The territory where Lan Nian is located is not in the same space as the original owner's apartment, but in a special space world where the three kinds of magical powers of spirit, immortal, and god are integrated.
Chu Nian guessed that this must be the so-called God Realm, otherwise there could not be any divine power here.
As Chu Nian walked along, she felt the nourishment that the gods gave to her soul and her body, making her feel exceptionally comfortable. She felt that this kind of world was more suitable for her, Lin Jingting, and Lou Qianzong to retire in, or more precisely, for them to live in for a long time.
However, this place is not solely Lan Nian's territory. Especially in this desolate ancient forest, Chu Nian saw many towering ancient trees, some millions of years old, consciously absorbing the divine energy in the air.
Chu Nian didn't believe they lacked self-awareness. Moreover, these ancient trees were imbued with immense and terrifying demonic energy. The ancient forest also contained many beast-demon energies of varying strengths.
These monsters probably sensed that the one who came from the forest was no good, so they seemed to be fleeing at the mere sight of him.
Chu Nian went straight to Lan Nian's territory. She used the void to break through and returned directly to Lan Nian's apartment. After dropping off Lin Jingting and Lou Qianzong, she turned back. So, not much time had passed since she left, and Lan Nian was still there breaking the formation!
Chu Nian stood not far behind her, arms crossed, watching leisurely as she unleashed her full power to bombard the magic array.
Lan Nian bombarded the area for a long time, and the magic array was finally broken. Lan Nian sneered with delight, "I've broken this magic array. Let's see where you can escape to now!" As she spoke, she transformed into a gust of wind and rushed into the cave.
The cave wasn't large; you could see right through it. In fact, with Lan Nian's abilities, she should have been able to tell from the entrance that no one was inside. However, she was too excited about breaking the magic array to use her divine sense to investigate. She only released her divine sense cautiously when she started rushing in.
By the time she realized the cave was empty, she was already rushing inside uncontrollably.
After learning that there was no one in the cave, she couldn't help but curse, "Damn it!" Without pausing, she turned and rushed out of the cave. As soon as she came out, she found that there was someone standing not far from the cave entrance, so she stopped in her tracks as she was about to look for the person.
She stared blankly at Chu Nian for a moment before realizing that the person in front of her must be the one who was originally in the cave. Although there were many different timelines, all of Lan Nian's had been devoured by her, except for one that escaped and took over the Lan Nian's corpse that she had turned into a puppet.
There was a small mark on the neck of this corpse, a number she had given it to distinguish it from the other Lan Nian corpses. Therefore, she wouldn't mistake it; this was the one that had escaped before.
Lan Nian cautiously surveyed her surroundings and questioned Chu Nian, "Why are you the only one here? Where are those two meddlesome men?"
Chu Nian said with a faint smile, "Ask them. Heh, they've all gone where they were supposed to go."
Lan Nian frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"
Chu Nian: "That's exactly what I mean."
Lan Nian asked, guessing, "You devoured them all?" She then let out a cold laugh, "Heh, they fought me to save you, and then I sealed their magic. You actually devoured them?! Ha!"
She felt that since this corpse, Lan Nian, was forcibly separated from her soul, it probably also possessed a lot of her memories of cultivation and devouring other people's souls. Therefore, she concluded that the Lan Nian in front of her had also begun to devour others, just like her.
Chu Nian said calmly, "You're overthinking it."
Lan Nian didn't think her guess was wrong. Otherwise, with Lan Nian's abilities, it would have been impossible for that corpse to escape from the cave right under her nose and even get to the area behind where she had been before.
Those two men were incredibly powerful; their magic was merely sealed, not lost. Therefore, the corpse Lan Nian devoured them while their magic was inaccessible, thus gaining their divine abilities—only this could reasonably explain why the corpse Lan Nian suddenly became so powerful.
Thinking that the two men's immense magical power had been sealed by her spell, but now this corpse had benefited from it, Lan Nian was filled with hatred and gritted her teeth.
She gritted her teeth, making a grinding sound, and said with a cold laugh, "You stay here because you think you're capable of fighting me? You want to learn from me and devour yourselves from different times and spaces? Let me tell you, no matter how powerful the magical energy you devour, you'll ultimately only become nourishment for me."
Chu Nian asked in a calm tone, "Where do you get this confidence from?"
Lan Nian said, “Don’t you understand yet? Among all the Lan Nian, I am the most unique one. All time and space are separated from my time and space, which is the main time and space. You Lan Nian are just secondary bodies that are peeled off from me like skin. You were originally a part of me, and it was destined that you would eventually return to me.”
Chu Nian asked in surprise, "Where did you get this idea from?"
Thinking that Lin Jingting had also encountered something similar to Lan Nianxiang, could it be that only when the main body, as Lan Nianxiang described, encounters the secondary body, will one side try to devour the other?
Thinking about it this way, what Lan Nian said actually sounds a bit like the truth!
Lan Nian: "I have seen the history of the gods in the 'Gods' Codex.' This kind of spacetime overlap is not the first time it has occurred, but it is not always the same process or the same spacetime overlap; the situation of many Lan Nian colliding together is also not common. Only when the spacetimes where the main body and the sub-body are located are close to each other will they attract each other and overlap. Then the main body begins to devour the sub-body."
"Main body and secondary body?!" Chu Nian chuckled as she spoke. "But I feel that you, me, and the other Lan Nian are just clones in different timelines. Shouldn't our status be equal?"
"What do you think?" Lan Nian burst into laughter. "My opinion comes from historical records in the Divine Race's encyclopedia. Do you think your 'what do you think' is more convincing than my opinion?"
Chu Nian stroked her chin and thought for a moment, then said, "That's true. If your concept of 'subject' and 'subsidiary' is closer to the truth, then why don't you think I am the subject and you are the subsidiary?"
Lan Nian roared, "You've all been devoured by me, so why don't you think I'm the main body?"
Chu Nian spread her hands, deliberately with a hint of smugness, and said, "Because I escaped! You didn't successfully merge with me, did you? Actually, when I was in your soul, I had the opportunity to turn against you, but I held back. I didn't want to devour other Lan Nian like you did."
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