My Dreams Connect to Ancient Times

He asked, alarmed and grief-stricken:

"My Lady... why are you chained here? And who did this to you??"

The exquisitely beautiful woman lowered her gaze. Her expression was a mixture of a smile and tears, and her voice was ethereal and melodious.

"I don’t know."

"They said I am not Nuwa."

A sudden sorrow came over her.

"But I obviously am. I slept for a very, very long time. When I opened my eyes again, the world had completely changed, and then they sealed me down here."

The exquisitely beautiful woman continued to mutter to herself in confusion:

"Why do they say I’m not Nuwa? And you, Lu Xuan... why can’t I see your future?"

Lu Xuan was bewildered. ’Is she Nuwa, or not?’

He didn’t have time to think too much about it. He quickly bowed and answered:

"To answer your question, Lady Nuwa, I am not a Dao Fruit, but I possess the ’characteristics of a Dao Fruit.’ I am a ’variable,’ and therefore have no predetermined destiny."

"I see," the exquisitely beautiful woman said, enlightened. "So you’re like those Dao Fruits, your future is your own to decide. No wonder I can’t see it."

Lu Xuan latched onto her words. He looked up, letting tears stream down his face, and asked in confusion:

"Those... Dao Fruits? My Lady, are you not a Dao Fruit?"

"Me?"

The exquisitely beautiful woman held out a hand and pointed to herself. The movement caused the Three Thousand Divine Chains to tremble, their pull making the entire Celestial Vault of the Great Realm roar. The already broken and silent world began to shake violently once more, threatening to collapse!

She looked at him with eyes as clean and clear as a newborn’s and said:

"I’m not a Dao Fruit. I don’t know how to practice Cultivation... Well, I did cultivate for a while, reaching the Earth Immortal realm. Then they stripped my Cultivation away. I’m very weak."

As she spoke, the exquisitely beautiful woman sighed. The breath she exhaled transformed into the most ferocious astral wind in existence. It swept over Lu Xuan’s head and blew forward, scouring across hundreds of millions of miles and plowing a path of absolute nothingness!!

Lu Xuan was dumbfounded. ’You... you call this weak? You call this having no Cultivation??’

The moment he entered this place, he had sensed and understood that this world was far, far more stable than the Great Heaven and Earth of the Current World... At least, it was more stable than the Great Heaven and Earth was now.

The upper limit of what it could contain also surpassed that of the current Great Heaven and Earth. In other words, if that breath had been released in the outside world, it might have extinguished the entire Cosmos!

Question marks seemed to pop up over Lu Xuan’s head. One bewilderment after another piled up in his mind.

’Is the woman before me really Nuwa?’

’If she is Lady Nuwa, how could she not be a Dao Fruit?’

’If she isn’t a Dao Fruit and truly lacks monstrous Cultivation, how could a single breath possess such incredible power?’

’Most importantly, sight is Omniscience... That is too terrifying. According to my own speculation, not even a Dao Fruit would necessarily possess such a Divine Technique!’

’Otherwise, the first time his Master saw him, he should have known about Grandpa Chu’s existence, and he should have known what his Second and Three Masters had done...’

It was all too bizarre.

He stiffly turned his head back, not daring to look again at the absolute, silent nothingness that stretched for hundreds of millions of miles behind him, and said softly:

"With your abilities, it shouldn’t be difficult to break free from the Three Thousand Divine Chains, shatter this Great Realm, and escape, right?"

"It’s not difficult. It’s very simple," the exquisitely beautiful woman said, blinking. "But I can see that being locked up here is for the best."

She began to speak with a gentle smile:

"They must all be very afraid of me because I am nearly Omniscient. For example, I can see 4,700 ways to destroy that Qing Ping Sword in your mind. I can also see seventeen paths for a mortal to beat a so-called Daluo to death with a wooden stick. And I can even see the secret to making a Dao Fruit truly die..."

"I’m locked up here, sealed here, but I’m also sealing the entire Great Heaven and Earth. Those Immortals and Buddhas can’t return, and the Dao Fruits can’t get in."

"But I still can’t figure it out. Why do they say I’m not Nuwa? I obviously am... Do you believe me?"

The exquisitely beautiful woman looked at Lu Xuan, her eyes filled with anticipation, like a child desperate for approval.

