Beyond the Timescape

By the time Xu Qing got back, everything in the chamber was back to normal. The gentle aura was gone, and a very strange scene met his eyes.

Goddess Starryeyes was sitting there, eyes closed, motionless. Starfire stood behind hēr, combing hēr hair with a wooden comb.

A strange expression could be seen on Xu Qing’s face as he studied the scene. However, he quickly realized that the goddess’ ringsource was no longer overdrawn and locked down. It was thrumming vibrantly. A lot had already built up.

He couldn’t help but look at Starfire. Shē chuckled.

“Young Lord, in the future, don’t treat lil’ sis Starryeyes so crudely. Shē’s agreed to cooperate going forward. Isn’t that right, lil’ sis Starryeyes?” Starfire leaned down and exhaled softly into Starryeyes’ ear.

Starryeyes shivered, then opened hēr eyes and looked at Xu Qing. Somehow, the hatred in those eyes had significantly diminished. No longer did shē think of Xu Qing as being a nightmare. He had been extracting hēr ringsource to use in cultivation. That was all. The standing between the two of them had long since been established.

The real nightmare was the god behind hēr. Starfire was fiendish, even abyssal. Shē was a vile devil that would forever lurk in Starryeyes’ heart.

Considering Starryeyes had the blood of a God Lord in hēr, it meant hēr ringsource was unusually pure. Being a noble, no one had ever treated hēr badly growing up. Therefore, when shē was flooded with emotions and had a mental breakdown... shē realized that she was no longer pure. Hēr mind was filled with the seven emotions and six sensory pleasures. Countless unfamiliar emotions had assailed her. Shē had descended from being a god.

Thus, after looking at Xu Qing, shē lifted hēr hand. Ringsource pulsed into hēr palm, which she sent directly to Xu Qing. It entered his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, flowing through him so that his cultivation base stirred.

Xu Qing’s expression became even more shocked. The ringsource was very different when she gave it to him as opposed to him taking it. For example, he didn’t need to remove hēr will from it. It was far more pure.

“How’d you do it?” he asked Starfire. He wasn’t asking about what shē had done after pulling out that candle. Instead, he wanted to know the logic and reasoning involved.

Chuckling, Starfire continued to comb Starryeyes’ hair. “Normally speaking, it would have been very difficult for me to tug at lil’ sis Starryeyes’ heartstrings. That’s especially true considering that shē was once a True God. But the sealing mark on hēr cut off all of that and made it impossible for hēr to fight back. Of course, you provided a lot of assistance, Young Lord. The way you extracted all of hēr ringsource really put hēr on the brink of collapse.