Past Life Memories

Gu Yuena's shock and confusion lasted for only the briefest of moments.

Almost the very next instant after the nine-colored radiance merged into a white light that obscured her entire field of vision, the surrounding space suddenly shattered, transforming into countless irregular fragments of varying sizes that began to move in a chaotic, disordered fashion, much like a pot of eight-treasure porridge stirred into a mess.

Between these fragments, an endless power of chaos permeated; it was the most primordial energy of the universe, the origin and final destination of all matter, energy, time, space, information, and order.

All things are created within chaos, grow and develop by absorbing chaotic energy, and eventually collapse back into chaos, repeating in an endless cycle.

Influenced by this power of chaos, the timelines of these spatial fragments were completely disordered, and the space-time each occupied was not the same.

One piece might be from three years ago, while the next was from three thousand years ago.

Gu Yuena saw a scene within one fragment that was actually the primitive era, before the Dragon God had been born and before civilization had been established.

"This is...

A space-time turbulence?"

Gu Yuena knew many secrets, and just as realization dawned upon her, she saw the only nine-colored crystal fragment in the scene that had not yet fully exploded and still retained some divine power, its energy suddenly constricting. Although it became dim and lusterless, reduced to a fragment the size of a fingernail, it successfully persisted.

This crystal fragment tore through space, landing in sequence from near to far around those corpses in the distance. It paused slightly, as if collecting something, and finally, aiming at a specific space-time fragment, it discharged all its remaining energy before turning into dust and dissipating completely.

Seeing this, with a loud boom, Gu Yuena's brain crashed.

The entire dragon stood frozen in mid-air, motionless, her inner turmoil a thousand, ten thousand times more exaggerated than before, unable to calm down for a long time.

She understood; she finally understood what those images were.

They were actually the manifestation of her past life's memories.

In her previous life, she had detonated herself to retaliate against the God Realm following the death of her lover, accidentally triggering a space-time turbulence that threw time and space into complete disarray.

Thus, she had used her remaining time and power to transmit the most important parts of her memory back to tens of thousands of years ago, before she had ever met Xiao Tian.

The Silver Dragon King, filled with monstrous hatred and willing to self-destruct, wanted the Gu Yuena of this life to make up for all her regrets and obtain everything she had once lost and missed.

"This..."

Even for a dignified God King with vast experience, her heart was still churning with stormy waves, and she didn't even realize when her face had become covered in tears.

It was not just about obtaining future memories, but the content those future memories revealed.

She had died.

She had fallen in love.

Her lover had also died.

This...

While shocked, endless doubts arose in her mind.

"Who is Xiao Tian?"

"Who are those corpses, and who is the Xue'er mentioned in the conversation?"

"What exactly happened in the future?"

"What did she and Xiao Tian do?"

"Was it an accident or a conspiracy?"

"What role did the God Realm play in all this?"

"When the Sovereign fell in battle, why were no other powerful Soul Beasts seen fighting?"

After a long while, the images—now they should be called memories—continued to unfold.

This time, Gu Yuena offered no resistance; instead, she immersed herself in them wholeheartedly, impatiently and willingly, not wanting to miss a single detail.

One day, while she was in a deep slumber, she was suddenly jolted awake by an abnormal fluctuation of energy.

Although she was in a different space, she had maintained a minimal level of perception and attention toward the outside world to guard against the schemes of the God Realm.

She immediately discovered that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was performing a sacrifice.

She extended a few strands of spiritual power and saw from afar a heroic young man with an extremely strange Soul Ring configuration—it was the very lover for whom she had gone mad in her memories.

Though much time had passed, his appearance had not changed much, only his aura after becoming a god had become as deep as an abyss.

Gu Yuena gazed deeply at him, as if her eyes could pierce through time, but at that time, she had only been surprised and amused for a moment, seeing that he possessed Twin Martial Souls, both of which were extremely powerful, and assuming his Innate Soul Power must have been high to reach level ninety.

She had been surprised that his first five Soul Rings were configured as white, yellow, yellow, purple, black, and that he had several purple rings on his second Martial Soul.

She did not pay much attention, quickly withdrew her gaze, and fell back into a deep sleep, using the Gold of Life to recover her injuries, divine power, and physical body.

There is no concept of time in dreams, and she did not know how much time had passed before she was awakened again.

This was already the fifth time she had been awakened recently; the previous four times were due to others becoming gods: the Rakshasa God, the Angel God, the Sea God, the Asura God, and just now, the Martial God.

The difference is that the Rakshasa God, Angel God, Sea God, and Asura God all ascended by inheriting existing divine positions, whereas the Martial God was a rare case of someone who created their own divine position from scratch.

The gap between these two is no less than the difference between a top-scoring student getting a perfect grade on a physics exam and Newton establishing classical mechanics or Einstein publishing the theory of relativity.

In particular, the laws represented by the Martial God differed from those who had successfully created their own divine positions in the past; they were, in fact, a supplement and a reformative evolution of the existing cultivation system.

The Sea God ruled the seas to become a god; while it was called a self-created divine position, it was actually just a carving out of the Water God's authority. It involved opportunistic elements and must have received significant support from the God Realm.

It could be considered a counterfeit among self-created divine positions, only nominally qualifying for the title.

The Angel God was slightly better, but the laws of order and justice she represented were already possessed by the God Realm, and she could be classified under the lineage of the God of Goodness.

But the Martial God relied on a brand-new cultivation method to condense his godhead, making his value entirely different from the former two.

The last person to achieve such a feat was her father, the Dragon God.

Even the dignified Silver Dragon King could not remain calm, feeling deeply shocked.

After thinking it over repeatedly, she made a decision that would influence the fate of the rest of her life.

Through observation, Gu Yuena discovered that this Huang Tian was a shameless lecher with countless beauties by his side.

Thus, she expended a portion of her life force to create a clone of exquisite beauty to approach him, hoping to obtain that brand-new cultivation method.

She wanted to see if it could accelerate her recovery and be used to cultivate geniuses among the soul beasts to increase the foundation of her race.

When the golden wind and jade dew meet, they surpass all the joys of the mortal world.

Gu Yuena never expected that the clone, who was meant to be a spy, would actually fall, deeply loving Huang Tian and resisting her recall with extreme intensity.

Consequently, the clone revealed the existence of the main body to him, leading Huang Tian to come knocking to negotiate.

Huang Tian forced her to agree never to recall the clone, using the handover of the newly discovered cultivation system as a condition.

Although the loss of that portion of power pained her, after weighing the pros and cons, her past self ultimately agreed.

As a result, what left her speechless, furious, and feeling deceived was, That so-called new cultivation method first required a human form, and secondly, it required a man and a woman to cultivate separately and unleash a portion of their combined power, with a process that was difficult to even speak of.

Gu Yuena naturally refused to wallow in the mire with him.

Fortunately, there were some accompanying martial techniques, as well as some cultivation methods that, while not the strongest version, were still somewhat useful, providing her with meager gains.

It was just that, for an existence at the God King level, it was barely better than nothing.