When I woke up, I wanted to go home.

Chapter 152 Empress Huang Ting

A year later, after Xiong Da finished cultivating the secret technique, Zhu Chongjiu glanced at everyone and said, "Does everyone remember what I told you before?"

As soon as Zhu Chongjiu finished speaking, Xiao Jin immediately stepped forward, puffed out his chest, and said loudly, "Brother Jiu, remember it all. Wherever there are people, there is a martial world. And in a martial world, there will be deceit and treachery. So we must be careful and cautious, and not expose ourselves. We should be patient and forbearing, and wait until we are strong enough to settle scores and grievances."

Finally, a word of advice: "A gentleman takes revenge, even if it's a thousand years too late!"

Zhu Chongjiu nodded in satisfaction after seeing Xiao Jin's actions and said, "Then let's set off now."

This time, Zhu Chongjiu didn't throw all the little ones into the storage ring again. Instead, he took them all on an adventure and to grow together. The reason was Xiao Rou's words from the beginning: "Unconditional safety is actually unsafe."

Including Big Bear and Little Black.

Actually, Xiong Da and Xiao Hei don't need to learn the secret techniques of the Mouse Guardian to conceal themselves. However, due to their rarity, we won't talk much about Xiao Hei. Even Xiong Da has the bloodline of a divine beast.

Who knows, once we arrive in the world of the Wind Immortal King, some spoiled brat might take a fancy to the two divine beasts and try to seize them by force, causing everyone to expose themselves and thus putting them in danger!

Having read and watched countless melodramatic novels and films in the past, Zhu Chongjiu possessed this foresight.

Apart from the still-sleeping Xiao Lei, Zhu Chongjiu, along with the five little ones, Xiao Hei, and Xiong Da, a group of six people and two beasts, flew in a grand procession toward the entrance and exit of the world before them.

The excuse given by Haozi Guangwei was that Zhu Chongjiu was the senior brother, leading five junior brothers and two pet monsters to travel and train in various interstellar worlds.

As for the name of the immortal abode, I'll say that my master told me before I left and forbade me to reveal it.

Since this is a training exercise, one cannot act in the name of the Immortal Abode or one's master; everything must be done based on one's own abilities.

Since the group traveled by air rather than in a time-space airship, after two days of stopping and starting, they finally saw the exit of this world.

When Zhu Chongjiu and his entourage approached the entrance, they were still somewhat shocked by what they saw.

When they first saw this planet, which was two or three times larger than the Cangshen Realm they had once inhabited, from the distance of the cosmic void, they were not too surprised. After all, before the Cangshen Realm was destroyed by their own people, its size was not necessarily much smaller.

But when they saw the rows of flying boats docked in the void at the entrance and exit, everyone couldn't help but gape.

Xiao Mu, look, these flying boats are much bigger than ours, they stretch as far as the eye can see.

Who can argue with that? And there are so many, at least a hundred or so.

Hey! Look, there are quite a few people unloading cargo on the airship. Why don't they use storage rings to store the cargo, instead of using such a huge amount of resources to build this giant airship?

Use your brain! Do you think everyone's storage ring is like Ninth Brother's, able to hold anything? Besides, goods can be stored in storage rings, but what about people? What would you do if you were put into a stranger's storage ring?

Yes, yes, little Rou is so clever, how come I didn't think of that?

Zhu Chongjiu listened to the back-and-forth conversation among the children but remained silent.

A moment later, the group arrived at the location where the giant airship was docked. Although their group was rather unusual, no one discussed them further amidst the bustling caravans.

Holding a bear the size of a house cat, resembling a snow-white plush doll, Xiao Rou asked Zhu Chongjiu, "Brother Jiu, look at that smallest flying boat, aren't those people human?"

Zhu Chongjiu looked in the direction Xiao Rou was looking and found that, indeed, everyone on the entire flying boat exuded the aura of humans, and there was an old man among them whose aura was clearly that of a Celestial King.

After Zhu Chongjiu discovered this, he transmitted his voice to the little ones, saying, "From now on, do not speak special words directly, but transmit them through divine sense."

"A single word we say might be overheard by someone with ulterior motives, exposing us, and that would be a huge loss."

Upon hearing Zhu Chongjiu's telepathic message, everyone responded in kind.

No sooner had Zhu Chongjiu finished speaking than Xiao Jin's voice rang in everyone's minds, "Didn't Haozi Guangwei say that in the Immortal Realm, the human race's situation is extremely dire?"

How could there be caravans composed entirely of humans engaged in trade?

"How about we go and find out what's going on?"

No, we can't go there rashly. I'll ask Haozi Guangwei first if he knows the reason.

After replying to everyone, Zhu Chongjiu sent a message to the rat guard in his storage ring, asking about what he had seen there.

