My gorgeous wife Chapter 2184 - 2152: Vigilance

"...The road ahead is long and distant; Seeking the Dao is full of hardships, life is never easy. May all of you encourage and inspire one another, and may the Heaven Realm never fall."

After the meeting ended, Autumn Rain Heavenly Venerate, this veteran Ninth-Order Heavenly Venerate, gave a sermon. Many powerhouses of the Heaven Realm had experienced a great war in the Ancient Battle Realm and most had already gained quite a lot. After Autumn Rain Heavenly Venerate finished preaching, each of them left one after another with joyful expressions, taking their leave to begin Closed-door Cultivation.

Perhaps, after this period of seclusion, many of them would be able to break through their Realm, or at the very least, take their cultivation and strength one step further.

The cultivation improvement speed of powerhouses from the Borderland Realm was generally much faster than those from the Heaven Realm; this was also one of the most important reasons.

Climbing ever higher on the path of cultivation had always been the eternal, unchanging theme for these cultivators.

"Mad Celestial Sovereign, please step aside so we can have a talk. Regarding some matters from this meeting, I think we still need to discuss them further." At this moment, Autumn Rain Heavenly Venerate, having finished his sermon, called out to Li Changcun.

Of course, Autumn Rain Heavenly Venerate—old yet still firm, with outstanding strength and character—did not forget Daolan Heavenly Venerable standing to the side.

"General Dao Lan, you’re here as well. Based on your strength, you could have taken part in this meeting, but since the candidates had already been set, I can only say my apologies."

Daolan Heavenly Venerable shook his head and did not mind the title "General Dao Lan". After all, back in those years, he had indeed led the Heaven Realm’s great army as a general, slaughtering the troops of the Three Realms. This was not a jest, but a mark of honor.

"In terms of strength, I’m indeed far inferior to Brother Li. With him taking the field, he’s sure to become a great help to everyone. I’d rather not join in the fun and become a useless burden." Daolan Heavenly Venerable said with a cheerful smile.

"General Dao Lan, you’re being too modest." The usually taciturn Star Arrow Heavenly Master also shook his head at this moment.

"You all chat, I’ll take my leave first." Daolan Heavenly Venerable greeted the few of them.

"General Dao Lan, my apologies this time." Even Lin Yi spoke with a hint of apology.

Daolan Heavenly Venerable smiled and shook his head, indicating it wasn’t necessary, then turned and left.

Leaving the tower that had been designated as the Zero-Time discussion point, Daolan Heavenly Venerable walked along the road, his thoughts somewhat drifting.

Back then, when Lin Yi had not yet become King Yilin and was just a simple disciple under Daiyu Heavenly Venerable, many people had already come to propose marriage, but in the end, all were turned away.

Although the Great Fool Heavenly Palace of the Borderland Realm claimed this was King Yilin’s own decision, in the eyes of others, this seemed also to be Daiyu Heavenly Venerable’s intention.

Back then, King Yilin had even publicly declared herself already married, having long since taken a partner.

At that time, most people thought this was just King Yilin’s way of politely declining.

But after hearing Li Changcun’s words today, Daolan Heavenly Venerable found it increasingly odd the more he thought about it.

King Yilin’s background was very clean; she had been brought back by Daiyu Heavenly Venerable from a Heavenly King who was no longer in the Borderland Realm, Wuhua Heavenly King.

Moreover, it was said that before that, King Yilin had been found by Wuhua Heavenly King in a dilapidated Minor Sect on a Low-Level Star Continent.

And Mad Celestial Sovereign also knew that when he first underwent Ascension, he had appeared on a Low-Level Star Continent with extremely scarce Spiritual Energy.

He had even been to that place once, and had fought a battle there.

It seemed to be called... Earth Prison Star Continent.

"Could there really be a connection?" Daolan Heavenly Venerable scratched his head, let out a somewhat speechless sigh, then strode off.

...

"I imagine you’re all more or less aware of the contents of this meeting." Lin Yi looked calmly at the few people beside him and said, "Aside from the Three Realms, we now face an even stronger enemy. Or rather, a common enemy of our Four Realms."

The faces of the other four Heavenly Venerables present all turned heavy.

"When these souls lack flesh, they aren’t exactly that powerful, but they’re extremely troublesome, and exceedingly hard to annihilate. As long as they don’t take the initiative to reveal themselves, even a Heavenly Venerate finds it hard to sense their existence. And once they erode you and enter your body, it becomes even harder..." Lin Yi said slowly.

They certainly knew about this matter. It was said that once your body was eroded, that cultivator was essentially beyond saving.

"If this were just a small-scale incident, we wouldn’t be making such a fuss. The main issue is that this time the situation is far too serious; even the other Three Realms have been forced to take it seriously." Autumn Rain Heavenly Venerate sighed.

"Purple Luo Heavenly Venerable has clearly already been eroded. For our Heaven Realm, losing a Ninth-Order Heavenly Venerate is a tremendous loss." Star Arrow Heavenly Master said in a deep voice. "However, fortunately the other Three Realms have likewise each lost a Ninth Order Expert."

"You call that fortunate?" Mad Celestial Sovereign shot Star Arrow Heavenly Master a glance, showing not the slightest fear just because the other was a Ninth-Order Heavenly Venerate, and said irritably, "Each of our Four Realms has lost a Ninth Order Expert—that means these monsters have suddenly gained four such powerhouses."

"All right, let’s put this aside for now." Lin Yi waved his hand, indicating they should skip this topic for the moment; he didn’t want internal strife breaking out now. He then turned to look at Lingfeng Heavenly Sovereign.

"Lingfeng Heavenly Sovereign, Heavenly Venerable Qinglong has already sent me a message. It’s said that the opening of the Four Emperors Territory this time was discovered by you. I wonder, did you gain anything within the Four Emperors Territory?"

"There were indeed some gains." Lingfeng Heavenly Sovereign pondered for a moment, then nodded. "Because we were the first to discover the Four Emperors Territory, our people were also the first to enter. Though we did not obtain the Four Emperors’ inheritance, we did gain some scattered inheritances, which seemed to be items the Four Emperors collected back then."

"However, this time, a Little Secret Realm appeared beside the Four Emperors Territory. I don’t know exactly what that Little Secret Realm is, but I vaguely feel it’s also not simple. Perhaps there is a Palm Realm Powerhouse’s inheritance within. Some who didn’t enter the Four Emperors Territory went to that Little Secret Realm instead and also gained quite a bit."

Lin Yi nodded. Netherworld had gone to that Little Secret Realm, and upon returning had immediately reported to her. Within that Little Secret Realm, she had obtained quite a few good things.

"Before the Four Emperors Territory vanished, something seemed to have happened, which led to the territory disappearing ahead of schedule." At this point, Lingfeng Heavenly Sovereign couldn’t help focusing his mind and said, "What’s strange is that the Four Emperors Territory and the Little Secret Realm expelled everyone almost at the same Time, then erupted with many beams of light before disappearing."

"Beams of light?" Lin Yi asked.

"Mm." Lingfeng Heavenly Sovereign nodded. "We suspect those beams of light were powerful inheritances. Many people have already gone after those lights; we don’t know how many of our Heaven Realm powerhouses will eventually obtain them."

Lin Yi nodded, just about to speak when the several Heavenly Venerables suddenly turned their heads to look outside.

Among them, the fastest to react was Li Changcun!

The seemingly clumsy Great Sword at his feet was hurled toward the outside at the very first instant.

"Ah!!" A shrill scream came from outside.