"Clang!"
The giant bronze coffin shuddered violently.
On the Five-Colored Altar, the ancient and mysterious engravings lit up one after another, emitting a hazy five-colored radiance that enveloped the giant coffin and the dragon corpse.
"Roar--!"
The silent dragon's roar seemed to echo through the starry sky.
The nine dragon corpses swayed their bodies, pulling the giant bronze coffin, slowly rising into the air, leaving the surface of Mars, and setting off again towards the dark and deep universe, heading towards the unknown Other Shore.
Lin Hao watched this scene quietly, his gaze seemingly piercing through the Bronze Coffin walls, seeing the panicked Ye Fan and the others inside, and also those tiny "things" that had silently attached themselves to a few individuals and entered the coffin with them.
Lin Hao shook his head and did not attempt to eliminate it.
"Everyone has their own destiny and their own trials. I am not his nanny."
Ye Fan's path is destined to be bumpy, and these little "troubles" are merely embellishments.
If you can't even handle these things, how can you bear the karma of " Heavenly Emperor Ye "?
The Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin faster and faster, transforming into a streak of light that quickly disappeared into the dark red Heavenly Screen of Mars, plunging into the boundless starry sky, heading towards the Big Dipper or some other ancient star, its destination unknown.
The storm gradually subsided, though no one knew when.
The surface of Mars returned to its deathly stillness, with only dust slowly falling, covering footprints and burying traces, as if no one had ever been there.
Let's go!
Upon seeing the bronze coffin disappear, Ji Ziyue immediately regained her liveliness, excitedly jumping to Lin Hao's side. She naturally stretched out her hands, hugged one of Lin Hao's arms, and gently shook it.
"Grandpa, all the 'little friends' have left. Where should we go to play next?"
The soft touch on his arm and the faint fragrance emanating from the girl stirred a slight ripple in Lin Hao's heart, which had remained unchanged for millennia.
He turned his head and looked at Ji Ziyue's beautiful face so close to his. Her bright eyes and white teeth, her charming smile, and her eyes were full of dependence and affection, with a hint of cunning that was hard to detect.
Unbeknownst to them, the little girl who used to follow behind them and Ji Ziyi, babbling and toddling, had grown into a graceful and stunning young woman.
Time... truly is the most wondrous force.
"How many times have I told you?" Lin Hao's tone was tinged with helplessness, but not much blame, "Don't call him Great-Grandpa."
" Ziyi and you are separated by countless generations."
I don't care!
Ji Ziyue hugged her tighter, pouted, and said sweetly, "If Grandma Ziyi is your person, then our Ji Family are all your juniors!"
"No matter how many generations apart we are, we're still his junior! I'll call him, I'll call him! Great-grandfather! Great-grandfather! Great-grandfather!"
She called out "Great-Grandpa" in a series of crisp, sweet voices, accompanied by her coquettish and spoiled manner...
"You!"
Lin Hao shook his head, no longer arguing with her about the form of address. He turned his gaze into the distance, as if piercing through the endless starry sky and seeing that ancient star field.
"Forget it, let's go to the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land!"
" Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land?"
A brilliant light suddenly flashed in Ji Ziyue's eyes, a mixture of excitement, curiosity, and a hint of nervousness. "Just as I thought!"
"I knew it! Great-Grandpa, that's where you were going!"
The Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, one of the Life Forbidden Zone in the Big Dipper, is also the most mysterious and unique of the seven Life Forbidden Zone.
Throughout history, countless powerful individuals have ventured into this place, seeking the secret to immortality or the legendary " Nine Marvels Immortal Medicine," but most have never returned, turning into withered bones.
"That's a forbidden zone that even Holy Lords and Emperors dare not easily approach!"
Ji Ziyue's face flushed slightly with excitement, her eyes sparkling. "I heard that time is distorted inside, and once you go in, you can never get out—it's incredibly dangerous!"
"If I go in with my great-grandfather and come out safely, who will dare say I only cause trouble when I get back! I can brag about it to my brother for a hundred years! No, a thousand years!"
She became more and more excited as she spoke, as if she could already see herself returning to the Ji Family and standing proudly in front of Ji Haoyue and the others.
Long live the great-grandfather!
She cheered, momentarily forgetting herself, grabbed Lin Hao 'Lin Hao arm, stood on tiptoe, and quickly kissed him on the cheek.
The warm, soft, and moist texture dissolves upon contact.
"Hmm, no giant hand from the future?"
Lin Hao shook his head, unsure of what the future held.
However, Lin Hao quickly stopped thinking about it.
Instead, he tentatively raised his other hand slowly, with a hint of probing, and gently embraced Ji Ziyue's slender and soft waist.
It feels soft and warm to the touch, barely fitting in the palm of your hand.
He continued to observe, his gaze fixed on the endless, distant void, sensing every subtle fluctuation in the river of time, wary of any possible interference or warning from the future.
However, there was nothing there.
The world was silent, and time and space were stable.
There was still no Shrouding the Heavens force that swept across the river of time, no violent disturbance to the causal threads, and not even the slightest abnormal backlash or warning.
"It seems Ye Fan didn't obtain the Bodhi Seed, and Ji Ziyue..." Lin Hao frowned slightly.
And at this moment.
Ji Ziyue, who was being held by Lin Hao, trembled violently and froze instantly. Her pretty face turned bright red at a visible speed, like a ripe apple, all the way to her ears.
She felt a warm, strong hand around her waist, its heat radiating through her thin purple clothes.
Although she was very close to her "great-grandfather" from childhood to adulthood, and often acted spoiled and unreasonable, she had never had such intimate physical contact with him before.
My heart suddenly raced, pounding like a deer, almost leaping out of my chest.
A mixture of shyness, surprise, and secret joy...
"Grandpa... he's finally come to his senses? He's not just treating me like that little girl who needs to be taken care of anymore?"
She secretly lifted her eyelids and glanced at Lin Hao's profile, which was so close to hers. She saw that his brows were slightly furrowed, and he was gazing into the distance, seemingly deep in thought. He wasn't looking at her, but the hand around her waist didn't loosen its grip.
"Who cares! Anyway... anyway, he didn't push me away!"
Ji Ziyue felt a sweet warmth in her heart. The tension and excitement she had felt earlier because Ye Fan and the others had been sent away, as well as her feelings about the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, were greatly diminished by this sudden close contact.
She even subconsciously moved her body closer to Lin Hao.
Lin Hao naturally sensed the subtle movements of the girl in his arms and her suddenly rising body temperature.
He withdrew his gaze from the void, glanced down at the fluffy little head almost buried in his chest, and at the earlobes that were so red they seemed to be dripping blood. The doubt in his heart was temporarily suppressed, turning into a barely audible sigh.
"I have no idea what the future holds..."
Since there's nothing to do right now, let's just let things take their course.
"They're gone."
Lin Hao spoke calmly, his voice revealing no emotion.
"Um!"
Ji Ziyue responded with a muffled sound, her voice filled with barely suppressed joy.
Lin Hao said no more, and tightened his grip on Ji Ziyue's waist slightly.
The next moment, the two figures vanished from the Five-Colored Altar without a trace, without any spatial fluctuations or divine power ripples, as if they had never been there at all.
And in the Douluo Continent, beneath the Heavenly Screen...