Time drifted by in a haze. Here, Su Yi had no worries, no schemes or betrayals to contend with.
The countryside was simple, peaceful, and quiet.
Su Yi watched his mother smile, healthy and free of crow's-feet...
He watched his father, whose hair was still black and whose back had yet to give him trouble...
The earthen house of his childhood was shabby, but it was kept neat.
The red-brick floor was uneven, yet there was not a speck of dust or a scrap of litter on it.
His grandparents were still in their prime, quick on their feet and smiling kindly.
There were no cell phones in those days. Only a few families in the village even had a landline.
The children's toys were little more than marbles and mud. Otherwise, they ran into the fields to catch bugs or climb trees.
It was a backward age, but a wonderfully unpretentious one.
There was no flood of information to trouble and batter the mind, none of the anxieties manufactured by the information age.
Su Yi sat at the dinner table, let every thought go, and happily ate the Potato Sauce Rice in his bowl without a care in the world.
Even after all he had been through, he still thought of this as the happiest, safest time of his life!
But as beautiful as this memory was, Su Yi knew he could not lose himself in it for too long.
After a carefree dinner, he could clearly feel that his body had withstood the impact of that terrifying existence.
The mad impulses and thoughts utterly corrupted by Nightmare Power had been absorbed and brought under control, one by one, by his Divine Authority of Unity.
The Void Emperor's power was also gradually merging into Su Yi's mind through