Chapter 403: Divine Emergence from the Sunken Luo, Reincarnation Altar

"Qingyuzi?" Wang Zhiyong was stunned. "Isn't it Tianningzi? Where did a Qingyuzi pop out from? What exactly is the Sea Sovereign talking about?"

Emperor Hongshan, Ancient Physician Tianchen, Meng Wu, Ling Yuan, Qing Li, and the other nine Emperors also looked at Zhao Xing with surprise.

"Who is this Qingyuzi? The Sea Sovereign just started the assembly outside, announcing that the Dharma Assembly would begin early, so why did he suddenly come to the Time Chamber?"

"Judging by the Sea Sovereign's demeanor, he doesn't seem like an honored guest but more like an uninvited one..." Meng Wu narrowed his eyes, instinctively entering a battle-ready state, his golden body emitting faint fluctuations.

Besides Wang Zhiyong, none of the Emperors present were fools; the Sea Sovereign was also an Emperor-level being. If what Zhao Xing said was true, the vast Ancient Sea Nation must have been thoroughly infiltrated. Given the Sea Sovereign's tone, he was either an ally or an enemy!

"You really made me search for a long time..." the Sea Sovereign stared intensely at Zhao Xing.

However, the moment he opened the door, he also saw the nine Emperors flanking Zhao Xing. He couldn't help but be taken aback. "Hongshan, Meng Wu, Ancient Physician?"

"How are they here? Three of the four individuals destined to possess divine artifacts are present!"

"He was clearly plotting against my clan," Dongyan Hai said, his eyes cold. When he saw so many Emperor-level beings in the lowest room of the Sea Pavilion, he understood everything. He should have killed him earlier!

Yun Tiandao, however, saw something different; he had been lured out in a similar fashion once before. "First Qingyuzi, then Emperor Tianning... you're not claiming any of these identities yourself, are you, young man?"

As for Du Yun and Zhan Ze, they reacted differently. Du Yun quickly scurried behind Meng Wu. He vaguely sensed that the atmosphere was wrong. Why would the Sea Sovereign mistake Zhao Xing for Qingyuzi? And why was he gritting his teeth like that? Old Du was considerate; he even pulled Lu Yuehan along with him.

As for Zhan Ze, he could no longer endure the pounding of his heart. "I can't take this anymore!" he screamed internally, actively detonating his clone.

The explosion was slight but shattered the momentary calm. The Sea Sovereign immediately struck at Zhao Xing!

*Buzz*

The extreme speed of the attack passively triggered Zhao Xing's Time Page ten times in an instant! Overlapping images appeared on the scene, and the nine Emperors repeatedly shifted ten times, yet returned to their original positions. Zhan Ze's clone reformed, and Du Yun and Lu Yuehan were back in their initial spots.

He wanted to self-destruct his clone and escape? It wasn't that simple!

"Oh no!" Zhao Xing's heart pounded. Because he possessed the Time Page, the speed of powerful attacks seemed infinitely slowed down in his eyes. Thus, he fully understood that the Sea Sovereign had attacked ten times, and among the nine Emperors, Ancient Physician Tianchen, Meng Wu, and Hongshan had struck initially, while the other six attempted to intervene during the third rewind.

Zhao Xing then noticed something peculiar: while everyone else reappeared in their original positions after the Time Page rewind, the Sea Sovereign seemed different from the other Emperors. His position at the doorway remained unchanged.

"Was he just stuck at the entrance of the Time Chamber, at the edge of the Time Page's influence?" "Or is it not that he didn't move, but that his movements were too fast?" "It's likely both reasons."

During the eleventh rewind, Zhao Xing finally saw clearly. "Dongyan Hai seems to have come prepared. He has countless clones constantly rushing towards the Time Chamber, and each also possesses a time-related Samsara Dao weapon."

Zhao Xing began to envision a scene: at the entrance of the Time Chamber, countless Dongyan Hais, each holding a pyramid in their left and right hands. One black and one gold pyramid, splashing water, as if resisting the Time Page's temporal rewind. Because he was positioned at the doorway, it appeared as though he was completely unaffected. Furthermore, he possessed a time-related Samsara Dao weapon, allowing him to act faster than the other Emperors every time. This caused him to be able to kill himself before the other Emperors could act, triggering the passive effect of the Time Page.

