Chapter 1 Distant Past

Long ago.

A woman in a light-colored dress pursed her lips, finally able to breathe a sigh of relief. Residual sword energy lingered in the void, the result of the swordsmanship she had learned from Yuan during a Dao discussion, using the property of the earth to carry all things, evolving one method into ten thousand.

It was the vast, heavy, and earth-based sword intent.

Now that the enemy had disappeared, she could finally relax.

This place was located outside the Central Sea where Huntian had once resided. Like the Heavenly Bend suppressed by Dijun, it was the most core area, the dividing line between the clear and the turbid. After Huntian's death, it still retained its original appearance.

Hou took a moment to calm her breathing.

Then, she strolled through the familiar area, slowly moving forward.

Although this was Huntian's former residence, it was, after all, a core area where the clear and turbid realms intersected, and it had long been affected and disturbed by the turbid Qi.

When Huntian was still here, maintaining the suppression, this place was under controllable order. But now that Huntian had passed away, and this place was sealed off by him with all his strength, it was equivalent to being isolated from the world of clear Qi. The turbid Qi here was becoming increasingly ferocious, more dangerous and unpredictable than before.

As she walked forward, several figures suddenly pounced towards her.

Houtu was already injured before, but she still forcibly summoned her strength. Even in the sea, the power of the earth was not weakened in the slightest. The gentle woman's expression slightly changed, and an invisible, terrifying gravity instantly erupted.

Directly causing flesh and blood to collapse.

Annihilating souls.

Causing the true spirits to lose the support of flesh and blood!

The woman's voice was soft and gentle:

"Within the domain, the four great elements return to Earth!"

The violent gravity transformed into a sharp sword.

Because the gravity was evenly applied to every inch of flesh and blood.

Therefore, the sword intent of this swordsmanship was also the same.

Perhaps in terms of sharp edge and relentless advance, Houtu was inferior to Wei Yuan.

But in terms of understanding sword techniques with a wide range and large area,

Wei Yuan was also inferior to Houtu.

In the next moment, all the imprisoned enemies were pierced by the sword formed by gravity, turning into corpses and falling down. Houtu's expression was dazed for a moment. On the back of her right hand, black turbid Qi extended upwards, transforming into a flower, growing unrestrained.

Even Houtu, who was not skilled in combat,

could directly tear apart stars with the eruption of her power, causing the stars in the sky to fall to the earth.

Causing the vast stars to collapse inward, and then the gravity constantly contracted, turning into the final form.

It was just that she was not good at developing in this direction.

Houtu's expression changed slightly, because the excessive use of her power had led to the backlash and surge of turbid Qi. The outward spread of gravity seemed to have touched some remaining means. Her expression changed slightly. Under the contingency left by Huntian, she only had time to shrink the gravity.

Surrounding herself with majestic and orderly gravity.

As if transforming into a giant black hole, directly immune to all control and impact of power for a short time. In the next moment, she fell into a spatial rift. When she came back to her senses,

the scenery before her was undoubtedly no longer the Central Sea.

"This, this is..."

Houtu's expression was dazed for a moment, looking around in disbelief.

Suddenly, she felt a strange fluctuation emanating from something on her body. She reached out to take it out and found that it was the letter from Yuan that she had obtained from Fuxi before. However, this letter was previously blank, with only the character "Yuan" on it. Now, it was emitting a strange light, and then an additional sentence appeared:

"Hou, can you see this?"

"Yuan?!"

The gentle woman exclaimed in surprise, then subconsciously covered her mouth and looked around.

First, she calmly moved to a different location, then began to write.

But she found that ordinary words seemed unable to bear the cause and effect of legendary time and years. So, after thinking for a while, she used her own earth power as pen and ink, and wrote on the letter to inquire about Yuan.

Modern times.

Wei Yuan looked at the familiar words, and his heart surged with emotions for a moment. Finally, after several attempts, he was finally able to contact Houtu, even if it was only in this strange area, relying on this letter, even if it was Houtu from a past time period.

He wanted to write many words on it directly, with many questions he wanted to ask.

He wanted to ask if Houtu was safe at the moment?

He wanted to tell her to be careful and to stay in a certain place and not move.

Then, after Wei Yuan went out, he would directly pull Shi Yi, the number one meat shield in the Three Realms and Eight Desolations, to forcibly connect.

But at the moment, this letter also seemed unable to withstand the communication between two Top Ten powerhouses across the ages. Each word would damage it, so it could not be used easily. Wei Yuan calmed down and said, "Hou, you should be in the Central Sea now.

"If so, remember to leave a trace."

Houtu saw that almost instantly, such words appeared on the letter from Yuan. In addition to joy, the woman's expression was slightly dazed, and her eyes narrowed slightly, as if she had guessed something. She pointed her finger and left a special pattern on it.

"How about this?"

Wei Yuan saw a strange restriction pattern appearing on the letter, formed by the power of the earth swirling around. It did not contain any special aura, so there was no need to worry about being detected. Wei Yuan himself was proficient in cause and effect, and his probing ability was only inferior to Tianji and Kaiming.

And when the object being probed had some kind of causal entanglement with himself,

the probing ability of causal power would leap above Tianji and Kaiming.

Becoming the number one targeted means in the Three Realms and Eight Desolations.

Wei Yuan recorded this symbol.

Then he saw the words appearing on the letter almost immediately afterwards: Have I not been able to go back?

Wei Yuan's thoughts condensed slightly.

Just now, he was so anxious that he had overlooked the fact that Houtu herself was also a meticulous character.

He wanted Houtu to leave a trace, so of course she guessed it.

She was much more careful than him.

Wei Yuan hesitated for a moment and wrote on the letter: Yes.

