CHAPTER 44: CHAPTER 44: SU WANYI AWAKENING FROM A DREAM

Traversing the endless void.

Su Wanyi was enveloped in dazzling white light, her vision unable to penetrate the layer of brightness around her.

When the white light dissipated, her feet suddenly touched solid ground. Su Wanyi stood there dumbfounded, her eyes wide with disbelief, taking a moment to register her surroundings.

"Senior Sister!"

Seeing the Senior Sister she had longed for day and night, Luo Li could no longer contain her emotions. Tears streamed down her face as she rushed forward, throwing her arms around Su Wanyi.

Jun Moxiao, too, was overcome. Tears welling in his eyes, he ran to their side.

"Senior Sister... you’re finally back."

Jun Moxiao was crying and laughing, his expression wild with emotion.

"This is so touching!" Big Black Horse nuzzled Big Black Cat’s head and sighed.

The Big Black Cat, its wide, bright black eyes fixed on the familiar figure that had reappeared, couldn’t help but feel a great dread fill its heart.

This God-like Master... What level of terrifying cultivation base did he possess? With bare hands, he tore space apart and effortlessly brought someone back unscathed from tens of billions of miles away. In the Big Black Cat’s perception, only one word could describe this Master: God! This Master was absolutely an unparalleled God in all the world!

Upon this realization, the Big Black Cat couldn’t help but tremble with excitement. To think it had seen a legendary God in its lifetime—this was truly too shocking! But then again, how could there be a God on the Cangnan Continent? Even the most powerful Eternal Sects didn’t have God Men!

"Junior Sister, Junior Brother, am I dreaming? How can I be seeing you here?" Su Wanyi frowned, still completely bewildered.

Luo Li released her, wiped the tears from her eyes, and exclaimed with delight, "Senior Sister, it was our Ancestor who brought you back from the Ten Thousand Beast Divine Sect!"

Ancestor?

Su Wanyi was momentarily stunned.

The Dragon God Sect’s heritage had dwindled; the old ancestors had been buried for countless years. When had a new Ancestor appeared? Moreover, this place was countless billions of miles from the Plough Heaven Dynasty; what kind of power would it take to bring her here unharmed over such an immense distance?

Seeing her Senior Sister still dazed, Luo Li quickly grabbed her hand, shook it gently, and pointed, saying with a smile, "Senior Sister, look over there... That’s our Ancestor, the thirteenth Sect Master of our Dragon God Sect."

"What?" Su Wanyi, as if jolting awake from a dream, quickly followed Luo Li’s gaze.

About ten meters away stood a young man in white. This young man in white had well-defined features, deep eyes, and flowing black hair. He radiated an unfathomable, ethereal aura, like an Immortal straight out of a painting.

"Junior Sister, is he... really our Ancestor?" Su Wanyi lowered her head and whispered.

She remembered that the thirteenth Sect Master of the Dragon God Sect was supposed to have died a hundred thousand years ago, wasn’t he?

"The Ancestor didn’t die; he came back to life," Luo Li said excitedly, her words becoming jumbled.

Even she didn’t quite understand. Had the Ancestor died and then returned to life, or... had he never died at all?

Seeing his two senior sisters speaking so incoherently, Jun Moxiao quickly said, "Senior Sister, this truly is our Ancestor. You should hurry and pay your respects."

Hearing Jun Moxiao’s words, Su Wanyi finally came to her senses. She quickly withdrew her hand from Luo Li’s, walked briskly forward, knelt before Ye Yun, and kowtowed respectfully three times.

"Su Wanyi pays respects to the Ancestor."

"Rise!" Ye Yun smiled gently. A wave of mana drifted out, lifting Su Wanyi to her feet.

"From today onwards, you three disciples will no longer be separated," Ye Yun said with a smile.

Upon hearing the Ancestor’s words, Luo Li, Jun Moxiao, and Su Wanyi were both shocked and overjoyed. Their emotions were incredibly mixed. They embraced, crying and laughing at the same time.

For more than a decade, they had followed their master, wandering from place to place, constantly fleeing enemies, and living a miserable, inhuman existence.

Now, not only had the Sect’s Ancestor returned to life, but he had also provided them with the strongest possible support.

Ye Yun stood with his hands clasped behind his back, watching the three of them weeping in each other’s arms, feeling quite moved himself.

「Later.」

After they had cried their fill, the three disciples calmed down and wiped the tears from their faces.

Su Wanyi then took a proper look at her Junior Brother and Junior Sister.

She was astonished to find that Luo Li had actually reached the Molding God Realm Tenth Layer.

Jun Moxiao’s cultivation base, meanwhile, had reached the peak of the Molding God Realm Tenth Layer, just one step away from the Divine Bridge Realm.

"How... how did your cultivation bases advance so quickly?" Su Wanyi asked in shock.

"Because we have the Ancestor!" Luo Li pouted, a proud smile on her face.

"..."

Su Wanyi blinked. She wracked her brains but couldn’t fathom what kind of heavenly treasures could have allowed Luo Li and Jun Moxiao to advance so rapidly.

"Su Wanyi, your aptitude is no less than theirs. Your future is promising," Ye Yun said, looking at the bewildered Su Wanyi with a gentle smile.

"Ancestor, do you also have a way to make me like my Junior Brother and Junior Sister?" Su Wanyi asked, her voice trembling, her beautiful face flushed red with excitement.

Ye Yun nodded with a smile. He took out a small vial and slowly handed it to her.

Luo Li hurried over and whispered in Su Wanyi’s ear, "Senior Sister, the Ancestor has Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood. If you take a drop, you’ll be able to break through quickly too."

Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood? How is that possible?

Greatly shocked, Su Wanyi’s eyes widened. "Ancestor, wasn’t all of our Sect’s Divine Dragon Essence Blood destroyed by the Sect Master of the 250th generation?"

Ye Yun merely smiled.

The quick-witted Luo Li hurriedly explained, "Senior Sister, what the Sect destroyed was Divine Dragon Essence Blood... What our Ancestor has is Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood. You heard right, it’s Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood!"

"Oh." Su Wanyi nodded blankly, as if petrified.

Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood—those words alone made her mind go numb with shock. As a disciple of the Dragon God Sect, how could she not have heard of Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood? But wasn’t Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood something that only existed in ancient legends?

Seeing her Senior Sister’s current expression, Luo Li could imagine her own past reaction. She leaned in again and said, "Senior Sister, did you know? There are over a hundred thousand drops in that small vial!"

My heavens! So much Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood!

Su Wanyi was so excited she nearly fainted.

"Senior Sister, you must stay strong! Don’t be like Junior Brother, who fainted the moment he heard!" Luo Li said with a laugh, holding Su Wanyi’s arm and shaking it gently.

Hearing this, Jun Moxiao’s face instantly turned red. He had fainted twice back then. Thinking about it now, it was truly mortifying.

The Big Black Cat, lying beneath the horse’s hooves, also heard the words "Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood," and its eyes gleamed with an intense light.

The legendary Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood. It had never appeared on the Cangnan Continent...

The Big Black Cat licked its lips, wishing it too could taste the Ancestral Dragon Essence Blood.

THUD.

A black hoof slammed down on the Big Black Cat’s head, pressing its face into the dirt.

"You little cat, don’t even think about getting any funny ideas! Be careful, or Uncle Ma here will kill you outright!" Big Black Horse said irritably.