hetong Heaven.]
[The moment you landed, you felt an indescribable surge of emotion: the relief of touching down safely, and the feeling of finally coming home. If you had not still needed to retrieve the Drunken Earth Dragon, you truly would not have wanted to undertake such an adventure again.
For during the return journey, the unstable passage could no longer continuously shield you from the desolate aura of the cosmic expanse as it had on the way there. With your already formidable perception, that aura almost wrapped you in layer upon layer like a cocoon. It was truly an experience that left one unable to breathe; one careless misstep, and you might have fallen into an unknown cosmic region.
Even if you had been fortunate enough to return to Qingming Hetong Heaven afterward, who knew how many years you would have needed to linger in the cosmic expanse? Perhaps the Plague Realm would already have arrived?]
[That same year, you did not rush back to Lingxiao Immortal City. Instead, you first went to the nearer Cold Abyss Snow City and took up residence in Luowang Palace.
By this time, Luowang Palace had already been rebuilt by the Snow Emperor years ago, connecting it to the Cold Abyss Imperial Palace so it could share the environment of its eighth-grade Immortal Vein.
Rebuilding Luowang Palace had also been the excuse the Snow Emperor used some time ago to ask you to come back and stay for a while. It seemed she could see that one reason you had remained in Lingxiao Immortal City was its superior cultivation environment.]
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