In the dazzling, bizarre world, Zhou Yan once again forgot a part of his true heart.

It seemed that all will and majesty would sink and be forgotten in such a world.

All important things would also become particularly unimportant, particularly pale and powerless.

This world, beautiful and colorful, possessed unimaginable mystical energy, filled with a kind of longing and the ambience of True Void.

Zhou Yan found himself within, and all sensations about himself became incredibly detached. He was like a spirit of this world, a Word Spirit Body, floating in an unknown, beautiful void, watching scene after scene of changes around him.

Not far away, Hua Qiudao still displayed an expression of extreme enjoyment. Indeed, this expression of enjoyment was accompanied by some strange actions, exhibiting the manifestations corresponding to the Seven Emotions and Six Desires.

But Zhou Yan saw very clearly that Hua Qiudao was just alone there, seemingly accompanied by beautiful life forms, yet around him, there were only some unknown, fantastical multicolored auspicious clouds.

The multicolored auspicious clouds presented a kind of illusory color, extremely mesmerizing. When Zhou Yan looked over, he too was somewhat attracted, to the point that he had the idea of experiencing this wonderful feeling.

However, this thought was quickly denied by Zhou Yan’s inner self.

He vaguely felt that he had a responsibility and sense of duty, that a core part of him urged him not to do so.

This notion, this simple strand of concern, perhaps was Zhou Yan’s greatest difference from the other Word Spirits and life around him here.

Zhou Yan walked past Hua Qiudao, with endlessly beautiful life forms appearing by his side, all revealing an expectant, desirous look as they gazed at Zhou Yan. In this gaze, even the most emotionless life forms would find it hard to part and would want to stay.

He saw those familiar faces, yet couldn’t remember how many lifetimes he had encountered some of these beauties, these extraordinary women.

In his heart, there was also some inexplicable reluctance, but Zhou Yan’s true heart also knew that he couldn’t stay here, and these beauties couldn’t really exist by his side.

Perhaps, if he sunk into this place, the beautiful ladies appearing around him would remain incredibly real, and he could experience endless joy and happiness, spending infinite years here until all fantasies and eternal life reached their end.

But Zhou Yan still thought of Hua Qiudao’s essential situation.

Hua Qiudao’s situation might be similar to his own, and ultimately, if he were to sink, he would probably only be trapped within the illusory extinction of word spirits.

This understanding of his own nature allowed Zhou Yan to eventually pass by Hua Qiudao.

Afterwards, the scene of Hua Qiudao disappeared, and Zhou Yan could no longer see Hua Qiudao.

But he saw various supernatural plants full of Spiritual Energy, some golden mushrooms, reaching two or three meters in size, their whole bodies shining with golden light, emitting inexplicable energy of light and heat, circulating around them.

And some plants had a round human head, with a unique adorable expression, the round face a vivid green, green like jade.

This humanoid plant was entirely green, with banana-like leaves on the top and behind the face, forming waves that occasionally emitted a unique power of the Wind Element toward the word spirits.

Within this power, the plant blinked its adorable large eyes, occasionally giving a cute smile to passing word spirits.

Besides such plants, there was also a purple herb with a head resembling an ancient lizard, looking extremely fierce, spurting flames from its mouth now and then. After the flames burst out, they automatically returned, appearing exceptionally eerie.

The elemental power of these flames lingered around this lizard herb, filled with a sense of explosive aura.

Zhou Yan looked again and saw an herb plant with a figure like a fairy, with extremely captivating elegant features. Its entire body was a light purple, appearing extraordinarily noble. Threads of lightning aura swirled around its body, with two tendrils drooping from the sides of its face, shimmering with faint misty light.

The light circulated, and the space emitted a subtle Emperor Qi.

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There were many other exotic plants, each possessing the spiritual essence of word spirits.

As Zhou Yan passed by these plants, his soul inexplicably calmed, a strange sense of eye-opening arising in his heart.

While he might not remember many things, Zhou Yan believed he had never seen these things before.

After passing through these endless exotic plants, Zhou Yan arrived beside a celestial river.

The water of the celestial river was very calm, with no visible flow, but Zhou Yan understood that still waters run deep, and the calmer the river, the more terrifying its depth.

Zhou Yan watched the river, a large number of word spirits flying over it. Among them were some beings familiar to Zhou Yan, those that survived the calamity of destruction.

However, when these entities flew over the river, they were suddenly subjected to the rules that inexplicably appeared above the river, suppressed and cast into the water.

In the river, dried entities appeared one after another.

