That scene in the orchard now seemed dreamlike in retrospect.
She began to grow restless and uneasy.
It was as though fear had frozen her, like a tiny insect trapped in amber.
That day, she had been defeated.
She had clearly crossed countless stretches of space-time, traversed vast and endless star systems, and finally landed on an ordinary planet, where a mortal had picked her up. Yet an ancient being from the prehistoric universe had already secretly descended there, sitting in that rural orchard and waiting for her arrival—for her to fall at the end of her life and walk straight into the trap??
"A scheme. It had been a scheme from the very beginning!!!"
She was nearly frightened speechless as she said in utter terror, "He calculated my battle with the Eternal Life Realm and knew I would inevitably fall. So he had long been waiting for me in that orchard on that planet! He had already calculated my entire behavioral logic with absolute clarity!"
"Monster!"
It felt as though her throat had been tightly gripped. Deep fear surged through her, as if some ancient Black Hand behind the scenes had been secretly watching her all along. She blankly raised her head to look upward.
High in the sky stood a figure from the prehistoric universe, his expression neither joyous nor sorrowful.
His entire body shimmered with pale platinum light. Thunder seemed to brew within his pupils, springs of the Great Dao gleamed, countless Dao Sounds collided across his body, and his crisp heartbeat sounded like heavenly music.
Xu Zhi was also completely stunned.
This had reversed the laws of causality entirely. In that orchard, how could he have been some being from the prehistoric universe? At the time, he had truly been weak. In a sense, you really