Chapter 2236: Two Old Friends Awaken

A living being, sleeping in time.

This living being has slept in time for who knows how many years, fooling many powerful beings of the Phoenix Immortal Clan, fooling many powerful beings of the Bird Immortal Clan, even fooling a True Immortal!

This is truly unimaginable.

Even if the True Immortal did not carefully probe, but even if it were merely due to karmic connection, changes in heavenly principles should have been faintly sensed; the True Immortal is united with the heavenly principles, so sensitive—let alone an Eight Tribulations Supreme, even a Quasi-Emperor under normal circumstances should not be able to hide in the True Immortal's domain from her.

But such a fact has happened just like this.

"In this endless starry sky, this long river of time, just how many secrets does this lord still not know..."

Jiang Ding whispered.

Hum!

In his thoughts, a faintly visible annihilation-law barrier water droplet appeared on the chirping sparrow, forming a water membrane that wrapped the sparrow, cutting off its connection with the outside world—this sparrow that appears every over a thousand years—and blocking external probing of karma and rules.

This step is risky, because it begins to affect external matter.

However, when the True Phoenix Child begins using most of its divine soul's computing power to search and inspect the heavenly principle disturbances across the True Phoenix star domains, this risk is very small.

If something really goes wrong, then it is fate—nothing more to say.

This layer of annihilation-law barrier wrapped the sparrow, breaking through layer after layer of space, layer after layer of rules and karma, finally breaking through the concept of time with the extreme speed and sharpness of the Annihilation Law Great Dao, returning to the past.

Bang!

Like a dreamy bubble being poked and broken.

Everything in that space shattered like bubbles, distorted and fluctuating, seven-colored and dazzling, then time in the frenzied chaos sometimes reversed, showing past time, sometimes sped up, showing future time, all kinds of changes indescribable.

Like the chaos when heaven was first opened, with no concept of time.

Unknown how long passed.

The space of this chaotic change finally stabilized, and a pitch-black coffin slowly emerged from within, a fierce and terrifying bloody killing aura spreading in all directions.

"Oh?"

Jiang Ding slightly raised his eyebrows, his gaze falling on the coffin.

This coffin is entirely pitch-black, covered with blood-net-like crisscrossing traces, the blood net more like blood vessels, within which something red flows, looking fierce and terrifying—one glance tells it is the ultimate evil object of the demonic path.

Jiang Ding's brow relaxed.

He is not trying to take the moral high ground to point fingers from above; this star domain is not covered by his Tushan Law, so no matter what happens, he should not blame.

However, to say or not to say, this fellow Daoist is indeed meticulous.

The life resentment in this blood-vessel coffin is basically the blood and resentment of foreign races, the quantity should be enormous, like the accumulated blood of countless great thousand-world lives—how he, a single human, collected it among this star domain dominated by many divine, demonic, and monster race powerhouses is unknown.

There must have been many heart-stopping experiences in this.

These events should have occurred before the True Phoenix Child was born; otherwise, he would surely die.

Clang!

Jiang Ding flicked his finger, a sword qi slashed past, cutting a clean wound in this blood-vessel coffin, instantly breaking all its seals.

Black mist rose up, many skeletons, fierce ghosts, resentful spirits and other ominous things appeared and then vanished.

These methods can instantly destroy an Eight Tribulations Supreme, and even if one is not careful, possibly inflict heavy injury on a Quasi-Emperor—transmission and methods are truly extraordinary.

However, under this sword qi, like a bubble, it cannot cause any commotion.

The blood-vessel network on the coffin all fell off, the pitch-black coffin lid slowly opened, revealing within a handsome and elegant youth, one glance showing a high-level cultivator of refined bearing, appearing in the coffin, unknown how long he has slept.

Jiang Ding quietly watched.

The eyelids of this handsome and elegant youth twitched once, then slowly opened his eyes.

His eyes were initially blurry, having slept too long, his divine soul stiffened, unable to operate.

After a long time, a bit of starlight began to appear in his sea of consciousness, thoughts like electric flashes turning in his sea of consciousness, slowly restoring a trace of thinking ability, his blurry eyes gradually becoming clear.

He saw, not far away, a youth in blue clothes quietly looking at himself.

This youth wore a long sword at his waist, his gaze indifferent, his body bearing an undeniable transcendent aura, as if a banished immortal from the Nine Heavens had descended to the mortal realm, ready to take flight and ascend at any moment.

The handsome and elegant youth's pupils instinctively contracted.

At this moment, his sea of consciousness seemed to receive a strong stimulation, thoughts like electric sparks flowing at thousands or tens of thousands of times the speed, quickly restoring most of his reason.

"Paying respects,"

"Heavenly Lord!"

The handsome and elegant youth, the Great Love Supreme, ignoring the pain of his body just awakened, deeply bowed his head.

Jiang Ding's eyes moved slightly.

Heavenly Lord.

This title, who knows how many years no one has called him by.

That was an extremely distant past, when he himself was still at the Nascent Soul or Soul Transformation stage—this is a title only old acquaintances in time would have, like the old class monitor, the old company commander, similar forms of address, with different feelings.

"Great Love Daoist, likewise, long time no see."

Jiang Ding's gaze softened a bit.

He slightly nodded in return, not waiting for the other's answer before saying: "Daoist, you have slept for a long time, no need for so much ceremony, just rest and recuperate well."

His tone was still rather gentle.

After all, the Great Love Supreme did not violate the Tushan Law, nor did he infringe on his interests, so currently there is no hostile stance, even if the other has considerable secrets or opportunities.

But this is not important.

As long as he does not violate the Tushan Law, it's fine.

"Yes, Heavenly Lord."

The Great Love Supreme breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, taking back the carefully prepared explanation he had ready in advance.

He did not ask why.

He was not curious.

Even not interested in you.

The other party's reputation and stance are indeed as they always were; the choice made back then was correct.

The Supreme of Great Love sat cross-legged, took out spirit stones to restore his stiffened meridians and soul, and the sleeping body began to recover bit by bit.

"Since fellow Daoist is here,"

"Then, Fellow Daoist Han should also be in seclusion."

Jiang Ding Zi muttered to himself.

He quickly locked onto the target through karmic bonds—a common ivy in a Minor Thousand World, its dark green vines entwining around a tree the size of a bowl's mouth; this ivy has already lived through three spring and autumn cycles, expected to die naturally in another six, or perish from external force.

It looks like a very ordinary common ivy.

This is not because the perception of the Supreme Sun Sword Immortal Maiden exceeds that of the True Phoenix Child by so much, but rather that this was deliberately left for him to see by the other party many tens of thousands of years ago before entering slumber, hoping that someday someone would awaken him.

"Fellow Daoist Han,"

"Fellow Daoist Han, actually walking the path of the Six Paths of Reincarnation—I thought it was the Great Dao of Qingmu..."

Jiang Ding let out a soft sigh.

(End of Chapter)