Chapter 345: Returning to Earth

"Yangyang." "Li Yang." "Dad."

Seeing Li Yang appear, Li Guohai and Zhao Rou flew over joyfully.

At this moment, Li Yang’s son, Li Dong, looked at Hei Xu behind his father, unable to contain his excitement.

This was a mighty Tri-System Deity, a being who could instantly kill even the Deities of the Golden Moon Empire.

And now, this Tri-System Deity was his father’s bodyguard.

"Dad, Mom..." Looking at his family, a smile appeared on Li Yang’s face, and a sense of peace settled in his heart.

It had been decades since he had last returned to Earth.

Before he left, his power was only at the Longevity Realm. Now, he had reached the level of a World Realm Master!

"Yangyang, come on. Dinner is ready. Let’s have a proper family reunion meal," Zhao Rou said, pulling Li Yang along while gazing fondly at her son.

"Okay, Mom," Li Yang replied with a smile.

At his current level, he didn’t actually need to eat.

But thinking of his mother’s cooking, he felt a wave of nostalgia and found himself eager to have a taste.

"Mr. Hei Xu, feel free to explore Earth. You don’t have to follow me around," Li Yang said to Hei Xu with a smile after talking with his family for a while.

"Understood." Hearing this, Hei Xu nodded with a smile.

For a being like him, a place as small as Earth was somewhere he could traverse to any point with a single thought.

As long as Li Yang didn’t leave his protection range, there would be no problem.

...

Back home, Li Yang enjoyed a wonderful reunion dinner with his family, taking a rare moment to relax.

Meanwhile, his sixth avatar was also rapidly incubating.

Deep in the azure sea of Earth, a gigantic Eight-armed Octopus was swimming.

The octopus was several thousand meters long, and the faint fluctuations of power it emitted had fully reached the World Realm level!

This was Li Yang’s octopus avatar!

Although it had no cultivation Talent, its strength was constantly increasing. In an actual battle, it wouldn’t necessarily be weaker than his Sky-Fierce Flood Dragon or Thunder Star Beast avatars.

Upon reaching the Star Lord Realm, one could easily envelop the entire Earth with a single thought and perceive everything happening on it.

However, that was only on the surface.

As for spiritual perception—for instance, penetrating the seawater to see the depths of the ocean, or piercing through the earth to investigate deep underground—such probing was not so easy.

With physical obstructions, the difficulty of a spiritual probe would increase by at least ten thousand times, consuming a great deal of energy.

Therefore, it was very difficult to probe the conditions in the deep sea.

The several-thousand-meter-long octopus arrived at a certain spot. A moment later, a small pebble from the seabed flew toward it. On closer inspection, it was a ring.

A Spatial Ring! Li Yang’s World Tree avatar was hidden inside it.

The Spatial Ring pulsed, and a white tree flew out.

’Let’s see if I can incubate a Time Divine Tree avatar!’

Looking at the World Tree before it, a look of anticipation appeared in the eyes of the octopus Li Yang.

Because of Hei Xu’s presence, he couldn’t personally come to the depths of the sea, and he had no intention of exposing his World Tree avatar for the time being.

If his World Tree avatar were exposed, then combined with his immense Talent, the Five Elemental Deities of the Alien Race would probably attack him directly.

The level of danger he faced would undoubtedly increase by a huge margin.

Although his true body couldn’t be here, Li Yang’s home was by the sea. He went to the shore, placed a small fragment of the Time Divine Tree into the water, and had his octopus avatar retrieve it and bring it to his World Tree avatar. This way, no one would know.

Not even Soul Ink would necessarily know he could incubate a Time Divine Tree avatar.

After the World Tree avatar emerged, the giant octopus waved a tentacle, and a small, bark-like object appeared. The bark was gray, and though tiny, its surface was covered in strange, intricate patterns.

It was a fragment of the naturally born deity, the Time Divine Tree!

BUZZ...

The World Tree pulsed faintly, emitting a soft glow that enveloped the gray bark fragment.

’Can it be incubated?’ the octopus Li Yang wondered in anticipation.

Over two months later, his World Tree’s soul reached the perfected level of the Star Lord Realm.

The white light dissipated, and the gray bark fragment held by the octopus avatar’s tentacle had completely vanished.

In Li Yang’s perception, a strange transformation was occurring within the World Tree’s incubation space. A gray bark fragment appeared there.

One minute... two minutes...

Li Yang waited as the World Tree analyzed the structure of the Time Divine Tree.

Five minutes passed just like that.

BUZZ...

Finally, the analysis of the gray bark fragment was successful. Then, within the World Tree’s incubation space, the aura of a new life began to slowly form.

’Success!’

Sensing the change, Li Yang’s eyes instantly filled with immense excitement.

He was about to possess his sixth avatar—the Time Divine Tree avatar! And just like the Fire Nether Divine Beast, it was the avatar of a naturally born deity!

He would also finally be able to touch upon the Time Law and make rapid progress!

’Just like the Fire Nether Divine Beast, it will take a year to incubate,’ Li Yang noted to himself.

He was in no hurry. Afterward, the World Tree avatar returned to the Spatial Ring, which then fell to the depths of the sea like a pebble, remaining there quietly, unknown to anyone.

The octopus avatar then left the seabed.

’From now on, I’ll have the octopus avatar emerge to protect my family. That way, I’ll know immediately if anything happens.’

Previously, Li Yang had been overly cautious about his avatars, terrified that others would find out about them. He was therefore extremely careful even with his octopus avatar, not daring to expose it.

That was why he hadn’t known about the previous incidents on Earth.

But now, he planned for the octopus avatar to operate openly. This way, even if another incident like the one with Lingyue World occurred, he would immediately be aware of any trouble on Earth.

...

While the Time Divine Tree avatar was incubating, Li Yang’s true self, on the other hand, was preparing to settle the score regarding Earth’s past troubles.

Earth had been oppressed, and almost all the perpetrators were the various powers of the Milky Way Galaxy.

"Dad, Balin, Dunklu, Kande, and the others are all living in our city now. They aren’t bothering us; they’re just waiting for you to come back," said Li Dong.

Balin and Dunklu were two of the Milky Way Galaxy’s World Realm experts.

These two, representing major powers, had a history of cooperation with Earth. Because of this, they were sought out by Celestial Net and became involved in oppressing Earth.

Li Yang’s expression was icy. He said nothing, merely listening to Li Dong speak.

Beside him stood an old man.

"Minister Ke Yan, I’ll have to trouble you this time," Li Yang said to the old man after Li Dong had finished speaking.

This was Ke Yan, the minister of the Milky Way Galaxy branch of the Human Race’s Eternal Saint Hall, an expert at the Peak of World Realm.

Many major powers in the Milky Way Galaxy were involved this time, so Li Yang had specifically invited Ke Yan to come.

Because this time, Li Yang intended to kill a great many people!

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