Xia Chujian felt no pain at all. She could not even sense her own existence, as if all self-awareness were being rapidly stripped away.
Her final impression was that she was like a feather falling into the deep sea, slowly sinking through boundless golden nothingness.
Just as she lost consciousness, an extremely faint golden point of light, yet one with an unimaginably high density, slowly lit up within her dark mental realm, as desolate as an ancient wasteland.
Like a ray of light cast from the distant Outer Domain, it pierced through the barrier of nothingness and protected Xia Chujian's nearly extinguished senses.
At that moment, Xia Chujian's consciousness finally stopped falling.
She seemed to be standing somewhere, no longer drifting weightlessly.
Then a voice clearly pierced through the golden curtain—faint, yet carrying the unyielding penetrating force unique to new life.
"Waaah—!"
The cry of an infant.
Clear and pure, carrying a Newborn's most primal and fearless declaration to this cold universe.
That cry was like a warm current of light, instantly awakening Xia Chujian's mental realm, which had nearly fallen asleep.
She knew she had not opened her eyes, yet she could "see."
It was a tiny baby girl. Her parents had named her "Sha."
In that era, sha represented wealth, preciousness, and beauty. It was her parents' hope for her entire life.
And this family's surname was Qi.
Looking at the clothing of that ancient era and this name that was both unfamiliar and familiar, Xia Chujian sighed softly.
She felt that Usas's Authority had probably brought her into an unfamiliar Time Node.
For example, before the Beichen Empire had even been established...
When their Empress, Qi Sha, had still been nothing more than a tiny infant.
Then time passed before her like an illusion.
She watched Qi