A Chance to Receive Guidance from a Deity

Six years later, on Time-Space Island No. 954.

Zhou Zheng lay on a cloud with his hands behind his head, leisurely admiring the beautiful scenery around him.

Although he was in a place like the Temporal Temple, Zhou Zheng no longer felt the tension and restlessness he once had. He looked upon everything here calmly, treating it as a place of cultivation.

In fact, Zhou Zheng had only been in this world for twenty-two years since transmigrating here. Of the sixteen years he had spent in the Great Xia World, he had lived at home for only twelve.

He had spent the other four wandering outside.

And now, Zhou Zheng had already stayed in the Temporal Temple for six years.

In terms of time alone, Time-Space Island accounted for nearly a third of Zhou Zheng's life. As for the growth in his strength, there was no need to mention it. His time on Time-Space Island had been the period in which his strength had improved the most.

Nurturing the power within his body and comprehending the mysteries of the rules—Zhou Zheng's gains had been enormous.

Suddenly, Zhou Zheng felt a burning sensation from his left wrist. After sensing it slightly, he was immediately surprised.

At that moment, a streak of flowing light suddenly flew toward him from afar.

Zhou Zheng rose in surprise. Soon, the flowing light arrived before him, revealing Feng Zhuhong's figure within.

"I sensed someone nearby. I didn't expect it to be you!" Feng Zhuhong said, looking at Zhou Zheng in surprise.

"I didn't expect it either!" Zhou Zheng looked at Feng Zhuhong and asked, "When did you break through?"

"I just broke through during my last mission!"

Feng Zhuhong's face was full of emotion. During the six years Zhou Zheng had spent cultivating steadily, she had completed another five missions.

Among those five missions, one had even been a Danger-level Mission.

It was during that Danger-level Mission, with its fifty percent mortality rate, that she had successfully advanced to the Transcendental level.

"Congratulations!"

Zhou Zheng congratulated her. Feng Zhuhong's breakthrough to the Transcendental level meant that she would most likely still be his teammate in the next mission.

While she had still been mortal, Feng Zhuhong needed to undertake a mission once every year. After breaking through to the Transcendental level, the interval between her missions became three years.

And Zhou Zheng's next mission was exactly three years away.

Feng Zhuhong chatted briefly with Zhou Zheng. As if recalling something, she suddenly asked, "Lightning Swordsman, have you seen Jit in recent years?"

"Since the last meeting, you're the first teammate I've seen!" Zhou Zheng said.

"Oh?"

Feng Zhuhong was slightly surprised, but she quickly understood. Zhou Zheng only had one mission every nine years, a vastly different schedule from theirs. He had probably devoted himself entirely to cultivation these past years.

"What happened to Jit?" Zhou Zheng asked. After all, they were teammates.

"Something may have happened to him!"

Feng Zhuhong said, "After each of the previous missions, I would exchange mission experiences with him. But I haven't seen him at all since two years ago!"

"I see!"

Zhou Zheng nodded slightly. In that case, there was indeed a high possibility that something had happened to Jit.

He hadn't expected that God Realm lifeform, who spoke so little and seemed rather mysterious, to die just like that.

But it was not surprising. This was the Temporal Temple; anyone could suddenly die during a mission.

"What about Herk?" Zhou Zheng asked again.

"I don't know!"

Feng Zhuhong shook her head directly.

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Although they had reunited after a long time apart, neither of them said much. Feng Zhuhong soon left.

Zhou Zheng had also lost the mood to continue enjoying the scenery outside. He focused his consciousness on the Temporal Temple mark on his left wrist and directly chose to return to his Private Space.

Whoosh!

As a wave of Space-Time fluctuations descended, Zhou Zheng's figure instantly vanished from Time-Space Island No. 954.

And at the instant Zhou Zheng returned to his Private Space, a voice suddenly rang out.

"Zhou Zheng, Deity Zhu Jiuling has accepted your request. In three days, you may visit his Private Space and receive his guidance!"

It was 3327, a split consciousness of the Temporal Temple Artifact Spirit.

Upon hearing its words, Zhou Zheng's spirits immediately lifted slightly.

He finally agreed!

Zhou Zheng secretly rejoiced.

In the Temporal Temple, weak Cyclic Reincarnators had opportunities to receive guidance from powerful Cyclic Reincarnators. Such opportunities for guidance were sold among the special items in the marketplace.

As long as one spent enough Time-Space Points, even a Deity could be invited.

Of course, inviting a Deity required an astronomical amount of Time-Space Points. Zhou Zheng did not even have enough for a fraction of the cost.

Fortunately, after becoming a Bronze Token Divine Envoy, he had gained one opportunity to invite a Deity for personal guidance, as well as ten opportunities to attend a Deity's public lectures.

A public lecture was a broad explanation by a Deity regarding certain mysteries of the rules. Zhou Zheng had attended two of them.

Although there were simply too many people attending for the Deity to guide everyone individually, Zhou Zheng had still benefited greatly.

The reason Zhou Zheng had been able to raise several mysteries to the third level in just three years was not only due to his own talent. Those two lecture experiences had also been indispensable.

But a public lecture was ultimately just a public lecture.

This time, he had a chance for personal guidance.

In fact, Zhou Zheng had submitted a request to the Temporal Temple several years ago, hoping to invite the Deity named Zhu Jiuling to guide him personally. But a Deity's status within the Temporal Temple was far higher than Zhou Zheng's current status.

If he wanted to receive the other's guidance, he first had to obtain that Deity's consent.

And he had waited until now. Fortunately, the other party had agreed in the end.

"As a Bronze Token Divine Envoy, I only have this one free opportunity. If I want a Deity's guidance again afterward, unless one takes a liking to me and accepts me as a disciple, I'll have to pay for it!"

As Zhou Zheng pondered, he understood that he had to seize this rare opportunity.

An ordinary Deity might be insignificant in the vast universe, but compared to the current Zhou Zheng, one was a true colossal existence, someone he could only look up to.

In fact, this would also be Zhou Zheng's first close encounter with a Deity. During the previous two public lectures, he had merely listened from far away, and even the Deity's silhouette had been blurry.

There was even less need to mention the Great Xia World. The Great Xia World was part of the Material Realm.

And Deities could not remain in the Material Realm indefinitely.

Foreign Deities would be rejected by the Material Realm and could not enter it at all. Even Deities who had broken through locally would be expelled from the Material Realm after ten thousand years.

As a result, although the Great Xia World had produced quite a few Deities, not a single Deity remained there.

Naturally, Zhou Zheng had never been able to meet such an existence.

Zhou Zheng did not dwell on it. He soon began considering what questions he should ask when he met the Deity, all while waiting.

And amid Zhou Zheng's waiting, three days passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Space-Time fluctuations descended, and Zhou Zheng's figure instantly vanished from his Private Space.

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