I Will Find You Again

[Ding. You will return to the present world in three days. Please make the best use of your time, Host.]

Hearing the system prompt, Qin Hao immediately took out the five pairs of Double Pupils he had obtained and circulated the Heaven-Devouring Pupil Art to refine their origin power.

Because Shi Yue and the others practiced different cultivation methods and had different comprehensions of the Great Dao, the five pairs of Double Pupils gave Qin Hao entirely different sensations.

As soon as Shi Yue's Double Pupils fell into his hands, they gave Qin Hao a heavy, earthy feeling.

Xiao Ling'er's Double Pupils were light and agile. The moment he touched them, countless musical notes surged forward like a tide—not as an attack, but sounding like the Dao chimes from the very beginning of the universe.

The remaining three pairs possessed extraordinary attainments in the nether, extreme cold, and crimson flame elements, respectively.

With the help of the Heaven-Devouring Pupil Art, the origin power of the five pairs of Double Pupils transformed into wisps of gold and silver streams of light, gently falling into Qin Hao's eyes.

Two days later, Qin Hao opened his eyes; all five pairs of Double Pupils had been completely refined by him.

Qin Hao could clearly feel that within his Double Pupils, there were now countless new perspectives he could never have perceived before.

His eyes had undergone an earth-shattering transformation. Deep within his left eye, golden, earthy yellow, nether black, and crimson red colors swirled together, resembling the Eye of Reincarnation that suppressed the underworld.

Deep within his right eye, silver, azure, and ice-blue intertwined, making it seem as if time and space were echoing within.

And deep beneath these seven-colored lights, Qin Hao's own primal chaos aura burned quietly and eternally, just like the primordial fire from the dawn of the universe.

Qin Hao looked up at a mountain range stretching for tens of miles in the distance, and a dark light flashed in his eyes.

There was no explosion, no roaring sound, and no earth-shattering phenomena. That mountain range simply disappeared.

It was not shattered or broken; it thoroughly and completely ceased to exist.

"This is the true meaning of destruction. Although I am only at the Third Level of the Void Refinement Realm right now, how many Body Integration Realm cultivators could withstand this beam of destructive dark light?"

"System, use the Immortal Emperor Experience Card on me!"

The moment his words fell, the aura surrounding Qin Hao erupted with a bang.

A vast and boundless Immortal Emperor pressure rapidly expanded with Qin Hao at the center, sweeping across the entire mountain range in an instant and ultimately spreading throughout the entire Three Realms and Nine Heavens.

The system's Immortal Emperor Experience Card did not merely elevate his cultivation base to the Immortal Emperor realm; his mastery over the laws and his control over the Great Dao also reached the Immortal Emperor level. At this moment, before Qin Hao's mighty Immortal Emperor power, the laws of heaven and earth seemed to come to a standstill.

Qin Hao opened his eyes, and the seven colors flowed within his Double Pupils.

Lifting his head, his gaze pierced through this space-time and the barrier between the Heavenly Dao's origin—a barrier that mortals could never touch in their entire lifetimes.

He saw the complete Great Dao. It was not the one-third remnant torn by the flames of war and invaded by foreign realms of later generations, but the complete, primordial Great Dao.

Qin Hao channeled his pupil power. His left eye saw through all laws and stared directly at the origin, while his right eye locked space-time, freezing the moment.

As Qin Hao began to imprint the Great Dao, the myriad Daos resonated, and the entire Three Realms and Nine Heavens began to tremble violently.

Across the Three Realms and Nine Heavens, all existences at or above the Immortal King realm raised their heads at the exact same time.

"This is... someone is imprinting the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth! What is he trying to do?"

Countless mighty figures began to divine the cause, but before they could calculate anything, they collectively let out muffled groans and spat out mouthfuls of blood.

"A taboo!" The mighty figures were utterly shocked. When they tried to divine Qin Hao's origins, they only saw a boundless expanse of primal chaos, and within that chaos hid a pair of Double Pupils.

Just by being glanced at by those Double Pupils, their divination arts suffered a complete backlash.

As time passed, streams of the Great Dao were imprinted into Qin Hao's Double Pupils. These would be the foundation of his future cultivation. With these, he could become an Immortal Emperor with a flawless Dao Fruit in the future.

Standing there at this moment, Qin Hao seemed as if he were the heavens themselves. Watching Qin Hao's heroic bearing, Liu Ruyan, who was standing to the side, suddenly smiled.

She quietly tilted her head up, resting her face in her hands, looking just like a mortal girl gazing foolishly at her beloved.

"As expected of my man, he looks so handsome no matter what he does. I love you even more now."

"Innate Dao Body, open."

"Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart, open."

Estimating that he wouldn't be able to finish imprinting the remaining Great Daos within an hour relying solely on the power of the Double Pupils, Qin Hao hastily activated the Innate Dao Body and the Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart—two physiques with a natural affinity for the Great Dao—to speed up the imprinting process.

"The Innate Dao Body? The Innate Dao Body that has an affinity for all laws and is born alongside the Dao? Isn't this person a Double Pupil wielder? He also has the Innate Dao Body?"

"Not only that, he also has the Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart, which opens the seven apertures, observes myriad laws, understands the mind to see the true nature, and possesses a clear Dao heart! This..."

After Qin Hao activated the Innate Dao Body and the Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart, the mighty figures observing his imprinting of the Great Dao were left speechless. To possess even one of these top-tier physiques required someone to harbor immense destiny just to suppress it.

How could this person possess so many top-tier physiques, yet have such a pitifully small amount of destiny on him?

Countless streams of divine sense draped over Qin Hao, trying to pry into the secrets he held.

Sensing these streams of divine sense, Qin Hao frowned slightly, then nonchalantly cast a glance at those restless probing minds.

A pair of Double Pupils appeared high and mighty within the divine souls of these voyeurs. The divine souls of the mighty figures trembled violently, as if they had been rammed head-on by a primordial fierce beast.

While Immortal Emperors could still withstand this burst of Qin Hao's power, those Immortal King cultivators were directly shaken until they bled from their seven orifices.

With this warning, no one dared to pry into Qin Hao ever again.

An hour later, Qin Hao finally finished imprinting all the Great Daos into his Double Pupils. At the same time, his Immortal Emperor Experience Card expired, and his entire cultivation base dropped back down to the Third Level of the Void Refinement Realm.

Qin Hao clenched his fists and sighed, "The power of an Immortal Emperor is truly intoxicating. For this past hour, I felt like I was the very embodiment of the rules."

From the corner of his eye, Qin Hao caught sight of Liu Ruyan looking at him with infatuation. His heart involuntarily tightened, and then he spoke with a hoarse voice:

"Ruyan, the time is up. I have to go. Take care of yourself!"

Compared to Qin Hao's inner conflict, Liu Ruyan appeared rather calm. Perhaps it was because she had already experienced this kind of scene nine times and had long prepared herself mentally for it.

She walked up to Qin Hao and cupped his face in her hands:

"You never belonged to this era to begin with, so your return is inevitable. I've been prepared for this for a long time. Besides, didn't I say it? We will reunite in the future. You definitely have to find me."

Qin Hao pulled Liu Ruyan into his embrace and solemnly promised, "I absolutely will."

After bidding farewell to Liu Ruyan, the system's laws of time enveloped Qin Hao. Then, under Liu Ruyan's reluctant gaze, Qin Hao vanished from before her eyes.

With Qin Hao's departure, the tenderness and smile on Liu Ruyan's face completely dissipated, replaced by a cold indifference that seemed to freeze even time itself.

"Now, it's time for me to properly set up the board."