351: Chapter 351 Time Difference

Even though they knew the harsh rules stipulated by Bai Suzhen, that the eight women, including the six of them, might be forced to marry Su Chen on the same night in the future and share his affection—yet!

This period of time, lasting several years before Su Chen came of age, where he would travel around to cultivate, was truly, undeniably time spent alone.

"As long as he relies entirely on This Prime Minister during his year in Great Qian, and treats Great Qian as his second home..."

Zhuge Jinyu gripped her feather fan, envisioning the time she would spend alone with Su Chen in the future, and her heart, usually calm as water, surged with turbulent waves.

"When he wakes up in the future, the weight of This Prime Minister in his heart will surely be unmatched."

"I will not only teach him power struggles and formations, but I will also bind his heart firmly to me, Zhuge Jinyu."

Jiang Luoli thought the same.

This sacred time, where she could be alone with Su Chen, eating and living together for an entire year—every word, every minute, every second—would greatly increase the weight she and the others held in Su Chen's heart.

As long as she could, within this year, deeply brand her own mark upon his pure, blank-slate soul, make him accustomed to her company, and make him develop an inseparable dependence on her, then when the wedding day arrived at eighteen, even if eight women entered the door at once, the position of the head of the harem and the ranking order might just be ready for a reassignment.

For a moment, dark undercurrents surged in the group chat.

After the six prodigies, including Jiang Luoli, Su Daji, and Zhuge Jinyu, had exchanged passive-aggressive remarks and veiled mockery on the screen, each harboring their own ulterior motives, they seemed afraid that their little schemes would be seen through by the others.

Or perhaps, because they were in a rush to prepare their sleeping quarters for Su Chen's arrival in six months, they all simultaneously cut off their divine sense and logged off quickly.

Inside the luxurious sleeping quarters, Jiang Luoli leaned back onto the dragon throne.

Looking at the empty hall, a cold, confident smirk slowly curled at the corners of her beautiful lips.

"Junior Su Chen..."

"This Palace has been waiting for you for a very long time in this Golden Throne Hall."

"This time, let's see how you escape from This Palace's grasp."

"Even if you are just a little brat, This Palace is confident in bewitching you completely!"

At this moment, just as the various holy lands at the source of the Spirit River were surging with dark undercurrents due to the six prodigies harboring their own ulterior motives, hundreds of kilometers away, in that hidden cave where the three of them were living in seclusion, the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

After Bai Suzhen successfully lobbied the various holy lands, the two sisters and Su Chen began their final wait in this dark, sunless cave dwelling.

Although logically speaking, in the first year after turning ten, due to Xiao Qing's presence, Su Chen did not necessarily have to leave the cave dwelling, future events are unpredictable.

Whether the method on this fragment would work was currently a complete unknown.

Days passed by, and the air inside the cave grew heavier with each passing day.

In the blink of an eye, there were only three days left until the deadline of Su Chen's tenth birthday, and everyone was waiting for that moment to arrive.

Inside the cave, all the night-luminescent pearls had been taken down; only a small red clay stove remained, emitting a faint red light, illuminating the three people's slightly solemn faces.

Su Chen lay quietly on the bed, seemingly uncomfortable due to the approaching deadline.

As he grew older, his features had opened up, becoming increasingly handsome, and his brows already carried a hint of his past life.

The green light barrier around his body had now thinned to the extreme.

The moist, green light on the surface of his body flickered, like a candle in the wind, liable to extinguish completely at any moment.

Xiao Qing sat on a stone stool nearby, and although she said she wasn't nervous, she was somewhat restless, constantly fidgeting with her fingers.

Actually, logically speaking, as the first Phoenix Girl, Xiao Qing was guarding Su Chen's side at every step, so theoretically, Su Chen should absolutely not be discovered.

Because according to the detailed deductions they had painstakingly made before, the "Eight Divisions Heavenly Phoenix Dragon-Concealing Formation" was exquisite.

As long as the first Phoenix Girl, at the moment the ten-year deadline arrived, unleashed her soul aura without reservation, transforming it into the first shield to cover the heavenly secrets, then for the following year, she would be able to merge perfectly with Su Chen, deceiving that old dragon under the Spirit River.

Theoretically, it was foolproof.

However, heavenly secrets are hard to predict, and fate plays tricks on people; this was the cruelest part of the Spirit River world.

The morning before his tenth birthday, at the hour of the snake, the sun had just risen.

Bai Suzhen, who was always vigilant, rose early after finishing her night of meditation and slowly walked to Su Chen's bedside, wanting to check the condition of his bloodline and, incidentally, clear his meridians.

But the moment her gaze fell upon the neck of the sleeping Su Chen, her beautiful face turned as pale as paper, devoid of any color.

"How could this be, how could it be like this?"

Hearing her sister's exclamation, Xiao Qing, who had been resting with her eyes closed nearby, felt her heart race and rushed over in a few strides.

"Sister, what happened?"

Looking in the direction of Bai Suzhen's trembling finger, she saw little Su Chen lying on the bed, fast asleep.

At this moment, around his body, that layer of green light barrier, which was originally supposed to extinguish completely tomorrow—the day he truly turned ten—hadn't a shred of green light left.

The protective layer that had originally wrapped around his body to cover the heavens and earth had, contrary to everyone's estimated time, prematurely vanished by a day, disappearing without a sound!

Boom.

The sudden situation left both Bai Suzhen and Xiao Qing feeling dizzy.

"Why did it happen early? My divination absolutely cannot be wrong!"

Xiao Qing was so anxious that tears welled up instantly.

Su Chen, who was pretending to sleep on the bed, felt the mountain-like barrier inside his body completely disappear and let out a sigh full of helplessness in his heart.

He understood the reason better than anyone; it wasn't that the Heavenly Dao Compass was wrong, but that he had underestimated the dominance of the direct True Dragon bloodline belonging to the Black Dragon Demon Lord within this body.

Over the past six months, as his strength continued to improve and his premature development progressed, the speed at which the dragon blood in his body awakened far exceeded the estimates of Bai Suzhen and the others.

That incredibly overbearing, all-consuming True Dragon blood energy had long since subtly treated the meager origin essence left by his mother as a great tonic, forcibly counter-consuming and exhausting it completely.

This resulted in a fatal time difference.

His mother's barrier had completely disappeared at the hour of the snake today.

And Xiao Qing, as the first Phoenix Girl, according to the records of the secret technique, if she wanted to perform the secret technique and transform her aura into a shield to perfectly fit Su Chen's physical body, she had to utilize the special celestial phenomenon of the hour of the rat on the day he truly turned ten—which was tomorrow—late at night.