The villain daughter did all kinds of things

Amelie didn't resist, but instead snuggled into Himeki's arms, coquettishly saying:

"Sister Ji Yue, when did you lose to me? It was clearly someone who went to great lengths to help you overcome your inner demons."

"Ah, right, right... Little fairy, you went to all this trouble to help me overcome my inner demons, not for your own ambition or benefit, right? You're the best, little fairy~~"

Ji Yue rolled her eyes at Amelie. Despite her already unfathomable and incomprehensible strength, she still acted with the same captivating charm as Lian had back then.

"Anyway, you're pretty, little vixen, so whatever you say is right."

"I... um."

Amelie nestled in Himezuki's arms, suddenly feeling rather sullen.

...I always feel like, despite putting in so much sweat and effort, my success is mainly due to my looks? It's a bit frustrating...

"What? You little vixen, are you still not satisfied?"

The vast difference in strength allowed Ji Yue to instantly perceive Amelie's emotional shift. Amused, she reached out and twirled a strand of long pink hair, playing with it nimbly with her fingers.

"So, little vixen, what do you want? To have a real fight with me? To prove that your success is entirely due to your own abilities, and not because I pamper you?"

"Then we won't need to."

Emery rolled her eyes, instantly regaining her composure, and snorted:

"The fact that you, the Dao Ancestor, are so infatuated with me is proof of my strength. And don't forget, I was the victor in that water magic duel! I was the one who screamed 'Oh ho ho ho' and then dissipated in ecstasy... Oh my?!"

"You little vixen, how dare you mention that day!"

Now it was Ji Yue's turn to be a little embarrassed and angry:

"I, who have been invincible all my life and never suffered a defeat... have been defeated by you, you little vixen, by just a few moves... Hmph, I'm angry, and I'll punish you!"

The second round of the battle between water magic and water-based Taoist arts has begun.

Emerald's skills were still unparalleled, but unfortunately, she was now far inferior to Himezuki in both stats and mechanics. Despite her best efforts, she was unable to defeat her and once again experienced what it meant to be a fairy punished by the fairy.

I don't know how much time passed, or when the surrounding environment changed again, turning into a boundless starry sky.

As a punished fairy, Emerald was ultimately defeated when Himezuki trapped her body inside a black hole with her buttocks facing outwards.

Black holes are the most dangerous celestial bodies in the universe. Even with Amelie's current strength, facing a black hole alone would be dangerous, after all, it has a huge gravitational pull that can even capture light.

But in front of Himeki now, the black hole seemed no different from a hole in an ordinary wall. In any case, Emeryte's half-body was stuck inside for a long time without being harmed at all... Only the stimulating feeling made her scream loudly.

"Sister Ji Yue, you're really amazing now..."

After being forcibly unlocked with several defeat CGs, Emery was truly too weak to move a single finger. Her proud three-fold organ resonance was nothing in the face of this level of water magic combat... This is the truth of the saying "there are always people better than you" and "there is always a higher level than you". The fear of insufficient firepower and the anxiety of intensity are the biggest incurable diseases of the Endless Void, and they can never be cured.

If you can't resist, then enjoy it.

Seeing that Ji Yue didn't seem to be planning to start a third round of battle, Amelie lay on top of her and began gathering information:

"So... Sister Ji Yue, you have already successfully attained enlightenment?"

"Yes, this is all thanks to you, little fairy."

Ji Yue nodded readily, her eyes unusually devoid of any alluring charm, and looked at Amelie with sincere eyes to express her gratitude:

"You've woken me up... I really didn't expect that I, who prides myself on being the greatest cultivation genius in the world, would make such a basic mistake... Establishing an eternal order has never been the path I truly wanted to take, but merely the path others thought I wanted to take... That's why I haven't been able to attain enlightenment even after tens of thousands of years, because what I'm pursuing is not what I truly want."

"Because Sister Ji Yue, you carried the hopes of so many people on your shoulders back then."

Emery chuckled and continued to praise Himezuki:

"And this is also proof that you, Sister Himezuki, are actually very kind. If it were me, a selfish witch, I definitely wouldn't care about others and would only think about becoming stronger... Hmm, so what path are you on now, Sister Himezuki? I can't understand it at all."

"The path I'm on now... to put it simply is to do whatever I want, to do whatever I want, without caring about anyone's opinion, or any rules or morals."

