My Synthesizer Has Talent

Su Qing completely accepted Xing Zhu’s shameless words.

After all, she was already shamelessly living inside his body.

She remained utterly unfazed.

However, Su Qing could deal with this member of the Star Race right now if he wanted to.

All he had to do was imprison her in the Void Realm.

It was an ability born of Standardization, so it would be useless even if the Star Sea Tree tried to help Xing Zhu.

Without a Rule Ability of its own...

...the Star Sea Tree couldn’t save Xing Zhu.

Because Su Qing had faith in the power of a Rule.

Su Qing stopped paying attention to Xing Zhu.

He wanted to enter secluded Cultivation.

He was still far from mastering the Great Dao Cultivation Method.

He didn’t need to rely on epiphanies for his Cultivation.

He already possessed a detailed Cultivation Technique.

Su Qing just had to follow it and cultivate.

Then, with a flick of his hand, Su Qing placed a leaf in his mouth.

He swallowed it.

As for the taste of the leaf...

...Su Qing no longer cared.

He closed his eyes, sat cross-legged, and began to cultivate.

...

But just as Su Qing closed his eyes to cultivate...

...Xing Zhu, who was beside him, suddenly jumped in fright.

A dense aura belonging to the Black Abyss had appeared.

Su Qing’s eyes snapped open.

He sensed the Black Abyss’s presence.

’So they came after all?’

Without a second thought, Xing Zhu lunged toward Su Qing.

She wanted to hide inside his body again.

After telling so many stories about the Black Abyss, she was terrified.

’Wouldn’t the Black Abyss come after her?’

But before Xing Zhu could reach him...

...she was caught by an unseen force.

Then came a cold voice, "Get lost."

Without a doubt, Xing Zhu was sent flying.

Su Qing narrowed his eyes, scanning his surroundings.

The Black Abyss had arrived.

’Taichu must be here too.’

Su Qing could sense Taichu’s presence.

"Great One, I believe there might be some misunderstanding?" Su Qing asked, his tone impeccably humble despite his confusion.

He truly had no desire to make an enemy of the Black Abyss.

It was obvious that the Black Abyss’s power far surpassed his own.

"It’s back again."

"That White Cloak... it’s back again..." the Black Abyss murmured, staring at the white robe he wore.

She muttered in a low voice.

She sized up the man before her incessantly.

But Su Qing’s eyes were bottomless pits; no matter how she looked, she could not discern a single flicker of emotion.

Because Su Qing wasn’t afraid.

Not while he wore the White Cloak.

Su Qing could clearly sense that this bewitching woman, this Su Hongshang before him, was emotionally unstable.

Her instability was clearly a reaction to his White Cloak.

Su Qing’s expression remained unchanged.

But deep down, he was ready to enter the Void Realm at a moment’s notice.

’Taichu, get out here!’

Su Qing screamed in his heart, but no one could hear his silent plea.

"If you dare disappear from our sight, those four little things in this world—including that Jianmu and that Star—will all vanish. So will your friends and family."

The Black Abyss’s voice was frigid as she instantly appeared at Su Qing’s side.

Instantly, the White Cloak prepared to pull Su Qing into the Void Realm.

Su Qing had no choice but to send a mental command: ’Don’t move.’

If Su Qing truly vanished from this Cosmos...

...he feared the Black Abyss would actually carry out her threat.

The White Cloak could only remain still.

It was as if the Black Abyss knew the Rule governing the White Cloak.

She would not allow Su Qing to disappear.

She was using his friends to threaten him.

With his insufficient strength, he had no choice but to submit.

And Taichu still hadn’t appeared.

’Damn it!’

’Who said the Taichu Daoist Palace was safe?!’

He didn’t feel safe at all.

"So similar!"

"Why do you look so much like him!"

The Black Abyss drew a little closer, and Su Qing caught the faint, delicate fragrance of flowers.

Then, the tip of her finger lifted his chin.

He felt as if he were being toyed with.

’Damn it.’

Su Qing found the situation deeply uncomfortable.

