Chapter 711: A Gate of Light

After everything returned to normal, the projection began to slowly dissipate. The old man turned back around and continued his journey toward the future of the Time-Space Mother River, which confirmed the point he had just made.

He would not interfere in this matter.

Li Heng watched the projection disappear, lost in thought.

Interesting. The very forefront of this Future Road was at least billions of eras away from where he was. Moreover, facing this old man who had pioneered the Future Road, he had rarely felt a sense of wariness, which was enough to show that this old man could fight him.

It was even possible that it could be a peak battle.

One had to know that he was a Hongdao Level existence who had undergone one sublimation.

However, this only further confirmed one point: the Great Void was too vast, and it contained all kinds of people, including both the weak and the strong, unless one was the Dao Lord who claimed to be able to govern the Great Void.

Otherwise, no one could claim to be invincible!

Li Heng came back to his senses and continued to look at the Tianxian Guan master.

He had not died from Li Heng's palm strike just now.

"You may go. My deal with the Tianxian Guan City Lord was only to ensure you no longer receive resources, not to have you die. Of course, if you are like those people just now and speak rudely to me, I wouldn't mind sending you on your way."

Although he despised the behavior of this Tianxian Guan master—who, for the sake of collecting tolls, did not hesitate to break the originally repaired Future Road—it was not worth him killing the man.

Killing someone over a minor conflict was called a slaughter-god, not Li Heng.

"I will not go. Kill me; I want to drag that backward version of myself to the grave with me," the Tianxian Guan master said calmly.

"Why does such a small setback make you want to die?"

Li Heng asked in surprise.

"It is not that I want to die, but I have no choice. After all, since he dared to bet everything on you and let you so blatantly stop me, he must have further schemes. He might have allied with someone to put me to death."

"In that case, it is better to flip the table and let everyone die."

Li Heng nodded in agreement upon hearing this.

"That is indeed the case. The Tianxian Guan City Lord is deep-thinking, otherwise he wouldn't have teleported me to the center of this Zhanchang. Since that is so, I will send you on your way."

He intended to kill the Tianxian Guan master with one palm strike.

One shouldn't refuse Source Power that is delivered to one's doorstep.

"Wait, Senior!"

Suddenly, a look of struggle appeared on the Tianxian Guan master's face, and his aura began to slowly approach that of the Tianxian Guan City Lord. Li Heng saw the clue at a glance: the Tianxian Guan City Lord was seizing the body of the Tianxian Guan master.

Or perhaps they were fighting for dominance between two versions of themselves.

And he did not know what method was used, but even though his cultivation was weaker than the other version of himself, he was gaining the upper hand in the struggle.

However, it was already too late.

Li Heng simply struck down with a light palm; the Tianxian Guan City Lord and the Tianxian Guan master were gone instantly. Only the ten million Source Power that had just arrived in his account could prove that these two had ever existed.

He, Li, did not care about any schemes or conspiracies.

Just slap them to death and harvest the Source Power.

Besides, it was the Tianxian Guan master who sought death, so he could not be blamed.

As for whether he sought death because he was confident he could resurrect after death, Li Heng did not care about that. In any case, he had never seen anyone he killed and harvested Source Power from still be alive.

"Alright, do you have anything else to say now?"

Li Heng looked at the strong expert who had been besieged just now and spoke.

This strong expert fell into silence, but he could not stop feeling lucky in his heart. Because just when the Light Orb on him was being snatched, he had thought about attacking Li Heng to take the Light Orb back, but the group of strong experts surrounding him had been faster than him.

Now it seemed that one shouldn't be fast; being fast was fatal!

If he had also made a move, he would be the one dead now.

"Senior, I have nothing to say. You were able to obtain this Light Orb, this key that can open the Node at the end of the Time-Space Mother River; this junior is convinced and impressed."

This strong expert bowed respectfully and tactfully.

Li Heng raised an eyebrow.

"What is your name?"

"This junior is named Li Qianjun, born in a certain Immortal Dao era, but I joined the Future Road a long time ago and began to expand the future of the Time-Space Mother River."

Li Qianjun recalled respectfully.

In fact, in daily life, others would respectfully call him Lord Li or Dao Venerable Li. But he did not dare to put on such airs now and stated his real name directly.

"So it is Fellow Daoist Li. I have long admired your name."

This...

Hearing such perfunctory words, Li Qianjun was speechless.

He really wanted to complain: is it really "long admired your name"?

"Fellow Daoist Li, I won't waste any more words here. Since I obtained this Light Orb from you—the key you mentioned to open the Node at the end of the Time-Space Mother River—how about you accompany me to open the Node together and head to the end of the Time-Space Mother River?"

"Thank you, Senior."

Li Qianjun was overjoyed and responded respectfully.

He knew this was because this terrifyingly powerful expert did not trust him, but this was exactly what he wanted. He didn't care whose hands the Light Orb key was in; he only cared about heading to the end of the Time-Space Mother River.

Subsequently, Li Qianjun began to explain the origin of this Light Orb.

Li Heng nodded after listening; so that was it.

According to Li Qianjun, this Light Orb came from the Great Void surrounding this section of the Future Road. When it appeared, it caused the Great Void to tremble and even manifested visions regarding the end of the Time-Space Mother River.

This attracted many strong experts to chase after it, and many experts performed divinations and predictions, thereby deducing that this was a key that could open the Node leading to the end of the Time-Space Mother River.

It was just that a key also needed a door to match.

But Li Qianjun did not know where that door was.

"A door, huh."

Li Heng was lost in thought and took out the Route Map in his hand. The auras of the Light Orb and the Route Map faintly matched and corresponded; they seemed to be part of the same set.

This is interesting, and also too much of a coincidence.

He seriously suspects that someone is fishing.

It might even be specifically fishing for him.

However, the possibility of the latter specifically targeting him is not high; after all, he obtained the Route Map from the Void Balance, and he had long since used Source Power to predict that the Void Balance had no issues.

"Let's go, follow me to find that door."

According to the depiction in the Route Map, the destination is right around the Future Road, not very far from here.

Li Heng and his party began to deviate from the Future Road, exploring the surrounding Great Void. At this moment, the artifact spirit appeared even more surprised and strange.

"I seriously suspect that the Node on this Route Map is the very Node my master and I used back then; at such a close distance, the direction is even the same."

"It seems the original Node was discovered by others?"

"Otherwise, a Route Map shouldn't have appeared."

Li Heng did not respond, continuing forward according to the Route Map, and finally found a Light Gate in an extremely hidden Void region surrounded by infinite Shi Kong Shen Yuan.

Behind the Light Gate emanated the aura of the end of the Time-Space Mother River!