Chu Tian fainted. Wei Jin and Miao Zuo crowded around him.
"Quickly put him inside!"
hk3106's voice appeared, and then another virtual pod emerged from the ground.
The group worked together, lifting Chu Tian and placing him inside.
"Damn... doesn't it feel like we're putting the boss into a coffin?" Xiao Hei muttered.
"You jinx, shut up, okay?" Miao Zuo, right beside him, naturally heard.
He quickly spoke to stop him...
This guy's foul mouth was like it had been blessed.
"What did Chu Tian mean when he said we were saved just now?"
[Beep beep beep... Temperature rise has stopped... External thermal energy has reached charging levels... Is hk3106 authorized to activate the ability absorption system?]
"Activate..." hk3106 directly issued the command.
"Look..." Miao Zuo pointed at the sky.
A person appeared there, cloaked in black, entirely shrouded.
He floated there, looking up at the small world's will that was still struggling.
"You were originally just an artifact spirit. Because it transformed into a small world, you were promoted to the will of a small world.
You were born because of it, and it is also your shackle. If you leave here, you will be like a rootless duckweed, perishing soon after."
"Who are you?"
The faint, formless, ever-shifting will of the small world in the sky stopped struggling and asked back.
"Me?... Heh heh!" The old man smiled and lifted the hood of his cloak.
"You..." Seeing his face, the shadowy figure recoiled ten thousand feet.
...
"Boss?"
"Chu Tian?"
"Xiao Tian?"
"Holy crap!"
In an instant, everyone inside the mecha let out different exclamations.
Through Suixing's vision, they magnified that figure.
The group stared in disbelief for a long time, then looked down at Chu Tian lying in the virtual pod, submerged in an unknown liquid.
Their faces showed disbelief.
"Could it be twin brothers?" Xiao Hei murmured.
"Nonsense... Judging by his voice, he's at least a hundred years old!" Miao Zuo directly refuted.
"Then who do you think he is?" Xiao Hei's eyes widened.
"He's... uh... Chu Tian's grandfather? Who ate a youth-preserving fruit?" Miao Zuo blurted out after a long pause.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Hei snorted, white mist puffing from his nostrils.
"You're talking nonsense, I met Chu Batian nineteen thousand years ago..." Xiao Hei said to Miao Zuo impatiently.
"Who is Chu Batian?" Wei Jin interjected.
"His grandfather, my savior..." Xiao Hei didn't seem to care and directly pointed at Chu Tian.
Wei Jin was stunned...
"Nineteen thousand years ago? You must be joking. How old is Chu Tian? He looks only about twenty..." Miao Zuo directly pointed out the problem.
"Uh..." This time, it was Xiao Hei's turn to be stunned.
Right, the timeline didn't match...
Xiao Hei looked at Chu Tian, then at the person outside who looked exactly like Chu Tian.
For a moment... he was bewildered!
...
"What... do you want to do?" the will asked, retreating ten thousand feet.
"Heh heh... You don't need to panic. You're still useful... You won't die."
The person had a kindly smile, which made the other party even more frightened.
Who was this person?
Naturally, it was Chu Tian's clone in the Heavenly Dao world.
As for who was controlling the clone, it must be that old man, Dao Tian.
Besides him, who else could make that giant star instantly stop moving with a wave of his hand?
"State your demands..." The will of the small world was extremely wary.
"Heh heh... Just like your master, your abilities aren't great, but you have a lot of schemes.
Then I won't waste time. As far as I know, there are two things on the ninth floor...
I don't want the living one. Hand over the dead one, and this matter is over. Otherwise... heh heh!"
Dao Tian looked up at the sky beyond, at the halted giant fireball.
"..." The other party did not speak.
No one could see its expression, so they couldn't discern its thoughts.
"Disagree... Heh heh, that's fine too!"
Dao Tian didn't get angry but said something inexplicable.
Then he took a step forward.
He disappeared from his original spot...
The next moment, he appeared inside the Suixing mecha.
"Holy crap..."
He appeared right beside Xiao Hei.
Startled, he almost jumped up.
"Oh? Mo Qilin? Not bad, not bad!"
Dao Tian glanced at Xiao Hei curiously and nodded.
Xiao Hei's skin crawled under his gaze.
That glance made him feel as if he had been stripped bare.
"You little brat, get up!" Dao Tian lowered his head and shouted at Chu Tian lying in the virtual pod.
Chu Tian, lying inside, jolted and suddenly opened his eyes, meeting Dao Tian's gaze.
He opened his mouth in the water, unsure what to say.