"Do you still want to continue moving forward?"

The reply from the other side was also equally calm: "Yes."

As expected, worthy of you. Wei Yuan thought of Huntian, who had foreseen his future, and his heart was filled with complex emotions. Then he raised his eyes and looked at the ruins left by the battle around him. His pupils were deep and restrained. With Wei Yuan's own realm of cause and effect and swordsmanship, he took in the environment of this battlefield.

He wrote: "Be careful afterwards.

"I once asked Fuxi, Huntian's seal has been opened in this era. I'm afraid the turbid Qi is trying to do something." Wei Yuan's pupils contracted, and his movements paused.

He suddenly remembered that when he asked Fuxi before, Fuxi said,

the Central Emperor Huntian closed the existence of the Central Sea, hiding it within the Four Seas. But afterwards, the experts and powerhouses on the side of the turbid Qi also seemed to be trying to break through the seal left by the Central Emperor Huntian, and they had made some progress.

Yan Emperor's youngest daughter, Jingwei, was killed during an outbreak of turbid Qi.

Finally, she transformed into the Jingwei Bird, carrying stones from the clear world and flying into the turbid Qi rift and the Central Sea. From the fact that Houtu encountered a secret attack by a turbid Qi creature, could it be said that Houtu's entry into the Central Sea and the legend of the Jingwei Bird were from the same era?

Wei Yuan changed his writing and asked: Tong, when you entered the Central Sea, have you heard of Yan Emperor? What is his youngest daughter called? Soon Wei Yuan saw the words appearing on the letter.

Yan Emperor? Is that the young human tribe leader?

"I know him. He seemed to have forged the divine weapon Shennong Whip last year, and he has a high understanding of the power of creation. He married when he was young, and he has two daughters. The elder daughter is called Yaoji, and the younger daughter is called Jingwei.

"After Yaoji's death, she seemed to be taken away by the Queen Mother of the West and became the third daughter of West Kunlun.

"But Jingwei is still very young, and Yan Emperor loves her very much."

En? So the third daughter of West Kunlun is Yaoji?

And Jingwei… Sure enough, this era is the legend of the Jingwei Bird.

Uncle Jiang. Wei Yuan calmed down and wrote: Tong, be careful. In your situation, the turbid Qi has already begun to impact the seal left by Huntian. After all, Huntian has been gone for several thousand years, and the turbid Qi side is not without geniuses.

"Also, Houtu, stay as far away from the side hall as possible!"

"Be as careful as possible. The turbid world exists and is probably going to attack you. And since they already know your strength, I'm afraid the ones they send will not be ordinary opponents, perhaps even in the ancient years."

"She's coming in an injured state."

"Heh, very good."

A tall man said slowly: "Her character is too easy to be swayed. Kind people are always easy to die. Huntian is not bad, but unfortunately, he has been dead for a full few thousand years. A few thousand years."

"In another five or six thousand years, perhaps a new Top Ten will be born."

His teammate denied, "Impossible.

"Didn't the two emperors, Shu and Hu, fail even after tens of thousands of years of cultivation and hundreds of thousands of years of foundation?"

"Hmph, how can the past and the present be the same?

The tall man said indifferently:

"The past era was too stable. But now, the clear and turbid are fighting each other, and the Heavenly Emperor is also constrained in the sky. The conflicts in the future will only become more and more intense and fierce. Intense conflicts represent opportunities, represent more deaths, and will also give birth to new powerhouses."

His teammate was silent for a moment and said,

"But for a Top Ten powerhouse to appear in a few thousand years is too fast."

"Hahahaha, that's true!"

"The time is too short. Even if one appears, it will probably only be ordinary strength. Perhaps it will even be the weakest Top Ten in history."

The man's eyes were cold, and he said, "But, no matter what, this is an opportunity. Kill Houtu,

or even if you can't kill her, break her foundation. It is possible for you to devour her foundation and grow into an existence with a Dao body like Huntian."

"Houtu is not good at fighting. Kill her!"

"Alright!"

Along with the drastic changes in the turbid Qi, the well-hidden formation was activated. Houtu, who was answering Wei Yuan's questions, was transferred in an instant and appeared in this side hall. The violent killing intent surged out in an instant.

That was the power of gravity.

And the sound of滔滔 tides!

In a battle of the Top Ten level, the waves almost instantly swept across the entire Central Sea, making the sea turbulent. Extreme weather conditions such as tsunamis began to appear in the vast and terrifying ranges of the East Sea, West Sea, South Sea, and North Sea.

In an instant, the avenues collided.

Triggering an incomparably terrifying power to explode.

Even the leaked aftermath caused a huge explosion in the center of the sea.

A tsunami hundreds of meters high rushed madly in all directions with the Central Sea as the center.

Higher and higher!

Faster and faster!

The sound was as fast as thunder, sweeping across the sky!

East Sea.

A little girl was still playing with seashells there.

In the distance, someone shouted loudly:

"Hey, Jingwei!"

"Come quickly. A young man named Xuanyuan has come to the tribe. The chief wants you to go too!"

"I've already seen him. He's a handsome young man."

"He looks gentle and refined, very smart, and he's carrying a white beast."

"He was originally going to the Leizu tribe, but the chief stopped him. Heh, maybe he's your future husband."

"Coming, Uncle Xing Tian. Wait for me for a while."

"I'm going to find the best-looking conch for Daddy!"

The little girl's voice answered crisply.

Then she saw some very beautiful seashells on the beach in front of her, washed up by the waves. Her eyes lit up, and she hopped over to pick up the seashells, completely unaware of the increasingly bad and extreme weather changes.

So she got closer and closer to the sea.