"You've become much stronger..."
Moon fairy sized him up and down before commenting. Yu Chen smiled, às that is the only thing he is able to do at the moment. She was pretty, yes... but the realization of how powerful this person is made him to subconsciously swallow.
She's not someone that must be provoked.
Yu Chen shook his head and he asked:
"How did you know that I was in danger?"
Moon fairy descended from the sky as the visualization of her moon art vanished, making all of her divinity to vanish into oblivion.
She took a few steps closer to Yu Chen that there was almost no space left between them.
She answered:
"I felt the disruption coming from the desert of horror.. I could even see the sky split, so I trusted my instincts that told me to come and when I did, you really was in danger." With a shrug she took only a step back...
"By the way, what happened? Why was such an enemy after you. Even I am sure that I can't defeat him,"
Yu Chen's eyes widened. "You can't defeat him?"
"No, I can't defeat it. My moon art allows me to borrow power from three universes once. After that, it'd be on a long cooldown..."
Moon fairy stared at the desert of horror.
"My display of power told the insect that I was it's match so, instead of fighting to the death, he made the right choice to leave. I swear, I was scared that it would stay for a second round but it didn't. My gamble paid off."
Yu Chen was surprised.
Moon fairy is not someone to be provoked... Yu Chen made sure to repeat this word over and over again in his head.
Moon fairy wasn't done talking.
"So why didn't you return back at the aforementioned date? We said, six months and you stayed three years..." She seem to have decided not to ask the first question again. It wasn't important to know the feud between the insect and Yu Chen.
However,Yu Chen's pupils shrank instantly.
"Three years? Oh no... I think I've lost three years of my life. I'm still fifteen years."
Moon fairy's expression turned serious. "What happened?"
"Time is distorted in the desert of horror. Everyone know this."
Moon fairy was stunned. How could she have forgotten such vital information? She suddenly felt guilty... Who knows what he had experienced.
Yu Chen continued:
"I kept repeating a particular part of my life over and over again... I died and restarted over and over again..."
Yu Chen glared at Moon fairy curiously.
"Do you know the most dangerous part of time mist?"
Moon fairy simply stared at him without answering yes or no.
Yu Chen did not take offense and he said:
"It is their ability to make human being experience the passage of time, not just the human, even their body parts... The time mist can separate into three passages, which is the past, the future and the present. The human body will experience all three passages and end up dying a horrifying death."
Just talking of his experience alone was enough to give Yu Chen chills.
Even Moon fairy was horrified...
"I'm... I'm truly sorry. I wasn't well informed about the time issue on the desert of horror."
Yu Chen waved it off.
"It's fine, I still managed to break time. I even absorbed all of the time mist into my voidless zone."
Moon fairy's expression changed drastically.
"You did what?"
Yu Chen seeing moon fairy's expression. He was surprised.
"I know, it's risky but that was the only way or else I might spend more than three years, repeating and repeating over and over again just a few minutes of my life..."
The moon fairy could not believe that someone could actually absorb the time mist, she immediately said: "I want to see."
Yu Chen raised a brow.
"You don't believe me?"
Yu Chen suddenly felt proud. The once beautiful moon fairy who could not be shaken by countless decuple fletched arrows was now mystified to hear that Yu Chen had absorbed all the time mist.
Moon fairy suddenly realized, no wonder time now felt stable in all parts of the desert.
Plus, the Whiteless barrier at the entrance of the desert which represented the distorted nature of time seem to have vanished into oblivion.
She said again, not convinced:
"Show me, I want to see."
The Voidless zone manifested.
From within the forbidden zone, Yu Chen released the three canvases. One was filled with an endless sea of blades. Another was filled with infinite sea of time mist and the last one was...
Moon fairy's expression changed yet again.
"Is that Chakra particles?"
This person is unavailable? How had he done it? He's just an Awakened. This path he is taking is enough to make him rival a transcended human. This isn't fair on us who cultivated normally.
Moon fairy was downcast... This person is an absolute monster.
Yu Chen stared at moon fairy and the canvas with the time mist drifted towards her...
She looked at it, suddenly she was no longer in the mood to look at it again, she could not tell this person's future the moment he ascends.
The moon fairy had already ascended which is by the way the reason she was unreasonably powerful, she was at the peak of ascension and is planning to attempt a breakthrough.
But seeing Yu Chen's path, she was no longer willing.
She immediately said:
"You know that if you keep using this energies independently, you might exhaust it so... Why not merge them. An infinity comes from the world of nothingness. The world of nothingness is the hollows. You can study the hollow and find out why the devouring force is endlessly shuttled out each time existence is shattered. That might lead to an epiphany. Don't take actions casually if you're not sure of the implications..."
Moon fairy sighed.
"Whenever you're ready, you can come fill up the empty space that the Saint of Purity had left out."
The next minute, she vanished leaving a stunned Yu Chen all by himself.