"What are the Female Emperor and the others doing?"
Meng Chuan turned to ask about the others in the Dao Realm. He had spent a long time in the world of A Chinese Ghost Story, and much time had passed in the Shrouding the Heavens World.
Wushi had even met Little Black the dog. In the original story, he had not met the Black Emperor until his later years.
"They've been in seclusion. The Female Emperor isn't far from her seventh life."
Wushi sounded impressed. She was worthy of being named by the Heavenly Emperor as the most brilliant talent since the Mythological Era.
In sheer talent, Wushi had to admit that he could not match the Female Emperor.
"The others—Yuanhua and his fellow Daoist Friends—are working hard. Entering a Forbidden Zone once took a heavy toll on them."
That was foreseeable and almost unavoidable. Entering a Forbidden Zone had nearly crippled them by their own hands. Though Meng Chuan had allowed them to live on with their Emperor's Daos at their peak, the effects of the past were not so easily erased.
Meng Chuan could do nothing about that either. It was a matter of heart and Dao. Only through their own arduous cultivation could they leave the past behind, step by step.
"Daoist Friend Ji and Daoist Friend Jiang, along with your two Attendants, are trying to break through the Heaven and Earth Suppression."
Wushi glanced at Meng Chuan as he said this. His eyes conveyed just one thing: This time, I didn't hold back.
"The Ancient One's Dao has almost completely dissipated, but mine and Daoist Friend Gu Cang's grow fiercer one after the other. With two emperors reigning beneath the same sky, attaining the Dao is far harder now than it was in my time."
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