The Sacred Domain had not changed much in the past two hundred years; there were simply fewer familiar faces and more new ones.
Upon arriving at the Sacred Domain, Ling Luoyi and Gu Yuncheng first met with the Domain Lord. The Domain Lord remained as he was, though Ling Luoyi felt he had become somewhat colder. She didn't know why, but the Domain Lord rarely received visitors anymore, and this audience was only granted because Gu Yuncheng had come.
As the Domain Lord emerged, he saw Gu Yuncheng holding a woman's hand. The woman wore Ling Luoyi's bracelet on her left wrist. The Domain Lord instinctively assumed Gu Yuncheng had forgotten Ling Luoyi and found someone new. However, recalling Gu Yuncheng's deep affection for Ling Luoyi and what Qiu Yuanxi had once told him, the Domain Lord had a guess.
After dismissing all the servants, the Domain Lord tentatively asked, "Si Zhan?"
Upon hearing these words, Ling Luoyi smiled. "I thought the Domain Lord wouldn't recognize me with a different face. It seems I miscalculated. However, I am no longer the Saintess of Si Zhan. It is improper for the Domain Lord to address me as such. Please call me by my name."
After hearing her words, the Domain Lord also laughed heartily. "Indeed, it is improper. Si Zhan, no, Luoyi, when you died, Si Yao said you were a gambler, and your death was a gamble. You are the first to gamble with the Heavenly Dao and win. However, I am very happy to see you again."
"The Domain Lord flatters me. I am also very happy to see the Domain Lord."
"Luoyi, you must have become a god by now. Have you returned to see the current human realm?"
"That is not the case. I merely wished to see my friends and check on how they are doing."
"Are you here to see Si Yao?" Ling Luoyi acknowledged Qiu Yuanxi as her only known friend, so upon hearing this, the Domain Lord naturally assumed she meant Qiu Yuanxi. "Si Yao is currently in the Qingxin Hall. You are very familiar with this Sacred Palace, so you can go there yourself. However, do not reveal your identity. If anyone asks, simply say you share the same name."
"I understand."
Watching their retreating figures, the Domain Lord sighed, "Regardless, at least one has survived."
Ling Luoyi and Gu Yuncheng walked towards the Qingxin Hall. Although Ling Luoyi had never been to the Sacred Palace's Qingxin Hall, the general layout of the Sacred Palace was similar to that of the Canglan Continent, just much larger. She could still find her way.
In the Qingxin Hall, Qiu Yuanxi was taking stock of the inventory. Her long hair was now tied up, and she wore a gemstone pendant around her neck, dressed as a married woman. The immaturity had faded, replaced by a touch of maturity and elegance. The liveliness and childlike demeanor she displayed in front of Ling Luoyi were completely gone. Perhaps this was Qiu Yuanxi's true nature.
"Your Highness, someone is looking for you outside the hall. It is the Demon Emperor Venerable and a strange woman. That woman possesses divine power and should be a distinguished guest from the God Realm."
Upon hearing this, Qiu Yuanxi became somewhat angry. After only two hundred years, the Demon Emperor Venerable had already found a new love!
Qiu Yuanxi did not associate the woman with Ling Luoyi at all, as she had always believed that even if Ling Luoyi won the gamble, she would merely be reincarnated. Two hundred years was not enough time to cultivate to the realm of a god.
The more Qiu Yuanxi thought about it, the angrier she became. She angrily asked, "What does that woman look like? Is she as beautiful as the former Saintess of Si Zhan?"
The maid who came to deliver the message was somewhat hesitant. She dared not anger her mistress, but she also dared not offend someone from the God Realm. She could only say, "Your Highness, that woman is on par with the former Saintess of Si Zhan."
As soon as she said this, Qiu Yuanxi, in her fury, threw the ledger in her hand. The maid dared not dodge, and the ledger grazed her head as it flew past.
Instantly, everyone in the hall knelt. "Your Highness, please calm your anger!"
The maid hesitated and then said, "Your Highness, I find it a bit strange that the woman shares the same name as the former Saintess of Si Zhan."
