"During the time you were gone, my divine sense not only swept across the entire Realm Vein Land, but also the Eternal Night World and numerous minor world ruins. However, I could no longer find their soul imprints."
Bai Yinchen's gaze was filled with sorrow. "From all indications, the entire Earth, and even the entire star system it belongs to, along with the Spirit Realm, have been rewound by an unknown energy to ten thousand years ago. I had thought that even if I couldn't find eldest sister and fourth sister, I could at least find my other brothers and sisters, but alas..."
At these words, everyone's expressions turned grim.
Even though Bai Yinchen was only at the Mahayana stage, the power she wielded was beyond their imagination. Yet, even she couldn't find the soul imprints of her siblings, which meant that their scattered loved ones were likely gone.
"How could this be..."
Wang Shouyi's thin lips pressed into a straight line, and he uttered a whisper of disbelief.
He had originally planned to deal with matters on Earth and then ascend to the upper realms to search for his lost children. However, his second daughter had just told him that ten thousand years had passed since the shattering of the Spirit Realm...
This forced him to place all his hopes on the rewound space-time. Yet, Bai Yinchen told him that apart from herself, her wife, and their four children, she hadn't found a single one of her other siblings?
Bai Lanzhi's face was also etched with despair.
"Will I never see fifth brother, sixth brother, seventh sister, and eighth sister again?" Bai Chanyi's large eyes misted over as she looked pleadingly at Bai Yinchen.
Bai Xinyi's face contorted in pain. Suddenly, as if grasping at a straw, he said urgently to Bai Yinchen, "When I was lost in a spatial fragment of the Realm Vein Land, Zhi Bo found me there. Could it be that fifth and sixth siblings..."
His implication was: could it be that the souls of their other siblings, like him, had also drifted into spatial fragments within the Realm Vein Land?
It was important to note that the Realm Vein Land contained many fragment spaces. These fragment spaces could be a piece of rock, a twig, or even a blade of grass, integrated into the chaotic expanse of the Realm Vein Land. Without physically touching them, one could not enter. This undoubtedly made the search for their loved ones immensely difficult.
However, Bai Yinchen's next action plunged him back into despair.
Under Bai Xinyi's anxious gaze, Bai Yinchen shook her head slightly. Then, with a wave of her hand, thousands of spatial fragments flew from her palm. These spatial fragments were inconspicuous, appearing as stones of various sizes and shapes, as well as various weeds, branches, and withered flowers...
They were cast out by Bai Yinchen as if they were a pile of junk placed on the ground, their auras completely concealed, indistinguishable from inanimate objects.
At least, that was how they appeared to everyone except Bai Yinchen.
Bai Yinchen said, "These are all the spatial fragments in the Realm Vein Land. There are many life fluctuations within them, and I have searched them all. There is neither the aura of a Celestial Fox nor any familiar soul imprints..."
"The only place in the entire rewound space-time that I have not searched is Earth. However, Earth is protected by an unknown grand formation, and even I cannot pry into it without destroying the entire planet. Therefore, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth siblings have most likely perished!"
Bai Yinchen was reluctant to announce this tragic fact, but her Dao heart was firm, and she understood that a short pain was better than a prolonged one, so she chose to be forthright.
Everyone fell silent.
Especially Wang Shouyi and his wife, their faces were filled with despair.
"It is all fate!" Wang Shouyi let out a long sigh.
After the Dragon Country's Qi Luck Canopy enveloped Ningcheng, his perception reached the ultimate level of Grade 99 with the enhancement of the Qi Luck Canopy. He had also swept his divine sense across the entire planet, not sparing even the scorching core, but he had not found the reincarnation bodies of his sons and daughters.
He had originally held onto hope for other timelines, but Bai Yinchen's words had extinguished all of it.
Yu Zhibo opened his mouth, but ultimately could not utter a single word.
He still had a few spatial fragments from the Realm Vein Land in his Pure Land space. However, as soon as he obtained the fragments, he had already scanned every living being within them with his divine sense, and had also found nothing.
Bai Chanyi's body, formed from energy, twisted upon hearing such dire news, almost disintegrating on the spot. However, Bai Yinchen quickly stabilized it.
"Little Nine..." Bai Yinchen embraced Bai Chanyi, gently stroking her long hair. "I know you are sad, and second sister is also in pain, but this is reality. You..."
Unexpectedly, Bai Chanyi did not continue to sob in Bai Yinchen's arms. Tears still flowed down her beautiful face, but her gaze had become incredibly serene.
She parted her rosy lips, and her melodious voice reached everyone's ears. "There is still one way to save brother and sisters, isn't there?"
"Little Nine, you..." Bai Yinchen looked at her blankly, suddenly feeling that her younger sister had become a stranger.
Yu Zhibo also looked at her. As husband and wife, their hearts were connected, and he seemed to have guessed what Bai Chanyi was about to say.
Under everyone's gaze, Bai Chanyi said word by word, "When I was sleeping, Bo Bo told me many things. He said that once one cultivates to the Great Luo Golden Immortal stage, they can transcend the river of fate and time, reshape space-time, and reverse reincarnation. So, as long as I cultivate to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, it should be enough, right?"
Bai Chanyi looked at Bai Yinchen, her eyes bright. "Second sister, is that right?"
Bai Yinchen was dumbfounded, but quickly recovered and explained, "That is correct, but the passage to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm in the upper realms has long been monopolized by the ancestors of the Eight Great Sacred Lands. Anyone who wishes to reach this stage, if discovered by them, will likely pay a heavy price to traverse the river of time and nip all threats in the bud..."
However, Bai Chanyi did not care, merely smiling. "Since it's possible, then it's fine!"
She murmured, "Although I don't know where this feeling comes from, ever since I fused with the blood that Bo Bo gifted me, I have had a vague premonition: as long as I cultivate to the Golden Immortal realm, the Great Luo Dao Fruit will be within my grasp!"
As she spoke, it was as if some memory switch had been triggered. That memory seemed to contain great terror, causing her energy-formed body to suddenly become illusory again.
"Little Nine!" Bai Yinchen exclaimed in alarm. Vast immortal spiritual power surged out, attempting to maintain Bai Chanyi's avatar, but it was interrupted by an unknown energy, causing her pupils to contract.
"There's no need to maintain the avatar!" Bai Chanyi rubbed her temples. Certain memories in her mind flashed and disappeared, giving her a vague glimpse of the truth, but also a sense of frustrating elusiveness.
She looked at Yu Zhibo and said, "Bo Bo, if there truly was a past life, then perhaps we were together in our past lives. And I can feel that our past lives... were very strong!"
"And in this life, we will definitely be stronger!"
After speaking, she extended her jade arm, wrapped it around Yu Zhibo's neck, stood on tiptoe, and gently kissed Yu Zhibo's brow.
Her gentle and lingering voice, with a completely different mature aura than before, reached Yu Zhibo's ears. "Wait for me to wake up!"
With that, she looked at Wang Shouyi, Bai Lanzhi, Bai Xinyi, and Bai Yinchen, a brilliant smile appearing on her face. Finally, her entire body completely dissipated.