A moment later, Yu Xian entered the interior of the branch of the Tree Universe.
In truth, Yu Xian could not confirm whether this was merely a branch of the Tree Universe, because even a single branch lay far beyond the limits of his perception.
It was much like the blind men touching an elephant; he could observe only a tiny part of it.
Thus, each time he encountered a branch, he carried a sliver of hope that he had found the Tree Universe proper—that he had finally found his way home.
Still, this was hardly his first time, and he had mentally prepared himself. After confirming that this was indeed only a branch, he was not overly disappointed.
Inside the branch, vast numbers of worlds lay shattered and torn apart, fragments of corpses drifting all around.
Clearly, before this branch of the Tree Universe was severed, many of the worlds here had already been caught in the crossfire of the battle between Quan Juehua and Zhang Shou, suffering catastrophic casualties.
Yu Xian had originally planned to absorb the Being-Void and leave, but in an instant, he sensed that there were still survivors inside this branch. He immediately teleported toward the world with living beings.
The first world.
It resembled a shattered glass marble.
Yet, although the glass was fractured into countless pieces, it still barely held its original spherical shape.
Yu Xian did not enter the interior of this world, instead coming to a halt outside it. Ordinary Transcendents could not perceive the diverse worlds within the Tree Universe and could only observe the various spatial barriers concealed within it by utilizing rules or specialized ocular arts.
Yu Xian, however, could now see them directly. As long as he wished to look, Yu Xian's Power allowed him to clearly perceive anything with 'manifest' form.
"You're dying," Yu Xian said.
The next instant, a woman covered from head to toe in cracks materialized out of thin air before him. She was the Creator God of this world. Because her world had fractured, her body was similarly broken.
The moment this world collapsed, she would perish along with it.
"Ni Ruo greets you, Fellow Daoist." The woman was remarkably calm, seemingly unfazed by death, her eyes void of any emotional ripple as she spoke.
Yu Xian sighed and siphoned off a portion of Being-Void from the branch. He rubbed his hands together, and before Ni Ruo could react, he raised a hand and hurled a glob of blue liquid straight at her.
It moved far too quickly.
Ni Ruo tried to dodge, but there was simply no time.
Although she was at death's door, many living beings in her world had survived. She had come out to meet Yu Xian intending to entrust her children to him before she died.
Who would have guessed that Yu Xian would strike without a word?
For a moment, regret seized her. Revealing her true body before discerning friend from foe had been foolish; she really was afraid to die, which was why she had acted so irrationally.
Thinking she had no fear of life and death was merely giving in to despair.
Ni Ruo realized this, but it was already too late. In an instant, the blue liquid splattered across her face.
The next moment, she felt like the arid African savannah suddenly blessed by a downpour. The web of cracks across her skin voraciously absorbed the blue fluid, and before her very eyes, the fractures rapidly began to mend.
"Ah!"
Ni Ruo let out a comfortable moan.
A body that had been doomed to die was actually coming back to life.
Only after a long while did she slowly open her eyes, looking with deep gratitude at... Yu Xian, who was currently picking his nose.
"Thank... thank you, my Lord, for saving my life. If you have any command, as long as Ni Ruo can fulfill it... I will brave any danger without hesitation!" Ni Ruo bowed her head and spoke earnestly.
Restoring a Great Thousand World.
In the past, she had never heard of anyone capable of such a feat.
Moreover, Yu Xian had restored the shattered world with effortless ease. She could no longer fathom just what kind of existence he was.
It was not as though she had never seen a Mighty One; in fact, her world had once produced a Mighty One. Although that individual lacked a conscience and had simply left after ascending, at least her horizons had been broadened.
A Mighty One could never achieve such a thing.
Once primordial creations were broken, they were broken. No random infusion of spatial power could ever mend them.
A Mighty One could easily destroy a world or even craft artificial universes, but restoring a Great Thousand World was exceedingly difficult.
If... she could form a bond with this lord...
She did not seem opposed to the idea; in fact, a faint hope stirred in her heart.
If she could become his primary consort, that would be ideal. She had considerable confidence in her looks, having possessed suitors beyond count in the past. Perhaps this lord's rescue had been an act of a hero saving a beauty.
Of course, these were merely tiny thoughts kept inside her head, showing no outward sign.
"No commands. Off you go!"
Yu Xian paid no heed to Ni Ruo's myriad wandering thoughts.
He directly manipulated the Zhen Realm within his body to expand, enveloping Ni Ruo in an instant, and swept both her and her world into the interior of the Zhen Realm.
Women really are troublesome. Always so full of nonsense thoughts—annoying as hell.
Yu Xian grumbled inwardly. Sure enough, whenever a woman was involved, everything ultimately looped back to romance, even for a Creator God.
Fortunately, he was long past the age of being led astray by wine and lust. Right now, his heart was more pious than an angler praying for a monstrous catch, held fast by a single, pure thought: Go home!
Having settled one world, he continued forward.
Yu Xian's Power, strictly speaking, could also be called the 'I Finks' Power. The foundation that formed it was Dao Power, which in turn was composed of the power of Chaos and Myriad Phenomena and the power of Grand Dao Myriad Phenomena. The blending of these two forces fundamentally encompassed the root of all things.
This meant he already possessed the strength of a Level 7, or perhaps even Level 8, Omnipotent.
Most things he wished to know were now easily discerned. If Ni Ruo so much as broke wind, he would know what stinking scheme she was cooking up.
Moving forward, he swept up several more masterless worlds along the way.
Although those worlds had not been caught in the destruction, they had been influenced by Quan Juehua. Inside, they were playing out full-blown star wars, with humans across multiple planets piloting mechas in orbital battles.
Having nothing better to do, Yu Xian specifically went in to mediate their war, picking up a mecha for himself while he was at it.
And so, Yu Xian flew back and forth within the branch aboard his mecha, continuing to rescue various worlds while draining all the Being-Void from sections of space that no longer contained any worlds.
Two days later.
Yu Xian was sitting atop the Somersault Cloud, a nonstop chattering little girl seated beside him.
Her name was Li Heihei. Though she appeared to be only five or six years old, she was actually a Mighty One—and before becoming one, she had been a professional assassin.
Yu Xian had found Li Heihei inside a toilet in a shattered world. She had been sealed inside the toilet by someone for who knew how long. Once freed, she turned out to be an utter chatterbox, prattling on without pause.
As it happened, Yu Xian had nothing better to do, so he treated her chatter as a stand-up comedy routine and brought Li Heihei along as he continued rescuing other worlds.
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