Chapter 1016: Heavenly Bestowed Blessing Light!

Above the Southern Continent, clouds churned in the sky, with lightning flashing from time to time!

Boom—!

At that moment, accompanied by a thunderous explosion, a rift tore open in the clouds, and a figure leaped out, covered in dirt and blood, with blood still trickling from the corner of his mouth—it was Xu Que.

"Mai Pi, this Void Boundary Talisman is such a pit! It's so unstable! If This Seat's Flesh Body weren't strong enough, I'd have been crushed into fragments!" Xu Que said, his face full of anger.

The Boundary Point established by the Void Boundary Talisman was completely incomparable to naturally formed Boundary Points; it was simply too unstable.

While he walked through the Void Tunnel, protected by a Sky-Breaking Talisman, he was nearly torn apart by the violent Void hurricane; fortunately, he ultimately relied on the System Auto-Recovery Function to forcibly endure it and stepped out!

Fortunately, he had only chosen the Southern Continent as his landing point, which was relatively close; otherwise, if he had gone to the Xuanzhen Continent or somewhere even farther, he might truly never have returned!

However, now that he had seen the daylight again and felt the familiar land and Spiritual Energy of the Southern Continent, Xu Que's heart was clear and bright.

He had finally returned alive!

One year in the Cave, ten years in the world; it wasn't easy!

Xu Que immediately opened his Divine Soul to search for the auras of Liu Jingning, Er Gouzi, and the others.

Boom!

Suddenly, a massive Divine Power descended from the clouds, and immediately Xu Que was frozen in place; a beam of light shot down from the sky and struck him directly.

"What the hell is going on? Did that crazy woman chase me out?"

Xu Que's expression instantly changed; if that woman had also escaped, it would be a huge trouble!

Whoosh!

The Sword Spirit also suddenly leaped out of the Broken Sword, transforming into a Black Fog form, and exclaimed in alarm: "It's not that woman. Wait, this light... it seems to be Heavenly Bestowed Blessing Light!"

"Heavenly Bestowed Blessing Light?"

Xu Que was instantly stunned, somewhat confused.

Whoosh!

At that moment, the beam of light suddenly shrank, and at a speed visible to the naked eye, instantly condensed into a brilliant Spiritual Light that suddenly rushed to Xu Que's front.

"Huh? What is this thing?" Xu Que's gaze sharpened as he looked at the glowing object floating before him, his face full of astonishment.

After the Spiritual Light gradually faded, the true form of the object was revealed: it was actually a Stele the size of a book, with two names carved on it, one of which was precisely "Xu Que"!

"Damn, why is my name here? And who is this Xuan Yuan Wanrong?" Xu Que said in astonishment, his head full of confusion, having no idea what this thing was.

The Sword Spirit beside him suddenly shuddered all over and cried out in shock: "Imperial Physician Heavenly Book! This... how is this possible?"

Imperial Physician Heavenly Book?

Upon hearing these words, Xu Que's eyes instantly widened in great astonishment.

Was this thing the Imperial Physician Heavenly Book?

That didn't make sense; wasn't this that woman's possession? Why did it come out with him?

Wait, the key point is why This Seat's name is on it! And... vaguely, he could feel that after this Stele appeared, it seemed connected to his own heart pulse, with an indescribable sensation!

Xu Que's heart instantly tightened, and he looked at the Sword Spirit.

The Sword Spirit's pair of red eyes remained fixed on the Stele, like two beams of red ghost fire, motionless and staying there.

Only when Xu Que's gaze swept over did its eyes tremble slightly; it shook its head and sighed: "Xu Que, you are finished!"

"What the hell?" Xu Que immediately widened his eyes.

What did that mean? This Imperial Physician Heavenly Book came out on its own; how did it become that I am finished?

"Never mind, This Seat will first tell you about this Imperial Physician Heavenly Book..."

The Sword Spirit shook its head and informed Xu Que of the origins of the Imperial Physician Heavenly Book, explaining the Chosen One and the conditions for the Imperial Physician Heavenly Book Inheritance, which required a man and a woman to undergo a Love Tribulation, roughly the same as what Er Gouzi had previously told Duan Jiude and the others!

After listening, Xu Que's entire face instantly turned black!

