With a lazy fellow that it could not outrun, it could not beat, it could not chase away, and it even tried to snatch food from it, Tuntun felt that there was nothing left to live for, and its life was filled with darkness and gloom.
Tuntun had not felt so sullen even when it was pitting wits, courage, and shamelessness against Shi Tianhao. At the very least, Shi Tianhao would not stare at it all day long. Instead, it was Tuntun who stared at Shi Tianhao and took the opportunity to snatch his food.
Outside the Desolate Heaven Valley, Shi Tianhao and Jie Yu were gloating, while Zhu Yi and White Light shook their heads.
Shi Tianhao sighed with a smile. He didn't go to the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Tree directly, but returned to the Desolate Heaven Valley to rescue Tuntun from its "demonic hands".
Tuntun was so moved that it was on the verge of tears. It hugged Shi Tianhao and shouted, "I'll never steal and eat the things you hide in the future … eh, wait, I'll only steal half, I won't take more."
Shi Tianhao rolled his eyes. "It's hard to change a leopard's skin."
Shi Tianhao was also a little troubled by the addition of another glutton in his Desolate Heaven Valley. In the past, he had to guard against fire, theft, and Taotie, but now he had to guard against a panda. He originally wanted to move all the pandas in that dimensional realm back, but now it seemed that he had to consider this issue carefully …
Although Zhu Yi and Shi Tianhao didn't deliberately announce it, the news of Xuanmen Tianzong's battle with the Dragon Race in the Void Battlefield still spread in the Divine Land.
After Zhu Yi, another one of the four heroes of the Celestial Sect, Huang Tian Emperor Shi Tianhao, also successfully broke through the bottleneck and cultivated his spirit to return to the void, achieving the Return to Void stage. This instantly caused another wave in the Great Heaven Yuan World.
Not long after, there was news that before Shi Tianhao, Extreme Heavenly Exalted Wang Lin had already reached the Void Returning Realm.
Xuanmen Tianzong's strength became stronger and stronger.
What caught everyone's attention the most was still the fact that the Mysterious Gate's Sect Master, Lin Feng, had injured the Yuan Dragon King, who was surrounded by the water of the Mysterious Sea, with a single sword strike across the Void Battlefield.
The sharpness of the Sword of Execution once again shocked the crowd. Everyone was shocked and their hearts were heavy. They were now even more aware of how powerful Lin Feng's techniques were.
The Great Qin Dynasty's Royal Sun Monarch Shi Zongmao, Xuanmen Tianzong, Zhu Yi, and Shi Tianhao had entered the Void Battlefield together. Most of the top figures in the Divine Land knew why.
After all, the Immortal Dragon City's existence was of great significance to the Great Qin Dynasty.
In fact, to a certain extent, the Great Qin Dynasty could be viewed as two completely different forces with and without the Immortal Dragon City.
A considerable number of people were secretly paying attention to Shi Zongmao's harvest on this trip. In the end, he returned empty-handed, and many people saw it with their own eyes.
However, news soon spread from the Great Qin Dynasty's capital, West-Hill City. Although the Immortal Dragon City no longer existed, Shi Xingyun, the daughter of the Great Qin Dynasty's former Emperor Shi Yu, was with the Immortal Dragon City and was currently cultivating outside.
When the news spread, the others couldn't help but be shocked.
The Great Qin Dynasty's actions were obviously to intimidate others. As for the fact that Shi Xingyun was indeed cultivating outside and had no intention of returning to the Great Qin Dynasty, they naturally kept it a secret.
However, in order to avoid the opposite effect, they naturally wouldn't do something stupid like speaking on Shi Xingyun's behalf.
As long as they didn't go too far, Shi Xingyun would most likely turn a blind eye and not directly embarrass the Great Qin Dynasty. However, whether it was Shi Zongtang, Shi Zongmao, or the others, they all wanted to get Shi Xingyun to return, so they naturally wanted to befriend her.
However, not saying it out loud was enough to cause some sort of effect and mislead the others in the Divine Land.
Even if there were people who tried to ask Zhu Yi and Shi Tianhao, who were also present at the scene, for confirmation, Zhu Yi and Shi Tianhao only remained silent and did not take the initiative to undermine the Great Qin Dynasty.
Naturally, within the Great Qin Dynasty, Shi Chongyun and his mother's status rose, and they couldn't be compared to before.
After the Great Qin Dynasty's new Emperor Shi Zongtang ascended to the throne, although he didn't wantonly confer titles to the members of the royal family, nor did he appoint a Crown Prince, there was no doubt that the former Crown Prince Shi Chongyun's situation had become quite awkward.
Of course, Shi Zongtang didn't mistreat him, but the throne of the Great Qin Dynasty was clearly far away from him. Even if he had a chance in the future, it would be very unlikely.
After the changes in the Immortal Dragon City and Shi Xingyun's body, Shi Chongyun's situation once again became strange.
For example, after the Emperor of Zhou, Liang Pan, was deposed, and the new Emperor was Liang Qian. Now, the Great Qin Dynasty's royal family already had a certain opinion. Since Shi Xingyun wasn't willing to become the Emperor and had a grudge against him, they might as well help Shi Chongyun ascend to the throne and attract him back to the Great Qin Dynasty.
Although Shi Chongyun was arrogant and greedy, he had a deep friendship with Shi Xingyun, who came from the same mother as him.
