Chapter 677: Son of an Old Friend

Inside the Human Emperor Palace, there was music and dancing! Everyone was rejoicing over the return of the Human Emperor, and as they toasted one another, the faint fragrance of wine had already drifted far away!

Everyone was very happy this night, especially Ye Yuemiao and Su Haizhen. When they learned the details of what Zhang Nuo had experienced in the Underworld, they were both happy for him. After all, for a woman, having a man with such great ability was the most glorious thing!

Late at night, Zhang Nuo sat in a room with his two beloved companions. Looking at the two beautiful, flower-like women before him, a sense of reluctance arose in his heart!

In another hundred years, he would have to follow Jialouluo into the True Immortal Realm! That place would be dozens of times more dangerous than the Underworld! Fighting against the existence of True Immortals—this was something Zhang Nuo had never even imagined before!

However, in order to enter the Immortal World and become a True Immortal with a lifespan equal to heaven and earth, he had to make a choice in the face of romantic attachments!

After a long silence, Su Haizhen noticed he had something on his mind, so she walked up to Zhang Nuo and said in a soft, gentle voice:

"Husband, do you have something on your mind? Why not tell us about it?"

Zhang Nuo drained the wine in his cup in one gulp, sighed softly, and told them about Jialouluo! After hearing it, their pretty faces changed, and the joy they had felt before vanished completely!

They both knew clearly that while Zhang Nuo's cultivation in the Immortal Domain could be said to be unrivaled now, it would be a different matter once he entered the Immortal World! True Immortals had always been what cultivators yearned for!

If it were a normal ascension, the two women naturally wouldn't worry, but this time it was a case of knowing there were tigers on the mountain yet choosing to head toward the tiger's den!

"I still have a hundred years to spend with you! Cherish this time well!"

Looking at the melancholy faces of his beloved companions, who seemed to have aged significantly in an instant, Zhang Nuo felt very troubled!

The three sat facing each other; this night seemed very short, and in the blink of an eye, it was dawn!

Early the next morning, Zhang Nuo left the room and found Chunyangzi and the others, asking if there was anything else in the Human Emperor Realm that required his attention!

"Haha! You, the Human Emperor, are now a living signboard; who would dare not give you face? Where would you need to do things yourself?"

Chunyangzi laughed heartily! Zhang Nuo also smiled, though that smile appeared somewhat bitter! He had spent a long time with Chunyangzi, especially back in the Human Realm; if not for Chunyangzi, there would be no Zhang Nuo today!

Chunyangzi, who remained in high spirits, did not notice Zhang Nuo's troubled mind, and the two chatted about other things before parting ways!

Ten years later, Zhang Nuo told everyone that day that he had something to do and would be away for a while, after which he left Wushuang Saint Emperor City! Arriving at a remote location, he held the Zhutian Blade in one hand, forcefully tore open the void before him, and flashed inside!

The Human Realm! On the Tianyuan Continent! Zhang Nuo suppressed his cultivation, revealing only the level of the Spirit Severing Stage. However, despite this, the power of the Heavenly Dao laws still hovered incessantly above his head! As soon as his cultivation exceeded this limit, it would immediately draw down heavenly thunder!

This time, his purpose in coming to the Human Realm was to find someone! Gao Dakuan's son! Gao Chenhou! Back in the Underworld, a conversation with Gao Dakuan's soul had left him with a lingering sense of guilt!

In the end, Gao Dakuan had entrusted his only beloved son to him, so even if Zhang Nuo had to risk taking the attack of the heavenly thunder head-on, he had to bring Gao Chenhou back to the Immortal Domain!

Several months later, Zhang Nuo's figure finally appeared at the Southern Dynasty Song Clan! Having experienced over a thousand years of wind and rain, the Song Clan no longer possessed its former glory! Only the faintly visible, dilapidated courtyard walls reminded him of much!

Just as he arrived at the main gate of the Song residence, a young cultivator immediately came up to greet him, but when he discovered that the newcomer's cultivation was unfathomable, the young cultivator was instantly shocked! Just by meeting Zhang Nuo's gaze, the man felt as if his heart had been seen through! His body turned ice-cold, and he couldn't utter a word for a long time!

Zhang Nuo paid him no mind and walked straight into the Song residence. Along the way, every member of the Song Clan, upon sensing the aura on his body, stood frozen on the spot like wooden statues!

When Zhang Nuo arrived at the center of the Song residence, a streak of light suddenly shot out from the backyard and landed before Zhang Nuo in the blink of an eye! The newcomer was a man of about thirty, wearing a purple brocade robe, looking very robust! He was sturdy and broad-shouldered! His cultivation was around the Nascent Soul Middle Stage!

At the first sight of the man, Zhang Nuo's heart stirred; this figure was very much like Gao Dakuan, and from his features, one could even sense Gao Dakuan's aura!

"Which senior is this? Is there something you need at my Song Clan?"

The purple-robed man wore a respectful expression, but on one of the arms beneath his sleeves, a purple glow was faintly shimmering! It looked as if he would strike immediately if he sensed Zhang Nuo had ill intentions!

"The Purple Lightning Wild Thunder on your arm is of no use against me!"

