"How do you feel, Huang’er?" An Yufei and Zhu Quezi asked this question as soon as Nu Huang opened his eyes.

Nu Huang exhaled softly. "The soul challenge is more difficult than the body challenge, and I almost failed my first challenge, so I’m not sure if I can complete all of them to go to the third floor."

"Hehehe," Zhu Quezi embraced him. "You don’t need to push yourself, Huang’er. This is your first time challenging this tower, but you’ve already reached the second floor, so that’s already excellent. The first time I challenged this tower, I had a hard time completing all the challenges on the first floor, and I had to wait several years to get through them, so you should be proud of yourself and never give up."

"Quezi is right, Huang’er," An Yufei softly said. "This is your first time challenging this tower, and you’ve worked hard to reach the second floor. Not many cultivators at your level can do it, so you should be proud of yourself, and you just need to work harder to improve yourself."

"I know." Nu Huang pulled them closer and kissed them in turn. "I will never give up, and I will work hard to improve myself. If I fail to reach the third floor this time, I will challenge the tower again in a year."

Yue Lian informed them directly. "Our master has already left the tower, and he is on his way to the Falling Star Ocean with the others now."

"Eh? Has my father completed all the challenges? Why did he go to that domain?"

Yue Lian informed Nu Huang about Ling Yun’s message to her and the other female beasts, which shocked An Yufei and Zhu Quezi.

"I never knew that Shangguan Qinglan was a female spirit." An Yufei muttered in a daze.

"Me too." Zhu Quezi nodded. "Why did Ling Yun go with Shangguan Qinglan to that domain?"

"Our master wants to bring all the spirit race members in that domain to the Forgotten Starfall Domain because Zhu Ling is there. You two may not know it yet, but he is the current Spirit Emperor." Cai Hong explained to them.

An Yufei and Zhu Quezi were slightly surprised after hearing Cai Hong’s explanation. Although they already knew that there were many members of the natural races in the Forgotten Starfall Domain, they had never met the people there, and they spent their time with Nu Huang inside the Celestial Fortress.

"That’s great, right?" Nu Huang clasped his hands together. "If my father brings them to our domain, the number of members of the natural races there will increase greatly. I hope he will also bring more members of the elf race, especially since my race has fewer members than the others."

Huo Yan shook her head and spoke to him. "Huang’er, the elf race is different from the spirit race, which only has one spirit emperor. Each group of the elf race has its own king or queen, so they will never be able to mingle with the people of our domain. If my master brings some of their groups into our domain, they will cause trouble there, and the peaceful situation will be disrupted as they seek dominance."

"Oh." Nu Huang nodded slightly. "Even so, my father should be able to subdue them, right?"

Ying Huanli answered him directly. "You’re not wrong, Huang’er. My master can subdue them, but they will never truly obey him because he is an outsider, and they might hold grudges against him."

"Sigh! If that’s the case, I must cultivate harder and become much stronger than them, and I will unite all the elf races in the future." Nu Huang’s answer stunned them. "I’m still weak now, but I won’t be this weak forever. My father is the heir of the primordial chaos dragon; my mother and my grandmother are the former elf queens, so I won’t let them down."

An Yufei and Nu Quezi were delighted to hear Nu Huang say that. "Don’t worry, Huang’er. The two of us will help you improve yourself, and we will also help you achieve your dreams in the future."

Not long after, Ling Yun’s other children had completed their first soul challenge, and they rested for some time before moving on to their second challenges.

Meanwhile, Xin Xinghe and the others didn’t experience any significant difficulties in their challenges because everything was no different from the past, and they had already completed them all.

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A month passed quickly, and Peng Tianlei shot out from within the void after Zhou Yu opened the exit.

"There." Shangguan Qinglan pointed to the west. "There aren’t many natural races here, and my spirit race lives in that area, so we should go there now. However, I don’t know if we can convince them on our own, so I think you should bring the spirit emperor here, and they will definitely listen to him."

"Humph! They’re fools if they don’t believe us," Lei Lin said with a snort.

Ling Xi nodded slightly. "Even without Zhu Ling, I’m sure we can convince them to move out of this domain, and they can help the others accelerate development in our domain."