Especially the feeling of being toyed with.

"Qing, why have you become such a stranger?"

"..."

Su Qing remained silent for a long moment.

But when he saw the look in the Black Abyss’s eyes—a look of deep familiarity, the way one looks at a lover—he knew he had to respond.

Su Qing answered carefully, "Is it possible... that we don’t know each other?"

"Even in a past life, we never met. I would remember a beauty such as yourself."

"I’m certain I had no connection to you in my past life."

The atmosphere grew incredibly tense.

The Black Abyss stared into Su Qing’s eyes.

The look of a complete stranger in them did not waver.

It was the gaze of someone who was utterly and unabashedly a stranger.

The Black Abyss was deeply disappointed.

"You do know me. It has to be you."

"Your aura... it’s getting stronger."

"It *is* you."

The Black Abyss grew more and more agitated as she spoke. Finally, she released his chin and once again pressed a kiss to the center of his brow.

This time, Su Qing could feel the presence of a mark being left there.

"If you dare erase it, I will erase every living being you care about."

The Black Abyss threatened him with chilling cruelty.

Su Qing believed she would absolutely do it.

’But he’d never even offended her, had he?’

’He didn’t even know her!!!’

Su Qing said calmly, "Do we really know each other? Are you certain we’ve met before?"

"Perhaps you met the previous owner of this White Cloak. Maybe he just looked like me."

Su Qing said gravely. He didn’t want to get entangled with a woman who seemed like a lunatic.

Especially not one this powerful.

He wanted to avoid making an enemy of her even more.

Or getting too involved with her at all.

Making things clear was his only way out of this predicament.

"No, it is you."

"I am one hundred percent certain now. It’s you."

The Black Abyss was unshakable in her belief. "It’s just... you’re not the you I once knew."

"You have the Power of Time. Did you deliberately reverse time and go back into my past?"

As this thought occurred to the Black Abyss, her eyes grew hazy, and her head slowly drew closer to Su Qing’s.

Her face truly resembled Su Hongshang’s.

Before he knew it...

...the Black Abyss was leaning on his shoulder. Su Qing didn’t resist.

He had just been lost in a memory.

Su Hongshang... she had once leaned on his shoulder just like this.

But alas, Su Hongshang was now a part of his past.

Su Qing snapped out of his daze, but he didn’t dare move.

Because the one leaning on his shoulder...

...was an immensely powerful being.

How could he possibly dare to move?

After several minutes in this position...

...the figure beside him vanished.

Su Qing let out a sigh of relief.

’Why is facing the Black Abyss so damn stressful?’

It left him completely frozen.

’And Taichu didn’t even lift a finger to help.’

’Damn it.’

Su Qing seethed with indignation.

’Taichu definitely saw what happened.’

’He just chose not to act.’

’How infuriating.’

’So much for the Taichu Daoist Palace being safe.’

He had just been ruthlessly threatened by the Black Abyss.

He hadn’t dared to make a single rash move.

It was all because the Black Abyss was simply too powerful.

He didn’t know how she appeared, and he didn’t know how she vanished.

Most importantly...

...a fiery red mark had been imprinted on his brow again.

’Damn it!’

’And he thought it was over.’

’He never expected the Black Abyss to reappear and brand him again.’

’This woman is strange.’

’And she said he could reverse time to enter her past?’

’How ridiculous. If he had that kind of power, he certainly wouldn’t use it to travel to the past.’

’If he could reverse time and space, the past and future would be completely meaningless to him.’

’Why would he target someone like the Black Abyss?’

Even if the Black Abyss was powerful now...

...she didn’t have the ability to reverse time and space.

So, although the Black Abyss was strong...

...Su Qing could at least survive for eight seconds against her without dying.

The Profound Immortal Sword gave him this confidence.

It could rewind time by three seconds.

And it could stop time for five seconds.

With that, how could he possibly die so quickly?

This was the power of Standardization.

Unfortunately...

...Su Qing felt he couldn’t defeat her at all.

It was simply because her power was on a completely different level from his.

...