Chapter 154: Space-Time Paradox

Chapter 154: Chapter 154: Space-Time Paradox

"What... did you just say?"

Looking at the slightly dumbfounded Qiye Demon Monarch, a sudden, inexplicable gleam flashed in Su Han’s eyes.

"I said, do you think there really are existences in this world that wander outside the Six Paths of Reincarnation and are above Space-Time?"

Su Han gave him a deep look and nodded. "Yes!"

Qiye Demon Monarch was left speechless. He wondered, "Are you that certain?"

"You’ve seen one?"

Su Han pointed at himself. "Would you believe me if I told you I am one?"

He was met with a look of pure disdain.

"You’ve had your wine. If you have nothing else to say, go back. I need to make some preparations. Once the inventory is done, I’ll have to go into secluded cultivation again." After despising Su Han for a moment, Qiye Demon Monarch waved his hand dismissively and shooed him away.

Su Han glanced at him, hesitated for a moment, and then waved his hand to draw in the air. Soon, an image of a delicate, adorable little girl appeared before them. She looked to be about three or four years old and was wearing a white Celestial Fox Mink Coat.

"Take a look. Do you recognize her?"

Qiye Demon Monarch fell silent. His eyes widened abruptly as he stared at Su Han in utter disbelief.

"This... this is what Junior Sister looked like when she was little! This coat is the one our master’s wife personally crafted for Junior Sister on her fourth birthday. How... how could you possibly know this?"

Hearing Qiye Demon Monarch’s confirmation, Su Han didn’t answer. He let out a soft sigh and looked up at the sky. He thought, "Could it be... that everything wasn’t just a dream?"

Withdrawing his gaze from the horizon, Su Han looked at Qiye Demon Monarch and asked solemnly, "Then... did you see her holding a few Hua in her hand that day?"

Qiye Demon Monarch was speechless again. "You know about that too?"

Su Han nodded, his expression even more bizarre than Qiye Demon Monarch’s. "Not only do I know that, but I also know... she started wearing this bracelet on that very day, didn’t she?"

"You... you, you... you, you, you..." Qiye Demon Monarch pointed a trembling finger at Su Han, looking as if he had just seen a ghost. "You even know about that?"

Then, as if a thought had suddenly struck him, Qiye Demon Monarch covered his mouth. His eyes went wide with disbelief as he stared fixedly at Su Han.

"You... you’re the ’Brother’ that Junior Sister used to talk about?"

Su Han nodded, a hint of melancholy on his face. "If nothing unexpected happened, then I’m the one who crafted this bracelet."

Qiye Demon Monarch was rendered speechless. Glaring at Su Han, his face contorted into an inexplicable mix of unspeakable grief and indignation.

"You... you old geezer! You were already an existence above the Creation Realm back then! And you had your eyes on my junior sister at that time? She was only three years old! You..."

The look Qiye Demon Monarch gave Su Han was entirely like someone looking at a pervert who preyed on little girls. After pointing his finger and berating Su Han for quite a while, Qiye Demon Monarch suddenly realized a crucial question.

"You... you gave this bracelet to Junior Sister as a birthday present?"

Su Han pinched the bridge of his nose and nodded helplessly. "It should... be."

Qiye Demon Monarch fell utterly silent as a terrifying scene involuntarily surfaced in his mind.

It had happened about a month after his junior sister’s fourth birthday. His master had fought against others for a legacy of the Extreme Dao Sect. He successfully snatched a portion of the legacy but was heavily injured in the chaotic battle. While his master was recuperating, an Evil Cultivator in the Creation Realm attacked the Celestial Demon Sect, intending to steal the Extreme Dao Sect’s legacy. Because his master was severely wounded, none of his martial uncles were a match for the Evil Cultivator.

Most egregiously, to force their master’s wife to hand over the legacy, the Evil Cultivator actually took his junior sister hostage.

And then...

Then...

It was as if Qiye Demon Monarch had recalled something truly unbelievable. Even though over ten thousand years had passed, an indescribable look of terror still crept onto his face as he remembered that scene.

