Chapter 376.2: Jin Lis Star

Chapter 376.2: Jin Li's Star

Just then, Yu Menxian called out, "I pay my respects to you, Heavenly Sovereign!"

Qi Yuan, with Xie Xinsu still in his arms, looked at the woman in palace robes and Xiaomei beside her. He didn’t waste a single second. "Ah, ahem, I didn’t bring my bank card outside with me."

Xiaomei could only sigh. "We didn't come to get the money back."

She had long made peace with her brother's way of thinking. At this moment, she felt something lighten in her chest. He was still the same as ever—he was still her brother.

He relaxed. "Then what business do you have here?"

Yu Menxian gave a graceful bow. "I am the founding patriarch of the Heavenly Origin Sect. I descended from the upper world. This world appears to be on the verge of destruction."

"Oh, I know a thing or two about that, though I'm not entirely clear on the details."

Yu Menxian thought it was natural that he knew about it. How could he not, when even the Heavenly Origin Stone knew?

Yu Menxian asked, "Do you have any means to prevent it, Heavenly Sovereign?"

He shook his head. "Honestly, I'm not completely sure. But I still have to become the Martial God of Ten Thousand Paths. Naturally, I won't let this world fall apart."

Yu Menxian was slightly speechless. The man was not quite as reassuring as she'd hoped. Compared to him, the Heavenly Sovereign at her sacred land was more impressive and enigmatic.

She glanced at him. "When this world shatters, ordinary mortals will likely not survive. I intend to take some people with me when I leave..."

Xiaomei and Qi Yuan were close. If she planned to take Xiaomei to the upper world, naturally she ought to ask him first. Though, taking anyone to the upper world at all was enormously difficult, she doubted she could bring all that many.

"Do as you like. Just don't get in my way." Qi Yuan was laidback. Then, something occurred to him. "Since you come from the upper world, do you know the Divine Moon Palace?"

Yu Menxian's heart skipped a beat. So he truly is a powerhouse from the upper world!

"I am familiar with it. The Divine Moon Palace is a sacred land force of the Middle Three Heavens!"

The upper world was divided into Nine Heavens: the Lower Three Heavens, the Middle Three Heavens, and the Upper Three Heavens. The higher the heaven, the richer it was in spirit qi. The higher the heaven in which a sacred land was located, the more powerful it was. The Divine Moon Palace stood in the Sixth Heaven.

Qi Yuan waved his hand. "I have a wife there. She is a Moon Maiden of the Divine Moon Palace. Her name is Jin Li. Do you know her?"

Before Yu Menxian's eyes, a silhouette of a woman appeared. Her radiance was akin to spring blossoms, while her grace was akin to the moon. Her beauty stole all the colors from the mortal world. Compared to her, beauties like Yu Menxian and Xiaomei seemed almost ordinary.

Qi Yuan had never seen Jin Li in person, but Qi Jianjun had once shown him an image of her.

Yu Menxian's heart thumped. "Seven hundred years ago, I once glimpsed this Moon Maiden in the demon abyss."

Qi Yuan felt something lurch in his chest.

A sense of time and space intertwining, and a dream turning into reality. At that moment, it felt as though the Moon Maiden of the past and the Jin Li of the present were right beside him. He felt that if he reached out, he could touch her. Something wistful rose in him.

"We have been apart for years. A single inch of longing, tangled into a thousand knots. When you saw her, how did she seem?"

Yu Menxian gave Qi Yuan a long, hard look. "The Moon Maiden appeared to be well in all regards. I heard that after she returned to the Divine Moon Palace, she went to fight in the demon abyss. She didn’t rest for even a moment, as though seeking to accumulate as much merit as possible in order to petition to Lord Moon God for a wish."

Within the Divine Moon Palace, the Moon Maiden held a special status, essentially serving as the heir. A Moon Maiden was not permitted to marry. Once, a Yang Spirit had come to the Divine Moon Palace intending to take a Moon Maiden as his bride. Lord Moon God personally threw him out.

From then on, Lord Moon God had declared that Yang Spirit could never again set foot in any land touched by moonlight. Now, Yu Menxian found herself pondering deeply about the Moon Maiden.

"Is that so?" Qi Yuan sighed. "I'm in the lower world. Is there any way for me to contact her from here?"

Though he had already entrusted a letter to Shen Wushen, the man was stationed in the Lower Three Heavens. A single letter would take many years to arrive.

"It would be very difficult from the lower world. Ah, but wait. Because Lord Moon God held the Moon Maiden in such high esteem, her star illuminated the heavens. If she knows which star is yours, you could shift your star next to hers, and she would likely understand your meaning."

Qi Yuan's eyes lit up. "Oh, is that how it works?" 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ

Didn't that mean he could move one of his Star Golden Cores next to Jin Li's star? Then maybe he could shape it into a heart, or some other romantic gesture, to let her know he had arrived. Of course, there was always the chance that she wouldn't figure it out. After all, Jin Li didn't even know the star was one of his cores. But that was all right.

Qi Yuan asked eagerly, "Do you know which star is hers?"

"Heavenly Sovereign, please look!" With a sweep of her hand, a star chart unfurled before Qi Yuan's eyes. "This one is the Moon Maiden's star."

Qi Yuan fixed his gaze tenderly on that tiny little star. "How lovely."

Xie Xinsu squirmed in his arms, meowing. What's so lovely about it?

Yu Menxian warned, "Heavenly Sovereign, please be careful. Lord Moon God is a formidable Yang Spirit. Whatever star projection you cast, do not place it too close to Lord Moon God, or it will be seen as a provocation."

Qi Yuan agreed readily enough, "Understood. Don't worry, I'm a decent guy. I never break the rules."

Though inwardly, he was already wondering how exactly he would use his Star Golden Core to inform Jin Li of his arrival.

Then, he asked, "By the way, do you have any cultivation method that can change the shape of the star you reflect? It always being a circle is a bit strange."

With a heart-shaped star, Jin Li would definitely know it was him!

"Ahem... I have never heard of such a method."

Qi Yuan was somewhat dejected. "Haa... I still don't have enough Golden Cores. If I had a few million of them, I could use them to spell out words and form patterns like a drone formation. That way, I can send messages across worlds directly."

Uphold civilization. Foster new traditions.

The cultivation world's moral climate would surely improve immediately.

Yu Menxian was at a loss of words.

Qi Yuan asked again, "Do you know Ruan Yixi? She is my master, my wife, and a member of the Divine Moon Palace."

Yu Menxian gave him a peculiar look. "I have not heard of her."

She had a feeling that if Qi Yuan ever showed up at the Divine Moon Palace, the Lord Moon God would beat him up on the spot.

"If I were to write them letters, how long could you get them there?"

"Perhaps a few years?"

Qi Yuan deflated a little. It seemed letters were out of the question. Shen Wushen had already carried one up for him anyway. Once the game ended, he would face the Great Calamity and then ascend to the upper world himself. At last, he would meet Jin Li in person.

He was honestly quite nervous about it. Up until now, they had only known each other online. Then again, he reasoned, they already had a child together. They were practically an old married couple. There was nothing to be bashful about.

"Alright, no more wasted words. I still need to comprehend the myriad daos. See you around."

Once he had the information he sought, Qi Yuan had no further interest in chatting with Yu Menxian. He walked off with his cat. Zero-One followed closely behind like a loyal attendant and faithful little shadow.