Chapter 292: Worldly Affairs
"boom!"

A streak of light streaked across the sky, like a falling meteor, and headed straight for the sea. The waves were surging and the sound was like thunder, as if a tsunami had occurred.

Ye Fan, who returned from Beidou, passed Mars and walked on the moon, and now he has finally returned to Earth.

Apart from the peculiar way of landing, he looked like a normal person.

The cultivation environment on Earth is extremely harsh. Not only is the great way high, but the essence of heaven and earth is almost non-existent, which directly reduces the power of magical powers by a large margin.

In this environment, I'm afraid that the cultivators in the Taoist Palace Secret Realm would not be able to fly on a rainbow, or even stay in the air for a long time.

Fortunately, Ye Fan was very skilled in Taoism and did not fall directly into the sea. After stabilizing his body on the sea, he flew towards the mainland.

Time flies, the years pass by, the world changes dramatically, and things and people are no longer the same.

In the end, Ye Fan never got to see his parents again.

The two old people became ill due to worry and passed away three years ago.

Ye Fan cried bitterly and was heartbroken, but the death of both his parents also meant that his earthly destiny was over.

From then on, the road to the great road led to the sky, and there were no more worries.

He met old friends, went to Lingshan, accepted disciples, displayed his supernatural powers, fought in the West, and established the Heavenly Palace.

It has to be said that Ye Fan is indeed a conflict igniter. No matter where he goes, war follows him like a shadow.

Unless he becomes the strongest, it seems that everyone in the world, no matter how big or small the cause and effect, will fight him to the death.

It makes no sense.

From the battle in Middle-earth to the West, beheading the celestial demon, slaying the evil god, and destroying the Pope, after everything was over, Ye Fan made the name of Heaven spread throughout the world.

Ye Fan finally calmed down.

Only then did he remember the stone dragon pendant that Li Zhi asked him to bring back.

Since becoming famous, Ye Fan has been like a successful hermit, away from the hustle and bustle of the world, living alone on an unknown hill.

There were a few huts, a grape vine, a medicinal field, some old medicinal plants, and a cute little purple squirrel following him.

In front of the thatched cottage, under the grape trellis, Ye Fan took out the stone dragon pendant that Li Zhi's incarnation was parasitic on, and activated it with a burst of magic power.

The dragon pendant immediately burst out with a powerful golden light, and a faint dragon power spread out. The little squirrel that was originally playing in the medicine field was frightened and ran directly behind Ye Fan.

The golden light dissipated, and a young man in casual clothes appeared under the grape trellis. He was the incarnation that Li Zhi asked Ye Fan to bring back.

"Is this back to Earth?"

Feeling the lofty avenue, the thin essence of heaven and earth, and no trace of any spiritual charm in the surrounding mountains and forests, Li Zhi knew that he had returned to Earth.

"I'm back." Ye Fan said.

"Have you seen your family?" Li Zhi asked.

"My parents have passed away, and now I am alone." Ye Fan said with a trace of pain in his eyes.

"Then work hard to support your family. Back then, both my parents had passed away and I was all alone. It wasn't until I met your sister-in-law that I had relatives again and even had a pair of children." Li Zhi reached out and patted Ye Fan on the shoulder and said.

Hearing this, Ye Fan's expression suddenly became a little conflicted, as if he had something to hide.

"We are all adults. We should accept birth, aging, sickness and death calmly. Life is full of regrets. Forcing perfection will only backfire." Li Zhi felt that Ye Fan was a little fussy and said.

"Alas, it is difficult for an honest judge to judge family affairs. Li Zhi, you should go back and take a look yourself."

In the end, Ye Fan did not tell Li Zhi what had happened in his family.

Li Zhi originally wanted to send out his spiritual thoughts to directly search for the whereabouts of his family members, but after his spiritual thoughts left his body, they were consumed very quickly, and he simply could not achieve the ability to travel thousands of miles with one thought like he did in Beidou.

Now Li Zhi is also an incarnation and his recovery ability is limited. In this situation, he can only give up.

The little purple squirrel hiding behind Ye Fan seemed to feel that Li Zhi was not a bad person, so it ran out from behind Ye Fan.

He seemed to know that Li Zhi was Ye Fan's guest, so he gave him a handful of pine nuts.

"What is this?" Li Zhi looked at the purple little squirrel and thought, "Could this be the little squirrel that will become the demon emperor in the future?"

Ye Fan quickly introduced him: "He is Xiaosong, the second disciple I just accepted."

Li Zhi looked Xiao Song up and down, then nodded and said, "He has good aptitude and has the potential to become a demon emperor."

Then he took out a bottle of elixir suitable for Dao Palace Secret Realm monks and handed it to Xiaosong, saying, "Xiaosong, this is a gift from Master Uncle."

Xiaosong looked at the pill that Li Zhi took out and immediately smelled a refreshing medicinal fragrance. His big sapphire eyes blinked, and then he looked at Ye Fan again.

Ye Fan smiled and said, "Since it is a gift from your Uncle Li, just keep it."

