Chapter 278

That voice seemed to pierce through time, appearing on the far shore of that ancient river of time!

"Strange, why do I hear someone calling my name from a past life?" On the opposite side, the fat man whispered.

"Fat Cao, Cao Yusheng!" Shi Hao shouted again.

"Hmm?" The fat Daoist Priest heard it even more clearly; a wave of suspicion washed over him, and as if he had sensed something, his pupils contracted: "Could it be... there is a door...?"

Suddenly, his entire body flashed with Jin Guang, his immortal power surging as he pierced through that ancient river in an instant, looking toward Shi Hao's side!

He saw the situation on this side.

However, when he clearly recognized Shi Hao's appearance, his whole person froze, as if struck by lightning, his lips trembling...

"Huang, is it you? You... are still here? You are still alive?" he growled, forcibly suppressing the emotions in his heart.

Yet he could not help himself; tears streamed down in an instant, and he just stared straight at Shi Hao.

"Tell me, what exactly happened?" Shi Hao roared, his voice shaking the wilds!

The Daoist Priest opened his mouth, his expression agitated; he seemed to be saying something, yet in the next second, a bolt of lightning struck directly down, charring his entire body black and making him tremble uncontrollably!

"Sigh..."

The fat Daoist Priest sighed and closed his mouth!

"This..." Shi Hao clenched his fists, his eyes staring fixedly at the opposite side.

He understood...

Their conversation involved crucial matters that would likely change everything and affect the river of time.

Simply put, spoiling the plot gets you struck by lightning!

But the fat man did not retreat; gritting his teeth, he simply endured that heavenly thunder.

Shi Hao dared not ask further, fearing he would draw some terrifying catastrophe upon the fat man.

After a long while, he finally sighed and looked at the fat Daoist Priest, asking, "Are you alright?"

The fat Daoist Priest looked at Shi Hao, and only after a long moment did he sigh: "Before becoming an immortal, I was fine, not too bad! It was just that I was often bitten by dogs; after becoming an immortal, I truly never expected..."

The latter half of his words was drowned out by the rolling thunder, and Shi Hao failed to hear it.

What happened after becoming an immortal?

Shi Hao desperately wanted to hear clearly, yet he simply could not make it out.

He felt somewhat sorrowful.

The fat Daoist Priest of today was no longer that little fat boy from the Imperial Pass.

He had experienced endless years and had long since become an immortal; it was hard to imagine just how rough his path had been...

From his simple words, one could tell that Cao Yusheng had been buried for nine lifetimes, with each life undergoing a corpse transformation, crawling out of the ancient tomb again to continue cultivating.

After each corpse transformation, there was a new beginning, experiencing the mortal world and tasting everything within it.

Moreover, did Cao Yusheng still count as that same Cao Yusheng from before?

With his Primordial Spirit decaying yet his flesh and blood indestructible, what kind of spiritual consciousness was being nurtured anew within such a powerful body?

Shi Hao sighed lightly, for a moment unsure of what to say...

"Huang! Brother, I am still me!"

Just then, the fat Daoist Priest on the opposite side seemed to understand what Shi Hao was thinking and immediately shouted: "I did not simply undergo corpse transformation; I cultivated nine marks of reincarnation and truly remembered the past; I am still me!"

Even though Cao Yusheng was now extremely powerful, with a cultivation base that was Mo Ce, upon seeing Shi Hao again, he was still agitated.

After endless years had passed, this was the first time he had seen an old friend from his memories!

Especially since that person was Huang!

The fat Daoist Priest's eyes turned red; he thought of friends from days gone by, recalling his youth, when there was that rabbit, and that Sky-Horned Ant, until in the end, all he could do was let out a soft sigh, as everything was buried and extinguished through the ages...

He remembered everything from the past, especially the person standing before his eyes.

In that era, holding back the darkness, one person charged toward the distance.

He had wanted to help, yet was left with nothing but regret, and was finally buried.

He truly did not know whether anyone could fight side by side with Huang; if there was no one...

The fat man could not help but shed tears again; it was too bitter, and Huang had to face too much!

