Soul Town: Claiming the throne? You've asked my Tian Ce Army, haven't you?

Li Moxuan: "..."

With a bang, Yue Xiling collapsed drunk on the table again. She's both terrible at it and loves to play games!

Li Moxuan ignored her, and after finishing his meal, he cleared the table and cleaned up the dishes before walking over to her. He put her hand on his shoulder, lifted her up, and carried her up the stairs.

After taking off her coat, shoes, and socks as usual, Li Moxuan put her on the bed and gently covered her with the blanket.

"Are you ready to go back?" Li Shimin's voice echoed in his mind.

"Wait a moment!"

Li Moxuan opened the bedside table drawer, took out paper and pen, hesitated for a moment, wrote down a few words, placed the note on the bedside table, and weighed it down with the pen.

"Master...please don't leave me...okay?"

Hearing Yue Xiling's murmurs in her sleep, Li Moxuan paused, sighed, glanced back at her, and then left the room.

"Let's go!"

……

The next morning, the blinding sunlight streamed in through the window. Yue Xiling rubbed her sleepy eyes and touched her slightly aching head as memories of the previous night flooded back.

Oh no, I've blacked out again!

She sat up in bed, rubbing her head, wondering if he had said anything to her last night...

Yue Xiling inadvertently saw the note left by Li Moxuan on the bedside table, reached out and took a look.

"If you can't hold your liquor, don't drink, especially not with strangers. If you get drunk, you might end up in a compromising situation..."

Is this a sign of caring about oneself?

Yue Xiling chuckled. Really, couldn't she just say it to his face? Why did she have to leave a note…

She placed the note on the bedside table, got out of bed to wash up, got dressed, walked out of Jingyue Pavilion, and knocked on the door of Tingyu Pavilion next door.

"Master, are you there? Let's go out for breakfast together!"

She knocked several times but received no response. Yue Xiling frowned. Could he have also blacked out? But why didn't he do anything to her last night?

Yue Xiling arrived at the balcony, took a step, and leaped onto it. "Master, are you there?"

She searched the entire house but couldn't find any trace of Li Moxuan. She couldn't help but wonder if he had gone to Wanji Palace to discuss matters with Tang Wunian again.

Filled with doubt, she left Tingyu Pavilion and headed towards Wanji Palace, trying to contact it along the way using the Divine Decree, but there was no response...

"What? He didn't come looking for you?"

Tang Wunian nodded and asked curiously, "Sister Xiling, what's wrong? Do you need to see him urgently?"

"No, but he disappeared early this morning..."

A bad feeling rose in Yue Xiling's heart. What did it mean to leave without saying goodbye?

"Then...should I send someone from the Tang Clan to help you look for it?"

"No need, I'll look for it myself first..."

Yue Xiling spent the whole day trying to find Li Moxuan. There was no record of him accepting missions in the Suspended List Hall, and there was no trace of him in the back mountain...

"Master, you're not joking with me!"

She then tried to contact everyone she knew who Li Moxuan knew, including Nar, Sylvia, and Wang Renqing, and even her mother Yue Qingxuan, whom she hadn't contacted in a long time.

But the final results were all unsatisfactory; it was as if Li Moxuan had suddenly disappeared from this world...

Clinging to her last hope, Yue Xiling used the divine decree to contact Jiang Ciyou, "Ayou, is my master with you?"

"You mean Ling Yan?" Jiang Ciyou asked, her face full of confusion. "Hasn't he always been with you?"

"No, he's gone!" Yue Xiling shook her head vigorously, her voice trembling slightly. "I've been looking for him all day, but I can't find him at all!"

Seeing that she seemed a little emotional, Jiang Ciyou quickly comforted her, "Don't worry, he's always been elusive. He's probably just sneaked off somewhere again. He'll definitely be back soon!"

"But... we can't even contact him through the divine decree!" Yue Xiling said anxiously. "Could he have been kidnapped by bad guys? Is he in danger...?"

"Don't worry, Xiling, are you still in Qianji City?"

Seeing Yue Xiling nod, Jiang Ciyou quickly instructed, "You stay there and stay put. I'll come find you, and we'll look for him together!"

After hanging up the divine decree, Jiang Ciyou set off overnight. When she arrived at Qianji City, at Yue Xiling's request, Tang Wunian had already mobilized the Tang Clan's forces to search for three days and three nights.

But there was still no news of Li Moxuan...

Seeing Yue Xiling's extremely haggard face, Jiang Ciyou sighed and stepped forward to support her. "Xiling, come back to Huanmengtian with me!"

"No, I still need to find him..." Yue Xiling tried to push Jiang Ciyou away, but she was forcibly pulled back.

"Xiling, listen to me, I know someone who might know where he went..."

