149: Chapter 149 A stunningly beautiful woman with a hot body! Taking the initiative to please...

Qi Xiaoyu stood on the other side of the cabin, her back against the cold bulkhead. Her fingertips unconsciously gripped the hem of her skirt hanging by her side, the fine fabric wrinkling under her grip, her knuckles turning slightly white from the force.

Watching Gong Yumin snuggled entirely in Zhou Liangan's arms, her fair, lotus-root-like arms hooked around his neck, her cheek almost pressed against his chest—that intimate and seductive appearance made Qi Xiaoyu's heart feel as if it were being fiercely gripped by an invisible hand. An inexplicably sour and astringent emotion surged up, spreading densely and clogging her chest, making even breathing feel difficult.

She herself could not explain where this sourness came from. Clearly, she should hate Zhou Liangan; hate him for using the lives of her Family members to threaten her, hate him for domineeringly and forcefully controlling everything about her, and hate him for driving her to this desperate situation.

Yet, at this moment, watching him and another woman being so intimate, what surged within her heart was not the satisfaction of watching a joke, but an indescribable stifling and bitterness, and even a trace of jealousy she was unwilling to admit even to herself.

This emotion muddled her mind. She abruptly turned her head away, refusing to look at that glaring scene, and let out a cold snort from her nose. Gritting her teeth, she almost blurted out, "Slut!"

The seductive smile on the face of Gong Yumin, who was snuggled in Zhou Liangan's arms, instantly faded slightly.

She slowly turned her head. Her beautiful eyes, which had just been filled with amorous tenderness, now seemed as if tempered in ice. She coldly swept her gaze toward Qi Xiaoyu not far away, her eyes surging with undisguised cold light and pressure.

That was the Aura belonging to a Nirvana Realm great expert, accumulated over ten thousand years. Even if only a sliver was released inadvertently, it was enough to make Qi Xiaoyu, who was in the Enlightenment Realm, tense up all over and have her breath hitch.

Gong Yumin's red lips parted slightly. The soft, sweet, and tender tone from just moments ago was gone, replaced by the coldness and indifference of a superior. She spoke word by word, "You junior, how are you so lacking in manners? Opening your mouth with filthy language—is this how the Qi Family upbringing teaches you to speak to your elders?"

She paused, her gaze sweeping carefully over Qi Xiaoyu. Her nose twitched slightly, sensing the Bloodline Aura emanating from her body. Her tone carried a hint of realization, "Observing the Aura on your body, it is seven or eight parts similar to the Aura of that brat Qi Yun back then. With the same Bloodline Origin, you must be a descendant of the Qi Family from that peripheral transit star, right?"

As soon as the two words "Qi Yun" were spoken, Qi Xiaoyu's whole body stiffened violently, as if struck by a bolt of lightning, and she was instantly stunned on the spot.

Her beautiful eyes widened abruptly, her pupils contracting violently. She lifted her head in disbelief, staring straight at the Gong Yumin before her, her lips trembling slightly, and even her voice carried a hint of imperceptible trembling, "You... who are you? How could you know my Qi Family's second-generation Old Ancestor?!"

The name Qi Yun, in the Qi Family, was an existence akin to faith.

He was the most brilliant and talented figure in the Qi Family's history, the second-generation Old Ancestor who single-handedly pulled the Qi Family from a third-rate small Family on a transit star to one that could stand firm in the surrounding Star Domain, a legend that all future generations of the Qi Family could only look up to in ancient books.

Except for the core direct descendants of the Qi Family, outsiders could not possibly know Qi Yun's name, let alone be able to sense Qi Yun's Bloodline Aura.

The woman before her, who had just been seductively acting like a spoiled child in Zhou Liangan's arms, could actually call out the Old Ancestor's name and appeared extremely familiar with the Old Ancestor. How could Qi Xiaoyu not be shocked by this?

Watching her shocked appearance, Gong Yumin couldn't help but chuckle. The laughter carried a hint of vicissitudes accumulated over time, as well as a touch of nostalgia for the past.

She cast her gaze back onto Qi Xiaoyu, her beautiful eyes rippling, and spoke in a calm tone, "I didn't expect that the Family established by that brat who followed behind me back then, not daring to say more than a few words, could actually still thrive in this vast Star Sea to this day. It can be considered rare."

As she spoke, her tone paused slightly, and she asked casually, "Speaking of which, how is that Qi Yun doing now? Since we parted back then, I haven't heard any news of him."

