Life span plundered, I became a detective and achieved immortality

Yuanxu Zhouhe, the border, in an ordinary and inconspicuous universe.

Chaotic air currents filled the void like mist, and an ancient temple covered in the dust of time stood quietly. The palace walls were made of dark gray meteorite stones, and the surface was covered with dark green moss. The bronze bells hanging on the eaves were already rusted, but they still made crisp "ding-ling" sounds when blown by the air currents, carrying a desolation that spanned the ages.

Deep in the temple, a figure stood with his hands behind his back, his back straight, but he could not hide the dejection emanating from his body.

He was wearing a gilded robe with intricate Yuanxu totems embroidered on the corners. The gold thread shone faintly in the dim light.

This person's face was about 70% similar to that of Yuanxu God, with the same sharp eyebrows, bright eyes, and a high nose bridge. However, there was less majesty between his eyebrows that overlooked the universe, and more anxiety and sinisterness that was difficult to conceal.

His skin was slightly pale, and his lips were tightly pursed into a cold, straight line. Only his eyes were astonishingly bright. Deep in his pupils, countless universes were slowly flowing.

Looking closely, those flowing things are not phantoms, but miniature cosmic rivers - some of the universes in them are in the chaotic stage of their birth, and the chaotic energy is surging like cotton wool; some have reached their twilight years, and universes in them are extinguished one after another, emitting a dead gray light.

These miniature cosmic rivers were exactly the same number as the major branch palaces of the Yuanxu Divine Palace that were destroyed one after another. Each one was engraved with a unique coordinate mark, but at this moment it was trembling violently in his pupils, as if it would collapse at any time.

The aura is also very similar to that of Yuanxu God, but it seems a little cold and much weaker. He has only stepped into the realm of the King of the Eight Heavens and Seas, like a small Yuanxu God who has not yet fully grown.

The next second...

He suddenly raised his hands, and his ten fingers moved rapidly at a speed that was difficult to see with the naked eye. Complex hand seals flashed in front of him one after another, leaving behind a series of afterimages.

He muttered to himself, and obscure and profound incantations flowed from his lips like a venomous snake, carrying an ancient rhythm that seemed to come from the beginning of the ocean of the universe. Every syllable vibrated the floor tiles of the temple, awakening the dormant array patterns:

"With the remnant of the Yuanxu Seal as proof, and the waves of the cosmic sea as a message—deliver this oracle, gather the scattered masses, and gather the shattered souls!"

"Inform Xuanming, Ziyuan, Cangwu, Pojun, and the other forces of Suixing: Although the Yuanxu has been destroyed, the flames are still burning. Spread this news quickly and spread it to all the nine-star forces in the sea of ​​​​the universe in the shortest possible time."

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Before he finished the spell, a ball of dazzling chaotic divine light suddenly exploded from his fingertips, and countless streams of light as thin as hair rushed out from the ball of light, each of which carried a miniature Yuanxu totem mark.

Like frightened fish, they circled in the temple for half a circle, and then shuttled away along the invisible veins of time and space - some broke through the void and fell into the bottomless rifts in the sea of ​​​​the universe; some scurried along the mottled palace walls, disappeared into the cracks in the moss-covered bricks; and some directly penetrated the rust on the bronze bells, turned into an inaudible bell sound, and floated to the depths of the universe along the air flow.

"Youngster, it won't be long before you realize how wrong your decision was. Although the Nine-Star Mid-stage King of the Universe Sea is strong, he is far inferior to those old antiques!"

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As seasons change and the stars turn, thousands of years pass by like sand through fingers.

Huanxu Zhouhe, after hundreds of millions of years, is still a dead void, with violent void currents everywhere, like countless ferocious dragons roaring, like a forbidden place for all living things.

Below the King of the Universe Sea, even the Lord of the Nine-Pattern Universe, as long as he penetrates one thousandth of its range, he will be in a life-or-death situation, and even his soul may be turned into ashes by the turbulent flow.

Suddenly, in the most chaotic place of the void turbulence, in the void of hundreds of billions of cosmic years around where the Shenxiao Universe once was, a man appeared out of thin air. He was wearing a dark ink-black robe and looked to be only in his early twenties. He had a handsome face, a bit of indifference between his brows, and an ordinary aura around him, as if he was just an ordinary cultivator who had just started practicing. But the strange thing was that the surrounding space-time turbulence that terrified the kings of the first and second heavens and seas seemed to have encountered a natural enemy. They all retreated and did not dare to approach within the range of ten thousand cosmic years, forming a strange vacuum zone.