Xiao Song then happily accepted the elixir sent by Li Zhi, and thanked him with his mind: "Thank you, Uncle Master."

Then, Li Zhi said, "The environment on Earth is too harsh. I'm afraid my incarnation won't last for ten years. If you find the entrance to Kunlun Immortal Land, remember to let me know."

Ye Fan's mind moved, and he asked directly: "Do you know the reason why the earth dried up?"

"The Yuhua Divine Dynasty used the essence of the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountain in the Kunlun Immortal Land to nourish the Immortal Cauldron, which caused the essence of the outside world to become dry. The green copper cauldron that the Taigu clan cultivators found in the Yuhua Ancestral Temple was actually being nurtured in the Kunlun Immortal Land." Li Zhi said truthfully.

"It's actually on Earth?" Ye Fan was also slightly surprised.

Li Zhi said: "Otherwise, who do you think would have nothing better to do than leave an ancient starry sky road leading to Earth in their ancestral temple?"

In an instant, Ye Fan seemed to have figured out many things.

After the two chatted for a few more sentences, Li Zhi said goodbye and left, turning into a stream of light and flying towards his own villa.

Calculating the time, Jizu and Xian'er are already twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. I don't know if the two children will recognize him when they meet again.

And Zhou Mei...

Li Zhi, who originally planned to fly directly back to the villa, suddenly stopped flying halfway and started walking on solid ground.

"I wonder if Jizu and Xian'er are married?"

The closer he got to home, the more anxious Li Zhi became.

After a full day and night of mental preparation, Li Zhi returned to the villa community.

Fortunately, even after more than 20 years, this place is still a quiet villa area.

But just as he reached the gate of the villa community, he was stopped by the security guard.

"Sir, please stay." A young security guard saw Li Zhi swaggering straight in, and immediately ran out of the guard booth and shouted at him.

"Are you calling me?" Li Zhi turned his head and looked at the security guard and said.

"Sir, please register your identity." The young security guard treated Li Zhi as a visitor and was very friendly.

"What do I need to register when I go home?" Li Zhi asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"Sir, did you remember it wrongly?" the security guard asked in a friendly manner.

As a highly private villa area, the people who live here are either rich or noble. Every security guard undergoes rigorous training before taking up the post, and the community’s security monitoring system records the appearance of every owner, so they will not make mistakes.

And if there are visitors coming to visit, they have to ask the owner before letting them in.

Strangers are not allowed to enter the community. "Did Zhou Mei move?" Li Zhi had a bad thought in his mind, and then asked: "Is there a person named Zhou Mei living here? She has lived here for 28 years."

"Are you here to see Mrs. Zhou?" The security guard looked at Li Zhi strangely.

"What? Doesn't she live here anymore?" Li Zhi asked, using a bit of his magical power.

"Mrs. Zhou comes to stay here occasionally, but she hasn't been here for several months this year. If you want to find her, you can try your luck at Yaoyang Building on Jianshe North Road." The security guard said truthfully.

Li Zhi immediately frowned, then erased his shadow in the security guard's mind and went straight to the gate of his villa.

There seemed to be no one in the villa.

Li Zhi pushed open the door and went in, only to find that there was no trace of his presence here.

It seemed as if someone had deliberately erased his traces.

Then Li Zhi came to Yaoyang Building based on the information he got from the security guard.

"Yaoyang Group".

There is a huge Feng Shui stone placed in front of the building.

Later, Li Zhi learned from the lobby manager that the entire building seemed to be the asset of Yaoyang Group.

Zhou Mei’s president’s office is located on the top floor of the building.

Li Zhi hid his figure and went directly to the top floor of the building, where he saw Zhou Mei in a huge office.

Compared with more than 20 years ago, she has more wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, but she doesn't look old overall, and looks like she is in her early 40s.

At this moment, she was listening to a report from a young assistant.

"Madam, Mr. Zhou hasn't come to work in the company for three days." The assistant said cautiously.

"Where did he go again?" Zhou Mei leaned back in the large boss chair and asked while rubbing her temple.

"She went on a date with Miss Liu Xi." The assistant said in a low voice.

"This rebellious son, he's already a father, but he's still dating female celebrities. Does he want to piss me off to death?" Zhou Mei was so angry that she threw the pen in her hand away.

Then, Zhou Mei immediately dialed the phone and shouted, "Zhou Yaoyang, I'll give you half an hour. If I don't see you in the company, get out of the house."

Without waiting for the other party to speak, Zhou Mei hung up the phone.

A woman's panting could be faintly heard from the other end of the phone, and a man's voice shouting "Mom" with a hint of fear.

"Zhou Yaoyang?" Li Zhi was stunned.

Then he quietly left Zhou Mei's CEO's office and quietly explored the memories of the company's executives.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t look at it, but once you look at Li Zhi, you will feel unwell.

No wonder Ye Fan looked so strange.

What everyone knows is that Zhou Mei has a beloved son named Zhou Yaoyang, who is also a notorious playboy.

In order to make her son change his mind, Zhou Mei arranged for her son to find a wife two years ago.

Now she has given birth to a big fat boy.

