Chapter 781

From the anthropomorphic look in the black cat's eyes, it was not hard for Li Yi to determine that his mother's soul was possessing it.

This is also a helpless measure encountered by soul-crossers when they face danger; if the soul does not attach itself to a small animal, the evolver's soul will slowly dissipate, unless you have cultivated your soul into a Primordial Spirit to reside in the human world permanently.

But at that point in time, an evolver who could reach the Soul Realm was already considered a top-tier expert; after all, the evolver cultivation system had not yet been perfected back then, and many realms relied entirely on exploration.

At that time, Li Yi's parents possessed cultivation at the Soul Realm; if not for the accident during the cross-dimensional travel, he would have long since lived the life of a superior person, and would not have had to work for six years, wasting precious cultivation time.

"Meddling with time is an extremely dangerous thing. I rarely do so, but you and your mother are exceptions. After all, you are not people of this world and have no influence on it."

Subsequently, a cold voice sounded abruptly, accompanied by a flash of red light, and Yang Jian, who had disappeared earlier, appeared before his eyes once more.

The black cat sensed danger and subconsciously became guarded.

Li Yi said earnestly: "Although I don't know how you did it, you saved my mother's soul, and I should thank you."

"No need for thanks; this was just a transaction." There were no ripples in Yang Jian's eyes, as if he were a deity transcending the world, looking down upon everything in it.

"Li Yi, you have your own path to walk. It is time to go back now."

He pointed a finger, and a winding, scarlet path appeared once again, spanning time and space, connecting to the location where he had arrived.

"Alright."

Li Yi nodded, used his magic power to grab the little black cat, directly stowed it into the Red Gold Five Elements Bracelet, and then turned back to leave along this path.

"Wait." Suddenly, Yang Jian called out to him again.

Li Yi looked back and said: "Is there anything else?"

Yang Jian said: "You cannot take the things from this world out; they must stay behind."

"Are you talking about this?" Li Yi took out the cracked short stick. This was a supernatural item from this world. To be honest, he had been using it quite well, and it could always produce unexpected effects at certain times.

"Not just that, but also that ghost," Yang Jian said.

Li Yi understood. He took the golden coffin out of the Red Gold Five Elements Bracelet; inside it was sealed a fierce ghost, the very one that had imitated his mother and lived with him for six or seven years.

"Compared to my mother's soul, these are not worth mentioning."

He felt no attachment and immediately left these two items behind. Moreover, at this point in time, Li Yi no longer needed to borrow supernatural power; he was strong enough himself.

Very quickly.

Li Yi walked rapidly forward along the scarlet path, and his figure soon disappeared into the depths of this hell.

Yang Jian just watched him leave calmly, because he knew that there would be a time for the two to meet again. Today's encounter was merely a link in fate, but what he hadn't expected was that the inconspicuous messenger he met at the Ghost Post Office back then would actually become a legend.

Before long.

When Li Yi finished walking the scarlet path, he found that he had returned to the riverside once again. Here, the setting sun was still like blood, the evening scenery was like a painting, and time seemed to have passed for less than a minute.

Everything felt as if it had been a dream.

But looking at the kitten inside the Red Gold Five Elements Bracelet, Li Yi knew that all of this was real and not a dream.

"The great power to meddle with time, crossing the long river of time, the future self guarding the past self—thinking about it, it's truly perverse enough."

Li Yi thought to himself, even if he cultivated to the realm of an Enlightened One, lit up all three hundred and sixty-five acupoints in his body, and became a deity as a Daoist practitioner, he feared he could not achieve this point.

Since his goal had been achieved, he would abide by the agreement and leave this world as soon as possible, so as not to have any unnecessary influence on Yang Jian's past.

He immediately concealed his figure, rose on a cloud, rushed into the sky, and in the blink of an eye, he fled into the distance, leaving Tianchang City.

After moving far away from the city, the auspicious cloud beneath Li Yi's feet stopped in mid-air. He then took out the cross-dimensional machine, prepared to open the cross-dimensional gate to leave World No. 36, and head to the world of Incense-Becoming-God.

After working so hard and being busy for half a day, it was time for the family to be reunited.

And before leaving, Li Yi suddenly thought of something. He looked in the direction of a city; he seemed to still owe that Zheng Yaoyao a meal.

It was just that the two were people of different worlds, and having excessive interaction was not a good thing.

"Forget it, this meal won't be eaten. Let me give you a gift." Li Yi found a spirit stone used by immortal cultivators from the Red Gold Five Elements Bracelet, channeled his magic power, and squeezed; the spirit stone was forcibly squeezed into a jade pendant.

Subsequently, Li Yi opened his mouth and spat, and a stream of life essence was infused into this jade pendant, sealing it shut.

If an ordinary person wore it close to their body, they would be nourished by the life essence and spiritual energy, becoming light as a swallow, free from all diseases, and living a long life. For an ordinary person, this was already a rare stroke of good fortune.

"Send this jade pendant to Zheng Yaoyao." Li Yi pointed, and the auspicious cloud transformed into a crane, which then took the jade pendant in its beak and flew away, flapping its wings.

Afterward, he did not hesitate; the cross-dimensional gate opened, and then a white cloud wrapped everything up and disappeared from this world, leaving not a single trace behind.

And in Dazhuang City.

