"According to my father, the Upper Realm is countless times larger than the Danling Continent. Not counting the original inhabitants of the Upper Realm, countless cultivators from the three thousand six hundred realms have ascended there over hundreds of millions of years, and among them, countless exceptionally talented individuals have established their own clans."

My Ling family's ancestors who ascended to immortality are probably among the best in the Danling Continent.

But in the Upper Realm, even with all their combined strength, they would still be nothing more than a minor, unrecognized clan.

As far as I know, among all the clans on our Danling Continent, only the Yun family can barely secure a place in the Upper Realm.

After the people of our various races on the Danling Continent ascended to the upper realm, most of them gathered in the Yun family's territory to live together in groups.

As Black Owl spoke, he would occasionally glance at Ji Fengming with a deep and tender gaze.

"What?!" Ji Fengming was both amused and exasperated upon hearing this.

If those clan members who participated in destroying the Yun family knew this news, they probably wouldn't want to ascend to immortality for the rest of their lives.

They wiped out the entire family of that person!

If he ascends to the upper realm, isn't he just going to be the head of the Yun family's elders?

He desperately cultivated to ascend to the upper realm, only to find himself in the ground one step after the next. What a ridiculous joke!

Thinking of this, Ji Fengming suddenly became smug, leaning closer to Hei Xiao with a grin: "So, after ascending to the Upper Realm, I'll be the rich kid! Don't worry, I'll protect you once we get there!"

Black Owl chuckled, amused by his words.

As they spoke, the two arrived at a spacious hall deep within the forbidden area.

On the stone platform in the center of the main hall, there is a mirror with a silver frame and a relief of an unknown six-petaled flower.

The mirror looked like an ordinary bronze mirror, but after Hei Xiao made a hand seal and injected a drop of his essence blood, the mirror surface rippled like water, and soon revealed a scene that did not belong to this hall.

The scene was somewhat dark and noisy, with people coming and going, some breathing sounds, and the clanging of metal.

"Oh, Qing'er, you're back so soon! I haven't even saved up ten thousand low-grade immortal stones yet!"

As the sound rang out, the screen flickered a few times, and a middle-aged man's dusty face appeared in the dark scene.

Ji Fengming: "..."

Black Owl: "...Father, what's wrong with you...?"

"Yes, we're mining! Your great-grandfather is about to break through to the Golden Immortal Realm, so we're all mining here to collect immortal stones to help him. Ever since you left last time, I signed the Thousand-Year Wedge and entered this mine, thinking that when you came back, I would also go out so you could witness the grand scene of your great-grandfather breaking through to the Golden Immortal Realm. Who knew you would come back so soon."

The middle-aged man seemed very happy when talking about it, and didn't seem to think that mining there had damaged his image at all.

Seeing that Hei Xiao wasn't alone, he paused for a moment, then said, "Hey, that handsome young man next to you isn't...?"

"He is Ji Fengming, a descendant of a branch of the Yun family that escaped back then." While Ji Fengming's attention was focused on the image in the treasure mirror, Hei Xiao secretly winked at his father.

Father Ling instantly understood. He looked at Black Owl with a complicated expression, then looked at Ji Fengming for a few more moments. He sighed softly and said, "Alright, since you brought him here, I know your intentions and will no longer influence your decision. In the years I've been in the Upper Realm, I've seen and understood many things."