Sunflower Kong Yuhen!
The memories all came flooding back.
Every generation had a Kong Yuhen. Each had its own mission, and once it was completed—or its time had come—it would vanish. Xu Xiaoshou had concluded this long ago.
Yet when they had fished Aunt Xiang out of the sixth layer of the Dead Sea, a Kong Yuhen had surfaced that shattered this "Kong Yuhen law."
Having seen the Ancestor Gods of Saint, Dragon, Heaven, and Medicine in ancient times, it had not only survived intact into the present era, but had preserved its power and consciousness almost perfectly.
At the root of it all, that generation of Kong Yuhen had been tasked with devouring the Flower of Life, a supreme divine medicine containing the Medicine Ancestor's undying power.
At the time, every conclusion had pointed toward this being a contingency deliberately left behind by the Time Ancestor.
Perhaps for the Time Ancestor's revival, perhaps to recover the Time Ancestor's peak strength, or perhaps for some other purpose.
Even now, that could still be the case. After all, as long as one lived, one could encounter more variables.
But was there another possibility—that the Time Ancestor had been forced into passivity because of this? "Sunflower Kong Yuhen fears the Medicine Ancestor and thus hides in the Dead Sea. But with the Dead Sea's forbidden law power, if the Medicine Ancestor truly wanted to move against him, could it stop Them?"
"They should have had hundreds or thousands of ways. They could lure him out and kill him, or enter and devour him. For example, sending Bei Huai to the Dead Sea—Sunflower Kong Yuhen would have nowhere to hide."
"Yet They didn't. Why?"
Could it have been a case of turning the enemy's scheme to Their own advantage—leaving a mark upon that