Back then, only Shi Yu, Shi Zongtang, Shi Zongmao, and a few other high-ranking members of the Great Qin Dynasty knew about Shi Xingyun's background. Shi Chongyun, like most people, only thought that Shi Xingyun's dragon soul was acquired.
However, Shi Chongyun didn't hold a grudge against him. For Shi Chongyun, who had always been greedy and domineering, this was an extremely rare thing.
Even though Shi Xingyun's talent in cultivation was better than his, and even though the Divine Land wasn't without an Empress, Shi Chongyun didn't have any suspicions about Shi Xingyun.
Shi Xingyun had always been supportive of his elder brother. Back then, when the dual-pupiled Shi Tianyi had risen to power and there was a lot of talk within the Great Qin Empire about the succession of the Crown Prince, Shi Xingyun had always supported Shi Chongyun in public and in private. The two of them were also very close to their mother.
Although this kind of opinion wasn't mainstream for the time being, and they had to be wary of the current Emperor of Qin Shi Zongtang's opinion, it gradually spread. Shi Zongtang didn't act out because of this, as if he had tacitly agreed to it.
As long as Shi Chongyun and his mother stayed in the Great Qin Dynasty, it would be difficult for Shi Xingyun to truly cut them off. However, when the real chaos was about to happen, if Shi Xingyun only took them away, no one else would be able to stop him.
As for putting them under house arrest or threatening to tear them apart, it would only make the situation worse.
Not long after, Shi Xingyun returned to West-Hill City as promised. She visited her mother, elder brother, and Shi Jingyun and her other close friends.
She had a secret conversation with the new Emperor of Qin Shi Zongtang and Prince Ruyang Shi Zongmao in the palace. Apart from the people involved, no one else knew about it. However, Shi Xingyun didn't stay for long before she left West-Hill City again.
After that, Shi Xingyun went to Kunlun Mountain and received guidance from the Celestial Gate's Sect Master, Lin Feng. After staying for a while, she left the mountain and disappeared.
Shi Xingyun's complicated and confusing journey confused the people in the Divine Land. They did not know what the relationship between Shi Xingyun and the Great Qin Dynasty was.
However, when others calculated the strength of the Great Qin Dynasty, they had to include Shi Xingyun in their calculations.
In a sense, the Great Qin Dynasty had achieved at least part of its goal. They could relax a little and focus on recuperating.
After that, the situation in the vast land of the Divine Land became relatively stable. Apart from the ancient dynasty that had gained a firm foothold and was cautious and gentle, but still unswerving in its own pace of expansion, nothing else happened.
In the face of the ancient dynasty's footsteps, the weakened Great Qin and Great Zhou adopted a conservative stance. They guarded their own territory and tried their best to resist the development of the ancient dynasty.
The Taixu Temple and the Mount Shu Sword Sect remained in seclusion. The commotion caused by the news of the Zenith Heaven gradually calmed down. At least on the surface, no one mentioned it anymore.
Instead, everyone started to care about where the new disciple of the Celestial Gate's Sect Master was. However, the Zenith Heaven never appeared again. Even Xuanmen Tianzong couldn't sense the existence of the Ninth Uncle-Master or Ninth Uncle-Master within his own family. Everything seemed to have become a mystery.
In the following period of time, due to the loss of the war between the two worlds, they faced less pressure from the Human Race and did not attack each other as much.
However, the news from The Enchantress that there was a treasure related to the spirit ocean attracted everyone's attention.
For a time, there was a storm as many fights broke out. Although everyone restrained themselves due to the pressure from the human race, the competition was still quite intense.
After the various human factions received the news, some joined in as well, causing the situation to become even more chaotic.
Overall, however, after the war between the two worlds, the overall situation in the Heaven Primordial World became stable. Be it the human race or the demon race, they all entered a period of recuperation and accumulation of power. The overall situation entered a new balance.
The fact that Lin Feng had taken in a Zenith Heaven as his disciple did not become the opportunity to break the balance. The news about the spirit ocean that The Enchantress had spread also did not break the balance.
In fact, the overall situation became even more stable because of the existence of the spirit ocean.
Everyone seemed to be waiting for the day the spirit ocean reopened and prepared for it.
Time passed quickly in such a peaceful period. In the blink of an eye, more than ten years had passed in the Vast Thousand Worlds.
At the moment, the overall situation in the Divine Land had not changed much compared to before, apart from the fact that the ancient dynasty's territory had expanded further.
However, what the Divine Land was more concerned about was that after Dao Yuting, there were other second-generation disciples of Xuanmen Tianzong who had reached the Yuan Soul realm, and there were more than one of them. All of them displayed extraordinary power.
What everyone had considered in the past was gradually becoming a reality.
Although Xuanmen Tianzong, the new behemoth, was already standing at the peak of the world, its power was still far from reaching its peak, and it was still in a state of rapid development.
Its deep accumulation continued to manifest as time passed, becoming more and more astonishing.
Within Xuanmen Tianzong, there did not seem to be much of a reaction to this. The younger disciples were all focused on cultivating.
One day, the master of the Heavenly Palace, Zhu Yi, returned to his cave abode. With a wave of his sleeve, a white-haired old man with a weathered face appeared before him.
The old man looked at the furnishings in the palace with a complicated gaze, but he quickly composed himself and bowed respectfully to Zhu Yi.
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