Luo Xue felt a little emotional. In her memory, the four regions of Kyushu were still isolated from the outside world a few days ago, and Senior Sister Li was still practicing immortality in the imperial capital.
It seemed that when she woke up again in this world, she didn't know how much time had passed in the other world.
"Okay, I am indeed Luo Xue."
Luo Xue replied helplessly, "Please tell me quickly, who are you and what era it is now..."
She glanced at Su Yiyao, who looked pale, and added, "There's not much time left."
“Hahaha… Are all the monsters in the ancient monster land so stupid? You said you are Luo Xue, so you are? Well, since you said so, let me test you, who is Luo Xue’s mother!”
Luo Xue was stunned when she heard that. If you want to take the exam, then take it. Why are you cursing
But this question... is a bit embarrassing. It is really hard to ask myself who I am.
Luo Xue hesitated for a while, and introduced herself very shamefully.
"I, Luo Xue, am the junior sister of Luo Huatian of Juexiao Sect, one of the descendants of the True Phoenix, and the lord of the ancient demon land..."
"Stop, stop, stop. Who asked you about Xiaoxue's situation? I asked who her mother is! Her mother! It's her mother, not her!" The other party seemed a little impatient. This impatient look made Luo Xue feel a little déjà vu.
Suddenly, she thought of someone and her face turned strange.
"yes... "
"Luo Huaxin."
A well-known independent cultivator in the four regions of Jiuzhou, he temporarily serves as the Lord of Luohua Heaven because of the agreement with an old friend. He is also one of the ancient beings in the four regions of Jiuzhou who tries to transcend the small world.
The other party was silent for a while, and then continued, "Knowing this doesn't necessarily mean..."
"It's you, mother." Luo Xue sighed, "I didn't even finish the fairy wine you gave me..."
"... ..."
"You also gave me a set of skills, 'Stealing the Sky and Changing the Sun', but it seems that I didn't use it much later."
"... ..."
"And the 'immortal kowtow' at that time..."
Before Luo Xue could finish her words, the other party finally removed his disguise and revealed his true voice.
Although the voice seemed a little distorted due to being in two different worlds, Luo Xue still recognized the voice coming from her adopted mother, trembling slightly.
"Is it really you? Xiaoxue..."
On the other side, Luo Huaxin couldn't believe it, because in the vast universe, "Luo Xue" had disappeared for thousands of years, and her figure could not be found anywhere.
Lian Huangzun and Fengzun had lost the motivation to look for Luo Xue and Su Yiyao. They witnessed with their own eyes how Guixu swallowed up the two people, and they disappeared without a trace from then on. Even their soul lamps were completely extinguished.
The two had a big quarrel over this and were in a cold war for thousands of years. It was not until the world changed drastically some time ago that they reluctantly joined forces again.
"Mother, please tell me, what era is it now..."
Luo Xue immediately said, "It's almost gone..."
Before she finished her words, Su Yiyao tiredly closed her eyes again. All the suspended formation runes instantly extinguished and dissipated, and the entire communication formation stopped functioning due to the core being terminated.
This meant that this rare cross-world communication was forced to end early. Luo Xue and others only got the most crucial information: a war had broken out between the Great Thousand World and the Four Regions of Kyushu, and they knew basically nothing else.
Luo Xue and Ling Ling walked over to support Su Yiyao who almost collapsed. Luo Xue felt distressed when she saw Su Yiyao's weak body due to excessive consumption of blood power.
"Xiaoyao, if you can't hold on, just disconnect it. The formation can be used more than once anyway."
Su Yiyao opened her eyes with difficulty and smiled slightly.
"I was watching... Ah Chou's conversation, it was just reaching a critical moment, so I thought I should try to hold on... cough cough"
"Stop talking and take a rest first." Luo Xue stretched out her fingers and gently pressed Su Yiyao's lips, sighing softly.
Excessive consumption of blood power will damage the origin.
Although this communication did not yield a lot of information, it at least confirmed one thing: the feasibility of cross-world communication.
Moreover, the next time I start communicating, I won’t need to spend time explaining my identity to my adoptive mother.
Ling Ling took out a bottle of medicine and placed it next to Su Yiyao, saying,
"Although I don't know what the so-called blood power is, this bottle of potion is very useful for over-consumption type injuries. I have tested it and it is harmless to you. You can try it."
Chapter 272: Changes in the World
Su Yiyao's bloodline power has been exhausted. Fortunately, Luo Xue confirmed the identities of both parties in time. Even if the communication is interrupted, there will be no more accidents during the next communication.
However, even if she wasn't completely overdrawn, Su Yiyao still needed to rest for a while in her condition.
