Mo Xie and the Ethereal Ghost looked at each other for a while, not knowing how to continue further, Mo Xie asked: "What's your name?"
The ethereal ghost sighed: "I am Jinhai... Well, you can just call me the mighty emperor for short."
"That's longer." Mo Xie replied immediately.
The two of them went to idle chatter for a bit, Mo Xie then asked: "Your second question, what is it?"
Jinhai sighed: "You didn't even ask if my first one is finished."
"I don't need to." Mo Xie replied immediately.
Jinhai sighed: "You know, I think I'm cursed."
Mo Xie maintained an 'I don't really care' type of face.
Jinhai seeing Mo Xie's noncommittal face then continued; "After so much time being here trapped, unable to move on, the first person I encountered is a boring kid..."
"..." Mo Xie didn't know what to say, frankly speaking, he too wanted to converse to lift this person's boredom, he had felt it before, but what kind of thing should he say? He's not really that sociable type, it magnifies to strangers too.
Jinhai shook his head: "Well, you're from the world outside right?"
Mo Xie nods his head.
"How is it? Had the races come to cohabitate with each other? Peace in all parts of the world?" He asked, quite expectantly.
Mo Xie noticed it but shook his head: "It's far from that, the human had thought of themselves as far superior race, cohabitation is only possible, well, if the other race beside them is far stronger, either that or those race choose to bow down."
Jinhai, for the first time, frowns: "So... even his plan failed, well, life is unpredictable, no one can plan what others should do."
"Hmmm?" Mo Xie asked: "What was that?"
Jinhai shook his head: "Well, that's for the second quest, the third one is, what's the strongest human cultivator out there?"
Mo Xie couldn't help but chuckle: "I'm only at a small continent, so I wouldn't be able to answer that correctly, but at the continent stronger than the one I was at, they say it's at the Celestial Phenomenon rank."
Jinhai sighed, he shook his head completely: "If that's the case, as soon as the tribe perishes, all of those outside will die until the void creatures meet an expert that can kill them."
Mo Xie looked at Jinhai with one of his brows up: "What do you mean."
Jinhai sighs: "As the blazing sun's light perishes, the portal of doom shall arise."
Mo Xie's eyes opened up in shock: "That..."
Jinhai nods his head: "As soon as the Solar Blaze Core that is shining as bright as the sun were to be destroyed, this world will also crumble, removing anyone that's alive out of this Divine land."
Mo Xie: "So, it means, when the Solar Blaze Tribe dies, the Void Creatures will be able to bring chaos about on the outer world?"
Jinhai nods his head: "Exactly."
Mo Xie frowns and asked: "What about killing them."
Jinhai sighed: "If... If you can kill them, then, the whole divine lands will come to life again, the portal whence you came from can be the place that you could leave."
"Is there any other way for me to leave this place?" Mo Xie asked seriously.
If there's no one to defeat the void creatures, then, he could only escape and take away his family and clan.
Jinhai looked at Mo Xie: "Well, there are two things that can get you out of here other than destroying the Void Creatures."
"Oh, let me hear it." Mo Xie attentively listened.
"Haaa... One is when you marry a person of the tribe, well, you don't really need to marry, you can either bore a child of the Solar Blaze Tribe or completely fall in love with one." Jinhai's reply is quite calm.
Mo Xie felt quite troubled with this revelation, he didn't know about it, if he really married Tanya and was to fail with porting out, then, it could be disastrous, not only for him but for the Solar Blaze Tribe in its whole.
Mo Xie looked at Jinhai and asked: "What's the second one."
"Oh, that's easier." Jinhai replied with a smug face: "All you need to do is have a Divine Emperor bring you out of this place or at least a Level 5 Magical Beast!"
As Jinhai spoke of this, he laughed uncontrollably, well, definitely the easiest method.
But in Mo Xie's mind, the idea of Nya Poto came to mind: "But she's still too far away to reach Level 5..."
Clearly, even if he helped Nya Poto, it would take at least a hundred years: "I... What can I even do..."
Jinhai sighed: "How many experts does the tribe have remaining?"