"Old Ancestor... the Old Ancestor passed away five thousand years ago." Hearing this, the shock in Qi Xiaoyu's heart faded slightly, replaced by respect for the Old Ancestor and a trace of undisguised sadness. She lowered her eyelids, her voice dropping a few degrees, carrying deep respect, then suddenly lifted her head again to look at Gong Yumin, her eyes filled with vigilance and confusion, "Who exactly are you? Why do you know my Qi Family's Old Ancestor?"

Qi Xiaoyu was never a fool; on the contrary, as the most outstanding direct descendant of this generation of the Qi Family, she was very astute.

The insult she blurted out just now was merely an impulsive act, having been muddled by the sourness and jealousy surging in her heart.

Now that she had calmed down, she instantly understood the key to it—Zhou Liangan had said before that everything in this Land of Samsara was within Reincarnation, and intruders would turn into energy and merge into Reincarnation.

And the woman before her had been forcibly dragged out of that Land of Samsara by Zhou Liangan. To be trapped in such a place and still maintain consciousness for ten thousand years, she could absolutely not be an ordinary Cultivator; she must have been a top-tier great expert who was famous in one region back then.

Thinking of this, a layer of cold sweat instantly seeped out on Qi Xiaoyu's back.

She had actually just opened her mouth to curse a veteran great expert of unknown generation and unknown cultivation level. This was simply courting death. If the other party really got angry, even with Zhou Liangan there, she probably wouldn't get any benefits.

She subconsciously tensed her body. The look in her eyes toward Gong Yumin also held a bit more restraint and wariness; the arrogance and hostility from just moments ago were gone.

Gong Yumin took in all the changes in her expression and did not harp on the insult from just now. She simply chuckled, her vermilion lips parting slightly, and unhurriedly spat out her name: "This seat is the seventh-generation Family Head of the Gong Family, Gong Yumin."

"Gong Family? Gong Yumin?!"

These six words were like a thunderclap, exploding in Qi Xiaoyu's mind, stunning her brain into a blank slate, her blood seemingly congealing at this moment.

She abruptly lifted her head, her beautiful eyes wide open, staring fixedly at Gong Yumin. Her face was filled with extreme shock and disbelief, and her body could not even control its slight trembling.

She frantically recalled in her mind the ancient secrets recorded in her Family's ancient books, those records about top-tier great Families and legendary figures in the Star Domain, and finally found the corresponding information.

The Gong Family!

That was not something their small Family on a transit star could compare to. That was a top-tier behemoth located in the center of the Star Sea, ruling over hundreds of Star Domains, a top-tier power that could be ranked in the entire vast Star Sea!

And the name Gong Yumin was the most colorful stroke in the history of the Gong Family, a legendary Genius who shook the entire Star Sea back then!

She remembered clearly, the ancient books stated in black and white that the seventh-generation Family Head of the Gong Family, Gong Yumin, successfully broke through to the Nirvana Realm at the age of nine hundred, becoming the youngest Nirvana great expert in the entire Star Sea at that time!

One must know, for ordinary Cultivators, even top-tier Geniuses, who doesn't spend tens of thousands of years to break through to the Nirvana Realm?

Even many people, in their entire lives, cannot touch the threshold of the Nirvana Realm.

Yet Gong Yumin stepped into Nirvana before she was one thousand years old; this talent was enough to make the entire Star Sea look sideways in astonishment.

Yet, such a legendary figure, less than a hundred years after breaking through to the Nirvana Realm, suddenly vanished and disappeared inexplicably.

The Gong Family mobilized the power of the entire Family and searched for thousands of years, but did not find any trace of her. In the end, they could only regretfully list her as a fallen person, and this matter became a major unsolved case in the history of the Star Sea.

Qi Xiaoyu never dreamed that this legendary great expert, who had been missing for ten thousand years, would appear before her, and was brought out of the Land of Samsara by Zhou Liangan with just a casual grab!

She slowly turned her head, lifted her head, and stared straight at Zhou Liangan beside her. Her eyes were filled with overwhelming shock and astonishment, as well as a trace of indescribable bewilderment.

Before, she only felt that Zhou Liangan was ruthless, domineering, and had profound cultivation, but she never imagined that he could be strong to this extent!

That was a Nirvana Realm great expert!

It was an existence that even her Qi Family Old Ancestor could only look up to for his entire life, a top-tier powerhouse who could easily annihilate their entire Qi Family. Yet in Zhou Liangan's hands, she was so easily fished out of the Land of Samsara, as easily as picking up a pebble.

What made her scalp tingle even more was that she had previously naively thought that by leading Zhou Liangan to this desperate place, she could make him surely die, and could avenge herself for being threatened by him.