It cannot be said that the medicine Ling Ling took out had no effect, but perhaps because of the different physiques, the effect could only be said to be negligible. It was not as direct as Luo Xue feeding Su Yiyao with her own blood and essence.
Of course, if this were to happen, the burden on Luo Xue would be too heavy.
Luo Xue originally wanted to do this, but Su Yiyao was always unwilling, so she had to give up and let her have a good rest.
Of course, Luo Xue and Ling Ling were not idle during this time.
The Xuan Gu Zhou completely recorded all the circumstances of this communication, exposing some weak points in the communication formation, which can be further improved and optimized.
Luo Xue has a better understanding of formations, and Ling Ling is a researcher who is quite good at research. They work together to continue to improve these formations, and at the same time test the situation of the Xuan Bone Boat to see if they can find an opportunity to restart the Xuan Bone Boat.
After a period of recuperation, Su Yiyao finally recovered a little and was able to communicate across the world again.
After the communication formation in the Xuan Bone Boat was improved, the consumption of blood power was greatly reduced and the communication time was also extended. This was mainly due to the records brought by the last communication.
After preparation, the second cross-world communication was opened again.
This time it went much more smoothly. When Su Yiyao opened her purple eyes, Luo Huaxin's anxious voice sounded almost at the same time.
"Xiaoxue, is that you?"
"Yes, mother, it's me." Luo Xue replied.
"Great, I thought I would never be able to contact you again..." Luo Huaxin seemed to be relieved, "Four hundred years ago, after you sent a message, there was no news from you anymore. When Huang Zun and Feng Zun heard about it, they thought I was lying to them."
"Four hundred years?"
Luo Xue was shocked, and when she looked up she saw Ling Ling's equally shocked look.
They had only spent a few short months in the post-apocalyptic world, which was not even a blink of an eye for a cultivator, but just a period of meditation.
Ling Ling immediately started calculating, and after a moment, he said in a deep voice,
"One day of ours is almost equivalent to five years of theirs..."
Luo Xue's eyes flickered slightly. In fact, after learning the truth between the two worlds, she had imagined the difference in the speed of time flow, but she didn't expect it to be so exaggerated.
She calmed herself down and continued,
"Mother, now tell me briefly about the general situation... about the four regions of Kyushu and the universe."
Luo Huaxin was silent for a while, as if she was organizing her words, and soon spoke again,
“Two thousand years ago, the barrier between the ancient demon land—actually, it should be called the Great Thousand World and the four regions of the Nine Provinces—was broken due to the drastic changes in Guixu. The specific situation was related to the Fallen Immortal Boat in Guixu, which directly allowed the ancient beings and the lords of the forbidden areas of the four regions of the Nine Provinces to see the truth of the world, and thus broke through the shackles of the small world and entered the realm of Yuhua.
"But the broken barrier was still difficult to cross, and the Great Thousand World still could not directly reach the Four Regions of Kyushu. At this time, the Nangong clan, who claimed to be the descendants of the 'ancient mythical beast Phoenix', moved into the Four Regions of Kyushu.
"The leader is called Nangong Ziluan, the empress of the Qin Dynasty of the Great Thousand World. She knew that a disaster was coming but she was powerless to stop it, so she chose to send her people to the four regions of Jiuzhou through an ancient teleportation array. During this period, the girl from Mingshuijian also came back.
“After that, the broken barriers between the four regions of Kyushu and the great world gradually disappeared, until they were completely integrated a thousand years ago, and there was no need to go through Guixu to travel back and forth.
"The disaster that had left Nangong Ziluan helpless had also spread over. The Immortal Emperor of the Great Qin Immortal Dynasty led countless immortal boats to descend upon the Nine Provinces and Four Regions, and pulled five huge immortal boats from Guixu, intending to embrace the Nine Provinces and Four Regions.
"If Li Guijiao hadn't arranged things in the Immortal Boat in advance, I'm afraid that the four regions of Jiuzhou would have fallen by then. But even so, the flames of war still spread, and Huang Zun and Feng Zun were forced to come out to resist. This happened eight hundred years ago."
Luo Huaxin told everything that happened after Luo Xue left in one breath. Her tone seemed a little heavy, which was different from the her that Luo Xue knew in the past.
Perhaps it was because this protracted war had changed so much that even the once free and easy Lord Luohua had to start to worry.
"And now?"
Luo Xue asked softly.
There are actually many more things she wants to ask, such as her own situation, her senior sister, and Nangong Mengxiang...
But unfortunately, time is short and she can only focus on more important things.
"The Withered Blood Sea has already fallen and has been completely dispersed into the Guixu. The Demonic Abyss is almost entirely filled with pawns of the evil demons from outside the domain. Your senior sister was seriously injured in the last battle and is still in a coma."
