"She... seems to be called Miao Yunke,"
Li Qi touched his chin, digging out the name from his memory.
Apart from those cultivators from the Huangxuan Realm, she was the only outsider in the Dixu Realm.
He still remembered the reason why Miao Yunke was able to stay in the Dixu Realm.
It was because he had casually told a Plane Lord named Miao Suyao that he liked eighteen-year-olds.
As a result, after recovering from her injuries in the Dixu Realm, that person had actually left behind an eighteen-year-old girl.
Too literal, really.
Li Qi couldn't help but sigh.
"If I had known, I should have said I liked eighteen thousand-year-olds. I don't believe that woman could conjure an eighteen-year-old girl. Could she conjure an eighteen thousand-year-old monster?"
However, the person had already been left behind, so there was no need to dwell on such trivial matters.
With Li Qi's current abilities, it wouldn't be difficult to find the Plane Lord named Miao Suyao whose plane had been destroyed back then.
Li Qi had even met her a few times when he went to the Baiyang District and Yan'an District.
But even so, Li Qi naturally wouldn't let Miao Yunke leave.
After all, Miao Yunke had been in the Dixu Realm for several decades, so she naturally understood the richness of resources there.
Although Li Qi was now one of the top figures in the Xiaoyan District,
if outsiders knew about the abundance of the Dixu Realm, even if most people would be in awe and fear of his strength and wouldn't act,
it would still cause quite a bit of trouble.
Wealth stirs hearts.
This old saying applies to anyone with a pursuit of profit, whether they are mortals or cultivators. How could Li Qi, a seasoned veteran of self-preservation, not know this?
Otherwise,
back then, the few tens of thousands of spirit stones that many Plane Lords in the Xiaoyan District had scraped together by emptying themselves out, Li Qi hadn't even bothered to collect them.
To go all the way, Li Qi, while acting as a security guard at the waystation for the past decade or so, would occasionally talk about spirit stones with the Plane Lords of the Xiaoyan District. Seeing someone take out several thousand spirit stones at once, he would feign "surprise" and call them rich guys.
It made Li Qi, after pretending for so long, almost believe he was a pauper.
But fortunately, every time he encountered such a situation, a glance at the mountains of spirit stones in his spatial ring with his divine sense would restore him.
However, after these few decades, that girl named Miao Yunke was still in the Feisha Sect, which indicated that she did have some cultivation talent.
Li Qi glanced at Miao Yunke again, and couldn't help but be a little surprised.
In just twenty to thirty years,
Miao Yunke's cultivation had already advanced from the initial Body Forging stage to the sixth heaven of Foundation Establishment.
Even with the abundance of spiritual energy and resources, it was enough to show that her talent was quite good.
After all, cultivation has never been easy.
The span of each minor realm usually had to be measured in years.
Li Qi had seen enough of the development of the Feisha Sect by now, and he slowly withdrew his gaze.
In the blink of an eye, more than a year had passed.
Li Qi's outward demeanor was no longer as "reclusive" as it was at first.
Although he still refused visitors to the Dixu Realm,
it was not uncommon for him to invite passing Plane Lords to visit the Heavenly Dao Space and entertain them.
And in these casual conversations,
Li Qi also heard news.
The group from the Xiaoyan District who had followed Xu Tianzong to conquer and retaliate, harvesting Heavenly Dao Will, had returned to the Xiaoyan District a few days ago.
Although there were still some Plane Lords who were injured, this was unavoidable.
But without exception, these returning Plane Lords had all reaped immense rewards.
Their strength had improved, their spirit stone reserves had increased, and even the Heavenly Dao Will of their small worlds had grown somewhat.
This made a small number of Plane Lords who had stayed behind in the Xiaoyan District envious.
As expected, not long after Li Qi learned this news from a Plane Lord.
Many Plane Lords who had gotten along well with Li Qi at the waystation came to visit the Dixu Realm... the Heavenly Dao Space.
At the same time, they also came to observe the progress of the Dixu Realm's Heavenly Dao Will, which was about to be promoted. Although the possibility was slim, it might be useful for their own planes in the future.
In the following few years, the Plane Lords in the Xiaoyan District were all frantically digesting their gains.
Under these few years of stable cultivation, although no one broke through to the Hedao stage,
there were quite a number of Plane Lords who reached the peak of Void Return.
As for the Dixu Realm.
At one moment, Li Qi sensed something.
His originally closed eyes suddenly opened.
Li Qi's gaze fell upon the dome of the Heavenly Dao Space, and a look of excitement appeared on his face.
"After waiting for so many years. My precious, you are finally going to be promoted!"
The Dixu Realm's Heavenly Dao Will, which had been silent for years and motionless, finally stirred.
The saturated energy above the Dixu Realm's Heavenly Dao Will began to swell wildly, and the strength and quality of the Heavenly Dao Will increased continuously.
The aura of Heavenly Dao Will's majesty instantly enveloped the entire Dixu Realm, and then spread outwards, becoming increasingly intense.
In a short while, this majestic aura caused the Heavenly Dao Will of nearby small worlds to tremble in fear.
Plane Lords of each small world cast their gazes from their small worlds.
"That direction, it's the Dixu Realm... The Dixu Realm's Heavenly Dao is finally going to be promoted!"
Xu Tianzong, a Plane Lord far away in the Xiaoyan Realm, also projected his divine sense over.
A look of surprise appeared on his face.
"It seems that in our Xiaoyan District, besides my Xiaoyan Realm, there will soon be a second world capable of accommodating Hedao stage cultivators."
At this moment, Li Qi, who was in the Dixu Realm, was fully focused on sensing the changes within the Dixu Realm.
The strength of the world, the more abundant spiritual energy, and in some places, new large spiritual脉 were subtly condensing.
Ordinary small grasses instantly bloomed with radiant light and transformed into spiritual herbs, and spiritual essence gradually appeared on unknown ancient trees...
All these changes were too numerous.
And in the next moment, a look of astonishment appeared on Li Qi's face again.
But this time, he was not astonished by the changes within the Dixu Realm.
But he felt that.
Within his body, pure spiritual energy condensed from the entire Dixu Realm was constantly pouring in.
And the amount of this spiritual energy was incredibly vast, like an abyss without end.
This was... the feedback from the Dixu Realm's Heavenly Dao Will to him, its Plane Lord.
Li Qi could even feel his realm and cultivation increasing at a visible speed.
"Peng!"
In the very next moment, Li Qi easily stepped from the eighth heaven of Void Return to the ninth heaven.
But this was far from over.
This pure energy continued to pour into Li Qi's body, showing signs of pushing him towards the peak of Void Return.