"Fighting alone against the heavens, I believe that in those years you were the strongest and would survive! So, why have you disappeared?" the fat Daoist Priest roared, thinking of the future, unable to restrain himself from asking.

He wished he could trample across the river of time to meet Shi Hao and sit knee-to-knee for a long talk with him.

"The world is so vast; there is always a place for me to go; I will not die!" Shi Hao said with a smile, offering comfort with these words.

"Right! You will not; you will eventually appear! Hahaha, I will wait for you!" At this moment, Cao Yusheng laughed loudly, yet as he laughed, he began to cry again.

"Boom-rumble!"

The heavenly thunder roared; even though it was not a secret, it still crashed down upon Cao Yusheng.

Cao Yusheng feared it not in the least.

He actively guided all the divine thunder over, letting it strike only him.

Only after a long while did that tribulation thunder dissipate.

Cao Yusheng winced repeatedly, cursing "that thieving old heaven" with one breath and "this Daoist Lord" with the next...

"What about them?" Suddenly, Shi Hao asked.

He knew he should not ask, yet he could not help but inquire.

Cao Yusheng knew whom Shi Hao was asking about, yet he himself was not clear...

"When I was buried, they..."

Before he could finish, even more terrifying tribulation thunder struck directly upon him, terrifying to the extreme.

"They, are, with, you!" Cao Yusheng roared, finally managing to force out these few words.

Then, he was once again engulfed by the tribulation thunder.

But Cao Yusheng was powerful; he roared, "I will undergo Tribulation Crossing with you using the Immortal Technique!"

This perhaps counted as no great secret, yet he spoke it aloud; otherwise, he simply could not open his mouth, for this Heavenly Dao would teach him a lesson.

Shi Hao felt a weight lift from his heart...

It seemed the future was not without ways to be changed!

At this moment, Cao Yusheng said, "I have searched for you for many years, but could never find you! I trod through every region, yet in all the world I could not see your form! To see you today makes me truly happy, truly moved; this life holds no regrets! For many years I have felt no urge to weep."

Immediately, he clenched his fist, looking at Shi Hao with utmost solemnity: "I must tell you something; even if I suffer heavenly retribution, even if I die, I must speak it, for it concerns something of great importance!"

"Hmm?" Shi Hao froze, his expression darkening.

Then, Cao Yusheng opened his mouth to roar, yet the moment he began, countless lightning bolts transformed into true dragons and dove down, enveloping him, trapping and binding him!

He tried to transmit a message with his divine sense, but it was severed directly by the lightning.

He tried to cross over, but was slapped back by those heaven-shocking waves!

"Say no more, go quickly!" Shi Hao shouted, unable to bear seeing Cao Yusheng suffer!

Cao Yusheng was frantic, willing to risk his life to tell Shi Hao something...

But that thunder domain was aimed precisely at such things; whether his divine sense or his very self, all were crushed, all were engulfed!

In the end, where Cao Yusheng stood resembled a sea of thunder, terrifying beyond measure.

"Be... careful..."

Finally, that faint, drifting voice entered Shi Hao's ears...

But careful of what? He could not hear clearly at all!

"Say no more, go quickly!"

Shi Hao roared, "I will be fine! In the future I will fear nothing!"

"Temple!" Yet Cao Yusheng was still speaking there, desperately trying to inform Shi Hao of future secrets.

He had truly thrown caution to the winds; he wanted to say more, to repeat it, fearing Shi Hao would not hear...

Yet...

"Boom!" The next second, he was directly blasted by a terrifying divine thunder into a cloud of blood mist, vanishing without a trace!

"No!"

Shi Hao's eyes nearly split apart; subconsciously clenching his fists as he gazed at the blood mist opposite, he tightened his grip, his face grim, his eyes bloodshot!

"Cough!"

However, soon that blood mist reconverged, and Cao Yusheng came back to life once more.

He had not died, but clearly he was severely injured.

Shi Hao breathed a sigh of relief.

"Truly no way around it..." Cao Yusheng sighed.