"A passerby?" Zhihua looked at Zhao Xuan, her pretty face filled with complicated emotions as she murmured.
"This is too amazing! Master, do you need any more accessories?" At this moment, Zuo Xiao walked over with a look of admiration, his big face full of anticipation.
If he had such a powerful figure protecting him, he could walk sideways in the Cangyuan Realm.
"Uh... I'm not a big shot, and I'm leaving this world soon too." Zhao Xuan said, looking at the overly familiar guy.
Upon hearing this, Zuo Xiao was somewhat disappointed, but it wasn't something he found hard to accept. After all, he had only come to try his luck. If he succeeded, he would be incredibly wealthy; if he failed, he wouldn't suffer any loss.
"Thank you for saving me just now, senior." At this moment, Yan Jin walked over and clasped his hands in thanks.
Seeing this, the others also expressed their gratitude.
"Thank you, senior."
"Thank you sir for the rescue."
Thank you...
"No need to thank me, it was just a small favor." Zhao Xuan waved his hand dismissively.
"No matter what, it's still..." Yan Jin was about to say something more when Zhao Xuan interrupted him, "Don't thank me, I should go now. See you all again someday."
"Buzz!!" Just as Zhao Xuan finished speaking, a passage appeared in front of everyone.
"Goodbye, everyone." Zhao Xuan smiled and walked into the passage.
As he stepped into the passageway, a cold voice rang out: "What goodbye?"
Zhao Xuan turned his head and saw Zhihua's pretty face filled with anticipation. He chuckled and said, "Heh, it may be soon, or it may be a long time, but sooner or later, we will meet again."
After saying this, Zhao Xuan stepped directly into the passage.
After Zhao Xuan went inside, the passage was closed.
"The big boss left too quickly. I was wondering which world he was from. Could he be from the demon realm?" Zuo Xiao said with some regret.
After all, in Zuo Xiao's understanding, there were only the Cangyuan Realm and the Demon Realm.
“You look like you’re from the demon realm. I really don’t know what you’re thinking. If you’re from the demon realm, why would your elders save us?” Yan Feng said at this moment.
“Yan Feng is right. If they really are from the demon realm, our deaths would be the best thing for the demon realm. There’s no need for them to waste their energy saving us,” Li Shaoying agreed.
Given the relationship between the Cangyuan Realm and the Demon Realm, they probably wish all the geniuses of the Cangyuan Realm would die, so there's no way they could save them.
“It seems that it’s not just our Cangyuan Realm and the Demon Realm, but also other realms, or rather worlds, where the cultivation systems of those seniors are different from ours,” Zong Sha said.
Others also shared their opinions.
Only Zhihua remained silent, and no one knew what she was thinking.
Suddenly, Zhihua knelt down, clutching her head and crying out in pain, "What is this?!"
At this moment, Zhihua felt as if endless memories were being crammed into her brain, causing her a splitting headache.
Images that were both strange and familiar to her appeared in her mind.
Upon seeing this, Li Shaoying and the others all asked questions.
"Hey!? Are you alright?"
"Zhihua, what's wrong?"
"Could this be a side effect of what just happened?"
"possible?"
But Zhihua couldn't care less about Li Shaoying and the others at this moment.
Zhihua dug her fingertips deep into her temples, hearing her companions' panicked cries, but all the sounds seemed to be muffled by a thick curtain of water. In her sea of consciousness, countless stars exploded simultaneously, and fragments of memory poured down like a reversed Milky Way.
My first memory is of Jian Ge, where snow was falling all around.
"Raise your wrist a little higher, and let your sword intent fall silently like snowflakes." Zhao Xuan stood under the plum blossom tree, its surface covered in ice crystals, holding her hand as he adjusted her sword stance. His body heat emanated through her blue robe, especially noticeable in the frigid environment of minus thirty degrees Celsius.
Zhihua looked at her past self and unleashed her Frosty Sword Qi. Snowflakes within a ten-zhang radius suddenly hovered in mid-air, condensing into countless ice swords. (ccec)
"Time freezes?"
She heard her future self exclaim in surprise.
"This is your Jade Pure Glazed Body resonating with the sword intent." Zhao Xuan smiled and brushed the snowflakes from her hair. The lingering warmth on his fingertips made Zhihua's heart clench in reality.
The second memory is a rainy night in the Raize Secret Realm.
