They had agreed to stay for only ten days!
Seeing Shi Hao and Huo Ling'er leave together, a pair of lovebirds taking flight, Xiao Tian was genuinely happy.
The Desolate Heaven Emperor stood alone against the ages, yet failed only the mulberry-picking girl of Sin Province.
As a transmigrator, he was delighted to see this scene. Even if the future Desolate truly could see it, surely he would be loath to change it!
Without Xiao Tian's arrival, he and Huo Ling'er could never have been like this, going everywhere together, facing mighty foes side by side, and depending on each other in life and death.
Huo Ling'er was now at the Sacred Sacrifice stage. Perhaps her opportunity to break through still lay in the Fire Kingdom. Some of its secrets had remained untouched when they left. Now that Huo Ling'er had returned, perhaps this was her destined opportunity to become a Heavenly God.
As for Xiao Tian, he brought the War Goddess and Di Yao back to the Lower Realm. The War Goddess was anxious to see her grandfather, so Xiao Tian graciously accompanied her to the Deer-Chasing Academy first.
At the Deer-Chasing Academy, the three walked through a pine forest threaded by a clear stream. Smooth pebbles lined the water, and fish brimming with spiritual vitality swam to and fro. Listening to the burbling current gave them a peaceful sense of coming home.
An absence of seven or eight years was hardly anything to Yu Fengxiang. After all, he was a peak Venerable with a lifespan of ten thousand years. At just over eight hundred, he was still very young, roughly the same age as the Fire Emperor. Both had been Lower Realm prodigies who entered the Hundred Broken Mountains Range eight hundred years ago and emerged alive.
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