"It looks like we have to notify a few old friends to make a move, and we must join hands to deal with that Taoist Robe Woman; otherwise, the trouble will be endless."

The man muttered quietly.

After speaking, he took out a deep purple pill and swallowed it.

The moment he swallowed the pill, his pale complexion instantly turned rosy, showing no signs of the severe damage to his soul just moments ago.

At that moment, a handsome young man flew in from outside, slowly hanging upside down next to the man and said urgently:

"Father, why is Su Jiujie from Green Hills Ancient Mountain still unwilling to form a marriage alliance with me? Haven't you been there once to propose the alliance on my behalf?"

The young man, being the son of the Night King, held a position second only to one and above tens of thousands within the Thousand Rocks Cave. Since his childhood, he always got whatever he desired and nobody dared cross him.

But now, as the son of the Night King, he had been rejected by the Holy Maiden of Green Hills Ancient Mountain, which made him feel an extraordinary sense of humiliation and anger.

The Night King, the man whose soul was heavily harmed just now, said indifferently to the young man:

"Don't worry, in a few more days, Green Hills Ancient Mountain will be completely occupied. Then, you can have any Fox Demon you want, maybe even play with the Mountain Lord, and experience it for yourself."

"Father, is that true?"

The young man's voice trembled with excitement.

The Fox Demons of Green Hills Ancient Mountain were all devastatingly beautiful beings.

Especially the Mountain Lord, exquisitely pure yet desirably seductive.

If he could have the Mountain Lord serve as a warming maid, and indulge in her charm, then death in this lifetime would be worthwhile.

To die under a peony flower, one is still a romantic spirit as a ghost.

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Forty li outside the No. 1 city gate, that territory.

A dangerous area.

Upon a sky-scraping giant tree.

Lin Zichen held Shen Qinghan in his arms, spreading his spiritual power to check her body, carefully probing every part of her to see if there was any problem.

Lin Zichen was worried about her body because of the amount of water that had suddenly surged into Shen Qinghan's Heaven's Gate.

After a very serious checkup,

Lin Zichen found that Shen Qinghan's body was not in any serious trouble, and all the data were normal.

The internal data was very normal,

but there was an apparent change in some external parts of her body.

For instance, her hair had become bluer in color and softer in texture.

When touched, it felt like touching water, so pleasant to the touch that one could hardly bear to stop.

Besides, there was a clear change in her skin.

It had become more tender,

so tender that it seemed a light pinch could squeeze water out of it, extraordinarily magical.

"They say a woman is made of water. That phrase is a compliment for other women, but for little dirty girl(Qinghan), it's a fact."

Lin Zichen looked at Shen Qinghan in his arms and murmured quietly to himself.

After saying this, he recalled everything he had seen just before the palace disappeared.

The nameplate of the palace bore the three characters "Palace of Water God."

The palace was constantly filled with calls for "God."

Above the palace floated Shen Qinghan.

Connecting all these scenes, Lin Zichen couldn't help but conjecture, a conjecture about Shen Qinghan's identity.

He guessed that Shen Qinghan's identity was the Water God,

or more accurately, he conjectured that there was a legacy of the Water God within Shen Qinghan.

This would well explain why Shen Qinghan's constitution was so special.

"Lin Zi?"

While Lin Zichen was immersed in his thoughts, Shen Qinghan, who lay in his arms, weakly opened her eyes and called out feebly.

Seeing that she had woken up, Lin Zichen asked tenderly, "Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"

"My head hurts a bit, and I don't have much strength in my body," Shen Qinghan replied weakly while rubbing her head.

Lin Zichen continued to ask, "Is it very unbearable?"

Shen Qinghan still sounded weak, "It's alright, not too unbearable; it's a bit like the feeling of motion sickness."

Hearing this, Lin Zichen breathed a sigh of relief, "As long as it's nothing serious."

Shen Qinghan sat up from Lin Zichen's embrace, looking puzzled as she asked, "Lin Zi, what exactly happened while I was unconscious? Weren't we trapped in a cage just now?"

Lin Zichen patiently explained, "Here's what happened..."

