11: Chapter 11 White Water Transforms into Golden Lotus, the Empress's Dao Heart Collapses!

Ye Qingyao stood in place, every inch of her body trembling.

Those Phoenix eyes, which had once looked down upon eternity, were now filled with pure horror.

In her vision, beneath that man's feet, golden lotuses were born from the void.

Flowers bloomed.

Flowers withered.

Every blooming imprinted a complete trajectory of a Great Dao. Every withering evolved the ultimate mysteries of life and death.

This was the great dao golden lotus.

A great dao golden lotus that had already condensed into the embryonic form of a real world.

In her past life, she had traveled across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and seen countless Prodigies. Those peerless figures called "Dao Seeds" could only condense an illusory shadow of a Dao lotus in their Sea of Consciousness even after exhausting their entire lives.

Yet, for the man before her, the golden lotuses beneath his feet had already materialized, each one carrying the weight of a Small World.

Her gaze shifted to his surroundings.

Crystal-clear chains swam around him, divine light flowing through them, as docile as tamed Spirit Beasts.

Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth.

Wind, Thunder, Light, Darkness.

Time, Space.

Those were the Law chains of time and space.

In her past life, after stepping into the Emperor Realm, she had spent three thousand years deep within the Forbidden Zone of Time and Space just to comprehend these two supreme Laws.

Ultimately, she paid the price of half her Origin just to barely touch the surface of the Laws of time and space, enabling her to perform a few crude time-space Divine Abilities.

And now, these two Law chains that she had dreamed of in her past life were simply wound around him, affectionately rubbing against his robes.

The three thousand Daos were all like prisoners at his feet.

Her breathing hitched.

What made her Divine Soul suffocate even more was the Chaos slowly unfolding behind the man.

That was no illusion.

Swearing by her remaining Emperor Realm Divine Soul, that was a truly existing Chaos Sea.

Stars were nurtured within it, and worlds returned to nothingness. Countless Laws rose and fell in the Chaos, evolving scenes of the creation of heaven and earth.

She could even see an azure lotus shadow faintly appearing deep within the Chaos, emitting an aura even more ancient than her Emperor body from her past life.

He had opened up a Chaos Universe within his body.

And carried it with him.

"Pfft."

An invisible, massive force shattered her Divine Soul's defense.

Her Emperor Realm Dao Heart, which had remained indestructible through ten thousand tribulations in her past life, now let out an overburdened wail. Cracks spread frantically across her Dao Heart, each one representing the collapse of one of her beliefs.

The trace of Imperial Might she had been prepared to release was washed away completely by the vast Dao Rhyme before it could even take shape.

She stood on the orbital path of a star, vainly attempting to block its movement.

Laughable.

Pitiful.

What kind of existence was this?

An Immortal? She had seen them. They were merely stronger beings.

An Immortal King?

An Immortal Emperor?

Those taboo names that only existed in the oldest myths now exploded uncontrollably in her mind. In her past life, she had seen half a page of a tattered beast-skin scroll in an ancient ruin.

It recorded that at the beginning of the era, there were several existences who surpassed the Immortal Emperor. They controlled time and space, opened up Chaos, and could create ten thousand worlds with a single thought.

Could he be one of those ancient monsters who had lived from the beginning of the era until now?

Just as Ye Qingyao's Dao Heart was on the verge of complete collapse, the man moved.

Su Changge picked up the wooden cup on the stone table.

The System's alarm just now had frightened him quite a bit, and now his throat was parched. Seeing that this Empress was intimidated, he could finally drink some water in peace.

He drank the plain boiled water in the cup in one gulp.

*Gulp.*

The sound of swallowing echoed on the deathly silent peak.

After finishing, he smacked his lips in satisfaction and let out a soft sigh. Comfortable.

This scene became the final straw that broke Ye Qingyao.

Her Divine Thought instantly pierced into that ordinary wooden cup, into the remaining half-cup of clear water.

How was that ordinary water in the cup?

It was clearly a golden lotus shadow formed by a complete Law of life. Every drop of water was a condensed world of life, containing a surging vitality that could make withered bones grow flesh and revive a dead world.

Nine Heavens Great Dao Nectar.

A supreme divine item rumored to be born alongside the Chaos Azure Lotus, a single drop of which could create an Immortal.

In her past life, she had been heavily injured in an Emperor war, her Dao foundation shattered and her Origin exhausted. To repair her injuries, she did not hesitate to set aside her dignity as an Empress and personally went to the Absolute Beginning Holy Land above the Nine Heavens, paying the price of three Emperor Weapons just to obtain one drop of Great Dao Nectar.

Just one drop had restored thirty percent of her injuries.

And now, he was actually drinking this kind of thing like it was plain boiled water.

He even smacked his lips.

And even felt comfortable.

Ye Qingyao's heart bled. All the understanding she had built as an Empress in her past life was completely crushed at this moment, turning into dust.

She once thought she had reached the end of the path of cultivation.

She once thought she had seen through the essence of this world.

Now she realized that in her past life, she was nothing more than a frog at the bottom of a well.

Su Changge drank the water and felt much better.

He looked up and saw the young girl in white staring at the empty cup in his hand with an extremely strange gaze.

That look was a mixture of horror, fanaticism, and heartache.

Why is she feeling heartache while staring at my cup?

Su Changge muttered to himself, but his face remained indifferent.

He frowned. This girl had been in a daze since she came up the mountain, not saying a word and looking at him with a strange expression. He finally lost his patience.

"Is something the matter?"

Two words, light and emotionless.

Yet they caused Ye Qingyao's already cracked Dao Heart to cave in and shatter completely.