An Alliance Sealed, Old Friends Bound for Distant Roads

At humanity's level of technology, even millions of years of flight would not have brought them to the Big Dipper. The distance was simply too vast.

Yet with the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin leading them, they had reached the Big Dipper in little more than a day. It had felt like a dream.

Now they had found the road home again. With a Quasi-Emperor among them, returning to Earth would take only a day or two.

"Earth!"

Ye Fan rushed over to look at the star his cousin pointed to. His eyes filled with longing and wonder. How were his father and mother?

He did not know how his old friends were doing, either. Twelve years had passed—an instant to cultivators, but an immeasurably long time to ordinary people.

That woman had probably married someone else long ago. Ye Fan did not mind. Back home, its culture and beliefs could hardly ask someone to spend a lifetime waiting for one person.

"Taiyin, Sun, Yinghuo, Venus..."

With Earth as his center, Pang Bo called out the names of star after star. He knew them intimately; they had lived beneath that sky for more than twenty years.

"This was the Starry Sky Ancient Road we took back then, following the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin!"

Jiang Yun traced a line with his finger from Earth to Yinghuo, then onward to the Big Dipper. A shining Star Road appeared. Though they had never stopped along the way, they had passed several planets.

"Cousin Jiang Yun, when are we going back to Earth?" Pang Bo asked expectantly.

"Are you coming back with us, cousin?"

Ye Fan turned to Jiang Yun. His cousin's ties to the Big Dipper ran far deeper than his own. The playboy from Earth was long gone; in his place