Ji Yue chuckled and thought for a moment, her eyes suddenly brightening:

"If we follow the so-called Great Dao as you understand it, little fairy, you can consider the path I'm currently walking as the Great Dao of Freedom. And my current realm, according to what those gods call me, little fairy, is the Demon God Realm... but I prefer to call myself Heavenly Venerable."

"She really is a demon god... Sister Ji Yue is so amazing!"

Amelie didn't hide the envy in her eyes.

During her previous cross-dimensional communication with the Holy Flame Meow Meow Cult, Amelie had brushed up on her knowledge of the classification of gods.

In terms of power, gods can be broadly categorized into two types.

All gods whose power surpasses that of the world, that is, those who have reached the fourth stage, can be collectively called true gods. Those gods whose power has not yet surpassed that of the world and who can only grasp a portion of the world's rules are all called false gods or demigods.

Ji Yue's current status as a demon god is a type of true god. It is a non-divine life form that has continuously broken through and advanced through acquired cultivation. It is the rarest among true gods, but its average individual strength is the strongest, and it is almost unrestrained by all rules.

The other two more common types of true gods are chief gods and evil gods. For example, the Elf Queen was a chief god before her fall, while the goddess behind Emeryte was an evil god.

The biggest difference between these two kinds of true gods and demon gods is that they are born with divinity and are promoted to true gods through bloodline evolution or the condensation of faith.

Like the Elf Queen, whose true form is a World Tree, she was originally a divine being with a similar world consciousness to this world. Later, through cultivation, she comprehended the mysteries of magic and nature and was promoted to a chief god.

If Amelie wants to advance to the fourth stage, there are actually two paths.

The first option is to cling to the coattails of that unknown goddess and become a priest who can fully embody the power of the gods, wielding the power of the true gods with a human body... This is practically the pinnacle of the priest profession in the endless void.

Secondly, there is Ji Yue, who relies on her own efforts and cultivation to break through to the fourth stage and become a demon god... But this is much more difficult. In this world, only Dao Ancestor Ji Yue has succeeded since the birth of civilization.

Emerald, of course, wanted to follow Himezuki's path. Who would want to work for someone else when they could become a free and unfettered demon god? Even if that unknown goddess was wonderful.

Since she wanted to follow Ji Yue's path, and Ji Yue was right beside her, Amelie naturally wouldn't let such a good opportunity pass by. She quickly grabbed Ji Yue's arm and started to act coquettishly:

"I want to become a demon god too... Sister Hime-tsuki, can you teach me?"

"Heh... Now you little vixen know to beg me to teach you? You wouldn't even agree to be the second senior sister of the immortal sect back then?"

Ji Yue flicked Amelie's head with her finger, but didn't object.

"Since you, my little devil, have given me so much pleasure today, it wouldn't be unreasonable for me to give you a little pointers on your cultivation... But you're only allowed to ask one question, because your current level is still far behind mine, and there are many things that even if I were willing to explain, you wouldn't understand."

"You can only ask one question..."

Emery frowned, torn between several options in her mind for a moment, and finally chose the question most closely related to the current situation:

"Then Sister Ji Yue, please tell me about the methods you used today... If I'm not mistaken, when I return later, it should be the same time I disappeared, and no one else will notice what happened?"

"...Hmm, little fairy, you really are the most outstanding genius after me. You've actually reached this level of understanding? Not bad, not bad."

Ji Yue first smiled and nodded in affirmation of Amelite's judgment, but instead of continuing her explanation, she asked Amelite a question in return:

"So, little imp, what do you think... the endless void is? Think it through before you answer, and feel free to imagine boldly... How much I tell you today depends entirely on your answer."

...What is the endless void?

Emerald's mind started racing, making her face flush.

Even without knowledge from a previous life, the Allen Federation of this world already possesses some understanding of the endless void.

The endless void is composed of countless worlds, like a vast ocean, with each world being an island and reef within it.

Does Ji Yue need an answer that ordinary people can understand? Of course not.

What exactly is that endless void? And is it related to the methods Ji Yue used today?

Amelie began to think intently.

The method Ji Yue used today may seem like a simple manipulation of time, causing everything to freeze, but it is actually a much more sophisticated technique.

Ji Yue just admitted that after everything here is over, Amelie will be sent back to the point in time when she disappeared. In everyone's mind at the wedding, Amelie has always been attending the wedding and has never left.

Let's think about this phenomenon in a more abstract way, using the analogy of a three-dimensional human and a two-dimensional ant.

Ants cannot perceive the existence of three dimensions, so anything placed on a flat surface or removed from a flat surface by humans appears to ants as if it suddenly appears or disappears.