"Really?" Yue Xiling's eyes lit up. "Ayou, does anyone know? Tell me quickly!"

"Come back with me and I'll tell you..."

"Okay, let's go!"

Yue Xiling followed her onto the Sky Traveling Boat that very night, returning to the Snowfall Plains.

She secretly vowed that if she found Li Moxuan, no matter what he said, she would make her feelings clear and be determined to be the rebellious disciple!

The commotion caused by the Tang Sect quickly attracted the attention of other deities in the Great Thousand God Realm, and news of the disappearance of Sword Master Lingyan also spread throughout the Great Thousand God Realm...

"Sigh, he really left!"

Upon hearing the news, Nar sighed. The next time they met would probably be at his own grave...

"Grandpa, is this Sword Master Lingyan very powerful?"

The little girl, Su Yuqing, came out and hugged his arm, saying, "I heard many people in the store talking about his disappearance..."

"Yes, he's very capable!"

Nar patted her head and said with a smile, "If you ever meet him in the future, just mention Grandpa's name, and he'll help you!"

"Oh……"

Su Yuqing nodded thoughtfully, "But he's definitely not as good as Grandpa. Grandpa is the best!"

"That's for sure..."

Chapter 436: He Doesn't Belong to This Era

On the Sky Boat.

Jiang Ciyou sighed as she looked at the anxious Yue Xiling and handed her a glass of water. "Xiling, have some water and get some rest!"

Yue Xiling took the water and drank it all in one gulp. She then sat down next to Jiang Ciyou. "Ciyou, who exactly is the person you're talking about? Is it my mother?"

"No, she told me she didn't know, so who else could it be?"

"Okay, okay!"

Jiang Ciyou pulled her into his arms. "Don't worry, I promise I'll help you find him, okay?"

"But……"

Before Yue Xiling could finish speaking, a familiar wave of dizziness washed over her; she had been drugged again…

Looking at her unconscious state, Jiang Ciyou shook her head, helped her to bed, covered her with the blanket, and took a deep breath. "Emperor Yan, you should know where he went, right?"

"He just went back..."

go back?

Jiang Ciyou frowned. "What do you mean? Did he go back to Qianji City?"

"No, he has returned to his own era..." Emperor Yan said slowly.

"I figured it out a long time ago. That kid isn't from our time; he's from the future."

"Huh?" Jiang Ciyou was stunned. "But if he really is from the future, why has he been able to stay here for so many years? And why did he suddenly leave?"

"Don't forget, that kid's guardian deity is the Ziwei Emperor, the head of the Four Emperors of Heaven. Not only that, he also has other powerful figures helping him!"

"As for why he left, it's probably because he had reached the limit of how long he could stay in this era. Even if he didn't want to leave, he would be forcibly sent back..."

Jiang Ciyou fell silent; she felt she needed to process this information...

After pausing for a moment, he asked, "Then, Emperor Yan, do you know how many years into the future he came from?"

"I don't know, but if nothing unexpected happens, you should be able to meet him in the future alive."

Jiang Ciyou sighed and said with a wry smile, "This guy, he didn't even give us a heads-up about something like this..."

He paused for a moment, then said, "I think he must be from forty years in the future, otherwise the Ziwei Emperor wouldn't have made a fifty-year bet with me back then."

"I might live to see that time, and so might Xiling, but by then, she'll probably be very old..."

Jiang Ciyou hesitated for a moment. What would Xiling do if she found out?

"Emperor Yan, is there any way to keep her in her current state into the future?"

"Yes, there is, but it could be very painful and dangerous for her..."

After hearing Emperor Yan's method, Jiang Ciyou's gaze fell on the Xuanyuan Sword hanging beside him. "Someone come here!"

"Your Highness!"

A voice came from outside the door. This Skyship was the special train of the Dream Heaven, and only members of the Dream Heaven were on board.

"Let's not go back. Let's turn around and head to the South District, to Honglian Forestry!"

"Yes!"

Three days later at noon, after Yue Xiling woke up, Jiang Ciyou told her everything in detail.

As she expected, after a moment of silence, Yue Xiling asked, "Ayou, do you have any way to keep my current appearance?"

"I imagined waiting for him in the future, confronting him about why he left without a word, but... but I don't want him to see me old and faded..."

"Yes, there is. Come with me!"

Jiang Ciyou walked out of the room, and Yue Xiling hurriedly followed her down the Sky Boat. What came into view was a forest burning with raging red lotus karmic fire.

"This is the Red Lotus Forest, said to have been created by Nezha, the Third Prince, the Great God of the Three Altars and Seas in the divine realm, and it is perpetually ablaze with the inextinguishable flames of red lotuses..."