"What is this!"
Ye Ling's pupils contracted slightly as he saw the eye. He instinctively got into a defensive stance, ready to counterattack. However, the eye merely glanced inside before moving away, leaving Ye Ling, who was prepared to fight back, stunned and confused about the situation.
"What's going on?"
Seeing that the bottle was not resealed after being opened, Ye Ling felt a hint of doubt. He immediately sent a wisp of his divine sense out of the Time Bottle and saw a young man opening the Time Bottles on the carriages one by one, checking their contents.
Around the carriages transporting the Time Bottles, more than a dozen fully armed guards were stationed. The weakest among them were at the Emperor Realm, an incredibly luxurious lineup beyond imagination!
There was no one else in the Time Ruins except for the Void Organization. Yet, the Void Organization had dispatched a squad of guards to transport these items. It was evident how important this batch of Time Bottles was.
"The Void Organization has developed to such a scale in secret!" Seeing the guards responsible for transporting the Time Bottles, Ye Ling's mood became rather solemn, realizing that the Void Organization might be even more difficult to deal with than he had imagined!
After the young man finished checking all the Time Bottles on the carriages, he reported to the leader, a man with Supreme cultivation, "Captain, everything is intact, no problems."
The guard captain said nonchalantly, "Since there are no problems, pour all the Heavenly Dao power into the Time Origin Spring. Hurry up, the Venerable Master will be here soon to preside over the ceremony."
"Yes!"
The guards responded in unison and immediately began pouring the concentrated Heavenly Dao power, liquefied, into the Time Origin Spring.
They performed such tasks almost every week, and the Heavenly Dao power they had handled was no less than a million!
They were all very familiar and skilled at pouring the Heavenly Dao power.
The guard captain did not personally participate in the work. He watched his subordinates diligently pouring the Heavenly Dao power and couldn't help but complain, "I wonder when this boring task will end? This Time Ruins is a desolate place. It looks high-end, but there's nothing here! If you think about it, I haven't touched a woman in almost a thousand years."
The young man who was working said to the guard captain, "Captain, I heard from the adults above that this is the last batch of Heavenly Dao power, and we won't have to transport goods to the Time Origin Spring anymore! When the Divine Master is resurrected, we will surely rise in status!"
"Tch!" The guard captain spat disdainfully and mocked, "What does the resurrection of the Divine Master have to do with us lowly individuals! Even if the Void Organization rules the universe, we brothers will just be changing places to do hard labor."
A slightly older guard said, "Let's not say such treasonous words. If the Venerable Master hears them, our entire battalion will suffer!"
Upon hearing the old guard's warning, the guard captain's expression changed slightly. He immediately changed his tune, "I was just saying it casually. Everyone should just take it as a joke and forget it after hearing it. Absolutely do not spread it, lest the Venerable Master finds out!"
"What words can't this Palace know?"
At this moment, Li Xiaomei's icy voice suddenly echoed, causing the guard captain to tremble violently, his face turning instantly pale!
"Venerable Master, spare my life!"
The guard captain was extremely terrified and immediately knelt before Li Xiaomei, saying, "It was just us brothers chatting, nothing major!"
The other guards were also frightened at this moment. They all stopped their work and knelt to beg for mercy from Li Xiaomei, clearly very afraid of her.
Meanwhile, Ye Ling, who was watching the scene, quietly concealed his divine sense and completely suppressed his aura.
Li Xiaomei possessed Supreme cultivation. Ye Ling was currently just a consciousness entity with all his soul power drained. Even if he could fight Li Xiaomei with runes, he could not escape the Time Ruins alone.
Therefore, before the formation revealed itself, Ye Ling could not expose his presence.
Although Ye Ling was now only a consciousness entity, his main body was still one realm higher than Li Xiaomei. Li Xiaomei did not discover Ye Ling, who was concealing his aura.
She coldly swept her gaze over the guard captain and said sternly, "A bunch of lowly riff-raff dares to speak ill of the Divine Master. How audacious!"
The guard captain was already scared out of his wits and frantically kowtowed to Li Xiaomei, begging for mercy, "Venerable Master, spare my life! I will never dare again!"
The older guard also pleaded, "Please, Venerable Master, discern the truth. Only the captain was speaking ill of the Divine Master. None of us participated. This was entirely the captain's monologue."
In the older guard's opinion, the guard captain was doomed. All he could do now was to distance himself from the guard captain as much as possible and ensure the survival of the others.
However, this old guard's thoughts were perhaps too optimistic.
Li Xiaomei did not even bother to listen to the old guard's explanation. She snorted coldly, "The Time City has a rule: anyone who speaks ill of the Divine Master shall be subject to collective punishment, with their entire clan annihilated!"
"None of you can escape this!"
Upon hearing Li Xiaomei's words, despair appeared on the faces of all the guards. The young guard with bright eyes also had his gaze dim, filled with utter despair.
He had not expected his life to end just as it was beginning.
Everything was over!
Before the guards could even cry out, Li Xiaomei raised her hand and unleashed over a dozen beams of light, piercing directly through the foreheads of the guards, killing them instantly!
The young man's expression of despair was permanently etched on his face!
Blood flowed from the corpses of the guards and into the Time Origin Spring, where it was purified.
However, this time, too much blood flowed, and the Time Origin Spring could not purify all of it. A small amount of blood sank to the bottom, merging with the Time Origin Spring.
The originally sacred Time Origin Spring became somewhat eerie due to the influx of blood filled with fear and unwillingness.
Li Xiaomei seemed indifferent to this. After erasing the corpses of the guards, she personally poured all the concentrated Heavenly Dao power into the Time Origin Spring.
This included Ye Ling's soul, disguised as Heavenly Dao power.
Rumble...
After Li Xiaomei poured the last bottle of Heavenly Dao power into the Time Origin Spring, the spring began to boil. A giant blood lotus emerged from it.
On top of the blood lotus lay a body shell without a face.
This shell possessed a more colossal blood energy than Ye Ling's main body. It also contained a vast sea of spiritual power. It even had top-tier divine artifacts like the Chaos Heart and the Great Dao Origin!
It was clear that this shell was prepared for the creator god who was about to be resurrected!
"The Desolate Land is this wealthy?"
Ye Ling stared at the top-tier divine artifact that possessed both the Chaos Heart and the Great Dao Origin, his mind becoming active.
If he could possess that body, he would become both the Chaos Master and the Great Dao Immortal Lord in one fell swoop!
As Ye Ling was calculating in his mind, a peculiar formation rose from beneath the blood lotus. The Heavenly Dao power poured into the Time Origin Spring surged towards the body shell on the blood lotus.
"It's starting!"
Ye Ling, hidden in the shadows, saw Li Xiaomei raising the formation. His eyes narrowed slightly, and he immediately focused his mind, preparing to destroy the peculiar formation.
However, just as Ye Ling was about to act, he suddenly saw...
The fingers of the body shell lying on the blood lotus actually moved!
"He's alive?"
Ye Ling looked at the moving fingers of the shell, immediately withdrew his hand, and a monstrous wave of shock surged within him!