Where did you go last night?

After closing the door, Su Luo stared warily at Lu Yeping, looking him over, but there were no injuries.

"Last night?" Hearing Su Luo's question, Lu Yeping scratched the back of his head in confusion and told the truth.

"Didn't I go home last night?"

go home?

Does this mean that after leaving the underground city, he went straight home?

Home?

"You still have a home here?"

"Hey, it's just a staff dormitory, the kind with only one bed board, barely enough to sleep on." At this point, Lu Yeping looked at Su Luo with a puzzled expression, "Guest, is there anything else?"

"If there's nothing else, I'll go to work now!"

Hearing this, Su Luo narrowed his eyes, sized up Kano Hei for a long time, and then waved his hand, "You can go now."

Hearing Su Luo's words, Lu Yeping felt relieved. Sure enough, the money in the inn wasn't so easy to get. Look at these guests, even if they're mentally unstable, you still have to treat them like royalty, since they're rich women!

Watching Kanohei—or rather, the waiter—leave, Su Luo's expression of confusion deepened.

The waiter in front of her was definitely not the same one she had met yesterday. Perhaps someone had impersonated the waiter yesterday, or perhaps someone had used some kind of secret technique to possess the waiter.

But regardless of the method, it seems there is only one purpose.

Take her to the underground city outside the post station, meet the so-called immortal, and receive the Star and Moon Badge from the old woman.

Remembering the badge, Su Luo took out the star and moon badge and examined it closely.

There was no strange aura detected; it seemed to be just a badge.

It seems I have no choice but to venture into the depths of this forbidden area.

She wanted to see what was hidden deep within this forbidden area!

...

After buying a map from a small shop outside the inn, Su Luo headed towards the depths of the forbidden area, which was the center of the four post station cities, according to the location shown on the map.

At first, Su Luo could encounter some strange creatures who came out together in search of adventures, and temporary mercenary groups of strange creatures who fought each other for a medicinal herb. But as Su Luo went deeper, these groups became fewer and fewer, until in the end, she was left all alone.

Looking at the forbidden area shrouded in thick white fog, one could feel the immense, chilling energy emanating from within even before getting close.

Standing before the white mist of the forbidden area, before Su Luo could even make a move, the Star and Moon Badge in his arms seemed to sense a summons, slowly flying out and stopping in front of Su Luo's forehead, hovering in mid-air.

Seeing this, Su Luo narrowed his eyes and raised his hand to touch the Star Moon Badge. Unexpectedly, the Star Moon Badge seemed to have a spirit, cheered and jumped a few times, and emitted a scarlet light. Then it floated into the white mist of the forbidden area. Wherever it went, the white mist dissipated, and a blue stone path leading to the depths of the forbidden area could be vaguely seen.

Su Luo looked at the path but did not follow immediately. The badge seemed to sense something, stopped moving forward, and floated in mid-air, as if waiting for Su Luo.

Looking at the bluestone path in front of him, Su Luo hesitated for a moment, but still followed it in.

As Su Luo's figure gradually disappeared, the thick white fog gradually covered the path she had entered through, and everything remained as before, as if nothing had ever happened.

She didn't know how long she had followed the star and moon badge. All around her was a vast expanse of white, with no concept of space or time. Despite her rapidly heightened senses, she couldn't detect the presence of any other creatures. It was as if she were the only person in this space!

Is this the depths of the forbidden area?

If that's all there is to it, she can simply use the [Time] domain to rewind to the moment she was about to enter the depths of the forbidden area, without any risk, which is completely different from what the old woman said last night.

Could it be... that there's something else she hasn't discovered?

The road was shrouded in endless white mist. When Su Luo got tired, she would stop to rest. The badge was in no hurry; it would even fly back and hover above Su Luo's head, waiting for her to rest before setting off again.

He walked and stopped like this, not knowing how long he had been walking—maybe a day, maybe a week, or even a month. The monotonous routine day after day numbed Su Luo, and his mental state became somewhat exhausted. He even began to communicate with his contracted creatures within the contract.

Otherwise, she felt she was going crazy!

No one can remain calm in this situation.

"That's fine." Her voice was slightly dry and hoarse from not speaking for a long time. Su Luo stopped and decided not to go any further.

If this silent path, whose length is unknown, is the road to the highest realm, Su Luo would rather not take it.

I'm so lonely.

This feeling was as if she were the only person left in the whole world, and nothing could respond to her call, not even a tree or a blade of grass!

There was nothing there.

What use is becoming supreme in such a tranquil world? To grow old alone, forever and ever, never to vanish? This is not the pinnacle of power, it's clearly imprisonment!

A prison with no end.

Su Luo didn't want it to be like this.

She was reborn only to see the scoundrels who killed her suffer a terrible death, and then she would live on, guarding her base and her city-state.

She was happy enough in this life.

In an instant, the [Time] domain expanded outwards from Su Luo's center, enveloping her in a thick white mist. Time rapidly reversed behind her, and a silver river of time appeared beneath her feet, flickering intermittently...

The next second.

The backlash from the domain caused the [Time] domain to recede like a tide, crashing into Su Luo's mental energy. The powerful backlash caused her to collapse to the ground in agony.

What's going on?!

The [Time] domain... has failed!

As his consciousness gradually faded, the severely injured Su Luo only had time to see a red and black intertwined before everything went black and he lost consciousness.

At the same time, an oil-paper umbrella painted with stars and the sun and moon and a hairpin shaped like a long black coffin shot into the sky. The two auras collided and finally landed on Su Luo, enveloping him...

...

"My lord?"

"My lord?"

Like a rootless duckweed floating on the water, or like an infant nestled in its mother's womb feeling the warmth of amniotic fluid, Su Luo was so comfortable that she didn't want to open her eyes, but someone was calling to her through the water.

"My lord, it's time for you to wake up!"

Su Luo suddenly opened her eyes and was met with a face that was neither familiar nor entirely unfamiliar.

Where is this...?

This person, no, this weirdo? No, that's not right either. How could Ye Qinglan be here? And judging from his expression, he seems to know me very well.

Moreover, as Ye Qinglan approached, Su Luo suddenly smelled a fragrant aroma, just like when she first entered the forbidden area and saw the scorched limbs and severed bodies.

It smells so good!

I really want to take a bite!