The final battle against Zhu San was a blur to many. No one knew the specifics.
Min Juan and the others had originally intended to ask Li Yunxian questions when they saw her descend halfway through her ascension, but before they could speak, they were hit with a heavy dose of public affection.
If one lived to the transcendence stage, even if they had a lover in the past, most were “single dogs” by the time they reached this level of cultivation. They really felt targeted!
Min Juan and the others were speechless, but they also knew how anxious Su Wenjing had been when he learned that Li Yunxian was trapped in the torrent of time.
Duan Huacai and her team were not slow in their research, but for Su Wenjing, it wasn’t fast enough.
Min Juan and the others had seen how Su Wenjing pushed himself to rapidly increase his cultivation, forcibly breaking through to the early transcendence stage.
He did it all just to see if his innate divine ability could break through the barriers of the torrent of time and connect directly to her.
Unfortunately, it could not.
And that was only what Min Juan and the others saw. What they couldn’t see was Li Yunxian’s side.
They knew that the flow of time within the torrent of time differed from reality. No one knew how long Li Yunxian had been trapped in there with the enemy.
After such a long separation, confirming each other’s existence was the most critical thing for them right now.
Fortunately, neither Li Yunxian nor Su Wenjing were the type to be overly affectionate in public. Li Yunxian soon composed herself and informed them of the entire battle against Zhu San.
After confirming that Zhu San had indeed been completely eradicated, Min Juan and the others finally let out a long sigh of relief.
Given Zhu San’s traits, if she hadn’t had the bad luck to run into Li Yunxian, anyone else who suddenly encountered her would have suffered immensely.
It was good that she was dead.
As for the matters regarding Zhu San, Ruan Mo, and Feng Ji, Min Juan and the others didn’t know how to comment after hearing the story.
Regardless, everyone involved had returned to the dust; there was no need to bring them up again.
With the important matters concluded, Min Juan and the others turned their attention back to Li Yunxian’s ascension.
They looked at Li Yunxian with hesitation, then cast a look at Su Wenjing as if he were a distracting beauty causing chaos, before finally asking, “Since you gave up on ascension this time, will you have another chance in the future?”
Li Yunxian didn’t seem to care much about it. “I should be able to.” When she needed to ascend, she could simply release the merit golden light she had stored up.
“If not, then at worst, I’ll just take the path of the lightning tribulation again.”
“If I go via merit, I’d have to worry about whether the immortal realm I go to is the same one everyone else is in,” Li Yunxian said, expressing her simple worries.
“And…” Li Yunxian followed their gaze and looked at Su Wenjing. “My choice to stay isn’t quite what you think. I’m different from you. My parents are still here!”
Min Juan and the others, hearing this final bombshell, were stunned. “What?!!”
This statement was even more outrageous than being fed public displays of affection!
Amidst the laughter and banter, these transcendence-stage cultivators, who were originally quite unfamiliar with Li Yunxian, quickly became well-acquainted with her.
When Li Yunxian wanted to make friends on the path of righteousness, she never failed!
***
With the crisis resolved, a grand celebration was naturally in order. The discussions regarding the war between the righteous and demons that began several years ago had not yet ceased.
This was the perfect time to give everyone a reassuring conclusion.
When it was heard that Interstellar Channel One would officially announce information regarding the great war of righteousness and demons, people across the interstellar — regardless of what they were doing and whether they were of the path of righteousness or an other race — all put down their work and picked up their communicators to watch the news.
The news started on time. Everyone watched in astonishment as one familiar transcendence-stage cultivator after another walked onto the podium.
The person sitting in the center seat was a face that all interstellar people had not seen for a long time, yet was not at all unfamiliar.
— Li Yunxian! —
The crowd broke into an uproar.
“Get down from there! That’s not a seat you can sit in! You’ll be scolded!!”
A group of people who treated Li Yunxian like their own daughter suddenly became anxious. It had been many years since Li Yunxian had appeared in the interstellar.
