"Cough~ cough!"
"I'm sorry, Jiangzhu, I might not be able to return."
Deep within the ocean, inside a giant white beast, a young girl, weak and barely alive, spoke to her distant lover. She was too tired. Having fought Chi You until the very last moment, she had exhausted her final strength. Moreover, with her severe injuries, she had no energy left to swim to the surface and reunite with the one she loved.
"There will come a day when I will meet you again."
"If that day truly comes, I will be your bride and we will complete the rites of heaven and earth."
"But for now, my beloved, you must forgive my willfulness."
"I'm sorry, I broke my promise."
"I hope you will be strong even without me by your side."
"I, Ji Xuanyuan, love you."
Xuanyuan, whose mind was already unclear, leaned against the stone wall inside the giant beast. After expressing her last regret, Xuanyuan closed her eyes. Her body then transformed into a seal, sealing a trace of her divine consciousness onto the xuanyuan sword. This action precisely awakened Zeus.
"This is!? Alas! Poor, unfortunate child."
Zeus, who emerged from the xuanyuan sword, saw the situation before her. Even without divine consciousness, she knew the cause and effect. Finally, Zeus could only smile bitterly as she glanced at the xuanyuan sword, not intending to take it. Let it wait for the next successor, the well-endowed Himeko-san!
"A wait without result, your love, it makes one sigh."
After emerging from the sea, Zeus saw Shennong, who had been gazing at the sea, waiting for Xuanyuan's return. Watching her wait so devotedly, Zeus shook her head and walked away. As a soul, no one could see her unless she actively revealed herself. So, Shennong hadn't seen anything and was calmly waiting. Jingwei, however, sensed something. It had to be said that she was indeed the most agile bird. Although she didn't see Zeus, she could sense that something was amiss.
"Do I need to leave something behind, something for this familiar land?"
Originally, Zeus was looking for a place with abundant Honkai energy to continue her cultivation. She walked into a village and saw the people working hard to rebuild their homes. She decided she should do something.
Even if there was no Honkai's smile now, a hundred years later, the next Honkai would begin again. Moreover, the monopolistic situation of the Destiny organization made her very unhappy. That such an organization, which treated people as less than human, could exist for hundreds of years, she was speechless. Or perhaps, those people had been brainwashed by religion and dared not resist.
After standing for a while and deciding what to do, Zeus began to wander around the village. In the evening, Zeus gave dreams to several talented girls she had observed during the day, teaching them some martial arts. "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Helping once was fine, but Zeus couldn't help them every time. So, Zeus wanted them to become strong on their own.
Zeus herself didn't expect that the girls she taught would eventually establish sects, leading the entire Kyushu continent to form a major sect that could contend with Destiny.
On this night, the fates of these ordinary girls began to change. In their dreams, Zeus taught them breathing techniques, as well as various palm, leg, staff, and spear techniques. Throughout the night, the girls were forcibly imbued with these memories by Zeus. Although they might be tired afterward, these memories were recorded in their minds and could be recalled for practice at any time.
The next day, early in the morning, they gathered according to Zeus's instructions and recounted their dreams from the previous day. They found that their dreams were all the same, so they began to practice as Zeus had instructed. Many years later, they referred to Zeus in their dreams as the 'Dream Martial God'.
And Zeus also began to go from village to village, looking for suitable and talented girls to teach them. After Zeus had traveled across the entire Kyushu, she chose a place in the far east where Honkai energy was very abundant. She chose to go into seclusion and cultivate there. While Zeus cultivated, the world began to develop and change rapidly.
In another space-time, Gaia sat in the deep pit, still looking dazed, while Little Ha had long since run off, not daring to stay long in any place where Gaia was present. For some unknown reason, her mind suddenly cleared up.
"Zeus isn't dead, she definitely isn't dead."
"If Zeus's divine soul had been destroyed, I should have sensed it. That's right!"
"Didn't I place a (beep beep) on her when she was little?"
Thinking of this, Gaia couldn't help but burst into maniacal laughter. Fearing that Zeus would cause trouble and be torn apart by that demon beast, she had placed a layer of protection on her divine soul. If Zeus's divine soul were destroyed, she would sense it immediately. At the time of Zeus's self-destruction, she had been so frightened that she hadn't noticed that her own protection had not been triggered, which meant...
"Zeus's divine soul is still there, she's still alive."
"You little troublemaker, how dare you play such a 'trick' on me."
"My heart almost stopped because of you."
As Gaia's thoughts became clearer, a terrifying smile appeared on her face. She was now a little angry with a certain 'disobedient troublemaker'. She wanted to 'love' her again (in bed), so that she would never dare to resist her again. The more she thought about it, the angrier Gaia became, and intense fluctuations began to emanate from her body.
The ground, which was already a large pit, deepened by several more meters.
But a very realistic problem lay before her.
"The 'Divine Mark' on Zeus's body has disappeared due to her self-destruction. How am I going to find this 'little troublemaker' now!?"
Thinking of this, Gaia stopped the divine power she had been emitting. The earth became quiet again, but at this moment, Gaia's face showed a troubled expression. For no other reason than that she currently had no other means to find Zeus. But endlessly waiting was not Gaia's style.
"Should I 'devour' Uranus? That way, my strength would double, and it would be easier to find Zeus then."
Ultimately, Gaia abandoned this idea. Not to mention whether that 'thing' was 'tasty' or not, just the conflicting divine attributes would be enough to give Gaia a headache. If her strength didn't increase in the end, and she ended up weakening herself instead, it wouldn't be worth it.
While pondering methods to find Zeus, Gaia left her spot and flew towards the God Realm. After Gaia left, a small figure emerged from the shadows. She patted her meager chest, and a trace of fear flashed in her eyes, but even more so, hatred. This person was Uranus.
"That crazy lunatic, I don't know why she stayed here for almost a month, but that expression of hers, like a lover had died, was absolutely amazing."
"Fortunately, I wasn't discovered by that lunatic. Otherwise, with my current strength, I really couldn't beat her. I don't know why? How did her strength become so much stronger? She's truly a monster."
Uranus said, half-envious and half-jealous. She wouldn't be envious; she, Uranus, would rather die than be envious of Gaia's strength… Actually, she was still very envious.
"Just you wait, Gaia! I'll definitely make you pay."
Clenching her small fists, Uranus snorted disdainfully at the horizon and then vanished. She needed to continue cultivating. This setback from Gaia had hit her hard, and she had to become stronger to exact her revenge.
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