Bai Shengyi and Qinglan's expressions both darkened.
Bai Shengyi couldn't help but recall what Honglian Mojun said when they first met – "As expected of someone chosen by the Heavenly Dao of this broken continent."
What did it mean to be chosen by the Heavenly Dao?
She had always thought that Honglian Mojun meant that she and Qin Si were the children of destiny for this world's continent.
At the time, she was puzzled. Qin Si, perhaps, given his exceptional talent and extraordinary nature. Even now, she still couldn't understand how Qin Si had reached the Nascent Soul stage when everyone else was stuck at the Golden Core. And the sword Qin Si used, she hadn't even heard its name, yet it could rival the Samsara Brush!
It could be said that Qin Si had no less secrets than she did, so if Qin Si was a child of destiny, Bai Shengyi could completely understand.
But she herself couldn't comprehend it.
A child of destiny should have prosperous luck, right?
But look at her, her first two lives were full of hardship, and she died just as she was about to achieve success and enjoy it. This life was even more so; when she first transmigrated, she encountered many major and minor misfortunes!
If she really had to say, her only good fortune was used for her transmigration.
Could she really be considered a child of destiny?
And what about Yun Youyue? Regardless of anything else, Yun Youyue's luck was indeed far superior to that of ordinary people.
These were Bai Shengyi's previous thoughts.
Now, hearing Honglian Mojun's words, she felt a sense of sudden enlightenment.
So that's how it is!
"It seems the Demon Lord knows a lot," Bai Shengyi looked up at Honglian Mojun.
The lotus in his hand bloomed, splitting into two, then four...
But this time, Bai Shengyi would no longer be bewitched by the lotus, her mind clear.
"You've improved a lot," seeing Bai Shengyi unmoved, Liu Tianyun felt a bit bored and put away the flowers.
Bai Shengyi frowned slightly.
Liu Tianyun curved his lips, "Daojun Qinglan, this venerable one has no ill will towards the Divine启 Continent. In fact, what this venerable one is doing now is indirectly helping your junior disciple and junior apprentice, isn't it?"
Daojun Qinglan's gaze was indifferent, "You cannot interfere with the will of the Heavenly Dao."
Liu Tianyun's expression suddenly sank, "So you must stop this venerable one today?"
Without waiting for Daojun Qinglan to answer, Liu Tianyun continued, "Don't you want to return to Chongyuan? Qinglan, you've been in the Divine启 small world for so many years, do you really consider yourself a spirit of the Divine启 small world?"
The information revealed in Liu Tianyun's short two sentences was too immense, causing Bai Shengyi's expression to change slightly.
Chongyuan?
Could it be referring to the world after ascending from the Divine启 world?
Bai Shengyi could not forget the glimpse she caught when the Tianji Sword pierced the gray cloud canopy, the vast and boundless nebulae flowing in the infinite universe, as if containing countless secrets.
Not only did Bai Shengyi catch these two words, but the gray clouds and the eye in the sky also clearly heard them, descending several bolts of deep purple lightning with a rumble.
However, before these lightning bolts could approach the three of them, they were shattered by the actions of Liu Tianyun and Qinglan!
Qinglan's expression remained incredibly calm throughout.
Bai Shengyi, however, couldn't hold back, "If Chongyuan is so good, why did you come to Divine启?"
Her words seemed to have hit a sore spot for Liu Tianyun. He spun around abruptly and said fiercely to Bai Shengyi, "Shut up! What do you know? You know nothing!"
As if his words were law, Bai Shengyi felt a powerful force compel her to press her upper and lower lips tightly together. However, Qinglan quickly waved his hand, and this binding force disappeared.
A drop of blood slowly trickled from Bai Shengyi's lips.
She raised her hand and wiped it away expressionlessly, her gaze cold.
"Master~" the Qingsi Teng in her hand called out to her worriedly, raising a few leaves and wiping away the residual bloodstains bit by bit.
Bai Shengyi soothed Qingsi Teng, "I'm fine."
This feeling of being unable to control herself only made her more eager to seize every opportunity to improve her cultivation.
Qingsi Teng flicked the black flower at the tip of its tail, "Master, don't be angry. Once you refine this flower into a pill and consume it, you won't have to fear him!"
Bai Shengyi stroked Qingsi Teng's leaves, but remained silent, instead looking up at the battle ahead.
Qinglan had not noticed Bai Shengyi's emotions. After releasing Liu Tianyun's hold on Bai Shengyi with the laws, he struck Liu Tianyun with a palm!
"Qinglan!" Liu Tianyun's thick brows knitted tightly as he impatiently blocked Qinglan's attack, "Are you truly going to be this venerable one's enemy?"
During the brief pause in their conversation, he took advantage of Qinglan's inattention, flicked his fingers again, and a crimson red lotus karmic fire shot towards the sky!
The gray clouds hurriedly separated from the eye again, scattering in anxious clumps.
The eye, unable to move, became even more panicked, repeatedly unleashing several lightning bolts, trying to kill Liu Tianyun, but they were unable to cause him any harm.
"You cannot stop this venerable one! No one can stop what this venerable one intends to do..."
Liu Tianyun's voice choked in his throat. He looked up at the sky, his eyes splitting with rage, "What have you done?"
Qinglan followed his gaze in surprise.
Liu Tianyun then realized that it wasn't Qinglan who had acted, but Bai Shengyi, whom he had always overlooked!
Bai Shengyi held a brush in her left hand and a sword in her right.
With a stroke of the brush, a clear green light repelled the red lotus karmic fire, and the scorching red flames surrounding it immediately devoured the karmic fire.
With a swing of the sword, the eye, which should have been engulfed by the red lotus karmic fire, was instantly split in two under the sword light!
"No! How can you harm the Heavenly Dao!"
He naturally recognized the sword in Bai Shengyi's hand as a divine artifact, but this only made him more incredulous. The divine artifacts of the Divine启 small world lacked even sentience, let alone the ability to harm the Heavenly Dao!
Liu Tianyun's mission was to capture one of the Heavenly Dao's origins. Seeing this, he immediately flew towards the sky. Daojun Qinglan reached out to stop him but failed.
Just as Liu Tianyun was about to reach Bai Shengyi's location, he suddenly stopped!
No!
It wasn't Liu Tianyun who stopped!
It was that Liu Tianyun could not advance another inch!
Liu Tianyun's eyeballs were about to pop out, and he screamed in disbelief, "Laws of Time? You actually comprehended the Laws of Time? How is that possible!"
This was just a small world!
And this female cultivator before him hadn't even entered the ranks of the top experts in this small world, so how could she?
Liu Tianyun felt like he was dreaming, but everything before him told him that it was real.
An invisible long river blocked his path, even splitting the sky full of gray clouds in half, an ancient and vicissitudinous aura pressing directly upon him.
He conjured a blooming black lotus, accumulating a tenth of his late Mahayana cultivation. But as soon as the black lotus approached, it suddenly vanished into thin air.
Liu Tianyun immediately turned to leave, only to bump into Qinglan. The two immediately became locked in combat.
All of this had nothing to do with Bai Shengyi at the other end of the river of time.