"I understand." Zhao Xing nodded. "You don't need to worry about this matter."

"Alright."

Ending the communication, Zhao Xing's gaze involuntarily turned cold. Another matter demanding his attention, it's happening too frequently!

"If I didn't have the Illusion Tree now, didn't know Du Yun and Lu Yuehan, had less money, any trivial thing could exhaust much of my energy in dealing with the Yuanhai Ancient Country."

"However, now I can solve it with just a bit of money, but I can't go into the territory of the Yuanhai Ancient Country yet."

Zhao Xing was extremely ruthless, without considering whether things would worsen.

Even if a crisis of life and death from Cloud Sky Dao arrived instantly, he did not plan to rescue it.

Because he is now the player, not the pawn, he must follow his own steps.

As long as he lives, everything is possible, and there are opportunities for recovery.

If he is dead, everything is void, and nothing can be saved!

"Kill, kill, kill, no one can disrupt my will!" In the underground space, Zhao Xing's eyes appeared with blood-colored blades, and above him floated the Time Page, while on the left stood Qing Yu Zi wielding an ancient sword.

Qing Yu Zi's eerie aura intensified, Zhao Xing suddenly turned his head, whispering harshly: "Old Qing, don't rush me! I know what I'm doing!"

Qing Yu Zi: "..."

...

"Without flaw in the Dharma arises craving, which is the desire for good Dharma."

"Within the heart of desire lies good Dharma desire, and also evil Dharma desire."

"Craving for worldly Dharma is a cause for reincarnation, also a cause for downfall, and the Reincarnation True Spirit will be weakened because of it."

"The second is the righteous Dharma I propagate, as the desire for good Dharma can avoid the calamity of reincarnation."

Within the Red Star Empire, in the Squabbling God Star System, inside a Sun Star. Stood a majestic, naked giant, radiating golden light.

His name is Meng Wu, a Reincarnation Realm in the Red Star Empire, and also the Prison Chief of the empire's maximum-security prison.

On his right hand, there was a quaint, black-bottomed star-patterned ring, known as [Erliang Slope], reputed to imprison even those in Reincarnation Realm!

At this moment, Meng Wu's consciousness entered the ring and was in a private room, listening to a bald man's conversation.

The bald man named Wu Tian, only in the Tao Domain Realm, yet Meng Wu of the Reincarnation Realm was listening to Wu Tian's preaching, highly unusual.

"Wu Tian, your ability to deceive through demonic words is rather ordinary." Meng Wu chuckled lightly: "I don't think you are right, nor do I have any intention of letting you go."

The bald man was charismatic and slightly smiled: "Brother Meng, do you still remember how you reacted when you first met me? Dismissive, disdainful."

"Now you can sit down and talk with me over matters from hundreds of years ago."

Meng Wu said indifferently: "I'm just bored."

"From nothing comes something, there is a second time once there's a first." Wu Tian smiled.

Meng Wu did not refute but turned to another matter: "Can you still control the demonic presence within you? If not, speak up soon, I don't want you to die by my hands."

"It's just a minor issue."

"I have guests, let's chat here for now." Meng Wu stood up, consciousness returned to his body, and the figure on the Sun Star opened its eyes.

Outside the star appeared another martial artist in the Tao Domain Realm, Meng Wu's great-grandson, Meng Ye.

"Great-grandfather, recently I encountered something strange." Meng Ye said, "Someone threw a message towards my residence, saying there's something for you."

Meng Wu listened quietly.

"I investigated it, but couldn't find out who did it, just suspected it was delivered by someone from the Shadow Temple."

"What did the message say?" Meng Wu asked casually.

"I can't understand it." Meng Ye shook his head, "but fearing it might affect your important affairs, I came to deliver the message."

"Hand it over."

"Yes."

Meng Wu took a look at it, and a trace of surprise flashed across his eyes.

The message contained a series of patterns and codes, which began to burn once opened.

"Huh? 'Bone Fire Text'?"

"Wasn't the Fire Seed Small World destroyed twenty epochs ago?"

He once reincarnated into the Fire Seed Small World, and it was there that his golden body underwent another transformation.

"Only I know that place, how could it be connected to the Shadow Temple?" Meng Wu reminisced, and at the same time had a hint of doubt.

However, he subconsciously began to stroke the patterns above, starting to move various symbols.

A moment later, the patterns became orderly, and then a flame reflected in Meng Wu's eyes.

In that raging flame, there was a simple, large sword, and the patterns on the sword gathered into the form of a Void Ancestor Golden Body.

"Huh? Could this be..." Meng Wu frowned.

Before he could examine closely, the large sword vanished, followed by the flame forming a line of words:

[Old friend, if you wish to obtain the Void Ancestor relic, come to the Yuanhai Ancient Country to see me—Emperor Tianning]

"Old friend? Emperor Tianning?" Meng Wu was stunned, "Do I have a friend reincarnated in the Yuanhai Ancient Country? I wasn't aware."

Meng Wu fell into contemplation.

...

Ancient Hill, Hongshan Continent.

The Hongshan Continent is merely five kilometers in radius, but its earth veins are incredibly strong, causing everything within thirty star regions to be absorbed, and even light disappears.

On this smooth, flat continent sat a white-haired elder dressed in an earthy yellow vestment robe.

"Emperor Hongshan, Emperor Hongshan!"

The ground suddenly split into a square, with small characters appearing horizontally and vertically above.

The characters seemed difficult to preserve, Emperor Hongshan gently flicked his finger, stabilizing the square ground, and the writing gradually became clear.

After reading the contents, Emperor Hongshan frowned, "Who is summoning me in such a manner? I clearly haven't given my Earth Communication Secret Technique to the seventeenth person."

'Earth Communication Secret Technique', is a method of communication through earth veins, it's a spell of the Geographical Advantage Sect Minister of Agriculture, not a rare spell.

Throughout the universe are Star Lands, Boundary Stars, moving seven Boundary Stars or seven Star Lands, and adjusting through seven earth veins enables long-distance communication.

The frequency of earth vein waves contains countless combinations, and Emperor Hongshan's private Earth Communication Seal was never given to the seventeenth person.

With Emperor Hongshan's ability to control earth veins, he could receive information from half of the Xuanling Star Domain and half of the Ancient Country.

If his private Earth Communication Seal were known, his mind would be bombarded with countless messages daily! Normally, Emperor Hongshan also shut down most of the communication channels, leaving only a few private ones.

Unexpectedly, today he received a stranger's communication, and it was in a very private manner.

"Who leaked it? It shouldn't be, those old fellows wouldn't joke with me like this..."

"The message was sent out thirty-nine years ago, initially from the Yuanhai Ancient Country? Hmm, it must have been sent from a piece of encircling land."

Emperor Hongshan thought for a moment, began verifying with the other fourteen people who knew about his private Earth Communication Seal, while the other two were in reincarnation.

Finally, the responses from the fourteen confirmed they hadn't contacted him.

"Could this Emperor Tianning be one of those two friends of mine? But why use the alias Emperor Tianning?"

"Could it be fear of being found by enemies?"

Emperor Hongshan pondered deeply but couldn't figure it out.

"Fine, the Yuanhai Ancient Country is holding a conference, I've been in seclusion long enough, let's join the excitement and see who this Emperor Tianning really is."