The Shrouding the Heavens World.
Meng Chuan had been gone for thirty thousand years, and Wushi had been missing for twenty-six thousand.
The Emperors had long been worried. The Heavenly Emperor had traveled to another world thirty thousand years ago, only for his successor to disappear as well.
How could they face the Heavenly Emperor after this?
Fortunately, Wushi's Soul Lamp had never gone out. If anything, its flame had grown brighter over the years.
Little Black had kept watch over it, even moving beside Wushi's Soul Lamp to Cultivation.
By now, Little Black had reached the Emperor Pass. He was a dog who had achieved Alternative Dao Attainment.
Fortunately, he had hardly been active in the Dao Realm these past years. Otherwise, countless people would have shut themselves away in despair.
Boom!
All at once, the soul flame inside Wushi's Soul Lamp blazed up before Little Black, flooding the place with light. Little Black sprang to his feet in shock.
This kind of Soul Lamp was the Shrouding the Heavens World version, which Meng Chuan had created by adapting Cultivation methods.
"What happened?"
Little Black's eyes widened as he stared fixedly at Wushi's Soul Lamp.
Something like this had happened once before. Just after Wushi disappeared, the flame in the Soul Lamp had dimmed until it was on the verge of going out.
Little Black's heart had leaped into his throat as he watched.
Fortunately, the nearly invisible Soul Lamp had suddenly flared up again, burning just as it did now.
No—it was even brighter this time.
"Could the Great Emperor have..." A guess surfaced in Little Black's mind, filling him with joy.
He dashed out at once to tell the Emperors who were not in seclusion that Wushi's Soul Lamp had grown brighter again.
In the years since