The answer given by Haozi Guangwei was that although the human race had a low status in the immortal realm, there were some humans who, through their own efforts, cultivated incredibly powerful strength over the millions of years in the primordial universe, making most immortals dare not provoke them.

The immortal giants of the metaverse did not pursue their demise, firstly for fear of a mutually destructive outcome, which would be a net loss; and secondly, the existence of the human race still held some value, as they could bring together and control some powerful but troublesome human figures, preventing them from causing unnecessary chaos.

Otherwise, if a human of the Heavenly Monarch level were to wreak havoc in the Primordial Universe, the Immortal Race would suffer significant losses.

Even if a Celestial Emperor or even a Celestial Venerable were to intervene and kill them, finding someone who intends to hide in this vast primordial universe would still be extremely difficult. That's why this situation has arisen.

At this point, Haozi Guangwei quickly apologized, saying that he had missed some important information and asked Ninth Brother not to blame him.

Zhu Chongjiu didn't care. After cutting off his communication with Haozi Guangwei, he repeated the content of his conversation with Haozi Guangwei to the other children.

After everyone realized what was going on, Zhu Chongjiu decided to start with this group of human merchant ships.

However, instead of boarding the ship to communicate directly, he approached slowly and casually, then activated his divine sense to eavesdrop on the conversations of the people on the merchant ship before making his next plan.

Ugh! It's so unfair! We arrived first, but we were put last to unload.

Alright, stop complaining. If it weren't for our Empress, let alone unloading here, this little merchant ship would have been devoured by various immortal bandits on its way out of the city. You and I might already be slaves to mining.

Yes, our Empress, you've really had a tough time holding on all these years.

Alas, I heard that a hundred years ago, the Immortal Emperor He Guang wanted to become our Empress's concubine, but the immortal lord who delivered the message was directly reduced to nothingness by the Empress.

You underestimate our Empress's temper. Not only did she kill the messenger immortal lord with a single palm strike, but she also went to the He Guang Immortal Emperor's palace and caused a huge disturbance. I heard that in the end, it took an immortal venerable to intervene and persuade our Empress to return.

And just like that, with this incident, our Huang Ting Imperial Palace has gained another enemy who is trying to suppress us!

The key point is that this matter is not our Empress's fault. A powerful figure of the same level actually made our Empress his concubine, not even a proper Daoist partner. Isn't this blatant bullying? I think it was Emperor Guang who did it on purpose. Otherwise, our Empress wouldn't have gotten so angry.

Alright, alright, stop talking. We're just small fry, let's not worry about those big shots. Let's focus on our work and try to cause our Empress as little trouble as possible, so she doesn't have to worry so much.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Chongjiu guessed some important information and memorized a name: the human race's "Empress Huang Ting".

After the two stopped moving and started working, just as Zhu Chongjiu was about to board the ship, one of them suddenly spoke up again: "Hey? Have you heard that three or four hundred years ago, several leaders of the Immortal Clan suddenly ordered the extermination of all human beings of different races?"

Upon hearing the question, another person whispered in reply, "I've heard that. I've also heard rumors that a human is about to rise to power and will cause irreversible changes to the immortal race in the future."

Who told you that? Is the information reliable?

That was over two hundred years ago. I was unloading goods at the celestial abode of a celestial lord when I happened to run into one of my fellow villagers. This is what I heard from him. He was working under a celestial lord, and one time this celestial lord got drunk and said some things in a daze.

I don't know if it's true or not, but this matter has already spread throughout the entire metaverse, so it's probably quite significant.

Furthermore, I suspect that our Empress's killing of the Immortal Lord with a single palm strike and her rampage at the Immortal Emperor's Palace were related to this incident, and perhaps even a form of venting her anger. Otherwise, why have the various forces significantly reduced their hunting of humans since our Empress did that?

Hearing the two humans whispering to each other, Zhu Chongjiu was instantly filled with shock. He had no reason not to believe that the anomaly the immortal giant was referring to was himself. After all, more than four hundred years ago was precisely when he emerged from the Azure God Realm.

Moreover, given that the Divine Void King repeatedly claimed to be the one who would end the great calamity, Zhu Chongjiu's suspicions about him were further fueled.

However, there was one thing Zhu Chongjiu didn't understand: how could the master of the Divine Void King, who was only a Heavenly Official-level expert, have calculated things to such an accurate degree?

It's even more accurate than the calculations of those immortal giants?

After all, the giants of the Immortal Clan only deduced that someone wanted to overthrow them? But the master of the Divine Void King directly deduced that it was me.

Am I wrong, or have I overestimated myself?

After pondering for a moment, Zhu Chongjiu still couldn't come up with a solution, and thought to himself, "Let's take it one step at a time. What the future holds is up to me to walk."