Jiang Li didn't deliberately set out to find the Yin-Yang Heavenly Seal; it was just too conspicuous.
A seal was flying in the air of the continent, crying loudly. The crying was so loud that it could be heard from hundreds of miles away, and it was flying quite slowly, as if searching for something.
Once in his divine sense range, Jiang Li could hear the seal shouting, "Master, I miss you," "Someone is bullying me," "Martial Brother Changcun is just standing by," "I want to complain to Master," "Where are you, Master," and so on.
Judging from this scene, it had been crying like this ever since it escaped from the Nine Provinces.
He estimated that if the time flow speed of this world was the same as that of the Nine Provinces, then it had probably been crying like this for five days in this land.
It flew to the side of the Yin-Yang Heavenly Seal and said with a stern face, "Stop crying!"
The Yin-Yin Heavenly Seal was so scared when it saw Jiang Li that it broke into a run.
It wasn't the Vanaheim Tower and couldn't traverse space. Jiang Li quickly caught up to it and held it in his hand.
"Evil spirit! Jerk! Let me go!"
The Yin-Yang Heavenly Seal cursed loudly but always with the same three words.
Now that he had found the seal, Jiang Li planned to take it back to the Nine Provinces directly. As for this other world, he would get to know it slowly later. The Yin-Yang Heavenly Seal could run, but the world couldn't.
Sensing that it was about to be taken back, the Yin-Yang Heavenly Seal threatened, "Wait, Master, I will definitely make him pay for venting my frustration here!"
Frowning, Jiang Li sensed a problem from the seal's words and asked, "Are you saying that the Ancestor of the Dao is in this world?"
The Yin-Yang Heavenly Seal smirked, "Hehe, do you think I let Xiao Ta find a random world for me? I used the power of cause and effect to find my master's trace long ago, and he is in this world!"
"Are you scared? If you're scared, then let go of me. I won't badmouth you in front of the master in the future!"
"You have no idea how much the master dotes on me. After refining me, he holds me in the palm of his hand every day and is unwilling to let go of me."
Jiang Li mockingly said, "Right now, I'm holding you in the palm of my hand, and I'm also unwilling to let go of you."
He ruthlessly struck at Tianyin, "You've been crying for five days, but the Ancestral Dao has not appeared to see you."
Tianyin, like a defeated soldier, looked dejected, muttering softly, "Perhaps, perhaps the master is in seclusion."
"You can't perceive the Ancestral Dao's cause and effect, and can't accurately locate it?"
Tianyin was also deeply troubled, "It may be because of leaving the Nine Provinces, which has caused my inaccurate grasp of cause and effect. Now, I feel that everything is the master's cause and effect."
"Could it be that it's just something of the Ancestral Dao here that made you mistakenly think it's the Ancestral Dao?"
"Impossible! It's definitely the master himself here! This is the only thing I won't feel wrong about," Tianyin said with firm conviction.
"Where do you sense the Ancestral Dao's cause and effect?"
"Across the entire continent." At this point, Tianyin started crying again, "Originally, I was thinking of crying across the entire continent, but I was stopped by you before flying halfway."
Jiang Li shook his head, "Your method won't work. The Ancestral Dao's cultivation is profound. If he wanted to see you, he would have seen you long ago. It's obvious that he doesn't want to see you."
"What should I do then?" Tianyin knew that what Jiang Li said made sense, but he just didn't want to admit it.
"Fortunately, my cultivation is thorough; I can help you find the Ancestral Dao, even if you don't look for it, I will."
Even if Tianyin didn't look for it, Jiang Li would still look for the Ancestral Dao.
How could the Ancestral Dao, who should have ascended to the Immortal Realm, be here? Even if he aged like the Eternal Immortal, he should return to the Nine Provinces. After all, the Ancestral Dao is a native of the Nine Provinces.
It couldn't be that the spiritual energy here is similar to the Nine Provinces, and the Ancestral Dao's vision has dimmed, mistaking this place for the Nine Provinces, right?
Moreover, Jiang Li's intuition told him that the Ancestral Dao must know where the Immortal Realm is and what changes have occurred in the Immortal Realm.
According to what Eternal Immortal said, the Extra-Domain Heavenly Demons were originally responsible for blocking the Immortal Realm. Now that the Extra-Domain Heavenly Demons have descended, something must have happened in the Immortal Realm.
Tianyin knew Jiang Li's strength. Although he didn't think he could match the Ancestral Dao, with his help, it was still better than blindly searching alone.
"If you find the Ancestral Dao, will you come back to the Nine Provinces with me?"
Tianyin readily agreed, but in his heart, he thought: even if I find my master, can I forcibly bring myself back under my master's nose?
...
Jiang Li and Tianyin landed in a bustling city without any pretense.
Whether it was because Jiang Li and Tianyin's behavior was too common, or for some other reason, no one paid any attention to the person flying or the flying seal.
When Jiang Li scanned the area with his divine sense, he discovered that the people of this world were very strange. They hardly had any emotions, diligently performing their duties, unconcerned with external matters. Their conversations were solely about improving work efficiency, with no interest in gossip or national news.
Even during leisure time, it was solely for the purpose of enhancing work, with no amusement like immersive games, movies, or novels.
Doctors focused on surgery, disregarding the consequences, and patients' life or death stirred no emotions. Similarly, actors displayed rich emotions during performances but reverted to a blank expression once the camera stopped. Nurses retrieved babies from the nutrition chamber, not joyful from the birth of a new life, nor disgusted by the baby's cries.
The people on the streets were solely focused on reaching their destinations, indifferent to whatever happened along the way.
This resulted in everyone in this world wearing the same silver-white coveralls. Jiang Li's divine sense revealed intricate circuits inside the coveralls, assisting with lifting heavy objects, regulating temperature, and reducing fatigue.
Their meals were tasteless nutritional supplements, capable of fulfilling a person's daily needs with only one meal a day.
A world of indifferent and emotionless technology - this was Jiang Li's initial impression of this world.
Could living beings truly lack emotions? Jiang Li couldn't believe it.
After carefully scanning several people with his divine sense and observing the process of childbirth, he finally found the reason for their lack of emotions.
People provided their reproductive cells to the hospital, where the genetic material was altered to conceal emotional genes. Optimal matches were chosen, and embryos were gestated in a nutrient fluid, resulting in babies devoid of emotions from birth. Their crying was merely a reflex to open the airway.
Jiang Li couldn't comprehend why the people of this world deliberately deprived themselves of emotions, sensing that there must be a hidden reason behind it.
"How could the master be in such a world?" Tianyin was puzzled. Before its intelligence matured, it also had vague feelings about the outside world, which led it to recognize Eternal Immortal.
In its recollection, the master was a genuinely candid person, not hiding joy, anger, or any emotion. The people of this world were completely contrary to the master's philosophy!
"Go to the library."
Jiang Li knew that as long as he went to the library and scanned the books with his divine sense, he would completely understand this world.
He enveloped the entire city with his divine sense but found no place where books were stored.
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