Becoming a Deity from Planting the Bodhi Tree

Chapter 867 - 318: Mei: How Has Jing Qiu Been These Past Few Years? (Bonus - )

Luo Sa: "..."In order to avoid bringing a huge psychological impact on Mei Ke at the moment, Luo Sa chose his words carefully:

"A lot has happened in the Federation during your years of disappearance, some of which could be considered as upheavals. Martial arts have also been evolving rapidly."

"For example, this year’s Great Martial Arts Competition is located opposite the Spirit Ocean in the Nine States."

Mei Ke furrowed her brows and said, "Have we already opened a stable passage to the Nine States? Then this year’s Great Martial Arts Competition is quite dangerous, isn’t it?"

Luo Sa had a headache for a moment.

How should he explain the changes of these years to her?

Be blunt?

He feared that Mei Ke’s already fragmented mental state would crumble further.

In the end, this daunting task was handed over to Mu Xuanying, who had rushed over upon hearing the news.

"Yo, isn’t this Sir Mu, dressed so elegantly? Are you going back home to inherit the family estate?"

Mei Ke leaned lazily on the bed, glanced at Mu Xuanying’s attire, and teased.

Mu Xuanying glanced at her and sighed, "Still alive, and still have the strength to joke."

Mei Ke curiously pursued, "How have things been these years, how has that boy Jing Qiu grown? Has he already built superior cultivation? What cultivation did he choose? What a pity for my heart crystal ore... You chose to return to the Mu Family, could it be for Ji Jingqiu? Has your family already included him in the gate?"

Just as Mei Ke was lamenting her heart crystal ore and cursing the Wanwu Association, she found Sir Mu’s expression to be very odd.

Just like the peculiar expression Luo Sa the Archbishop had before leaving.

Mu Xuanying placed his hands behind his back and chuckled in agreement with Mei Ke, saying, "A disciple of the World Venerable would naturally return to the Mu Family."

Mei Ke tutted, "Your Mu Family picked up a treasure, with your family’s support, how are the results of the Great Martial Arts Competition?"

Mu Xuanying smiled amiably and said, "Naturally, first."

"Federation’s first?" Mei Ke blinked, her pretty face finally lightened up a bit, "I knew I didn’t see wrong!"

Mu Xuanying slowly sat down, uttered a sound, and briefly but truthfully summarized Ji Jingqiu’s journey over the past two years:

"The boy took the Yang Yan path earlier, joined the Dragon Tiger Dojo, and established superior cultivation on the Four Guardian Stars. After returning from the Nine States, he followed the Hundred Veins path in cultivation. Last year, he went to the Federation’s west for training, causing quite a stir. He also participated in this year’s Hundred Veins Conference."

"Training in the west?" Mei Ke shook her head.

The western region is so chaotic, yet the boy dared to venture there. Truly like a newborn calf unafraid of tigers, lucky to not have died inside.

As for the Hundred Veins Conference... indeed, the Federation has undergone significant changes these years. The once scattered Hundred Veins have actually unified to hold a gathering?

"Could it be that the boy’s realm has already caught up to mine, stepping into the Chains Realm?" Mei Ke suddenly worriedly asked.

Mu Xuanying shook his head, "Jing Qiu isn’t in the Chains Realm."

Mei Ke was relieved, too, searching for heaven and earth’s spiritual mechanism in the Divine Travel Realm will slow a martial artist’s breakthrough speed by more than one step, especially for someone as extraordinarily talented as Ji Jingqiu, where the further he looks, the more he demands, thus progressing slower.

It’s just that the old man’s words were a bit strange, saying "isn’t in the Chains Realm," shouldn’t it be "hasn’t reached the Chains Realm"?

The two chatted about some changes over the past two years.

Feeling like there’s really no common language with this old man, Mei Ke asked him for the terminal.

Mu Xuanying shook his head, "For your own good, the terminal can’t be given to you temporarily."

Mei Ke asked puzzled, "I just want to see the martial arts section’s news from the past two years, how could that affect my mental state."

Mu Xuanying sternly said, "That would be even worse!"

The martial arts section’s headlines over the past two years, which one can depart from "Ji Jingqiu?"

Mu Xuanying opened the terminal and glanced at today’s martial arts headlines.

[Invincible in the World! The youngest Heavenly Person in Federation history, surpassing the Seven Marshals!]

"Let me have a look, let me have a look! I’ve been disconnected for years, I want to connect with the times!" Mei, tied up like a mummy on the hospital bed, wriggled over like a worm.

Click.

Mu Xuanying put away the terminal and scolded:

"Kids should not be looking, focus on healing."

"Looking... one more glance and I fear you won’t survive!"

...

...

"Did Wuzhou infiltrate the Federation a year ago? Or rather... ’a year ago’ from several years ago?"

News from the Wilderness Sect quickly spread to Federation officials, and then into Ji Jingqiu’s ears.

At this moment.

Within the Inner World.

Hel glanced at the beginning-to-decay little Wuzhou and sneered, "Then there are only two possibilities. First, its strength in the infiltrated clone isn’t high, so it’s cautious; second, it has other motives, waiting quietly for the right time. Which do you think is the most likely?"

"These two points aren’t mutually exclusive, because it has other motives, thus not daring to expose itself yet, waiting quietly for a favorable opportunity."

Ji Jingqiu’s eyelids slightly lowered, paused, then continued,

"Additionally, it depends on whether Wuzhou knows the true situation of the Federation."

"Not to mention Master Mu’s Dharma Body stationed in the depths of the Bitter Sea, even the Four Guardian Stars sealed underneath being Bitter Sea, there’s a high chance Wuzhou doesn’t know, otherwise, it wouldn’t have been coveting the Federation’s Four Guardian Stars all this time."

"Not long ago, a Divine Monarch captured a Four Demon follower, scoured its mind, discovering their main goal was the Federation’s Four Guardian Stars, indicating Wuzhou and its group still bear malicious intent towards the Four Guardian Stars."

Ji Jingqiu glanced at the utterly defeated little Wuzhou.

The latter had completely given up, lying flat.

Hel agreed on this point.

Even ten thousand years ago, they didn’t know this, merely believing the Four Guardian Stars harbored the great secret behind frequent appearances and rapid rise of Federation anomalies.

Even she, sealed within the Four Guardian Stars for ten thousand years, never knew that right "next door," lay a Sea Eye of the All Worlds Suffering Sea.