The Hehuan Sect cultivates alchemy; my senior sister helps me refine alchemy throughout the world.

Shen Yifei's face fell as soon as Xinghe said that.

"Recognize relatives? You want me to go to the demon realm to recognize my relatives? Isn't that like throwing a lamb to the slaughter?"

Xinghe tilted her head and looked at him. "Brother, your mother is a demon princess, and you have half demon royal blood in your veins. According to seniority, the current Demon King should be your maternal grandfather. If you go to acknowledge your family, he's not going to eat you, is he?"

"That's hard to say." Shen Yifei pursed his lips. "I've never met a single demon relative in my life, so who knows if they'll even recognize me. I've been away for quite a while now, and there's still a ton of stuff to take care of back at Cangwu Mountain."

"So what does my brother plan to do?"

Shen Yifei thought for a moment, "You prepare the medicine first, and try it with my blood essence. If that doesn't work, then we'll think of another way."

"Okay, I'll go get the medicine right away."

Shen Yifei exited the Cauldron of Myriad Things, summoned Mo Ran, and returned to Beiming City to bid farewell to Mo Yu.

Mo Ran insisted on being with Shen Yifei. Even though her cultivation level didn't improve much, she had seen too many things she had never seen before.

Mo Yu had originally planned to have Mo Ran follow Shen Yifei, and seeing that Shen Yifei did not refuse, she agreed.

After bidding farewell to Mo Yu, Shen Yifei headed straight for Hanxu, his last goal on this trip being to invite his third sister, this great deity, to take charge of Cangwu Mountain.

Upon arriving at Hanxu, Shen Yifei searched around but couldn't find his third sister.

He stood on the icy plain, shouting at the top of his lungs, "Third Sister! Third Sister! I won! I killed that old bastard, Soul Devourer! You should come back to the Heavenly Evolution Sect with me!"

I called out several times, but there was no response.

Shen Yifei thought to himself, "Is this woman going to renege on her promise?"

No sooner had he finished speaking than a soft laugh came from behind him.

"Am I the kind of person who doesn't keep her word?"

Shen Yifei turned around abruptly and saw his third sister standing not far behind him, wearing a bright red dress, playing with an ice flower in her hand, and looking at him with a smile.

"Third Sister! You've finally come out!" Shen Yifei quickly stepped forward, his face beaming. "I thought you'd changed your mind."

"Going back on your word?" The third sister tossed the ice flower into the air, where it transformed into countless shimmering specks of light that vanished in the cold wind. "I've lived for tens of thousands of years, and what I say is like water spilled on the ground—it's never taken back. Since you've won, I'll go with you."

"Third Sister, shall we leave now?"

"Let's go." The third sister didn't waste any more words and took to the air.

Shen Yifei quickly followed, and the two transformed into two streaks of light, flying south.

Soon, the two left the Northern Sea region, and the weather gradually warmed up.

Shen Yifei looked at his third sister beside him and couldn't help but ask, "Third sister, you've lived in the Cold Ruins for tens of thousands of years, why don't you move to another place?"

"Let's go somewhere else?" Third Sister sighed. "Where can I go? All that nonsense out there is just too annoying. It's better to stay in this freezing cold and have some peace and quiet."

The two chatted all the way, so it wasn't boring at all.

Shen Yifei found it quite comfortable to be around his third sister because she never beat around the bush.

Through his third sister, Shen Yifei learned a great deal about the nine demon gods, which truly broadened his horizons.

"The Nine Great Demon Gods are the embodiment of nine primordial powers born at the beginning of the world. Wan Shuo, the Five Elements Demon God, ranks fifth, I rank third, and that Soul Devourer ranks last, the ninth."

"Third Sister, where are the others?"

Third Sister recounted the story of the nine great demon gods in one breath, leaving Shen Yifei dumbfounded.

"Wait, wait, Third Sister, you said that out of the nine demon gods, besides you and Wan Shuo, the other seven are all dead?"