Covered in blood, Zhao Xuan shielded her behind him, the Dragon Abyss Sword embedded in the scorched earth forming a barrier. The venom of the Nine-Headed Willow corroded the protective shield, and through the sizzling smoke, she saw the wound on Zhao Xuan's back, ripped open by the turbulent flow of time and space.
"Don't be afraid, I promised to protect you until dawn." He coughed up blood as he spoke, but poured his last bit of spiritual power into the jade hairpin in her hand. As the first rays of dawn illuminated the swamp, the hairpin burst forth with a blue light that pierced through the nine heads of the ancient beast.
The third memory is from the star-studded observatory.
Zhao Xuan's white robes fluttered in the night wind as he pointed to the swirling star trails in the sky: "Every world is a cocoon woven by the Heavenly Dao, but there will always be someone who breaks free and becomes a butterfly."
Zhihua discovered that the version of herself she remembered could stand in mid-air, with spacetime runes similar to Zhao Xuan's appearing beneath her feet. "You have grasped the rudiments of the laws of spacetime."
As Zhao Xuan turned away, his eyes held a sadness she couldn't understand. "Next time we meet, perhaps it will be your turn to teach me."
The final image that appeared made Zhihua tremble all over in reality.
Zhao Xuan stood before the spacetime vortex, a broken piece of the Heavenly Dao chain stuck in his chest.
He took off his ever-present black jade pendant and placed it in her hand; the starlight shimmering on its surface formed a miniature galaxy. "Take this with you, no matter how many worlds you cross..."
A violent spatial tremor interrupted her words. She desperately grabbed Zhao Xuan's gradually transparent hand, but only managed to grasp a wisp of starlight carrying the aura of laws.
"Buzz!!" Just then, a more mature version of Zhihua appeared in front of Zhihua. The mature Zhihua looked at her still somewhat immature self and said with a nostalgic expression, "I entrust him to you. I hope that in the future you will not end up like me, only able to watch him die and disappear."
"We must create a new era."
"This time it's your turn to go after him."
"One last piece of advice: strive to become stronger, or you will lose him forever, and the new me."
After saying this, the mature Zhihua slowly turned into starlight.
"No!! I don't want this!! This isn't real, this isn't real!"
Upon seeing this, Zhihua suddenly broke down and cried out.
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Chapter 280 Body Refining God!
"Zhihua!"
But just then, Li Jingling's exclamation pulled her back to reality.
To everyone's horror, Zhihua was surrounded by pale golden spatial ripples, and the plants within a ten-foot radius were undergoing a strange cycle of withering and flourishing.
She stared blankly at her palm—where the exact same star-shaped pattern as in her memory was appearing.
“So it wasn’t our first meeting after all…” Zhihua touched the jade pendant that had appeared around her neck at some unknown time, the cool touch overlapping with the warmth of Zhao Xuan’s palm in her memory.
Tears suddenly blurred her vision, and she finally understood the weight of those words, "We'll meet again someday." Those springs, summers, autumns, and winters in her memories, those life-or-death moments fought side-by-side—all were promises that Zhao Xuan had guarded alone across endless time and space.
Zuo Xiao suddenly pointed to the sky and exclaimed, "Look!" A huge phantom of a spacetime compass appeared in the night sky, with seventy-two star orbits slowly rotating around Zhihua.
Yan Jin's sword suddenly drew from its sheath on its own, and in the reflection of Zhihua's eyes on the blade, a swirling galaxy seemed to be slowly turning.
"Isn't that the roulette wheel from that senior just now..." Zong Sha's voice trembled, "How did it appear again?!"
You should know that they were just saved by this roulette wheel.
Zhihua seemed oblivious to the gasps of the crowd. She gripped the black jade pendant tightly, starlight swirling between her fingers into a familiar pattern—the very talisman Zhao Xuan drew each time he opened a time-space portal.
Countless fragments of memory came together at this moment, and she suddenly understood the deeper meaning of the words her future self spoke before leaving.
As the first ray of sunlight pierced through the clouds, the spatial and temporal anomalies surrounding Zhihua suddenly subsided.
She stood up, her skirt fluttering even without wind, and a jade hairpin had appeared in her hair without her noticing.
Amidst the astonished gazes of the crowd, the girl murmured softly in the direction where Zhao Xuan had disappeared: "This time, it's my turn to find you, no matter how many shackles of the Heavenly Dao I have to break."