This time, it's Mo Xie's time to sigh, he retold what he'd seen, what had transpired, and what's the current events.
Jinhai couldn't believe what he had heard: "That... The Solar Blaze had fallen from its tall grace."
The lamenting expression on his face couldn't be masked, a grave expression could be seen.
But he remembered something that Mo Xie had spoken and asked: "Wait, how many tribes from the Void Creatures are there again?"
Mo Xie immediately replied: "Well, there are eleven that I've seen."
Jinhai, the old man's expression grew dire: "No... it shouldn't be..."
"What's the matter?" Mo Xie asked.
"I... I..." Jinhai stuttered before being able to continue: "The great war lasted for fifty years, we've destroyed almost all of the void creature's factions... How come there are eleven again... wait..."
"Right... I remember now..."
"Remember what?" Mo Xie asked.
Jinhai smiled ruefully: "We've all died, all of the forefathers together with me, the Void Emperor Moparg destroyed us all with its final move desperate move, sacrificing its own life to take us all down, only a few of the forefathers remained, but they were gravely injured, I guess... I guess they all died too."
"But what I didn't expect that time was Moparg spreading every bit of his power to leave his followers, and now... Those that survived could've stopped it, but I think the only thing that happened is... they were completely crippled... We-we were too rushed to cleanse our names!" Jinhai spoke full of grief.
Mo Xie watched in silence as Jinhai shook with regret and sorrow, he could've just sacrificed his own life to kill Moparg that time, but he celebrated his victory too early.
After a while, Jinhai calmed himself down, he looked at Mo Xie and asked: "If... if I may ask this..."
"Go on." Mo Xie replied casually, but his eyes dead serious to joke any more.
Jinhai smiled, seeing the sincerity in Mo Xie's eyes: "If you guys lose, a chance to take the tribe away is in front of you, will you help my tribe?"
Mo Xie looked at Jinhai and replied: "If there's a chance to take all of them away, or as many as I can, I will."
Jinhai nods his head: "That's good to hear, so long as my tribe's blood can exist for a longer time, then, I am satisfied."
Mo Xie didn't reply, Jinhai's body is growing dimmer and dimmer by the second.
"I have here, one of my treasures, but it still depends on one's power to activate, the stronger you are, the more powerful this item is."
As Jinhai finished speaking, the ground beneath the table shone in red color: "Take it."
When he spoke, the table started to hover on the ground, slowly, it started to change its shape into something like a three-layered plate, above it, a floating red gem.
"That plate is-" Jinhai was about to speak when Mo Xie interrupted: "A formation disk, a triplet formation disk!"
Mo Xie exclaimed in shock, even from his previous life, he could only create a single one of this, it became one of his most treasured possession.
Jinhai was about to exclaim and retell some of its glorious past, but since Mo Xie seemed to know about it, he didn't pour any cold water in him. He just added: "It's called the Samsara Shadow Statues."
When Mo Xie heard of its name, he immediately used it through that, by injecting his spiritual energy, the triplet formation disk shone brightly, twenty-four stone statues surrounded Mo Xie and Jinhai.
"So, the stronger I am, the stronger these statues are?" Mo Xie asked.
Jinhai nods his head: "Yes, well, you can try infusing your spiritual energy on it, unto one of the soldiers first, familiarize yourself with it."
Mo Xie nods his head, but he has a divine mind, controlling 24 puppets?
As soon as he infused his spiritual energy unto the twenty-four puppets, it turned grim black, the color of shadows, all of them have red eyes but then, all of them returned back to being a shadow again.
"Huuufff!!!" Mo Xie inhaled a mouth full of air: "Fuuu!" And exhaled it.
His whole soul sea had been drained with every last drop of it, It only lasted for a minute, but it released a tremendous pressure that even he himself couldn't believe what came out of it. A smile formed on his lips: "This, I can definitely use this."
Jinhai smiled: "Glad that it's to your satisfaction."
"Sure is." Mo Xie replied quite excitedly, this is the first time he had crossed something that's worst the same, even valuable than the treasure he had made.