Chapter 1094: Chu Changqing

Heavenly Pivot Domain.

On the chaotic streets, vehicles from the Heaven-Reaching Tower were darting back and forth. Billowing dust dispersed from the earthquake ruins in the distance, and countless figures were working together beneath the collapsed boulders, trying to dig out survivors.

"Hurry!! There's someone alive here!!"

"It's over... the two I found here have no breath left..."

"Move faster!! Why do we have so few hands?! Tell the Heaven-Reaching Tower to send more people here!!"

"Everyone from the Heaven-Reaching Tower has already been dispatched. Now, citizens from other districts are coming over to help on their own..."

"Citizens are fine too! Organize them well and search inch by inch! There must still be many people alive!"

“……”

Looking down from the sky, the tiny black shadows, like ants, were gathering at an astonishing speed. They searched the ruins in such an orderly and rapid manner that one couldn't help but feel they weren't independent individuals, but some kind of larger, more magnificent organism.

Su Zhiwei stood in mid-air above the domain, looking down at everything, the hem of her snow-white clothes fluttering slightly in the wind.

"Lord Red Dust, what are you thinking about?"

The figure of the Heaven-Reaching Tower Master materialized beside her.

"You are..."

"I am the Master of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, and also one of the high-level officials of the Heavenly Pivot Domain." The Tower Master's expression was somewhat awkward. "There was an accident two days ago... I only just returned today."

The Tower Master wanted to say he had been kidnapped by some inexplicable actor, but he didn't have the face for it... He, the dignified Tower Master, had actually been knocked unconscious beneath the Heaven-Reaching Tower and imprisoned for so many days. If he hadn't desperately smashed that broken disc, he would probably still be missing.

However, after learning about the situation outside and the news of the Twilight Society's attack on the Infinite Domain, he could roughly guess who that actor who kidnapped him really was...

Su Zhiwei glanced at him twice but didn't press further; after all, in this era, she didn't know anyone to begin with.

"Humans are truly complex creatures. Sometimes, the infighting brought about by the evil of human nature is enough to destroy human civilization... but sometimes, the power of human kindness far exceeds one's own imagination." Su Zhiwei looked at the busy crowd below and spoke slowly,

"It seems that in any era, trust and unity are the weapons humans use to overcome disasters..."

The Tower Master also looked down at the crowd below and let out a long sigh.

Just as he was about to say something more,

Suddenly, a violent tremor erupted from beneath the Heavenly Pivot Domain!

Hum-hum-hum-hum—

The sound, like that of giant gears turning, drowned out all the cries of the citizens, roaring like thunder from the ground. In the stunned gaze of everyone, the streets and districts of the Heavenly Pivot Domain began to rotate, like a machine of extreme precision, slowly opening...

The Tower Master seemed to realize something, a deep shock appearing in his eyes.

"This... this is..."

……

South Sea Domain,

South Sea Base.

Bang—!!

A crisp sound came from deep within the base. The next moment, all the lights in the base suddenly brightened, then burst one after another as if overloaded, finally plunging into total darkness.

"What's going on?? Why did the power system suddenly fail??"

"I don't know..."

"Repair it immediately!! Hurry!!"

Amidst the chaos and anxiety, a hazy starlight lit up in the dark corridor, like a sea of stars that had been intercepted... As the starlight rippled, an aged figure walked out slowly.

He waved his hand gently, and the sweeping starlight instantly knocked all the base staff unconscious. The previously noisy and chaotic environment fell into dead silence.

There was not a ripple in the old man's eyes. He walked forward slowly, passing through one corridor after another. The starlight cleared the way beside him, gentle and respectful, like a dear friend of many years seeing him off on his final journey.

Finally, the old man's figure stopped in front of a massive stasis pod...

The starlight dispelled the darkness.

In the deep blue radiance, a long-haired young man was suspended upside down within the stasis pod, as if floating in a void, his eyes lightly closed, as if he were asleep.

The old man looked at that familiar yet long-lost face, a trace of nostalgia flashing in his eyes...

He gently raised his hand, his wrinkled palm pressing against the surface of the stasis pod, and spoke hoarsely, as if calling to an old friend in slumber:

"Chu Changqing, it's time to wake up."

The rich starlight around the old man seeped into the stasis pod bit by bit, the deep blue light becoming increasingly thick and intense.

At the same time, the person in the stasis pod seemed to sense something; his closed eyes began to tremble continuously, and his entire body began to emit an strange luster!

Unlike the Aurora Lord and the Heavenly Pivot Lord who woke up directly, the one in the stasis pod did not wake up immediately. As his brows furrowed and then relaxed, his body actually began to distort visibly to the naked eye!

Octopus suckers began to grow from his palms, then quickly disappeared; his flowing long hair gradually transformed into horse mane, then turned back into human hair; eagle-like wings grew from his back, his legs fused into a fish's tail, gills began to grow on both sides of his cheeks, and his body became as massive as a bear...

Within just a few seconds, countless biological characteristics appeared on his body, only to quickly vanish without a trace...

Mysterious radiance shone around him, and the old man shrouded in starlight did not seem surprised by this. He just stood quietly outside the stasis pod, his eyes fixed on the constantly changing youth, as if waiting for something.

The changes on the youth's body continued;

After common biological traits appeared, his body began to trace back to the ancient side; his palms gradually evolved into dinosaur claws, exaggerated skeletal dragon wings grew from his back, and his entire body shimmered with the luster of unknown scales... He was like a human-shaped encyclopedia of Earth's species, every page turned revealing a truly shocking existence.

This process lasted for a full five minutes before it completely ended. As all non-human traits receded into his body, the stasis pod fell into dead silence once again.

A moment later,

A pair of cyan eyes, resembling green bamboo, slowly opened in the darkness.

Biological light surged within those eyes, the narrow pupils encompassing who knows how many lifetimes of history. He was suspended in the churning liquid, and with a gentle lift of his hand, the outer shell of the stasis pod exploded with a boom!

The mysterious liquid flowed like a stream among the shattered fragments. The long-haired figure walked out slowly, his cyan pupils bright as fireflies in the darkness.

"Lu Xun..." Chu Changqing's eyes fixed on the old man before him, his expression somewhat complex.

"How... how did you get this old?"

A bitter smile appeared on the old man's face.

"Is it very old? I only woke up a few hours earlier than you... I can only say that the backlash of the stasis pod was indeed beyond expectations."

Chu Changqing's brows furrowed tightly. Without hesitation, he picked up a fragment from the ground and slashed it toward the veins on his wrist...