Chapter 2021 - 2017: Battle with Nuwa
Ye Fan’s date with Tantai Wanrong was about to end very soon, because Ye Fan had already sensed Nuwa’s appearance.
Halfway through the date, before they had even finished wandering around the mall, Ye Fan had to leave. Ye Fan said, "Aunt Rong, I have to go now. There’s something important. If I have time later, I’ll come back!"
Tantai Wanrong was stunned at first, then she asked, "What about me?"
"If Aunt Rong wants to keep going, you can continue on your own. But it’s better if you go home and rest first. Tonight is different from usual. I should be able to come back soon!" Ye Fan said.
"Sigh! When you say ’soon,’ that’s only relative to you. I came out with you, yet I have to go back alone. Just saying it feels a bit bitter. But you’d better hurry and deal with your own business; you can’t delay your big matters. Don’t worry about me for now!" When she finished, it seemed Tantai Wanrong still wanted to continue the date, as if she wanted to keep strolling around the mall, while Ye Fan left Hua Hai City carrying a heavy sense of guilt.
When Ye Fan appeared before Xi He, Xi He respectfully saluted Ye Fan and said, "Master, it seems the detection network you set up has already located Nuwa’s presence!"
"Mm." Ye Fan closed his eyes and sensed slightly. In an inconspicuous planet within the Thousand Stars Illusory Domain, there seemed to be faint fluctuations of power, and behind those fluctuations was, in fact, a trace of Xuan Nv’s power.
Ye Fan was, after all, Xuan Nv’s master, and he could detect Xuan Nv’s power very clearly. He quickly locked onto this change and brought Xi He to appear on that planet.
The planet looked very ordinary, because this was a slaughterhouse of a human civilization within the Thousand Stars Illusory Domain. Ye Fan didn’t know when the human civilization on this planet had arisen; he could only watch the evolution of that entire human civilization as if watching a play.
There seemed to be traces of human civilization there, yet it also looked like an alien civilization, because he knew that this human civilization he was seeing definitely had not taken place on Earth.
The human technology here was more advanced; on this planet, humans were even fighting against Cultivators.
"Master, this should be a situation that occurred before the first Heavenly Tribulation!" Xi He explained. "Before the first Heavenly Tribulation, human civilization had already reached a terrifying level that even Nuwa could no longer control. Nuwa launched annihilation against certain powerful human civilizations, and in just a few days, she strangled several major human civilizations completely. After that, human civilization in the universe entered a long period of extinction! At that time, Earth’s civilization hadn’t yet been born."
"Mm." Ye Fan nodded slightly. He didn’t want to pass judgment on what lay before his eyes. The changes in this human civilization were too rapid, making him feel a kind of technology completely different from Earth’s civilization.
All the forces here seemed capable of surpassing those of cultivators; a Golden Core Stage expert was no match at all for humans. Interstellar starships here had already become reality. Yet in the end, this civilization was still destroyed by Nuwa.
"Nuwa should be hiding here." Ye Fan said. "Behind these successive phantoms, Nuwa may be concealed. Her power is hidden very well, but unfortunately she’s in the middle of modifying Xuan Nv. I can sense the energy changes within Xuan Nv’s body; all of this is happening in the surroundings!"
"If Master can pinpoint where she is, that would be best!" Xi He said. "Can Master confirm Nuwa’s exact location?"
Ye Fan shook his head slightly with a trace of regret and said, "Her position is already quite certain. She shouldn’t be able to escape!"
Ye Fan closed his eyes. Within a relatively small region, all the energy fluctuations there were laid bare and had nowhere to hide. After all, the energy within the Thousand Stars Illusory Domain was only a kind of illusory existence. As long as Ye Fan saw through the mist, he could find the source of the energy.
As Ye Fan probed, he saw the phantoms of the planet before his eyes gradually disperse, and in the end two figures appeared beyond the planet. Xi He sized up the distance and said, "That’s right, that should be Nuwa and Xuan Nv! It looks like there’s another person..."
"It’s Su Girl!" Ye Fan opened his eyes and looked toward the distance. "After Su Girl disappeared, we never found any trace of her. I didn’t expect she was imprisoned by Nuwa. Nuwa seems to be planning to do something using the Nine Heavens Mysterious Woman and Jiuyou Su Girl. There is a certain type of power on them that Nuwa can exploit!"
With that, Ye Fan had already brought Xi He to appear in front of Nuwa.
Nuwa was still using an almost cruel power to transform Xuan Nv. When Ye Fan appeared, she had no choice but to stop what she was doing; after imprisoning Xuan Nv into a temporal cage, she turned to look at Ye Fan. At this moment, only one Su Girl who seemed to have lost consciousness remained before her.
"Ye Fan, you still managed to track me down. Looks like your cultivation has improved quite a bit again!" Nuwa coldly sized Ye Fan up, her gaze toward him filled with a sharp killing intent.
Ye Fan said, "Why did you imprison Xuan Nv and Su Girl? You should know these two women now belong to me. You took my things, so I have to reclaim them from you!"
"Haha." Nuwa looked extremely pleased with herself and sneered. "You’re going to reclaim them from me? On what grounds? You’re merely a human. All humans are my creations. You’re not qualified to speak to me like that!"
Xi He said, "Lady Nuwa, my master has already received authorization from Pan Gu and Fu Xi. As long as it can be proven that you kidnapped Xuan Nv, then Master can kill you, and even dispose of you at will, and Pan Gu and Fu Xi will not interfere in this matter. If you still have any sense, you’d best not fight against my master!"
"Impudence! How dare you speak to me like that—are you tired of living?" Nuwa snapped sharply.
Ye Fan laughed lightly and said, "Who’s tired of living has yet to be seen! Nuwa, I’ve always wanted a battle with you, but unfortunately I still don’t have the strength to completely defeat you. Right now is the best opportunity. I won’t wait until after the Heavenly Tribulation to kill you. I’m going to settle this with you right now!"
Nuwa sized Ye Fan up; she seemed to be searching for flaws in him. In the end, as if she wanted to avoid this battle, she said, "You think that just because you want to fight me, I’ll oblige you? Haha, if you have the ability, track me down again first..."
As she finished speaking, Nuwa tried to flee. She seemed to have an even larger plan and disdained the idea of fighting Ye Fan.
But when she tried to leave, she realized many things were different; the surrounding cosmic space seemed to have already been sealed off by Ye Fan. It was already impossible for her to leave.