The sudden appearance of fragrance.

The "betrayal" of Luo Qianxue.

The "betrayal" of everyone else.

The appearance of the vine woman.

The emergence of the Palace of Water God.

The collapse of the Palace of Water God.

All the water being absorbed...

Lin Zichen relayed, in the most concise language, everything that had happened while Shen Qinghan was unconscious.

After listening, Shen Qinghan found it hard to believe:

"You're saying that the colossal Palace of Water God collapsed into streaming lights, all pouring into my Heaven's Gate, followed by a flood of water, comparable to a vast ocean, also gushing into my Heaven's Gate?"

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"Yes," Lin Zichen nodded.

After getting confirmation from Lin Zichen, Shen Qinghan's face was full of disbelief.

She found it hard to imagine that the amount of water that could form a vast ocean could all be funneled into her Heaven's Gate.

Heaven's Gate was so small, how did it manage to hold so much water?

The more Shen Qinghan thought about it, the more puzzled she became.

At that moment, she suddenly realized her Sea of Consciousness had expanded significantly, and she also noticed a huge palace floating inside.

Engraved on the archway of the palace were the prominently displayed characters, "Palace of Water God."

Wasn't this the palace Lin Zi mentioned?

Was all of this really true?

Why could my Sea of Consciousness do this?

Could it be that I truly am the Water God?

Thinking this, Shen Qinghan felt a mix of emotions in her heart.

She was excited at the possibility of having such a powerful identity.

Yet, she also felt somewhat ill at ease with this identity, not quite willing to accept that she had another identity besides being Shen Qinghan.

She only wanted to be Shen Qinghan, the girl who grew up with Lin Zichen since childhood, the pretty lady who had just turned 20, and not the reincarnation of some ancient being.

"I hope I'm just a lucky person who has received the legacy of an ancient being, not the reincarnation of one..."

Shen Qinghan quietly wished to herself.

Finish thinking, she looked up at Lin Zichen and said softly, "Lin Zi, I've discovered that my Sea of Consciousness has grown a lot, and I saw that palace you mentioned inside it."

The palace is in the filthy girl's Sea of Consciousness?

Lin Zichen raised an eyebrow and asked, "Can your spiritual power enter the palace?"

Shen Qinghan replied, "I don't know, I'll try."

After saying this, she concentrated and spread her spiritual power, skillfully allowing it to extend towards the palace in her Sea of Consciousness, trying to explore the interior.

However, as soon as the spiritual power touched the palace, it was instantly repelled, unable to enter.

...

Before falling into a coma, she saw Luo Qianxue make a move.

Everyone suspected Luo Qianxue, the only alien in the team, to be the traitor.

They verbally attacked her.

For safety's sake, they wanted to expel her from the team.

But actually, the traitor was someone else.

Luo Qianxue felt very wronged, having stayed in the team for so long, always doing her best, yet never being trusted.

Lin Zichen knew Luo Qianxue wasn't the traitor, so he spoke up for her.

Luo Qianxue was ostracized.

Lin Zichen offhandedly said something.

Luo Qianxue seemed to remember something.

Remembering that she was Bai Xue, after being ostracized initially.

Remembering she is Bai Xue.

It didn't matter much.

It was just a little incident in the second grade of elementary school.

Lin Zichen didn't care.

Luo Qianxue didn't care much either.

Only Shen Qinghan cared.

Then Shen Qinghan went to interact with Luo Qianxue.

...

The Earthlings had to give up their stronghold in the Origin Land and all retreated back to Earth.

Afterward, the exchange of Source Crystals for Contribution Points left Lin Zichen shocked.

...

After the great battle.

By regulation, the city allowed people to visit their relatives back on Earth at staggered times.

Several months later.

Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan made a trip back to Earth.

They learned that many had died.

At the time when City One was attacked.

Other cities were also under attack.

A lot of people died.

Many people they knew had perished.

The student council president Zhou Xuehong died.

Ma Zhenhe became a vegetable.

Stay tuned to empire

Yuan Dongzhi was also seriously injured and recuperating at home.

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