In the darkness, Xu Chen's consciousness remained, but he couldn't hear or see anything.
No senses, no direction, no time or space.
He didn't know how many years he had been drifting in the darkness until his consciousness slowly fell asleep...
"Lady Lingyuan! Lady Lingyuan!!!"
A very comfortable yet slightly naughty girl's voice, accompanied by the feeling of a soft hand shaking his body.
Xu Chen slowly opened his eyes.
Gradually, before his eyes, appeared a small girl with red twin ponytails and a round little face, looking about ten years old.
Her eyes were big, her twin pupils were red, and her expression was innocent and slightly mischievous.
"Who are you..." Xu Chen mumbled, but he found his voice to be somewhat soft, not completely like a girl's voice, but it was about seventy to eighty percent closer to a girl's voice.
"Lady Lingyuan! I am Shi Yuanying, your battle maid!" the red-haired little girl said.
"Battle maid... where am I?" Xu Chen slowly sat up. As he lowered his head, he realized that his still slender body seemed even more delicate and fair than before. Although there was no significant development in his chest, he was wearing a girl's silk feather robe. "Why am I dressed like this?"
"Lady Lingyuan! Do you know? Since we found you in that huge Tianlai Pit, you have been lying there for three whole years! I have been taking care of you during this time! But no matter what, you have finally woken up!" the little girl Shi Yuanying said.
"Tianlai Pit..." Xu Chen gradually regained his clarity of mind. All his past memories were intact, including the final flight into the end of chaos, the unexpected transformation, and the memories before being engulfed by darkness.
"Qingyin... sister..." Xu Chen couldn't help but blurt out.
"Lady Lingyuan, what are you calling? Do you have a sister?" the innocent little girl looked at Xu Chen.
"Oh... no, nothing," Xu Chen knew that he had been caught up in a different world, but obviously, it was not the time to talk about his past. "Where is this place?"
"Oh! Lady Lingyuan, you came from the Tianlai Pit, they say you are the reincarnation of the Enlightened King! Here, we are the Fire Tree Kingdom, and this is the Silver Flower Temple!"
"A temple?" Xu Chen was confused. He had been swept into a temple in this parallel world?
"Yes, a temple! The Silver Flower Temple is one of the four famous temples in the Fire Tree Kingdom. It enshrines the Four Enlightened Kings, and you, Lady Lingyuan, the High Priestess said that you are the reincarnation of the Instantaneous Enlightened King!" Shi Yuanying said.
Xu Chen looked around, and indeed, this was a simple wooden structure temple as the little girl had described. He didn't know what the Instantaneous Enlightened King was, but if he had descended from the sky like this, it wouldn't be surprising to be regarded as the reincarnation of some kind of Enlightened King.
"Then, Xiao Yuanying, why am I wearing..." Xu Chen subconsciously touched himself, thankfully, he was still a boy. He let out a sigh of relief, "Why am I wearing girls' clothes?"
"I heard that when you arrived, you were wearing girls' clothes! But they are already worn out! The High Priestess said that the Instantaneous Enlightened King is said to be an exceptionally beautiful crossdressing boy! So the priestesses made this Heavenly Feather Robe for you based on the generations-old portrait of the Instantaneous Enlightened King!" Shi Yuanying said.
"Well... that's... alright! Can you take me to meet your High Priestess?" Xu Chen felt that he wouldn't be able to extract any useful information from this little girl.
"Yes! I'll go report immediately!" Shi Yuanying happily skipped away!
She returned shortly after.
"Yes! Lady Lingyuan, please bathe, change, and have a meal first! The High Priestess will come to see you herself!" Yuanying said.
With Yuanying's guidance, Xu Chen walked through the ancient wooden corridor and saw the outside world for the first time. The interior of the temple was a slightly weathered courtyard, but the sky outside was reflected in red light, and the atmosphere felt particularly heavy and oppressive.
In the distance, there were rolling black thunderclouds, and occasionally, a distant rumbling sound of thunder and lightning could be heard. Xu Chen also felt that, regardless of anything, this place was definitely not a peaceful prosperous era!
In the bathing room, Yuanying followed along.
"Oh! Lady Lingyuan, let me help you wash your back!""Oh? No, no need!" Xu Chen couldn't take advantage of this little girl, and immediately refused.
"It's okay... I've seen Lady Lingyuan's body many times before..." Yuan Ying pouted his face, slightly disappointed.
"Oh? No, no need... You should go outside and play!" Xu Chen pushed Yuan Ying out.
Taking off his clothes and entering the bath, it was also comfortable. Xu Chen felt that his skin was really smooth like a girl's, and for a moment, he felt somewhat shy.
"Why did it turn out like this?" Xu Chen tried to comprehend the power of chaos.
"None?" Xu Chen was shocked. There was no power of chaos here! Then he tried to comprehend elemental power, as he expected, there was none!!!
There was absolutely no power here!!!
Suddenly, Xu Chen in the bath felt a wave of helplessness!
Where exactly am I? In the vast sea of chaos, where the power of chaos is everywhere! With such a high level of cultivation, how could I not feel it? But here, there really is nothing!
Without any power of chaos or elemental power, and turned into this body, Xu Chen suddenly felt afraid.
Suddenly, he thought of his cultivation and enlightenment in the origin of his heart.
He slowly focused his mind on the bath and made a mental movement.
"Splash!" Water splashed on the surface of the water actually followed Xu Chen's mental movement and formed a small water spray!
"The origin of the heart!!!" Xu Chen's eyes lit up. He tried to understand, and indeed, there was a faint fluctuation of the origin of the heart here. Although very weak, it still existed! If he could connect to the origin of the heart, Xu Chen could cultivate and comprehend the path to make himself strong, so that he could protect himself and find his sisters!
Xu Chen was truly worthy of being the strongest in the endless history of the chaotic sea. He was a peerless genius who could compete with the will of the origin. Xu Chen quickly had an idea of how to strengthen himself using the origin of the heart. However, this idea was still in a very preliminary stage. To truly form formidable power, he needed to further understand this world and slowly comprehend it.