He now understood his situation; it turned out that the Imperial Physician Heavenly Book was not a good thing at all; it was simply a huge pit, a great calamity!

What so-called Chosen One? It was simply someone trapped by Heaven!

"Now you should understand, right? That woman must have been driven to a desperate situation by you, and had no choice but to choose you as her Dao Companion, forcing you to save her; otherwise, if she dies, you cannot survive alone!" The Sword Spirit looked at Xu Que, and in its two glowing red eyes, a trace of sympathy even appeared.

Xu Que immediately raised an eyebrow: "Damn, don't look at me with that expression! What do you mean if she dies I can't survive alone? If I commit suicide right now, let's see if she can still live! Damn, dare to play hardball with me?"

"You want to commit suicide?" The Sword Spirit was instantly shocked, in disbelief.

"Commit suicide my ass; that was just a metaphor!" Xu Que's mouth twitched, looking very melancholy.

Committing suicide was impossible; in this day and age, just wanting to live was already hard, so why commit suicide? If one had the courage to commit suicide, why not have the courage to live on!

"Hmph, anyway, she stole five hundred years of my Life Span; in five hundred years, I might not lose to her!" Xu Que snorted.

The Sword Spirit, however, shook its head and said: "Five hundred years is definitely not enough. That woman used the Time Shuttle to enter Nirvana and sleep within it; while tens of thousands of years passed in the outside world, only a few thousand years passed for her inside. This Seat guesses she knew her Life Span was insufficient and didn't want to wake up too early, so she used this object to wait for a new Golden Age to arrive!"

Speaking thus, the Sword Spirit looked at Xu Que and said: "If you hadn't stolen the Time Shuttle out, her five hundred years inside would have equaled five thousand years for you outside, perhaps giving you a slim chance! But now that you have stolen the Time Shuttle out, I'm afraid you've made a blunder!"

"Damn, I should have known not to take this damn thing!" Xu Que immediately cursed. "I took this Time Shuttle purely to annoy her to death, but this thing is completely useless to me; hiding and cultivating for one year while others cultivate for ten years is simply something that works in reverse!"

"No, that is not the case!"

The Sword Spirit immediately waved its hand and said: "The Time Shuttle possesses Divine Power to transform time and years; it is one of the Divine Objects from Ancient Times. It can shrink time, and it can also amplify time! In other words, it can make you spend one year while the outside world spends ten years, or conversely, make you spend ten years while the outside world spends only one year! It can achieve both abilities! However, this object is a fake; the true Time Shuttle, if used to its utmost, can make ten thousand years pass while the world experiences only one year!"

"What?"

Xu Que was instantly shocked, utterly terrified.

This thing was already at the level of a Top Grade Immortal Artifact, yet it was a fake?

And the true Time Shuttle could even treat one year as ten thousand years?

Damn, this is way too BUG-like!

But this fake seems okay too; at least one year can be used as ten years. Wait, if that's the case...

Suddenly, Xu Que thought of something, his eyes suddenly brightening, and he laughed loudly: "Sword Spirit, you made a mistake! Since this fake Time Shuttle can make one year count as ten years, doesn't that mean that during my five hundred years hiding inside cultivating, I actually cultivated for five thousand years?"

The Sword Spirit directly shook its head: "You are overthinking it. With your strength, it is impossible for you to activate this object! Although this Time Shuttle is a fake, it is still extraordinary and extremely precious; it requires consuming massive True Essence Power and Dao Rhyme—no, not massive, but an ocean!"

"An ocean? How massive is an ocean?" Xu Que raised an eyebrow, somewhat unconvinced.

"Roughly... one hundred times more True Essence and Dao Rhyme than you consumed to arrange that Void Boundary Talisman!" the Sword Spirit thought for a moment before answering seriously.

One hundred times?

Xu Que immediately waved his hand: "I, Xu Que, have roamed the Cultivation World for so many years; when have I ever needed such things to cheat? Time Shuttle? Heh, trash. Watch me cultivate for Five Hundred Years; I'll still be able to instantly kill heaven and earth, and by then, I refuse to believe I can't crush that woman!"

With that, Xu Que put away the Imperial Physician Heavenly Book Stele, turned around, and directly shot toward the distance, heading in the direction of the Southern Continent Secret Realm.

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