"What a strange ancient island. I had barely spent any time inside, yet eras had already changed in the outside world.
Shi, what a pity!"
Legends were only legends, and his name was never mentioned, but Chu could still guess it was him.
Then Chu vanished from the myriad heavens. When he reappeared, he stood on the Boundary Sea's embankment, gazing at that line of faint footprints.
"An emperor stands supreme. Ages pass, eras cycle—even if the myriad heavens perish and all things wither, will I remain eternal?
Heh, what bullshit. You're only eternal because you haven't met someone stronger!"
Chu stood before those faint footprints for a long, long time before finally leaving.
By this point in her cultivation, she had already recovered her past memories. Even she had never expected to come so close to true death so many times in this life, nearly rendering all her previous efforts worthless.
Still less had she expected to return to the time before antiquity.
Remembrance, regret!
She regretted not having been there back then. Had she joined forces with Shi, perhaps things would have ended differently.
As for now, with her memories restored, she was even less likely to venture alone into the depths of the Boundary Sea and court death.
For she knew better than anyone what dangers lay in its depths: four Quasi-Immortal Emperors and one true emperor.
"Rest assured. One day, I will bring you back to life!
The early Immortal Ancient Era!"
After paying her respects with a bow, Red Dust turned and headed away from the Boundary Sea.
Rumble...
As she reached a valley, the sound of a lightning tribulation roused Red Dust from her dejection.
A vast, churning mudslide roared through the valley. Rain poured down, and the mudslide swept boulders, trees, mud, and