The matter was completed smoothly. After everyone left, Xiong Shuang stepped forward and asked, "City Lord, is it still necessary to hold the celebration ceremony for the City Lord's wife? If so, we can start preparations now."

When Yang Yitian heard the title "City Lord's Wife," he looked up but ultimately said nothing. Actually, "City Lord's Wife" sounded quite appealing.

Qi Zhiheng said, "There's no need for a grand celebration. We will be going into seclusion in a few days. Keep an eye on things in the city. If you've managed things well when I come out, I'll reward you."

Xiong Shuang sensed something and knew that Qi Zhiheng was always generous with his rewards of pills, so he immediately became very motivated: "Rest assured, City Lord, I will do my best to fulfill your request."

Qi Zhiheng waved for the people to leave.

Yang Yitian inspected the city that day, checked the defensive formations that had been set up, and then reinforced them. Five days had passed by the time he finished all this.

Qi Zhiheng temporarily handed over the core of the formation to Xiong Shuang and placed a restriction on it so that if it were taken by someone else, they would not be able to destroy or use the formation.

After Qi Zhiheng finished doing all this, he instructed, "If anyone tries to seize the core of the formation, you should immediately activate the core of the formation and turn on the defense."

Xiong Shuang accepted the order and withdrew.

Qi Zhiheng instructed Yang Yitian to set up a barrier to prevent outsiders from spying on him. Then he pulled Yang Yitian along and said, "Let's go, let's try to find Earth."

After Qi Zhiheng finished speaking, he waved his hand in mid-air and pulled Yang Yitian into the spatial rift.

Yang Yitian was a little nervous: "So many years have passed, I wonder how my parents are doing now."

Qi Zhiheng guessed his concerns. Yang Yitian's parents were both mortals, and twenty-odd years was a very long time. He thought for a moment and said, "You don't need to worry too much. I have mastered the power of spacetime, so compressing time a little is not impossible. However, my ability is limited. At most, I can only compress time by a few times in the space channel. In this way, when you return to Earth, a few years will have passed."

"Will it harm your body?" Yang Yitian asked with some concern.

Qi Zhiheng shook his head: "It won't affect me. At most, it will consume more spiritual energy." With the space around, I can always recover in the space passage where there is no spiritual energy.

Yang Yitian agreed when he heard that it would have no impact.

Qi Zhiheng began to reverse the time distortion within the spatial passage, and his spiritual energy was rapidly depleting. A fine layer of sweat appeared on his forehead. Yang Yitian advised from the side, "If it's too difficult, then forget it."

Qi Zhiheng said, "It's nothing." He had only consumed his spiritual energy so quickly because he wanted to shorten the time, and he was already at his limit.

He withdrew his spiritual power and said, "Alright, the exact time is still unclear, but it will definitely be within ten years."

"Ten years is enough." Yang Yitian was afraid that Qi Zhiheng would continue to force himself.

After venturing further in, just as Qi Zhiheng had guessed last time, there were countless worlds of all sizes in the vast universe.

Because they lack Earth's coordinates, they can easily lose their way in the space tunnels.

At this moment, countless afterimages of worlds appeared before them, and Qi Zhiheng found it difficult to choose, because he did not know what Earth was like.

Yang Yitian did remember what Earth was like, but his soul power was not as sharp as Qi Zhiheng's, and there were too many phantoms in front of him, so he didn't have time to react.

Qi Zhiheng came up with a solution: "I'll take a look first and find any possible phantom images of Earth, then you can identify them."

"Alright!" Yang Yitian was already dizzy from these illusory figures, so he immediately agreed to his suggestion.

Qi Zhiheng unleashed his full soul power, pointing out several illusory figures similar to the Earth described by Yang Yitian, and asking Yang Yitian to identify them.

After eliminating more than a dozen worlds similar to Earth, Yang Yitian saw the world that was similar to Earth, but he was somewhat unsure whether to confirm it.

"Perhaps a few years have passed, and the Earth has undergone some changes." Qi Zhiheng didn't know what the Earth was originally like either.

The illusory scene before Yang Yitian was nothing but ruins and devastation, vastly different from the Earth he remembered. He recognized Earth because the illusory scene had landed on the city he had previously lived in, and he saw the familiar street. Most of the shop signs were still there, and he recognized them.

"How did this place become like this?" Yang Yitian was truly astonished, followed by some worry.

Something clearly went wrong in this city, and it's unknown whether his relatives suffered any accidents in such an environment.

Qi Zhiheng said, "Don't think about anything else for now, let's go in and take a look." He took the other person's hand with his left hand and tore open the illusory image of Earth with his right hand, and the two landed in this world.

Upon entering Earth, Qi Zhiheng immediately smelled a slightly acidic, putrid odor in the air.

