Time flowed like water. In the blink of an eye, two months passed.

At first, Dou Dou and Yaya were very worried about Luo Xiu, but their fears were assuaged after Luo Ying awoke and assured them he would be fine. With their minds at ease, the two young girls became carefree once more.

Luo Xiu's body remained in a constant state of combustion, like a burning piece of coal. His life force blazed like an undying flame. The two carefree girls even started using him as a convenient stove to roast meat and cook their meals.

「That day.」

Luo Ying, Dou Dou, and Yaya sat on a broken wall not far from Luo Xiu, playing poker and betting with peanuts, just as they always did.

While the three were giggling and playing, the flames enveloping Luo Xiu's body suddenly vanished.

The three of them dropped their cards and hurried over to check on him. However, before they could get close, a terrifying heatwave blasted them back.

Even Luo Ying, an Earth Immortal, found it difficult to withstand the intense heat.

The three had no choice but to retreat, watching Luo Xiu with anxious faces.

At that moment, Luo Xiu's body had almost turned into a human-shaped piece of charcoal, sizzling and emitting white smoke as if he'd been burned to a crisp.

If not for the robust life force they could still feel emanating from him, they might have mistaken him for a lump of charcoal.

As time went on, the charred shell on Luo Xiu's body began to crack and flake away, revealing smooth, fair skin underneath.

"What's happening? Chen Shuisheng isn't dead, is he?" Dou Dou asked Luo Ying, her voice laced with worry.

Luo Ying observed for a moment before a smile touched her lips. "Don't worry, the Young Master will be fine."

If there was anyone present who was most worried about Luo Xiu, it was undoubtedly Luo Ying. And yet, at this very moment, she was also the least worried person.

That Divine Vine Tao Melon can indeed be fatal. An ordinary person would be unable to withstand it even if they managed to obtain one. But it could never claim the life of His Majesty, the Azure Emperor. The Young Master has the Emperor's Blood to protect him and destiny on his side. How could a mere Divine Vine Tao Melon possibly harm him? Still, it looks like he'll need to remain asleep for a while longer.

...

Time passed, day by day. In what felt like the blink of an eye, another three months went by.

「That day.」

Xia Chan was practicing in the ruins outside the Ancient Shu Base, just as she did every day. She was honing the Wicked Tenderness Hand, a technique she had created after her epiphany at the monument five months ago.

Shan Xiao suddenly descended from the sky and landed in front of her.

"Miss, after five months of hard work on the blueprints you brought, we've repaired the Tri-Star Clock."

"We are about to activate it. Would you like to come and watch?"

Xia Chan stopped her cultivation and took out a towel to wipe the sweat from her brow. "The Moon Tide Siphon hasn't arrived yet. Will activating the Tri-Star Clock now cause any unforeseen complications?"

Shan Xiao said, "You needn't worry about that, Miss. In fact, we've activated it a few times since the Henghai battle, and we haven't encountered any issues."

"Now that it's repaired, we must test it. This is the only way to confirm it's truly fixed, discover any problems, and make immediate adjustments.

"That way, we can be sure it will function perfectly when the Moon Tide Siphon arrives."

Xia Chan nodded slightly. "That makes sense. Let's go take a look."

Before long, the two reached the viewing platform on the banks of the Ancient Shu Black River. At that moment, several Holy Boi Religion Cultists in protective suits were busy working on rafts in the river.

Shan Xiao picked up a megaphone and bellowed, "Everyone get to shore! Return to the base and stand by!"

A moment later, once the Sect Followers in the river were all ashore, Shan Xiao gave another command: "Open the sluice gates!"

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

With a series of deafening rumbles, the calm Black River suddenly began to churn.

The sluice gates upstream opened, and a massive wave surged forth!

After gaining sufficient power, the countless bronze gears of the two-hundred-meter diameter Tri-Star Clock began to turn, emitting a rhythmic, mechanical sound that felt ancient and mysterious.

As time passed, sparks of electricity began to arc around the clock, and The Void itself started to distort.

