Mysterious Woman

Although he had not clearly seen Zi Yu's appearance, Hun Tiandi could infer some information from the situation at the scene.

At the same time, seeing his old rival suffer a setback made him quite happy!

Hearing Hun Tiandi's mocking words, Gu Yuan said calmly, "Hun Tiandi! You still came too late this time. Neither of us obtained this Heavenly Bestowed Opportunity. We are both losers, so what is there to laugh about?"

Gu Yuan truly deserved to be a clan leader. His way with words was quite impressive; without anyone noticing, he had dug a pit for Hun Tiandi and even led him down the wrong path!

With that, Gu Yuan left without looking back!

At this moment, his mood was far from pleasant. The cooked duck had flown away!

After Gu Yuan left, Hun Tiandi gave him a meaningful look.

A sharp gleam flashed through his eyes as he muttered, "Interesting! It was actually an intact Emperor Grade Pill! No wonder it could escape from Gu Yuan's grasp. It seems this Heavenly Bestowed Opportunity is not so easy to obtain. This matter must be considered carefully!"

Because the system had interfered, coupled with Gu Yuan's deliberate misdirection, Hun Tiandi mistook Zi Yu for an Emperor Grade Pill.

After all, on the Dou Qi Continent, once pills reached the ninth grade, they possessed intelligence from the moment they were born and could take on all kinds of forms, such as beast forms or human forms.

This was common knowledge!

And anything capable of successfully escaping from the hands of Gu Yuan, a Nine Star Peak Dou Sheng, had to be an Emperor Grade Pill!

Poor Hun Tiandi never learned, even until his death!

That he had been thoroughly fooled by Gu Yuan, that thick-browed, big-eyed fellow!

Afterward, he too vanished from the spot.

After Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan, the two strongest experts of the age, departed—

The people from the other clans of the Eight Ancient Clans arrived under the leadership of their clan leaders.

They saw a Secret Realm that was clearly brimming with spiritual energy, yet completely empty, like some barren and desolate land!

Countless question marks seemed to rise above their heads as they stared at the scene speechlessly!

?????...

Was this really the place of the Heavenly Bestowed Opportunity?

I may not have read much, but don't lie to me!

After carefully sensing the area and confirming that there were no treasures at all, the people from the other clans of the Eight Ancient Clans left while cursing and grumbling!

Of course, some especially unwilling people wanted to search the place further to see whether they could find any trace of treasure!

Only after searching repeatedly and failing to find even a single medicinal herb—not even the lowest first-grade ingredient—did they finally leave in utter reluctance.

However, some people did not leave, because they discovered that the Secret Realm was rich in spiritual energy and beneficial to cultivation!

Yet before they could celebrate, they discovered that the Secret Realm was collapsing, forcing them to scramble out of the place in a panic!

Not long afterward, the Secret Realm collapsed with a thunderous crash. The scattered source energy of heaven and earth drifted over the Nameless Mountain Range below, nourishing all living things in that land!

Another grand treasure-hunting expedition ended in an anticlimactic fashion!

Meanwhile, in the central region of the Great Thousand World, there was a Nameless Small Continent shrouded in endless mist. It was rarely visited by people, rich in spiritual energy and vitality, with spiritual flowers and exotic grasses carpeting the land.

This continent was roughly the size of more than half the Hundred Spirits Continent!

Yet the Heaven and Earth Spirit Items resources it possessed were far beyond anything the Hundred Spirits Continent could compare with!

At the center of this continent stood a lifelike Woman Statue!

The statue was incredibly realistic and seemed to possess a trace of liveliness!

Judging from its features, the woman depicted was exceptionally beautiful, with a face so breathtaking it could topple the world, like a celestial maiden descending from the Ninth Heavens!

Transcendent and ethereal, untouched by the dust of the mortal world!

No one knew who had erected this statue, nor how many years it had stood here!

But at that moment, the statue began to turn illusory. A divine light flashed, and it miraculously transformed into a living person!

