Chapter 75: Separated by the River Named Time

Spanning a century of time and space, clearly I was still leisurely training and drinking tea at the gym not long ago, but unexpectedly, in the next moment the deep space giant beast from beyond the heavens had already descended.

For Zhang Jie, in the morning Weiniya had just greeted him, but by afternoon time had forever separated them.

No one knows whether tomorrow or an accident will come first.

"But..."

Zhang Jie gazed at this planet, which although no longer suitable for habitation still existed, and a doubt rose in his heart.

"Since the whole planet still exists, at least it shows the space giant beast did not succeed in destroying the planet."

"Could there still be a master?"

Walking through the abandoned C Area, it's not hard to see from the surrounding city ruins, where a large part had been expanded, that the tall steel walls once used to resist the giant beast had been demolished, and behind the C Area another period of development had occurred.

However, this period of development feels not too long, after all Zhang Jie could still find the shadows of some former landmark buildings in this ruin.

Because the atmosphere is extremely thin, the city here shows no signs of weathering or oxidation, yet one can still see how ancient its time is.

However, Zhang Jie did not find his own gym there, which is actually normal; without him, the gym is merely in name only—how long could it still exist?

"Without me, that little thing Weiniya will surely cry, right..."

Zhang Jie laughed and shook his head; time really is a frightening thing.

Following his feeling, Zhang Jie walked to the approximate place where he had once opened his martial way divine ability and swung his sword toward the sky.

After all, it was once the city center, and compared to some landmark buildings, it can still be found.

Gazing at the sky that not long ago had been stared at in despair, Zhang Jie gradually closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and sent his words to Weiniya, who had lost her teacher in that past time and space.

"To my student Weiniya."

"May your future path be smooth and open, may your way of martial arts be endless, may you never give up resisting."

He seemed to feel something and reached out his hand into the air.

C Area, Zhang Jie's gym.

In the room where the gym once stored his father's relics, more things have been placed.

Besides that scarred mechanical arm, now beside it has been added an eight‑sided Han sword covered in cracks.

This Han sword was collected and pieced together bit by bit by Weiniya herself.

"Teacher...."

"Are you doing well up in heaven?"

Weiniya clasped her hands together and murmured while looking at Zhang Jie's portrait.

She ultimately still did not choose to follow Zhang Jie in leaving the mortal world; she is a sinner, the one who personally killed her benefactor.

With sin upon her, she cannot face her teacher.

She must go to atone...

"No matter what method, I will try to bring you back to the mortal world."

"Student unfilial, I hope the teacher can forgive..."

Weiniya looked at Zhang Jie's portrait, her eyes full of determination.

No matter the cost! No matter the method! She will definitely bring the teacher back to her side!

Zhang Jie's withered, shriveled corpse had been stored by her in an organ research institute.

Reviving a person who has already become a dried corpse is surely a fantasy, but all she can do now is properly preserve the teacher's body.

Does a person truly possess a soul? Weiniya is unsure, but after the Alliance came to this planet and transferred them to the Star Sea, Weiniya realized that this world is far broader than she imagined.

After speaking with an Alliance member, Weiniya once again updated her understanding.

The technological systems of civilizations in the universe are so diverse as to be unimaginable: there is the Alliance's gene‑enhancement technology that constantly strengthens itself through genes, there is spiritual energy technology that can awaken special powers, and there is intelligent machinery technology that builds civilization from mechanical bodies.

So many, they cannot be counted.

Weiniya believes that among these many civilizations' technologies, there will surely be one civilization capable of restoring vitality to the teacher's corpse, and there will surely be one civilization specializing in human souls, possessing the technology to bring the teacher back from the Nether Sea.

"Teacher, believe me."

"Last time I could do it, this time I can too!"

To transfer a planet into the Star Sea, the first thing to transition is their currency system.

In the universe, powerful forces naturally possess their own currency, and the Alliance is no exception.

Before fully transitioning to the Star Sea, the Alliance will use its own currency and goods to interface with them; in a short time it will safeguard that civilization's own currency system, using material trade to exchange in Alliance coins to achieve the transition, though it will not last long.

With the Alliance as guarantor for the transfer, at least the road ahead will not be too difficult.

At this moment, Weiniya shifted her gaze to the three books placed on the other side of the table, walked over, picked them up, and began to flip through.

"It turns out this is a book recording the martial way."

Weiniya treasured it, put it away properly, and then walked out of the small hut.

Outside the gym, Weinina sat obediently in a chair waiting for her sister.

"Weinina, I'm ready to leave."

After witnessing the vastness of the Star Sea, Weiniya, this bird yearning for freedom, naturally wants to go and roam in the starry expanse.

But at the same time, it would be inconvenient to bring her sister along; staying here is still safer.

So the teacher's martial hall was handed over to Weinina to manage; Weinina is also about to come of age, and it is believed that with martial arts and advanced prosthetics she should be able to live well here.

"Mm-hmm, go ahead, sister; I will guard this place well!"

Shorter than Weiniya, she energetically swung her fists, showing her strong side to her sister.

Even though her heart is still reluctant to part from her sister.

"Mm, be good, take care of yourself."

After packing some necessities, Weiniya intended to follow the Alliance's warship and leave here for outer space.

The parasites inside and outside the deep space giant beast were the main cause of the greatest losses in this disaster; of those who survived, only sixty percent remained, yet even so, the Alliance's openings for crew members are still rare and hard to come by.

Fortunately, Weiniya passed the Alliance test's threshold, successfully becoming a new member within the Alliance. She plans to first accumulate experience within the Alliance, after all, the Alliance is the only interstellar civilization she can currently contact.

Before finally leaving, Weiniya came to the place where her teacher last was.

Under the blinding sunlight, Weiniya felt as if she had returned once again to the day she first met her teacher...

'Teacher... please... bless me.'

As if sensing something, Weiniya also extended her palm, reaching forward.

In the darkness, she seemed to touch another hand...

In different times and spaces, the two seemed to cross the long river called time, feeling each other.

In different eras, on the same planet, in the same place, the two hands came together...