In Ye Shang's sea of consciousness, her consciousness once again left her body and arrived at a familiar place, a familiar darkness. Ye Shang looked at the black hole in front of her, surrounded by stones of various colors, including the still dazzling iridescent stones, the lapis lazuli stones that glowed with a blue light, and stones of other colors.
However, Ye Shang guessed that these remaining timelines that she had not yet visited might contain laws that she could not enter even now.
The mysterious, uniformly rotating black hole seemed to be the boss in this place, rotating at the highest and foremost point.
Ye Shang floated up and said, "I've finally seen you again, Gate to the Dark Realm."
As soon as he finished speaking, it was as if the area around the black hole had been cut off, with a rectangular frame surrounding the rotating black hole at the center.
This formed a dark gate in the darkness.
The door was wide open, and there was nothing inside except for concentric vortexes that demonstrated its power.
Ye Shang thought for a moment, "Never mind, I won't go in this time."
However, the black hole seemed to have no intention of sending her anywhere else; the vortex gradually formed several words: "Xuantian, begin to accelerate."
Ye Shang squinted at the words that had suddenly appeared. "You mean the annihilation of the Xuan Tian Continent is accelerating?"
The black hole did not reply. Instead, it invited the gate to the vortex of darkness, twisting it once more into two words: "Please enter."
Ye Shang thought for a moment and decided to go in first. Almost the instant she nodded, the black hole's attraction intensified, sucking her entire will into it.
Darkness descended, and then light appeared again, once more within the sect on the Xuan Tian Continent.
She landed in the very cave where she had lived before.
However, the cave was somewhat old at this time, as if no one had lived there for a long time.
Just then, a voice came, "Long time no see, Ah Ye."
Ye Shang turned around and looked over, his pupils shrinking involuntarily, and he murmured softly, "Senior Brother Xuanming."
What surprised her so much was not how she could see a living person, but rather, the appearance of her senior brother Xuanming!
He had classic fox-like eyes, a gentle complexion, and eyes full of tenderness. Most importantly, apart from his eyes and the tiny red beauty mark at the corner of his eye, the rest of his face was almost identical to Qing Li's.
But why is that? She had a very shallow impression of Senior Brother Xuanming back then, and she couldn't even find his face in the depths of her memory. He was always just a blurry figure, and all she could remember was his back and his figure always dressed in white robes.
No memory fragments showed a positive view, but although the two did not meet often, they could see each other face to face every year when the sect leader gathered everyone together.
But he always manages to make people overlook his appearance.
Xuanming smiled slightly: "It seems you must have run into him."
Ye Shang asked, somewhat puzzled, "You mean Qing Li?"
Xuanming didn't answer, but instead stepped forward and took Ye Shang's hand: "Mm."
Xuanming had imagined this scene countless times in his mind, but now, as he held Ye Shang's hand, he simply placed his hand lightly on her wrist.
Ye Shang let him lead her, and asked along the way, "What is the relationship between Senior Brother and Qing Li?"
Xuanming chuckled and said, "He is me, and I am him."
A question mark involuntarily appeared above Ye Shang's head. What did this mean?
Xuanming didn't offer much explanation, only saying, "Let's go see our sect leader first."
Ye Shang did not struggle and followed him all the way, both of them remaining silent.
At this moment, countless questions and relationships in various aspects flashed through her mind, including the relationship between Qingli and Senior Brother Xuanming. She even wondered if Senior Brother Xuanming was also an incarnation of that fennec fox.
But that doesn't make sense. Senior Brother Xuanming knew of this person's existence within a few months of her arrival at the sect.
This is because he is the only one under the sect leader who has not taken on any disciples, has not started a family, and spends all his time in his cave, never leaving the sect. Nothing from the outside world can interfere with him.
Until Ye Shang appeared, he helped her repeatedly, and even when the sect leader asked him if he wanted to take her as a disciple, he shook his head and refused.
By then, she had returned to her sect from the demon realm, and her cultivation talent had changed. Although he didn't offer much help, each time he did, it was something precious or rare.
That's why Ye Shang always remembered him, and even if it was just a fleeting glimpse, he would accurately call out his name when they met again.
At times like these, Xuanming's mood would noticeably improve.
Xuanming led Ye Shang all the way to the sect leader's hall. He knocked on the door and went inside, where he found the sect leader already sitting there waiting, leisurely pouring tea.
Upon seeing Ye Shang, even his white beard seemed to light up with joy. "It's been a long time, little Ye."
Ye Shang sat on the other side of the table. "Senior Brother Sect Leader, it hasn't been that long since we last saw each other, has it?"
For cultivators, a few years is but a fleeting moment, a blink of an eye.
The sect leader shook his head, filled the small cup with tea, and placed it in front of Ye Shang: "No, we haven't seen each other for almost two thousand years."
Ye Shang paused, her hand already poised to serve tea, then seized on the key point and looked at him: "The flow of time is different?"
The sect leader poured Xuanming another cup of tea. "That's right, it has been 2,300 years since you died."
Ye Shang was stunned. What was going on? The time flow was too fast. It had been less than a year since her last seclusion, and less than two years since she met her senior brother, the sect leader.
However, more than two thousand years have passed on the Xuan Tian Continent.
Xuanming's voice was gentler than Qingli's. He said slowly, "Aye hasn't come back for a long time."
His eyes would occasionally glance at the sect leader.
Sect Leader Senior Brother: "..."
He knew that this junior brother's whole heart and soul were with Ye Shang. In the past, she had no thoughts about her junior brother, and had never even greeted him.
When he suddenly returned and was pulled over, he knew that this guy must know something but hadn't told him, the sect leader.
Ye Shang rested his fingertips on the table, his index finger tapping the surface unconsciously.
"I'd like to ask, what happened to that scene you witnessed back then?"
This question was directed at the sect leader, who was on the edge of the Xuan Tian Continent at the time, where the continent was on the verge of disappearing, though at that time the process was rather slow.
It wasn't very fast; Ye Shang thought at the time that it could exist for at least another tens of thousands of years.
Xuanming's voice flowed like clear water as he said, "Time and space are constantly shifting, and naturally they are also accelerating."
He is a typical example, but he always felt that he still needed to meet that person in that world later.
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