"I won't let you leave me either."
The girl's words were full of determination.
"What's going on? Did the senior leave behind some treasure?!" Jin Huan asked, somewhat puzzled.
He didn't understand why he couldn't comprehend what Zhihua was saying.
"Who knows? Why don't you go ask that woman?" Zuo Xiao rolled her eyes at him and said irritably.
"Uh... never mind." Jin Huan shook his head repeatedly upon hearing this. He knew Zhihua's personality well; with that aloof demeanor, she probably wouldn't answer him.
So he decided to avoid that bad luck.
The others looked at Zhihua thoughtfully.
But I didn’t ask any more questions.
"Zhihua, where is Ge Xuan?!" Just then, a strong voice rang in everyone's ears.
This drew everyone's attention, and they saw Xiao Jinyu.
At this moment, Xiao Jinyu was enveloped in a transparent and shimmering energy, surrounded by halos of various colors.
On the right, there are burning flame elements: these flames are predominantly orange with yellow edges, forming a barrier-like shape around them.
Xiao Jinyu arrived amidst the flames, and the moment his black boots touched the ground, the morning dew in the entire valley evaporated into crimson mist.
The vermilion mark between his brows was actually formed of flowing magma, and dark golden fire pythons slithered through every fold of his clothes. When his golden double pupils swept across the crowd, the vegetation within a hundred feet instantly curled up into grayish-white embers.
"Speak!" Seeing that Zhihua and the others did not respond, he immediately shouted, and the sixty-four floating crystal flames around him burst into flames. Jin Huan's protective magic artifact cracked with a spiderweb pattern, and Zuo Xiao staggered back three steps before barely managing to stand.
Only then did everyone realize that the soil within ten feet of Xiao Jinyu's feet had crystallized into translucent red jade, and the surging heat wave distorted the morning light across the entire sky.
Zong Sha and the others retreated, but Zhihua didn't retreat an inch. It seemed that Xiao Jinyu's power as a Body Refining God had no effect on her at all.
"Hmm?" Xiao Jinyu looked at Zhihua with some surprise and suspicion. Zhihua gave him a dangerous aura.
This greatly alarmed Xiao Jinyu. He knew that although he had only just broken through to the Body Refinement God Venerable realm, he was confident that he was no weaker than any other God Venerable realm third level Great Sun realm cultivator.
Even so, Zhihua still posed a deadly threat to him.
"General, congratulations on your breakthrough to Godhood." Zhihua did not answer Xiao Jinyu's question, but instead offered her congratulations.
"Congratulations, General Xiao."
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"Congratulations, General Xiao."
"Congratulations, General Xiao."
Seeing this, the others also offered their congratulations.
Although everyone was shocked by Xiao Jinyu's breakthrough to the Body Refinement God Venerable realm, they had witnessed something even more shocking today, so their mental fortitude was much stronger.
However, congratulations are still in order.
After all, no matter what, he was a powerful body-refining deity.
Looking at the expressions of Zhihua and her group, Xiao Jinyu's initial excitement after breaking through to the Body Refinement God Venerable level vanished by more than half, and he became somewhat disheartened.
Originally, his breakthrough to the Body Refinement God Venerable realm was intended to be a fierce battle with that old guy Ge Xuan, and also to show off.
However, to everyone's surprise, Ge Xuan's aura seemed to have vanished from Yuanchu City, leaving no trace whatsoever.
..... .... ...
"Zhihua, where did Ge Xuan go?" Xiao Jinyu looked everyone over and asked again.
"General, Ge Xuan has already been executed," Zhihua said calmly, looking at Xiao Jinyu.
It seems that because she merged with her counterpart from another timeline, Zhihua no longer idolizes Xiao Jinyu as much as before. Instead, she feels indifferent, but also determined to become stronger and find Zhao Xuan.
Upon hearing that Ge Xuan was dead, Xiao Jinyu was first shocked, and then continued to ask questions, needing to know everything.
Because of the Heavenly Dao's blockade, people outside the area had no idea what had happened here.
.........
The white-robed man, far at the edge of time and space, suddenly stopped, the black jade pendant on his chest emitting a faint glow. He gazed at the collapsing myriad worlds before him, a gentle smile curving his blood-stained lips: "Finally... you've remembered. I hope you can step out into a new time."
"I'm tired too..."
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