Yang Qinglan lifted her eyelids and asked Li Qianxia, "What about you? When do you plan to get married?"
"Me? I'm not getting married," Li Qianxia said with a smile that lacked real amusement.
After looking at her for a while, Yang Qinglan said, "If I hadn't met your brother, I wouldn't have planned to get married either."
"Who's getting married? No way! I'd rather be a sister for life, pampered forever, than be someone's wife or a mother to children. Isn't it better to be a jade leaf? There's no need to rush into marriage."
Yang Qinglan could see she truly thought this way, not out of self-abandonment or despair towards society.
She laughed and said, "Don't speak so absolutely, you might meet someone you like just as I met your brother."
"It's not the same," Li Qianxia shook her head, her ponytail swaying slightly, "I am—hmm?"
An infinite stream of natural energy began to pour into her body.
The wood energy of grass, the water qi of lakes, the sunlight of the sun, the invisible stars, everything in the air... all became substances she could absorb, nourishments her body needed.
A realization began to rise in her heart—she could now survive in any environment, even in the cosmos, drawing on the surrounding materials to replenish herself.
Strength was also continuously bubbling up, her body becoming more robust, and it seemed as if her blood had gained something more, transforming into another kind of vein.
In Yang Qinglan's eyes, everything in the "Honey Jar World" became more vivid and vibrant, as if the resolution kept improving.
The water was crystal clear, schools of silverfish moving together; leaves rustled, branches and vines stretched out; the leaves were so green they seemed to drip with moisture; the sun was soft, and the entire world was filled with joy.
The transformation was slow to end.
The feeling of joy grew more intense until it turned into anger, the anger of the "Honey Jar World" for being unable to grow.
It was no longer satisfied with just enhancing Life Force—it wanted the sky to be higher, the lakes to be deeper; it wanted to expand!
"Thump!" Li Changzhou suddenly leapt from the secluded branches and jumped into the lake.
Yang Qinglan hurriedly stood up, walked to the edge of Bird Nest Plain, and looked down.
Before she could find him, Li Changzhou appeared in front of her again—he was growing, his feet on the lakebed, his head already reaching the Bird Nest Plain, 1500 meters up.
Yang Qinglan lifted her gaze, watching as Li Changzhou became a giant, his feet on "Earth" and his head under "clear skies."
He raised his hands and pressed them against the "sky."
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The "Honey Jar World" seemed to roar, breaking free from its limitations along with its master.
The scene before her was reminiscent of Pangu creating the heavens—as "the 'sky' rose by a zhang, the 'Earth' thickened by a zhang, Pangu grew by a zhang; thus it continued for eighteen thousand years. The 'sky' reached its utmost height, the 'Earth' its utmost depth, and Pangu became immensely tall."
Yet it was different.
In the "Honey Jar World," it was Li Changzhou who grew by a zhang, the sky rose a zhang, and the Earth thickened a zhang.
As it grew taller and thicker, the "Honey Jar World" always maintained its circular shape, expanding in all directions.
The rumbling continued unabated, and Yang Qinglan, with her heightened sensitivity to nature and life, felt Li Changzhou's essence surged like a fountain, springing forth in spurts.
His essential nature was changing.
The world was vast and boundless, the sky high and the land deep, yet Earth was but cosmic dust, and humans just another layer of dust upon it—how insignificant they were, with the tallest among them not even reaching 3 meters.
No matter how sharp a blade may be, it cannot slice through a planet—lacking the length and size.
In ancient times, the smallest of the ancient creatures measured tens of meters, the largest hundreds of meters, with myths even more exaggerated, describing beings thousands or tens of thousands of zhang tall, infinite and boundless.
Larger size equated to greater strength; this was an unquestionable rule.
Some gods took it even further, abandoning their physical forms to exist as "Light Spheres" because the body has limitations and needs too much.
Humans are perfect, yet at the same time imperfect, surviving on exceedingly harsh external conditions.
Li Changzhou was now not only larger in stature but could also draw any energy and material from the environment to sustain himself. Aside from a few places with energy intense enough to destroy him, the cosmos had opened its doors to him.
He could settle on the Moon, tour Mars, or sunbathe on Venus, where the temperature reaches a scorching 465℃.
"Is this my brother?" Li Qianxia looked up in astonishment at the giant before her, her transformation now complete.
She flew over, relying on no Skill—flying had become as natural as breathing, an innate Talent of hers.
When the lake had deepened to fifteen hundred meters, and the towering trees reached the same height, Li Changzhou stopped growing. He now stood three thousand meters tall, precisely a thousand zhang.
He looked down upon everything, his gaze even penetrating reality to see everything around Song City (the point of entry into the "Honey Jar World").
This was a road leading to the sea, and he could see the grey waters at a glance—nearly deserted by the sea in December.
He heard the hollow sound of a steam whistle from a steamer.
It seemed as if boundless Strength was coursing through him, as though heaven and Earth lay beneath his feet!
Li Changzhou took a deep breath and started to shrink rapidly, soon returning to his original height, standing before Yang Qinglan and his sister.
Just from appearances, it was clear that something fundamental had changed.
He stood there, emanating an authority that seemed to grasp the universe.
He also possessed a quality of youthfulness, appearing around sixteen or seventeen, a young god from a higher realm.
His skin was fair, his eyes were sparkling, and his body seemed to be enveloped in a flowing radiance.
His eyes glittered with light, and with each blink, the world seemed to explode into fireworks before him.
"What do you think?" Li Changzhou asked with a smile.
His voice was filled with ineffable vigor, and anyone hearing it would undoubtedly feel a fire ignite within their heart.
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