Heaven Slaying Blade

Chu Chu looked speechlessly at Chu Mo: "Not calculated by age?"

Chu Mo had a profound look: "What is time?"

The field of time is quite profound; even Dao-converting cultivators find it hard to grasp the mysteries contained within the world completely. So, when Chu Mo threw this question out, it made Chu Chu dumbfounded for a while before she said: "Time... is naturally the passage of years. It's a process. For instance, I've grown from a child to adulthood, how many days did it take..."

At this point, Chu Chu found it hard to continue.

Because the concept of "days" varies between different universes!

For example, here in the Tunnel, a day is quite lengthy.

Above the skies of the Tunnel, there are numerous suns. The term sun actually refers to all stars that can emit heat.

The concept of a day involves the sun rising, setting, and rising again, which counts as a day. But in different places, the length of a day is definitely different.

For example, when Chu Mo was in the Mortal Realm of the Yanhuang Domain, a day was merely twelve hours. During that time, from sunrise to sunset and back to sunrise, it was about twelve hours. But when Chu Mo reached the Spirit Realm, the duration of a day actually became infinitely longer. It might turn into forty-eight hours in the Mortal Realm. But in fact, in the Spirit Realm, a day is also counted using twelve hours.

Then to the Immortal Realm, this worldly duration grows longer; then to the Heavenly Realm, a day becomes even more prolonged.

Thus, there is an ancient saying passed down in the Mortal Realm: One day in heaven, a year on earth.

But in the Heavenly Realm, a day is also twelve hours. However, each hour's duration is infinitely stretched compared to the Mortal Realm. Yet, when you experience it personally, you wouldn't feel this day is extraordinarily long.

The secrets contained within this field of time are challenging to unravel completely even for highly cultivated practitioners.

Furthermore, here in the Tunnel, a day, in fact, compared to Chu Mo's former Mortal Realm, could be years or even decades!

Chu Chu, with a head full of black lines, looked at Chu Mo, pouting: "According to you, whoever our parents were younger when they were born is older?"

"Mm, yes, yes, that's exactly what I mean." Chu Mo said with a smiling face to Chu Chu: "Call me brother."

Chu Chu looked at Chu Mo, both crying and laughing: "You really want to be the elder brother?"

"I truly want to be your brother." Chu Mo said with a profound meaning.

Chu Chu suddenly froze, tenderly looked at Chu Mo, and said softly: "Okay, then you be the brother. In the future, you must protect me. Brother!"

"Good sister, brother will surely protect you in the future!" Chu Mo said seriously, looking at Chu Chu.

Chu Chu chuckled, then said: "It seems... having a brother would be a pretty nice thing. Actually, I often thought from a young age that I should have had a brother. Always fantasizing how great it would be if there was a brother, he could protect me, spoil me, pamper me, and shield me from the wind and rain. No matter what happens, he would rush ahead of me. And as for me, I just need to honestly follow behind my brother."

Saying that, Chu Chu sighed lightly: "When mother gave birth to me, according to age at that time, she was already over a hundred years old, wasn't she? You know, cultivators don't really mind age much."

Chu Mo thought for a while, suddenly said: "Mother now... it seems she should be just over a hundred years old."

"The mother over there?" Chu Chu looked at Chu Mo with big eyes.

Chu Mo contemplated and said: "Before I left Luotian Immortal Domain, I held a wedding ceremony. I did it simultaneously with father and mother; their experiences were quite challenging, mother didn't put on wedding attire when she was with father back in the day."

Then, the brothers and sisters sat there, and Chu Mo began to tell Chu Chu about various experiences from his side.

Chu Chu listened quietly, sometimes showing a look of tension, sometimes of anger, and occasionally with a faint smile.

Regarding the betrayal of the Imperial Clan's peripheral branches, the prophecy of that world, and various encounters after Chu Mo's birth, Chu Chu expressed extremely strong anger.

She said: "In my place, the peripheral branches of the Imperial Clan aren't any good either, but, because there isn't that damned prophecy in my world, the Imperial Clan is still very strong, though these branches are annoying, they cannot stir up any major things."

Chu Mo said in the end, looking at Chu Chu, "At father and mother's wedding, I once suggested to them to give me another brother or sister. If they really had a sister..."

Chu Chu looked at Chu Mo, "Then her name would probably be Chu Chu!"

"You have this feeling?" Chu Mo asked Chu Chu.

"I didn't before, but recently...I started to feel it." Chu Chu said softly, "I once thought I was an anomaly, because no matter what realm I reached, I didn't have that kind of sense. But recently, I've started to have a faint sense. But I never thought in that direction. Now that you mention it, I understand. Brother, you are the anomaly!"

