Hearing Yaoyao's words and seeing her like this, Meng Chuan suddenly remembered something.
When he had first arrived in the Sacred Ruins era, he had used his Divine Sense to probe Earth, the entire Lesser Netherworld, the Broken Ancient Universe beyond it, and the Yang World.
His Divine Sense had even reached the Myriad Realms beyond the Yang World, including the Heavens.
During that search, Meng Chuan had discovered a few things in the Lesser Netherworld and the Broken Ancient Universe outside it.
Things connected to Yaoyao.
"Some of the people who were once on Earth are still alive," Meng Chuan told Yaoyao.
"I searched the entire universe and the Broken Ancient Universe, and found traces of some of them."
But Meng Chuan had only just arrived then, and their paths had yet to cross, so he had taken no action.
Later, he had stopped conducting such sweeping searches of the Myriad Worlds and put those discoveries out of his mind.
Given Meng Chuan's condition, how could he have kept thinking about them?
Now, though, he remembered.
"You mean Uncle Saint Master, don't you?" Yaoyao said. "I know he's still alive. He wouldn't die."
Yaoyao had faith in the Saint Master.
Of Earth's three former Giants, her father and the other Heaven-Reflecting One had drawn the enemy's fire even as they were surrounded.
Otherwise, the Saint Master could never have escaped.
The enemies at the Illuminating the Heavens level had targeted the two true Heaven-Reflecting Ones first. That had given the Saint Master his chance to fight his way out.
The price had been the deaths of both Heaven-Reflecting Ones under the siege.
For that reason alone, the Saint Master would not die. He could not.
"He's one of them." Meng Chuan nodded and waved a hand. A scene appeared,