Out of fear of death, Invest Everything into Health

The power shrouding Divine Phoenix Hall receded, and all the pressure dissipated.

Outside, Huai Jingming breathed a sigh of relief. He was really worried about any conflict arising between the Hall Master and Fan Wubing, thinking if these two strongest figures fought, this world wouldn’t be able to contain it.

This is also one of the meanings of "ascension."

Inside the hall,

Fan Wubing took a deep breath, slowly exhaled, and asked his senior sister,

"So, what exactly happened after that?"

Si Jiuyou, who seemed to have not spoken for a long time, somewhat hesitantly, voiced intermittently,

"You are... asking about what? The previous world or... this one?"

"The previous world, after we parted ways. What did you experience?"

Si Jiuyou sat down holding her crimson-gold long dress, inadvertently creating an invisible pressure on Fan Wubing.

A deep glow crossed her dark pupils, her slender eyebrows slightly raised,

"I couldn’t accept the decision you made, but at that time, I was powerless. But luckily, by some stroke of fate, I comprehended the Dao."

"Comprehended the Dao?!" Fan Wubing was somewhat stunned, "I remember, before you lost all your cultivation, you were just a Nascent Soul, far from comprehending the Dao."

Si Jiuyou slightly smiled, "I’m a genius, you know."

"Uh..." Fan Wubing was at a loss for words, "But, the prerequisite for comprehending the Dao should be a stable Dao heart. Was your state at that time conducive to a stable Dao heart?"

Si Jiuyou said, "At that time, I had only one thing in my mind, completely focused, exceedingly determined, isn’t that a stable Dao heart?"

"What thing?"

"To properly teach you a lesson, make you understand to listen to your senior sister."

"This..." Fan Wubing laughed dryly, "Sounds a bit too childish."

"Cultivation is originally a child’s play."

Well, Fan Wubing admitted, such a bold argument denying all cultivators could only reasonably come from his senior sister’s mouth.

After all, who else but a genius who stands alone in her brilliance?

"And then?"

Si Jiuyou said nonchalantly, "After restoring my cultivation, I was planning to find you. But whenever I thought about the letter you left me, I got very angry, so I just observed from the shadows."

Fan Wubing felt very guilty. He didn’t expect the letter he left his senior sister to cast such a psychological shadow. However,

"Observing from the shadows?"

Si Jiuyou’s gaze shifted slightly elsewhere,

"I’ve always been following behind you, didn’t expect that, did you?"

Suddenly, Fan Wubing anxiously slapped the table, "Why do you always like to play these games?! Come out earlier to see me! When I was searching everywhere for you, were you playing hide and seek with me?!"

Si Jiuyou said, "No, when you started looking for me, I had already left. I only accompanied you until you went to Abyssal Rift."

Abyssal Rift...

Fan Wubing recalled that period. In the previous world, the Eternal Immortal Continent was always threatened by the underground Dark Race. Abyssal Rift was where they warred against the Dark Race. At that time, he didn’t plan to participate in the battle, but Peach Blossoms forced him to go, saying it would help him grow rapidly.

Then it was at Abyssal Rift that he met Baili Yao Yue, the starting point of a series of entanglements thereafter.

"So where did you go?" Fan Wubing asked.

Si Jiuyou said,

"I cultivated too quickly, and Heavenly Dao couldn’t tolerate me, forcing me to ascend. Of course, I disagreed, so Heavenly Dao used you as leverage against me."

"This... What was your cultivation level at that time?"

"Nine-Tiered Tribulation Immortal."

Fan Wubing was dumbfounded, suddenly feeling somewhat inferior, "I always thought I was the first Nine-Tiered Tribulation Immortal of the Eternal Immortal Continent."

"That’s not important."

Fan Wubing smiled bitterly. Indeed, such a matter wasn’t something his senior sister would care about.

Just goes to show, there are always higher mountains beyond the mountains.

His senior sister’s talent was something he couldn’t achieve on the Eternal Immortal Continent.

Si Jiuyou continued, "Heavenly Dao’s Thunder Tribulations were ineffective against me, at that time in order to drive me away, it specifically found an avatar to converse and exchange with me." She despised it, "Heavenly Dao’s avatar was really particularly ugly, somewhat frightening, I killed a few, but it was persistent, finally it even used you to threaten me."

Fan Wubing asked, "So you killed the heavens?"

"So I gave up."

"Why? Do you care about me that much?"

Si Jiuyou looked at him, finding his question quite odd, "You’re too weird. Isn’t it normal for a senior sister to care about her junior brother?"

Fan Wubing laughed dryly.

He felt his senior sister was even stranger, caring to such an extent. Moreover, she obviously cared so much yet kept hiding, unwilling to meet.

Hard to understand what exactly was on his senior sister’s mind.

Always making big deals out of small matters, yet immersing in her own world.

Maybe this is what it means to be a true genius.

Fan Wubing asked,

"How did Heavenly Dao threaten you?"

Si Jiuyou said,

"He said you were targeted by Destiny Dao."

Fan Wubing perked up,

"Why?"

Si Jiuyou continued,

"At that time, naturally I didn’t know either, but indeed I felt there was a power on you even I couldn’t reach. And naturally, it was the power of destiny."

"So, is that why I can always ’escape disaster’?"

"Not just you. Later I discovered, in countless Small Thousand Worlds, there are countless people like you. All of them are ’favored’ by destiny, with different ways of favoring. People like you are called ’Fated Bugs.’

"Fated Bugs... The name really is..."

Fan Wubing recalled what Yan Hui said before. So he asked,

"Is this a grand selection?"

Si Jiuyou nodded,

"In every Small Thousand World, there’s a Fated Bug. You are unique in your own world. What Destiny Dao wants to do is select the most suitable one among you."