She Zhuyin's voice was soft, like a murmur.
"My body, as you know, was severely injured and still hasn't fully recovered."
"So when I sensed a Great Terror beneath the Imperial Palace, I immediately withdrew."
"Because I knew I was no match for the being there—the fragment of Usas's incarnated flesh."
"It was conscious as well, and could control others to serve it."
"But after you killed Usas's True Form, that fragment no longer had the True Form's power supporting it, so it was no longer my match."
Xia Chujian looked thoughtful. "...When did you kill that fragment of Usas's incarnated flesh? Do you remember?"
She Zhuyin nodded and gave her a Time Node.
Xia Chujian suddenly understood. "That explains it... After I killed Usas's True Form, I didn't come out right away. I was still wandering through some Time Nodes."
"But after a while, I was... kicked out of those Time Nodes!"
Huo Yushen nodded. "So was I. After you killed Usas's True Form, I think I entered one of its Time Nodes through that Abyss Hole. I wanted to find you."
"But before I could find you, I was kicked out by that Time Node."
"Thinking back now, it was probably when Mother destroyed Usas's last piece of Primordial Flesh."
"It must have been then that Usas was finally killed completely."
"All the Time Nodes it had hidden most deeply were released."
Xia Chujian said, "No wonder... I was kicked into that place in the end."
As she spoke, she pulled up her Virtual Display Screen and played what she had encountered in that Dead Star Domain.
The moment that lifeless starry sky appeared on the Virtual Display Screen, Huo Yushen's eyes widened involuntarily.
He blurted out, "...How could it be this place?!"
"You actually went there?!"
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