345: Chapter 345 Destiny: Civilization Observer

"Sister." Xiao Qing set down the fruit platter, walked over to Bai Suzhen in a few steps, pulled her aside, and lowered her voice, her tone filled with a stern warning.

"Have you lost your mind? What are you looking at?"

"Xiao Chen is only eight years old!"

"You, a thousands-year-old lecher, what kind of shameful thoughts are you hiding in your heart?"

"Xiao Qing, you... what are you thinking? I'm not looking at anything."

Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, Bai Suzhen's pretty face flushed red, and she retorted with shifty eyes.

"Don't try to hide it from me!" Xiao Qing exposed her mercilessly.

"Your eyes are practically dripping with desire!"

"Sister, get a grip."

"You are this child's master."

"In the human world, love between master and disciple is an absolute taboo."

"Especially since Xiao Chen was raised by your own hands... If this got out, both you and he would face endless scorn!"

"But Xiao Qing, we are of the demon race..." Bai Suzhen tried to argue.

The more she thought about it now, the more she felt that Su Chen was truly... very suitable.

"At worst, after he reaches adulthood, I will give him..."

"That won't do either!" Xiao Qing said decisively.

"Su Chen carries a great karmic burden; his future is uncertain, and whether it brings fortune or disaster is unknown."

"More importantly, you are about to find the opportunity to traverse the river and transform into a dragon."

"At this critical juncture of dragon transformation, maintaining your primordial yin is of the utmost importance."

"If you lose your chastity and become entangled in worldly romantic trials before then, that would be a grave taboo that leads to eternal damnation!"

Xiao Qing's words were like a bucket of cold water, attempting to douse the ripples in Bai Suzhen's heart.

Bai Suzhen turned her head away and softly defended herself.

"I don't have that intention for now; I just... I just feel that Chen'er has grown up."

"Whether you do or not, only heaven and earth know!"

Xiao Qing gritted her teeth. She knew her sister's gentle-on-the-outside, tough-on-the-inside nature well.

Once she fell in love, not even nine oxen could pull her back.

She turned around abruptly, her beautiful eyes fixed intensely on the sleeping Su Chen.

"No, this kid's fate is too bizarre."

"Even if it costs me my lifespan, I must see his future clearly today. I absolutely cannot let him harm you, Sister!"

With that, Xiao Qing ignored Bai Suzhen's attempts to stop her.

She quickly formed seals with her hands and spat a mouthful of blood into the void.

She forcibly activated the top-tier astrology secret technique unique to her, the Vast Sacred Land.

"Net of Heaven and Earth, River of Fate, open for me!"

Accompanied by Xiao Qing's desperate divination, the space within the entire cave began to distort.

Countless heavenly secret runes rotated and intertwined in mid-air.

However, the next second.

"Pfft—!"

Xiao Qing let out a miserable cry, her pretty face instantly turning as pale as paper, and she fell straight backward.

"Xiao Qing."

Bai Suzhen was shocked and hurriedly stepped forward to support her.

Xiao Qing trembled and extended a blood-stained finger, pointing at the image formed by the divination in mid-air, her eyes filled with terror.

Bai Suzhen also knew how to read divination a little.

She looked in the direction of Xiao Qing's finger and was also startled.

The result of the divination was far beyond what both of them had expected.

In that illusory image, Bai Suzhen saw the Spirit River drying up, all laws withering, and the stars falling.

"Civilization Observer..."

Xiao Qing tremblingly read out the fate she had divined for Su Chen.

What did this mean?

It meant that the glorious and prosperous cultivation civilization they were in, where ten thousand immortals bowed, would in the near future, completely head toward collapse and extinction.

The Spirit River would cease to flow.

All sects, all living beings, would turn into dust.

And Su Chen would be the only one able to survive this great catastrophe of the world.

In the image before them, the sisters saw the grown-up Su Chen.

He had white hair, sitting all alone in a silent ruin.

Between heaven and earth, spiritual energy was cut off!

Every so often, a familiar face would disappear from his life.

Lovers, friends, sect disciples...

He would bear the memories and deaths of everyone.

Bearing the weight of the entire world, he sat lonely at the end of the River of Fate, watching this change of civilization with cold eyes.

Immortality, immortality.

Everyone in the world seeks immortality.

But no one knows that the end of immortality is just a pile of ashes.

Living forever, eternally lonely.

"How could it be like this... how could it be like this..."

Xiao Qing leaned weakly in Bai Suzhen's arms, gazing at Su Chen in the image.

Tears flowed uncontrollably.

Bai Suzhen looked at the sleeping Su Chen on the bed, her heart aching.

Although Xiao Qing's divination might not perfectly align with the future, it was mostly accurate.

Could it be that Su Chen was destined to bear everything and end his life in solitude...

From that day on, this heavy secret became a giant stone pressing on the sisters' hearts.

As little Su Chen grew up day by day, Bai Suzhen's heart became increasingly chaotic.

She didn't even have time to consider the matter of Su Chen's fate.

Because she discovered a crisis even more fatal than the destruction of civilization.

The pure Dragon blood within Su Chen was irreversibly awakening as he grew.

It was the direct source of the Mahayana Realm Black Dragon Demon Sovereign, incomparably overbearing.

And the spiritual energy barrier that his mother, Fairy Qingyun, had set up for him before she died, using her last bit of primordial spirit and remaining umbilical cord blood to conceal the heavenly secrets and isolate bloodline sensing, was becoming increasingly thin under the erosion of time and the impact of the Dragon blood.

Its light was growing dimmer and dimmer.

Most importantly, Su Chen was now nearly ten years old.

Without Su Chen's umbilical cord blood as a catalyst, they had no way to re-apply a barrier with the same effect for him.

Bai Suzhen had silently calculated it countless times in her heart.

When Su Chen's tenth birthday arrived, this primordial spirit barrier would completely shatter.

At that time, that bloodline aura belonging to a True Dragon descendant would be completely exposed to the entire Linghe Realm, unable to be concealed in the slightest.

At that moment, the black dragon lurking deep at the bottom of the Spirit River's source, waiting for the great medicine, would surely move at the news.

In order to ascend, it would undoubtedly cross mountains and rivers without hesitation to swallow this fully grown flesh-and-blood medicine in one bite!

With Bai Suzhen's current strength—having not yet found the opportunity to transform into a dragon and still remaining at the peak of the Tribulation Transcendence stage—she had no chance of winning against that Mahayana Realm black dragon that had passed the Nine-fold Heavenly Tribulation.

It would be like a mantis trying to block a chariot.

She could not bear to watch Su Chen die.

Thus, in order to find a way to break the deadlock, the white snake began to frequently leave the cave to travel.

She traveled through countless ancient ruins of the Linghe Realm, trying to find a treasure that could re-conceal the True Dragon aura, or a peerless opportunity that would allow her to immediately traverse the river and transform into a dragon.

The former could continue to hide the aura on Su Chen, while the latter would allow her to rely on her own strength to overturn the table and confront the black dragon.