Seeing that Zhou Xingdou showed no displeasure, Yuan Tian breathed a sigh of relief and continued:

"With the leadership of the Falling Clouds Sword Immortal and the addition of eight Zhou family affiliated forces, the current Star Heaven Alliance was formed. Today, the Star Heaven Alliance's power is no less than that of an Immortal."

Stephen Chow was quite satisfied:

"That saves me the trouble of gathering power."

Gathering the Zhou family's subordinates was something he had always wanted to do after leaving the Zhou family, but he didn't expect things to go wrong and he was trapped in the Four Heavens Sacred Domain. When he returned, he found that twenty years had passed since the beginning of time.

In this situation, I'm saved from having to spend time and effort on myself.

However, Zhou Xingdou still grasped the key point, his gaze sharpening as he looked at Yuan Tian and asked in a deep voice:

"Who is the leader of the Star Alliance, or who holds power, and does it belong to me?"

This is a serious problem. This alliance came together on its own, but twenty years later, it's hard to say whether it truly belongs to itself.

The Zhou family has been gone for a long time, and Tian Jiu'er is not the type to take charge. Although Luo Hanyi has publicly claimed to be pregnant with her own child, no child has been born in the past twenty years, and she can't fool those shrewd people.

Therefore, Zhou Xingdou was not sure whether the Star Alliance now belonged to him.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Tian chuckled and said quite easily:

"Young Master, rest assured, with us, Lord Tianyin, and Master Wei here, how could anyone seize power?"

"The current leader of the alliance is nominally the Sword Immortal Luoxia, but the actual management is handled by Master Wei and Mistress Iron Fan, with Mistress Luo overseeing the process."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xingdou felt relieved. The actual managers were a servant of the Zhou family and his own woman. With his senior sister wife overseeing things and his master nominally serving as the alliance leader, there was indeed no problem. He had been overthinking things.

However, at this moment he also looked at Princess Iron Fan in his arms and said with slight surprise:

"I never expected that Madam had such management skills."

Master Wei was not surprised, after all, Master Wei was a great Confucian scholar, and managing his influence was not difficult for him.

But Princess Iron Fan surprised him. Although he had let her manage the Punishment Thunder Palace before, the Punishment Thunder Palace was too small, with only so many people, and they were mostly Zhou Xingdou's female relatives with low cultivation levels, so it was not difficult for Princess Iron Fan to keep them in check.

However, the Star Alliance is composed of eight top-tier forces, all of whom are known for their domineering nature. Each of them has a number of powerful patriarchs, so it is easy to imagine how difficult it is to maintain balance among them.

Princess Iron Fan frowned and smiled:

"Master, have you forgotten that before I became Iron Fan Fairy, I was a princess of the Rakshasa Kingdom? Otherwise, why would people call me Princess Iron Fan?"

"Although I was a princess, my father and mother only had me as their child, so they practically raised me as the crown prince, which is why I know a bit about this."

Zhou Xingdou suddenly realized that this was indeed the case.

"And I also have this."

As she spoke, Princess Iron Fan turned her head toward Zhou Xingdou and stuck out her moist little tongue. In the center of the tongue mark, there was a touch of emerald green. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a miniature banana leaf fan.

Stephen Chow resisted the urge to eat Princess Iron Fan's tongue and made her put away the banana leaf fan.

He had almost forgotten about this. With the Banana Leaf Fan and the four shackles removed, Princess Iron Fan was probably invincible in the capital, and no one could get close to her.

Now that he had a general idea, Zhou Xingdou wasn't in a hurry to go back and check on the Star Alliance. Instead, he asked Princess Iron Fan to protect him while he focused his mind on the system.

Upon his return, he learned the true name of the Desolate Empress, Yun Qingxi.

This name is exactly the same as that of the woman who pulled him into another dimension when the evil forces invaded the Holy Land of the Universe.

However, the two look quite different.

Zhou Xingdou didn't believe it was a coincidence. He remembered that when he was in the Holy Land of the Universe, Yun Qingxi made him feel that she seemed to know him very well, and she had warned him to be careful of Yun Jinzhi in advance.

Looking back now, Yun Qingxi really meant me no harm. Her warning did come true, and not long after, Yun Jinzhi shot me through the heart and killed me at the Xuantian Dao Sect.

Furthermore, although he hadn't stayed in the Four Heavens Sacred Domain for very long, twenty years had passed since he returned!

This gave him some ideas, which is why he focused his attention on the system.

His first action was to access Luo Bailian's profile. He had left Luo Bailian in the Four Heavenly Sacred Domain, and he wanted to check Luo Bailian's profile to confirm his own thoughts.

...

[War Slave]: Luo Bailian (???)

[Realm/Level]: ? ? ? ?

【identity】:? ? ? ?

......

Seeing Luo Bailian's drastically changed interface, Zhou Xingdou's heart sank. The numerous question marks proved that the system had lost contact with Luo Bailian's battle slave mark.

However, Zhou Xingdou slapped his forehead and wondered why he was making such a fuss. Why didn't he just ask the system directly?

However, Zhou Xingdou did not inquire about Luo Bailian's panel; instead, he asked in a deep voice...

"System! Why has twenty years passed since I returned to the Primordial Era?"

The system did not provide its usual prompt response; after a long silence within the system space, the system's voice finally rang out:

[Ding! There's been a problem with the process of guiding the host through the flow of time.]

Stephen Chow frowned:

"What's the problem? Why didn't you say so before!"

[Ding! Although reversing the flow of time awakened the host's vitality, the system's power was also exhausted. Therefore, the system has no idea where the host and the system will fall, or even... when.]

Zhou Xingdou was startled:

"What time? What do you mean! My timeline in the Four Heavenly Sacred Realms isn't in the present?"

The system gave a somewhat hesitant reply:

[Ding! Yes, the timeline in which the host and the system were in the Four Heavenly Sacred Realms was not the present; it could be the future, or it could be the past...]

"What!"

Zhou Xingdou was greatly shocked. The timeline of the Four Heavenly Sacred Domain was not in the present, but possibly in the past or the future.

How could this information not shock me?

Thinking of the name Yun Qingxi, Zhou Xingdou knew that his guess had probably come true.

The system continued:

[Ding! That's why the return took so much time to retrieve information, and because of the different timelines, the return timeline fluctuated, causing the host to return to twenty years later.]

For the first time, Stephen Chow felt anger towards the system:

Why are you only saying this now!

It's obvious that the system has always known this, but it has never told me!

[Ding! The system wasn't aware of this back in the Four Heavenly Sacred Domain either. It only discovered it after returning. The timeline of the Four Heavenly Sacred Domain was in the past. The reason it didn't tell the host was because the system hadn't yet calculated the exact time difference between back in the Four Heavenly Sacred Domain and now in the Primordial Era.]

Zhou Xingdou suddenly felt dizzy. Empress Huangtian and Xiao Tianzuo were people from the past. How much time had passed? Had Xiao Tianzuo become the Heavenly Dao? He had promised Empress Huangtian that he would come to pick him up...

This made Stephen Chow quite furious upon seeing him:

"So you've figured it out now?"

[Ding! The calculation is not yet complete, but it is certain that the timeline of the Four Heavenly Sacred Realms is at least 30 million years ago, or even longer!]