There is a wooden house ahead!
Wildflowers grow everywhere around it!
Besides that!
There is also a wooden table!
On it are placed a kettle and cups!
This is a place for human habitation!
If it were just this, it would be fine!
After all, eight people enter here every fifty thousand years!
The problem is...
There is also a drying rack in front of the wooden house!
On it are women's undergarments and long skirts!
What does this mean?
Someone lives here!
And it's a woman!
Qinglong's voice sounded: "To actually meet someone else here... your luck is truly terrible!"
"I can sense that woman's strength!"
"She is very strong!"
"You cannot afford to offend her!"
"I will help you conceal your aura, you should leave quickly!" Qinglong's voice was weak!
But it carried a hint of gravity!
Since Qinglong said so!
What could Chen Nan do?
Walk brazenly past the wooden house?
He would naturally take a detour!
"Not many things can make you so wary, could that woman be the Empress?" Chen Nan communicated with Qinglong's soul!
He knew that among the eight human powerhouses, there was a female one!
Known as the Empress!
She was peerless and magnificent, surpassing all in history!
"It should be her!" Qinglong: "Besides her, I can't think of any stronger woman!"
Entering the Land of Fortune in the same era, even if she was a high and mighty Empress!
Chen Nan felt no joy whatsoever!
He didn't believe his damned charm could win her over!
On the contrary!
All the resources here would have to be shared with the Empress!
Ugh...
Actually, if it were just about sharing all the resources!
It wouldn't be a bad thing!
Since he was already here!
It was unrealistic for him to want to monopolize it!
Sharing resources would be the best outcome!
But the problem was...
Would the Empress be willing to share with him?
Therefore!
The only thing he could do was to try his best not to let the Empress discover him!
Before the Empress knew of his existence, he should find as many opportunities as possible!
Otherwise...
Let alone finding opportunities!
Whether he could leave alive was unknown!
Before sunset!
Chen Nan found the divine herb that Qinglong had mentioned!
"Don't touch it!" Qinglong said: "There aren't many divine herbs in the Land of Fortune. If I'm not mistaken, the Empress likely knows about this herb!"
"If you take it away, it will surely attract the Empress's attention!"
"Then you'll be finished!"
Chen Nan felt a surge of fear: "Then what should I do?"
Qinglong: "You place your hand on this divine herb, and I will absorb its medicinal properties, causing it to wither."
"It's just that I don't know if it will attract the Empress's notice!"
The withering of a divine herb is a natural phenomenon!
However!
The probability of it happening is very low!
Chen Nan followed Qinglong's instructions and placed his hand on the divine herb!
The next second!
He felt a surging medicinal power pour into his body like a mountain flood!
It was then absorbed by Qinglong!
But his arm felt a tearing pain!
"The medicinal properties of divine herbs are exceptionally potent!"
"Even with your Primordial Sacred Body, you cannot consume it!"
"Otherwise, you will explode and die!"
After about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn!
Qinglong absorbed the medicinal properties of the divine herb!
It turned into a withered plant!
"Continue heading east, there are more divine herbs there!" Because he had absorbed the divine herb, Qinglong's voice was no longer as weak!
"How long will it take for your strength to recover?" Chen Nan asked as he walked!
Qinglong casually replied: "About ten thousand more divine herbs!"
"Are you joking?" Chen Nan's mouth twitched!
Qinglong: "Ten thousand divine herbs will only allow me to recover one percent of my peak strength!"
"..."
Chen Nan's heart churned with immense waves: "May I ask timidly, how strong was your peak strength?"
Qinglong's tone carried a hint of arrogance: "Let me put it this way, one percent of my strength can crush a ninth-level Immortal Emperor!"
Chen Nan swallowed: "It sounds really strong!"
"That's natural..."
Before the word "natural" was finished, Chen Nan's voice rang out again: "If you are so strong, why were you injured, and why did you turn into an egg?"
"I..."
Qinglong was speechless!
Then he sighed softly: "It's not impossible to tell you, that battle back then was too tragic!"
"Let alone me, even several Saints had fallen!"
"What? Several Saints have fallen?" Chen Nan's skin crawled with goosebumps!
Saints were immortal and indestructible!
Upon learning that Saints had fallen, how could he not be shocked!
"I never thought Saints could fall, after all, they had transcended the Three Realms and Five Elements, the cycles of Yin and Yang!"
"But!"
"That scene is deeply imprinted in my mind!"
"If your cultivation realm were not too low, I wouldn't mind sharing that memory with you!"
Chen Nan couldn't help but ask: "What exactly happened back then?"
Qinglong: "I don't know!"
"When I sensed that battle!"
"Lingxiao was shattered!"
"The gods had all perished!"
"Corpses emitting divine light floated throughout the heavens and earth!"
"Blood stained the sky and the land!"
"Only the Saints were fighting to the death!"
Chen Nan's heart surged with immense waves!
The gods had all perished?
What a tragic battle that must have been!
"Oh, right!"
"The Heaven Devouring Bowl, and the black stick in your hand, came from Lingxiao!"
"The Heaven Devouring Bowl is just a very ordinary item!"
"In the God Realm, it's used to feed dogs..."
Chen Nan almost spat out a mouthful of blood!
Good heavens!
It was a bowl used to feed dogs!
He wondered if the Dragon Clan and others would have their mental states explode if they knew they considered a dog-feeding bowl as a treasured heirloom!
"But!"
"The black stick in your hand has an astonishing origin!"
"If possible, I hope you can refine it as soon as possible!"
"Refine it with all your might!"
Chen Nan: "We're not outsiders, can you explain it in more detail?"
"Do you know that stringing me along like this can lead to a beating?"
Qinglong: "Do you know about the Heavenly Court?"
"I do!"
Qinglong said: "The most sacred place in the Heavenly Court is the Hall of Merit!"
"In the Hall of Merit, there is a pillar called the Pillar of Merit!"
"Also known as the Sky-Supporting Pillar!"
"This pillar is related to whether the Heavenly Court can be rebuilt!"
"You mean, I can rebuild the Heavenly Court?" He said this and glanced at the black long staff behind him, feeling very surreal!
Who would have thought!
Its original name was the Pillar of Merit!
Qinglong was silent for a long time: "Someone has to rebuild this Heavenly Court!"
"Whether you can rebuild the Heavenly Court depends on your fortune!"
"However, you should refine it first!"
Chen Nan nodded solemnly!
The power of the Pillar of Merit was indeed terrifying!
But carrying it on his back was too inconvenient!
If he could refine it, that would be best!
"Let's go, let's find another divine herb first, and then find a place to refine the Pillar of Merit!" Chen Nan's figure moved like a nimble spirit cat, silently traversing the forest!
At the same time!
A woman wearing a blood-red wide-sleeved fairy dress!
With a graceful figure!
And peerless beauty appeared before a withered divine herb!
Magnificent and peerless, surpassing all in history!
She was the Empress!
The foremost female powerhouse of the human race!
Si Ning!
She looked at the withered divine herb with confusion: "This divine herb was full of life three days ago, why has it withered today?"