Ning rushed out of the bamboo forest only to find the dragon in his original size, on the ground, cowering in fear.
"Blue? What's wrong?" he asked, quickly grabbing onto him. However, it didn't take him long before Ning realized just what was happening.
A spiritual pressure fell onto Ning, one that was far stronger than anything he had felt on this planet.
Ning couldn't help but smile when he sensed that. He pushed back the pressure, relieving it from not just himself, but also Blue who was on the ground.
"I would appreciate it if you don't go scaring my little dragon like that. He is not strong enough to handle such strength yet," Ning said.
The person on the other side was surprised.
"Who are you?" he asked. "Why are you trespassing in this forbidden land?"
"I'm not trespassing since you don't own the entire Transcendent Ruins. Also, I am Ning Ruogong, from China on planet Earth," Ning introduced himself. "And I take it you are Yanxu Qinguan?"
The man on the other side was surprised. "Did you say China?" he asked, receding his previous pressure.
"Yes, China. I hear you are from China too," Ning said. "May I ask how long ago that was?"
"It was… a few hundred thousand years at least," the man on the other side said.
"Woah, that must be a good few hundred years ago back on earth then. Maybe even more. I suppose you are a senior of mine in a way. So, as respect, I won't hurt you for hurting my beast," Ning told him.
He lowered to let Blue climb back onto him. "Do you have anything you want to talk about?" Ning asked. "Maybe you want to learn about China?"
The other man stayed silent. "No, I care not for that land anymore. It's a distant world of my memories now. However, I wish to learn how you came here. Did you die and revive like me?" he asked.
"Not me," Ning said. "But the fellow in there is. I just came here on a whim, and I will be leaving soon. Anything else you want to know?"
"Yes," the man said. "How are you so strong? I don't think I've sensed any cultivator that was as strong as you, not even the fiend I killed was stronger than you."
"That is not something I can easily explain, not that I want to either," Ning said. "Anyway, I'm planning on leaving now. Let me know if you want to return to Earth by any chance. I can take you there."
The man sighed on the other side. "No, I have nothing there to go back to," he said.
"You're not wrong," Ning said. "Anyway, goodbye."
Ning teleported away from the place, traveling all the way to the northern pole of the planet where barely any cultivators lived due to the extremely frigid coldness of this place.
Ning got ready to open a portal and asked Blue, "Where do you want to go?" he asked.
"Where? Where can we go exactly, master?" Blue asked. "Aren't we going back to that place that you have created?"
"That was my idea," Ning said. "But since there are only so few of you remaining, I thought of going through all the different planets at once instead of going there one by one."
"Oh, so you want to go to where Night is next?" Blue asked.
"Yeah, Night or Anya," Ning said. "Since those two are the only ones remaining to go through in this galaxy."
"Hmm, who is closer?" Blue asked.
"Closer… let's see," Ning closed his eyes and suddenly a star chart appeared in front of him, which Blue could see too.
"Woah! What is this, master?" he asked.
"A miniature imagination of our universe," he said. "Well, this is just a galaxy really."
"I… don't understand what that means," Blue said.
"Hmm, look… here," Ning pointed to one of the glittering lights in front of them. "We are right here."
"In the light?" he asked.
"No, not the light," Ning said and pulled the star into focus. Blue got scared for a moment as stars and nebulas flew past him in this illusory world.
The star he had pointed to got bigger and bigger until it looked nothing more than a ball of liquid fire.
"What's that?" he couldn't help but ask.
"That's the sun of this planet," Ning said. He pointed to a small ball of dirt on the side. "That is Diqia, the planet we are on right now."
"What?" he couldn't help but shout in surprise. "That's where we are? Just how big is our world?"
"It's impossible to imagine with our feeble minds," Ning said. "Until you truly see it for yourself, you will never truly understand just how vast everything is."
Blue continued looking at the spinning planet with wide eyes. "And where are the others? Night and Anya," he asked.
"Hmm," Ning thought and quickly zoomed out a little until the star itself was back to being a speck of light.
"Here," he pointed to another speck of light in the far corner of the galaxy. "That's where Anya is, and here is where Night is."
"Hmm, Anya seems closer than Night. Will it be faster to go to Anya first?" he asked.
"No, it is the same," Ning said. "But it might cost me a little less."
"Then we should go there, master," Blue said.
Ning shrugged. "If you say so. Not that the order really matters," he said and closed the star chart. The freezing cold returned back with a fury, which Ning pushed aside so Blue didn't get frozen.
After that, he put his hands forward and carved an opening in space, which split open to reveal a land with the sea nearby.
"Are you ready?" Ning asked Blue.
Blue furiously nodded. "Yes, master," he said.
Ning smiled and walked through. He and Blue had now arrived in a lone island in the middle of nowhere, on a planet that was called Ollo.
"We need to wait a few more minutes for the door to close," Ning said. "Then we can go get Anya."