"This is truly lethal," Zhao Xing thought with a bitter smile.

At this moment, his vision was filled with flashing white light, constantly rewinding, leaving him no opportunity to speak! Crucially, his lifespan was rapidly draining away.

"Originally, when I passively triggered the Time Page, the cost was only a few years at a time." "However, now that Dongyan Hai has joined, my lifespan is being lost in increments of centuries each time."

Zhao Xing glanced at his status panel.

Name: Zhao XingRealm: Third Realm (Minor)Age: 3065Remaining Lifespan: 2,451,542

The next second, his remaining lifespan became 2,451,000. Five hundred years gone in one go!

"If the cost is this high every time, then after 4,902 rewinds, I'll be dead." Zhao Xing quickly calculated his situation. "Dongyan Hai must also be consuming lifespan, and the price he pays is certainly greater than mine, but what is *his* lifespan, and what is *mine*?" "If this continues, I'll be finished sooner or later."

A Samsara Realm being's lifespan was definitely longer than his. Moreover, the Dharma Assembly outside had already begun. If he remained in the Time Chamber, and Old Qing were to anchor himself to Zhao Xing and descend here, it would likely lead to a dead end.

"This is really tough," Zhao Xing sighed. "Sigh." The Ancient Dongyan Clan's preparations were too thorough, while his own were far from adequate in comparison.

"Now, if I want to survive, there's only one path: break through to the Five Elements Dao Domain Realm." "By breaking through to the Five Elements Dao Domain Realm, my lifespan will increase significantly. Dongyan Hai might not be able to exhaust me to death with this method, because the lifespan cost he pays will definitely be greater than mine."

Zhao Xing was currently at the peak of the Minor Divine Ability Realm. Theoretically, both the Minor Divine Ability Realm and Major Divine Ability Realm stages could lead to a breakthrough to the Five Elements Dao Domain Realm! "Missing the Major Divine Ability Realm stage means my foundation will inevitably be weaker in the future, but it's not without ways to compensate."

"However, Dongyan Hai's attack frequency is too high. Even if I break through, I'll be forced back to my original state. I need a period of temporal discontinuity." Zhao Xing needed a moment to breathe, allowing him to actively choose the rewind point. This meant Dongyan Hai would have to give him at least one second of pause. Then, if he actively chose the rewind point, even under Dongyan Hai's countless subsequent attacks, his lifespan after rewinding would still be that of the Dao Domain Realm!

The problem was, Dongyan Hai wouldn't give him that breathing room! He couldn't even tell the nine Emperors to buy him time, because he had no time to open his mouth!

Remaining Lifespan: 1,200,821

White light flashed continuously, and Zhao Xing quickly had only one Epoch of lifespan left. And it was still falling rapidly.

"Am I really going to die here?" Zhao Xing felt a little dazed. "Ji Si, oh Ji Si, whether I live or not depends on you."

Outside the Sea and Mountain Pavilion, Ji Si waited anxiously. The Grand Minister of Agriculture had entered the pavilion a long time ago, but there was no way to contact him, nor had he emerged. Just then, the figure of the Sea Sovereign appeared at the center of the Dharma Assembly.

"The assembly will begin ahead of schedule. All fellow Daoists, please enter and observe."

Ji Si suddenly turned his head, his heart pounding. "Something's wrong!" He immediately abandoned waiting outside the Sea and Mountain Pavilion and flew in another direction.

As he flew, Zhao Xing's instructions flashed through Ji Si's mind. "Ji Si, after you've notified everyone, wait outside the Sea and Mountain Pavilion. If the Dharma Assembly begins and I haven't come out, immediately go find the Samsara Emissary, 'Emperor Yuanding'. You just need to tell him, 'My master is Qingyuzi,' and you can save me."

Ji Si's feet were almost smoking from how fast he was flying. He quickly arrived before a rainbow bridge array, on which four majestic characters were inscribed: "Emperor Yuanding." However, Ji Si was blocked by this array barrier and couldn't enter. An Emperor-level Samsara Realm expert was not someone he could simply meet on a whim. Countless Dao Domain Realm cultivators came to the assembly just to show their faces before these great figures. But if an Emperor did not wish to be disturbed, it was impossible to see them.

