Are these people... still alive in this world? Xiao Hua wondered. After all... nearly a thousand years have passed!
The more he thought about it, the more restless Xiao Hua became. He simply sent his mind into the Yin aspect of space again. By now, the Yin aspect of space had begun to take shape, just like its Yang aspect. Beneath Shenhua Continent, the Netherworld Blood Sea surged in towering waves, while the Nether Fruit Tree had transformed into something like a continent, blanketing vast stretches of the blood sea. Countless Nether beasts had gradually come into being. Beneath the other spaces, corresponding blood seas flowed as well, and even more branches of the Nether Fruit Tree stretched into them! However, barriers resembling the walls between realms had formed among the Yin aspects of these different spaces, separating them from one another.
Xiao Hua had no mind to inspect this dark Netherworld any further. His figure descended onto the most unusual little island within the blood sea. The Netherworld Lotus was still the same Netherworld Lotus, but the aura within its lotus leaves had grown ever more profound. That aura seemed connected to the entire Yin aspect of space. The flickering of the Netherworld Lotus was like the breathing of the Yin aspect of space itself; with each flash of light and darkness, the entire space trembled! Guarding the Netherworld Lotus was still that ancient, unmoving stone statue. It looked no different from last time, its tiny nose and tiny eyes bearing an uncanny resemblance to the Zhang Xiaohua Xiao Hua had transformed into.
"Xue Xue..." Jade Slip Xiao Hua murmured as he looked at the Netherworld Lotus. "I am finally going back to Xiaoyu Continent..."
Yet after saying only that one sentence, Jade Slip Xiao Hua closed his mouth