On the plains, Bai Lan seemed accustomed to Ye Ling's strong arms. She stayed obediently in his embrace. Hearing the angry voices from the pit below, she couldn't help but look at Ye Ling with some concern, "Are we really okay after doing this?"
"Don't worry, with that guy's cultivation, he won't be able to find us. He'll only be able to rage impotently in the end."
Ye Ling did not covet Bai Lan's soft and fragrant body. He put her down and used his spiritual power to levitate her in the air.
"Brother Ye, I can't control the power within me. Those spacetime forces feel like they're about to explode," Bai Lan looked at Ye Ling for help, her eyes filled with a hint of fear.
She had never seen such immense energy before.
If the energy within her body lost control, the entire Shixu Realm would likely be blown to ashes!
"Don't worry, I will help you control those spacetime forces. However, you should also try to use spacetime forces to change yourself."
"Change myself?" A flicker of confusion crossed Bai Lan's eyes, and she didn't understand Ye Ling's meaning.
Ye Ling continued, "When you absorbed the energy contained within the light stones, I discovered that it's not that you are unaffected by the Shixu Realm; on the contrary, you are the one most severely suppressed by it."
"Other beings are merely having their external time frozen, while you are having your cultivation frozen."
Bai Lan frowned slightly, "My cultivation is frozen?"
"Yes," Ye Ling nodded slightly. "The Primordial Spacetime King put a lot of effort into targeting you. Although I don't know the specific reason yet, I can be sure that you can definitely threaten the Primordial Spacetime King."
"I'm just a sixth-rank cultivator, an ordinary high school student. How could I possibly threaten such a king?" Bai Lan still couldn't quite comprehend it.
"After you woke up, didn't you lose some memories? Perhaps if you recover those memories, you'll find the answer."
As Ye Ling conversed with Bai Lan, he kept an eye on the giant's every move in the time pit.
The giant, seemingly afraid of being punished by the Primordial Spacetime King for losing the light stones, did not report what happened in the time pit immediately. Instead, he began to seize light stones from the trains on the plains in a frenzy, using them to fill the gaps in the time pit.
The train where the Lord of Buzhou City was located hadn't even reached the time pit when it was grabbed by the giant's palm and directly thrown into the pit.
The Lord of Buzhou City and his train were instantly erased by the distorted spacetime within the time pit, while the light stones filling the train fell to the bottom of the pit.
However, this desperate measure by the giant would not fill the gaps in the time pit. The light stones, which could satisfy the energy needs of countless cities, were like a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of light stones lost from the time pit.
"Damn bastard, scum, thief! Come out if you dare!"
The giant roared furiously while plundering light stones, but the fear on his face grew more intense, as if something terrifying would happen if the light stones in the time pit disappeared.
Ye Ling was not in a hurry to leave. He watched the giant's actions in the time pit from high above, wanting to know what would happen next.
"Brother Ye, look quickly! The moon and the sun have moved!"
At this moment, Bai Lan's voice drew Ye Ling's attention. Ye Ling looked up and saw the full moon in the Milky Way slowly moving westward, while the sun in the perpetually bright eastern district was also slowly approaching them.
Although the sun and moon moved very slowly, imperceptibly to the naked eye, Ye Ling could still tell that they were moving!
"Time... has begun to flow?"
Seeing the changes in the sun and moon in the sky, Ye Ling's first thought was that the energy in the Shixu Realm was weakening, and the frozen time had begun to flow.
To more directly reflect the change in the flow of time, Ye Ling tried to speak a word and found that his words were spreading outwards at a snail's pace.
Although the speed of sound propagation was slow, it clearly indicated that time in the Shixu Realm had begun to flow!
Bai Lan, noticing that time in the Shixu Realm had begun to flow, looked at Ye Ling with concern, "Brother Ye, did we do something bad?"
"Why do you say that?"
"We absorbed the light stones from the time pit, causing time in the Shixu Realm to flow. The entire Shixu Realm will undergo tremendous changes, and the beings within it will definitely be greatly affected by the change in time... Perhaps, they will die."
Bai Lan said worriedly, she dared not imagine what the beings in the Shixu Realm would experience next.
Ye Ling comforted her, "Birth, aging, sickness, and death are the norm. The Shixu Realm, where time is frozen, is a deformed world in the primordial chaos. The beings here, whose time is frozen, are also abnormal. Even if time in the Shixu Realm begins to flow because we absorbed the light stones from the time pit, we are not wrong."
"But the beings in the Shixu Realm are innocent. They were born in an abnormal world. For them, this deformed world is normal. It's unfair to them that they die because we corrected the abnormality."
Bai Lan still couldn't accept this outcome and asked Ye Ling, "Brother Ye, how about we return the spacetime forces?"
"The spacetime forces cannot be returned, but don't worry..." Ye Ling patted Bai Lan's shoulder. "For your sake, I will not let the beings in the Shixu Realm die because of us. I don't want to taint your kind and pure heart."
"Brother Ye?" Bai Lan was stunned.
Ye Ling smiled and said, "I possess the power to control life and death. After the Shixu Realm returns to normal, I will establish a complete reincarnation system here. The beings in the Shixu Realm who die because time begins to flow will enter reincarnation and be reborn."
"From then on, they will not have bodies that do not match their age, nor will they live in a world of deathly stillness. They will live normally."
"Can... can this really be done?" Bai Lan looked at Ye Ling blankly. She always felt that what Ye Ling said was too difficult to implement.
Could one person build a complete reincarnation system for a world?
"Girl, you underestimate your Brother Ye too much."
Ye Ling rubbed Bai Lan's head. "Kings on the level of the Primordial Spacetime King, your Brother Ye... has already dealt with three of them!"
"Mastering life and death is merely a thought away."
"Ye, Brother Ye..."
Bai Lan stared at Ye Ling blankly, and admiration gradually appeared in her eyes.
Suddenly, she felt Ye Ling's figure become incredibly tall.
"So..."
Ye Ling looked at Bai Lan with a smile and asked, "I'm this strong, it's not too much to take you as a disciple, right?"
Bai Lan was stunned by Ye Ling and instinctively replied, "Not too much..."
"Then I'll take that as your agreement. From now on... I am your master, my good disciple Bai Lan!"
"Oh..."
Bai Lan nodded instinctively, then realized what was happening and looked at Ye Ling with a confused expression, "Huh?"