"Didn't you say the spiritual energy in this world is very thin? It seems alright to me." Qi Zhiheng compared the concentration of spiritual energy here with the other worlds he had visited. The concentration here is only a minute or two thinner than the spiritual energy in the Xuanling Continent, which is enough to allow a person to cultivate to the late Foundation Establishment stage.

After entering Earth, their cultivation levels were suppressed to the late Foundation Establishment stage, and the sudden suppression of power made them feel uncomfortable.

Just then, a shadowy figure suddenly appeared from the side. Although Qi Zhiheng's cultivation level was suppressed to the late Foundation Establishment stage, his soul power was not suppressed. He and Yang Yitian easily dodged the shadowy figure's attack.

Yang Yitian also noticed the appearance of the dark figure. The reason he simply dodged it was because the creature in front of him was so disgusting that he didn't want to touch it at all.

Yang Yitian looked disgusted: "This is... a zombie?"

The creatures before them were clearly human in origin, wearing tattered human clothes, though most of their flesh was rotting and emitting a foul stench.

Their limbs were stiff, their mouths contained bits of flesh, their pupils were grayish-blue, and the whites of their eyes were bloodshot. It was a truly gruesome sight.

Qi Zhiheng had rarely seen anything so ugly, and couldn't help but show a look of disgust.

Soon, his expression turned sour. His soul power had detected many similar ugly things around him, and upon hearing Yang Yitian call out their names, he asked, "Have you seen these things before?"

Yang Yitian had never seen it before; he had only seen it in novels: "It's written in books."

Qi Zhiheng nodded, assuming he had seen such a thing in some kind of motor.

Yang Yitian said, "Their weakness might be their heads. Why don't we just cut their heads off and see?"

Upon hearing this, Qi Zhiheng took out two long swords, one for each person. Qi Zhiheng took the lead and chopped off the head of a zombie, after which the zombie fell to the ground and did not get up.

Yang Yitian said excitedly, "Let's burn the zombie's head and see if there's anything inside."

Qi Zhiheng did as instructed, burning the entire zombie's head to ashes.

Yang Yitian used his longsword to search through the pile of ashes, but didn't see anything: "How could this be? Shouldn't there be some kind of crystal core?"

Qi Zhiheng didn't know what he was muttering, but as soon as his soul probed into the ashes, he knew there was nothing inside: "Don't bother looking, there's nothing in there."

Yang Yitian was somewhat disappointed and lost interest in killing zombies: "Let's leave here."

A large number of zombies were closing in, making it impossible to walk on the ground. Qi Zhiheng and Yang Yitian immediately decided to fly on their swords.

It's not that I don't want to use the spiritual energy of flight, it's just that flying artifacts consume too much spiritual power, which is not suitable for someone at the Foundation Establishment stage.

The two flew into the air on their swords, and the situation on the ground was clearly visible.

The entire city seemed to come alive because of Qi Zhiheng and Yang Yitian's arrival, but the people wandering around were not real people, but a group of stiff-moving zombies.

Just as Qi Zhiheng was about to leave, Yang Yitian said, "Wait a minute, let's change our clothes first. Our current outfits are too eye-catching." He took out a spirit robe. The spirit robe's defensive effect wasn't very strong, but it could change its style according to his new clothes.

Yang Yitian changed into a plain white T-shirt and jeans. He didn't look very old, and this outfit gave him a student-like appearance.

Seeing this, Qi Zhiheng also changed into a spirit garment. He didn't know what clothes looked like on Earth, so he simply changed into the same outfit as Yang Yitian.

Yang Yitian looked Qi Zhiheng up and down with a curious expression, then touched his chest muscles and said, "You look quite handsome in this." He thought to himself with a hint of pride that their outfits could be considered a couple's outfit!

Qi Zhiheng, however, was somewhat dissatisfied. He stared at Yang Yitian's exposed arm and muttered, "Indecent!"

Yang Yitian: "..." I almost forgot about the thoughts of people in ancient times.

Yang Yitian: "Everyone here dresses like this. Look at those zombies, they were originally human too, and they're dressed in similar styles."

Qi Zhiheng kept quiet. He wasn't from Earth and didn't know if this was the custom here, so he could only follow Yang Yitian's lead.

"Let's go, let's go, don't wait here." Yang Yitian urged hurriedly, lest Qi Zhiheng say something unpleasant again.

The two flew on their swords, not forgetting to cast an invisibility talisman. After all, they were on Earth, and it would be unwise to be seen while flying on their swords.

Yang Yitian spoke with great conviction, but was quickly proven wrong.

As soon as they flew out of the city, they saw a group of people rushing towards the city.

The important thing is that these people were all wearing strange clothes, completely wrapped up, with only their eyes showing.

Qi Zhiheng turned to Yang Yitian and questioned, "Didn't you say that everyone here dresses like us? What about these people?"

Yang Yitian was speechless; he didn't know what was going on either...