Xiannu Liang and the others were surprised to hear this.

“Come again?”

***

Whoosh!

Rumble!

Long Di didn’t answer them when his spiritual force suddenly erupted, before it spread for a region of hundreds of miles.

He was now clearly aware that his spiritual force had now entered the realm of a martial grandmaster. This was the reason his spiritual force had exceeded its previous limit of a few miles to a few hundred of the same.

Once his spiritual force reached its absolute limit, Long Di activated his profound myriad heavenseize physique.

An unfathomable aura perfused the surroundings, and Sun Zixin and the others were shocked by this. They had no idea that Long Di was such an existence.

Sure, they had no idea what this was, but it looked damn amazing. That meant it was amazing, no?

Then, all the earth and trees for hundreds of miles were pulled and soared into the air!

The Sun siblings were filled with fear at this sight. It was like an island above had been destroyed by some cataclysmic force and the fallout of it was floating above their heads ready to crush them at any moment.

Not just Shen Ling, even Xiannu Liang, Mina and Pebbles were confused by this. They were clearly aware this was Long Di’s doing but the reason for it eluded them.

Under the compulsion of Long Di’s thoughts, the earth twisted as it streamed into the space of his physique.

They rushed inside it like an earthen flood. Rocks, boulders, dirt, trees, all of it was uprooted and surged into the heavens he embodied.

Before long, the whole of it disappeared into Long Di’s body. This included the tree of light-shroud evil durians as well.

As Long Di honed in on the space where the debris was located, Shen Ling and the others saw them floating in what appeared to be a vast expanse of space.

Suddenly, an invisible force befell the debris, orchestrating their actions once more. They flew through space at an incredible speed until they arrived before a massive star with a draconic rune engraved within.

The debris was then smashed together by this same invisible force until it melded together into a flat plain. The light-shroud evil durian tree then took root on this flat plain soon after.

Not long after this, another expanse of land appeared out of seemingly nowhere that was encased in a stench of death. It was the same patch of land that Long Di excavated from that realm of death.

The white Deathdrink Ghost Chrysanthemum was present here all the same, albeit far more listless than it was before. In addition, the aura of death that was so prevalent there was no longer present.

Long Di immediately knew that the Deathdrink Ghost Chrysanthemum had absorbed the aura of death from the earth, but even then, it still appeared far weaker than it was before. Long Di decided to look into this later.

The draconic spiritual vein root star now acted as the sun for this land. Its silver radiance spread far and wide and infected the space with its spirituality. The only downside was that there was no warmth there. However, Long Di had an earth flame here, which he would deal with soon enough.

Shen Ling and the others saw this and grew curious. “What are you doing?”

“Starting a promise that is to be held,” Long Di answered cryptically. He said nothing more after this and Shen Ling, seeing this, didn't question it anymore.

“You guys good?” Long Di turned to the Sun siblings to see Sun Zixin really scooping up the light-shroud evil durian with a shovel.

“I have nothing more to say about this. Let’s get out of he- what the heck are you doing?” Long Di said, raising a brow in Mina’s direction.

The goddess was in front of the corpse of the still-standing Blood Drinking Devil Ape waving her hands in front of it.

“I was just curious,” she said sheepishly.

“That’s just insensitive,” Long Di said, shaking his head.

“How!?” Mina asked, confused as ever.

Long Di gave her a ‘how-could-you’ look before stating, “Just because it can’t see doesn’t mean you should go around doing that to it. Feelings are important, you bigot.”

“It’s dead!” Mina pointed at it.

“So just because it’s dead means it can’t see? Wow, Mina, your prejudice against the sight-impaired knows no bounds.”

“I-I” Mina stuttered, not knowing how to respond. However, once she really honed in on Long Di’s expressionless face her face reddened in anger.

“You piece of sh*t you were trolling me! Die!” She then lunged at Long Di and used her goddessy fist to pummel him in the chest and on the head.

“Trying to inflict head trauma to get me to your level, eh? I give you points for effort,” said Long Di to the loli goddess who clung to his body and rained down fists of righteous fury upon him.

He couldn’t care less about this and simply took in the corpse of the Blood Drinking Devil Ape in his physique as well before clapping his hands.

“Let’s get out of here.” Long Di finally announced.

They all then boarded Lord Whiskers. Pebbles then assumed his usual seat on Long Di’s shoulder. The only caveat now was that he had to hop every now and again when the orbit of Mina’s physical tirade passed through.

