The East Dragon Cauldron Reappears

At the Central Heavenly Palace, with a sea of clouds beneath their feet, a Heavenly Maiden of classical beauty stood at regular intervals throughout the palace, inside and out, dressed in palace robes. Amid the swirling spiritual mist, the golden pillars of the divine palace corridors revealed a hazy, dreamlike beauty.

Heaven Official Great Emperor Fang Xiu, Houtu Heavenly Venerable Chen Jin, and Northern Imperator Black Fiend had all arrived. When they heard the White-Robed Emperor Lord mention that he might be leaving for a while, the expressions of the other two changed in different ways.

Houtu Heavenly Venerable naturally knew that the departure Fang Xiu spoke of would not be some trip to Mars or beyond the Solar System. The last time he had said he was leaving, it had been when he departed the present universe for Clockwork City to attend the Dominator of Time and Space Conference.

Northern Imperator, however, genuinely thought Fang Xiu was going somewhere for a stroll. Sitting upon the Heavenly Venerable Throne and yawning a moment earlier, she suddenly brightened. "Where are you going? Where? Is it fun?"

Fang Xiu had never intended to keep it secret. "This time, I may be gone for quite a while. I'm planning to go deep into the Endless Spacetime and search for the Ancient God Key."

Chen Jin asked, "Clockwork City again?"

Black Fiend said, "Are you holding that dominator conference thing again? Are you taking us with you?"

Fang Xiu shook his head. "No. That place is at the source of the Endless Spacetime. This time, I'm heading in the opposite direction from before."

"Most of the spacetime realms in the Endless Spacetime began at the Origin of Time and Space, then gradually moved farther away from it. Therefore, the farther a realm is from