After his body had fully recovered, Ye Chen continued sleeping for more than a hundred years before finally opening his eyes and waking. After asking around, you learned that after breaking through, Ye Chen had encountered a woman in violet. She was highly skilled at bewitching hearts and minds, trying to persuade Ye Chen to murder his father and brother, claiming that if he did so, he would gain endless benefits.
Ye Chen possessed an innate will of Rebirth, so he was naturally no novice cultivator who could be lured in by her. Yet because the other party was too bizarre and had suddenly appeared within his body, Ye Chen remained deeply wary. He did not expose her outright, instead leading her along in an attempt to learn her purpose.
However, Ye Chen's plan had clearly failed. The woman in violet saw through his intentions. After cursing Ye Chen for being foolish, she immediately plunged him into the torment of endless reincarnation. Outwardly, this manifested as his spirit body leaving his physical body and flying into the cosmic domain.
Ye Chen's account left you deeply puzzled as well. Given your current control over Qingming Hetong Heaven, it was difficult to imagine an outsider entering it to deceive Ye Chen without your noticing.
During that time, you had repeatedly examined Ye Chen's body, yet found no traces of his spirit body being controlled by anything else.
But none of this could stump you. Following the steps in your memories, you chose to illuminate Ye Chen's past and personally look into the upper reaches of the River of Time, to learn exactly what Ye Chen had experienced during those years...
The 2167th year. After nine consecutive years, you and Ye Chen finally met each other's gaze, and that wondrous feeling appeared once