Spirit Realm, Final Chapter of This Volume

Spirit Realm, atop the highest Ninth Heaven...

Ancient aura flowed as stars filled the sky and revolved. There was no spring, summer, autumn, or winter—no time, no space.

A White-Bearded Man sat quietly upon a pristine white cushion, suspended within the starry sky, looking at the stubborn-faced girl before him.

"Grandfather, you needn't say any more. I know my responsibility, and I'll carry it out well. Don't worry!"

A glimmer shone in the girl's beautiful eyes as she let out a sigh.

"I know you'll do well, but..."

The old man sighed again. Rings of creation-and-destruction aura swirled around his outstretched palm. "I divined the heavenly secrets and had long foreseen that you would undergo tribulations upon entering the lower realm, but I never imagined it would be the most terrifying tribulation of love! What puzzles me is that I can divine the myriad heavens and calculate every matter clearly. Even your birth, your growth... I can calculate it all. Yet I cannot calculate anything about the man who caused your heart to lose its guard! I used to be able to trace a few faint clues, but a year ago, they suddenly vanished, as though this person should not exist in this world!"

The year he spoke of was precisely when Nie Yun had investigated the Nine Heavens Void Vine and his Main Dantian had advanced to its third form.

Hearing the old man's words, the girl pouted without saying a word. Yet her thoughts drifted to that boy. Every gesture he had made, every promise and action, still seemed to be before her eyes.

"He... should have reached the Dantian Acupoint Realm by now, right?"

Thinking of the youth's terrifying cultivation speed, she gave a soft snort inwardly.

When she had left, he had only just reached the