Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

At this moment, Ye Yuchan had already started to imagine Ye Xuanqiu's true purpose. Once her mind started racing, she could probably write a dozen strange immortality plans on the ground.

but……

There wasn't enough time to write her a proposal.

Because when the ten enormous tombs stood before the two of them, the figures of Fan Luokui, Zhang Ruoxue, and the others, who were bound by chains, also disappeared from view.

Bathed in moonlight, dressed in snow-white robes, she turned her back to Yunping and the other man, gently and smilingly stroking her own tombstone.

The woman on the cliff seemed to be high in the sky, bathed in moonlight, surrounded by stars and clouds.

"Ruoxue!"

Upon seeing the bound girl, the first one to cry out was undoubtedly Ye Yuchan.

She stared blankly at the ten tombstones, on which were bound the remains of eight other students from Yuntian Academy besides herself, as well as Lu Yingqiu and her apprentice Ning Xuchen.

Ye Yuchan never dreamed that their reunion would take place in this way...

Zhang Ruoxue did not respond to Ye Yuchan's calls; she simply lowered her head silently, seemingly without a breath.

She didn't die, but her consciousness was temporarily stripped away. Since Zhang Ruoxue's physical body was exceptionally strong, not breathing for a short period of time wasn't a big problem.

However, this fragile and vulnerable appearance seemed quite unlike the somewhat silly and dull person she usually was; she should be much more energetic...

"They've finally arrived."

Ye Xuanqiu silently turned around, looking at Ye Yuchan with some impatience, and said with a helpless smile, "I've been posing here for a long time, and if I hadn't come back soon, I was planning to sleep on the floor in this godforsaken place."

She smiled at Yunping, the moonlight casting a shadow on her back, making her beautiful face appear slightly darker: "Speaking of which, husband, judging from your expression, it seems you have a new guess about my thoughts?"

"I suppose so," Yunping didn't deny it. "But now's not the time for riddles. What about Kunxuan?"

"He will come, but before that, there's something I want to confirm."

"what?"

Ye Xuanqiu stared at Yun Ping and slowly uttered a sentence:

"My husband, do you know what kind of thing you are?"

……

……

These words were spoken.

The old rogue's lips twitched slightly: "That sounds like an insult."

"Yes, I was indeed cursing. You heartless man, you're a real scoundrel."

Ye Xuanqiu glanced at Ye Yuchan, a hint of undisguised jealousy in her eyes, but it quickly vanished, replaced by a meaningful smile.

Ye Xuanqiu didn't continue to play mysterious; instead, she silently snapped her fingers.

pat.

The next second, the surrounding scenery changed rapidly.

The three of them suddenly left the Thousand Ghost Forest and appeared in a void.

Numerous points of light flickered all around. Although these points of light were tiny, they seemed to possess boundless power, several times more than the spiritual energy possessed by any half-immortal!

Furthermore, countless wisps of mist are visible to the naked eye, and these mists are also composed of extremely high-precision spiritual energy.

No... that might be something even purer than spiritual essence. At first glance, one might even think that spiritual essence is just a small part separated from it.

Besides that, there is nothingness, endless nothingness.

Ye Yuchan stared blankly at her surroundings, feeling... that the scene looked strangely familiar.

In the center of this chaotic turbidity, three particularly bright spots of light appeared. Then, one of the starlight began to slowly expand outward, and it began to take on a strange shape, like a mudfish that was constantly wriggling.

It was confused; it didn't know what it was or what it was supposed to do.

After an unknown amount of time, finally... it seemed to have made up its mind.

It began to wriggle its body and try to grow a mouth. It yearned for it, wriggling and using all its strength to devour the surrounding dust and mist.

It did it.

At this point in the scene, Ye Yuchan suddenly realized...

During the process of turning into a sand sculpture... she clearly remembered having a dream.

What I saw in that dream is exactly what I see now!

"It is Kunxuan."

Ye Xuanqiu's voice echoed in my ears.

Ye Yuchan was stunned for a moment, then looked at the other two points of light that seemed to be sleeping...

If what Ye Xuanqiu said is true, then these three most dazzling lights... are the origin of this world?!

She once dreamed of the creation of this universe... because she herself was Ye Xuanqiu, and also a part of the Origin Ancestor.

However, in the next second.

Ye Yuchan then saw that the light sphere named Kunxuan had grown a large number of sharp spikes all over its body, and the spikes were clearly covered with a lot of mucus... In the end, these spikes and mucus slowly formed another smaller light sphere.

This splitting-like process left viewers somewhat bewildered.

Looking at Ye Yuchan, whose face was blank, and Yun Ping, who seemed to understand, Ye Xuanqiu smiled slightly.

He uttered a shocking statement.

"This is the first life form born after Kunxuan swallowed the dust of heaven and earth since it gained consciousness. The whole process took about 2.63 billion years."

