Long River Eternity

Lin Ding and Liu Xianxian chatted with Yang Nian for a while, then said goodbye to Yang Nian and left.

Not long after the two left, Yang Nian sat back on the lounge chair by the window, staring at the inky night outside the window, carefully recalling Liu Xianxian's every move today, and finally her thoughts stopped at her last conversation with Liu Xianxian.

"Are you Liu Xianxian or Ye Tingxue now?" Yang Nian asked.

"Can you answer me a question first?" Liu Xianxian asked sincerely.

"Is it about Xiao An?" Yang Nian had already guessed what Liu Xianxian wanted to ask, and asked back.

Liu Xianxian nodded and asked in a deep voice, "Will he show up again?"

Yang Nian shook his head slightly. "I don't know. No one knows what his plans are. We can only take things one step at a time."

"What exactly are you or Yang An planning?" Liu Xianxian asked with confusion.

Yang Nian sighed and said, "You died too young, so you don't understand many things. The outcome of the final battle, and the circumstances of the world war ten thousand years ago, everything is full of strangeness."

Liu Xianxian's eyes widened, and she suddenly remembered that Yang An and his team had survived for billions of years and must have experienced the era when the Ye Ming Project took place. She couldn't wait to ask, "Yes, have you discovered the truth that caused the experiment to fail?"

Yang Nian shook his head again and sighed helplessly, "This is the most bizarre thing. We hid in the vicinity of the laboratory at that time, and even spent a lot of spiritual essence to restore our own cultivation to the Domination Realm, but we still couldn't find the mastermind behind the experiment.

All we saw was a shower of meteorites falling from the sky. We tried to stop them at the same time, and although we managed to stop the initial meteor shower, a giant meteorite with a diameter of nearly one kilometer appeared in the end.

At that time, our skills were simply not enough to intercept such a huge meteorite. We could only smash it to pieces with all our might. The fragments fell around the laboratory, causing what was then known as an earthquake. The largest piece of the fragments went straight through the laboratory and hit the time machine, breaking it in half. Then the world war began, and missiles fell from the sky.

Although some missiles were blocked by the interception system and us, several missiles still fell around the laboratory and even fell into the gaps created by the meteorites. The laboratory instantly turned into a hell on earth.

Finally, several nuclear bombs fell. We had already expended a great deal of our spiritual energy destroying the meteorites, and were completely unable to withstand the impact of the nuclear bombs, so we had no choice but to evacuate temporarily.

"How... could this be?" Liu Xianxian was extremely shocked. "What is this? A natural disaster? Or was there someone more powerful than you at that time?"

She knew very well that Yang An and his group at that time already possessed the strength of a sect master. Even if their cultivation was not enough, their realm had not changed. If it was not a natural disaster, how could someone summon a meteorite under their noses, and they did not even track down any clues? It was simply unbelievable.

"These matters are so complex and complicated that it's hard to explain them all at once. We're here to seek the truth," Yang Nian said. He then stared at Liu Xianxian and said solemnly, "Lin Ding will be back soon. Please answer my questions honestly and quickly."

Liu Xianxian took a deep breath and said, "If Yang An comes back, I will be Ye Tingxue. If he doesn't come back, then there will be no Ye Tingxue in this world, especially that evil Ye Tingxue."

Yang Nian stared at Liu Xianxian for a long time, then said in a deep voice, "I hope you'll keep your word. Clean up the mess left by that vengeful spirit as soon as possible."

"Don't worry." Liu Xianxian said resolutely.

Yang Nian's gaze slowly turned to the bright moon hanging high in the sky. He sighed softly and flicked his finger slightly. An apple in the bag of fruit left by Lin Ding slowly rose and fell into Yang Nian's palm.

Yang Nian took a light bite of the apple, and his thoughts drifted back to ten thousand years ago like flying catkins.

On the same night, Yang An, Yang Nian, Shi Gang and Qin Hanming appeared together on the top of a towering mountain in southern China.

"Old Yang, if we find out who is behind this, should we stop them? If we do, we won't be able to travel back to ancient times, and will we disappear now?" Shi Gang walked to Yang An's side and asked with confusion.

"Relax, time is like a rushing river, it will never flow backwards. Even if you erase your current self at this moment, you will not disappear out of thin air. Watch less science fiction movies and stop thinking about it." Yang An said with a comforting smile.

"How long will it take to start the experiment?" Qin Hanming asked.

Yang An looked at the huge experimental base at the foot of the mountain, which was brightly lit and heavily guarded. He took out his phone from his pocket and checked the time. The screen showed 8:50 pm: "Ten minutes left."

"Mr. Qin, you still have no premonition of what is about to happen?" Yang Nian asked at this time.

Qin Hanming's eyes flashed with colorful light, and then he shook his head helplessly: "There is no sign, it's all chaos."

"It's really strange. This is the first time in all these years. Even such earth-shaking events as the fall of the Dao Court and the decisive battle with the demon clan had certain signs, but this time there are no clues at all." Shi Gang said in disbelief.

"Xiao An, is there anything unusual in your domain?" Yang Nian asked.

Yang An shook his head, his brows furrowed even more.

The moment he reached the top of the mountain, Yang An had already opened his Chaos Domain. Any movement within a hundred miles of the laboratory could not escape Yang An's observation.

However, at this moment, Yang An still failed to notice anything unusual.

Time passed minute by minute, and when the time finally pointed to nine o'clock, the electric towers surrounding the laboratory below flashed with bursts of blue electricity.

"It's started!" Yang An said loudly.

As the blue electric current flashed faster and faster, all the lights suddenly shone brightly, and then dimmed together. The surroundings instantly fell into darkness, and only the flashlights in the hands of the patrolling soldiers cast faint lights below.

"Something's happening!" Yang An shouted loudly, but his eyes were not looking down the mountain, but up into the sky.

Everyone followed Yang An's gaze and saw through the layers of clouds that dense red light spots were passing through the atmosphere and rapidly falling to the ground, like fire from heaven descending to the earth.

"It's a meteor shower!" Shi Gang shouted at the top of his voice.

"Fortunately, it's not that big and can't break through my Chaos Realm." Yang An was about to breathe a sigh of relief when his expression suddenly changed and he exclaimed, "No! There's another huge meteorite behind us!"

"Meteorite?! How big is it?" Shi Gang asked in surprise.

"Almost one kilometer!" Yang An replied.

"One kilometer?! If such a huge meteorite falls, half of China will probably suffer a devastating disaster? How could the Astronomical Bureau not observe it?" Yang Nian said in disbelief.

"I can't care about so many things. I must destroy it in advance, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable!" As soon as Yang An finished speaking, he flew into the air.

The other three followed closely behind, and the four of them quickly came above the clouds. At this time, a huge meteorite wrapped in blazing flames had appeared in their sight.

"With our current level of cultivation, it may be difficult to completely destroy it!" Qin Hanming said in a heavy tone.

"Do your best." Before Yang An finished speaking, a huge meteorite had already slammed into his domain, and the domain was instantly covered with dense cracks.