When I woke up, I wanted to go home.

Though I have been alone in a foreign land for thousands of years, I have never stopped missing my family!

After hundreds of thousands of years of effort, Zhu Chongjiu finally stepped into the void of his hometown.

Two lines of tears streamed down his face.

Seeing this, the children didn't say anything to disturb them, letting their Ninth Brother vent his emotions.

"Brothers, I'm home!"

A moment later, Zhu Chongjiu spoke with a smile through his tears.

"Then what are we waiting for? Ninth Brother, hurry up and take us to see your sister-in-law and your niece."

"Xiao Mu, Xiao Lei, Xiao Huo... have you prepared gifts for your sister-in-law and niece?"

Let me tell you, don't embarrass yourselves then.

"Little Jin, do you need to tell me? I was already prepared when we first left the Proterozoic Era."

"Yes, me too. I saw the treasure a hundred thousand years ago and have been saving it for my niece ever since. Unlike you guys."

"Why……?

You little rascal, among all these people, you're usually the most honest.

I never imagined you'd be the best at flattery.

………!

The little ones chattered excitedly.

However, the children noticed that Zhu Chongjiu's expression, which had initially been one of joyful tears, was gradually changing.

"What's wrong, Ninth Brother?" Xiao Hei, who was the first to notice Zhu Chongjiu's strange expression, asked.

"No, the aura in the universe is wrong." Upon hearing Zhu Chongjiu's words, the little ones stopped playing around and began to carefully sense the surroundings.

"Something is definitely not right. Why does the atmosphere in the universe feel so lifeless?"

"This doesn't seem like a universe teeming with life," Xiaorou said, frowning first.

“According to the explanation of the Divine Void King, Ninth Brother’s hometown is even earlier than the Primordial Era, so it should be more prosperous, Ninth Brother…?” Xiao Jin asked Zhu Chongjiu after finishing the sentence.

"I don't know either. When I left here, I was just an ordinary mortal."

However, although I was just a mortal at the time, I knew that the universe I lived in was definitely not filled with such a deathly atmosphere.

Because ordinary mortals cannot survive in this deathly aura.

At this point, Zhu Chongjiu seemed to realize something, and with a look of horror, he shouted "Oh no!" before disappearing from sight.

Seeing this, the children quickly followed his scent and chased after him.

Three months later, the group of children, who had been traveling at the fastest speed ever, finally met Zhu Chongjiu.

At this moment, their Ninth Brother, with bloodshot eyes and a murderous aura surging throughout his body, stood in front of an abandoned planet.

"At this moment, Ninth Brother's killing intent had materialized, making him dozens of times stronger than the Asura King of the Asura Clan back then."

"Everyone, don't approach Ninth Brother yet, lest he be momentarily blinded by his own murderous aura and attack everyone around him."

Seeing this, Xiao Rou hurriedly spoke to the group who were about to go up the mountain.

"Then what should we do? Should we just let Ninth Brother withstand the Law of Slaughter on his own?"

"If Ninth Brother is assimilated by the Law of Slaughter, he will become a monster who only knows how to kill." Xiao Jin asked anxiously at this moment.

Just as the children were at a loss about the situation, Zhu Chongjiu in front of them said leisurely, "Your Ninth Brother is fine."

All I want to know right now is, who did this?

Although Zhu Chongjiu spoke these two sentences seemingly casually, everyone could feel his boundless hatred and killing intent.

"Why don't we go back and ask the Azure Dragon God? He's just a gatekeeper, how could he not know that his own house has been robbed?" Xiao Lei said.

"Xiao Lei is right."

As we've come all this way, we've discovered that it's not just this one inhabited planet in front of you, Ninth Brother, that has been destroyed.

Throughout the vast galaxies, countless life-bearing planets have been destroyed.

"Such a major event happened in the grand Second Universe, the 'Primordial Eon,' I don't believe the Azure Dragon God was unaware of it," Xiao Tu continued, picking up where Xiao Lei left off.