Ji Si immediately pulled out a stack of letters from his pocket. Golden light pulsed from his fingers as he continuously wrote the four characters "Emperor Yuanding" on them. At the same time, he shouted, "Emperor Yuanding! Emperor Yuanding!"

Flames erupted, and the first temporal letter quickly burned to ashes, failing to be delivered. Ji Si remained resolute and began writing the second. With each letter he wrote, a strand of white hair appeared on his head. Sending letters to an Emperor-level Samsara Realm expert was blatant magical harassment, and Ji Si had to pay with his life. Yet, Ji Si continued writing furiously.

"Emperor Yuanding! My master is Qingyuzi!""Emperor Yuanding! My master is Qingyuzi!"

Ji Si's lifespan rapidly dwindled. Just as he was about to despair.

*Buzz*

Suddenly, a letter vanished from his hand. The next second, time seemed to freeze. Ji Si's vision blurred, and he found himself in a dimly lit hall.

Candlelight flickered within the hall, where seven-star lamps were placed everywhere. The light from these lamps made Ji Si squint involuntarily. Because above each lamp stand, floating were spheres of Lunar and Solar stars. In the center of the hall, a figure wearing dark golden battle armor, seemingly merged with the void, flickered with the changing light of the lamps. A voice, seemingly from the depths of the Nine Nether, caused Ji Si's head to throb.

"Who are you? Who told you to shout those words?"

"Emperor Yuanding, Sea and Mountain Pavilion, fifteenth floor, Time Chamber..." Ji Si used all his strength to utter these words, then collapsed to the ground.

Emperor Yuanding gestured, immediately pulling out Ji Si's soul and placing it into a soul lamp beside him. The next moment, he vanished from the hall.

At Star Sleet Pass, bordering the Shenluo Barren Domain and the Great Ye Dynasty. Nalan De and his nephew, Nalan Hao, were patrolling a shattered star belt within the barren domain.

"Uncle, how much longer is your term?"

"Only a thousand years left," Nalan De smiled. "After a thousand years, the guarding mission will be complete, and I'll return to the clan to enjoy life."

"I want to see the outside world," Nalan Hao said. "I'm already at the peak of the Second Realm, Uncle. I want to travel abroad and gain experience."

"Let's talk about that later," Nalan De replied. "Your Second Realm isn't entirely cultivated by yourself, and your martial skills aren't very mature."

"How is it not cultivated by myself! Uncle, don't look down on me," Nalan Hao argued.

"Hahaha, if it weren't for that senior giving you two billion Sea Coins, would you have broken through to the Second Realm so quickly?"

"Uncle, I've already mastered seven forms of the 'Thirteen Yuan Spears,' and my Pure Yang Golden Body has reached the second layer. Can't I go out yet?" Nalan Hao's protesting voice became a little softer.

"The universe is very dangerous," Nalan De said earnestly. "Even that fortunate opportunity we stumbled upon, which seemed very safe, actually carried risks for us."

Nalan Hao fell silent.

Nalan De reminisced, "Back then at Star Sleet Pass, that senior claimed to be Qingyuzi. But not long after, Purple Moon Manor announced Senior Qingyuzi's death." "And he had died a long time ago. So, who was that senior we met back then? You and I waited for over a thousand years before we dared to take the token to investigate." "But then, we heard legends of Qingyuzi everywhere, even the Qingyuzi Cult and things like Qingyuzi tokens, and some even said Qingyuzi was still alive." "It's all too strange. Uncle even regretted making that decision back then."

Nalan Hao, recalling, also nodded in a daze. "Yes, I still can't figure out whether it was Senior Qingyuzi or Senior Zhao Xing who gave us the money."

"That's why," Nalan De said with the air of an experienced elder, "you should consolidate your cultivation further before talking about venturing out."

"But what do I have to..."

"Alright, let's not talk about this for now. Let's head back first." Nalan De interrupted his nephew. "Staying in the barren domain is too uncomfortable. We'll discuss it when we get back."

"Okay."

The uncle and nephew began heading towards Star Sleet Pass. But as they flew, both uncle and nephew sensed something was amiss.

"What's going on? We've been flying for two months, and we're