Minos's handsome face fell. "It's normal for you to make a mistake in your first divination. Give the divination sticks to Daddy, and I'll take a look myself!"
Luo Luo has been with him all this time. How could someone else have taken advantage of her?!
Little Apple pouted and threw a pile of divination sticks at him. "Daddy is so bad! You don't even believe me! I've done the divination several times, and I definitely won't make a mistake!"
Minos wouldn't give up until he hit a wall. He stubbornly did the divination several times, and finally! He couldn't even maintain the gentle smile that usually hung on his lips!
It really wasn't his!
…
Beyond the world, the desolate domain.
A beautiful and exquisite white fox suddenly opened its eyes.
It leaped down from the mountain stream and instantly transformed into a towering divine beast, its form as large as a mountain, making it difficult for ordinary beasts to look directly at its true form. The nine magnificent and enormous snow-white fox tails behind it were even more dazzlingly beautiful, like a miracle! Even the heavens seemed to favor it!
The Heavenly Fox walked among the mountains, and the clouds retreated for it.
Each easy step spanned a hundred miles, a magnificent divine beast strolling in the desolate world.
It occasionally lowered its head, sniffing as if searching for something important.
A large and magnificent Fire Phoenix hovered in the sky, slowly landing on a nearby mountain peak, transforming into a handsome and妖邪 man in red.
He held a folding fan of golden Phoebe wood, with a string of agate tassels hanging from it. This vulgar yet elegant color scheme appeared unrestrained and graceful in his hands, indescribably free.
He closed his fan and lightly clapped his left palm, sighing, "The Lotus Domain of the Heavenly Realm, which was once blessed and prosperous, has become this desolate and uninhabited place. Its Qi is truly exhausted…"
"The Heavenly Realm vanished as early as a hundred thousand years ago. You were only born a few hundred years ago. When have you ever been here?" the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox said casually.
Fei Yuan smiled. "I once found a ukiyo-e scroll in your study, and the prosperity depicted within really made me yearn for it. I almost didn't want to come out. That was the true peak of the Beast World. The spiritual energy today is much thinner than it was then. Divine beast races are becoming extinct, and lineages are dying out. Even the remaining few遗神 beast races are barely holding on…"
"Karma, heavenly condemnation."
A long sigh dissipated in the clouds.
Fei Yuan's eyes narrowed, and just as he was about to say something, his expression changed drastically. His folding fan fluttered, and invisible wind blades shot out, hitting a giant crocodile leaping out of the river.
The crocodile beast was instantly cut in half, and the blood that flowed out stained a large area of the lake red.
"It seems that this desolate wilderness isn't completely devoid of things. It has left some living creatures behind."
"The land of burial will have many tomb guardians, as well as tomb raiders. Be careful."
"I know."
Fei Yuan transformed into his original form and flew forward to scout the way.
The figures of the two slowly disappeared into the chaotic clouds.
…
Time flew by like a white horse passing a crack, and a few years passed in the blink of an eye.
Sang Luo touched her slightly pregnant belly, knowing without guessing whose child it was.
The more she didn't want it to come, the more accurately it came.
Only the offspring of divine beasts could have such a long gestation period.
Yan was just using her as a substitute. Sang Luo originally didn't want this child to be born, but since she was already pregnant, she couldn't bear to get rid of it. Just like the little lion back then, even when she hated Duo Tu so much, she never harmed the child.
Not to mention that Minos had foreseen the child's arrival. Even if she wanted to get rid of it midway, Minos and the others probably wouldn't allow her to do so.
The offspring of divine beasts were too precious, practically a blessing from heaven.
Minos also told Sang Luo that if she abandoned this child, she would probably incur the wrath of heaven. If she successfully gave birth to the offspring of an ancient divine beast, she would receive the grace of heaven.
Whether it was a threat or the truth, Sang Luo ultimately decided to keep this child.
Sang Luo took the time to return to Qingqiu.
She didn't find Yan.
Sang Luo looked at the empty courtyard, with a thick layer of dust accumulated on the ground, the place deserted. She went to the old village chief to ask, and he said that the Divine Lord had left a few years ago and never returned.
She returned to the Phoenix Palace. Fei Yuan hadn't returned all these years either. She didn't know where he had gone. She couldn't sense the partner mark, and she had never received a response to the messages she sent him.
Sang Luo vaguely guessed that the two of them might have left together.
Fei Yuan wouldn't deliberately not reply to her messages. The two of them were probably no longer on the Beast World Continent and had gone to other spatial worlds.
In the quiet room, Minos opened his eyes. He had glimpsed a scene in time:
A lighthouse-shaped towering divine tree, its trunk piercing straight into the clouds, its branches and leaves almost withered, with only a few remaining.
A three-colored light gathered above the treetop, and a huge nine-tailed white fox fell from the sky, swallowing the light into its mouth, and then遁入虚空, followed closely by a black Fire Phoenix.
And after the two left, the ancient tree quickly withered, turning into a cloud of dust and dissipating into the air…
…
After Sang Luo returned to the Holy Palace, Minos told her what he had seen.
Sang Luo wasn't too surprised. The master and disciple were indeed together, but what was the towering divine tree? She had never seen this thing before?
"Can you see where they went?"
"The Heavenly Realm beyond the Beast World."
"The Heavenly Realm?"
"Yes, the Heavenly Realm, the Earth Realm, these are all ancient terms. I'm not too clear about the specifics. I've only seen related descriptions in ancient books."
Seeing Sang Luo's curiosity, Minos poured her a cup of floral tea and slowly recounted, "The Beast World has a long history, and it's difficult for later generations to glimpse the source of its civilization. Before the Divine Fall period tens of thousands of years ago, the Beast World was divided into the Heavenly Realm and the Earth Realm. The ancient divine beast races lived in the Heavenly Realm, and the Earth Realm was the initial plate of the current Beast World Continent."
"Later, for some unknown reason, the spiritual energy slowly dried up, and the Heavenly Realm and the ancient divine beast races perished together. Some descendants of the ancient divine beast races took fragments of the Heavenly Realm and evolved them into new spatial worlds, such as the Sacred Realm where our angel race has lived for generations. Some ancient divine beasts retained their wings and bloodlines, but in order to protect themselves and not bring disaster to their races, they all chose to遁入世外, making them difficult to find."
"Some say that the real Heavenly Realm is still preserved in the world, but it has been sealed, and outsiders cannot enter. There are also rumors that someone has been to the Heavenly Realm and heard that it has long been turned into a barren land… Whether it's true or false, I don't know."
"Are you saying that Yan and Fei Yuan went to the Heavenly Realm?"
"Yes, that's possible," Minos said. "I'm more willing to believe that the Heavenly Realm hasn't disappeared. Perhaps out of protection, or perhaps for other reasons, another force sealed the Heavenly Realm. If so, there must be a guardian."
"The Heavenly Fox Divine Lord was left in the world and may have a responsibility. I guess he is the gatekeeper of the Heavenly Realm, and the key to entering and exiting the Heavenly Realm is in his hands."
"But what are the two of them doing in the Heavenly Realm?" Sang Luo asked suspiciously.