Zhang Nuo spoke a single, calm sentence, which immediately caused the purple-robed man's expression to change! Almost no one knew the name of the purple lightning on his body, yet the person before him had pointed out the mystery behind it in a single word!

"Who exactly is the senior? How do you know about the thing on Gao's body?"

"Haha! Who am I? My good nephew, do you not remember who gave you this thing?"

Looking at the trembling Gao Chenhou, Zhang Nuo could not bear to let him continue to be afraid!

"Senior is... is Uncle Zhang?"

Since arriving before Zhang Nuo, Gao Chenhou had not dared to look too closely. Because the disparity in their cultivation was too vast, even though Zhang Nuo had suppressed his cultivation, the Spiritual Pressure on his body still reached a terrifying degree!

"That's right, it is I!"

Hearing Zhang Nuo's personal confirmation, Gao Chenhou let out a long breath, and a smile appeared on his face, though he still dared not be too presumptuous and appeared very reserved!

"I have come across the boundary from the Immortal Domain this time mainly for you! Go and pack up quickly; in a moment, I will take you into the Immortal Domain!"

Zhang Nuo spoke to Gao Chenhou in an almost commanding tone. Upon hearing that the Uncle Zhang before him was going to take him to the Immortal Domain, he was immediately shocked!

"Uncle, what is this all about?"

"There is no time to explain now; I will tell you when we reach the Immortal Domain!"

"But my family is here! If the Song Clan were to lose me now, I fear they wouldn't be able to survive for very long!"

Looking slightly troubled, Gao Chenhou still bit the bullet and said this. Zhang Nuo had already known all of this; the moment he entered the Song residence, his Divine Sense had enveloped the entire estate. After a quick search, he found that Gao Chenhou was the only existence at the Nascent Soul Stage!

"All things have their rise and fall! This is the Heavenly Dao! You need not think too much!"

Zhang Nuo looked up at the sky. Having experienced so much, he had also gained some insight: everything in the world exists in a state of change! Because of this "change," many unexpected things happen!

"It's just that..."

Before Gao Chenhou could finish his next words, Zhang Nuo flicked his sleeve, and a five-colored radiance rolled out, wrapping Gao Chenhou within it! Following that, his escape light rose, and he shot toward the high sky!

Tearing open a spatial rift, his figure plunged directly inside and vanished in the blink of an eye!

It was not until after Zhang Nuo left that the people of the Song Clan finally snapped out of their daze! An old man walked out from a room and looked at the sky where Zhang Nuo had disappeared, a look of doubt appearing on his face!

This person was the current patriarch of the Song Clan, but his cultivation was only at the Golden Core Stage. Since Gao Chenhou was of a different surname, he could not serve as patriarch!

Yet, whenever the Song Clan encountered a great disaster, it was always Gao Chenhou who stepped forward to help resolve it; this was also Gao Dakuan's heavy entrustment before he passed away!

"Could it be that he has returned? If it wasn't him, why would he take only Chenhou away?"

The old man's aged face suddenly revealed an expression of relief, but in an instant, he became sorrowful again!

"Alas! The Song Clan is finished! But you have protected the Song Clan for so many years; you have done right by the Song Clan!"

With the family's only Nascent Soul cultivator taken away by Zhang Nuo, the Song Clan would inevitably decline, and perhaps in a few years, they would be erased from the Tianyuan Continent!

Several years later, in Wushuang Saint Emperor City, there was suddenly an extra purple-robed cultivator. Although this person's cultivation was only at the Nascent Soul Stage, his relationship with the Human Emperor seemed very unusual!

The Human Emperor had even declared that whoever dared to touch a single hair on this person would have their nine generations exterminated by the Human Emperor! Such harsh words were not something just anyone dared to say!

The purple-robed cultivator was, naturally, Gao Chenhou. After returning to the Immortal Domain from the Human Realm, Zhang Nuo had told him about his father, Gao Dakuan!

Only then did Gao Chenhou understand why his uncle had suddenly brought him to the Immortal Domain! He hadn't expected that even after his father had fallen, he was still thinking of him!

In the Human Emperor Palace, Gao Chenhou's cultivation was not high, but his status was not low. Zhang Nuo calculated the time and realized he could not personally guide him, so he specifically had the people in the Human Emperor Palace help him with his cultivation!

After finishing this matter, the stone in Zhang Nuo's heart was finally set down; calculating the time, there were still several decades until the date set by Garuda, and he spent these decades together with Su Haizhen and Ye Yuemiao, for after this parting, he did not know in what year or month they would be able to meet again!

Additionally, Zhang Nuo also wrote his cultivation insights into a book, leaving it for the two women to use as a reference in the future!

Gao Chenhou perhaps inherited his mother's ice-snow intelligence, and after thirty years, he advanced to the Spirit Severing Stage! Upon seeing this, Zhang Nuo was naturally happy; as long as he entered the Spirit Severing Stage, he was one step closer to the Integration Stage, and his painstaking efforts had not been in vain, and this matter that his senior brother Gao Dakuan had entrusted to him could finally be considered brought to a perfect conclusion!

Several decades later, the cultivators in the Holy City discovered that Zhang Nuo had disappeared once again!