Chapter 321: Earth Bullied

The Deity, Xuan Mo, ran through the events of the past twenty years in his mind.

’Also, Dilunxi, Long Zhan, and Mute have all passed the sixth step, showing considerable potential. They’re not the least bit weaker than the previous top-ranked geniuses. The other geniuses have also made huge progress.’

’Though they’re far from being on the level of Mixed Void and Lan Yu, their performance has been quite good...’

Xuan Mo sighed. Mixed Void, Li Yang, and Lan Yu—these three peerless geniuses. Mixed Void had already left the Human Race’s Eternal Saint Hall seventeen years ago, and Lan Yu could now last for four minutes in the space of the tenth step.

As for Li Yang, he had fallen twenty years ago. At the time of his death, his strength was just enough to pass the ninth step.

’If Li Yang hadn’t died, he might have even passed the tenth step by now, right?’

Xuan Mo thought to himself.

Based on the rate of progress Li Yang had shown, after Mixed Void left, he was the strongest among the Longevity Realm geniuses in the Saint Hall.

Just as he was sighing with emotion, Xuan Mo suddenly looked at the Compass.

"Hm?"

His expression changed slightly. On the Compass, a point of light had appeared out of thin air, and the Compass was sensing it once more.

"This is... Li Yang’s Token light point?"

Staring at the point of light, Xuan Mo was stunned for a moment, as if he couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

"How is this possible? Once a Token’s light point disappears, it has never reappeared. What’s going on?" Xuan Mo was dumbfounded. In all his long life, he had never encountered a situation like this.

However, he was only stunned for a moment before immediately sending out a message.

WHOOSH!

His figure flickered and shot directly into the Lingyue World!

...

"I’m out."

The scenery before him changed in an instant, and an ancient, boundless sky appeared.

"ROAR!"

Here, there were a dozen or so beasts, all at the peak of the Star Lord Realm!

They saw Li Yang appear out of thin air and instantly let out a roar, lunging toward him.

Twenty years ago, Li Yang’s strength was unrivaled in the Star Lord Realm, several times stronger than a peak Star Lord Realm cultivator. Faced with these beasts back then, Li Yang would have had to take them seriously.

But now, with just a glance at the beasts, Li Yang waved his right hand.

Instantly, beams of light shot out, each striking one of the dozen or so beasts. Before they could even react, their bodies plummeted from the sky.

An instant kill!

Against Li Yang, these beasts were killed instantly, utterly powerless to resist.

Not sparing the beasts another glance, Li Yang thought to himself, ’First, I’ll leave this place and go see my family and my teacher.’

Inside the Lingyue World, one’s consciousness couldn’t enter the Virtual World; you had to leave first.

At this moment, Li Yang had no intention of continuing to train here. He just wanted to leave as quickly as possible.

He had been moving for less than a minute when...

BOOM!

In the distance, a figure flew over at high speed, making no effort to conceal its powerful aura.

Li Yang felt it from far away, and his expression changed.

"A Divine Realm expert?"

Even now, if he encountered a Deity, he would still flee without hesitation.

"Li Yang, it’s a Deity from your Human Race."

Just as he was about to flee, Soul Ink’s voice suddenly sounded in his ear.

Hearing this, Li Yang stopped.

Because of his urgency, Xuan Mo had unleashed his full power to rush over.

It would have taken Li Yang about ten days to reach this location, but for a Four-Element Deity, whose power was countless times greater than Li Yang’s, the journey had taken less than a minute.

When Xuan Mo arrived and saw Li Yang, an expression of immense joy and surprise appeared on his face.

"Li Yang, you’re really not dead?"

With a flicker, his figure appeared right beside Li Yang.

"Uh..."

Hearing this, Li Yang was taken aback.

’I died?’

’My Token is still intact. Since the Token exists, my light point should still be there. The outside world should know I’m alive. How could I be dead?’

Seeing Li Yang’s stunned expression, Xuan Mo instantly understood that Li Yang probably had no idea about his own situation.

"Li Yang, let’s go outside first, and then we’ll talk."

He waved his right hand, and taking Li Yang with him, flew quickly toward the entrance.

In less than a minute, Li Yang arrived at the entrance to the Lingyue World.

As soon as he was out, Li Yang’s virtual assistant, Number Six, appeared and said hurriedly, "Master, Master, you’ve received many messages, from your teacher, from your family..."

At this point, Li Yang couldn’t help but ask, "Lord Xuan Mo, what... what exactly is going on?"

Xuan Mo smiled and said, "First, enter the Virtual World and talk to your teacher. Then log out, and I’ll explain everything in detail. Because of you, your teacher has entered the Lingyue World dozens of times over the past twenty years."

"My teacher entered the Lingyue World dozens of times?" Li Yang was stunned again.

Though confused, his consciousness immediately entered the Virtual World to meet Sect Master Blade Slaughter.

"Teacher," Li Yang said respectfully, looking at Sect Master Blade Slaughter.

"Haha, Li Yang! I knew you were alright!"

Sect Master Blade Slaughter laughed heartily, his eyes filled with joy as he looked at Li Yang.

Before, he had simply refused to believe that his disciple had died so easily. After all, Li Yang had so many trump cards!

He had numerous life-saving measures; even the Deities in the Lingyue World would have found it difficult to kill Li Yang. That was why he had always been convinced Li Yang wasn’t dead, even going so far as to search the Lingyue World for him periodically.

"Don’t leave the entrance to the Lingyue World. I’ll be there shortly," said Sect Master Blade Slaughter.

Overjoyed that his disciple was alive, he was actually planning to come in person.

Soon, Li Yang logged out of the Virtual World, and the Deity Xuan Mo finally explained the situation to him.

"What? The light point representing my Identity Token disappeared? So the Saint Hall assumed I died in the Lingyue World?"

Hearing this news, Li Yang’s expression changed drastically.

His thoughts immediately flew to Earth.

’On all of Earth, everyone besides him was incredibly weak. If the news of his "death" spread, what would become of Earth?’

A sense of extreme urgency gripped Li Yang.

’I hope nothing has happened.’

He had many enemies, and they were not from insignificant backgrounds.

"Lord Xuan Mo, I apologize. I need to enter the Virtual World," Li Yang said, not daring to think further as he hurried to contact his family.

...

「Solar System, Neptune.」

At this moment, in front of a mine, two groups of people were in the middle of a discussion.

One group was clearly from Earth, while the other was from a different planet.

On the Earth side, a young man at the head of the group said angrily, "Kande, don’t you go too far!"

This young man was none other than Li Yang’s son, Li Dong.

"No, no, no."

Facing Li Dong’s anger, a short elderly man with black mystic patterns on his face chuckled. "Spiritual Stones are incredibly durable, and selling them requires multiple processing procedures. For me to spend three trillion Galaxy Coins to buy the Spiritual Stone mine... this price is very fair."

"Besides, aren’t we just negotiating the price? If you’re not satisfied, we can discuss it further."