Li Rui glanced around, not a single person in sight.
Come in?
Me?
He found it somewhat unbelievable.
The abruptness of the words and the calm reaction of the woman in the hall made it seem very eerie.
Li Rui didn't poke his head out, thinking that the person wasn't referring to him.
After all, a deity from the Upper Realm, seeing such a little guy like him, wouldn't act so calm, let alone beating him up.
However, the gigantic woman spoke again: "Yes, you, the one crouching at the bottom of the steps."
"....."
Li Rui did not expect this turn of events, completely beyond his anticipation.
He jumped onto the steps and asked, "Madam, are you calling me?"
The woman laughed slightly: "Madam? Haha, yes, you."
Li Rui did not feel any sense of danger, indicating that the woman had no hostility toward him, so he entered the hall, landed with a smack on what was like a platform for him—the chair.
"I am Li Rui."
"You're from the lower world?"
The gigantic woman spoke casually, then waved her hand to close all doors and windows.
Seeing this gesture, Li Rui trusted her a little more.
Closing the doors and windows wasn't to block his escape route, but to keep others from seeing.
In the Upper Realm, exposing the identity of a lower world person isn't a good thing.
He replied, "Madam, you are correct, but I don't know how I came to this place."
The woman smiled, "As for your origin... never mind, do you know who I am?"
"No idea."
Li Rui shook his head.
"Then do you know what place this is?"
Li Rui tentatively said, "Fighting Division?"
The woman's eyes showed a mocking glint: "You could say that. The lower world calls us by many names, Fighting Division being one of them. I am the manager of this Fighting Division. I am called Zhou Si, or you can call me Doumu Primordial Monarch, or something else."
"....."
Another completely unexpected statement, yet Li Rui didn't believe it entirely. He blinked his eyes: "You mean, you're the same kind of leader as Yuqing True King of the Thunder Division?"
"Exactly."
Zhou Si smiled slightly, "Leader, that's an interesting word."
Li Rui pondered silently, evaluating the credibility of her words.
The last time he was in the Thunder Division, he almost met Yuqing True King, but if he had seen him, he wouldn't have survived.
As for this woman before him.....
He felt she seemed too composed.
How could the supreme ruler of the Fighting Division be so easily approachable?
Seeing him saying nothing, Zhou Si continued: "I always knew someone would come, just not who exactly. You came here to retrieve something."
Li Rui saw her being cryptic and directly said: "I didn't come intentionally, nor for any object. I'd much rather find out how to leave, I have business, quite urgent."
Joking aside, in the real world, he was unconscious in a combat zone. Being discovered by friendly forces would be fine, but if the enemy found him, it would be dangerous.
Previously, he had already delayed a lot to help Song Yao out of trouble, and now he had no time to listen to these things.
Zhou Si said: "If you're in a hurry, I could send you back, anyway.... you'll soon meet me again. But my suggestion is to take the object first."
Li Rui squinted his eyes: "What object, why are you so sure someone would come to fetch it."
Zhou Si stood up: "Because someone will definitely come to gather the four Thunder Skills, and then come to see me. The thing I have for you is the last Thunder Skill, Celestial Thunder."
She casually said this while walking to the back hall, as if what she was discussing was of no consequence.
Yet her few words stirred waves in Li Rui's heart.
According to Master Bo Yuan, Celestial Thunder was no longer in the Upper Realm Thunder Division but had fallen to the mortal Western Regions. But now, this peculiar woman claimed it was in the Upper Realm Fighting Division, which was rather bewildering.
There must be events unknown even to Master Bo Yuan.
When Li Rui voiced his doubts, Zhou Si said: "You don't know? Ha, that's quite interesting. In the past, years ago, someone entrusted me with something, asking me to give it to the first lower world person that comes to the Upper Realm to meet me. You could say I've been waiting for you."
"But why?" Li Rui asked, "Why are you doing this?"
The woman spoke with a playful appearance, talking to Li Rui while walking: "The Heavenly Dao has always been this way, maybe it's time for a change."
Li Rui frowned: "Wait, Heavenly Dao? Isn't Heavenly Dao something prescribed by the Upper Realm?"
Zhou Si glanced over at him: "Who told you that?"
She said: "If you can go further, go to the heaven pillar, it has all the answers, at least that's what the person said. But before that, take away the Thunder Division's authority, those guys have grown too ancient."
Li Rui couldn't comprehend it all.
He thought Zuo Qiutian resented the Upper Realm, wanting to open the passage to achieve something.
But the woman before him spoke of things beyond his expectations, suggesting that the Upper Realm was not a good place either.
"Do you know Zuo Qiutian?" he couldn't resist asking.
Thinking that the person probably knew long ago.
Alas, Zhou Si merely shook her head: "Never heard of him."
"Who is the person?"
"Hey, he is someone like you from the lower world." Zhou Si said.
Li Rui asked: "One person or two people?"
Zhou Si walked ahead, turned back to look at him: "You seem to know something, alright, two people, a man and a woman."
When it came to a man and a woman, Li Rui understood. That must be his mysterious parents, known in the chaotic land as the Thousand Faces God, the only two Extraordinary who had reached level 99.
He urgently asked: "Where are they?"
Zhou Si said: "You seem very interested in this matter, do they have some relation to you? Okay, okay, control your killing intent, you are not capable of defeating me right now."
"Who are they, I really don't know."
Zhou Si felt the increasingly strong killing intent from behind, "I really don't know, but they are powerful. If it weren't for them inciting a group of my subordinates to attack the Thunder Division, the Five Thunders Skill wouldn't have fallen to the lower world, do you understand?"
Li Rui felt his head buzzing.
Though he understood more, he now had more questions.
These parents were truly something else; not only did they have ties to Zuo Qiutian, but they also came to the Upper Realm to stir up trouble.
"Big sister, do you know how they came up here? Aren't mortals unable to ascend to the Upper Realm?"
Zhou Si stopped in front of a locked door, seemingly the destination, but she first turned back, looked at Li Rui with a teasing smile.
"Who told you mortals can't ascend to the Upper Realm? Where do you think the people of the Upper Realm come from?"