That... was terror stemming from the unknown.

"Weird uncle, do you want to snatch Rong’s Hua?"

Held captive by the Evil Cultivator, his junior sister’s large eyes were filled with innocence. Her tiny hands tightly clutched those few Hua, which had yet to wither due to the effects of a mysterious power. Her expression and demeanor would have softened any normal person’s heart.

However, an Evil Cultivator was an Evil Cultivator precisely because they lacked humanity. Facing the pitiful little junior sister, the Evil Cultivator sneered maliciously, snatched the Hua right out of her hands, threw them onto the ground, and ruthlessly stomped and crushed them beneath his feet.

And then...

He would never forget the faint, radiant glow blooming from the complex and mysterious runes carved on the bracelet around his junior sister’s wrist the moment tears slipped from the corners of her eyes.

He would absolutely never forget the horrifying sight that followed. After his junior sister murmured a single sentence, the Evil Cultivator seemed to experience billions of years in an instant, turning into a withered skeleton and crumbling into ash in the blink of an eye.

He believed that he wasn’t the only one; most of the people who witnessed that scene were likely left with lifelong psychological trauma. The scene was so terrifying that they could never find an explanation for it. And it was precisely because of the unknown that the memory remained so spine-chilling.

The bracelet!

Everyone knew in their hearts that it was impossible for a four-year-old girl to control such a powerful and mysterious force. Later on, his master said that the power originated from time—a force that no human could dominate. The only reason all of that was able to happen was entirely because of the bracelet on his junior sister’s wrist.

And now... Su Han was telling him that the bracelet was the birthday present he had given his junior sister.

If that was the case, didn’t it mean that this old geezer had already become an inhuman existence back then?

He... a millions-of-years-old antique, used a bracelet and a few Hua to swindle their adorable little junior sister who had just passed her fourth birthday?

What a beast!

Feeling a thousand reproaches and ten thousand curses swirling in his heart, Qiye Demon Monarch felt his internal fury had built up to a point where he simply had to vent it. He raised his head and stared dead at Su Han.

"Boss, do you need a lackey to cling to your thigh?"

Su Han was left utterly speechless. He thought, "Do you really have to flip your attitude this fast?"

Just the bracelet alone was already bizarre enough for Su Han, making it hard to accept in such a short amount of time. As for a thigh-clinging lackey, even if he were short of one, he absolutely wouldn’t want a sloppy geezer who was eighteen or nineteen thousand years old! Furthermore, speaking of being a lackey, he still wanted to ask Su Yi if she needed one. If he had the option to cling to someone else’s thigh, why would he willingly offer his own for others to cling to?

After ruthlessly rejecting Qiye Demon Monarch and successfully swiping a jar of his cellar-stored vintage wine, Su Han descended Zuowang Peak with complicated thoughts.

Returning to the small courtyard the Celestial Demon Sect had arranged for him, he sat at the table and pondered over the dream he’d had after getting drunk. Or rather... that bizarre, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland-esque encounter.

The more Su Han thought about it, the deeper his frown became.

It seemed... somewhat illogical.

If this wasn’t a dream, and he had simply experienced a Space-Time anomaly by sheer coincidence, interacting with figures from over ten thousand years ago in another form... Then... did she leave this bracelet for him, or did he give it to her?

And that little trick called Flowers Bloom in an Instant, which was highly effective for coaxing children—was it a Skill Tree she left for him, or was it a skill he taught her?

There seemed to be a paradox of cause and effect here. Su Han felt that it was absolutely necessary to ask his own golden thigh to clear up his confusion.

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[Author’s Note: Ugh... I have to praise myself for being a true genius. I had a fever for three days straight, my whole body aching, and I actually thought I was just tired the entire time. It wasn’t until this morning that I felt something was wrong and went to see a doctor. The doctor, upon learning the truth, said it was a miracle I had survived this long. The biggest miracle is that after getting an IV drip and eating breakfast early this morning, I came back and typed out an entire Chapter full of energy! Hahaha! Don’t you want to praise me?]