NOVPUBWatching Xu Zimei approach step by step, the man with black hair and the elder in green garments both showed a slight change in expression.
"Who exactly are you?" the elder in green asked earnestly.
"What does it matter if you know? Do you think you can leave here alive today?" Xu Zimei said indifferently.
"What good does killing us do for you? Do you want to make an enemy of the Heaven Tiger Empire?" said the elder in green.
"Better to let us go, and we can consider this matter settled." 𝑛𝘰𝑣𝑝𝑢𝑏.𝘤𝑜𝘮
"You’re mistaken, what if I make an enemy of the Heaven Tiger Empire?" Xu Zimei said with a faint smile, shaking his head.
"I don’t even take your Luochong Tribe seriously."
"Kill or slash, why all this nonsense," the black-haired man said coldly.
His demeanor was calm, and he looked at Xu Zimei with some disdain, not caring about life or death.
Xu Zimei smiled but did not speak.
Spiritual energy surged through his hands, and pitch-black Demonic Qi burst forth.
With a wave of his right hand, the air around him rippled like overlapping mountains.
In the end, the figures of the black-haired man and the elder in green vanished on the spot.
When the two reappeared, they found themselves within the True Fate World of Xu Zimei.
Of course, Xu Zimei did not give them much time to observe.
The moment they appeared, they were directly thrown to where the Bauhinia Flowers were.
This was because earlier, Xu Zimei could sense the consciousness transmitted by the Bauhinia Flowers.
They wanted Xu Zimei to help them find food.
Xu Zimei was also curious to see what these Bauhinia Flowers truly were.
An ascendant to immortality and a Divine Vein Realm practitioner, these were indeed the most suitable nutrients.
When the two were thrown in front of the strange Bauhinia Flowers, billows of black mist spread from the flowers.
Suddenly, the black mist soared into the sky, enveloping both men within it.
The elder in green and the black-haired man struggled desperately.
Regrettably, both of them were heavily injured, with barely a tenth of their strength remaining.
Immediately, the black mist rolled and engulfed both men.
The Bauhinia Flowers digested their bodies, using them as nourishment.
Meanwhile, Xu Zimei stepped out from the True Fate World and, seeing no one around, headed towards Worry-Free City.
On the way, he took out the Wind Extinguishing Bead to examine it.
A single Wind Extinguishing Bead did not have much use, but if one were to collect all five Spiritual Pearls.
It’s said they could possess the power to change the entire Yuan Central Continent.
...
Xu Zimei had once heard a legend, whether it was true or not, no one knew.
Back then, the Yuan Central Continent was still intact, without the so-called division into five continents.
The timeline was even older than the Mythical Era, and before that, a great war had ravaged the Yuan Central Continent.
Of course, these were all rumors, and no information about that war had survived.
That war almost changed the landscape of the entire continent.
The entire continent was shattered to pieces and almost sank into the depths of the Endless Heaven Sea.
Eventually, the continent was divided into five parts.
But initially, the five continents were not stable.
Whenever the weather in the Endless Heaven Sea turned foul, storms raged, bringing tumultuous waves crashing in.
The five continents would drift and begin to collapse, birthing floods and even splitting apart.
Countless creatures perished in the chaos.
It was a time when all beings struggled to survive, uncertain if disaster or the next day would come first.
Perhaps while sleeping, an entire continent would completely crumble and sink.
Latterly, the Heavenly Dao took pity on the myriad beings and condensed a part of the World Origin into five different types of Spiritual Pearls.
They were used to suppress the various continents.
Many years later, the five continents gradually stabilized.
And those five Spiritual Pearls, after the stabilization of each continent, turned into five streaks of flowing light, scattering across the lands.
It is said that if someone could gather all five Spiritual Pearls, they would possess the power to change the Yuan Central Continent.
Xu Zimei looked at the deep cyan bead in his hand, who could imagine the vast power it contained within?
Inside this Wind Extinguishing Bead, there was a type of wind called the World-Ending Divine Wind.
This World-Ending Divine Wind, at its highest realm, could cause darkness to envelop heaven and earth, bring sorrow to ghosts and gods, shatter stone and cleave cliffs, and extinguish life itself with but a breath, it was extremely formidable.
Xu Zimei was now trying to control this divine wind.
But first, he had to make the Wind Extinguishing Bead recognize him as its master.
Xu Zimei placed it into the True Fate World and let the Chaos Pearl suppress it for the time being.
After some time had passed, it should recognize him as the master.
The time he had spent in this cave was actually not long, but the flow of time within was different.
Clearly, about seven days had already passed in the outside world.
By evening, Xu Zimei returned to Worry-Free City.
At this time, Worry-Free City had already become completely quiet, the streets were very desolate.
Darkness, like a silent behemoth, seemed to have devoured the entire city.
Xu Zimei walked into the city, and occasionally a few gusts of breeze blew by, stirring up a swirl of dust that then drifted into the distance.
A "crunch crunch" sound came from one end of the street.
Xu Zimei slightly lifted his head, looking straight ahead where darkness shrouded everything.
This crunching sound was like the grinding of cartwheels on the ground with great effort, sounding harsh and unpleasant.
An odd wind blew by, carrying a few emerald leaves that slowly fell in front of Xu Zimei.
This wind was very cold, standing out as exceedingly strange in the pleasant spring season.
Xu Zimei slightly bent down to pick up the green leaf that had just blown over.
The shape of the leaf was strange, covered with dense, backward-facing barbs.
It was oval-shaped and smelled somewhat like a camphor tree leaf.
Xu Zimei had never seen this kind of leaf before.
He put the leaf in his pocket and continued to walk forward.
The closer he got to the end of the street, the more distinct the "crunch crunch" sound became.
Finally, at the corner of the street, a cart slowly approached Xu Zimei.
The owner of the cart was an old peddler woman.
She wore brown clothes, much like tree bark.
What they were made of, no one knew.
Her hair, like the silver flowers of an iron tree, fanned out all over the top of her head.
Her complexion was wax-yellow, covered with furrows and wrinkles.
When her wrinkled face smiled, it looked almost like crying.
Right now, she was hunched over, silently pushing her small cart along the street.
Her movements were slow, each small step seemingly imbued with a kind of magic.
One moment, she was at the corner of the street, and in what seemed like a single breath, or the blink of an eye, she appeared not far from you.
The cart, too, was the same shade of brown, covered with a brown cloth, hiding whatever was inside.
...
Amidst the ear-piercing, old and worn sound of her cart grinding against the ground, the old woman’s stooped figure stopped in front of Xu Zimei.
She turned her gaze and stared straight at Xu Zimei.
"What is it?" Xu Zimei asked indifferently.
"Have some fruit," the old woman said in a hoarse voice.
Her gaze was strange, unnerving those who saw it.