Zheng Yaoyao was currently lying on the bed at home alone, boredly scrolling through her phone. She looked at the number labeled Li Yi on her phone, and there was an urge in her heart to dial it, but thinking that Li Yi might be dealing with people from the supernatural circle now, she immediately extinguished this thought. "Li Yi shouldn't be in any trouble." She felt slightly uneasy in her heart at this moment.

But just as she was letting her imagination run wild, suddenly, she heard a knocking sound coming from the window of the room. When she looked over, she was immediately stunned.

A beautiful crane was knocking on the glass, seemingly wanting to come in.

But after a brief shock, Zheng Yaoyao quickly realized that this extraordinary phenomenon must have something to do with Li Yi.

She opened the window, and the crane immediately flew in, then opened its beak and spat; a crystal-clear jade pendant fell onto the bed, and after completing the task, the crane immediately dissipated, turning into a cloud of mist and disappearing from sight.

"Is this a gift from Li Yi?" Zheng Yaoyao picked up the jade pendant, very pleasantly surprised. She hadn't expected that a scene like one from a mythological story would actually happen to her.

A crane delivering a gift—what a romantic thing.

But soon, Zheng Yaoyao reacted, her expression changed, and she hurriedly looked out the window.

Li Yi was gone!

This thought suddenly popped into her mind, because the last time Li Yi left, it was also like this; this gift was compensation for leaving a friend without saying goodbye.

After realizing this, Zheng Yaoyao's previously pleasantly surprised mood suddenly became somewhat disappointed.

And at the same time.

With the closing of the cross-dimensional gate, Li Yi had successfully arrived in the world of Incense-Becoming-God from World No. 36. As soon as he appeared in this world, he immediately felt an infinite amount of incense power surging from all directions to bless him.

This massive incense power caused his Primordial Spirit Dharma Image to bloom with immeasurable divine light; at this moment, it was as if he were about to shed his mortal body and become a god in one step.

"I didn't expect that I had actually accumulated so much incense in this world." Li Yi was somewhat shocked.

It seemed that during the time he was away, his father, the Shenwu Emperor of this world, had done many things; at the very least, he had completely unified his dynasty, otherwise, he, the National Teacher, could not have shared so much incense.

"Go to the Imperial Palace."

Li Yi rode the clouds and mist, observing the energy of heaven and earth, and flew toward the three-hundred-mile capital where the dragon and tiger energy steamed and the incense of the world gathered.

In just a moment, he arrived at the capital, but he discovered that near the three-hundred-mile capital, a mountain towering into the clouds had suddenly appeared. Beneath this mountain stood many divine statues, the largest of which was his, while the remaining few statues were all in the likeness of beautiful immortal maidens.

"Dao Mountain."

Li Yi observed for a few moments and immediately understood; this must be the mountain that Xiang Xiangzi and the others had moved from elsewhere using great magic power to serve as an imperial palace.

And the reason why Dao Mountain had to be built on such a massive scale, allowing mortals to look up from afar, was because the grandeur and majesty of the architecture were needed to set off the status and position of the immortal maidens, which was conducive to the reverence of the masses and the gathering of incense.

Of course, this could also highlight the supremacy of Li Yi, the National Teacher.

Just like the Imperial Palace, the cumbersome etiquette and the magnificent palaces could invisibly awe people's hearts and set off the principle that imperial power was supreme.

Li Yi did not go to Dao Mountain, but flew toward the Imperial Palace.

Compared to last time, the dragon and tiger energy in the capital was now even more terrifying; the hearts of the masses were unified, and the incense was flourishing. The dragon and tiger entrenched above the capital seemed to be in command, patrolling the world, and any evil spirits or heretics that approached the Imperial Palace would be directly suppressed and killed by this dragon and tiger energy.

However, Li Yi's arrival did not trigger this dragon and tiger energy, because he was the ordained Taiyi National Teacher, a formal official of the imperial court, and had nothing to do with evil spirits or demonic ways.

As soon as he entered the sky above the Imperial Palace, he was immediately noticed by the Embroidered Uniform Guards and the Golden-Eyed Guards in the palace.

"It is the Taiyi True Person, the National Teacher; do not panic." Wang Ning of the Golden-Eyed Guards recognized Li Yi's identity and immediately led several people to greet him.

The strength of the Golden-Eyed Guards in the Imperial Palace now was not low at all; their evolution method had been cultivated to the level of the Spiritual Power Realm, and their souls had received the blessing of incense power, already becoming gods. As long as they were in this world, their combat power could probably rival that of an immortal cultivator in the Soul Transformation Realm.

This was the terrifying aspect of combining the evolution method with the incense method.

Once the soul was condensed, and then the soul carried the incense, the strength would undergo a qualitative change.

Of course, if they left this world and lost the blessing of incense, Wang Ning would just be an ordinary evolver in the Spiritual Power Realm, whose strength couldn't even beat an immortal cultivator in the Golden Core stage.

"Greetings, True Person." Wang Ning and several other Golden-Eyed Guards bowed respectfully.

"I have important matters to see the Shenwu Emperor about," Li Yi said immediately.

Wang Ning said immediately: "Reporting to the True Person, it is already night, and His Majesty is resting."

Li Yi immediately interrupted her: "This matter is of great importance; you go and report it, the Shenwu Emperor will not punish you."

"Please wait a moment, True Person." Wang Ning bowed upon hearing this and immediately headed toward the Yongchang Hall.

Before long, Wang Ning of the Golden-Eyed Guards returned. She said immediately: "True Person, His Majesty summons you; please follow me, True Person."

(End of chapter)