These entities were withered, their soul bodies and fleshly bodies transformed to the extreme, resembling mummified remains, starting to pile up in the river.

Zhou Yan looked at the river, seeing in it heaps of dried corpses piled high as mountains.

The women within the corpses, their long black hair drifted in the river, like aquatic plants. A cold and eerie aura assaulted Zhou Yan’s mind, almost instinctively urging him to fly toward the river.

But at that critical moment, Zhou Yan felt a warmth at the center of his brow, and after the faint power of the golden leaf flowed through him, Zhou Yan became significantly more lucid.

When he looked at the river again, it had returned to normal, and the mountain of corpses within it was no longer visible.

In the Void, there were beings flying by, among them a young boy’s soul. He stood above the river, manipulating the power of the river, channeling it to an unknown space in the distance.

The river remained unmoving, while the young soul seemed to undergo some indescribable transformation. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

The boy transformed into a gigantic black creature, entirely pitch-black, as dark as could be.

Then came a sound of a dragon’s roar and a tiger’s howl, filled with an aura of Emperor Qi that captured the Creation of Heaven and Earth, and then the emperor black dragon lifted its head and roared, beginning to absorb the river.

It seemed like it wanted to swallow the river in one gulp.

However, as the river soared skyward, about to be fully engulfed by the black dragon that the boy had transformed into, the dragon sensed something and glanced at the place where Zhou Yan was standing.

Zhou Yan shuddered instantly, and those cold and indifferent eyes of the black dragon also underwent an inexplicable change.

Afterward, Zhou Yan felt a chill in his heart, but upon waking more fully, he discovered that the river was still calm, the Void was devoid of beings, and the word spirits flying were unaffected by the river.

The black dragon seemed as if it never appeared.

In this emotionless world, Zhou Yan felt an inexplicable hint of sadness in his heart for the first time.

In the moment that sadness appeared, darkness suddenly enveloped Heaven and Earth, as if returning to the dark sky of the past. By Zhou Yan’s side, there also appeared a middle-aged, grey-haired woman.

She looked at Zhou Yan with a calm gaze and said, "No matter when, remember to stick to your true heart, understand?"

"In the future, or the time to come, many changes will occur, but I, regardless of the form I take, will always be by your side."

The elderly woman spoke these words calmly, and these words appeared in the form of word spirits, manifesting in Zhou Yan’s heart, deep within the memories of his Eternal Spirit.

Zhou Yan felt as if his sealed Seven Emotions and Six Desires were finally surfacing uncontrollably. That state of confusion was about to dissipate, like light piercing through the night; even the smallest sliver would become immensely beautiful and captivating.

As Zhou Yan gradually shed the unknown feeling of haze and lethargy, his mind cleared, and bit by bit, his memory began to awaken.

Now, the darkness in Heaven and Earth gradually faded, and the Void began to race violently.

As Zhou Yan recovered more memories, the world around him changed ever more swiftly.

Finally, as the world underwent a fundamental transformation, Zhou Yan quietly stood at the end of the Heavenly Road of the Town Domain Demon Origin.

The end of the Heavenly Road was an Ancient City.

A beautiful Ancient City, whose beauty rivaled that of the Elf Domain.

It could even be said to surpass it.

Zhou Yan looked at the beautiful Ancient City and then sighed softly, "It seems that I really have passed the test of the Word Spirit King Realm, but although that Word Spirit King Realm seemed devoid of danger, it was actually filled with traps where beings could become lost."

Zhou Yan murmured to himself, as if talking to himself.

But he knew, the Speech Spirit Heavenly Girl must be nearby.

Because in the Word Spirit Ancient City, nothing could be hidden from the Speech Spirit Heavenly Girl.

And Zhou Yan had previously had significant contact with the Speech Spirit Heavenly Girl, knowing that this woman was exceptionally intelligent—if those projections were real, then the wisdom of the Speech Spirit Heavenly Girl could not be underestimated.

And a wise woman is definitely someone extremely difficult for Zhou Yan to deal with.

Fu Wanling is such a being close to the King Realm, also such a woman.

After Zhou Yan finished speaking, there was a pervasive flow of indifferent natural aura and the rhythm of Phantom Spirit Word Spirit around him, and then a woman naturally materialized, standing about five meters in front of Zhou Yan.

"I didn’t expect you to have lived another life and yet still come here,"

The Speech Spirit Heavenly Girl Fu Wanling said in a detached tone.

This detached tone seemed akin to apathy.

Upon hearing this tone, Zhou Yan realized that the things that happened with Fu Wanling in the Soul Burying Starfield were no longer of significance.