Chapter 368: Infinite Possibilities

The future's... Savior?!

Upon hearing this, Xiao Hao was stunned; was this talking about him?

"Senior, I think there might be some misunderstanding."

He swallowed hard and hurriedly spoke up.

Savior—what a grand title, but he knew his own limits; to wear the crown, one must bear its weight. He knew he couldn't handle it, and to accept it meant death; this was even more terrifying than being a hero.

"No, no, no, I am not mistaken."

Li Heng began to laugh.

"You just said you wanted to be the Savior, didn't you?"

He looked at Xiao Hao with a smile that wasn't quite a smile.

Seeing that expression on Li Heng, Xiao Hao felt a jolt in his heart, then nodded in total obedience to his inner survival instinct, his expression solemn and grave, "That's right, I want to be the Savior, a hero!"

"That's more like it."

Li Heng also nodded in satisfaction.

"Since that is the case, Savior, we should set off."

Set off?

The two were stunned upon hearing these words, but the next moment, both thought of a possibility—could this existence really be planning to head to the future? They thought with horror in their hearts.

"It is exactly as you think."

Li Heng looked at their reactions and smiled slightly.

"This..." King Xilie appeared somewhat hesitant.

He was currently clinging to Li Heng's coattails precisely to protect Xiao Hao's life and prevent the various major powers who knew of Xiao Hao's identity as a reborn person from kidnapping or killing him.

But now, Li Heng wanted to let Xiao Hao go to the future?

Didn't this have the implication of sending him to his death?

He would rather die than...

King Xilie thought firmly in his heart and was about to voice his words when he noticed Li Heng looking at him and speaking leisurely, "In exchange, I will help you lift the pressure from the major powers."

"Deal!"

Decisive and prompt, he slammed the table.

King Xilie happily uttered these two words.

Xiao Hao, standing to the side, was dumbfounded and stupefied at the sight.

His own father had sold him out?

Selling him was one thing—after all, Xiao Hao knew they couldn't resist Li Heng—but did he have to be so quick about it? Couldn't he have put on a show to comfort him a little?

At this moment, Xiao Hao heard King Xilie send him a voice transmission.

"Son, go with peace of mind; I will miss you."

Li Heng watched this scene of fatherly kindness and filial piety with great interest.

However, he could understand it.

Because Xiao Hao's identity as a reborn person had already leaked, attracting the covetous eyes of many powers; King Xilie alone, or even the entire Great Li, could not protect Xiao Hao at all, and it would even implicate himself.

So it was better to gamble on a glimmer of survival and throw Xiao Hao to him.

And once Li Heng promised to help King Xilie reduce the pressure from various powers and preserve his life, King Xilie cast aside his last shred of concern and agreed instantly.

He was just a son, after all; he could always just raise another one.

Xiao Hao was now crying without tears.

He knew clearly just how terrifying and desperate that future was; living in that era, there was almost no possibility of dying of old age, and one would face danger at any time and place.

Compared to that, this era was simply heaven!

But now he had to go back, back to that hell; one was heaven and one was earth—truly, life is fickle!

Following this, King Xilie still had a bit of integrity.

Before Li Heng set off, he desperately stuffed Xiao Hao with numerous trump cards for survival; there were nine life-saving treasures alone. Finally, he even had Xiao Hao represent him in sending greetings to his future self.

Yes.

In that Desperate Future, King Xilie had not yet died.

However, Li Heng did not find it strange.

If King Xilie had died in that Desperate Future before Xiao Hao had traveled back in time to be reborn, then Xiao Hao would have had no way to survive at all; he would have died before he even had the chance to be reborn.

Everything was prepared.

Li Heng activated the Supernatural Ability he had comprehended from the Salvation Jade Slip, drawing out the true River of Time; the river flowed majestically, its beginning unknown, its end unknown, piercing through the entire Xianshi Tiandi.

Many experts of the Present World were startled at the sight—what was going on, was there another great demon invasion in the Southern Capital? But when they felt the aura Li Heng revealed, they calmed down.

Oh, so it was this Venerable One, this Senior; then it was fine.

Li Heng cast his gaze toward the downstream of the River of Time, into that mist-filled section of the future, accurately pinpointing the space-time coordinates of the Desperate Future and manifesting a phantom of that Desperate Future.

He then turned to look at Xiao Hao, who was frozen in place, and grabbed into the Void, extracting the concept of Causality representing Xiao Hao's identity as a reborn person, scattering it over the River of Time.

As Li Heng's thoughts turned, the concept of Causality slowly evolved, extending from the present into the future, transforming into a Heavenly Bridge upon which one could directly reach that Desperate Future.

The many experts of the Present World watching from afar were shocked.

What on earth was happening?

Could it be that he wanted to cross the River of Time and descend into the future?!

The experts all gasped in unison.

Especially the ten Sages of antiquity; they were even more astonished at this moment. Back then, they had joined forces and exhausted everything just to sneak into this current era through a trick.

Yet now, Fellow Daoist Li could actually build a Spirit Bridge with such ease.

Can one forcibly descend from the present into the future!?

It is simply inconceivable.

Has Fellow Daoist Li become this strong now?

Li Heng did not care about or pay attention to the reactions of these experts of the Present World, calmly turning his head to look at Xiao Hao, who was stunned on the spot.

"The time has come, let's go."

He stepped onto the Spirit Bridge, and Xiao Hao, as if he had lost his soul, followed behind Li Heng under the drive of an invisible force, slowly advancing from the present toward the future.

The two walked on the Spirit Bridge.

Very quickly, they left the Xianshi Tiandi of the present behind them.

At this moment, because the two had already left the true node of the present and entered the illusory river section of the future, which was filled with countless illusory possibilities, this future river section was not a straight river, but a water system, a great web, filled with countless tributaries.

However, although these tributaries and possibilities were illusory, they still made Li Heng click his tongue in wonder and opened his eyes to new sights, as he sighed in his heart, to think there could be such a future, such a possibility.

For instance, in a tributary close to his left, Heaven and Earth were directly destroyed, and the reason for the destruction was also very simple and crude: it was smashed to pieces by a large meteorite from the Great Void.

This was still considered decent; at least there was some logic to it.

Because the further a tributary deviated from the main river section, the more outrageous the possibilities that appeared within it, and the more they lacked logic.

For instance, in a tributary further to the left, the Xianshi Tiandi within it was also destroyed, but the reason for the destruction was quite absurd: it was because everyone in Heaven and Earth spoke at the same frequency at a certain moment, creating resonance, which directly caused the Xianshi Tiandi to collapse.

Actually, that was not even the most outrageous; there were even more outrageous ones.

For example, being destroyed because it was stuffed to bursting with excrement.

For example, because Heaven and Earth loved to eat sweets, it was sweetened to death.

However, Li Heng did not have time to observe these outrageous possibilities.

Because he discovered that as the Spirit Bridge extended further into the future, the Spirit Bridge itself became increasingly flimsy and illusory, ethereal and unstable; he had to inject power, or even Source Power, to stabilize it.

After all, his realm was only at that level; he had not yet achieved Transcendence over time and space.

Because of this, Li Heng also lost the desire to sightsee, leading Xiao Hao to accelerate rapidly, and soon they arrived at the downstream of the future river section, truly seeing the form of that Desperate Future.

It really was a monster filled with tentacles, constantly twisting!

At this moment, the tentacles captured a distant tributary, a future possibility, in which the Xianshi Tiandi had developed quite well, and several Void Heaven Realm experts had appeared.

However, at this moment, the tentacles reached into that Heaven and Earth.

Heaven and Earth instantly deformed and corrupted!

This monster seemed to be feeding...