This person is none other than Su Mo.

His eyes lightly swept across the chaotic void around him, and Su Mo opened his lips slightly. The word "ding" rolled like thunder, carrying the power of rules that could not be questioned, resounding throughout the Huanxu Zhouhe River.

The moment the words fell, the roaring turbulence of time and space seemed to be paused, and the violent energy suddenly solidified.

The space that was originally twisted like a pretzel slowly stretched out, and the cracks that tore the reality apart healed at a speed visible to the naked eye. Even the chaotic air currents that were powerful enough to crush the stars converged like the ebbing tide and turned into a gentle mist flowing in the void.

In the blink of an eye, the chaos that had lasted for tens of billions of cosmic years completely subsided. The turbulent space-time that had once terrified even the kings of the first and second heavens and seas vanished without a trace, the violent energy fluctuations subsided, and even light returned to its normal trajectory, no longer reflecting strange colors due to the distortion of space.

Immediately afterwards, this calming force spread to other parts of the Huanxu Universe River. In just three breaths, the 800 billion-year-old Huanxu Universe River no longer had any void turbulence or space-time storms. It was even much more peaceful than the Huanxu Universe River before its destruction, as if it had never experienced that devastating disaster.

"Next, it's the highlight!"

Su Mo's eyes focused. Calming down the chaos in the Huanxu Zhouhe River was just a prelude. The real purpose of his trip was to go back in time and space and rebuild the countless universes of the Huanxu Zhouhe River.

The next second...

The power of the Universe Sea in Su Mo's body suddenly boiled over, and the majestic aura of the King of the Universe Sea in the middle stage of the Ninth Heaven awakened like a dormant volcano. His dark ink-black robe moved without wind, and as his sleeves fluttered, billions of silver-white streams of light burst out from his body, spreading like a spider web to every inch of the void of the Huanxu Universe River.

"Back in time!"

With his low shout, the entire Huanxu Zhou River seemed to be thrown into the whirlpool of time.

Within a range of 800 billion cosmic years, visible ripples appeared in the void, the energy tides that had just subsided began to surge in the opposite direction, the embers of extinguished stars re-condensed, and even the cosmic dust followed the ancient trajectory backwards - this was time and space going back at a speed billions of times faster.

The outlines of universes emerged from nothingness, the heaven and earth quickly condensed in the world, and the many worlds were combined into squares of chaos and chaos circles... They were like pushed-over dominoes, constantly born from the edge of the Huanxu River to the center. The light of a large number of universes lit up one after another, illuminating the dark river like daylight.

In less than a cup of tea, most of the Huanxu River has returned to its pre-destruction prosperity. The stars are shining, and living beings are thriving in it. One can even faintly hear the noise coming from different universes. It is a thriving scene.

However, when the retrogressive wave touched the billion-year void that once housed the Shenxiao Universe, it suddenly stopped as if it had hit an invisible barrier. Even the silver-white light seemed to have hit a solid wall, causing violent ripples.

In this area, the ripples of time and space were violently distorted, and the silver-white light was constantly extinguished like a candle flame being swallowed by an invisible black hole, turning into sparks and dissipating.

The power of time and space that Su Mo mobilized was consumed crazily here, but he could not even outline a trace of the past image - there was no trajectory of the condensation of heaven and earth, no trace of the evolution of the world, and even the most basic time and space coordinates were constantly flickering and annihilating, as if this piece of void that had existed for billions of years had been a void since its birth, and no universe had ever existed.

Su Mo frowned, and the power of the universe in his body surged out without reservation. All over his body, the rules of the multiverse emerged frantically, interweaving into a huge network of rules, trying to forcibly tear apart the barrier of time and space, salvage the fragments of the Shenxiao Universe from a more ancient time and space, and revive this area.

But what made him feel powerless was that no matter how he mobilized his strength, that area remained as silent as ink, like a blank space that had been forcibly carved out in the long river of time and space. It was impossible to cross it, let alone enter an even more ancient time and space.

"Alas, it still doesn't work. It seems that if I want to rebuild the Shenxiao Universe, I'm afraid I really have to wait until I break through the King of the Universe Sea and embark on the road to transcendence!"

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