Lu Xuan froze for a moment, then slowly nodded.

"I believe you."

"Yay!" The exquisitely beautiful woman danced with joy. The Three Thousand Divine Chains trembled, and this vast, desolate, and silent world was torn to pieces.

Before Lu Xuan’s terrified eyes, huge swathes of the Celestial Vault fell from the sky. Cracks appeared on the charred black mountains, the corpses of Dying Buddhas toppled over, and the Celestial Venerable nailed to the cliff bled black blood, drop by drop.

He sensed that something wasn’t quite right. ’Is Lady Nuwa’s behavior... a little too... naive??’

At the same time, the exquisitely beautiful woman stopped moving. The torn and shattered world quieted down and began to slowly heal.

An incredibly happy smile bloomed on her face.

"You believe me. Thank you so much... You’re not a bad person, you’re a good person. I like you!"

The "like" she spoke of was a pure, genuine affection, like the joy a child feels upon finding a beloved toy.

With those light words, the heavens and earth hummed. A dawn-like light emerged from the void, and a great blessing descended, landing right on Lu Xuan’s head.

His expression shifted. He felt his body transforming under the great blessing. His physique, which was already close to the Dao, took another step forward, becoming infinitely closer to it and beginning to exhibit some Profound Mysteries.

His soul, enveloped in Primordial Ancestral Qi, also trembled and underwent a massive evolution. His Divine Thought surged, and he became even more attuned to the Dao of all things in the heavens and earth!

Even his Cultivation Realm, which had just entered First Grade True Immortal, began to slowly climb. In the span of a single breath, it had already reached the Grand Grade!!!

And all of this came from the exquisitely beautiful woman’s simple words, ’I like you.’

Lu Xuan was utterly stunned.

The exquisitely beautiful woman slowly lowered herself. The Three Thousand Divine Chains pulled at the bones throughout her body, making a grating, scraping sound.

Heedless of the pain, she forced herself forward until her head was right in front of Lu Xuan.

"My Lady..." Lu Xuan hurriedly bowed.

But the exquisitely beautiful woman just gave a faint smile, her gaze as clear as a child’s who had just spotted a treasured toy.

"Thank you, my child. In all this time, you are the first of my children to come see me. The last visitors were a few Immortals with an ox and a dog. Before that, it was an avatar of Taiyi, who asked for my help so he could remain in this world."

"Of all my children, you are the first to come see me."

"I’m very happy."

Her ethereal and melodious voice drifted into Lu Xuan’s ears. He quickly bowed again, then wiped away his tears and asked softly:

"Lady Nuwa, why do they say you are not Nuwa? And why are you not a Dao Fruit?"

"I don’t know."

The exquisitely beautiful woman suddenly puffed up her cheeks in a pout.

"I remember it clearly. I mended the Celestial Palace and created the Human Race, but they denied my identity. As for being a Dao Fruit... I remember I clearly was one before, but after I took a nap, a very, very long nap, I wasn’t one anymore."

As she spoke, she thumped her head in frustration, creating a tremendous hum, as if one hundred thousand giant bells were struck at once. The cascading sound waves engulfed and tore apart everything in the vicinity.

Only the small patch of ground beneath Lu Xuan’s feet, the charred black mountain, and the cliff where the Celestial Venerable was nailed remained intact.

The woman lowered her head, sulking, and mumbled:

"Why don’t they believe me? Why?"

Then, she looked up at Lu Xuan as if she had just remembered something and said:

"You’re my child, so I should give you a gift. But I don’t have anything to give you, do I?"

Lu Xuan came back to his senses and quickly bowed.

"Lady Nuwa, you don’t have to..."

"Can you call me Mother?" the exquisitely beautiful woman asked expectantly.

Lu Xuan froze. He found the word hard to say. The title ’Mother’ was something so distant, so very far from his life.

But looking into the exquisitely beautiful woman’s eyes, which were filled with anticipation and excitement, Lu Xuan’s body relaxed. ’Lady Nuwa is, indeed, the mother of the entire Human Race.’

He bowed and said softly:

"Mother."

"Yes!" The exquisitely beautiful woman’s smile bloomed like a flower. "I’ll go find a treasure for you!"