Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle

Ziran and Cheng Bingxi both had sorrowful looks on their faces.

They both wanted to save both versions of Gu Qingcheng, but reality was brutal: they could only save one.

Xiao Ye suddenly spoke softly to the void,

"Time baby, come on out."

Ziran snorted coldly, "Xiao Ye, do you even know what time it is now, and you're still flirting?"

"That Time Empress is so gorgeous, I bet your eyes are already glued to her body."

Cheng Bingxi bit her lower lip hard, an angry fire flaring in her beautiful eyes.

*Her reasoning got drowned out by jealousy and rage.*

The Space Ancestral Empress seemed very calm, but she found it strange: the Human Emperor shouldn't keep doing this stuff, right?

She shifted her gaze in the direction Xiao Ye was looking.

She saw nothing. Her vision was just a stretch of endless void—no light, nothing but gloom.

She swept over it with her Emperor Realm Third Stage Perfection-level divine sense—still nothing.

Then she tried her space sense, and, surprise, nothing again.

Xiao Ye lifted his hand, hooked his index finger, and grinned,

"Hey, time baby across from me, look over here. Bro's got business with you."

Ziran, "…"

Cheng Bingxi, "…"

They both glared daggers at Xiao Ye.

*Hmph! He's actually flirting with the Time Empress in front of us, so shameless!*

*Xiao Ye's womanizing habits were really like a dog's—he'd never change, no matter how many beast girls he had.*

*He already had, what, ten beast girls now?*

*And if you added in that twin-tail Bai Mao who hadn't married him yet, that made eleven.*

*These eleven beast girls? Body for days, faces off the charts, killer auras all around.*

*Each one drop-dead gorgeous, and each with her own unique vibe.*

*The seductive, the innocent, the ice queen, the firecracker, Miss Perfect, first love face, flat as an airport runway, Mount Everest, long legs, legs-for-days, soft pale feet…*

*They had it all.*

*Yet Xiao Ye still needed to hit on other girls, and now he was blatantly flirting—with a literal Divine Spirit!*

A dangerous glint flashed in Cheng Bingxi's eyes—an evil thought crept in.

*It was a similar idea to 'Big' Gu Qingcheng's.*

*Should we call a harem meeting, get all the beast girls to team up, and if Xiao Ye acted up again…*

*We'd just lock him up.*

*Every day, we'd take shifts draining his "state-owned grain."*

*No rest. If he got tired, we'd use Talent Skills to revive him over and over, then put him back to work.*

*When we all finally got bored of him, we'd each grab a cleaver and stab him, hack him to death.*

*Then we'd slit our wrists and be buried together with Xiao Ye, truly and forever together!*

*The thought had barely formed when she scared herself half to death.*

In everyone's view, Xiao Ye hooked his finger again and said,

"Good, time baby, don't resist me. I'm your master too, just your younger one."

"Yeah, come a little closer, let daddy get a good look at you."

Ziran and Cheng Bingxi's eyes were now shooting pure murder; Cheng Bingxi wondered if her crazy plan might just work.

The Space Ancestral Empress frowned at Xiao Ye, still unable to sense any presence at all.

*That's not her sister, the Time Empress.*

Xiao Ye started to gently pet the air, as if he were stroking a beautiful girl's head; his eyes were full of tenderness, his voice soft,

"Good job, time baby, I can sense the bond between us."

"Show yourself."

A wave of profound light shimmered to life.

In front of Xiao Ye, beneath his hand, a perfectly round pearl appeared.

He chuckled and grabbed the little pearl, saying,

"Time Supreme Treasure, you really made me search all over for you. Your master is right here—where else did you think you were going?"

The Time Supreme Treasure bounced a few times.

Ziran and Cheng Bingxi's beautiful eyes went wide in shock—they stared at each other,

"Uh, what…"

"Xiao Ye was hitting on a Time Supreme Treasure, not the Time Empress?"

