"Xiao Yan, I'm so bored!"
"If you're bored, then cultivate properly!" Xiao Yan said to Zi Yan, who was listlessly sitting beside him.
"It's all that old man's fault! Ever since you met him, you've been possessed or something. You're either cultivating or refining pills! Xun'er isn't here either. It's so boring!"
Xiao Yan, who was refining medicine before the pill furnace, smiled faintly at that. The old man Zi Yan spoke of was naturally Void Heavenly Emperor's Di Nian.
Void Heavenly Emperor had earned the title "Void" because, before becoming an emperor, he had been deeply connected to the Ancient Void Dragon clan. That was why he had ultimately used the character "Void" in his imperial title. However, after Di Nian met Zi Yan, he had put her into slumber and had not awakened her since.
Di Nian's explanation was that Zi Yan had already received everything most suitable for her within the Ten Thousand Beasts Space. She had her own path to walk, and even Void Heavenly Emperor's Di Nian should not interfere too much.
Yao Lao had also placed numerous medicinal-refining materials and jade slips into the ring, lest Xiao Yan take detours on his future path of pill refinement.
Yao Lao had wanted to give him the Bone Chilling Flame, but Di Nian refused. His reason was that Xiao Yan did not yet have the strength to absorb so many Heavenly Flames at once.
A day after leaving the core of the Ten Thousand Beasts Space, Zi Yan woke up again. Afterward, Xiao Yan and Zi Yan resumed their journey home.
Xiao Yan still remembered that Hai Bodong had a fragmentary map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. He had long promised to refine a Misfortune-Breaking Pill for him, but after subduing the Crimson Lotus Karma