"Let’s go there now," Zhou Yu said.

Peng Tianlei immediately flew toward that location, and Ling Yun looked at the map to check the domain’s inhabitants. To his surprise, the majority of the domain’s inhabitants were weaker than those in other domains, and he found only a few cultivators who had reached the Three Immortal Realms, including members of the spirit race.

A few minutes later, Peng Tianlei landed in front of the forest and returned to his human form. Shangguan Qinglan immediately led them into the forest, which was filled with numerous formations, specifically designed to prevent the domain’s inhabitants from disturbing the lives of the spirit race members.

Once they arrived at the final location, Shangguan Qinglan took out an item and activated it, and a portal appeared in front of them. "Let’s go in."

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As they exited the portal, they arrived in a subspace that was almost identical to the spirit subspace in the Sea Flower Realm.

"Stop!" A male spirit stopped them immediately. "Eh? Why are you suddenly back here, Qinglan? Didn’t you enjoy your time with those humans?"

Shangguan Qinglan sighed softly. "I’ve never liked being among humans, Li Yuan. However, I have no other choice because I have to find cultivation resources, which are increasingly scarce in this domain."

"I see." Li Yuan looked at Ling Yun and the others before frowning. "Who are they? Why did you bring a human and a female beast into our forest?"

"Hey! Ling Yun is our husband!" Li Yuan was taken aback when Lei Lin said that. "I am the lightning spirit, and my two sisters are the void spirit and the lust spirit!"

"What... what...?" Li Yuan stuttered as he looked at Ling Xi and Zhou Yu. "Are... are you two really the void spirit and the lust spirit?"

"I am." Pink hearts appeared in Li Yuan’s eyes for a brief moment before disappearing again. "My name is Luxuria, but I prefer my current name, Ling Xi, because it was given to me by my husband."

"Hehe," Zhou Yu chuckled, seeing Li Yuan shaking his head vigorously. "Ling Yun is our husband, and he is our emperor’s good friend."

"Emperor?" Li Yuan’s eyes widened as he was shocked again. "You mean... you mean the Spirit Emperor?"

"Are there other emperors in our race besides the spirit emperor?" Zhou Yu playfully asked.

Li Yuan turned to Shangguan Qinglan. "I’ve met the Spirit Emperor myself, and he lived in the Forgotten Starfall Domain, so I came back here to inform our leader about him. The current Spirit Emperor is still weaker than us because he was born in the upper realm, but his status is much higher than ours, so I’m thinking of bringing our members to move to that domain."

Li Yuan didn’t refute Shangguan Qinglan because he and the others had long awaited the appearance of the Spirit Emperor, but he still had doubts about Ling Yun and Zhu Ling’s relationship. After all, the ancient rules of their race never allowed their members to marry members of other races, especially humans, but the three female spirits in front of him had married a human.

"Hey! Bring us to your leader now!"

Li Yuan came back to his senses as Lei Lin shouted at him. "I can’t—"

"Just bring us to your leader." Li Yuan trembled as Ling Yun released his chaos dragon aura. "I don’t have much time to waste, so take us to see your leader now."

Ling Xi shook her head and grabbed Ling Yun’s shoulder. "We don’t need to deal with a guard like him."

Zhou Yu and Lei Lin immediately followed Ling Xi and Ling Yun, while Peng Tianlei waited in front of the entrance portal.

Shangguan Qinglan sighed and spoke to him. "I know your thoughts, but Ling Yun is not an ordinary human, and he is the sole inheritor of the primordial chaos dragon. Even though his cultivation is still below us, he can defeat us easily."

"Huh?" Li Yuan was shocked to hear that, but Shangguan Qinglan hurriedly left him, following Ling Yun and the others. "Is that man really the sole heir of the primordial chaos dragon?"

"You think?" Li Yuan turned to Peng Tianlei. "My master is the old dragon’s true heir; otherwise, my sisters and I wouldn’t follow him."

Li Yuan gulped as Peng Tianlei released her aura, making him realize that she was truly powerful. ’Tch! I hope my leader won’t punish me for this!’