"Oops, sorry, Xiao Ye, I totally misunderstood, almost grabbed my cleaver and killed you."

"How could I ever hurt you? You mean more to me than my own life."

Xiao Ye's whole body stiffened. *Wait, did he hear that right just now?*

*Cheng Bingxi wanted to kill him with a cleaver?*

He shivered hard and said, "Bingxi, you're the one I trust the most. Please, don't get any crazy ideas, or I won't be able to take it."

Cheng Bingxi looked so guilty, she nearly buried her head in her own flat chest, and said, full of remorse,

"Xiao Ye, I'd never hurt you, you can count on it."

"Even if the whole world betrays you, I'll always stand by your side—steadfast."

"Whew," Xiao Ye breathed a sigh of relief. He'd just about died of fright. He smiled, "I know you'd never hurt me."

Cheng Bingxi lifted her head, joy bursting out, "Mm-hmm, I'll never hurt you."

The Space Ancestral Empress looked over at the two, her envy plain to see. *What a couple—they trusted each other so much.*

*She wished she could get that kind of trust from the Human Emperor too!*

Not far away, where no one could see, the Time Empress—wrapped only in a towel—had her face flushed and heart pounding, her gleaming fair skin tinged with pink.

"Oh thank goodness, I didn't show up."

"I'd have died of secondhand embarrassment."

"Honestly, that Human Emperor, he called out so affectionately, as if he was seducing a woman—I almost fell for that."

"Time baby—ugh, I'm mortified!"

The Time Empress clapped her hands over her burning face, not even noticing that her towel had fallen off.

She'd come over as soon as she heard the Human Emperor call out again, but after the last experience, she'd held herself back and didn't appear.

"Ugh! Why did my towel fall off?"

She scrambled to cover herself, blushing bright red as she wrapped the towel back up.

She gave Xiao Ye one more long, deep look.

And just like that, the Time Empress slipped away, silent as a ghost.

The Space Ancestral Empress looked at the Time Supreme Treasure in Xiao Ye's hand, her mouth twitching.

*This thing right here, no matter how hard she searched or what senses she used—she couldn't find it or see it at all!*

*Sure enough, when a Supreme Treasure had a tie to the Human Emperor, unless it chose to reveal itself—even if it floated right in front of her—she couldn't see it or even touch it.*

*The Space Ancestral Empress felt a heavy sense of powerlessness.*

*That overwhelming, invincible combat power she used to have—it all seemed useless now, no help to the Human Emperor at all.*

*The Human Emperor—even if his realm was lower at the moment—his class and style were way out of her league, so much so she felt utterly powerless in comparison.*

*As for the Destiny Rule Origin, it seemed all she could really do was help the Human Emperor find and seize it. Everything else—totally useless!*

Ziran and Cheng Bingxi scurried closer, both pairs of beautiful eyes shining with curiosity,

"This is the Time Supreme Treasure?"

"Looks tiny and delicate, just a little pearl."

Xiao Ye held it in one hand, sending his divine sense into it, and discovered a special space inside.

*That space must be the time capsule for shuttling down the River of Time.*

Time Supreme Treasure's functions flickered into his mind,

[Cosmic Dao Level: Space-Time Travel Pearl]

[Function: Time travel, journey to past and future]

[Space-Time Shelter: If the outside timeline was wiped out, you could go inside and wait it out, safe from the destruction]

"It's called the Space-Time Travel Pearl. It can travel to the past and the future," he said gently.

He took out the Soul Capturing Pearl, wrapped the soul body of young Gu Qingcheng with his power, and sent it into the Space-Time Supreme Treasure's shelter space.

Then he grabbed the fragment of the Time Dao Law Xue Nan gave him and put it beside the pearl.

"Absorb the energy and send Gu Qingcheng a hundred years forward. Let my future self revive and reconstruct her body, and then send Gu Qingcheng back."

He gave the command.