Chapter 111: You May Leave Now

“Kid, don’t think I don’t know you’re laughing!”

“Though I have yet to become a true god, my primordial spirit has already begun to coalesce, and I possess divine awareness. Every move you make, I can easily detect.”

From the crystal throne came the resonant voice of the Domain Lord Lei Xiaoga, though it was neutral in tone, making it impossible to discern male or female.

Qingxi lifted his head, expressionless, and said, “No, I’m not laughing… because I’m holding it in.”

Lei Xiaoga was silent for a moment.

It snorted, then extended a massive claw like a stone pillar, pointing at the dragon horse lying on the ground. “Where did you encounter Xiaobai?”

Xiaobai?

Qingxi was momentarily stunned before realizing, “Domain Lord, you know the dragon horse?”

“It’s not just any dragon horse! Back then, Xiaobai was indeed a little white dragon favored by dragons. If it had only a lingering soul left, how could it have possessed an ordinary horse?”

Lei Xiaoga’s face showed helplessness.

Qingxi had browsed the dragon horse’s information and knew it was once a young celestial dragon, but after some unknown ordeal, only a wraith remained.

Now, even the memories of its past life had not awakened, and it was timid to the point of not resembling a dragon at all.

Qingxi pondered and asked, “Domain Lord, is it possible for the dragon horse to regain its past life memories?”

“Of course. After all, it is still the soul of a celestial dragon. Although now in equine form, each time it breaks through a major realm, its body can transform, drawing back the scattered remnants of its soul from between heaven and earth.”

“According to my calculations, once its cultivation reaches the Celestial Profound Realm, its soul can be fundamentally restored.”

“However, whether it can recover all its memories remains uncertain.”

At this, Lei Xiaoga suddenly stared at Qingxi. “Kid, you still haven’t told me exactly where you found Xiaobai.”

“Xisha River.”

Qingxi saw no need to hide this detail.

“Really the Xisha River?”

Lei Xiaoga suddenly showed a nostalgic and sweet smile, covering its face with dragon claws laden with storage bracelets, then shyly withdrew.

Qingxi’s eyes widened as he gazed at the countless storage bracelets.

Lei Xiaoga was unbelievably wealthy!

Truly befitting the master of a domain!

Yet at the same time, Qingxi sensed something strange.

It seemed that the dragon horse’s past life shared some very special… no, many unknown connections with Lei Xiaoga.

But for the moment, Qingxi couldn’t quite place what those connections were.

In any case, he was certain there was some hidden intrigue between them, and it was far from simple.

After a long silence, Qingxi asked, “Domain Lord, may I ask why you brought us here?”

He glanced at the towering piles of treasures around him, his mind racing with speculation.

Could it be… that Domain Lord Lei Xiaoga intended to reward him?

After all, he was the dragon horse’s master and had treated it well.

Thinking this, Qingxi suddenly felt a bit embarrassed.

Lei Xiaoga said, “It’s because Gagga was too stupid. I told him to just bring back the dragon horse, but that fool fell asleep halfway through. Yet you, you walked right into his trap and got brought back.”

Gagga was the name of a small thunder dragon.

Lei Xiaoga’s words made Qingxi’s expression awkward.

He had only tried out the “dog nose” divine skill and ended up encountering Gagga sleeping deep underground.

If he had resisted using that skill, he was sure he’d still be hunting demons in the Central Domain.

The thought of lost time and missed origins made Qingxi’s heart ache.

Suddenly, Lei Xiaoga waved a claw with authority. “Enough. Since you are awake, you may leave… but Xiaobai and the little monkey must stay.”

“Leave?”

Qingxi looked at the dragon horse still lying there, asleep, and the little golden ape, round-bellied from overeating and resembling a balloon, unwilling to part with them. “Can’t I take them with me?”

Lei Xiaoga said seriously, “With the outerworldly demons invading from the Kunxu Realm, the entire Yunchuan Domain is perilous. You can’t even defeat Gagga; how do you expect to protect them?”

Qingxi offered no rebuttal.

Though he was mainly afraid, he also felt Lei Xiaoga’s reasoning was sound.

In any case, the dragon horse had become his spirit beast and was linked by the “Thought Master” mode; it would find him again.

Moreover, the dragon horse and the golden ape were both asleep and safe within the Divine Dragon Shrine.

Reassured, Qingxi changed the subject. “Domain Lord, I heard you issued two thunder dragon edicts after this demonic invasion. Does this mean the incursion is even greater and more terrifying than before?”

“Ahem!”

Lei Xiaoga’s face darkened at the mention of the two edicts, hastily replying, “Of course. Who am I? The master of a domain—I would not lie. Because this invasion is on a larger scale, I hurried to bring Xiaobai back.”

Its voice rolled like thunder, nearly deafening Qingxi.

Recalling the mention of the “Kunxu Realm,” Qingxi seized the chance to ask, feigning ignorance, “Domain Lord, what is the Kunxu Realm? Is it the lair of these outerworldly demons?”

“Why aren’t you leaving yet?”

Lei Xiaoga shot Qingxi a glare.

But clearly lonely from long isolation, it slowly spoke, “The Kunxu Realm is nothing more than a small minor world. Even ancient sages don’t exist there; it’s pitifully weak. If I were placed there, I might become a formidable overlord.”

“But strangely, such a weak world dares to launch massive attacks on our cultivation world from time to time. I don’t know where they muster such courage.”

“Logically, my homeland, the Sacred Dragon Domain, could dispatch a single ancient sage to obliterate the Kunxu Realm. Yet those big shots refuse to act. Truly puzzling…”

Lei Xiaoga abruptly closed its mouth, stared hard at Qingxi, and said sternly, “Why are you still here? Didn’t I just tell you to leave?”

“I…”

Qingxi wanted to ask more questions, but Lei Xiaoga blew out a breath, summoning a fierce wind that sent him flying uncontrollably.

The shrine’s great doors opened automatically, and Qingxi landed hard outside the hall.

Bang!

The doors shut behind him.

Rubbing his sore body, Qingxi muttered, “This floor is way too hard!”

He habitually scanned the tiles outside the shrine.

Discovering even the tiles were made of celestial-grade spirit ore, Qingxi gaped in astonishment, almost wanting to dig them up.

But thinking of the consequences, he sighed resignedly and searched for a way out.

To his dismay, the shrine was built atop a towering pillar-like peak surrounded by sheer cliffs, with no path down.

Mist and clouds swirled around the mountain, obscuring the bottom from view.

He estimated the mountain to be several thousand meters high.

“Good thing I have a space interference zone; otherwise, falling from here would mean death, with nothing left.”

With that thought, Qingxi leapt down the mountain, summoning his spatial interference zone to land firmly on it.

Then the zone vanished, and he began free-falling again.

But the zone reappeared two meters below to catch him.

Qingxi repeated this process over ten thousand times before finally reaching the ground.

Only then did he realize the mountain was a staggering twenty thousand meters tall!