"Niece, why don't you call me Uncle-Master?" Cao Ya laughed. With his strength, he was full of confidence. In the past, he would probably have just laughed it off and changed the subject. He wouldn't have confronted her like this now.
Of course, he was indeed the old man's apprentice and Xuanxuan's junior brother. In this respect, he was indeed Dugu Xiaoxuan's uncle. According to this relationship, calling her his niece would be quite reasonable, not too far off.
"Hiss..." Chen Nan gasped, looking at Cao Ya with the eyes of someone looking at a warrior, and secretly gave him a thumbs up.
Only the baby dragon looked completely bewildered, focused on gnawing on a pig's trotter.
Upon hearing this, Dugu Xiaoxuan smiled immediately, her beautiful eyes sparkling, yet a chilling aura emanated from them.
"Ahem, enough joking around." Cao Ya suddenly became serious and said, "Chen Nan, it's time to go."
After saying that, he quickly returned to the dark world.
"..." Chen Nan.
I thought you were very confident when you said those things, but this is how it turned out?
Cao Ya muttered to himself, "Dugu Xiaoxuan is also very strong. She inherited the bloodline of Dugu Baitian and Xuanxuan, has superb talent and excellent comprehension, and knows a lot of divine skills. I'm really not confident that I can defeat Dugu Xiaoxuan."
Of course, if the two of them were to actually have a duel, it would only be a friendly exchange, not a life-or-death battle.
Furthermore, Cao Ya is a senior martial uncle, and of the same generation as Xuanxuan. It wouldn't sound good for him to fight against a junior.
Although Dugu Xiaoxuan, this junior, is much older than him.
"Wait for us!" Long Baobao said, and she and Chen Nan followed.
"Hehe." Seeing this, Dugu Xiaoxuan sneered and followed Cao Ya and the others into the dark world.
"Why did you come along?" Cao Ya's eyes twitched, and she quickly asked.
"What? You won't allow it? Is the Dark World your private property?" Dugu Xiaoxuan said with a half-smile.
Cao Ya could only manage a forced laugh.
Chen Nan watched from the side, suppressing a laugh.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Several figures broke through the chaos and eventually returned to the dark, desolate ruins.
After they left, a figure emerged from the depths of the chaos. It was a gaunt old man with white hair and beard, his face etched with the wrinkles of a life weathered by time.
"That brat Cao Ya has gotten bolder and bolder in the past few years. He even dares to tease Xiao Xuan. I have to avoid Xiao Xuan when I'm here," the old man muttered.
"Sigh, besides Cao Ya, the second disciple, and Xuanzang, the third disciple we recently took in, what about the eldest disciple, Xuanxuan? We don't know if she's alive or dead. That guy Dugu Baitian, what's his name, 'Forbidden God'? Surely he can't even protect his wife and children, right? Although it seems Dugu Baitian is already dead." The weathered old man scratched his head, sighed, and a sense of worry was evident in his expression.
This old man was none other than the tomb keeper, Cao Ya and Xuanxuan's master, known in ancient times as the Old Man of the East Sea.
The old tomb keeper was incredibly powerful, reaching the pinnacle of the Heavenly Rank. Moreover, his physical body was special, being a divine object of heaven and earth. This made his power, even at the pinnacle of the Heavenly Rank, terrifyingly formidable.
With the destruction of the Six Paths World, the Tomb Keeper had escaped beforehand, hiding in the chaos to avoid the Evil Heavenly Dao and its powerful subordinates. Therefore, he did not participate in the return of the ancient gods in the depths of the boundless starry sky, and naturally he was unable to conquer the Path to Heaven. He was also unaware that his son-in-law, Dugu Baitian, had been resurrected and returned, and had entered a more profound realm.
"Forget it, the two little ones are playing around. I, an old man, won't join in the fun, lest Xiao Xuan pull out my beard again." The old man guarding the tomb said, suddenly his nose and eyes looked crooked and wide-eyed, as if he was very annoyed.
"Xuanzang's disciple is such a worry. I need to teach him a lesson and train him properly. He can't be worse than Xuanxuan and Cao Ya."
"Hehe, if Xuanzang also becomes a Celestial, then my sect will have four Celestial ranks! We can go down in history!"
"I, an old man, can now leave my mark on history and be remembered for eternity."
The old man guarding the tomb laughed heartily again as he spoke, and a wisp of his divine thought entered his inner world to teach the monk Xuanzang, whom he had saved during the Great Cataclysm, and incidentally, he took him in as his third disciple.
Then, instead of returning to the Dark World, the old tomb keeper wandered through the chaos. Occasionally, he would sneak into small worlds created by experts of the Heavenly Rank, taking a stroll and concealing his presence so that no one could detect his existence.
On the other side, Cao Ya, Chen Nan, Long Baobao, and Dugu Xiaoxuan, all four of them, possessed considerable cultivation and profound understanding of the Great Dao. However, none of them noticed the tomb guardian elder in the shadows making a ruckus, and they went straight back to the Dark World.
"You're really coming with us? Some of the three moons in the Heavenly Realm belong to the Dugu family. With the destruction of the Six Realms, the Dugu family's moons must have fled far into the depths of chaos beforehand to hide and avoid the cataclysmic calamity. Xiaoxuan, aren't you going to go find them?" Cao Ya said, looking at Dugu Xiaoxuan, his choice of words regarding the number rather vague.
"Our Dugu family is not lacking in Heavenly Realm experts. Even without me, they can still live peacefully in the depths of Chaos and protect our Dugu family's Moon World." Dugu Xiaoxuan said casually, "My father and younger brother Xiaobai are Heaven-Defying level experts, the most powerful. Besides them, there is my mother, my aunt, my elder brother Tianmo, my sister Xiaoyue, my father's disciples, and myself, all of whom are Heavenly Realm experts."
"The Dugu family has so many Heavenly Realm experts, they are indeed very strong." Cao Ya exclaimed, "The family of Dugu Baitian, the first forbidden god of the ancient times, is ridiculously strong."
"That's natural." Dugu Xiaoxuan tossed her jet-black hair, her face full of smiles, and said, "In the Six Realms, there are only a handful of forces that can produce a heaven-defying level, and it seems that only our Dugu family has two heaven-defying level experts."
At this point, Dugu Xiaoxuan glanced at Chen Nan and said calmly:
"Although both families occupy three moons in the Heavenly Realm, my Dugu family has a much richer foundation than the Chen family in the Heavenly Realm."
Upon hearing this, Chen Nan shrugged, indicating that he didn't care what Dugu Xiaoxuan said.
"So you really did fall out with the Chen family of the Heavenly Realm." Dugu Xiaoxuan smiled.
Chen Nan nodded.
To be honest, he still has feelings for many of his relatives in the Chen family of the Heavenly Realm, such as his grandmother, but others are practically his enemies, such as the eldest son of the Chen family.
"One day, I will return to the Chen family in the Heavenly Realm!" Chen Nan said resolutely. He wanted to become powerful and return to the Chen family to reverse the bad atmosphere and put the Chen family on the right track.
“Then your current strength is not enough,” Dugu Xiaoxuan said with a smile.
"So I haven't gone to find the world of the Chen family in the Heavenly Realm yet?" Chen Nan shrugged.
Looking at Chen Nan, for some reason, Dugu Xiaoxuan had a strange sense of familiarity. This feeling made her give up the idea of returning to the Dugu family's Moon World and follow her Uncle Cao Ya back to the Dark World.
Although she was reluctant to admit it, Cao Ya was indeed the old man's apprentice and her mother's junior brother. Normally, she should call him her senior uncle.
I want to see who Chen Nan was in his past life.
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