Chapter 557: Gazing Across Space and Time

The Empress acted wantonly in the Primordial Ancient Mine, slaying supreme existences and treating the place like a back garden, taking whatever she pleased.

The Mythological Era.

Jiang Nan also went to the Primordial Ancient Mine.

This forbidden zone had existed since the Mythological Era.

Those sleeping here at this time were even more ancient existences.

It was not the same group.

Those who could survive to later ages had endured countless years; they had either died, or they had charged at the path to immortality and died, or they had broken through.

Very, very few from this era could survive to later ages.

Only a few, like the Longevity Heavenly Venerate, were extremely skilled in this path.

Some were still unconvinced.

Jiang Nan punched one out and then blasted it to pieces.

After blasting three in a row, the rest dared not make a sound.

"What is the Heavenly Emperor's intention?"

"We are merely sleeping here; we have no feud with the Heavenly Emperor, do we?"

"Does the Heavenly Emperor intend to exterminate us all?" If so, they would only have the option of mutual destruction.

"I don't know you, and I have no interest." Jiang Nan walked on.

"I just came to take a look."

"To dare to question me, to scold me—you deserve to be executed."

"That is all."

"Is there anyone else unconvinced? You can all come out together and attack together." Jiang Nan said lightly, despising them all.

One by one, they remained silent.

Jiang Nan strolled leisurely, also treating it as a back garden.

Seeing something good, he casually threw it toward the Heavenly Court.

Transmitting through the void, no matter how far, space folded—it was easy.

"The Primordial Ancient Mine has existed for a long time."

"Tell me, where did you old fellows come from?"

"I'm asking you a question." Jiang Nan said.

"Don't go too far. We were once invincible too. Do you really think we are afraid of you..."

Boom! Jiang Nan used his Combat Fist and Eternal Law to blast them to death.

"Can't you speak properly?"

"You're truly despicable." Jiang Nan said.

The remaining ones were angry, but they did not make another sound.

Had they spoken properly?

This person was too fierce and too powerful.

His aura already surpassed that of a current Great Emperor, while they, even when sealed, were slightly weaker than a current Great Emperor.

Unless they realized something different, or many of them attacked together, they were simply no match for him.

And it was impossible for them to be of one mind.

Jiang Nan also analyzed these existences from different periods.

The Mythological Era was also very distant, spanning endless years.

The invincible powerhouses of the Mythological Era recorded in later ages were far fewer than in the Primordial Era, not because they didn't exist, but because there were more in this era.

It was just that it was too long ago, and some records had long since vanished.

Buried in the long, slow passage of time.

No matter if you were a genius of a generation or a peerless beauty, you could not withstand the erosion of time.

In the end, you were nothing but a handful of yellow soil.

This world had rules, curses, and the shackles of time, which were difficult to break free from.

Jiang Nan had not broken free yet either; he was still quite far off.

A Red Dust Immortal was even harder to achieve under flawed rules.

He was also working hard, contemplating the heavens, the myriad states of the mortal world, the myriad things of heaven and earth, and the natural Dao.

By constantly becoming stronger, he would surely be able to reverse and trace everything back.

Otherwise, he could only blame heaven and others.

The ancient existences here were also very strong.

He could feel some faintly existing, unfathomable.

The true powerhouses had not spoken much.

Jiang Nan did not necessarily want to exterminate them for now.

He had to solve his own problems first.

Come to think of it, why was he pacifying this and that?

In the end, few would be grateful, and he would only attract a pile of enemies.

Just like in the Primordial World, he could imagine what would happen later.

There would definitely be a pile of enemies; the enemies left behind by the Sovereigns would all go looking for the girl.

Except for his own people, no one would help.

He had only killed the Ancient Emperors and Sovereigns; their subordinates and descendants had not been cleared out.

He had left in a hurry.

The fate of the Taiyin and Taiyang Ancient Emperors after their deaths was a warning.

As for these forbidden lands, even if he pacified them today, in future ages, a pile of others would seal themselves and enter.

He had no interest in fighting like this forever.

He still had to contemplate space and time to find the girl.

As for the girl's side, he wasn't too worried about her strength.

This was truly the girl's invincible path—a path of life and death, killing to the end, with the whole world as her enemy.

She already had many enemies, and her demonic arts were not tolerated by the current age.

Those guys were wary, envious, jealous, and hateful; some instigated and egged others on, while some fawned over the major powers and joined in the clamor to denounce her.

Slashing stars, plucking the sun and moon, killing across the human world—the heavens trembled.

Defying the heavens, standing alone in the world.

Looking down on Ancient Emperors, disdainful of later generations, stunning throughout the ages.

It was just that he didn't know how far the girl had come.

In the past and future, there were no time coordinate nodes; time was indeterminate.

One could spend ten thousand years in an instant, or trace back to the ancient past.

Everything was hard to say.

Could she have already become an Emperor, or even lived out several lifetimes?

Or was she still that same girl?

In terms of strength and enlightenment, Jiang Nan was not worried.

When he left, the girl was already a powerful Saint, with deep foundations and a lofty state of mind; they had communicated a lot.

She had already begun to walk the invincible path of a powerhouse.

Under pressure, one only progressed faster, and potential sublimated more fiercely.

With him there, she had been protected too much, and her tempering had been insufficient.

With him gone, it was an extra boost.

His subordinates were also there.

There would be no problems.

The girl's heaven-defying nature would not change.

The only thing was, that silly girl—how sad and miserable she must be.

Cold in front of others, weak behind their backs.

She was never good at confiding, and now there was no one left to confide in.

No words, no laughter.

Only the back of a person sitting alone in loneliness.

Jiang Nan felt as if he had already seen that back across infinite time and space.

Frail, helpless.

At this moment, she was not the peerless Empress.

Just a girl who made one's heart ache.

She was originally just an ordinary girl, an ordinary young woman.

A frail body, yet she had to defy the heavens.

He didn't know where she had walked to, what stage, what space-time.

Or perhaps, she was just synchronized with his time, and he could quickly defy the heavens and return in a short time.

........ 0 ...

But in the past and future, time was truly not fixed.

If the Empress's achievement was successful, it seemed it would also affect the traces of a space-time.

The future was above the Sacrificial Dao.

Even if he could, it was not suitable to trace back to that space-time again.

It would only affect the girl.

Jiang Nan's heart was also quite chaotic.

He hadn't experienced much of walking the river of time and space, so he wasn't very clear.

Before, when the Nine Dragons pulled the coffin, he had only passed by in a hurry.

He had also been injured, and it ended before he could see much.

There was the natural, strange rule-distortion effect of the Nine Dragons pulling the coffin.

He had discovered something was wrong and wanted to go back, and had even traced back the phantom resonance to leave behind his own Dao rule aura and message, without contemplating too much.

A soft sigh.

He hoped the girl would be well, hoped she would become invincible and become the Empress.

Then they could walk the heavens together, and there would be nothing to worry about.

They could fight side by side—something the girl had always hoped for, to be with him.

But there would also be endless misery in it.

He didn't want her to be like that; he only wanted her to laugh.

Contradictory thoughts.

He shook his head; he should just improve his strength.

Let each improve their own strength.

If the strength was enough, many things would be possible.

And don't look back at different space-times; having experienced different time periods, the girl had more time and was even stronger than him.

And then they would walk together in different space-times.

That would be a bit awkward.

Being pinned down by his wife, bullied, forced... he would be puzzled.

— Author's Notes —

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