163: Chapter 163 A Song Amidst the Turbulent Spacetime
The zhou tian star boat tore through the Void Realm like a silent giant whale, plunging headlong into the bizarre and kaleidoscopic spacetime turbulence.
The Void Realm storms that once required careful evasion now merely splashed against the dark golden dragon-scaled hull, creating nothing more than weak ripples.
The ram, crafted from the entire skull of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level Star-Fall Sea beast, was incredibly sturdy. Any minor spacetime fissures blocking the path ahead were brutally shattered by it.
Star-Fall Sea.
A realm of death located on the edge of the Immortal Domain, considered a Forbidden Ground even by Taiyi Golden Immortals.
Looking out through the ship's Formation light screen, one could see a scene of apocalypse.
Huge stellar remains, like the corpses of gods and demons, floated silently in the dark Void Realm. On some remains, one could still see collapsed immortal palaces and temples, their broken edges as smooth as mirrors, as if sliced open by a single sword strike from some terrifying power.
Space here was chaotic.
One moment it was silent Void Realm, and the next, a spatial rift spanning ten thousand miles might appear out of thin air, spewing out destructive storms capable of shredding Golden Immortals.
Inside the ship, there was tranquility.
Li Xuan leaned back on a specially made lounge chair, leisurely sipping a cup of ten-thousand-year immortal tea found in the Dragon Clan treasury, the tea's fragrance overflowing.
Not far from his side, Ao Qingxue carefully held Li Yao in her swaddling clothes.
The little one didn't cry or fuss, opening her big, dark, glistening eyes to curiously watch the broken light and shadows flashing by outside, occasionally reaching out with her tender little hands to try and catch the flowing light.
"Your Highness, it's dangerous outside, you mustn't touch anything."
Ao Qingxue caught her little hand and tucked it into her palm, coaxing her gently.
She had simply decided to lie flat now.
Being a nanny was fine. Being able to hold a future Dominator of Life, smelling the fresh fragrance of life emanating from her, and feeling the Chaos Divine Dragon Bloodline within her own body subtly strengthening—this was a blessing most people couldn't ask for.
In another corner of the cabin, Li Qingyue sat cross-legged, sitting still like a jade sculpture.
She was surrounded by cold moonlight, as if separated from the violent Chaos of the outside world by two different realms.
Suddenly, Li Xuan's hand holding the teacup paused.
Li Qingyue also opened her eyes at the same time, twisted shadows reflected in them.
Ao Qingxue's body stiffened, and a pressure of a Taiyi Golden Immortal spread out, firmly shielding little Li Yao in her arms.
"Boom!"
Without any warning, on the right side of the zhou tian star boat, from a pitch-black spatial rift, a giant claw composed of countless twisted spatial runes and Chaos light and shadow suddenly reached out!
That claw ignored the zhou tian star boat's defensive Formation, reaching straight for the ship's hull. The power contained within it was pure and majestic, clearly having reached the level of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal!
The most feared creature of the Star-Fall Sea—the Spacetime Behemoth.
They had no fixed form and lived by devouring space and time; they were the apex predators of this chaotic land.
"Crack—!"
The armor, smelted from Grand Unity-level dragon scales, made a piercing, twisting sound under that claw, and the ship shook violently.
Ao Qingxue's face turned deathly pale instantly.
She could feel that if this ship hadn't been modified so monstrously by Your Majesty, an ordinary Taiyi-level immortal ship would have definitely been crushed by this single strike!
"Vile beast."
Li Xuan's eyebrows twitched slightly. He put down his teacup, preparing to flick his finger.
A cold, clear voice interrupted him.
"Father, let me."
Li Qingyue had already risen. Her posture was straight, and her moon-white dress did not sway in the slightest amidst the ship's vibrations.
She took a step forward, and her figure appeared in the Void Realm outside the ship, facing the hideous behemoth that was almost half the size of the zhou tian star boat.
