CHAPTER 557: CHAPTER 557: THE ANCESTOR EMPRESS MAKES HER OFFICIAL ENTRANCE (PLEASE FOLLOW)

As the future Gu Qingcheng’s body perished,

all life on Blue Star returned to normal, and all Rule Origins regained their former appearance, with Blue Star remaining just as it was.

But some people were gone.

The platinum Taotie waved his hand and said, "All Zi Family soldiers, come with me to level the Ouyang Imperial Race’s territory, leave no survivors, eradicate them completely!"

"Boom!"

The Zi Family Members who had transformed into vicious beasts charged joyously with the platinum Taotie in a thunderous assault.

But Ziran, Yun Bing, and Yunxi could not feel the slightest bit of joy.

The three women quickly reached Xiao Ye, who sat on the ground in despair, and seeing his expression twisted with pain, they asked anxiously,

"Xiao Ye, where’s Qingcheng, where did she go?"

Xiao Ye opened his palm, revealing two tiny, crumbling points of light inside.

Looking closely, if you magnified these two points of light, they both appeared to be soul bodies in the image of Gu Qingcheng.

But one was mature and charming, the other only roughly touched upon that allure.

He spoke in grief,

"Sister Qingcheng is here."

"The soul bodies have not only fallen into slumber, they’re crumbling, and even being rejected by Blue Star’s rules. I’m afraid it won’t take long before they’ll..."

"...before they’re completely dead!"

Ziran, Yun Bing, and Yunxi panicked, asking in disbelief,

"How could it be like this?"

"Wasn’t Qingcheng fine just a moment ago?"

"How did just a few seconds pass and she’s about to die?"

Xiao Ye’s lips curled with a hint of bitterness, and he said, "Sister Qingcheng risked herself to save me, probably using some secret technique forbidden by heaven and earth. Now, not only is she dying, but she’s also suffering rejection from the world, rejection from the rules."

"But she really didn’t have to save me, she shouldn’t have saved me."

"With the Space-Time Hall’s protection, Ouyang Dingtian couldn’t do anything to me. I could’ve returned to the Space-Time Hall at any time, then used the Golden Light Gate to teleport to the Zi Family, getting away from Ouyang Dingtian’s control."

Ziran, Yun Bing, and Yunxi all wore looks of sorrow on their faces. Qingcheng, was she really dead, just like that?

It hadn’t even been a week since Qingcheng married Xiao Ye.

Qingcheng loved Xiao Ye so deeply, was she really willing to face life and death for him, to make such a sacrifice without hesitation?

The three women thought for a moment, *if it were them, would they?*

*A moment later, the answer in their hearts was yes.*

Xiao Ye’s face twisted with struggle. Anxiously, he pulled out every Supreme Treasure for the soul, body reconstruction treasures, Enlightenment Tea, and the Soul Capturing Pearl from the System Space.

When his trembling hand brought the soul treasures and body restoration treasures near the two soul bodies,

the speed of their collapse increased more than tenfold!

Frightened, Xiao Ye hurriedly put everything away.

Then he placed the two soul bodies into the Soul Capturing Pearl’s soul space.

In the soul space, cut off from Blue Star’s external rules, it was the perfect place to nurture soul bodies—a reward from the System, and not a thing of Blue Star.

From then on, the soul bodies of future Gu Qingcheng and present Gu Qingcheng decayed at the slowest possible rate.

But even at this rate, it wouldn’t be long before their slumbering soul bodies completely collapsed and died for good.

*If total collapse meant real death, then this decayed slumber was only false death.*

*But false death was just another form of death.*

*The line between false death and true death was a single word, a hair’s breadth apart.*

Xiao Ye’s face turned grim as dark water, and he spoke with deep guilt,

"Sister Ziran, Sister Yunxi, Sister Yun Bing, I’m sorry, I didn’t protect Sister Qingcheng."