And its name—

"It's called Hongmeng."

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

P.S.: Yu Chan's dream is in Chapter 75 of Volume 4.

67. The ultimate state at the beginning of creation

The scene is constantly changing.

The desolate dust of heaven and earth gradually disappeared into the newly born sphere of light with each breath. This first life form in history, which split off from Kunxuan's body, was greedily devouring everything around it.

It seemed quite dissatisfied with its own body, and thus kept shaking and twisting, with countless strange tentacle-like limbs emerging from its body, while its body expanded rapidly in order to absorb the dust of heaven and earth more quickly.

As for Kunxuan—or rather, the primordial light sphere later named Kunxuan—it was extremely satisfied with this first splitting experiment. It then seemed to realize something and began to devour everything around it, even the tiny specks of light were absorbed into its body.

It devoured much faster than Hongmeng, perhaps because it was the original source, while Hongmeng was merely a split of it. It continuously devoured a large amount of dust in the world, and the whole process took an extremely long time—although in the eyes of Ye Yuchan and the others it was only a blink of an eye, but in reality the time spent was probably astronomical.

During this process, Kunxuan's volume continued to increase, expanding like a balloon. In the end, Hongmeng was no different from the countless points of light and stars in its eyes.

After expanding to its desired limit, Kunxuan suddenly opened its self-formed "mouth" and released all the dust and grime it had devoured.

It wasn't vomit or any other messy stuff, but rather three parallel, exceptionally large patches of soil that looked barren yet were rich in spiritual energy.

Thus, the three celestial realms were born.

……

……

If the previous dream was merely a fleeting fantasy for Ye Yuchan, then the scene that appeared before her eyes at this moment was absolutely shocking.

In just a few minutes, Ye Yuchan and Yun Ping witnessed the beginning of this world, the creation of the three great heavenly domains, and the birth of the first life form.

However, this brings with it a completely new problem.

"Hongmeng...is not the Origin Ancestor?"

The silver-haired girl's question landed in this vast, boundless void, with no echo, only the shock and confusion in her tone.

Standing in the void, Ye Xuanqiu smiled calmly and said, "This is actually a very obvious thing, and my husband himself should have had some guesses about it."

“Old rogue…” Ye Yuchan turned to look at Yun Ping, and indeed saw no shock or astonishment on Yun Ping’s face.

There were only a few sighs and lamentations after the certainty was confirmed.

He did have his suspicions, but he never knew that Hongmeng was not the Origin Ancestor... In Yunping's eyes, the positions of the three Origin Ancestors were already filled—Ye Xuanqiu, Hongmeng, and Kunxuan—there was no place for him at all.

He even speculated that he might actually be the son of some primordial ancestor...

However, it now seems that these speculations can be discarded.

Her pretty face was full of teasing. Her slender feet stepped on the void, causing ripples to spread out. Her soft laughter echoed in their ears: "Why was it that when you became Emperor Wen, even Hongmeng, whom you considered one of the primordial ancestors, was no match for you? If Kunxuan hadn't come to the rescue in the end, I'm afraid you would have crushed this first life form in history to death."

"Just as a human might choke to death on their own saliva, but would never be slapped to death by a single hair of their own—if your battle with Hongmeng goes to a complete end, it will surely be a victory for my husband. This is not a coincidence or an accident, but an inevitability."

"Humans are merely creatures arbitrarily created when the Origin Ancestor established the world. No matter how much they cultivate, they could never reach the level of being able to slaughter the Origin Ancestor, yet you have done it."

Was it an accident?

Ye Xuanqiu looked up at the sky, but there was nothing in that void.

"Perhaps even Kunxuan and Hongmeng have become suspicious..."

Before Ye Xuanqiu could finish speaking, Yun Ping's voice rang out at the same time.

The old rogue wore a hint of helplessness on his face and said in a deep voice, "So that's why the Demon Dynasty and the Immortal Capital suddenly rose to prominence, right?"

"Oh dear, my husband already knows all this~ I was actually planning to explain further."

The alluring woman in white smiled and winked at Yun Ping, a gesture that displeased Ye Yuchan.

After all, Ye Xuanqiu looks exactly like her... This flirtatious wink feels like it's her own reflection in the mirror doing it.

but--

The displeasure in my heart vanished in an instant, replaced by confusion.

What do the Demon Dynasty and the Immortal Capital have to do with that old rogue?

Perhaps sensing Ye Yuchan's confusion, or perhaps because they were one and the same, Ye Xuanqiu seemed to have the ability to read minds and knew Ye Yuchan's inner doubts. She then explained, "Whether it's the Immortal Capital or the Demon Dynasty, it's all just an experiment."

"To test whether mortals have the ability to become true immortals."

Ye Yuchan: "..."