Chapter 463 309: Return to the Homeland

A nervous and on-edge Gua Gua was fully alert, its not-so-bright mind imagining the possible tactics of the young human race cultivator before it.

Over the past twenty years, it had been frightened out of its wits by human race cultivators, hiding and seeking refuge, living in constant fear.

All of this stemmed from the master who gave it new life and continuously helped it break its limits.

That day, when Li Jizhou died, a sliver of Divine Soul power left on Gua Gua dissipated, prompting Gua Gua to become instantly agitated and hastily put away the puppet, losing its Divine Soul control, and frantically rushed with Bai Yi towards the last place Li Jizhou's Divine Soul disappeared.

Before fully understanding the situation, it was suddenly hunted fiercely by human race cultivators.

Many times, it was forced into a desperate situation, with people trying to coerce information about Li Jizhou's past adventures.

It initially thought this human race cultivator before it would do the same, but the transmission left it momentarily stunned.

"Gua~" It cried out in surprise, hastily trying to sense Li Jizhou's aura carefully.

However, there was no familiar feeling at all.

Yet, this tone, the feeling of this transmission, was so uncannily familiar.

Seeing the surprised yet confused expression on Gua Gua's face, Li Jizhou chuckled happily and took out a small bottle from the Storage Ring, which he made when he had spare time during his three-year seclusion at the Dao Academy to familiarize himself with the pill and poison techniques of his past life.

After first meeting Gua Gua in his past life, he tested medicines on it, among them this toxic pill.

"Gua~" Gua Gua, upon smelling the familiar scent, its eyes widened and swiftly, its tongue rolled and swallowed the toxic pill.

Still the same familiar formula!

In its past life, this pill had led Gua Gua into a haze for quite some time, eventually triggering its illusory bloodline.

"Where is Xiaobai?" Without explaining much further, Li Jizhou casually removed the celestial net covering Gua Gua and continued to send messages to Gua Gua.

"Gua~" Hearing the word Xiaobai, Gua Gua became even more excited.

Could the person before it truly be the master?

Yet, the aura was ultimately different; Gua Gua remained slightly wary. Human race cultivators are deceitful, full of schemes and plots, not something that can be carelessly dismissed.

Feeling Gua Gua's continued vigilance, Li Jizhou smiled and shook his head, then turned towards the sable and said, "Let the golden cicada out."

Immediately, the six-winged golden cicada, with its rolling black eyes, hid behind the sable, warily gazing at Gua Gua.

"Gua Gua Gua~" At the sight of the six-winged golden cicada, Gua Gua became entirely excited, incessantly speaking to the six-winged golden cicada.

Li Jizhou, however, patted its head: "This is not Fat Bug; it's another one I met in Central State. Indeed, it looks identical. By the way, where is Fat Bug?"

"Toxic Pill, Xiaobai, Fat Bug…" With all the information coming together, Gua Gua's eyes widened completely,

A pair of eyes like luminous pearls fixed on Li Jizhou, staring and staring, there were tears flowing.

"Gua~" In the next moment, Gua Gua pounced in front of Li Jizhou, standing upright, holding Li Jizhou tightly with its short front limbs, as if scared he would disappear again.

The four women, who were already watching in confusion from the side, were even more shocked at this moment.

The young lord and this Tier Four Early Stage frog...

At this moment, even more shocked than them was Liu Hongling, who was observing this scene within the Dharma Realm.

This frog...

She and An Liuli were captured by the Cangming Dynasty and learned of the emergence of the quasi-immortal artifact of the Moon Worship Dynasty in Eastern Desolation. Subsequently, she also learned that Li Jizhou, a former acquaintance, was the one who had wielded that quasi-immortal artifact.

Afterward, she came to know about Li Jizhou's life and experiences through various channels, his life-bound Spirit Pet, and his past relationships...

With the name and being ambushed and designed by high-tier cultivators of the Shangguan family, how could she not guess that this frog was Li Jizhou's life-bound Spirit Pet?

Why would Li Jizhou's life-bound Spirit Pet be so close to the Seventh Prince of Jiuli Dynasty?

Why was the Seventh Prince of Jiuli Dynasty searching so persistently for this frog?

Why did the Seventh Prince of Jiuli Dynasty know about her and An Liuli's past?

In an instant, the scenes of knowing the Seventh Prince swiftly emerged...

Could it be, the Seventh Prince and Senior Li Jizhou...

In that moment, Liu Hongling's mind felt like thunder, lighting up the dark rainy night like broad daylight, making everything so clear.