"Yes, they wouldn't let us come back then."

They said they were afraid we weren't from here, afraid we'd ruin this place.

How is it now?

Is this how the Azure Dragon God guards the gate?

Even if he's at the Venerable level or higher, so what? We have to find him back then and get to the bottom of this." Xiong Da said, pounding his chest loudly.

Just as everyone thought they should go back and ask Qing Shenlong for clarification, Zhu Chongjiu interrupted them in a chilling tone, saying:

"No need, I can already sense that the aura of that passage has disappeared...!"

"What……?

That Azure Dragon God is too wicked!

As everyone knows, if you ask around the entire Archean Universe, you'll find that I, Little Jin, am the most vengeful being.

"Don't let me ever become anything above the Venerable level...!"

"Alright, everyone, stop arguing and let Ninth Brother say what to do," Xiao Rou interrupted the crowd's indignation and looked at Zhu Chongjiu.

"what to do……?

Let me see who did this.

After Zhu Chongjiu finished speaking, he pushed his palms towards the lifeless planet in front of him, and at the same time, he spoke the words of the Heavenly Mandate, from which a series of profound and majestic sounds of the Great Dao emanated.

"The Way of Time in All Laws, the Reversal of Time!"

When Zhu Chongjiu's power of the Great Dao was applied to the planet before him, a long river of time suddenly appeared and enveloped it.

As time flows by, scenes resembling those in a movie unfold before everyone's eyes.

Zhu Chongjiu originally thought that this time reversal would last for a long time, and might even go back to the moment he left home, which was hundreds of thousands of years ago.

But something unexpected happened.

As the scene rapidly rewinds, returning to just three years prior, we arrive back at this planet, wondering how it has become what it is today.

In the long river of time, Zhu Chongjiu saw the night he left.

Nothing has changed.

However, just as everyone had fallen asleep and even the city was slowly drifting off to sleep, a massive, dark cloud that blotted out the sky was rapidly approaching this beautiful planet in the void of space.

Wherever this black cloud passes, all living things are destroyed, their life force swallowed up by the cloud.

Upon seeing this, Xiao Hei was the first to exclaim in surprise: "Zhou Yun...?"

How could it be a cosmic cloud?

In the memories I have inherited, there is not a single piece of information about Zhouyun becoming a spirit.

The "chaotic cloud" that Senior Rat gave me back then also lacked any spirituality.

Furthermore, why does this cosmic cloud, after becoming a spirit, devour the life force of everything it passes through?

"Brother Hei, are you sure you're not mistaken? That's Zhou Yun?" Xiao Rou asked.

“Because this cosmic cloud is key to my growth, I can’t possibly be wrong,” Xiao Hei replied.

Zhu Chongjiu put away his divine powers, not because he didn't want to watch anymore, but because he dared not watch anymore.

Because whenever he sees his parents, wife, and daughters having their life force devoured by that evil cloud, his murderous intent will involuntarily surge up.

"It seems that these two universes are on different timelines."

I've been gone for almost 400,000 years, but it's only been a little over three years here.

Moreover, judging from the appearance, I must have transmigrated into the Proterozoic Era after I died.

Back then, I was still struggling with whether I was a soul or a human, and which of these two types of time travel was the one I was trying to traverse.

He was still overthinking things, afraid that his parents and wife would worry.

Looking at it now... how ridiculous!

"Ninth Brother, now is not the time to be sad. I think since we can't find the gatekeeper, we must take down this sentient cloud."

Extract that wisp of its true spirit, and then let Little Fire use his Myriad Fire Purgatory to burn it for millions of years.

Let me use my golden essence to pierce it for millions of years.

Then let Little Rou use her heavy water power to suppress it...!

After hearing Xiao Jin's words, Zhu Chongjiu withdrew a trace of his murderous intent and anger, and said to Xiao Hei:

"Little Black, now, immediately, catch up with this cosmic cloud."

When the time comes, just like Xiao Jin said, I want it to know, only know, what the meaning of life is.