But after getting married, Zhou Yaoyang's nature did not change and he was still fond of women.

Not long after, Li Zhi saw a young man driving a sports car, with unsteady steps and weak kidney energy, appearing downstairs of the group.

Then he went straight to Zhou Mei's office.

"Mom, what's wrong with you again? Who made you angry again?" Zhou Yaoyang greeted Zhou Mei in a nonchalant manner after arriving at her office.

"You are almost thirty years old. Do you know that one should be independent at the age of thirty? Look at what you are like now. How can I hand over the company to you with confidence? Mom has no objection to you playing with female stars. But you shouldn't give up the family business for an actress. Do you know that only when the family business is prosperous can you have countless female stars to play with. If the family business is ruined, will those actors still call you brother?" Zhou Mei said angrily.

"I've remembered that. I'll definitely change it next time." Zhou Yaoyang didn't talk back and accepted Zhou Mei's criticism very frankly.

"Old lady, you called me back, it shouldn't be because of my absence from work. I just negotiated a big deal for the group recently, so I went to relax." After Zhou Yaoyang put away his playful smile, his eyes suddenly became serious.

"Your uncle Dapeng called. He said your sister is dying. He asked us to go back and see her." Zhou Mei said, rubbing her eyebrows.

"Let her die. It's best if she dies, so she won't harm others." Zhou Yaoyang shouted excitedly when he mentioned his sister.

"That's your sister." Zhou Mei scolded.

"I don't have a tomb-robber sister. Do you know that it is because of her actions that our Yaoyang Group has suffered so much criticism from our peers? Do you know that in order to clean up her mess, your son, I have apologized to so many people in these years. But she is unrepentant and still does her own thing. She even took the initiative to sever ties with us. Her current fate is what she deserves." Zhou Yaoyang shouted loudly.

"You only have one sister. Are you really going to ignore her?" Zhou Mei said.

"I don't have that sister. My surname is no longer Li. My surname is Zhou now, and my name is Zhou Yaoyang. I have nothing to do with her who has the same surname as Li." Zhou Yaoyang said excitedly.

"Yaoyang, are you still holding a grudge against your father? Don't let your sister be implicated because of him." Zhou Mei advised.

"Hold a grudge? Is he worthy of my hatred? A bastard who abandoned his wife and children, did all kinds of bad things for his dream of immortality. He even caused Xian'er to become a half-human, half-ghost. I hate him? I wish I could tear him to pieces." Zhou Yaoyang roared with gritted teeth.

"You have also read the letter your father left behind. He will come back one day." A trace of longing flashed in Zhou Mei's eyes.

"Come back, where did he come back from? That Ye Fan is back. But what about him? Where is he now?" Zhou Yaoyang shouted excitedly.

"Mom will take you to visit your Uncle Ye some other day. He must know the whereabouts of your father." Zhou Mei said.

"Mom, don't think about that unfaithful man. He is not worth it. As for Ye Fan, he is now the high and mighty Emperor of Heaven. How can he care about us mortals? Even his own relatives of the Ye family ignore him, so we outsiders are nothing." Zhou Yaoyang said.

Zhou Mei also fell silent.

She was excited for a long time since she heard that Ye Fan had returned.

However, when she learned that Ye Fan was younger than he was twenty-five or twenty-six years ago, she did not dare to visit him.

She is almost sixty years old.

If I see Li Zhi again, how should I face him?
If Li Zhi really achieved immortality, would he still like her as an old lady?

Although she spent a lot of money to preserve her youth, she could also sense that the lost youth could never be regained.

"By the way, Yaoyang. Lin'er's first birthday is in a few days. Remember to buy Miaorong a thoughtful gift. Miaorong is a sensible person. She won't ask how you play outside, but if you dare to show any irresponsibility in front of her, I will beat you to death." Zhou Mei said.

"Mom, after Lin'er turns one, let Miaorong come to work in the group. You are getting old, and it's time for someone to be close to you and share the pressure with you." Zhou Yaoyang said.

"If you let Miaorong come to work in the group, aren't you afraid that she will sideline you?" Zhou Mei suddenly laughed.

"Miaorong and I have made an agreement. In the future, everything will belong to Lin'er anyway. There is no difference whether she or I am in charge of the group. As long as the power left by Uncle Dapeng is firmly in my hands, no one can turn the tide." Zhou Yaoyang said confidently.

"You are smart. You know the importance of controlling the gun." Zhou Mei looked at her son and suddenly felt that she was really old.

"In this secular world, right is power and power is right. I, your son, have understood this since childhood," said Zhou Yaoyang.

"Okay, look at how you are now. Your kidney energy is depleted and your steps are unsteady. Don't go looking for that Liu recently. She is a reincarnated fox spirit who specializes in sucking people's essence. Go back to your Aunt Xu and let her take good care of your body." Zhou Mei said.

"I know." Zhou Yaoyang didn't seem to take it to heart and said perfunctorily.

After listening to the conversation between the mother and son, Li Zhi fell completely silent.

Maybe he shouldn't have let the Avatar come back.

(End of this chapter)