"The same name?" As if guessing something, Qiu Yuanxi roared, "Good heavens, Demon Emperor! With just a name, you've forgotten Little Luo'er! You've brought your new lover here to provoke me! Even though Little Luo'er is gone, I am still here, and I will kill him!"
This voice was unrestrained and directly reached the outside. Ling Luoyi and Gu Yuncheng, waiting in the reception hall, heard it clearly. Ling Luoyi glanced at Gu Yuncheng with a smug look, while Gu Yuncheng's forehead was covered in black lines. He gritted his teeth and said, "This fellow..."
"What's wrong with A'Yuan?" Ling Luoyi asked, looking at him dangerously.
"Nothing, she's fine." Gu Yuncheng could only swallow his anger, as Ling Luoyi was protecting Qiu Yuanxi.
Inside, after Qiu Yuanxi had shouted that sentence, her guard captain and two personal maids quickly restrained her.
"Your Highness! Your Highness, please calm down. That woman is a guest from the God Realm; we cannot afford to offend her! And the Demon Emperor Venerable! The Demon Realm has finally achieved peaceful coexistence with the Human Realm because of the former Saintess of Si Zhan. You cannot break it!"
Qiu Yuanxi knew all of this, but she couldn't help herself. She waved them away and strode out furiously, her demeanor suggesting she was about to destroy heaven and earth. The maids and servants behind her were stunned.
Seeing this, the guard captain said irritably, "What are you all standing there for? Chase after her!"
They finally reacted and hurried after Qiu Yuanxi.
The warehouse was not far from the reception hall, and soon they arrived. Qiu Yuanxi reached the entrance of the reception hall and, before she could even see the people inside clearly, she began to speak, "You damned fox demon! It's only been two hundred years, and you can't wait any longer. Do you know how faithless you are, Little Luo'er! How could you do this to him?!..."
Gu Yuncheng, who had been inexplicably cursed, looked at Ling Luoyi and said through gritted teeth, "Luoluo, I swear I really want to slap her to death."
Ling Luoyi: "..."
Ling Luoyi glanced at Qiu Yuanxi, who was still scolding, and then at the grim-faced Gu Yuncheng. What should she do? Her hands were also itching a little.
Over there, after Qiu Yuanxi finished scolding Gu Yuncheng, she suddenly saw the two of them being very intimate and was about to start scolding Ling Luoyi again, "And you..."
Qiu Yuanxi's subsequent words stopped abruptly when she saw Ling Luoyi's eyes. It wasn't that she was startled by Ling Luoyi's crimson eyes, but rather that those eyes and the way she looked at her were so familiar, as if...
Qiu Yuanxi suddenly had a bold guess and turned to close the door with fluid movements.
The maids and guard captain who followed could only catch a glimpse of the grim-faced Gu Yuncheng and a light blue figure sitting inside before their mistress shut the door.
They were somewhat anxious, fearing that Qiu Yuanxi might do something rash. The guard captain went directly to find the Domain Lord, but the Domain Lord told him that everything would be fine, leaving the guard captain somewhat bewildered.
After closing the door, Qiu Yuanxi didn't dare to look back and leaned against the door, panting heavily.
Seeing that Qiu Yuanxi did not turn around, Ling Luoyi suddenly called out softly, "A'Yuan."
Upon hearing the familiar address, Qiu Yuanxi's suppressed tears finally fell. "Little Luo'er."
Ling Luoyi walked to Qiu Yuanxi's side and gently patted her back.
Feeling her real presence, Qiu Yuanxi suddenly turned and hugged Ling Luoyi tightly, sobbing uncontrollably, "Little Luo'er, you're finally back! I finally see you again! I thought you would never remember me! Wuwuwu~"
There was a barrier in the reception hall, so Ling Luoyi was not worried about outsiders seeing this scene.
"A'Yuan, can't you wish me well?" Ling Luoyi immediately noticed her hairstyle. Seeing that her emotions had stabilized, she asked, "A'Yuan, are you married? Who is it with? Is it him?"
The "him" Ling Luoyi referred to was naturally Ling Luochen.