"I forget who told me, but they said the Origin Plane was divided into three realms, with the God Realm to the south and the Ghost Realm to the north. If you just kept flying north, you could reach the Ghost Realm.
So I just foolishly flew north. After passing through the territory of the Ziyang Sect, I encountered someone ambushing Ziyan. After I saved her, I continued north alone.
Then, in a city, I met Wan Jianyi. You know, everyone surnamed Wan is no good. To escape the clutches of the Grand Princess of Great Tang, Wan Jianyi sold me out.
After the Grand Princess captured me, I learned from her that the Ghost Realm wasn't to the north; it was a different yet connected space to the Immortal Realm.
Only the dead could enter the Ghost Realm. Apart from that, perhaps if I cultivated to the Immortal Realm, I could forcibly tear through the barrier and enter the Ghost Realm.
After remembering this, I took the opportunity to sneak away while the Grand Princess was out..."
"Excuse me for a moment, why did the Grand Princess capture you?"
Wan Lei was a little curious, feeling that the Immortal Venerable had downplayed the matter.
"...That's not the point."
Xia Dayu was speechless for a while.
Seeing the Immortal Venerable's slightly embarrassed expression, Wan Lei suddenly had a bold guess.
Could it be that the Grand Princess captured the Immortal Venerable to be her male favorite?
Good heavens, that must have been a humiliating history.
"She didn't succeed, I ran away," Xia Dayu corrected.
"Oh, oh."
"The squirrel and I fled north, all the way to these mountains."
Only then did Wan Lei notice that they had already entered a mountain range.
"It was in this valley that the squirrel and I sat down to rest, only to encounter someone who fell from the sky."
"Wan Qingyi?"
Wan Lei chuckled, speechless.
"Yes, when I knew Wan Qingyi, I was only at the small Core Formation stage, and he was already at the Immortal Realm.
I helped him transform his internal spiritual energy, and he forced my soul out of my body without harming my physical form, thus deceiving the Ferryman of the Sea of Suffering, making him mistakenly believe I was dead and opening the passage to the Sea of Suffering.
With the help of the Heavenly Soul Pill, my soul returned to my body, and I seized the opportunity to enter the Sea of Suffering. Wan Qingyi also began his journey in the Immortal Realm.
Later, in the Sea of Suffering, I met Lai Wan Yi, Han Xiaofeng, and Han Xiaoyu, and then began my journey to the Ghost Realm."
Although Xia Dayu said this, he did not take Wan Lei to the Sea of Suffering.
As Xia Dayu spoke, Wan Lei followed him, strolling through the sky above the Southern Border, admiring the magnificent mountains and rivers under the moonlight.
"Later, we went to the Ghost Realm and started searching back and forth. We experienced many life-or-death crises, but we couldn't find them.
During one life-or-death crisis in the Ghost Realm, we met Fengyun again, that giant snake. He had his physical body destroyed by someone.
We went to the Dragon Clan together. They and Fengyun condensed their physical bodies using the Dragon Transformation Pool. After all, when I met them, they were all dead people, and I was the only living one.
After that, we were chased by Wang Xiaohang and fled back to the Southern Border. Later, after the civil war in the Southern Border, we went to Great Tang, studied at the Yan Pagoda Academy, and went to the North Sea to rescue Fengyun and those two dragons, Ao Zhan. Coincidentally, Wan Qingyi was fighting them.
Afterward, a few of us, the young princess Li Mengran, and the Nascent Soul cultivators like Wan Jianyi, armed with vacuum implosion bombs, along with Immortal Realm cultivators like Wan Qingyi, annihilated thousands of Immortal Realm demon tribes, and then prepared to fight the Saint Heavenly Emperor.
Heh, we were truly overestimating ourselves then, but facing a strong enemy, what else could we do but fight?
Just like when you faced the Six-Eared Macaque, you didn't run away; you chose to confront him."
Wan Lei was deeply moved, listening to the past events of the Immortal Venerables, which reminded him of his own past.
All were young and fearless, with the same burning passion, daring to fight against all realms.
Under this surge of emotion, he felt the constraints on his cultivation loosening.
"After being rescued by the Sword Saint, we broke through to the Longevity Realm. The few of us left without saying goodbye and went into space, but we fell into a trap.
That was the eighteen hells crafted by Patriarch Bodhi, eighteen worlds, eighteen missions, eighteen layers of hell.
We continuously shuttled through various worlds, completing each near-death mission, fighting wits and courage against our enemies.
There, we met the Ice Phoenix and guided her to the Immortal Realm. Later, she became the wife of the Heavenly Emperor.
We met Wan Hong, the emperor of that dark empire, and the current sect master of the Five Elements Hall.
He is a remarkable person. He alone traveled to a world where myriad races dominated and humans were treated like livestock. By his own might, he led humanity to rise, eliminated the myriad races, and then conquered other universes, establishing a great empire spanning dozens of planes.
We also met the Dream Team, He Xuxi Sha and them. Like us, they were chosen teams for training.
In the last two of the final three trials, we advanced together, as both friends and rivals, engaged in subtle competition, and also cooperated.
In the final trial, the battle for the protagonist's halo, our two teams fought to the death.
At that time, a fantasy-level memetic hazard was lurking nearby, and only one of our two teams could survive.
In the end, we defeated them and obtained the protagonist's halo. The teleportation beam descended, but we each pulled one of them, bringing them along too.
Thus, we all survived. We met Patriarch Bodhi and learned of Xiaofeng's background.
Afterward, we broke through to the Immortal Realm and went to the Ghost Realm again. One reason was to continue searching for the souls of our loved ones, and the other was to find Wang Xiaohang to avenge ourselves.
At that time, Wang Xiaohang was called Gui Hang, the most outstanding prodigy under the Ghost Emperor, who liked to wear a mask.
Shortly after we arrived in the Ghost Realm, we encountered him. His mask had been shattered, and he was being pursued.
Wan Yi recognized him as an old friend, so we dealt with his enemies and formed a team.
We adventured together. To be funny, in our team of six, five of them were from Earth, and I was the only one from the Immortal Realm.
Later, when facing Luanchuan Wang, one of the Ten Yama Kings, Wang Xiaohang betrayed us and sold us out, but at a critical moment, he saved us.
We beat him up, forgave him, and went to see the Ghost Emperor. The Ghost Emperor, however, told us that the souls of my and Wan Yi's and She Yu's loved ones were not in the Ghost Realm, and Wang Xiaohang's lover had been reincarnated.
The Ghost Emperor took us to the Sea of Suffering to backtrack time, only to discover that the souls of those three people had never entered the Ghost Realm but had been captured by the Main God.
We then went to the God Realm. The Sun God, seeing that I, the owner of the World-Suppressing Cauldron, dared to come to their God Realm, was instantly greatly alarmed and expressed solemn respect for our dedicated attitude of delivering ourselves to their doorstep.
Then, they intended to kill us.
The Ghost Emperor desperately teleported us away, but he was besieged and killed by the Twelve Main Gods.
However, he teleported us too far, sending us directly into the Chaos Plane region, crossing the entire true plane in one go."