"They're all dead. That internal strife lasted for three thousand years, so fiercely that the sky darkened and the sun and moon lost their light. In the end, only Wan Shuo and I were left. The other seven all vanished into thin air."

"And how did Wan Shuo die?"

The third sister was silent for a moment, and her blood-red eyes became moist. "He did it to save me. Those people from the Immortal Realm attacked when we were both injured. Wan Shuo took the combined blow of the three Immortal Emperors of the Immortal Realm."

"and then?"

"Then he was annihilated." The third sister's voice was somewhat low. "Before he died, he dispersed his five elements power, giving a part to the Cauldron of All Things and merging the rest into the world, waiting for a destined person to inherit it."

After hearing this, Shen Yifei felt a mix of emotions.

It turns out that Wan Shuo died to save the woman he loved.

And the third sister in front of me is that woman.

"Third Sister, that... Wan Shuo... did he leave any words before he died?"

The third sister remained silent for a long time, her blood-red eyes gazing at the distant horizon, as if recalling something.

"He told me to wait for him," the third sister said softly. "He said he would come back. Even if it took tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, he would find his way back."

Shen Yifei felt a pang of sadness upon hearing this.

It turns out that the deepest affection in this world is not a grand and dramatic one, but a promise and a wait of tens of thousands of years.

"Third sister, don't worry. Now that I have inherited his legacy, I will definitely find a way to find his remnant soul and revive him. Then you two can be reunited."

The third sister glanced at him, a slight smile appearing on her lips. "You? A piece of trash at the early stage of the Tribulation Transcending Realm, you think you can revive Wan Shuo?"

"Third sister, look, even though my cultivation level isn't high now, I can still deal with the Soul Devourer."

"Hmm, kid, I actually think highly of you too. Maybe you're an unexpected discovery in this whole mess."

"Third sister, what happened? Can you tell me about it?"

"It's better if you know less. One day in the future, you'll understand. The world isn't what you imagine it to be."

"Third Sister, of the nine demon gods, I know three now. What about the others? Can you tell me about them? Maybe I'll run into one or two more someday."

The third sister nodded and slowly began to introduce the nine demon gods to him.

"Time Demon God Shi Yan. He wields the power of time, capable of reversing time and stopping the passage of years. He was the first to die in that internal strife back then."

"The Time Demon God could be killed? Who killed him?" Shen Yifei was taken aback.

"Time isn't invincible." Third Sister shook her head. "He was too confident, thinking no one could break his time domain. As a result, the Space Demon God Kong Yuan tore through space when he unleashed his time domain, throwing him into the spacetime turbulence."

"The Space Demon God, Kong Yuan?"

"Yes, Kong Yuan controls the power of space, capable of tearing through the void and teleporting tens of thousands of miles in an instant. He can be considered to have perished together with Shi Yan. However, whether the two are dead or alive is still unknown."

"Third Sister, is it possible that both of you are confined to your own respective fields?"

"I've thought about this question too, but no one can break through their temporal and spatial domains... not even immortals."

"Where are the others?"

"The Destroyer God, Annihilator of Heaven! Born for destruction. His power is pure and violent; once he strikes, it is a fight to the death."

"And how did the Destroyer God die?"

"He was killed by Wan Shuo! Mie Tian was in a killing frenzy and wanted to kill me as well. Wan Shuo stood in front of me and used the power of the Five Elements to refine him into nothingness."

Shen Yifei felt a pang of sadness as he listened.

He could hear the pain in his third sister's voice; she felt heartbroken no matter who died.

Back then, these nine demon kings might have been a family as close as brothers and sisters.

The third sister continued, "The Spiritual Essence of the Life Demon God. She possesses the purest life force in the world, capable of bringing the dead back to life and healing flesh and bones."

"Was she a woman? Was she dead too?"

The third sister nodded. "She was a very lovely girl who would never grow up. That internal strife lasted for three thousand years and implicated countless innocent people, but she also saved countless people. Later, she disappeared."