Jiang Can smiled bitterly. "Young sect master, that little ancestor has been coming to the teleportation array every day for the past few days, asking when you'd be back.
"How would I know?
"So, as soon as I saw you'd returned, I hurried over to give you a warning."
"Huanhuan?"
"Yeah. Don't say your senior brother didn't warn you. Ying Huanhuan's face has looked more and more furious these past few days."
As Jiang Can spoke, he glanced around, worried that someone might suddenly pop up.
"It's fine. I'll soothe her."
Jiang Yinyin looked puzzled. "Senior Brother, who's this little ancestor?"
"Your second senior sister, Ying Huanhuan."
"She's the little ancestor here in the Dao Sect, but she's cheerful. You'll like her."
As Fang Yi explained, he used his Origin Energy to lift Jiang Lei and the other two. "It's close from here, so I'll take you the rest of the way. First, I'll take you to see Old Man Ying."
In an instant,
The four of them turned into a streak of five-colored light and flew into the distance. Within the five-colored light,
Jiang Lei, Jiang Xue, and Jiang Yinyin looked through the light and saw the endless mountain range outside.
Countless waterfalls cascaded down towering peaks, each thirty thousand feet high, making the place look like a fairyland. Vast buildings stretching as far as the eye could see were faintly visible atop those enormous mountains.
Just then,
A massive dome of light appeared before the three of them, descending from the sky like an overturned bowl, as though even day and night lay beneath it.
Within the dome stood hall after hall, each bearing an air of ancient vicissitude.
Under the sky within it, countless figures tore through the air. Looking down from above, they were as numerous as ants.
Fang Yi pointed at the massive dome and smiled. "That's the Dao Sect! From now on, this is where you'll live and cultivate."
Jiang Lei and Jiang Xue were too awestruck to speak. When people saw something magnificent beyond their comprehension, they could only be overwhelmed by its grandeur.
Even Jiang Yinyin's little mouth fell open. "It's... it's magnificent!"
"We're going in."
The streak of five-colored light shot straight into the dome. Several rainbow lights were about to fly over, but when they saw the five-colored light, they turned away.
Within the sect, that distinctive light was easily recognized as the young sect master's.
The five-colored light swept into the depths of the Dao Sect and finally landed on a secluded mountaintop where a bamboo house stood.
Outside the bamboo house, a middle-aged man who looked to be in his thirties stood speaking helplessly to a young woman dressed in red.
Suddenly,
The middle-aged man spotted the five-colored light, and the helpless look finally left his face. "See? Isn't he back now?"
When the young woman in red saw the light, she bit her lower lip. "Then I'm going to cultivate."
Just as Ying Huanhuan was about to turn and leave, not wanting to see that guy, a clear voice rang out.
"Old Man Ying, I brought you a great treasure!"
Ying Xuanzi froze. Wait, what?
It was one thing for the boy to go out without bringing gifts back for Huanhuan and Xiaoxiao, but he had brought a great treasure for him?
Ying Huanhuan raised her brows. It was bad enough that he had left without telling her, but he hadn't brought her a gift when he came back, either?
The Origin Energy she had stirred up subsided. She wanted to see just what great treasure Fang Yi had brought Ying Xuanzi.
She was curious. It wasn't that she wanted to see Fang Yi.
She quietly withdrew behind Ying Xuanzi.
The five-colored light descended, revealing Fang Yi and the Jiang family.
Ying Xuanzi looked first at Jiang Lei, since they appeared to be about the same age.
But he was too weak.
Could Fang Yi have found his father?
Ying Huanhuan, meanwhile, looked first at Jiang Xue. She was tall, and her slightly tight clothes showed off every curve of her shapely figure. Her face was quite pretty, too.
Though she couldn't compare with Ying Huanhuan and her sister, she was still a beauty.
He had gone out and brought a woman back, and he even called her a great treasure?
Could he have brought back a wife?
That guy!
Ying Huanhuan gnashed her teeth in resentment. Ling Qingzhu, that pretentious snob, didn't agree, so you just found some woman out there?
"Hey, are you my master?"
Jiang Yinyin looked at the middle-aged man before her, who appeared to be in his thirties or forties. He wore a loose white cloth robe and black cloth shoes.
His bearing seemed much like her senior brother's.
"Huh? Master?"
Even though Ying Xuanzi was a Samsara Stage expert, he was utterly baffled. When had he acquired another disciple?
"This is your new disciple, my junior sister."
Fang Yi smiled, then added, "This is the great treasure I told you about."
"Huh?"
"Huh?"
Ying Huanhuan couldn't help voicing her confusion too.
Ying Xuanzi looked puzzled. That wasn't right. He hadn't taken on a disciple, nor had he left one outside the sect.
"I accepted her as a disciple on my master's behalf."
Fang Yi's words left Ying Xuanzi even more baffled.
Wait, isn't that usually done when the master has died, and someone thinks they aren't worthy of being a master themselves, so they accept a disciple on their master's behalf?
He was still alive, so how had Fang Yi ended up accepting a disciple on his behalf?
Ying Xuanzi was just about to ask when his gaze suddenly sharpened. Fang Yi had already sent him a voice transmission explaining the whole story, stirring up stormy waves in his heart.
The reincarnation of the Lord of Life and Death?
Jiang Lei had only heard the legends, but Ying Xuanzi truly knew what a great figure the Lord of Life and Death was.
Though he had not reached the Reincarnation Stage, he was the Dao Sect's sect master and knew a great deal.
The Eight Ancient Masters had once fought a great war against the Yimo to protect heaven and earth, and in the end, all of them had entered reincarnation.
There were also rumors that had been passed down.
That great war had never truly ended. The Yimo still lurked in the shadows, ready to unleash another calamity at any moment.
"You brat, you've brought me a difficult problem!"
Ying Xuanzi rubbed his brow. He knew more clearly than most that many factions were secretly searching for these beings.
Especially in the Chaotic Demon Sea.
The Dao Sect was indeed a colossus in the Eastern Xuan Region, second only to the Yuan Sect, but in the Chaotic Demon Sea, it would be second-tier at best.
The first tier consisted of factions with Reincarnation Stage experts.
The descendants of the Lord of Life and Death, the Immortal Sacred Whale Clan, were among those first-tier powers-and were even the foremost race among the sea clans.
"This is both a crisis and an opportunity, old man. The Yuan Sect's threat is right in front of us. They haven't made a move yet, but once I reach the Life Profound Realm, that might not still be the case."
Fang Yi shook his head inwardly. His adoptive father had a good temperament and understood the bigger picture, but he understood it all too well.
Back then, Senior Brother Zhou Tong had stormed the Yuan Sect, and there had clearly been more to it. Yet when Ying Xuanzi went to demand justice, he had been forced to retreat.
He was too softhearted, believing that a war with the Yuan Sect would be too cruel to the Dao Sect's disciples.
But it was precisely this slow boiling of the frog that had allowed the Yuan Sect to grow so rampant.
The Dao Sect couldn't face the Yuan Sect alone, but what if the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace joined them?
As for how to join forces with the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace, he already had a way.
For example, a more advanced Supreme Induction Art.
And if they added the Undying Holy Whale Clan as well,
Even though the Immortal Sacred Whales were far away, where the heavens were high and the emperor was distant, sending a Samsara Stage expert to protect Jiang Yinyin shouldn't be a problem.
Then, with three against three, would they still need to worry about the Yuan Sect?
By then, it would be the Yuan Sect's turn to worry about him growing too strong too quickly!