Thinking about it now, her little schemes were simply showing off before an expert, extremely ridiculous!

Even the Land of Samsara, which trapped a Nirvana Realm great expert for ten thousand years, he could enter and exit at will, and fish people out casually. This so-called desperate place, in his eyes, was probably not worth mentioning at all.

Gong Yumin watched Qi Xiaoyu's shocked and Soul-lost appearance and guessed what she was thinking. Her beautiful eyes flickered slightly, then she looked down at her own palms, feeling the real passage of time around her, and couldn't help but whisper to herself, "I didn't expect that while I was trapped in that Land of Samsara, ten thousand years have already passed in the outside world... but in that wondrous place, I clearly felt that only a thousand years had passed."

Her tone carried a hint of undisguised bewilderment and loneliness.

Ten thousand years of time, the vicissitudes of life.

The acquaintances she was familiar with back then had long turned into a handful of yellow soil; the Gong Family she once held in her hands, she didn't know what it had become now; everything she was familiar with had vanished in the torrent of time. This disparity of things remaining but people changing, even for a Nirvana Realm great expert like her, inevitably made her feel melancholy.

However, this loneliness only lasted for a brief moment before she quickly restrained it.

Having lived for so many years, she had long understood what it meant to assess the situation. Now that she had regained her freedom, but her Lifespan was nearing its end, and she was helpless and without support, the man before her who could easily fish her out of the Land of Samsara was her only backing, and also her only Opportunity.

Thinking of this, she lifted her head again, looking at Zhou Liangan beside her. Her beautiful eyes were once again tinged with a seductive smile, and she leaned further into his arms, her soft, delicate body pressing tightly against his arm.

Just at this moment, Zhou Liangan chuckled, raised his hand to gently stroke his chin, and turned his head to sweep a gaze with a half-smile over Gong Yumin in his arms. He spoke slowly, his tone carrying a hint of inquiry, "Since you stayed in that Land of Samsara for a thousand years, could you describe to me in detail what the scenery inside that Land of Samsara is actually like?"

Upon hearing this, Gong Yumin was slightly startled, then lifted her head, her beautiful eyes fixedly sizing up the Zhou Liangan before her.

Previously, when she had just been dragged out of the Land of Samsara, her heart was full of the excitement of regaining freedom, and she had no intention to investigate Zhou Liangan's cultivation, only assuming he was some reclusive, top-tier great expert who had the ability to rescue her from that dead zone.

Yet, as she calmed her heart at this moment and released her Divine Sense to carefully perceive the Aura emanating from Zhou Liangan, her entire body froze instantly.

Her beautiful eyes were filled with profound shock—even more so than when she had learned that ten thousand years had passed in the outside world.

She clearly perceived that the man before her was, surprisingly, only at the first stage of the Enlightenment Realm!

The Enlightenment Realm and the Nirvana Realm were separated by an entire major Realm—it was a difference as vast as heaven and earth!

Yet, it was precisely this "ant" who had forcibly dragged her—a true dragon of the Nirvana Realm—out from that Land of Samsara that had locked away countless powerful figures!

This completely subverted everything she had known since she began to Cultivate ten thousand years ago!

Never mind that she was only in the Nirvana Realm; even a legendary powerful figure in the Hedao Realm might not be able to interfere with that artificially evolved Reincarnation, let alone casually fish someone out from within.

Gong Yumin's heart pounded wildly, and the way she looked at Zhou Liangan changed completely.

For a Cultivator at the first stage of the Enlightenment Realm to be capable of such a shocking feat, he must surely harbor earth-shattering secrets, possess unimaginable Opportunity, and perhaps even hold mastery over the rules of Reincarnation that even Nirvana Realm powerful figures could not touch!

To say she wasn't tempted would be a lie. Anyone who witnessed such a secret capable of overturning the world would develop a desire to investigate it, or even want to claim it for themselves.

Yet, Gong Yumin quickly calmed down.

The reason she had been able to endure ten thousand years in the Land of Samsara without being assimilated was never due to reckless courage, but rather her shrewdness in assessing the situation.

Even though the man before her was only in the Enlightenment Realm, he felt even more unfathomable to her than the Old Ancestor of the Gong Family who had lived for tens of thousands of years.

The Aura emanating from him—seemingly casual yet capable of controlling everything—combined with his ability to interfere with Reincarnation at will, filled her with awe from the bottom of her heart.

Such a figure was definitely not someone she could afford to provoke.

