Yangzhou City, Nine Provinces Cauldron

The Nine Provinces Continent.

Above Dayan Mountain, Teng Qingshan, who was nearly five hundred years old, stood in the void.

"Five hundred years have passed; it is time to leave."

As he spoke, Teng Qingshan reached out his right hand, and a black hole suddenly tore open in the space before him. Dressed in white, Teng Qingshan stepped into it with a smile.

"Earth, here I come!"

Enveloped by the Primordial Chaos Force, Teng Qingshan, despite wearing only simple white robes, felt no fear of the spatial tearing.

"I couldn't uncover the secret of the Nine Provinces Cauldron on the Nine Provinces Continent. Returning to Earth this time, I should finally be able to solve the mystery of the Nine Provinces Cauldron."

Teng Qingshan thought to himself while wrapped in the gray, hazy Primordial Chaos Force.

After becoming the supreme powerhouse on the Nine Provinces Continent, he had long been invincible.

His days were spent accompanying his family, writing martial arts manuals, teaching disciples, and delving into Xingyi Fist.

The rest of his time was dedicated to studying the incredibly mysterious Nine Provinces Cauldron.

Feeling the pitch-black Little Cauldron in his embrace, Teng Qingshan was filled with endless anticipation for his imminent arrival on Earth.

Under the active repulsion of the Nine Provinces Continent.

The gray, silhouette-like figure of Teng Qingshan quickly submerged completely into the black hole.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~

"Total darkness. I wonder how much longer it will take to arrive."

Teng Qingshan's powerful soul sensed his surroundings, but apart from pure darkness and the extremely fierce spatial tearing, he could discover nothing else.

Suddenly!

A mysterious blood-red light appeared in the dark void.

This mysterious blood-red light engulfed him at a speed Teng Qingshan could not comprehend.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle~

The Primordial Chaos Force that originally protected Teng Qingshan's body had no power to resist the invasion of this blood-red light.

In an instant.

The protective barrier formed by the Primordial Chaos Force on the surface of Teng Qingshan's body was completely destroyed.

"Oh no!"

Feeling how overbearing the sudden blood-red light was, a sense of foreboding rose in Teng Qingshan's heart.

Immediately, his entire being was completely annihilated by the blood-red light.

Just as Teng Qingshan's consciousness was about to dissipate entirely.

This mysterious blood-red light then submerged completely into the Nine Provinces Cauldron. In an instant, the transformed Little Cauldron emitted a faint glow, drawing Teng Qingshan's consciousness into itself.

Following that, the Little Cauldron was swept away by an unknown force deep into the dark void.

He did not know how much time had passed.

When Teng Qingshan's consciousness finally regained clarity.

Everything before his eyes was beyond his expectations.

"Qingshan, you're finally awake!"

Jiangnan City, Yangzhou.

Inside a hospital room in Yi'an District.

A joyful voice rang out.

"Mm..."

Teng Qingshan opened his eyes and looked toward the source of the voice.

It was a gentle and kind-looking old man.

Suddenly.

A wave of memories surged forth.

At the same time, the illusory Nine Provinces Cauldron deep within Teng Qingshan's consciousness rotated slightly, and images of future events appeared in his mind.

"Earth, Virus, Monster, Great Nirvana, Cosmic Starry Sky, Origin Laws..."

Benefiting from his powerful martial arts realm before shattering the void, Teng Qingshan's soul was exceptionally strong.

He absorbed these memories and images in just a brief moment.

To the outside world, Teng Qingshan had only been dazed for a moment, but he had already grasped where he was.

"I am Teng Qingshan, and I am also Teng Qingshan!"

At this moment, Teng Qingshan understood everything. "It is just that this is now the Teng Qingshan of the Swallowed Star world."

Although there was an unexpected turn of events while he crossed through the black hole, he had indeed arrived on Earth.

However, this "Earth" was the Earth of a different spacetime.

Having been an assassin in his first life, Teng Qingshan was naturally exposed to science and was aware of the "parallel spacetime" theory.

Combined with the images and fragmented information transmitted by the Little Cauldron within his consciousness.

Teng Qingshan came to understand his current situation.

His powerful willpower allowed Teng Qingshan to regain his composure in an instant, even though this world seemed to have completely exceeded his expectations.

"Qingshan!"

The elderly man named Teng Yongyuan called out once more, his slightly cloudy eyes filled with deep concern.

"Grandpa, don't worry, I'm fine now." Teng Qingshan, who was now an eighteen-year-old youth, smiled.