CRACK!

A tremendous noise ripped through the air as the space above the clock shattered, revealing The Void!

Shan Xiao and Xue Xiao had already raised a Spiritual Barrier to protect Xia Chan, shielding her from the deafening sound.

On the viewing platform, inside the Spiritual Barrier, Xia Chan gazed at the spatial rift that had been torn open above the Tri-Star Clock and murmured, "So this is what they were talking about… the mysterious, colossal sound from prehistoric times?"

The spatial rift was pitch-black, a mysterious and terrifying tear in reality that revealed nothing of what lay beyond.

Suddenly, scenes began to flash rapidly within the dark rift.

Several of the fleeting images looked familiar. Xia Chan's eyes narrowed. To confirm a suspicion, she quickly pulled out her phone and was shocked to see it had one bar of signal.

"Quick, Xue Xiao, fly me in there!"

Xue Xiao was stunned by her words.

Shan Xiao was also taken aback. He said, "Miss, since the Moon Tide Siphon hasn't arrived, the spatial channel opened by the Tri-Star Clock won't be fixed on Henghai's coordinates. It's filled with unknown risks."

"If you go in rashly… there's no telling where you'll be transported. You could even end up in outer space."

"And look, the spatial fluctuations near the rift are extremely unstable. It's filled with spatial turbulence that could annihilate anything."

Xia Chan put her phone away. "Don't worry, I have the Wicked Tenderness Technique; that turbulence can't harm me. Besides, my phone has a signal. That means it's connected to somewhere on Earth. As long as I'm on Earth, nothing will go wrong."

"This is our only chance to leave this place. I want to try."

"But…"

Shan Xiao and Xue Xiao exchanged a worried glance, both reluctant to let Xia Chan take such a risk. But faced with her insistence, they finally relented.

Deciding to just get it over with, Xue Xiao steeled himself, grasped Xia Chan's arm, and flew into the spatial rift.

As the gears ground to a halt, the spatial rift vanished, and everything became peaceful once more.

Shan Xiao stood on the viewing platform, gazing at the dim Void with a face full of worry.

Miss, please be safe.

A Sect Follower in a protective suit approached him. "Lord Shan Xiao, what are your orders?"

"Continue checking the clock. Don't miss a single detail."

"Yes!"

...

BOOM!

Luo Xiu was jolted awake by a tremendous noise, his eyes snapping open in a realm of dark chaos.

He saw a hand of unimaginable size, wielding an equally unimaginable axe, cleaving a silver abyss through the endless starry sky.

Somewhere within that silver abyss, a massive rock collided with another, and the two fused into a single, larger mass.

Over countless eons, the great boulder floating in the cosmos began to use its own gravity to capture nearby dust, growing and growing until it became a true celestial body.

It was a planet.

The planet was covered in nothing but roiling lava.

But as time went on, a powerful being crawled out from the depths of the molten ocean.

It was the first Primordial Being, born at the dawn of time in the Primordial Epoch.

The Primordial Being looked around in a daze, then suddenly threw a punch at the sky, causing the ocean of lava at its feet to roil and churn!

Another loud noise.

Luo Xiu opened his eyes again, sensation returning to his body.

A powerful feeling of suffocation made his hands flail about wildly.

Only when his hands seized two soft, round orbs did he snap back to consciousness.

"Young Master… you're hurting Ying'er," Luo Ying said softly, her head lowered and her face flushed with shyness.

Luo Xiu froze, finally coming back to his senses.

He looked at the shy Luo Ying before him with a strange expression, quickly retracting his hands and awkwardly looking away.

"Uh… sorry about that."

Gently helping him sit up, Luo Ying asked, "Young Master, what did you gain from that Dao Lemon?"

Hearing this, Luo Xiu suddenly remembered the strange dream he'd just had. A stream of clear information surfaced in his mind.

He gradually understood that this information was the enlightenment he had gained from absorbing the Divine Vine Tao Melon.

He suddenly said, "Ying'er, let's spar. I want to test something out."

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