Immediately, the water level in the virtual pod began to drop until it disappeared.
The hatch opened, and Chu Tian slowly sat up: "Old man, you finally decided to show up. Why didn't you wait until I died to come and collect my corpse?"
Chu Tian's words were filled with endless resentment.
"Alright, stop dawdling. Can you still move? If you can, come out with me, and we'll rip them off properly." Dao Tian grabbed him by the collar and pulled him out of the virtual pod.
"Gently, gently, all my bones are broken!" Chu Tian wailed.
This made the others frown.
[Beep... Warning... Patient's current vital signs are normal, injuries have... comminuted fractures in all 206 bones, localized bone structures are completely ruptured... leaving the treatment pod is not recommended... Beep beep beep...]
Hearing Suixing's voice, everyone was filled with questions.
What did "vital signs are normal" mean?
All 206 bones had comminuted fractures, and they called this normal?
At this moment, hk3106 just exited the pod and was also stunned.
He knew that humans had exactly 206 bones in their bodies, which meant...
Not a single bone in Chu Tian's body was intact.
However... this guy was miraculously still standing.
Although his expression was contorted, showing extreme pain.
Chu Tian himself was also stunned. Damn it... Am I crippled?
"Heh heh... Good, good... Just right... Let's go..." Dao Tian, still holding Chu Tian by the scruff of his neck, took a step forward.
*Swish...* He disappeared from his spot.
He reappeared in the air, facing the will directly, less than twenty meters away.
The other party writhed in the air, about to retreat again.
"Why are you running? In this small world, I can't do anything to you, unless I destroy it..."
Dao Tian, holding Chu Tian in one hand, produced a wine gourd in the other, and took a swig.
Upon hearing this, the retreating figure stopped.
It secretly thought: Right, he is the ruler of this world.
Only by destroying the small world could he destroy it.
And here, it was the absolute ruler.
No one, not even a supreme being, could do anything to it here.
Unless... they shattered this small world with a single blow.
Understanding this, it twisted and gradually transformed into a human form.
Gradually, it solidified completely, and a dashing young man in white appeared before everyone's eyes.
"Heh heh, truly narcissistic. Even the artifact spirit's appearance is fabricated to look like itself!"
He held a folding fan and, *snap*, opened it.
"Your request... I cannot grant it!" the man said.
"Oh..." Dao Tian smiled as usual.
Then he turned to Chu Tian and asked, "Do you know what governs the will of a small world?"
"I don't know..." Chu Tian gritted out the three words.
It wasn't that he didn't want to answer, but the pain all over his body was severe.
With such pain, anyone else might have collapsed.
"It's equivalent to a potent divine soul power... Can your Soul Gate still open?" Dao Tian asked indifferently.
"Yes..."
"Come, open the Soul Gate."
Chu Tian endured the intense pain, mobilized his divine soul power, and sent his Soul Gate outward, gradually unfolding.
The vines on the Soul Gate slowly moved.
Like ancient trees in a forest, the vines entwined.
At a glance, it looked somewhat eerie and terrifying.
"What do you want to do?" The man in white closed his folding fan and asked.
"Nothing much, some dogs forget their beating and don't learn."
As Dao Tian spoke, he extended his right hand, and a giant palm appeared out of nowhere, reaching for the man.
Seeing Dao Tian make a move, the man narrowed his eyes, and his body instantly vanished, diffusing like gas and merging into space.
He said faintly, "In this small world, I am god. You can't do anything to me, as long as..."
Before he could finish speaking, Dao Tian laughed: "Haha, I can't kill you, but capturing you is easy!"
As he spoke, the giant hand suddenly closed, transforming into a prison of heaven and earth, locking down that world.
"Ah... you..." The man clearly hadn't expected Dao Tian to actually catch him.
"What good will it do you to catch me? I have no pain, no attachments... You want to torture me? Wishful thinking..." Da Feng Novel Network
Dao Tian's large hand was shaking violently, clearly the man was struggling inside.
"I don't want to do anything to you. I heard that... the will of a small world, all have the desire to become human, but the only way is through soul possession.
However... it is extremely demanding, requiring someone to genuinely open their soul world and voluntarily allow it to enter...
Today, I will grant you an opportunity... whether you succeed depends on you!"
As he spoke, the hand suddenly contracted.
"What?" The will's voice conveyed an unidentifiable emotion.
A compressed, solidified sphere appeared in his hand.
"Go..." Dao Tian softly uttered, waving his hand.
The sphere was directly tossed into Chu Tian's Soul Gate.