Senior and Junior Brothers

"Then get me some more of that tree sap I drank just now, and I won't tell my master!" Luo Yunji sat on the bed, kicked off his shoes, and looked at Zhou Xingyun, waiting for his answer.

"All right! I'll give it to you when you wake up!" Zhou Xingyun coaxed Luo Yunji as if he were a child who had yet to grow up.

"Mm-hmm!" Luo Yunji smiled happily, lay down on the bed, and before long began snoring softly.

Seeing this, Zhou Xingyun smiled and shook his head, then walked out and closed the door behind him.

In the open space at the center of the village, Zhou Xingyun was surrounded by several elders.

"Our divinations cannot be wrong! That must be the 'hope' revealed by the Heavenly Dao."

"The great calamity will appear again in this era. If it is left alone, this era may have no chance of survival."

"Your father also calculated the great calamity, which was why he severed your ties to the mortal world and sent you back!"

"I'd rather the one who came back was my father!" Zhou Xingyun sighed after hearing this.

"He has his own plans too! Your abilities are too weak to survive such a world-destroying calamity! If he let you stay, never mind that you would be doomed beyond redemption—the mortal world would also be destroyed in one stroke!"

"The Heavenly Dao has already done its utmost to maintain the world's cycles of life and death. If this great calamity cannot be overcome, even the Heavenly Dao will be unable to prevent the world's destruction!"

"I understand all that! If it weren't for the rule that only one person from our lineage may enter the world, I wouldn't have been thrown back here by my father." Zhou