They were indeed worried and wanted to see her to confirm her safety, but not in this kind of setting!
Then, within a few minutes, everyone’s expression turned blank. What… what had they just heard?
Li Yunxian? At the transcendence stage???
Explaining the details of Li Yunxian’s cultivation level was far too troublesome, so during the announcement, everyone had agreed to consistently refer to her as being at the transcendence stage.
Many people even thought they were deaf or having a mental breakdown; they were unwilling to believe what they heard. Was this appropriate? Was this even reasonable?
Granted, every time they saw Li Yunxian in Wanwuwu after a long disappearance, her cultivation level would give them a massive fright, but it had never been this terrifying.
This wasn’t right! Li Yunxian had only disappeared from their memories for ten or so years, and she… had already reached the transcendence stage?
Everyone’s attention was so captured by this information that almost no one noticed the announcement that the war between righteousness and demons had officially ended and that there would be no more disasters involving other races in the future.
There was no helping it.
Years ago, when the decision to act was made and the path of righteousness replaced the normal magic tools suppressing the Dengxiantai, not a single large-scale disaster had occurred in any city in the interstellar. People had already guessed the situation.
***
The announcement on the news was merely the second shoe dropping, serving only to put people’s minds at ease. Overall, discussing Li Yunxian’s cultivation level was much more interesting.
“Why does it feel like every time Teacher Li appears, something good happens?” someone posted happily on the Star Network.
The former high-ranking members of various factions who were removed from power and saw these comments felt differently. They didn’t think so at all!
However, no one cared about their opinions. Everyone happily began organizing celebrations.
They celebrated the total victory of the path of righteousness in yet another great war of righteousness and demons.
Li Yunxian happily participated in the celebrations and took many photos with Su Wenjing.
When the ceremony ended, Li Yunxian bid farewell to Min Juan and the others without any lingering attachment, only to receive a death glare from Min Juan.
“We are all transcendence-stage cultivators of the path of righteousness. Now that Shenzhou has joined the interstellar, since you didn’t ascend, don’t you dare be lazy!!” Min Juan barked.
She had previously been saddled with a mountain of overtime work by Li Yunxian; now she finally had a chance to get even!
Li Yunxian blinked but didn’t resist. “That’s fine. Two transcendence-stage cultivators count as one team. Wenjing and I are a perfect pair, and our station will just be Shenzhou.”
Hearing this, Min Juan fell silent. This didn’t seem any different from Li Yunxian saying she just wanted to go home.
“As a transcendence-stage cultivator, you are expected to develop the local area and protect all the surrounding planets. You know that, right?” Min Juan added.
Li Yunxian smiled brightly. “Don’t worry, I’m very good at development.”
Recalling the developments Li Yunxian had constantly churned out since the days of Wanwuwu… Min Juan truly could not refute her.
And so, the matter was settled. Min Juan silently observed how Li Yunxian planned to go all out with her development.
After returning to Shenzhou, Li Yunxian took Su Wenjing and stayed at the home of her mother, Mrs. Xia Congyun.
Mrs. Xia Congyun had taken the medicinal bath, but she had little talent for cultivation and was very free-spirited. To this day, she only had a cultivation level of Qi Refining Sixth Layer.
She was now 60 years old, but with her Qi Refining Sixth Layer cultivation, her overall physical and mental state was no different from a young person’s.
She even looked a few years younger than when Li Yunxian had last come home.
With Li Yunxian missing for several years, she had been quite worried.
Upon learning that Li Yunxian was safe and seemed able to truly live up to her name and be “at leisure,” she developed the common parental habit of “not being able to stand seeing her child being too idle at home.”
Of course, the main reason was… she didn’t want to come home only to see her daughter and her partner flaunting their affection while her own partner was still working overtime.
“Sweetheart, why don’t you find something to do…” Mrs. Xia Congyun suggested.
