Chapter 156: The Myriad Clans Assembly and an Encounter with Gai Jiuyou en Route

In a mountain forest a thousand miles away from the Ancient Forbidden Land, two figures were walking slowly.

These two were none other than Chen Xing, who was preparing to return to the Ancient Forbidden Land, and Wei Yi, who was trailing him like a little tail!

That’s right! Just like a tail!

In the past year or so, since Chen Mi had not contacted Chen Xing to summon him back, Chen Xing had begun traveling across the Big Dipper Star Domain after leaving the stone gambling坊!

However, faced with Chen Xing's leisurely pace, Wei Yi, who was extremely eager to see the senior members of his sect and worried that complications might arise, insisted on following behind Chen Xing to accompany him on his travels across the Big Dipper, all the while hoping to persuade him to return to the Ancient Forbidden Land sooner.

Faced with the thick-skinned Wei Yi, Chen Xing had no choice but to let him tag along.

During this time, Chen Xing had also briefly updated Wei Yi on the current situation of the surviving members of the Tianxuan Sect!

Hearing that within the forbidden land, apart from a dozen or so major cultivators above the Saint realm who were still lingering on their last breaths, the rest of his fellow sect members had long since passed away due to the exhaustion of their lifespans, Wei Yi fell silent!

After a very long time, Wei Yi finally forced himself to accept this tragic news!

After all, he understood that compared to their entire sect being completely wiped out by others, this outcome was already quite good—at least a dozen people were still alive, weren't they?

Flowers bloom and wither! In the blink of an eye, nearly a year had passed.

Although the time was not very long, the situation across the entire Big Dipper had undergone drastic changes.

The Primordial Royal Clans! They had emerged!

Originally, the human race had already prepared for a bloody battle with the Primordial Clans!

Yet for some unknown reason, after the Primordial Royal Clans emerged, they did not immediately go to war with the human race! Instead, they spread word that two years later, they would negotiate the dominance of the Big Dipper Star Domain with the human race at Jade Lake Sacred Land.

Faced with the dominance of the Primordial race, the human forces, after weighing the strength of both sides, ultimately had no choice but to agree.

There was no other way; among the Primordial Royal Clans emerging this time, just the ones known to the human race included several existences at the Saint realm!

And on the human side, there was simply no one capable of contending with them. What else could they do besides agree?

Chen Xing's original plan was to go and watch the commotion when the Primordial Royal Clans emerged!

Coincidentally, however, it was at this very moment that Chen Mi sent a divine sense message telling him he could return to the forbidden land.

Thinking that he hadn't seen the two little ones for quite a long time, Chen Xing really missed them!

Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Xing decided not to bother joining in the excitement. After all, in his eyes, the Primordial clans were mere ants; how could they possibly compare in importance to his own daughters?

Besides, the matter of fulfilling his promise to the tail behind him was also time to be resolved.

And just like that, under Wei Yi's shocked gaze, Chen Xing directly utilized spatial teleportation, traveling all the way from Central Plains back to the Eastern Wasteland!

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Just as the Ancient Forbidden Land came into view for the two of them, Chen Xing, under Wei Yi's puzzled gaze, manifested his form out of the void.

Ignoring Wei Yi's eager gaze, Chen Xing leisurely walked through a mountain forest, heading toward a certain location.

Although Wei Yi was anxious to see his senior sect members, seeing that Chen Xing was not the least bit hurried, no matter how anxious he felt inside, he could only resignedly follow along.

By a small stream in the mountain forest, an old man and a youth were currently sitting cross-legged.

The old man looked sickly and extremely pale, and at that moment, he was closing his eyes to regulate his breath!

Perhaps due to a severe illness, even while regulating his breath, he would cough from time to time.

Seated opposite him was a very handsome youth, around fifteen or sixteen years of age, resting his chin in his hands and dazedly watching the old man.

After a long while, the youth finally spoke first, grabbing the old man's arm and shaking it coquettishly:

"Grandfather! Why don't we just not go! It's too dangerous there, I'm afraid something might happen to you."

The voice turned out to be soft, charming, and extremely pleasant to the ear. Unexpectedly, this youth in men's clothing turned out to be a young woman.

The old man coughed twice, slowly opening his eyes, his dim gaze filled with the vicissitudes of life.

Looking at the young woman with affection, the old man slowly said, "Jiuyou, the human race is about to face a great calamity this time. If I cannot stabilize the injuries in my body, how can I protect the human race in its entirety!"

"Then you don't need to step in! Doesn't the human race have many Emperor Weapons? And the so-called foundations of various major forces, why must Grandfather be the one to go?" the young woman called Jiuyou by the old man said with reluctance.

