Return to the Holy Land

Year 40, Age 59.

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"Never Empty-Handed" (Green Rare): Your fishing skills are extremely proficient; every cast of your rod guarantees a catch.

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You replaced "Badminton Master" with "The Older, The Luckier".

You replaced "Irritable Physique" with "With Age Comes Wisdom".

The sense of time within the rift became blurred.

But the simulator will keep accurate time for you.

This time, you still flew for a year before you could get out, but your destination was different from the last time.

Last time, you fell onto the grasslands of the Northern Territory of the Five Regions. This time, however, you found yourselves above a vast ocean.

This is what happens to spatial passages that lack proper maintenance; their exits are unstable.

Splash...

The Nine Provinces Cauldron crashed onto the surface of the sea, kicking up monstrous waves. It sank underwater for a moment before slowly drifting back up, bobbing on the waves.

The exit of the Cauldron World opened, and you, Wu Yue, Long Yang, Baili Su, and the rest of the ten people stepped out together, standing on the rim of the Nine Provinces Cauldron.

Is this the Human Realm? Are we back? Ah?

Yes! It has to be! This familiar air! This blue sky! This azure water! It's definitely the Human Realm!

Ahhh... I've never felt so attached to the world I grew up in!!

It's been almost ten years... We've been vegetarians for ten years!! Fish, there are fish here! Quick, quick, let me go catch a few!!

Your group had been stranded in a foreign realm.

And it was in worlds like the Three-Headed Realm and the Demon Realm, which had been destroyed by the Dragonkin.

Not eating meat for ten years, surviving entirely on the crops grown in the Cauldron World—one could easily imagine how arduous your lives had been.

At first, you all still cared about appearances, keeping yourselves looking presentable every day.

As time went on, it didn't matter anymore.

Now, every single one of you looked like a savage. Your hair was a mess, your skin was filthy, and the beards on the men's faces were almost thicker than the hair on their heads.

You displayed the formidable strength of the Human Realm's geniuses, executing a devastating strike on the schools of fish in the area.

You lit a fire on the grand cauldron to roast the fish, finally enjoying a hearty meal of meat.

After the meal, you finally noticed each other's scruffy appearances. One by one, you jumped into the sea to wash up, groomed yourselves, and changed into fresh sets of clothes.

Now you looked like proper humans again.

You also had to start considering a serious problem.

Where is this?

Looking around, there was nothing but the sea. It stretched out endlessly, meeting the sky at the horizon.

You were certain this was the Human Realm, but exactly which ocean this was remained unknown.

The oceans of the Human Realm were extremely vast, far larger than its landmass.

If you had landed extremely far from land, wandering blindly now could very well lead you further and further away from the continent.

Wu Yue and the others knew this well, and they couldn't help but feel troubled over how to proceed.

But for you.

It was a piece of cake.

You looked at the blood talisman on your left palm, and then at the Xiaoyao Token in your right hand.

Should I call the Dao Protector to point the way, or have the Xiaoyao Sacred Land come pick us up...

Considering that Senior Hua Wuyan, as a Dao Protector, didn't belong to or establish any faction, it would be quite troublesome to make her make the trip.

The Sacred Land had plenty of people; they could just dispatch a few Martial Kings.

Thus, you used the Xiaoyao Token to contact the Xiaoyao Sacred Land and explained the situation.

Wu Yue looked at your Xiaoyao Token and said.

Did Island Master Xie give that to you?

Yeah.

The seniors of the Nine Palaces Island really value you.

They are a very lovely bunch of people.

One year, they came to my master on Divine Sword Island, wanting to betroth me to you.

Holy crap! No way, no way!

Of course, I refused. I have only one goal in this life: to become the Holy Maiden of the Xiaoyao Sacred Land and bolster its prestige!

Wu Yue said this with a very firm look in her eyes.

You had asked her before why she was so obsessed with becoming the Holy Maiden, but she seemed unwilling to talk about it.

A few months later.

Xie Guihong personally arrived with over twenty Martial Kings from the Xiaoyao Sacred Land to escort you back.

The Martial Kings he brought were actually the direct masters of you Holy Son and Holy Maiden candidates.

However, half of them were destined to be heartbroken; their beloved disciples would not be returning.

Seeing Xie Guihong, a long-lost sense of warmth welled up in your heart.

Island Master, we're back. We made you worry.

Seeing that you were still alive and well, just a bit older, tears streamed down Xie Guihong's aged face.

It's good that you're alive! Quick, return to the Sacred Land with us, God Xiaoyao is waiting for you!

Hearing this, your eyes lit up.

God Xiaoyao? He's out?

He came out the year you went missing. He was supposed to preside over the transition of the new generation's Holy Son and Holy Maiden, and assist the two of them in breaking through to the Martial King realm. Who could have expected such an accident to happen...

Along the way, Xie Guihong told you about what had happened in the Sacred Land over the years.

Since coming out, God Xiaoyao had yet to return to the Time Room.

Dao Protector Hua Wuyan and the Shen Family's ancestor, Shen Qingshan, came knocking one after another and had a discussion with God Xiaoyao.

Afterward, God Xiaoyao led the three great Sacred Lands to join the Human Realm's grand plan for defense against the enemy.

Over the years, the three great Sacred Lands had distributed a lot of resources outward. In the areas the Sacred Lands could reach, the armed forces of martial artists and mortals had improved significantly.

The key was popularizing the unified mindset that a great enemy was approaching.

At this point, the entire Human Realm and its various factions were basically united.

Everyone was striving to become stronger and mobilize more people, in hopes of defending their homeland when the Dragonkin arrived.

God Xiaoyao also decided that he would not return to the Time Room until the Dragonkin crisis was resolved.

When you returned to the Xiaoyao Sacred Land, the Sacred Land welcomed you back with great fanfare.

The senior experts from various lineages hurried over, wanting to see the demeanor of those of you who had gone to a foreign realm and returned safely.

Since our Human Realm was sealed, I've never heard of anyone being able to travel to a foreign realm. Not only did they go, but they also found their way back. It's not simple at all!

As expected of the Holy Son and Holy Maiden candidates of our Xiaoyao Sacred Land, none of them are simple figures!

Look, their auras are completely different. In less than ten years, it's as if they've been reborn. They must have undergone extraordinary trials!

What a pity... not all of them came back.

So many people came today mainly to witness two things.

The first thing was that everyone wanted to know which world you went to and what you experienced.

This experience was too precious.

It was something no one in the current Human Realm possessed, so everyone wanted to hear about it.

[Even for Martial Kings and Martial Saints, once they come to understand it, they might gain new insights.]

So far, I have received four versions of motion comic adaptations, but not a single one has been released yet. Ah... I, Liuzi, am really anxious too! After all my years of writing, this is the very first time my work has been officially adapted (those goofy comics from before do not count, they never even paid me copyright fees).

I hope the production studios, without violating any labor laws, can urge their staff to speed up the production and release them as soon as possible!