This applies to ants themselves as well.

Now let's take this phenomenon a step further. If Emerald is just an ant, and the people attending her wedding are other ants, and Himeki takes Emerald from her space and puts her back, will the others notice?

It definitely will.

Even if it's a colony of ants on a flat surface, if a human picks up one ant and puts it back, the other ants will remember and recognize this, even if they can't understand it.

How can we make it so that no one notices?

The key lies in the continuity of time. The brilliance of Ji Yue's move is not in where she took Emerald or how long she took her, but in the fact that no matter when she puts Emerald back, she can place it at the exact moment Emerald left.

This is not something that can be achieved simply by being one dimension higher.

Think about it again... and make another bold guess...

Countless two-dimensional planes are superimposed to form three-dimensional space.

Countless points in time, such as past, present, and future, in three-dimensional space come together to form four-dimensional spacetime, which is a complete world in concept.

The endless void is composed of countless worlds... that is, countless four-dimensional spacetimes.

and so……

"The fifth dimension?"

After an unknown amount of time of contemplation, Emerald reopened her eyes, looked at Himezuki who was smiling at her, and blurted out:

"Is the endless void the fifth dimension?"

"Ah."

Ji Yue's smile grew even brighter:

"I knew you could do this, you little imp... You came up with this answer, so you should understand now what methods I used to come to you this time, right?"

"……Yes."

Amelie nodded, looking both excited and a little tired.

“You have removed me from my timeline in the fifth dimension, just as I can put an ant I’m holding back into any point on a plane, you can naturally put me back into any moment in that timeline.”

"If I'm not mistaken, with your strength reaching Sister Ji Yue's level, the world's time has become meaningless to you... That's why people think you've disappeared, but you haven't actually disappeared at all. You exist simultaneously in the past, present, and future, knowing everything, and naturally you also know that I once bullied your disciple."

"Hmm... more or less, but there are still some discrepancies. With your current strength, it's already quite impressive that you've come to understand this much."

Ji Yue thought for a moment before smiling and saying:

"To help you understand better, little imp, I'll tell you one more thing... From the time you helped me defeat my inner demon until now, how much time has passed in your perception?"

"About three months."

Emery first gave her the truth of her experience, then thought for a moment and said:

"But Sister Ji Yue, you don't feel that way, right?"

"Yes, and my answer is not one, it's contradictory."

Ji Yue smiled and pointed to her head:

"Let's start from when I returned the power of the Heavenly Dao... According to my memory, my cultivation level plummeted after that, and I almost became an ordinary person. It was only after breaking through and rebuilding that I was able to break through to my current level through hard work."

"Do you know how long I hid away and cultivated in seclusion? Almost 300 years... It took me nearly another 300 years to finally attain enlightenment in the void."

"According to the normal timeline, I should still be hiding somewhere in the Tianyun Empire, cultivating in seclusion. If you look carefully, you should be able to find me, right? But the result is that you can't find me at all, and everyone thinks that I have disappeared."

"This is because after I successfully attained enlightenment in the void, I transcended the world, and there is no trace of me on the timeline anymore. Therefore, the me who hid away to cultivate in seclusion no longer exists."

"So, the two answers I have to myself regarding how long it has been since I last saw you, little fairy, are contradictory."

"The answer my memory tells me is that I went into seclusion and cultivated myself for another 300 years before I finally saw you."

"But the truth of what actually happened is that the very next second after I disappeared that day, I went to your wedding and dragged you away."

"Which of these two answers is correct? Is it my memory? Or is it objective truth? Little fairy, you can think about it carefully when you go back... Once you can completely understand this point, you can try to break through to my current level."

Chapter 381 Time to Enjoy the Spoils of War

Which is the truth: memory or reality?

Amelite, who wanted to extract some advanced knowledge from Himeki like shearing wool, quickly lost her mind because her thoughts were not in line with her own level. She felt dizzy and even more soft and delicious.

"Hehe, the bouncy little fairy is great too..."

With a wicked grin, Ji Yue seized the opportunity to launch a third water magic duel against Amelite, and won a great victory because Amelite was dizzy, having a great time.

"Caw... Sister Ji Yue, you're so mean?!"

After the war, Emery was even more delicate, her mind clouded from overuse, turning her into a truly frail young lady who could only be held by Himezuki.

"How dare you bully me like this... Does being strong mean you can do whatever you want?"

"Sorry, being strong really does mean you can do whatever you want... Little fairy, if you're not happy about this, then catch up with me soon and get your revenge."