After leaving through Dong Ye's portal, Yuan found himself back in the Eighth Heaven.
"You could've at least said goodbye to your family," Yuan said to Xiao Hua, who erged from his Dantian afterward.
"Why?" she asked with a genuinely puzzled look on her face. "Well… forget it." Yuan sighed.
Lingyue appeared a mont later and asked, "Brother Yuan, where will you be going next?"
"I'm going to visit the Myriad of Techniques first before I head to my next destination—the vault this key opens," he replied while showing the sword-shaped token.
"I see. It's been a long ti since you visited your friends, after all."
So ti later, Yuan arrived at a nearby city. However, Myriad of Techniques didn't exist in the city, so he had to teleport to another one that did. Upon arriving at the Myriad of Techniques, Yuan entered it.
"Welco to Myriad of Techniques!" A beautiful woman greeted him at the door.
"Hm?" The woman suddenly raised her eyebrows. "You… why do you look so familiar? Have we t before?"
Yuan responded with a smile, "Maybe."
"What's your na?"
"Yuan."
"Yuan… Yuan?!" The woman exclaid with a shocked look on her face, and she started analyzing him from head to toe.
"No way… I can sense Immortal Qi emitting from you, but that's only possible for those who have entered the Immortal Realm!" she muttered in a dumbfounded voice.
"That's because I am at the Immortal Realm. A True Immortal, to be precise," he said.
The woman's jaw dropped, leaving her mouth wide open.
"It's been a while, Miss Zhu. How have you been?" Yuan suddenly greeted her.
This woman was Zhu Yuying, soone he t during his first visit to the Myriad of Techniques.
"You're really… Yuan?" Zhu Yuying muttered in disbelief.
He had changed so much since their last eting. Not only had he grown taller and more strikingly handso, but the sheer speed of his cultivation left her utterly stunned.
"Is it really that hard to believe?" Yuan chuckled at her exaggerated reaction.
"Of course! I have never seen anyone progress as fast as you!" she exclaid.
"Anyway, what are you doing here? Looking for more techniques? Or…?"
"I'm here to speak with Senior Bai. Is he available?" "He was… until a few hours ago."
"Where did he go?" he asked.
"I'm not sure, but it seed to be an ergency."
"In that case, I'll leave him a ssage and co back later."
Yuan retrieved Senior Bai's communication jade slip and left him a ssage.
"You have Master Bai's communication jade slip? Just what is your relationship with him?" she asked, her eyes full of curiosity.
"Close friends, I guess."
"Is that so… By the way, do you have to leave imdiately? It's been a while since we last spoke. Why don't we have a little chat? Who knows, maybe Master Bai will return soon."
"I guess I can stay here for a little." Yuan nodded.
"Great! Give a mont to find a replacent."
Zhu Yuying retrieved a communication jade slip and spoke into it. A few monts later, she said to Yuan, "Alright, let's go."
"Is it really that hard to believe?" Yuan chuckled at her exaggerated reaction.
Zhu Yuying led Yuan to a private room used by those working in the Myriad of Techniques. After serving him so simple tea, she asked, "So, what have you been doing recently? Since your cultivation improved so much, I guess it's mostly training, right?"
He nodded, "Yes. I took a trip to White Hell." "White Hell?!" she exclaid, and nearly dropped her teacup. "That ans you're already in the Eighth Heaven…" "Rember when I said we could et again once you reached the Fifth Heaven?" she chuckled.
"At that ti, I also couldn't have predicted how fast I'd climb the Nine Heavens."
The two spent the next hour catching up. Yuan shared stories of his recent adventures without ntioning any of the crazy stuff, while Zhu Yuying spoke about her experiences as a disciple of the Gates of Heaven.
"To be honest, I was recently promoted to the Gates of Heaven in the Seventh Heaven, so I no longer need to work in Myriad of Techniques. However, I still decided to co back here one last ti, so this will be our last eting here," she said.
"Gates of Heaven, huh? I'll take a look when I have ti," said Yuan. "Make sure to visit when you do!" Zhu Yuying chuckled.
Yuan nodded.
At that mont, Yuan sensed Senior Bai's communication jade slip trembling.
"Looks like Senior Bai responded," he said as he listened to Senior Bai's ssage.
A mont later, he stood up and said, "He said that he'll be coming soon and that I can wait in his world."
"Alright. I'll lead you there."
Once they arrived, Zhu Yuying said, "See you next ti at Gates of Heaven."
"See you." Yuan nodded before entering Senior Bai's world to wait for him.
About ten minutes later, Yuan could sense another presence entering the world.
When Yuan finally saw Senior Bai, he couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
Senior Bai looked utterly exhausted, as if he hadn't slept in ages.
"Sorry for the late response," Senior Bai said as he landed before Yuan.
"No worries. Did sothing happen? This is my first ti seeing you look so tired."
Senior Bai rubbed his eyes and sighed, "It's related to the Celestial Overlords. It's in a ss right now because of so crazy bastard."
"Crazy bastard?" "Our faction's karma suddenly plumted out of nowhere, throwing everyone into a frenzy," explained Senior Bai.
Yuan tilted his head slightly, still looking puzzled.
"You know how factions gain karma when their mbers perform righteous deeds, right? Well, the sa karma declines when soone does the opposite." "The Celestial Overlords have always held the highest karma among all factions in the Nine Heavens, and it's been that way since its founding. But for so reason, our karma has recently plumted to rock bottom, shocking everyone."
"With how drastically our karma has fallen, soone must have committed a cri so heinous it defies imagination. After all, even slaughtering an entire city of innocents wouldn't cause such a massive decline."
He continued with a troubled look, "What's worse is that, under normal circumstances, we can track every mber's karma. But this ti, for so reason, we can't trace the cause of this phenonon at all, almost as if it was committed by a ghost."
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