In this realm of cultivation, secret skills and Divine Abilities are countless. Although Senior Li Jizhou had only reached the Late Stage of Core Formation before falling more than twenty years ago, logically he shouldn't have been able to form a Nascent Soul, could not perform Primordial Spirit Seizure, and at the time, had no possibility of Primordial Spirit Escape.

Yet, one cannot rule out the existence of some world-shocking skill.

Plus, the Seventh Prince's current age matches perfectly with the time Senior Li Jizhou perished back then.

Senior Li Jizhou had already made a name across Eastern Desolation, with a Lower-grade Spirit Root, a solitary Loose Cultivator of Inverted Mountain, without talent, background, or resources... yet, he grew little by little to an extent where major Sacred Land families of Eastern Desolation were shocked by his rise.

Regarding his life encounters, just in those few years within the Cangming Dynasty, Liu Hongling had already heard countless versions.

Even bringing the quasi-immortal artifact Guanghan Seal from the Moon Worship Dynasty, it's not impossible that he also obtained some secret skill enabling reincarnation.

Liu Hongling secretly swallowed hard, forcibly suppressing such a bold speculation, as it involved too much.

Needless to say, if the Cangming Dynasty were to find out, even at the cost of offending the Jiuli Dynasty, they would certainly seek to imprison and soul-search him.

No, not just the Cangming Dynasty, if indeed there is a reincarnation Divine Ability, even the Saint Emperor of Jiuli wouldn't hesitate to disregard familial ties for such secret skills and Divine Abilities.

The more she thought about it, the more terrified Liu Hongling became, unconsciously drenched in cold sweat all over her body.

Whether it's Senior Li Jizhou or His Highness the Seventh Prince, both were greatly benevolent to her.

At the same time, with Li Jizhou and Gua Gua's Divine Soul communication, he had already learned about Gua Gua's experiences over these twenty years.

The Gua Gua of today was utterly alone, with nothing left.

Not even the Hundred Treasures Bag from back then remained with it.

"You still have some wit." Patting Gua Gua's head, Li Jizhou felt at ease.

Twenty years ago, when Gua Gua carried all its trump cards to the Yan Kingdom to search for Li Jizhou, it was intercepted halfway.

Eventually, it hid within the Fire Domain of the Yan Kingdom,

However, by the Fourth Layer of the Fire Domain, the black Nether Flame was already beyond its ability to resist, but Bai Yi, being a Fire Spirit, protected Gua Gua with the Fire Spirit's essence, allowing it to progress step by step deeper within.

Until evading pursuit within the sixth layer's golden fire.

But Bai Yi's protection was ultimately limited, and Gua Gua could not endure it for long, worrying even more about stronger human race cultivators breaking in later.

Thus, Gua Gua used the Teleportation Talisman left by Li Jizhou to escape.

While Bai Yi remained in the Fire Domain with Gua Gua's Hundred Treasures Bag and Li Jizhou's relics inside.

The Fire Domain isolated Divine Sense, shielded divination. Especially the sixth layer of the Fire Domain was already the limit for Divinity Transformation, with the Fire of Infinity at the seventh layer not daring to linger long for Refining Void cultivators, yet Bai Yi, due to being an Innate Fire Spirit, was able to move freely in the eighth layer of the Fire Domain.

"In the eighth layer of the Fire Domain, probably only a Harmonization Dao Divine Venerable can enter, as for the ninth layer, none but a Tribulation Crossing Celestial Venerable can enter! The Qilin Immortality Pill should remain safe." Li Jizhou felt a profound sense of relief.

After comforting Gua Gua, Li Jizhou included it and the four women into the Dharma Realm. Since he already knew the whereabouts of the Qilin Immortality Pill, he could delay no longer.

He immediately set off for the Fire Domain of the Yan Kingdom.

At the same time, in the ancestral hall of the Shangguan family in the Central Domain of Eastern Desolation.

"The soul token shattered, dead with the soul vanished, even the Primordial Spirit didn't escape?"

"Who exactly dares to annihilate our Shangguan family elder so?"

"The last Divine Soul location was at the border of Black Water and the marsh, not within the marsh, it should not be the Ten Thousand Poison Sect nor Qianji City."

"Have we, the Shangguan family, been so forbearing that the world has forgotten we are descendants of an immortal-ascended bloodline, of an Immortal Ascended Race?"

In the end, a hint of fierceness appeared on the aged face of the ancestor of the Shangguan family, Shangguan Qingming: "Investigate immediately, make sure to uncover everything clearly."