Chu Mo smiled wryly and nodded, "An anomaly...is not really a good thing."

After that, the siblings here exchanged and verified so much information. Though it was their first meeting, they felt like they had been siblings for years. There was no sense of estrangement typical of first encounters with strangers, and they maintained absolute trust in each other.

It was a resonance from the soul!

Chu Mo shared a hypothesis from his mind, "The time laws within the Tunnel must be different from those of the major universes. Perhaps, we are actually reincarnated from members of the Chu Clan royal lineage in the Tunnel. Otherwise, why would there be such a closeness in the soul?"

Chu Chu also agreed somewhat with this hypothesis. She said, "I've heard of the Chu Clan royal lineage in the Tunnel, and back then there was a kind of agitation, as if from the depths of the soul, feeling very sad."

Chu Mo nodded, "I feel the same."

Chu Chu said, "Spiritual Master Lingtong...he is an ancient, ancient existence in our world, at least from several epochs ago."

This news shocked Chu Mo because nobody had thought before that Spiritual Master Lingtong was such an ancient being. After all, in his world, Spiritual Master Lingtong should be a prominent figure in modern history of the ancestral realm.

Chu Chu looked at Chu Mo, "So when you say the time laws of the two universes are completely different, this can also be concluded from this."

It's also Chu Mo's first realization that in another Luotian universe, Spiritual Master Lingtong is from an era even before ancient times. Thus, by entering the Tunnel and then the Luotian universe where he is, affecting the Spiritual Master Lingtong of his world, and causing his Dao Conversion death, it's not so strange. After all, the gap between their realms is as vast as Heaven and Earth!

Moreover, if Chu Chu's world's Spiritual Master Lingtong is truly an existence from such a distant era, then his realm...can almost certainly be said to surpass the ancestral realm, at least being a presence of the Supreme realm!

Chu Mo even speculated in his heart: Could the great ancestor many people talk about actually be Spiritual Master Lingtong?

But thinking it over, Chu Mo felt it unlikely. If Spiritual Master Lingtong was truly the great ancestor, why would he bother planting such a scheme in his world? Such an existence could achieve whatever he wanted with just a thought.

"If the enemy brother faces is truly Spiritual Master Lingtong, then that would indeed be a massive trouble. About him...I know very little. Only once in the Imperial Clan's library did I see references to him. It was so ancient, and the remaining information is extremely scarce. Why would such an existence become hostile to brother? That doesn't seem right?" Chu Chu frowned.

At this moment, Chu Mo suddenly asked, "How much do you know about the Chu Clan royal lineage in the Tunnel?"

This sentence seemed to suddenly awaken Chu Chu, and she exclaimed, "The Chu Clan royal lineage has almost become a legend in today's Tunnel! The period should be extremely ancient, from what I hear, it's always felt like things from such distant times."

Chu Mo murmured, "There has been a break in the history within the Tunnel, but I have a feeling. It seems the history and time of the Tunnel have been deliberately altered, causing many things to feel particularly chaotic as we delve deeper."

"I feel the same, it's like a tangled mess, making one want to go crazy," Chu Chu said.

"Then let's not think about it!" Chu Mo looked at Chu Chu, "These things are too distant from us, and now is not the time when we're able to overturn them. I'm going to sever your divine rank right now!"

"Ah? No...we can't do it now." Chu Chu directly refused. Then she said, "Previously, I didn't know you were my brother, my closest person in this world. So I wanted to somehow reach you, whatever the conditions, I wanted to shatter the divine rank. But since you are my closest person, I can't do that."

"Are you afraid of being discovered?" Chu Mo asked.

Chu Chu nodded, "Yes, this isn't a joke. Your ability to shatter divine ranks is a real thorn in the side of all ancient clans in the Tunnel! Imagine, how many cultivators are on the Investiture of the Gods in the Tunnel today? Though they're generally disregarded by all the ancient clans in the Tunnel, in practice, they bear the immensely difficult burden of being the main force resisting the invasion of Gray Land beings. Once these ancient clans know your capabilities, once those on the Investiture of the Gods are aware of this matter, imagine what consequences might follow?"

"I would be hunted by all ancient clans collectively," Chu Mo smiled, "At the same time, I would be viewed as a savior by all beings on the Investiture of the Gods. Both sides...would generate tremendous pressure."

"Yes, but not only that, think about how the Chu Clan royal lineage was destroyed." Chu Chu looked at Chu Mo, "I suspect that not only was there higher-level intervention in this matter, but also...all major ancient clans in the Tunnel were involved! It's just that the time was so long ago, there aren't any past informants left."