After absorbing the memories of the original body, who was also named "Teng Qingshan," he quickly adapted to his current identity.

The original body shared his name, but had been hospitalized due to a mysterious and painful illness.

The original body had a rather tragic life; his parents died in a car accident when he was three, and he had been raised by his grandfather, Teng Yongyuan, ever since.

As for the mysterious headache, no matter how many hospitals he visited or how many folk remedies he tried, nothing worked.

This latest bout of pain had been particularly severe.

In the end, the original body couldn't hold on, and his consciousness dissipated completely. In the end, it benefited Teng Qingshan; protected by the Nine Provinces Cauldron, he successfully traversed the endless spacetime, arrived here, and became his parallel-spacetime self.

"As long as you're fine. This mysterious headache of yours is truly heart-wrenching," the sixty-something Teng Yongyuan said helplessly.

"I'm fine now, Grandpa. Let's go home."

Having initially familiarized himself with the body, Teng Qingshan rose from the hospital bed, completed the discharge procedures with his grandfather from this life, and returned home.

It was an ordinary three-bedroom apartment in a residential complex.

"Qingshan, you've just recovered, so get some good rest. I'll call you when dinner is ready."

After saying this, the still-sturdy Teng Yongyuan went to the kitchen and began to busy himself.

As a retired teacher, Teng Yongyuan exercised regularly and was in excellent health.

Looking at the white-haired, kind-faced Teng Yongyuan, Teng Qingshan was reminded of his equally kind and gentle grandfather, Teng Yunlong, back on the Nine Provinces Continent.

However, over the passage of time.

Whether it was his grandfather, his parents, or his wife, they had all passed away one by one in the river of time.

Only his relatives who had reached the Void Realm could accompany him for a while longer.

But even the lifespan of the Void Realm was limited.

When that familiar generation passed away, Teng Qingshan eventually chose to shatter the void in his loneliness, heading toward what he believed to be "Earth."

But the mysterious blood-colored light he encountered on the way had brought Teng Qingshan to the Earth of the Swallowed Star world.

Returning to his bedroom, Teng Qingshan lay on the bed and began to recall the thrilling journey, while also carefully studying the images transmitted by the now-ethereal Nine Provinces Cauldron in his consciousness.

From the moment he woke up until now, Teng Qingshan clearly felt that the Nine Provinces Cauldron had undergone many miraculous changes.

The future images that occasionally emerged from the Little Cauldron left Teng Qingshan secretly shocked.

For instance, before he was discharged, the Little Cauldron had foretold a sequence of events.

A few minutes later, Teng Qingshan was stunned to discover that the scene was exactly the same as what had happened in reality!

At that moment.

Teng Qingshan confirmed that the Little Cauldron indeed possessed the ability to foresee a portion of the future, and he no longer doubted the many images it transmitted.

After a long while.

Teng Qingshan had roughly figured out that this body was his parallel-spacetime self, and he felt a deep sense of respect for the grandfather who had raised him with such hardship.

"This is indeed Earth, and it is a world called 'Swallowed Star.' Before long, the RR Virus will appear, humans and monsters will mutate, the Great Nirvana Era will begin, catastrophe will descend, humanity will rise up to resist, the Base City era will arrive, the era of human cultivation will begin, and then there is the vast Cosmic Starry Sky, where there are tyrannical existences capable of destroying stars with their physical bodies, and great powerhouses capable of resurrecting the deceased from the river of time..."

As he continuously absorbed the images transmitted by the Nine Provinces Cauldron, the light in Teng Qingshan's eyes grew brighter and brighter!

"According to the information from the Little Cauldron, if one cultivates to a certain realm in this world, it is possible to resurrect the dead!" At this moment, Teng Qingshan thought of Little Cat, who had died in his arms, and Zhuge Qing.

Although his later life with Li Jun was very happy and fulfilling, and Li Jun was also wonderful.

But she was not Little Cat, who had accompanied him through the countless dark times of his assassin days, nor was she Zhuge Qing, the maiden as pure as snow who seemed untouched by the world.

These two were eternal regrets in Teng Qingshan's heart.

Regrets buried for hundreds of years!

But in this world.

There was actually a way to resurrect them!

At this moment.

An incomparably intense fighting spirit ignited in Teng Qingshan's heart!

"In my previous life, constrained by the limits of heaven and earth, I could not resurrect my beloved ones, but in this life, I will personally resurrect everyone in my memories!"

Teng Qingshan roared in his heart.

"Moreover, in this world, the cultivation ceiling is clearly much higher. I wonder how far I can go here?"