The old man shook his head and whispered, "You are still young; there are some things you don't understand! The human race... someone must stand up after all, *cough, cough*!"

As he spoke, the old man couldn't help coughing a few times, his eyes filled with memories! The vigor and gallantry of his youth, riding fine horses in flashy clothes, seemed to still be right before his eyes!

"I don't care! Grandfather, you simply cannot go, I... I'm afraid I'll never see Grandfather again!" The young girl, who had originally wanted to use spoiled affection to stop the old man, found herself unable to hold back her tears as she spoke!

The old man let out a soft sigh, stroked the young girl's fine hair, and murmured, "If everyone only looked out for themselves, then the human race would truly be finished!"

At this point, two startling beams of light suddenly flashed from the old man's eyes as he looked up to the sky and laughed, "So what if it's the Ancient Forbidden Land? Could I, Gai Jiuyou, possibly fear those Supremes who have slashed themselves once!"

The moment the old man laughed up to the sky, he seemed to instantly transform from an octogenarian back to the heroic spirit of his youth!

At that moment, he seemed to have returned to the era of fighting bloody battles for a lifetime and contending with countless proud prodigies!

Gai Jiuyou, a peerless divine man from nine thousand years ago!

Back then, after the death of the Void Emperor (or Qingdi), while the Heavenly Heart Imprint still remained and his Dao Fruit had not yet dissipated, he had nearly defied the heavens to attain the Dao! In that era without an Emperor, Gai Jiuyou was synonymous with invincibility.

At this moment, although his body was aged and he had long fallen from his peak state, he was still in the Quasi-Emperor realm, suppressing everyone in this era.

He had once created his own exclusive Quasi-Emperor scripture, the *Immortal Tribulation Tune*!

This scripture could be called world-shaking and astonishing past and present, almost comparable to the scriptures of ancient Emperors.

Pity that although he walked his own path of proving the Dao, he was born in the wrong era, ultimately suppressed by Qingdi's Dao Fruit, and failed to step onto the peak.

Although he never became a Great Emperor, he still relied on his unparalleled talent and peerless cultivation to live from nine thousand years ago all the way to the present!

In terms of lifespan alone, Gai Jiuyou did not lose to many Great Emperors.

This time, he brought his granddaughter along because the Primordial race had revived and the human race was facing a great calamity. As a human Quasi-Emperor, how could he stand by with folded arms?

Pity that although he currently possessed the Quasi-Emperor realm, his body had long been extremely frail, and his battle prowess could only be maintained at the peak Saint realm.

Having lived for nearly ten thousand years, Gai Jiuyou understood that the Primordial race had sealed themselves away tens of thousands of years ago; to say there were no Quasi-Emperors among them was something he simply did not believe!

Now the human race was in decline. Not to mention Quasi-Emperors, finding even a few Saints was probably difficult! If he did not appear now, when the Myriad Clans Assembly arrived two years later, the human race would fall into an awkward predicament with no major cultivators presiding over it.

It was precisely to allow the human race to hold their heads high before the Primordial race and not fear the pressure of the ancient clans that Gai Jiuyou prepared to venture into the Ancient Forbidden Land, hoping to obtain some legendary medicinal herbs to temporarily restore his Quasi-Emperor strength to deal with this matter!

The girl who came with him this time was none other than his granddaughter, Xia Jiuyou.

Xia Jiuyou had followed along precisely to persuade her grandfather to dismiss the idea of stepping into the forbidden zone.

She knew that given her grandfather's current physical condition, even with boundless ambition, it would be extremely difficult for him to escape the forbidden land unscathed.

Seeing at this moment that no matter how she persuaded him, it was hard to make her grandfather give up, Xia Jiuyou let out a lingering sigh in her heart and stopped trying to persuade him.

She made up her mind in her heart: if her grandfather met with danger, even if her own body and soul were destroyed, she would protect her grandfather safely!

Before long, Gai Jiuyou and Xia Jiuyou were already standing at the edge of the forbidden land, and a single step forward would cross into the terrifying forbidden zone territory.

"You stay put somewhere first, and wait until Grandfather comes out," Gai Jiuyou gently patted his granddaughter's shoulder and said softly!

Xia Jiuyou shook her head and said firmly, "I want to go in with Grandfather."

"Nonsense!" Gai Jiuyou flew into a rage upon hearing this and shouted, "With your current cultivation, entering means certain death. This is out of the question!"

"Either Grandfather doesn't go, or we both go together!" Xia Jiuyou said stubbornly.

"You... *cough, cough*!" Just as Gai Jiuyou wanted to say something more, he was suddenly seized by a violent cough, rendering him unable to speak for a moment.

Right at that moment, a leisurely voice drifted over: "Hey I say, what are you two doing at my doorstep?"