Her eyes were tightly closed, and she wore a Droplet Sapphire Silver Leaf Chain Veil over her face. Yet it could not conceal her peerless beauty. Her features were perfect and delicate, her willow brows gently curved, pink eyeshadow adorning her eyes, her nose bridge slightly high, her soft red lips alluring and seductive, and her chin pointed yet smooth!

She wore a Silver-Blue Lotus Headdress around her head, with a pair of buns lightly coiled up. A lock of dark hair hung over each side of her chest, while the rest cascaded neatly over her fragrant shoulders to her waist. Her bangs parted to either side of her forehead, where she wore a Maple Leaf Sapphire Forehead Pendant. Her jade-like neck was slender, her fragrant shoulders slightly exposed, and her fingers long and graceful!

She wore a Silver-Blue One-Piece Tight Gauze Dress. Her skin was crystal-clear, snowy white like jade, smooth as congealed cream! A rosy hue showed through its whiteness, gleaming with a faint divine luster! Her bust was magnificently ample, while her figure was tall, slender, curvaceous, and full. Her willow waist was so slim it could be grasped in one hand!

Her straight, slender jade-like legs stood in Light Blue Jade Shoes. Her entire body exuded an elegant and captivating fragrance, while her hands rested crossed before her lower abdomen, making her appear exceptionally poised and intellectual!

To call her an immortal beauty with a jade-like face would not be an exaggeration. She was graceful, noble, elegant, and overflowing with immortal aura! Cool and intellectual, gentle and captivating, she seemed like a Nine Heavens Goddess descending into the mortal world!

Such a peerless beauty—perhaps even Luo Shen, the greatest beauty of the Great Thousand World in ancient times, had been no more than this?

Then, she slowly opened her eyes. They were Crystal Glass Beautiful Eyes, bright and captivating like a full moon, ethereal and clear, as though they could see through everything in the world!

What was even more shocking was the aura of her cultivation. She had actually reached the realm of an Immortal Grade Top Tier Heavenly Sovereign, merely one step away from becoming a true Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign!

Yet judging by the condensed and profound quality of her spiritual energy, it was far beyond what an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign could possess, even surpassing some ordinary Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns.

Such a peculiar and mysterious female Heavenly Sovereign was likely one of a kind in the Great Thousand World from ancient times until now.

After opening her eyes, she muttered to herself, "Hm! How long has it been? In order to reunite with my husband, I spent more than ten thousand years traversing countless realms and planes. In the end, I found a Supreme Rare Treasure—the Chaos Heavenly Mechanism Mirror—in the boundless Chaotic Great Domain. I sacrificed more than half my cultivation to deduce, from the endless heavenly secrets, the realm where my husband would descend, and learned the name he would bear after his descent. Then, in order to find my husband, I did not hesitate to destroy the Chaos Heavenly Mechanism Mirror, turning it into the Heavenly Mechanism Marriage Rope to bind my husband and me firmly together.

But when I came to this plane known as the Great Thousand World, the suppression of the plane caused my strength, which was already less than a tenth of its former state, to be ruthlessly suppressed once again!

In order to no longer suffer the suppression of the plane's power, and to wait for my husband's descent a thousand years later, I had no choice but to turn myself into a statue and enter slumber.

Now that I have awakened, could it be that my husband has successfully descended into the world?"

At that thought, the woman looked at the middle finger of her right hand. Sure enough, a ring of red-golden light flickered upon it!

Seeing this, tears welled in her eyes. She cried in overwhelming excitement, "Husband! Tian Xue has finally waited for you to be born! Don't worry! In this life, Tian Xue will definitely protect you!..."

As she spoke, an unprecedented look of determination flashed across her stunningly beautiful face!

Then she looked toward the northern region of the Great Thousand World and softly said, "My husband descended in that direction!..."

With that, she casually waved her hand!

A moment later!

All the Heaven and Earth Spirit Items on this continent were collected into her storage space.

Then, she transformed into a streak of Spiritual Light and disappeared!