She was like a cartoon fight cloud roaming all over Long Di’s body.

Nevertheless, this was something he was able to ignore. Sun Zixin had to let Long Di communicate with Lord Whiskers about where they needed to go.

Of course, this basically had them stop now and then since the changing scenery was far too much for the mortal to make heads or tails of.

Once they were heading in the right general direction. They finally relaxed and allowed Lord Whiskers to take them the rest of the way.

Since they had some time on their hands, Long Di decided to ask them some questions about Cang Bian city.

It seemed that Cang Bian City was a mainly cultivator-focused city. Mortals were there but in fewer numbers, and they lived a rather destitute life.

The mortals there lived a life steeped in poverty. Because it was a cultivator city in a sense, the things being sold were mainly for cultivators and at a price that they could never afford.

A mortal could live a decent life with practically a hundred gold coins and a life of luxury with a few thousand of the same.

However, that was not the case in a cultivator city. The restaurants and other establishments had things that could easily go for thousands of gold coins. And that was for one dish!

The high-end places demanded the sky-high price of spirit stones! Sun Zixin and the others had never even seen a spirit stone before!

Mortals weren’t able to live comfortably in such a place and moving to another location was an endeavour fraught with danger due to magical beasts, bandits and more!

Because of this, they could only stay put, and live day by day, hand to mouth.

“Sounds like a crap place to live,” Mina commented with a sour expression. She finally calmed down enough to listen to the siblings' description of Cang Bian City and couldn’t say she approved.

“It’s horrible,” Shen Ling agreed.

“Humans and many other races share the same traits,” Xiannu Liang commented.

Long Di had little to say. He knew the siblings’ life wasn’t very good. They wore rags for the most part, and a bath was something that seemed foreign to them.

Sun Zixin had to keep an extremely dangerous fruit in a shovel, while Sun Mei kept hold of the stick that still had most of the monarch gale crow roast meat on it.

This would be enough to keep them full for several days, but he knew this was only temporary.

“Looks like we’re here,” he said after a while.

Everyone looked ahead to see a city on the horizon. It was incredibly huge, to the point that easily went on for thousands of miles in either direction.

A city wall hid it mostly from view and added a sense of grandeur to the city. The walls were high and white without a bit of blemish to be seen.

Auras of all kinds could be felt within as well, adding a sense of liveliness even from afar.

Once they got close enough, they saw a long line where people queued up before they could enter through the city gates.

“We’ll have to get off here,” Sun Zixin said.

Long Di then had Lord Whiskers stop and got off before joining the line. Many people saw them and the large shidashi mao, but they were mostly cultivators and had seen stranger beasts, so they didn’t pay much attention to it.

Others stole a second glance at Lord Whiskers, as it reminded them of a certain type of magical beast, but that beast’s stories were steeped in so much calamity and bloodshed with boundless killing intent, that they couldn’t connect it to the large magical beast behind them.

So they didn’t pay much attention to it after that.

“That’s weird,” Sun Mei stated when she saw the length of the line.

“What’s wrong?” Long Di asked.

“There are way more people trying to get in than normal,” she stated.

Long Di took a good look at the line and saw it being several miles long.

“I always thought everything was bigger in cultivation novels. So you’re saying something special is going on?” he asked.

“Yes, definitely,” Sun Mei nodded.

“Let’s ask someone so we can see what’s happening,” Shen Ling decided.

Sun Zixin then stepped up, “let me do it.”

After seeing this, he set the shovel with the light shroud evil durian down and ran down the length of the line asking different people questions about what was going on.

It took quite a while because he avoided all the cultivators and focused mainly on merchants and similar people since their information network wasn’t anything to sniff at.

Long Di saw as he bowed to someone in line and then ran all the way back to him. However, before he reached them, a foot stuck out and tripped him causing him to fall and cut his forehead.

A few cultivators in line burst out laughing upon doing this. The one responsible for it was the loudest to boot.

Mina, Shen Ling and Xiannu Liang saw this and their expressions changed immediately. Pebbles watched with interest and Long Di’s expression was unreadable as always. Lord Whiskers was living his best life and wasn't even paying attention.

Sun Mei and Sun Kai were aggrieved about what just happened, but they couldn’t speak up about it since Sun Zixin always warned them about the dangers of doing so. This was the reason why they lost their parents.

As a result, Sun Zixin slowly got up and bowed in the direction of the cultivator before hobbling over to Long Di and the others.

When he finally made his way over, Long Di asked him a simple question. “Want me to kill him?”