I long to return home!

"I don't care, I don't care, he must have been sent by you, you old bastard, you can't escape responsibility either," Shen Lingjiao replied.

Upon hearing this, Gu Changgeng sighed softly, picked up Huaizhen who was about to wake up, and walked towards the surrounding guards. He said in a deep voice, "Let's drop this matter. I will personally visit His Majesty another day."

The crowd exchanged glances, each making concessions. The leading general in the golden robe even bowed his head to signal for them to make way.

"No, that old geezer can't leave." Shen Lingjiao was about to stop him, but Wang Yan, whose injuries had improved, reached out and stopped her.

"Your Highness, I believe the Imperial Advisor will give you a reasonable answer."

Gu Changgeng's lips curled up slightly. He took a step forward, and the void in front of him opened up to the size of a person. Then he carried Huaizhen inside.

...

When Huai Zhen opened her eyes, she found herself in a snow-covered cave. Looking around, she saw Gu Changgeng sitting in a pavilion, drinking warm tea and playing chess alone.

Huai Zhen was stunned for a moment. The unbearable memories once again eroded his consciousness. After he felt slightly better, he slowly stood up, and the piled-up snow slid off his shoulders.

With a dull thud, the snow fell to the ground and dissipated. The white snow seemed to have a calming effect, and Huai Zhen was now in a peaceful state of mind, showing no trace of hostility.

Apart from the rushing water, the only other sound in the larger cave was the sound of chess pieces being placed. Huai Zhen remained silent, wondering how such a thing could happen in a foreign country.

"Ah Zhen, do you know how big the world is?" Gu Changgeng, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke. As the white piece was placed, the entire game ended in a draw.

With a gentle wave of his sleeve, Gu Changgeng restored the chessboard on the table to its original, spotless state. Looking at Huai Zhen, who was deep in thought below the stage, his complex expression was tinged with an indescribable emotion.

"Huai Zhen has never truly seen them, he only knows that the Milky Way is vast, that there exists a world like ours, that there are cultivators, and that there are countless gods and Buddhas in the world..." Huai Zhen replied with a cupped hand. He paused at the end of his sentence, unsure how to begin describing immortals, as it had always been a legend.

"You..." Gu Changgeng smiled wryly, "Why are you taking this so seriously? Fine, I'll take you to see the vastness of the starry sky."

Upon hearing this, Huai Zhen was stunned for a moment. How could he look at the vast starry sky?

Before long, Gu Changgeng teleported to his side, grabbed his shoulder firmly, and lightly touched the ground with his toes. He immediately felt an immense pressure squeezing his entire body. In the blink of an eye, they were above the Star Watching Academy, and in another blink, they were thousands of miles high in the sky. Every blade of grass, every tree, every mountain, and every river slowly became tiny.

High in the sky, a beam of icy blue light shot straight up, stretching as far as the eye could see.

After a long time, Gu Changgeng arrived at the end of the sky, a pure white realm without any impurities.

At this point, he no longer restrained his cultivation at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage, and with a single strike, he broke through layers of mirror-like obstacles and rushed forward at full speed.

They were so fast that they covered nearly a thousand miles in a single breath!

A fierce gust of wind rushed towards him. Even though Huai Zhen used his hands to gather spiritual energy in front of him, he still couldn't open his eyes, but he could sense that the surrounding spiritual energy had undergone a qualitative change.

After an unknown amount of time, the feeling gradually subsided, and at the same time, Gu Changgeng's voice came from his ear: "We've arrived. Open your eyes."

Upon hearing this, Huai Zhen's eyes trembled slightly. It took all his strength to open them, and when he did, his pupils contracted sharply, as if everything was unreal.

He was standing above the starry sky, only his eyes could move, and he couldn't make a sound no matter how hard he tried, as if he were mute.

Only when spiritual energy, which originated from the same source as his own but was different, surged into his shoulders was he able to barely keep his head moving.

Huai Zhen looked down and was speechless with shock. Beneath his feet was the planet he lived on, and compared to this planet that was glowing with spiritual light, the two of them were as insignificant as a speck of dust.

Suddenly, a warm current swept through his body, and at the same moment he felt his spiritual sea boiling, and his divine sense expanded tens of thousands of times.

"Take a good look at this starry sky."

Gu Changgeng's voice rang out, and Huai Zhen's eyes flashed with a strange light as she used her Nascent Soul stage cultivation to expand her divine sense. The next moment, her divine sense spread out—one mile, ten miles, a hundred miles, a thousand miles, several thousand miles!

The Milky Way is vast and boundless, with no end in sight. Divine consciousness reaches its limit, but from the perspective of the universe, it is less than one hundred millionth of that limit.

The stars in the Milky Way twinkle like brilliant gems, sometimes near, sometimes far, impossible to define. They could be a huge meteorite, or a planet like the world beneath our feet.

The beauty of the universe is beyond definition!

Huai Zhen revealed an unprecedented emotion. Just now, through his divine sense probing, he had seen no fewer than three life-bearing planets surrounded by spiritual light.

The nearest tree is right in front of us; it doesn't seem that far away.

As Huai Zhen looked towards the planet, Gu Changgeng, seeing the life-bearing planet so close at hand, said, "Ah Zhen, look at this planet. It may be right in front of us, or it may be only tens of thousands of miles away, but even if I go all out, it will probably take at least ten years to get there."

Upon hearing this, Huai Zhen was once again shocked. He knew that for a Nascent Soul cultivator, traveling ten thousand miles was only a matter of a few breaths, and for a Nascent Soul cultivator at the Great Perfection stage like Gu Changgeng, ten thousand miles might only take a breath. But if it was really as he said, nearly five years would be a very long journey.

Before long, Gu Changgeng spoke again: "Once a cultivator reaches the Nascent Soul stage, a wisp of divinity will grow in their body, and their physical body will be close to perfect, or in other words, they can no longer be considered human."

“Cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage will be suppressed by the laws of the world, and their cultivation will stagnate. They need to adapt to higher-level laws of the world to cultivate, which means ascending to the God Realm.”

"The physical body of a Nascent Soul cultivator can adapt to the pressure of the universe and galaxies, and can travel to any star field in the universe."

"I won't waste any more time. What you just saw may only be a corner of the human world. As far as I know, there are many star fields in the universe. This cosmic galaxy may be one of them, but I don't know exactly how many star fields exist."

"However, the Star Surveillance Academy's tens of thousands of years of accumulation have not been in vain. According to our ancestors from the Upper Realm, the God Realm is composed of a vast number of star domains. If the God Realm is a towering tree, then each leaf on that tree is a star domain of the Human Realm..."

Hearing this, Huai Zhen was in a daze. He couldn't adapt to all of this quickly, after all, the amount of information was really too great. He realized for the first time how vast the universe was. What exactly was the end of cultivation? Invincibility in the world? Or immortality?

This time, anything is possible...

Having said all that needed to be said, Gu Changgeng gave Huaizhen a meaningful look and said calmly, "We've seen what we needed to see. Let's go back."