Wen Ruyan was genuinely happy, so happy she almost jumped for joy. This made it impossible for her to hide her delight when she saw Ouyang Hao at the banquet, whose face was still as expressionless as a brick and whose injuries had not yet healed.
Ouyang Hao found the joy on her face, that smile he used to adore, rather jarring. Perhaps because everyone was happy, when they glanced at him amidst the clinking of glasses, they would show expressions of helplessness, astonishment, or even disdain and mockery towards his expressionless face, making him much more sensitive than before.
"Senior Brother Ouyang, you seem rather listless. Are you worried about the injury on your face?" Wen Ruyan had learned to read people's expressions since she was a child. Of course, some might call it being perceptive and considerate, which wouldn't be wrong. She asked Ouyang Hao gently.
Ouyang Hao tried to force a smile, but felt a sharp pain in his cheek, so he had to keep his mouth shut. He didn't dare to speak, so he transmitted his voice, "No, it's not that. I think it will get better after a while."
That being said, such external injuries should heal in no time for cultivators, especially for great cultivators like them who have reached the Nascent Soul stage. But his injured face has been showing no signs of recovery for several days now, and he really has no idea what to expect.
If Ouyang Zhong hadn't reminded him that the Spirit Medicine Sect of the Universal Divine Palace was the place with the highest medical skills in the cultivation world, having cured countless difficult and complicated diseases, he would never have come to attend this banquet.
As she spoke, Wen Ruyan was surrounded by several other Nascent Soul cultivators from the Universal Divine Palace.
Now that the woman she had always resented had met such a fate, and was surrounded by a group of handsome men, Wen Ruyan felt a great sense of satisfaction. She smiled charmingly as she interacted with the handsome male cultivators.
Ouyang Hao suddenly remembered that when Wen Ruyan spoke to him, she also had a similar smile, with tender affection in her eyes; and now she was doing the same thing to other men—Ouyang Hao's mind went blank as he looked at this scene.
Meanwhile, inside the secret realm, Chu Nian was walking through a sea of flowers filled with special energy. She felt exceptionally comfortable here; the special energy seemed to be exactly what her body needed, nourishing every cell in her body.
Therefore, her cultivation level was rapidly increasing.
The reason she chose to fight the five demons at the exit of the rift was that she hoped to return to the rift before it closed.
Honestly, if she hadn't had to reveal herself to save Lin Jingting, she would have stayed inside the rift forever. She felt that this "rift" might be a station for the metabolism of spacetime energy, and she wanted to take advantage of the several hundred years that the rift was closed to study this place thoroughly.
Therefore, she never intended to leave the gap. When Ouyang Ren attacked, she neither dodged nor evaded. Instead, she used a powerful, invisible protective shield to keep herself from being injured. Then, she used Ouyang Ren's power to return to the gap.
After the rift closed, all sorts of energies of different attributes and levels flew everywhere. To be honest, in theory, only a small portion of these energies were spiritual energy, and most of them were immortal power, divine power, and so on. However, she felt very familiar with them all, so she could immediately distinguish which were immortal power and which were divine power. She even knew exactly how to safely absorb each one.
Therefore, along the way, she was simply absorbing the energy that was being shot at her, and she did not actually encounter any danger.
This is very strange. Normally, cultivators can only absorb spiritual energy; anything like immortal power or divine energy will result in their death. But Chu Nian's body absorbs all of them without hesitation.
If Chu Nian's soul entered the underworld after her death as the movie queen, and she began to awaken a host of memories related to cultivation, knowing how to absorb and refine immortal power and divine energy, then this physical body also needed to be able to absorb and integrate them.
Several days later.
As Chu Nian walked up the winding stone steps through the sea of flowers, she couldn't help but look back at the tall building deep within the flower field.
Before passing through the building, she couldn't even see a trace of it, but after passing through it, she could sense it and all the details around it.
Inside that building, she saw a large room resembling a library, containing many ancient books. Many of them were written in a special script: Chu Nian knew that even after she became a movie queen and then died and transmigrated into the world of these books, she had never seen this script before.
But she immediately recognized the script as divine: this suggests that she was likely a member of the divine race before her reincarnation as the movie queen. These characters were originally part of her soul's memory.
During this time, she wandered among these ancient books. In addition to a bunch of cultivation techniques and spells, she also learned about many secret histories of the three races in the history of this world, and finally understood why she could move freely in this space full of temporal and spatial turbulence.
Although these ancient books are as numerous as the sea, one book is placed in the most conspicuous spot right at the entrance, and it's the first book Chu Nian sees upon entering. It is the history of the gods, recording almost all the major events of the entire gods over countless billions of years.
The book mentions the Hua clan the most: the kings of the gods, who ruled the divine realm for billions of years until the gods perished and the divine realm disappeared.
To be honest, Chu Nian had been in the cultivation world for a hundred years and had read through the books of various sects. She clearly remembered that more than one sect's books recorded that the gate to the divine realm closed about 100,000 years ago.
Before the God Realm closed, a divine messenger conveyed a message to the Immortal Realm, which was one realm lower than the God Realm, saying that the Immortal Race had been punished for moral failings by temporarily closing the gates of the God Realm. The gates would reopen after a period of 100,000 years.
But little did they know that it wasn't the gate to the divine realm that was closed, but rather the entire divine realm that vanished.
The reason the gods sent out this message was simply because many of their juniors still existed, and due to their varying levels of cultivation, they had been sent to different parts of the lower realms. With the limitation of a 100,000-year window, the Immortal Realm and the Cultivation Realm still believed that the opening of the God Realm was possible, so they naturally wouldn't treat the younger generation of the gods too badly.
As for the fate of these younger generations 100,000 years from now: their destiny at that time will depend on their own efforts.
Another important point is that the 100,000-year period is very likely the time limit for the immortal realm to exist.
However, in order to ensure that their juniors could stay peacefully in the Immortal Realm, the gods did not disclose this news to the immortals.
So, is the Immortal Realm about to be destroyed? This plot doesn't seem to be in the original book; there are so many hidden storylines!
However, the 100,000-year period given by the gods is only an approximate timeframe. It could also be 100,300,500, or even 8,000 years. It is very likely that this will happen after the main storyline has already ended, which is why it is not shown in the story.
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