In the Ancient Realm, the center was wreathed in a Sea of Clouds. Golden Flame occasionally flickered through the Sea of Clouds, accompanied by the laughter of a man and an infant.
Inside the Pocket Dimension where the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame resided, Gu Yuan held the Infant Girl, a smile playing on his lips, teasing the Little Guy in his arms.
Perhaps because she had just been born, the Infant Girl wasn't very energetic and was already feeling a bit sleepy. She grinned at Gu Yuan, yawned, and then fell asleep.
"Since you have no objections, it's happily decided then."
Seeing this, Gu Yuan carefully leaned down and brushed his face against the Infant Girl's cheek. Then he looked at the Pocket Dimension after its Origin had been lost. Although there were still countless Golden Flames, without their source, they would slowly dissipate.
His gaze shifted, and he made up his mind. He turned and left the Pocket Dimension, then sealed the area. After all, the Flame energy within was of the same Origin as the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame. If Xun'er could absorb it in the future, its effect would be no less than some Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. He wouldn't waste it like this.
"As expected of a being nurtured by both the Fire Spirit Pearl and the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame. This talent is even stronger than I imagined. Hun Tiandi, in two hundred years, I will definitely cultivate her into an existence no weaker than me. By then, how will you contend against the two of us, father and daughter?"
Even with Gu Yuan's knowledge, he was shocked by Xun'er's talent. Born with All Meridians Unobstructed, even just by breathing, the surrounding Fire Attribute Energy continuously surged into her body, then was purified by the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame and merged into her Dantian. And this was just from her breathing!
If she started cultivating in the future, her cultivation speed would undoubtedly be a thousand miles a day. Moreover, because her meridians were fully unobstructed, she could reach Dou Sect without any bottlenecks!
He was confident that in just two hundred years, he could cultivate Xun'er into an existence no weaker than him.
Don't think two hundred years is a long time. For him, this amount of Time was just a few sessions of secluded cultivation passing by. Furthermore, among the people he knew who could reach Late Stage Dou Sheng within two hundred years, there was only Xiao Xuan, and perhaps Zhao Li could be considered one as well.
As long as he continued to slack off for another two hundred years, and waited for Xun'er to grow up, he would let Hun Tiandi know that this was the effective way to cause trouble, not like him, blindly messing around for a vague legend of becoming a Dou Di!
Thinking of this, Gu Yuan was in a great mood. He immediately started showing off Little Xun'er, holding her. For a time, everyone in the Gu Clan knew that their Clan Elder had gained a child late in life and was showing her off everywhere.
Although everyone was curious about the origin of Gu Yuan's sudden daughter, her Bloodline was indeed of the Gu Clan, and its grade was not low. Therefore, they quickly accepted the addition of a Little Princess to the Gu Clan.
With Xun'er's birth, the thoughts of the people within the Gu Clan also began to stir. Quietly, they also began making some preparations...
While various forces on the Continent were brewing for a sudden eruption after the passage of Time, on the Northwestern Continent, in the Jia Ma Empire, atop Cloud Mist Mountain, Zhao Li suddenly opened his eyes and looked towards the border of the Jia Ma Empire. Then, his figure quietly dissipated, and he was already in Wutan City.
Zhao Li had been wandering the Continent for a long time, with a main goal of finding Yao Chen and confirming whether he was alive or dead. However, trying to find a person, especially a 'dead' person, was no less difficult than searching for a needle in a haystack. Even with Zhao Li's Emperor Realm Soul Power, it was the same!
Thirty years, and he had found nothing.
And this was after narrowing down the search area, knowing that according to the original storyline, the flow of the ring where Yao Chen was hidden was highly likely to be towards this Northwestern Continent.
He had even met people from the Xiao Family, met Xiao Zhan, met Madam Xiao, and still found nothing...
Until just now, he felt a familiar fluctuation descend.
In Wutan City, behind the Xiao Family's mountain, Zhao Li looked at the faint, yet seemingly encompassing all the Origin of the world, bright yellow Ball of Light above the Xiao Family, located in a Pocket Dimension. He murmured in his heart:
"Is this the Origin of Rules Cleansing? Who can attract the descent of the Origin of Rules?"
This scene was not unfamiliar to Zhao Li. It was precisely because he had entered its body by chance that he was able to weave a Web of Rules of his own in just a few decades, allowing him to be no less skilled in the application of the Origin of Heaven and Earth than powerhouses who had cultivated for Thousand Years. With it, he had faced off against Hun Tiandi with his Peak Eight-Star Strength!
"In this small Wutan City, is there still a powerhouse who can cause the descent of the Origin of Rules?"
Zhao Li's heart was not calm. He released his Soul Power, which he didn't even know if it still belonged to the Emperor Realm, and extended it towards the Space where the Ball of Light was located.
He couldn't afford to be careless. Besides himself, he had never seen anyone else on this Continent who could cause this level of Origin!
Soon, Zhao Li withdrew his Soul Power. To his surprise, the Ball of Rules Origin was not a physical entity. It was like a projection manifested through this world. Although the essence was the same, it lacked a layer of reality. For him, it no longer had any effect.
And just now, he had understood the reason for his descent here. Its appearance was due to a powerful, but cracked and mottled Soul on a newborn infant below!
On its body, Zhao Li vaguely sensed an aura that was out of place here.
Its appearance was to purify that mottled, cracked Soul. As it was cleansed, the cracks on that Soul were slowly healing, completely merging with the newborn!
"This..."
For a moment, Zhao Li didn't know what to say.
He didn't need anyone to tell him that the person below was Xiao Yan, but what he found a bit hard to accept was why Xiao Yan, just by being born, could have such a Phenomenon, as if his life was destined to be extraordinary.
Moreover, Zhao Li also discovered that the strength of that Soul didn't seem like something a Transmigrator could achieve. Also, why were there so many cracks on that Soul, as if it could shatter at any moment!
After a long while, Zhao Li's brow relaxed. Since he couldn't figure it out, he simply stopped thinking. He looked at the child in the distance, his heart filled with emotion:
"Is this the Destined Protagonist?"
No matter what happened to the protagonist, it seemed it wouldn't be very surprising.
"I didn't expect you to really be here, but when was it?"
When the Origin of Heaven and Earth descended to cleanse that broken Soul, Zhao Li could feel another Soul Power undergoing a slow but firm transformation under the baptism of this Origin. And the aura on that Soul was not unfamiliar to him; it was Yao Chen, whom he had been searching for without success.
He had clearly seen Madam Xiao a few years ago, and at that time, he definitely hadn't found this Black Ring. But in just a few years, it had appeared here as if by Destiny. Everything seemed to be developing according to a script that had long been written, as if nothing had changed...
Zhao Li's thoughts were complicated, but in the end, he let it go. He did nothing. This time, it wasn't because he was afraid that everything he did would eventually be nullified by various reasons, but rather, he didn't want to. Since the Gears of Fate began to turn today, he would just add a little something to it...
Zhao Li returned to the Cloud Mist Sect and talked with Yun Shan for a long time, saying many things that Yun Shan didn't understand. Then, he disappeared under Yun Shan's bewildered gaze.
Thus, Yun Shan, who had started slacking off after being promoted to Dou Venerate, became busy again, bringing a bit of Great Li shock to the Northwestern Continent
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