"I could sense the aura of the Map of Ten Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains on you. I never expected that this ancient divine artifact would end up in your possession—and that you'd actually managed to fully merge with it." The voice spoke with a tone of deep emotion.
"Once the power within my daughter's bloodline is released, she will possess the cultivation we had in life. The aura of the Celestial Derivation Art will be exposed and detected by the Sacred Emperor. That is why I would like you to have her enter the Map of Ten Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains before the power in her bloodline awakens—this way, she can escape this calamity!" The voice said.
"Just have her enter the Map of Ten Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains? No problem!" Nie Li patted his chest confidently. "May I ask when the power in Xiao Yu's bloodline will awaken?"
"Either when her own cultivation reaches the Martial Ancestor realm, or... when she becomes someone's wife." The voice hesitated for a moment before finally speaking.
Hearing this, Nie Li was visibly stunned, a peculiar expression flashing across his face. After a moment's thought, reaching the Martial Ancestor realm shouldn't be too difficult.
"The Map of Ten Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains is truly a remarkable treasure. Within it, one can form an entire miniature world. In the past, the Map triggered a series of fierce conflicts. On one occasion, two peak powerhouses, to prevent the Map from falling into the Sacred Emperor's hands, fought to the death and hid the Map away—only to both perish at the Sacred Emperor's hand in the end." The voice let out a heavy sigh as it spoke.
"This is the Sacred Emperor's space-time domain. Anything that could threaten the Sacred Emperor—whether a person or a treasure—once discovered by him, would be eliminated."
The Map of Ten Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains was also one of the treasures the Sacred Emperor sought to destroy!
However, the Map had still been preserved through the desperate sacrifices of righteous individuals.
"Back then, to resist the Sacred Emperor, countless powerhouses fell. To this day, only one measure remains that can somewhat restrain him—the Divine Ancestral Ground, created by the combined efforts of numerous supreme beings, which suppressed one of the Sacred Emperor's Devil Bones, preventing him from wielding his full power. The Sacred Emperor could only deploy an avatar to govern this region of space-time. This avatar possesses merely one-tenth the strength of his true body, which has given us some opportunity. Otherwise, the dozens of nearby realms would long since have been reduced to nothing—completely refined by the Sacred Emperor." The voice spoke with a sigh of deep emotion.
Hearing these words, Nie Li felt a chill run through his heart. So the Sacred Emperor's Devil Bone had been suppressed by the Divine Ancestral Ground. In the final battle of his previous life, Nie Li had found the Sacred Emperor surprisingly weak—it seemed that back then, the Sacred Emperor had not yet recovered to his peak strength!
And as far as Nie Li knew, in his previous life the Sacred Emperor had suddenly become reckless and unscrupulous because the
In this life, how should this predicament be resolved?
Nie Li fell silent for a long while.
"Although the Sacred Emperor is powerful, you need not be overly pessimistic. Many supreme beings are hidden in corners across various realms, cultivating diligently and ready to oppose the Sacred Emperor at any moment. The Tiny World within the Dragon Ruins Domain was arranged by a supreme being before their death—a seal on the Tiny World that even the Sacred Emperor cannot break. That supreme being hid many treasures within the Tiny World. If you could obtain those treasures, they might prove of tremendous benefit to you!"
"The seal on the Tiny World is extraordinarily powerful. Only those native to the Tiny World can enter and leave freely. My daughter happens to be one such native—perhaps she can help you!" The voice said.
Hearing Xiao Yu's father's words, Nie Li finally understood the full story behind the Tiny World's seal. So this was the origin of the Tiny World!
What Xiao Yu's father did not know was that Nie Li himself also hailed from the Tiny World!
He wondered what treasures were hidden within the Tiny World?
The Book of Time-Space Demon Spirit, the Heavenfall Divine Thunder Sword, and the
He hadn't expected the Tiny World to be so important. Only natives of the Tiny World could enter and leave freely. No wonder the
After piecing all of this together, the many clouds of confusion in Nie Li's mind finally began to clear. So that was how it was!
The next time the entrance to the Tiny World opened, he had to get inside as early as possible! Only by doing so could he reach it before the experts of the Demon God Sect and claim the treasures hidden within the Tiny World!
Even though he had been reborn, Nie Li felt that he already knew quite a lot, but there were still many mysteries he couldn't unravel. For example, that mysterious Great
"From now on, I'll be entrusting my daughter to you!"
"Rest assured, Senior. As long as I'm around, no one will lay a finger on your daughter. Of course, if I'm dead, then I can't make any guarantees!" Nie Li shrugged and said.
Hearing Nie Li's words, that voice let out a soft chuckle and said, "If you can avoid it, avoid it. If you can't, then it was simply fate! In that case, you should return now…"
That voice gradually faded away, drifting into nothingness.
Nie Li's consciousness slowly withdrew and returned to his own body. He squeezed his right hand, and a strange sensation traveled into his palm — something plump and soft, too much for a single hand to wrap around.
What was that?
*Smack!*
A crisp sound rang out, and Nie Li immediately felt a searing pain. His face had taken a solid slap. He opened his eyes and looked ahead to find that Xiao Yu had already put all her clothes back on and was glaring daggers at him.
"Pervert!" Xiao Yu spat, her cheeks still burning red.
Nie Li's consciousness had entered Xiao Yu's body for over two hours. The acupressure points on her body had already unlocked on their own.
But what had that sensation been just now?
Nie Li glanced at Xiao Yu's chest — it was clearly flat. Had it been his imagination? Maybe he'd been too drowsy?
Nie Li shrugged and said, "I didn't know you were a girl! You're the one who kept dressing as a man!"
"You—" Xiao Yu was exasperated. Thinking back to what had just happened, Nie Li had touched her entire body. But, truth be told, the blame wasn't really on him — who told her to keep pretending to be a man? Remembering how Nie Li had laid her on the ground, stripped her bare, and given her a massage, Xiao Yu's cheeks burned as though on fire.
"Fine. Just pretend today never happened!" Xiao Yu waved her hand irritably and said, a note of frustration in her voice. Even though she knew she'd gotten the short end of the stick, what could she really do to Nie Li?