"You know what..." he said, chewing as he spoke, "the fruits that grow in the demon realm... crunch crunch... taste different from those in the demon realm and the cultivation realm... crunch crunch... huh..."
Something's weird, let me take another bite.
"Why aren't you staying in the Demon Realm to organize your duties? What are you doing here?" Ji Mo Fan frowned as he looked at him.
"People always need to balance work and rest." Xiao Wangyan threw the last fruit in his hand into his mouth, cast a cleansing spell on his hands, and cleaned the sticky juice off.
"On the contrary, you are worrying so much at such a young age, you are unlikely to live a long life."
"You should listen to me, after all, I am getting on in years."
Ji Mofan didn't really want to hear it. He didn't understand why he, a righteous cultivator, should refer to the survival rules of demonic cultivators.
However, the phrase "work-life balance" is indeed true. Jimo had been busy all day and was indeed tired.
He sat down in another chair next to the table and poured himself a cup of tea that Xiao Wangyan had prepared.
The herbal tea helped dispel much of the fatigue, and Ji Mofan squinted his eyes.
For no apparent reason, Xiao Wangyan felt that his expression resembled that of the calico kitten she used to keep.
However, ordinary livestock that lack spirituality have very short lifespans. Even though he used elixirs to prolong the kitten's life, it only lived for thirty-two years.
Cats have a limited lifespan. He may be in the late Mahayana stage, but even he can't defy fate.
So he stopped raising ordinary livestock and instead set his sights on demonic beasts.
You can feed the demonic beasts more rare and precious herbs. As long as their cultivation level increases, even if their actual strength is not impressive, they can at least live for several hundred years without any problem.
And it's easier than raising a child.
Xiao Wangyan had raised demonic beasts in the Demon Palace's purgatory for so many years, but he felt that none of them were as exhausting as raising Ji Mofan recently.
Ji Mofan drank his tea, rested for a while, then turned to Xiao Wangyan and said, "What you mentioned at the end of that great battle..."
Ji Mofan originally wanted to ask Xiao Wangyan how he knew that Xiao Wangyan was reborn.
How was he able to return from the future to this point in time with what Heaven gave him?
Judging from the incident of Qianhe Louzhu being possessed, Xiao Wangyan returned even earlier than him.
What was his purpose? Was it just to bring back that immortal essence and give it to Ji Mofan?
How could anyone have known that Qu Jin would cause such a mess?
From whom was that immortal essence stripped off?
When Ji Mofan used that Immortal Token, he vaguely sensed that the power contained within it felt very familiar to him.
The more he tried to figure it out, the less he could grasp that strange sense of déjà vu in his mind.
That's why he wanted to ask Xiao Wangyan directly, since if Xiao Wangyan didn't know the answer to this question, then there was probably no one else in the world that Ji Mofan could ask.
Moreover... he sensed it when he used that immortal essence; all the Heavenly Dao power that was released had been used to stop Qu Jin from acting recklessly.
Just like when he used up Qi Yuan's immortal bones, that energy was gone once it was used up.
But that's nothing other than a Celestial Rank, the reliance that allows a righteous cultivator to survive in the Upper Realm after ascending to immortality.
Without this power of the Heavenly Dao, he has essentially lost his qualification to become an immortal. What will happen to him after that?
Sacrificing an immortal in exchange for completely eliminating the big trouble of Qu Jin is indeed a worthwhile deal. If Ji Mo Fan were that immortal, he would make the same choice.
But this person is not him now.
It's more likely that it's someone he knows.
Ji Mo Fan has lived for more than 20 years. In his brief understanding of his past and present lives, none of the righteous cultivators he has ever met have ascended to the upper realm.
That could only mean that in the future that Xiao Wangyan saw after his death, someone he knew ascended to the upper realm after completing his cultivation, but returned to resolve the troubles of this world, handing over his immortal status to Xiao Wangyan and asking him to take it out and give it to Ji Mofan for his use at the appropriate time.
Who could this person be?
Based on Ji Mofan's experience, among the group of people he knows, as long as Qu Jin is not exposed for his shady dealings and hastily causes trouble as he has in this life, leading to the depletion of spiritual energy across the entire land, then the cultivators who can make it onto the Heaven and Earth Ranking in the Dao Inquiry Conference are likely to achieve enlightenment in a short period of time.
Ji Mofan's understanding of them was not deep enough, and his feeling of familiarity was probably only because they had clashed in the Dao Asking Conference. Naturally, he dared not make any wild guesses about such matters.
However, his curiosity swirled through countless thoughts, but before he could even finish drawing the first question mark, Xiao Wangyan silenced him with a shushing gesture.
He put his index finger to his lips and whispered the words that Ji Mofan least wanted to hear: "Heavenly secrets cannot be revealed."
Although Ji Mofan was still curious, he had no choice but to give up now.
There was nothing special about it; it was just that when he tried to reveal his rebirth last time, Heaven struck him back with a bolt of lightning.
That's because Xiao Wangyan already knew about what he was talking about. If he had brought it up to someone unimportant without permission, it probably wouldn't have been all bark and no bite.
However, speaking of this thunder...
Ji Mo Fan lowered his head and pondered for a while.
When he confronted Qi Fengyu before, he seemed to have also revealed that he was reborn.
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