Ziran broke down in tears, "No, you didn’t do anything to us, but the one you owe an apology to is Qingcheng."

"You owe her too much, more than a lifetime could repay."

Yunxi and Yun Bing sobbed quietly.

Xiao Ye, full of self-blame and regret, looked at the two soul bodies in the Soul Capturing Pearl and cried out in pain,

"Sister Qingcheng, I’m sorry!"

A stunning, proud silhouette appeared behind them, her expression complicated as she spoke, "Stop shouting, they can’t hear you."

"Human Emperor, if you’re a man, don’t let difficulties stop you. Overcome everything, find a way to save them."

"Apologize to them when they’re awake!"

*Who?*

Xiao Ye and the three women turned around.

They saw a breathtakingly beautiful woman standing there.

She possessed a noble bearing, a tall figure, and a dazzling, crystalline face of unrivaled beauty.

Standing there, it was as if she was the center of this whole space. Everything else lost its color and became ordinary in comparison.

"You!"

Xiao Ye gently put the Soul Capturing Pearl into his pocket, becoming extremely wary.

Ziran, Yun Bing, and Yunxi took up battle stances as well.

The Space Ancestor Empress’s lips twitched with a hint of bitterness, and she said softly,

"You don’t need to treat me as an enemy."

"Let me introduce myself."

"I’m the will of the Space Rule Origin, born hundreds of thousands of years ago, carrying the Empress Qi Fortune, the Space Ancestor Empress of the Milky Way Galaxy."

"And you, Xiao Ye, are the Blue Star Human Emperor, carrying the Human Emperor Qi Fortune."

"We are allies!"

"I saw everything that happened to you all, and I wanted to help at that final moment."

"But the Hang City Empress’s universe great divine power left me paralyzed, unable to intervene no matter how hard I tried."

Feeling the Space Ancestor Empress’s sincerity,

Xiao Ye and the three women finally relaxed.

"Me, the Blue Star Human Emperor?" Xiao Ye pointed at himself in disbelief.

The Space Ancestor Empress nodded, "Yes, you carry emperor’s Qi Fortune just like I do. You are the Human Emperor."

"One day, the Human Emperor will lead Blue Star to rise and become one of the Cosmic Great Races."

"And I, as the Milky Way Empress, will also lead Blue Star’s rise..."

Suddenly, Ziran asked, "Space Ancestor Empress, do you have any way to save Qingcheng?"

"Why did Qingcheng turn into two soul bodies—one a hundred years older, the other a hundred years younger?"

Xiao Ye’s eyes burned with hope.

The Space Ancestor Empress’s proud eyes glowed sharply,

"These two soul bodies should be the same person, but the one a hundred years older carries traces of time."

"If I’m not mistaken, they’re soul bodies from different points in time."

"One is her now; the other, her a hundred years in the future. Both soul bodies can control the body, neither rejected by it."

"!" Xiao Ye and the three women were shocked.

They had thought Gu Qingcheng’s soul had split into two after shattering.

They never expected that both were whole, just from different times.

Yunxi suddenly realized, "No wonder Qingcheng changed so much for a while there—became so mature and alluring, with endless tricks to tempt Xiao Ye, and Xiaobai suddenly turned into a romance expert."

"So it was the Qingcheng from a hundred years in the future causing trouble."

"That romance expert Qingcheng came back from a hundred years in the future!"

Xiao Ye’s expression grew more complicated.

*He’d sensed it before—sometimes Gu Qingcheng seemed full of complaints toward him, sometimes full of resentment.*

*It was as if he had let Gu Qingcheng down.*

*So it was the older Gu Qingcheng from a hundred years in the future who had returned, with Old Qingcheng controlling the body.*

Bai Mao burst out from behind the group, grabbing the Space Ancestor Empress’s jade hand in excitement,

"Senior, was it you who saved me when I died?"

"Thank you, thank you so much!"

"Can you save Sister Qingcheng now?"