Princess Shencan stroked the little elf with a warm smile on her face, as gentle as a spring breeze. The coldness and murderous intent she had shown earlier vanished in an instant.
This little sprite is a divine silkworm, belonging to the royal family of Divine Silkworm Ridge. It has always been with Divine Silkworm Daoist, Xia Yiming, and Xia Yilin, flying around in the air, dazzling and radiant.
Originally, it wasn't particularly interested in the battle on the field, flying through the air as if trying to catch something. However, the sudden appearance of Cao Ya and Jiang Taixu, with their terrifying auras, startled it. Its small body trembled, tracing a graceful arc before landing on the shoulder of the white-robed nun Xia Yilin, blinking its bright eyes.
Xia Yilin comforted it because she knew that the two were Great Sages and Saints of the human race, with conscience and bottom lines. As long as they did not specifically target the human race, they would not kill innocent people indiscriminately.
Moreover, Shencanling advocates the coexistence of all things and is not hostile to the human race.
The little elf nodded its head, seemingly understanding but not quite, but the feeling of fear and apprehension had indeed dissipated.
However, when it saw Princess Shencan, it was stunned and confused. Tears welled up uncontrollably in its big eyes and fell in pairs. Then, with a "whoosh," it flew over.
Even the little elf itself didn't understand what was going on. It felt an inexplicable sense of closeness to the girl in the room, and it landed on her shoulder, sobbing sadly.
"Little darling, don't cry." Xia Yilin said softly. Seeing the little silkworm so sad, with tears streaming down its face, she felt very sad too.
"It's nothing, it's just that it saw its family and cried tears of joy. Although a long time has passed, and it has evolved many times and shed its old body, there are some things that the true Divine Silkworm Royal Family cannot erase and will not forget," the Divine Silkworm Daoist explained.
The Divine Silkworm Clan must constantly undergo metamorphosis in order to progress, improve their cultivation, and enhance their strength.
That divine emperor was the one who transformed nine times to become emperor, and whose tenth transformation was unprecedented and unparalleled, dominating the nine heavens and ten earths.
The Divine Silkworm Daoist and the Divine Silkworm Princess also experienced this evolution and transformation, because it is an inevitable process for the Divine Silkworm clan to cultivate. This applies to ordinary silver silkworms, golden silkworms, and even the royal silkworms with the strongest bloodline.
Every transformation, while indeed an evolution, is undeniably also an ordeal, a rebirth—breaking free from the old body and nurturing new life on the edge of death.
Naturally, many things are forgotten in the process of transformation.
Otherwise, how can it be called a new life?
However, as a royal silkworm, its bloodline and aptitude are extraordinary, and it is always special. Even if it has forgotten the past, that feeling can never be erased. It is imprinted in its bones. Even if it has transformed many times, evolved several times, and experienced changes in the landscape and the passage of time, seeing people and things from the past will still bring tears to its eyes, making it impossible to control the excitement in its heart, as well as that kind of deep-rooted sadness.
Princess Divine Silkworm was born at the end of the Primordial Era, during the era of the Fighting Saint Emperor's dominance. Although she was a royal silkworm and older than the Divine Silkworm Daoist, her generation was many generations behind her.
The little silkworm was also born at the end of the ancient era, and was even younger than the silkworm princess.
Strictly speaking, the Divine Silkworm Daoist is of a higher generation than everyone else in the clan. He is the biological son of the progenitor of the Nine Transformations Emperor, and his status is extraordinary.
However, even as he tried to explain why the little silkworm was crying, he still clung to the wine jar, drunk and reeking of alcohol, exuding a sense of decadence, melancholy, and sadness.
Millions of years have passed, and almost everything from that time has turned to dust and vanished, leaving nothing behind. All the relatives, friends, and relatives from that time are gone and will never reappear in this world.
The people of Shencan Ridge, such as Princess Shencan and Little Shencan, are indeed related by blood, but they are not beings from the same era, perhaps by millions of years.
Between the God Emperor and the Fighting Saint Emperor, there exist many ancient emperors.
