"Come, come, tell us all about yourself,"
Wan Lei and Xiao Yu were both intrigued, their eyes fixed on Tian Suanzi.
Tian Suanzi smiled slightly, picked a grape from the table, and popped it into the little Daoist nun's mouth.
As she ate the grape, the little Daoist nun shot Tian Suanzi a look of disdain.
"Actually, in my past life... no, in my first life, I was a disciple of Tianzun. When I learned this, it also cleared up a doubt in my heart.
After all, how could someone as powerful as Tianzun personally travel to the desolate and impoverished Lei Feng Realm for a mere Foundation Establishment Daoist like myself to bestow a seed of thought upon me?"
"Wang Fugui."
"What?"
"A dog doesn't despise its poor family."
"Oh, that makes sense... You're the dog, damn it."
Tian Suanzi glared.
"Stop interrupting and let me finish. In my first life, my name was Tian Gou Daoren..."
"Say you're not a dog one more time, and I'll..."
"I..."
Tian Suanzi, furious, was about to rise and leave in a huff, but everyone quickly pulled him back down.
"Your habit of arguing hasn't changed a bit."
Tian Suanzi sat down, puffing out his beard indignantly. The little Daoist nun put a piece of cantaloupe in his mouth, and only then did he smile.
"What my wife feeds me tastes delicious."
"Have you got dog addiction again?"
"...Let's duel."
"My first life can be traced back to the First Immortal-God War. Back then, I was already a disciple of Tianzun and a close friend of Tianzun's son, the Human Emperor. Under the leadership of Tianzun and the Human Emperor, we campaigned far and wide, defeated the God Clan, and established the Great Tang Empire.
However, the Human Emperor achieved sainthood, yet I struggled to find the path to it.
It wasn't until a million years later that a distress signal arrived from a subsidiary plane of the Immortal Realm, the Maze Realm.
I, along with my old companion, this big yellow dog, went to the Maze Realm.
It was then that I learned that a Demon God named Qiong Dian had led a demon exploration team to the Main Plane.
Exploration teams like Qiong Dian's were sent to gather intelligence on the Main Plane, marking the Negative Plane's first invasion of the Main Plane.
The Immortal Realm at that time already had Saints, and Golden Immortals were as numerous as the stars. The demon race had misjudged the strength of the Main Plane, and all vanguard teams were annihilated.
The team led by Qiong Dian in the Maze Realm was also eliminated by me.
Of course, saying it was me isn't entirely accurate; it was Tian Gou Daoren who annihilated them, as he was him, and I am me.
The battle between Tian Gou Daoren and Qiong Dian nearly destroyed the entire Maze Realm. In the end, Tian Gou Daoren and Qiong Dian perished together.
The people of the Maze Realm built a pyramid tomb for Tian Gou Daoren, and the big yellow dog remained in the pyramid, never returning to the Immortal Realm.
Tian Gou Daoren's soul entered the Ghost Realm to be reincarnated, as Tianzun knew my potential. In this first life, there was no hope of achieving sainthood, so it was better to reincarnate and seek opportunities.
Tens of millions of years passed. Before the Third Immortal-God War, after countless reincarnations, I was reborn in the Southern Border as a rogue cultivator, with the Daoist name Hu Youzi.
When Hu Youzi was in the Foundation Establishment stage, he encountered two children in the Qi Refining stage, one named Xia Dayu and the other Xia Xiaoyu."
"Immortal Venerable?"
Wan Lei and the other were surprised.
"Yes, the later Golden Immortal Venerable. Hu Youzi and Jin Xian Zun experienced several near-death experiences together, and even witnessed Xia Xiaoyu die saving Xia Dayu.
Later, after Jin Xian Zun avenged his grievance, he went to the Ghost Realm and met several other Immortal Venerables, which I assume you already know.
When they returned to the Southern Border, they were already at the Core Formation stage. It was then that the Southern Border was in great turmoil, and the entrance to the Maze Realm opened.
Major forces in the Southern Border sent people into the Maze Realm, and naturally, we went too.
In that great battle, Jin Xian Zun successfully killed his old enemy Han Fengxue."
"That Demon Venerable from the Main Plane? The Jealous Demon Venerable?"
Wan Lei had heard Han Fengxue mentioned by Jin Xian Zun. Han Fengxue was incredibly defiant, possessing the ultimate protagonist template, and cultivated from a minor cultivator in a Main Plane to the supreme Demon Venerable of the Negative Plane.
"Yes, that's him. It was then that we learned the Maze Realm had rebelled. Its inhabitants used the blood of Immortal Realm cultivators to awaken Qiong Dian's soul and remains, intending to defect to the demon race.
However, because none of the deceased were of the Immortal realm, Qiong Dian Demon God, upon awakening, lacked Immortal realm blood and only recovered his cultivation to the peak of the Transcendent realm.
It was also then that I met the big yellow dog, regained my memories, and together with the Immortal Venerables of that time, we fought against Qiong Dian.
It was also then that Xia Dayu suffered a fatal blow but was saved by Ziyan using a life-substitution talisman. From that moment on, Ziyan fell into a millennium-long slumber.
Hu Youzi at the time saw it all clearly. Ziyan was too devoted and too pitiful."
"Wait a moment, are you talking about Ziyan, the Palace Master of the Pill Hall?"
"Yes."
"She had such a complicated relationship with Jin Xian Zun?"
Wan Lei's gossip fire burned fiercely.
"Wan Lei, show some respect,"
Sui Xiaohang said displeasedly.
"My master is a great woman and a tragic woman. Her relationship with Jin Xian Zun is like your relationship with Qi Manyao."
Upon hearing this, Wan Lei immediately understood Ziyan's situation and his expression dimmed.
"Oh, I see. Tian Suanzi, continue."
"Yes, it was also in that battle that Xia Dayu did not die. Finally, my combat power recovered slightly, and cooperating with the five of them, we jointly killed Qiong Dian Demon God and destroyed his head.
At that time, Qiong Dian had no hope of resurrection.
But no one expected that over a thousand years later, we discovered that Han Fengxue and Qiong Dian's souls had merged and, guided by the Demon Venerable, went to the Negative Plane. Han Fengxue then rose in the Negative Plane, becoming the last Demon Venerable, and the war between the Main and Negative Planes began."
"I know all of this. You continue with your story."
"Oh, oh, at that time, I... Hu Youzi, continued to travel the world. Later, while tomb robbing, under the ice caps of the North Sea, I encountered Xia Dayu and others, as well as Wan Jianyi and Li Mengran. They were going to rescue two dragons. We found the two dragons, and they were fighting Wan Qingyi at the time.
When everyone realized they knew each other, they stopped fighting, turned conflict into friendship, and together broke out of the ice caps to fight the Heavenly Emperor.
Later, the Third Immortal-God War broke out.
Hu Youzi joined the Five Elements Hall and became an elder. You should know the rest of the story; Xia Dayu and the others became Immortal Venerables, defeated the Sole God, and waged war against the demon race.
As for Hu Youzi, for ten thousand years, I pursued sainthood but could not attain it. Tianzun said the opportunity was not in this life, so he told me to emulate Water Immortal Venerable's past, to reincarnate and seek opportunities."