Chapter 515: Xuanyang

Hmm?

Xuanyang frowned; what had he just heard?

Li Heng's voice? Could he have returned?

But that shouldn't be; if Li Heng had returned, he should have sensed it, it was impossible for there to be no signs at all. Not to mention avoiding his perception to appear in this time period of the origin of Heaven and Earth.

It seems it was just an auditory hallucination.

Xuanyang sighed in his heart and continued to sever the polluted timelines, preventing these timelines from polluting the main trunk of the Time Axis and losing the possibility of a comeback entirely.

"It seems your situation is not very good right now."

Li Heng's voice rang out again by Xuanyang's ear.

Xuanyang was startled and frowned.

Why had this auditory hallucination appeared again?

Could it be that he had been polluted by the power of the Unknown calamity?

His heart skipped a beat, and he checked himself rapidly, turning his soul and True Spirit inside out dozens of times, but he discovered nothing unusual, which made him even more puzzled.

It was not that he was polluted, and there was nothing unusual around him.

After excluding all possibilities, then the impossible that was originally denied became the fact, turning into a possibility.

In other words, Li Heng...

As this thought crossed Xuanyang's mind, Li Heng's figure suddenly appeared before him, watching him with a smile, without any warning.

Looking at Li Heng, Xuanyang was stunned for a long time before squeezing out a sentence.

"What is your strength now!"

Although he was calm on the surface, Xuanyang was already incomparably shocked in his heart. He discovered that he could no longer see Li Heng at all in terms of status; it wasn't that he couldn't see clearly, but that he couldn't see him at all!

If the Li Heng of the past was shrouded in mist, ethereal and mysterious, then the current Li Heng was like the Great Elephant that is formless; he couldn't see him at all, yet he could feel his existence.

This meant that a huge gap had appeared between the two.

A gap that left him unqualified to observe Li Heng.

He did not doubt that if Li Heng were willing, even if Li Heng stood right in front of him, he would not be able to see him, like a blind man with his eyes open.

"A strength you have not yet reached."

Li Heng smiled slightly.

"Not yet reached?"

Xuanyang was taken aback; he was currently in the Creation Realm. Could it be that Li Heng had already broken through the Creation Realm and reached the Half-step Divine?

But, in such a short time, how could that be possible!

"It seems you are not far from Sacred."

Xuanyang was silent for a moment, then sighed aloud.

Such a cultivation speed was simply incredible. When he had gone to the True Realm, he had just ascended to the Creation Realm, but after returning, he had already reached the supreme realm of Half-step Divine.

That was separated by at least nine major realms!

Moreover, as someone who had been there, he knew clearly that although Half-step Divine was only half a step, it was also incredibly difficult to achieve. Only upon reaching the Half-step Divine could one be considered to have stepped onto one's own path.

Li Heng raised an eyebrow upon hearing this.

"It seems you have no confidence in yourself."

Hearing Li Heng's calm response, Xuanyang was slightly startled.

This answer surprised him somewhat.

He had praised Li Heng's strength, yet Li Heng said he had no confidence in himself? Where did this come from? Wait! Could it be... He couldn't help but recall the past, his own past during his peak.

"It seems you have already thought of it."

Li Heng smiled slightly.

Xuanyang's expression was complex.

"You have actually advanced to Sacred, ranking among the Venerables?"

He spoke softly, his tone trembling slightly.

He finally understood what Li Heng meant; "you have not yet reached" referred to the realm he himself had not reached at his peak as a Half-step Divine, which was the Sacred Realm!

But was this not too incredible?

Breaking through nine realms in succession to attain Half-step Divine, he could still understand. Although such geniuses were rare, they were not non-existent; every era would have such geniuses appear.

However, breaking through from non-Sacred to Sacred was not as simple as just breaking through a realm! If one were to judge by realms, the Sacred Realm was a supreme height that could not be reached even after breaking through countless realms!

Yet now it had been achieved so easily by Li Heng? Xuanyang would rather believe that he had been polluted and had fallen into an illusion. This was simply too crazy; it was more than just a single step to the heavens.

"You could say that."

Li Heng nodded.

He did not follow the Immortal God system, and he only possessed the Eternal Element without having completely occupied or possessed it to become Eternal himself, so in the end, he was still different from the Sacred of the Immortal God system.

Of course, in essence, it should be considered the same level.

Xuanyang struggled to maintain his composure.

Inhale, exhale...

He kept taking deep breaths; between inhaling and exhaling, countless fragments of time were drawn into his body, and countless Great Sun Radiance were exhaled, maintaining the stability of the time period of the origin of Heaven and Earth.

"How did you do it?"

Finally, he couldn't help but ask, not even caring whether Li Heng had brought back what he wanted. After all, that was the Sacred Realm; it was too important!

"Let's not discuss that for now; I have brought back something for you."

Li Heng smiled slightly, then waved his sleeve, and another polluted and twisted Xuanyang appeared before Xuanyang.

"Take a look, who is he?"

Xuanyang looked at the polluted Xuanyang before him, stunned.

After a long while, he finally reacted, looking the polluted Xuanyang up and down with an increasingly complex expression before slowly speaking, "I thought you were dead. But now, I wish you were dead even more."

"Are you disappointed that I'm not dead?"

The polluted Xuanyang said coldly.

Although he had been subdued by Li Heng, it did not mean he lacked consciousness, especially with another Xuanyang appearing before him; he could no longer hold back. If not for Li Heng being here, he would have already started a fight.

"As expected, just as I anticipated."

Xuanyang shook his head, his expression incomparably complex.

"How is this gift?"

Li Heng smiled.

"It seems Fellow Daoist Li has already learned of some of my past during your trip to the True Realm. It's just that I don't know how to describe this gift," Xuanyang said with a bitter smile.

"I am handing him over to you now; how do you want to deal with him?"

Li Heng asked curiously.

"He and I are both Xuanyang, but he is no longer me; devouring or merging would be meaningless," Xuanyang said, shaking his head.

"But if my sensing is correct, if the two of you do not merge, it will have a certain impact on your Dao foundation, right?" Li Heng said.

"The matter is already beyond repair; it can only be this way."

Xuanyang shook his head.

Back then, in order to leave the True Realm, he had split himself into two. Although the secret technique was too profound at the time for there to be any price to pay, some hidden dangers emerged as time went on.

For instance, he had been unable to return to the Half-step Sacred Realm no matter what.

"You cannot, but I can."

Li Heng said calmly.

Xuanyang fell silent upon hearing this.

"Then may I ask Fellow Daoist Li, what price must I pay?"

He said in a deep voice.

There is no such thing as a free lunch in this world; he had always firmly believed this. Although he and Li Heng had some friendship, he did not believe this friendship was worth Li Heng doing this.

Being able to bring this polluted Xuanyang back was already doing the utmost.

"Why do you have so little faith in my character?"

Li Heng shook his head in disappointment, then smiled slightly.

"However, if Fellow Daoist Xuanyang insists on repaying me, then telling me about the so-called Lighthouse Project would not be out of the question."

A ray of light appeared on his palm.

It was precisely the thing that Xuanyang had asked Li Heng to retrieve.