Never mind that her Lifespan was nearing its end; even at her Peak, she might not be able to get the better of him.

Rather than coveting his secrets, it would be better to firmly cling to this powerful backer. Perhaps, not only could she resolve her Lifespan issue, but she might even be able to leverage his Opportunity to advance further, break through the shackles of the Nirvana Realm, and step into that legendary Realm.

With these thoughts swirling through her mind, Gong Yumin instantly made up her mind.

She suppressed all the shock and greed in her heart, put on a gentle and charming smile once more, parted her vermilion lips, and began to softly and slowly describe the scenes of the Land of Samsara.

"That Land of Samsara, in truth, does not look any different from the vast Star Domain of the outside world."

Her voice was soft, her pace unhurried as she recounted the situation of the Land of Samsara in detail. "It also has countless stars, abundant Spiritual Qi, mountains, rivers, and even active living beings. It is almost exactly the same as the Star Domain we currently inhabit. When I first entered, I even thought I had merely wandered into an unfamiliar Star Domain."

"But after staying there for a long time, I realized something was wrong. Everything there appears normal, but in reality, it is locked within a fixed Reincarnation. It is like a flower on a planet; it blooms in spring and withers in autumn, but the flower that blooms the following year is exactly the same as the one from the previous year—even the number of petals and the time of blooming are identical. The living beings inside live repetitive days, day after day, yet they have no awareness that they are trapped within Reincarnation."

At this point, Gong Yumin's tone carried a trace of thinly veiled lingering fear. "We Cultivators who were swept into it could initially rely on our cultivation to remain clear-headed, thinking of ways to break out. But we soon discovered that in that Land of Samsara, our Realm simply could not break through. No matter how hard we tried to Cultivate, how much Spiritual Qi we absorbed, or how much Dao rhyme we comprehended, our cultivation remained stuck in place, unable to make even the slightest progress. I stayed there for nearly a thousand years and never heard of anyone breaking through their Realm—not even by half a step."

"What's even more terrifying is that over time, the consciousness of many Cultivators is slowly assimilated by the Reincarnation. They become like the native creatures, muddle-headedly repeating every day, completely forgetting who they are and where they came from. Eventually, they are completely integrated into the Reincarnation, becoming a part of it. I only managed to avoid that fate by relying on my Nirvana Realm cultivation to forcefully hold onto my consciousness. Otherwise, even if you had rescued me, I would have been nothing more than an empty shell without a Soul."

"Other than that, there isn't anything particularly special." After finishing, Gong Yumin leaned gently against Zhou Liangan's chest and looked up at him, her beautiful eyes filled with fawning and dependence. "If it weren't for you, Young Master, stepping in to save me, I fear I would have been trapped in that ghost place for the rest of my life, never able to get out."

Zhou Liangan listened quietly until she finished, then nodded thoughtfully, his fingers gently tapping the armrest of his seat, producing crisp, rhythmic sounds.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, a flash of realization crossing his deep gaze, and slowly spoke: "So that's how it is. It seems this place is indeed a Land of Samsara evolved by an ancient powerful figure. This powerful figure's Realm is truly impressive; to be able to evolve such a complete Reincarnation world with one's own power, locking away the cultivation and consciousness of living beings—such a feat is enough to be called earth-shattering."

He paused, his tone carrying a hint of faint disdain: "But in the end, it still cannot compare to the true Reincarnation evolved by the Heavenly Dao. An artificially evolved Reincarnation always has traces to follow and flaws to exploit; it can lock the form, but it cannot lock the Spirit, nor can it achieve true cycles of life and death or the circulation of Karma."

As his words faded, Zhou Liangan's Divine Thought spread outward like a tide, instantly sweeping toward the vast starry sky outside the spaceship.

His consciousness merged into the Dao rhyme of this starry sky, feeling that omnipresent Power of Reincarnation, while thoughts raced through his mind.

If a person could rely on their own cultivation to evolve a Reincarnation world and control the life, death, and rules of a Realm...

...then could this vast world he currently inhabited, this so-called Heavenly Dao Reincarnation, also... merely be something evolved by a supreme expert who had reached the pinnacle of cultivation and was unfathomably powerful?

Could the so-called Heavenly Dao, the so-called rules of the world, and the so-called 'those who follow Heaven prosper, those who defy Heaven perish' all merely be rules set by that supreme expert?

Once this thought emerged, it was like wild grass growing madly, instantly spreading through his mind and becoming impossible to contain.