Luo Huaxin sighed, "Nangong Mengxiang has returned to her ancestral home. Although she doesn't have Nangong blood, she is also regarded as a Nangong disciple because she practiced the Desolate Great Destruction Sutra... She is full of energy and has grown rapidly in the war.
"But war is war, and it is always an unimaginable disaster. I don't know where Emperor Dugu got the power of the evil demons from outside the domain. With the addition of five fallen immortal boats, almost no one can contend with him. Even the combined efforts of Feng Zun and Huang Zun are powerless."
Luo Xue was silent for a while, and she suddenly realized that this was Emperor Dugu's idea from the beginning. The first expedition ended because he was unable to fully control the Fallen Immortal Boat, and the Immortal Killing Army suffered serious damage, so he was forced to stop.
"I... probably know everything." Luo Xue took a deep breath and said, "I also have some information to pass on to you. Remember this voice, and then you can ask Senior Sister Li to analyze it."
It is too slow to convey information purely through words. Before starting to communicate, Luo Xue had already prepared a more efficient means of communication, using vibrations to summarize the information. In the end, the effect of the long speech was just a sharp cry.
Luo Huaxin obviously didn't have this way of thinking. She was a pure immortal cultivator. Normally, she only needed a thought to transmit sound, and she could also use a piece of jade to engrave information.
However, there is no problem in simply recording the sound completely.
After the sharp cry, Su Yiyao also reached her limit. She took a breath and slowed down. The communication formation stopped working and the mysterious formation runes dimmed.
This time, because she had made preparations in advance, Su Yiyao did not fall into the same state of exhaustion as before. At most, she was just a little tired.
"I didn't expect the change in the speed of time would be so exaggerated..." Luo Xue sighed lightly.
But at this moment, she was secretly getting more motivated.
Now that we know that the difference in the speed of time flow between the two worlds is so huge, we have to speed up our work.
Ling Ling is already researching potions for restoring bloodline power. Besides that, the Xuan Gu Zhou communication formation is also being continuously optimized, so as to get more communication time with less consumption next time.
Since the next communication may be hundreds of years from now, preparation for changes in the world must also be put on the agenda.
Due to Su Yiyao's condition, the next communication must be opened at least one month later.
One month is equivalent to one hundred and fifty years.
Although one hundred and fifty years is not a long time for the Xianwu world, it is enough for many things to happen.
Luo Xue didn't want to hear bad news about people close to her, so she could only try her best to get close to them.
And, the most important thing is...
Restart the Xuan Gu Boat, because the Xuan Gu Boat is currently the only tool that Luo Xue has that can pass through the world bubble barrier. If she wants to return to the big world, this is probably the only way left.
The panel that previously used dreams and consciousness to travel between the two worlds seemed to have been contaminated. Luo Xue didn't dare to bet her life that this method would still work.
In the following month, Luo Xue and Su Yiyao continued their previous work, while Ling Ling had to miss this communication because she needed to advance the ground tower project.
After Su Yiyao had recovered, Luo Xue activated the communication formation for the third time and started communicating with another world again.
"One hundred and fifty years... We can only hope that things don't get worse." Luo Xue prayed while waiting for a response.
"ah?"
The next moment, it was still the familiar voice, but with a hint of shock.
"Mother, what's the current situation?" Luo Xue asked hurriedly.
"What... How is it? I thought you disconnected like last time." Luo Huaxin replied, "I was just about to take your voice to Li Guijiao for analysis. She is a very busy person now, but if it is your news, she will definitely make time for it."
"ah?"
This time it was Luo Xue's turn to be confused for a moment, but she quickly reacted and asked,
"How long has it been since we last talked?"
"Four hundred years? Wait a minute," Luo Huaxin also realized something, "Could it be that..."
"Well, a month has passed here." Luo Xue said slowly.
"... I only heard your voice interrupted for five to six breaths." Luo Huaxin said in a deep voice.
"It seems that our previous estimate was wrong." Luo Xue's mouth showed a bit of bitterness, "But this is a worse result."
The ratio of the time flow rate between the two worlds is not constant. The world bubbles are like two unrelated sealed boxes. Only when they observe each other will they show synchronized time.
But this synchronization... seems random.
The last time the interval of three months was four hundred years, this time the interval of one month was five breaths, there is no regularity at all.
Luo Xue vaguely remembered that she had encountered this situation before, probably in the ancestral space used by the Nangong clan to seal the evil demons from outside the domain.
Now that I think about it carefully, perhaps the alien space in the ancestral land is an independent world bubble, which is why there is such a strange flow of time.