“Didn’t you say that Senior Min Juan mentioned that you transcendence-stage cultivators have performance competitions? If your development is too poor and you rank at the bottom, you’ll be laughed at!”
Li Yunxian remained calm, indicating she knew what she was doing. “Shenzhou’s development is already fast enough. Haste makes waste; too much speed isn’t good.”
Hearing the words “performance competition,” Li Yunxian added, “It’s true that I can’t rank at the bottom. Anyway, the competition is just about improving the economic situation. That’s easy.”
Mrs. Xia Congyun, who had worked hard to make money for so long and knew how difficult it was to improve a single company’s marketing — let alone the economy of an entire planet — was confused. “Easy? What are you going to do?”
Li Yunxian turned her head to look at Su Wenjing, who was sitting quietly beside her, and smiled. “For example… how about holding a Dao Companion Ceremony?”
The quiet Su Wenjing suddenly looked up. “???”
“I have no objections!” Su Wenjing responded instantly.
Mrs. Xia Congyun, who finally realized what “Dao Companion” meant, felt like she was being hit with more public affection. Her gaze softened.
“If that’s what you want, of course there’s no problem. But… can that really improve Shenzhou’s economy?”
The answer was… yes. Very much so.
Once the news was released, things were fine on Shenzhou because most people had gradually learned about the relationship between Li Yunxian and Su Wenjing during the repair of the spirit power source. They were mentally prepared.
However, the interstellar side was not.
Although Su Wenjing had made a name for himself back at the fenshen stage by capturing two integration-stage cultivators through space, very few people had heard of it.
At that time, more attention was focused on Li Yunxian herself.
Consequently, when the news broke, the crowd’s first reaction was… ‘Who is this guy?!’
Especially in the silver sea city star system, everyone’s somber gazes were fixed on Ying Wenhe.
‘It’s one thing if you couldn’t win over Li Yunxian; it’s normal for no one to be able to handle Teacher Li. But since someone did handle her, how could you lose, kid?! You wasted that face of yours!!’
Ying Wenhe, who had officially lost his love upon hearing the news and now had to face the critical strikes of so many people’s comments, was heartbroken.
Fortunately, Ying Wenhe was soon saved from these comments.
Amidst the crowd’s anticipation, Su Wenjing was naturally found out quickly. Yes, he was the very eye-catching fox-eared yaoxiu sitting next to Li Yunxian in that grand news video.
The key point was — everyone who could sit on the podium at that press conference was at the transcendence stage.
The interstellar public was speechless. Whether it was cultivation level or appearance, Ying Wenhe indeed couldn’t compare.
Ying Wenhe, who didn’t actually feel saved by these comments at all, said nothing.
After the interstellar public fully digested this information, they slowly realized something. It turned out Teacher Li was from a planet that had newly joined their star system!
And now, she and her lover were stationed on that planet. They were even going to hold a grand Dao Companion Ceremony there.
No matter what, they had to go!
What? The ceremony was only an announcement and wouldn’t be held for over a year? It didn’t matter.
It was a completely fresh place that still retained its original flavor, a landscape they had never seen before. No matter what, they had to go and visit!
In just over a week, Shenzhou’s overall economy began to rise at a visible rate.
Seeing this chain reaction, Mrs. Xia Congyun was stunned. “It actually worked!!”
“So, during this time you’ve been sitting at home doing nothing…” Mrs. Xia Congyun started to ask.
Li Yunxian replied, “I was waiting for the various cities to be expanded, for the hotels to be arranged, for a few new places of interest to be built, and for a few new cities for people to settle in. These preparations take time.”
Mrs. Xia Congyun was silent.
Seeing the expression on her mother’s face, Li Yunxian smiled and turned to look at Su Wenjing.
“Besides, I like a lively atmosphere.” Li Yunxian and Su Wenjing held hands. “I like a Dao Companion Ceremony where many, many people are celebrating.”
Mrs. Xia Congyun felt she had asked too many questions!
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