One must know that from ancient times to the present, countless Cultivators have always acted in accordance with Heaven, revered the Heavenly Dao, and regarded the Heavenly Dao as an untouchable, unquestionable, supreme existence.

Never had anyone dared to harbor such a rebellious thought, dared to question the very existence of the Heavenly Dao!

And at the very moment this thought fully formed in Zhou Liangan's mind, a sudden change occurred!

The originally calm and brilliant vast starry sky darkened without warning.

Above the spaceship, boundless pitch-black thunderclouds gathered and surged crazily at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a few breaths, they obscured the entire starry sky, enveloping the entire spaceship within them.

"Boom—!!" A deafening peal of thunder exploded wildly from within the thunderclouds, like countless ancient giant beasts roaring.

Golden Heavenly Thunder, carrying an Aura of destruction, shuttled and condensed within the pitch-black thunderclouds. Each bolt of Heavenly Thunder was as thick as a mountain range, engraved with countless mysterious Heavenly Dao runes, and exuded a terrifying power capable of destroying the world.

That pressure poured down from the Nine Heavens, overwhelming and all-encompassing, as if it intended to forcibly destroy this entire world!

Under this terrifying Heavenly Might, the black iron cabin walls of the spaceship emitted unbearable creaking sounds. The entire ship shook violently, as if it would be crushed into powder by this pressure the very next second.

Inside the cabin, Qi Xiaoyu and Gong Yumin instantly turned as pale as paper.

Qi Xiaoyu felt an irresistible force pressing down upon her; her bones creaked, and she couldn't even breathe. Before this Heavenly Might, her cultivation was as insignificant as dust. It felt as if, should even a single bolt of Heavenly Thunder from those clouds fall, she would instantly be reduced to Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, leaving not even a trace behind.

Even Gong Yumin, who was in the Nirvana Realm, was stiff with fear, her beautiful eyes filled with extreme shock and terror.

She had experienced the Nirvana Tribulation and had seen the most terrifying Heavenly Tribulation, but compared to the Heavenly Might before her, her own Nirvana Tribulation back then was simply like children playing house—not worth mentioning! This was not an ordinary Heavenly Tribulation; this was a world-destroying Heavenly Punishment capable of annihilating the entire Star Domain!

She couldn't understand it at all; the starry sky had been fine a second ago, so how could such a terrifying Heavenly Punishment suddenly descend?

Zhou Liangan's heart sank abruptly, and he realized instantly—his thoughts just now had touched upon the most fundamental taboo of this world, inviting the backlash of the Heavenly Dao!

He dared not continue to dwell on it. He immediately extinguished all thoughts regarding the Origin of the Heavenly Dao in his mind, retracted all his Aura, and allowed his Dao Heart to return to calm.

Sure enough, the moment he extinguished those thoughts, the thunderclouds above—which had been surging endlessly and seemed ready to rain down world-destroying Heavenly Thunder at any moment—seemed to receive a command, and their rolling speed gradually slowed. The destructive Heavenly Thunder, which had condensed to the extreme, also slowly dissipated within the thunderclouds.

In just a short dozen breaths, the pitch-black thunderclouds that had covered the sky completely dissipated.

Brilliant starlight once again filled the entire starry sky, and everything outside the spaceship returned to its former calm, as if that world-destroying Heavenly Punishment had never appeared at all.

Inside the cabin, there was a deathly silence.

Qi Xiaoyu and Gong Yumin remained in their previous stiff postures, their faces pale and their bodies drenched in cold sweat, gasping for air. For a long time, they were unable to recover from the extreme terror they had just experienced.

They slowly raised their heads and stared fixedly at Zhou Liangan before them. In their beautiful eyes, beyond the overwhelming shock and astonishment, there was even more of an indescribable curiosity and awe.

They had seen it clearly just now: this world-destroying Heavenly Punishment had appeared when Zhou Liangan fell into deep thought, and it had dissipated the moment he retracted those thoughts!

A mere thought had caused the world to shake, thunderclouds to gather, and a world-destroying Heavenly Punishment to descend!

By simply extinguishing that thought, he had caused the Heavenly Punishment—which even the world feared—to instantly dissipate without a trace!

What kind of concept was this?

This was no longer something an ordinary Cultivator could achieve!

This was an existence that even Heaven and Earth had to fear and tremble for!

Gong Yumin's heart pounded wildly. The awe in her eyes as she looked at Zhou Liangan grew even stronger, and at the same time, her previous decision became even more firm.

The man before her was definitely not a Mortal. No matter what, she had to build a good relationship with him and firmly cling to this powerful backer!

PS: The image is of Gong Yumin.