Chapter 866 - 481: Treasure, Expedition Team 13

If the circumstances allowed, Xue Dili would almost let out a scream like a groundhog.

What exactly is going on with Mom? Didn’t she say that the Subspace issue is big recently and she shouldn’t continue fishing for things in there? How did Yi Shan suddenly appear?

Xue Dili felt like his expression at the moment resembled the world-famous painting "The Scream."

Hadn’t he just resolved the attack on the Interstellar Corps alongside the God of Order and even retraced the Venerable King Road?

How did Mom suddenly fish something out from Subspace?

No, is your fishing spot in Subspace somehow related to the Venerable King? How can you fish this thing up?

Are you telling me your fishing spot is the fracture belonging to the Venerable King himself?

At this moment, Xue Dili truly felt somewhat... horrified!

However, Earth Consciousness noticed Xue Dili’s confusion and responded...

"I don’t know!"

This was Mom’s response: "The last time I fished for corpses, I caught that lump of flesh with God of Order’s consciousness attached to it. It’s not even Subspace Tide time recently; how can I fish at this point?"

Xue Dili: "?"

He quickly calmed down, because Mom’s fishing timing in Subspace was right after the Mist Council’s meeting time.

And Mist Council time happens when the Subspace Tide occurs, and at this point, it’s also when the Venerable King repairs the Subspace Barrier once every seven days. Thus, it’s the time when the apostles of the Mist Council absorb the power dissipated by the Venerable King.

Over time, this timing became known as the Mist Council time.

And Mom’s fishing time falls exactly one day after this, which is when the Venerable King repairs the Subspace Barrier and when the entire Subspace is most stable. Only then does she dare to reach out and fish for treasures over there.

If she’s lucky, she might catch very powerful treasures, entities capable of uplifting the entire Earth. Even if unlucky, she can still find some stray souls from the depths of Subspace.

Indeed, those "old grandpas" who appear in Xue Dili’s Consciousness Space were all stock Mom recently fished out.

And so, many Old Dengs found that their hometown had undergone years of change after they returned home. They had no choice because they were fished out by Mom long ago and stored by her.

But Yi Shan absolutely could not have been fished out by Mom.

Whether it is now not the time for the Venerable King to repair the Subspace Barrier, or the fact that Yi Shan died 4 billion years ago.

Xue Dili personally witnessed his death.

His body endured the crash of the escape pod in subminus 200-degree cold winds, extreme frozen Hell, raging winds, and wounds ravaged by the chill, along with the relentless demon element corruption emitted by Dominic’s seed.

He died before he found the land; his corpse turned into an ice sculpture on the ice field, which gradually shattered.

Due to his long-term exposure to demon elements, his soul unknowingly detached from his body. Eventually, he found the land and planted Dominic’s seed.

Before Xue Dili’s eyes, this noble soul completely dissipated in the flower sea, perhaps ultimately swallowed by the Cosmic Void, reverting to its original primitive state.

There’s no way Mom could have crossed the 4 billion years timeline and fished out Yi Shan’s soul at that time and preserved it until now, right?

billion years ago, Earth Consciousness was likely just forming, and it was after the Venerable King was born that the concept of "planetary consciousness" emerged.

In essence, planetary consciousness is also a phenomenon simulating the Venerable King.

"Could it be..." Xue Dili asked the Earth Consciousness...

"He found you, instead of being fished up by me," Earth Consciousness provided an answer.

Xue Dili: "..."

This left him scratching his head. Perhaps it was because he carried the Blood of Hell, also once the flesh of the Lord of Mist?

Or perhaps, because, when retracing the Venerable King Road, God of Order’s erratic time-line manipulation ability and after a conversation with Yi Shan, did he wait until now?

Xue Dili couldn’t guess, but still, he slowly headed toward the Consciousness Space and observed Yi Shan, resting peacefully amidst the flower sea.

He couldn’t ever have imagined why there could be a growing flower sea in his Consciousness Space.

The lighting here is dictated by Xue Dili’s timing; if Xue Dili’s time is daytime, there’s a light source, if night, it’s darkness.

Initially, the Consciousness Space lacked water, and later on, after Xue Dili devoured the Subspace of the Seventh Apostle, water started to emerge here.

Except for the Divine Tree, growth of any vegetation here is scarcely possible.

"Yi Shan, open your eyes..."

Xue Dili’s voice echoed.

The man lying wounded in the flower sea seemed finally awake, he opened his eyes, not spotting Xue Dili first, but the towering Divine Tree, stretching across the Consciousness Space like shading the sky.

He smiled, extended his hand, seeming like he wanted to shake hands with the Divine Tree.

"Did I fall asleep? Dominic, is that you? Have you come to receive me?" He gazed at the Divine Tree, smiling as if about to drift back into dreams.

Xue Dili: "..."

He slowly entered the flower sea, approached this man, saying, "Wake up, Deputy Captain, we’ve got to burn the last enemy to ashes!"

At this moment, Yi Shan suddenly jolted awake.

...

"There’s black tea here," Xue Dili raised his hand, with a golem resembling a werewolf brewing a cup of black tea.

The shaping magic, originating from the Fairy Tale World’s Evil Eye.