Therefore, even though Princess Divine Silkworm appeared, the Divine Silkworm Daoist showed no other reaction except for a glint in his eyes.
Perhaps, if he had a choice, the Divine Silkworm Daoist would not have been sealed away in this era, but would have grown up and cultivated in the era when his father suppressed the world, laughing and crying together with his relatives and friends, living and dying together.
Even so, because the Divine Emperor would be the sole ruler of the world, no matter how talented the Divine Silkworm Daoist was, he would definitely not be able to attain the Dao and become an emperor.
It was for this reason that the Divine Emperor chose to seal the Divine Silkworm Daoist into the Divine Source, leaving him to be revived in the future to compete for the imperial path and strive for unparalleled glory.
Proving oneself, hah… So what if one becomes an emperor or empress? Ten or twenty thousand years later, won't we all return to dust? Of all the emperors and empresses throughout history, who has truly attained immortality? Who can live forever? In the end, we can't escape the word "death"... Father, actually, I don't want to live in this era…
But there's no going back...
The Divine Silkworm Taoist's lips twitched, as if he were giving a bitter smile. Then he drank the wine in large gulps, as if he wanted to bury himself in the wine jar and not want to come out or sober up.
However, others did not share much of this sentimentality.
"Little darling?"
Princess Shencan was surprised to hear this, but then smiled and said:
"It's a very nice name. I'll call you Xiaoguai from now on."
The little silkworm was fidgeting, crying loudly while rubbing its head against the silkworm princess's cheek, whimpering as if trying to say something.
Princess Shencan smiled slightly and gently stroked the little elf on her shoulder. Her jade-like fingers were crystal clear and shimmered with a captivating luster.
The little silkworm, with teary eyes, whimpered and kept rubbing its head against the purple-haired goddess's face. It even stretched out a small paw and grabbed a lock of her hair, refusing to let go, as if afraid it was all just a dream.
"So that's what their relationship was like. No wonder Little Silkworm was so heartbroken back then, she even cried until she fainted."
Among the crowd, Li Heishui and others, who had experienced the gambling on stones in the Divine City with Ye Fan, suddenly realized what was going on.
Back when Ye Fan was gambling on stones in the Divine City, he cut out the Divine Silkworm Princess from a source stone. She was nailed to the Divine Source and died. The little Divine Silkworm was extremely sad and cried incessantly until she fainted. Now that they meet again, she has transformed several times, but she still hasn't forgotten him.
Ye Fan belongs to the lineage of the Source Masters and has mastered the "Source Book". He is one of the top masters in the world when it comes to source techniques!
"This is truly a silkworm with deep feelings. They were separated by life and death in ancient times, and now they have finally been reunited." Ye Fan sighed, also feeling a sense of sorrow.
Although he is indeed a being of this era, he was not born on the ancient star of the Big Dipper; his home is Earth.
Ye Fan longed to return to Earth and see his parents. So many years had passed; were they in good health? What were their lives like?
Ye Fan was very worried. He feared that if he really found a way to return, it might be many years later.
The two elders are just ordinary people who don't know anything about cultivation. How many more years can they live?
Previously, when the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin caused an anomaly, Ye Fan was so excited that he wanted to hitch a ride on the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin to return to Earth. Because of this, he even made the decision never to return to Beidou again.
However, the place the nine dragons pulling the coffin went to was not Earth, but the Ziwei Star.
There, Ye Fan experienced a lot, took Ye Tong as his disciple, and finally returned to Beidou with his fellow disciples Yan Yixi and Li Tian from the Path of Human Desire.
But the place Ye Fan truly wanted to go was neither the Big Dipper nor the Purple Star, but his homeland—Earth.
I've heard that after becoming a saint, one can traverse the starry sky. If one has a star map, one can cross the boundless sea of stars and travel to other ancient planets inhabited by life... I must become a saint... Even without a star map, if I keep searching, I'll eventually find clues about Earth...
Ye Fan pursed his lips, his eyes clear and unwavering.
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