The behemoth seemed not to have expected that such a seemingly vulnerable "little snack" would fly out of this metal contraption.
It let out a silent roar; the impact on the level of the Divine Soul was enough to make a Golden Immortal collapse on the spot.
However, Li Qingyue just looked at it quietly.
She raised her hand, and a small, archaic mirror slowly appeared in her palm; it was her innate treasure, the lunar mirror.
There was no terrifying pressure, nor any earth-shattering light.
Li Qingyue simply aimed the mirror surface at the Spacetime Behemoth.
A wisp of silver, almost black, moonlight poured out from the mirror.
Wherever the moonlight reached, time and space seemed to have been pressed with a bizarre pause button.
The Spacetime Behemoth's second claw, reaching for Li Qingyue, became slow, moving inch by inch as if stuck in ten thousand fathoms of mud.
The surrounding stellar fragments that were flashing past also became as if hung on a painting, motionless.
The violent spacetime turbulence turned into a frozen oil painting.
The whole world went quiet in an instant.
Ao Qingxue inside the cabin felt it the most intuitively.
She only felt as if her thoughts were frozen; the time of a single breath was stretched out as if it were a century.
She wanted to circulate her immortal power, but found that the flow of her immortal power was as slow as a snail crawling.
This power... this power was beyond her scope of understanding!
This was no longer simple freezing, but the mastery of the supreme Law of "Time"!
Ao Qingxue stared blankly at the girl's back suspended in the Void Realm, with only one thought in her mind: Am I, this nanny, perhaps a fake and shoddy product?
In the Void Realm, Li Qingyue extended her other hand, a slender index finger.
She pointed gently at the Spacetime Behemoth that was struggling painfully in the slowed time and space.
A faint beam of lunar divine light shot out silently.
The light had not a trace of earthly aura, more like a pitch-black crack, landing precisely on the core of the behemoth, which was constantly changing form.
The behemoth's massive body stiffened.
There was no explosion, no roar.
The body composed of spacetime turbulence and Chaos light and shadow, like a weathered sand sculpture, dissipated and annihilated inch by inch from the inside out, eventually disappearing without a trace, leaving not even a hint of its existence.
Time resumed its flow.
The external stellar fragments resumed their chaotic journey, and the spacetime turbulence roared silently once more.
It was as if the Grand Unity-level Spacetime Behemoth from just a moment ago had never appeared.
Li Qingyue withdrew her finger, her expression as usual, and turned to fly back into the ship, sitting down cross-legged again, as if she had casually swatted a mosquito to death.
Ao Qingxue opened her mouth, but her throat felt blocked, unable to utter a single word.
She looked at the calm Li Qingyue, then at the baby Li Yao in her arms who was giggling at her, and finally glanced at Li Xuan, who was leisurely picking up his teacup again.
She swallowed hard.
Farewell!
This family of monsters, they are not to be trifled with, not to be trifled with.
Li Xuan nodded imperceptibly in his daughter's direction, a look of approval flashing in his eyes.
As expected of the Lunar Holy Body, her comprehension of the Law of Time has already initially stepped over the threshold.
The zhou tian star boat adjusted its direction, preparing to continue accelerating.
Just at this moment, a faint, ethereal song suddenly pierced through the barrier of the Void Realm and drilled into everyone's ears.
It was a woman's singing, ethereal and sorrowful, carrying endless grief and longing, appearing exceptionally clear amidst the chaotic Star-Fall Sea.
"Blue is your collar, long is my heart… Even if I do not go, why do you not send word…"
The ancient melody seemed to drift from the ruins of the previous epoch, knocking at the Soul of every listener.
Inside the cabin, it suddenly became quiet.
Li Xuan put down his teacup, his brows slightly furrowed.
Li Qingyue, who had just closed her eyes, opened them again and looked in the direction from which the singing came.
Even Li Yao in Ao Qingxue's arms stopped her babbling, her pair of pure and flawless big eyes blinking as if she were listening intently to this sad song.