Back in the Immortal Realm, within the Great Luo Truth-Preserving Mystic Realm.
Only a little over nine hours had passed.
Yet on the Azure Moon Continent of the Merit Plane, more than nine thousand years had gone by.
When Mo Chen entered the Azure Moon Continent, everything before his eyes once again left him dumbfounded and deeply shocked.
"Holy shit! It's only been nine thousand years, and the Azure Moon Continent has changed beyond recognition again?"
The once technologically advanced Azure Moon Continent had undergone another tremendous transformation.
It had become ruins shrouded in the smoke of war.
On this continent of ruins, both humans and demonic beasts had nearly perished. Fewer than five hundred million people remained alive.
As for the demonic beasts that had originally inhabited this plane, they had all mutated into horrifying, ferocious forms, becoming exceptionally bloodthirsty and brutal.
Sweeping out with his divine sense, Mo Chen found Huang Tianyue, the Infernal Three-Headed Hound, and the other six divine beasts.
Each of them was unscathed, blending into humanity's underground fortresses, carrying out different jobs and pursuits while seeking to comprehend the meaning of merit within them.
"How is your comprehension of the Great Dao of Merit going?"
Mo Chen sent a divine-sense transmission, asking all six of them at once.
Upon hearing Mo Chen's divine-sense transmission, Huang Tianyue, the Infernal Three-Headed Hound, and the other six divine beasts all stopped their work, complicated expressions appearing on their faces.
"Mo Chen, you've finally returned!"
There was a trace of exhaustion in Huang Tianyue's voice, but even more joy.
She replied through divine sense, "Over these nine thousand years, we have been studying the Great Dao of Merit, but... the situation is far from optimistic."
The Infernal Three-Headed Hound also sighed and replied, "Master, the changes on the