Max Level Return—I'll Protect That Fragile One

Xu Xingguang confidently said, ”Sir, did I guess correctly?”

Facing Xu Xingguang’s eyes, as tranquil as Pingtan Springs, Huo Canghai suddenly felt a wave of helplessness. He sighed long before he said, ”Little girl, you certainly surprised me, and it’s no wonder Wen An is so fond of you.”

This girl, whether in intelligence or temperament, exceeded the norm. That Wen An would be deeply attracted to her is unsurprising.

Thinking of her mysterious ability to conjure a great saber from thin air, Huo Canghai also guessed she harbored some extraordinary secrets.

”Being able to retrieve objects from thin air must be your special ability. But don’t think that just because you have such a peculiar power, you can invade the Divine Martial Realm and negotiate with them.”

Worried Xu Xingguang might develop such arrogance, Huo Canghai couldn’t help but dampen her enthusiasm, ”If you truly think this way, then you’re gravely mistaken, because there are countless people like you with peculiar abilities in the Divine Martial Realm. Do you know what the Divine Martial Realm is?”

Xu Xingguang didn’t arrogantly believe she could negotiate with the entire Divine Martial Realm based solely on her abilities.

But she also wouldn’t shrink back in fear, waiting to be snuffed out by the Divine Martial Realm.

The world’s will chose her to be sent to the Reincarnation Mirror for refining, showing she had qualities that the world’s will valued. Since it had granted her its trust, she didn’t want to betray that trust.

Realizing that Huo Canghai was willing to have a deep conversation about the Divine Martial Realm, Xu Xingguang quickly sat down on a small stool, humbly asking, ”Sir, can you tell me more about the Divine Martial Realm?”

”You’re determined to pursue this, aren’t you? Well, since you already hold doubts about this world, there’s no point in hiding it from you anymore. Are you curious about what the Divine Martial Realm is?”

Xu Xingguang nodded gently.

”The Divine Martial Realm, ah, is entirely unlike here. Those who can live there are innately powerful, unlike us mere mortals. Do you know what they call our world in their eyes?”

Xu Xingguang shook her head slightly.

Huo Canghai said, ”They call it the Mortal World.”

The Mortal World.

It refers to the ordinary world where common people live.

”They, ah, are a group of exalted ’gods’ who don’t even regard us as human.” Huo Canghai raised his head, gazing upward at the vast azure sky above him, then suddenly posed a question to Xu Xingguang.

He asked, ”Little girl, what does the sky look like to you?”

Xu Xingguang looked up at the sky.

In the azure sky, layers of white clouds drifted by, and she said, ”Blue sky and white clouds, it looks like a painting.”

”Indeed, it looks like a painting.” Shifting his tone, Huo Canghai suddenly said, ”Then why couldn’t it be a painting?”

Upon hearing this, a chill ran down Xu Xingguang’s spine.

”Sir, are you saying...” Xu Xingguang’s eyes were filled with shock.

Huo Canghai cryptically shook his head at her. ”You’ll have to explore more for yourself. I’m old now; I once tried to challenge and shake their authority, but I lost.”

Huo Canghai lamented, on the verge of tears, ”We are the trash they discarded! Have you ever seen anyone care about the thoughts or fate of garbage?”

Feeling Huo Canghai’s helplessness and despair, Xu Xingguang felt a heavy weight pressing on her heart, making it hard to breathe.

”Sir, besides you, is there no one else who has contacted or knows of the Divine Martial Realm’s existence?”

Huo Canghai answered indirectly, ”The day after tomorrow, you and Wen An are setting off for the Ying Family to attend Old Madam Ying’s birthday celebration, correct?”

Xu Xingguang nodded, ”Yes.”

”Do you know what the Ying Family’s origins are?”

Xu Xingguang naturally didn’t know. She guessed at a possibility and tentatively said, ”Could it be that the Ying Family is connected to the Divine Martial Realm?”

He surprisingly said, ”The Ying Family is the Prison Director left by the Divine Martial Realm in the Mortal World.”

Prison Director?

”Indeed, every prison has a director to manage them. Prisoners can see the director but cannot see the world and those behind the director.”

Xu Xingguang understood Huo Canghai’s implication.

If they likened their world to a prison, then they were the ones serving their sentences within. But unlike regular prisoners, they weren’t there because of a crime; they were born into the prison.