The sound of running water continued from the bathroom, but to Nan Xiaonan, it sounded like a torrential downpour.
The trembling of her soul could not be faked... She had once been an Immortal who had faced an entire world's World Will—indeed, a Sealed King Immortal, the strongest of all Immortals, only one step away from eternity.
But eternity was elusive. Even to a being at her level, it was merely a legend—which was why she had ventured out, crossing one space-time after another, all to seek the earliest origin.
No one had told her what lay at the origin. Yet the moment she became a Sealed King Immortal, it was as though someone unseen had told her that the origin was the home of eternity.
A sub-world's will was one of the greatest obstacles blocking that path.
The heavens collapsed and the earth split apart. A true apocalypse descended, countless powerful beings fell in an instant, the sub-world's order was utterly destroyed, and all living beings reverted to their most primitive state... She had never forgotten that world-spanning war fought by all the Immortals and pseudo-Immortals.
When the strongest beings of that world gathered to challenge it, it finally appeared...
It was just like the sensation she felt now... No, it had been even stronger... Several times, dozens of times stronger—impossible to measure!
Nan Xiaonan's face instantly turned pale. Her cerebral cortex went into overdrive once again, and her mind entered that accelerated state that defied the laws of physics.
"Sit." Luo Qiu glanced at Nan Xiaonan and said casually, "Thinking too much isn't good for your health. Your body doesn't have any spare fat to fuel all that brain activity."
Overall, Nan Xiaonan had a slender, thin figure, with little flesh on her bones.
Her mental acceleration came