Ye Tian Yun slowly opened his eyes and woke up from the intense pain.
Frowning, he looked around and tried to gauge the situation.
For a moment, he was shocked by the corpse beside him, but in the next moment, memories flooded back!
"Damn…"
He remembered his battle with Wang Yao and how he brought him inside the Nine Heavens Painting, where the Emblem Of Time was useless because there was no concept of time inside this independent space.
After that, both of them fought, and Ye Tian Yun was able to defeat Wang Yao when they were at the same power level.
Unfortunately, he couldn't save the System and had lost it.
'But I got something else…'
Ye Tian Yun wasn't feeling fully hopeless.
'I got the Emblem Of Time.'
After killing Wang Yao, he had gotten his Emblem Of Time.
'I need to get out of here to confirm.'
He was still inside the Nine Heavens Painting. And since the concept of time didn't work here, he needed to get out of here to use the Emblem OF Time.
'But first, I need to take care of Wang Yao.'
With this thought, Ye Tian Yun moved and picked up Wang Yao's hand, which was lying a few feet away from the main body.
Removing the spatial ring from Wang Yao's index finger, Ye Tian Yun tried to probe it.
'Hm?' He frowned, 'It's empty?'
The spatial ring had nothing in it.
'Then why wear it?' Ye Tian Yun frowned at Wang Yao, 'Why would you roam around the world with an empty spatial ring?'
'Is there anything else…'
Ye Tian Yun began to look for anything else he could scavenge from Wang Yao.
After all, the Wang Yao in front of him was the Heavenly Emperor. How could he just dispose of him without looking for anything valuable?
Unfortunately, the outcome was unexpected.
'There's nothing.'
Ye Tian Yun let out a sigh and got up.
Then, he put Wang Yao's body in the spatial ring he got earlier, and along with it, he summoned himself out of the Nine Heavens Painting.
*Plop!*
With a jump, he got out of the painting and landed right on it.
Looking around him, he began to assess the situation.
Earlier, Wang Yao had said Ye Tian Yun could never leave the separate space if he killed Wang Yao.
And after assessing the situation, Ye Tian Yun confirmed that Wang Yao was not bluffing.
'But if I had taken him out of the Nine Heaven Painting, he would have easily recovered with the help of the Emblem of Time.'
Right now, Ye Tian Yun was trapped in the Separate space formed by Wang Yao with the help of Emblem Of Time.
This place was the exact replica of the destroyed Silver Mist City.
Ye Tian Yun jumped on the highest visible tavern and looked around.
'Let's look for him first.'
The 'him' was, of course, Xiao Ming.
Wang Yao had not revealed any information regarding Xiao Ming. He may have killed, saved, or simply imprisoned him in a separate space like this.
Now Ye Tian Yun had to find Xiao Ming on his own and take the Token Of Fate from him.
But the scene beyond the highest building shocked him.
There was nothing!
Only darkness.
'So Wang Yao created an island of the destroyed Silver Mist City. And here, he had absolute control over everything.'
This was indeed an amazing technique.
'Doesn't that mean Xiao Ming isn't in this space?'
With the space so little, there wasn't any need to waste more time.
'Let's get out of this place.'
How was he going to get out?
Of course, by using the Emblem Of Time.
After all, Wang Yao had created this space using this artifact, so it was correct to say that Ye Tian Yun could get out of this space using the Emblem Of time.
Taking a deep breath, Ye Tian Yun raised his hand in front of him and concentrated on the palm.
A few seconds passed.
A few minutes passed.
But nothing happened.
"What is going on?" He frowned, "I did get the Emblem Of Time, so why am I failing to summon it?"
He tried a few more times, but nothing happened,
"Is there a different method to use this Emblem?"
That was also a possibility. Until now, he had used the method of summoning, which he used in his previous life for the Emblem Of Luck.
However, this method didn't seem to work here.
'Don't tell me I am really stuck!?'
Ye Tian Yun frowned.
Ye Tian Yun didn't hesitate to kill Wang Yao because of the Emblem of Time.
Due to Heavenly Constraints, all of Wang Yao's power was heavily suppressed, and the Emblem Of Time played a huge role in his confidence.
Now even that seemed not to work.
But Ye Tian Yun was not going to give up easily.
He increased his concentration even more.
Even after many tries, nothing happened.
Yet, he wasn't willing to give up this easily.
However, he did not know that his actions were causing some trouble in the real world.
…
About half an hour earlier.
As the sky returned to its normality, everyone under the Heavens was shocked by the sudden phenomenon.
The last time such a thing happened was in the previous generation when the then Crown Prince Ye Tian Xuan became the first cultivator to get an Emblem - the Emblem Of Chaos.
And this time, a new Emblem had appeared, thus marking the beginning of a new journey.
In the Silver Mist City, both Emperor Ye and Butler Liu were standing with a solemn expressions.
"Brother Ye, what should we do next?" Butler Liu asked.
Both of them knew that the world would be chaotic and new talents were about to rise. But what they cared about most was not the chaos and future, but their own sons.
Emperor Ye said, "Both, Jun Xie and Ye Tian Yun, have their own destiny. The most we can do is save them from certain deaths."