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Chapter 125 A Dialogue Across Time and Space

In the Cemetery of Gods and Demons, the towering figures of Chen Nan, Dugu Baitian, and the Demon Lord appear at the current point in time, looking across the years at a scene from the past.

"Great God Dugu, Demon Lord, has He Lang truly been lost in the annals of time? The God of Time and Space has retraced the past countless times, yet he has not seen any changes in He Lang's traces within the annals of time."

As Chen Nan gazed into the long river of history at everything that had happened in the past, he saw himself crawling out of the tomb and talking with the old man who guarded it. His face darkened.

In the past, he had talked with the old man who kept the tomb. One spoke the language of ten thousand years ago, and the other spoke the language of today. It was like talking to a brick wall. But now he knew that the old man who kept the tomb was also an ancient relic who had lived for countless years. This scene was just that unreliable old man making fun of himself.

"Perhaps it has been lost in the passage of time, or perhaps it has transcended the passage of time."

Dugu Baitian stood tall and imposing in the time tunnel, gazing at a scene in the Cemetery of Gods and Demons, his tone extremely solemn.

He had spoken with He Lang at the Cemetery of Gods and Demons and heard He Lang explain the alternative path he was taking. After He Lang had not appeared for a long time, he found the old man guarding the tomb and talked with him. He believed that He Lang was very likely walking on the path that transcended the Heavenly Dao.

Therefore, after the ancient gods returned, Dugu Baitian asked the God of Time and Space to investigate the changes in the long river of time.

However, all traces of the Heavenly Emperor have been obscured over the long river of time, making it impossible to deduce He Lang's situation.

So he found Chen Nan and, by using the cause and effect between Chen Nan and He Lang, arrived at a point in the past to see things clearly.

If the Heavenly Emperor were to pass away, their path to destroying the heavens would need to be restructured. The Heavenly Dao, now fully restored, has gone mad, unlike the past mythological era, where the spark of life would still remain.

It was entirely geared towards destroying everything.

Soon, under the watchful eyes of the three powerful beings from the future who had crossed over to the past, Chen Nan, Dugu Baitian, and the Demon Lord all saw the Heavenly Emperor He Lang suddenly appear in front of the old man's house, as if he had always been there.

"His path is indeed extraordinary, reaching the pinnacle of the rules."

The Demon Lord's white hair danced without wind, and his eyes were filled with solemnity.

He didn't have much contact with He Lang, but he heard Dugu Baitian's evaluation of He Lang, who believed that He Lang was a top expert no weaker than them. Now, seeing the marks of time in the past, the Demon Lord felt that He Lang was a person who was beyond his expectations.

Even with his current peak strength, which defies the heavens, he still couldn't see how He Lang appeared in front of the old man's thatched hut.

They watched He Lang talk to the old man guarding the tomb, and then saw Chen Nan from the past carrying a wild deer from afar toward the thatched hut.

Having witnessed this scene, Chen Nan knew that it would be time for He Lang to greet him next.

But something unexpected happened. The He Lang of the past did not greet him. That period of time seemed to have frozen, and the power of time suddenly stopped flowing.

As they peered into his past, He Lang looked up into the time tunnel, his eyes reflecting the figures of the three men.

"Chen Nan, Dugu Baitian, Demon Lord, I already know about the future. I will return to participate in the final battle."

He Lang's words echoed in the time tunnel, leaving Chen Nan, who had traveled back in time, dumbfounded. Dugu Baitian and the Demon Lord also showed surprise on their faces.

They traveled back in time, and the present moment is already 'the past' for them. The eternal blue sky has long become history, a fixed picture of the world.

However, the person in the painting is now talking to them, and the power of time has no backlash against this action, which surprises the three of them.

"Heavenly Emperor, has the path you predicted been successfully traversed?" Dugu Baitian's deep eyes flickered slightly, and a voice filled with inexplicable demonic power echoed from the time tunnel.

"Not yet. This is just an experiment of mine. Time is limited, so I won't say more to you."

The words of the God's Tomb projection came from the past timeline, and after speaking, 'he' at this point in time returned to normal.

Chen Nan breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the past unfold as if in his memory, with no other changes occurring, under the flow of the power of time and space.

When Dugu Baitian and the Demon Lord saw that He Lang from the past had returned to normal, they immediately entered that timeline to try to interfere with the past and study what state He Lang was in, but they were blocked by the power of time.

"You can't change the past, otherwise the future will change."

Seeing that Dugu Baitian and the Demon Lord were showing signs of trying to interfere with the past, Chen Nan quickly spoke up to dissuade them.

After testing the waters with the Demon Lord and discovering that the transcendent consciousness from the past was no longer there, Dugu Baitian finally stopped what he was doing.

"It seems we need to make plans soon. When we get back, I will set aside a portion of my spiritual consciousness to explore the true spiritual path that the Heavenly Emperor has taken."

Dugu Baitian stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the long river of time. His calm words were filled with a unique aura, the indomitable will etched into his bones and blood from countless battles against the heavens over the years.

"I will also dedicate a portion of my spiritual consciousness to walk this path and see what the realm above the Heavenly Dao is like!"

As a teammate of the Heavenly Emperor for countless years, the Demon Lord knew what Dugu Baitian was considering when he heard Dugu Baitian's words.

Previously, both of them had doubts about the True Spirit Path that He Lang mentioned, believing that He Lang might invite a powerful figure who defied the heavens to jointly deduce the True Spirit Path he spoke of after he had annihilated the Heavenly Dao.

Now, having encountered He Lang's future consciousness reawakening in the 'past', they have realized that their past ideas were wrong. The Heavenly Emperor has already made some progress on the true spiritual path of transformation towards the Heavenly Dao, and is no longer just an idea or a prototype.

"The Mysterious Realm of Human Origin and the True Spirit Method—both paths can lead to the pinnacle of cultivation. The Heavenly Emperor's wisdom is astonishing, but alas..."

The Demon Lord's weathered voice echoed through the time tunnel.

Although the Demon Lord didn't say what came next, both Dugu Baitian and Chen Nan understood what those unspoken words were.

The Demon Lord lamented the ambiguous attitude of such a supreme powerhouse.

After the three of them traveled backwards for a while, they entered the Primordial Era, but gained nothing. Finally, they were taken back to a future timeline by the power of time and space.

Above the river of time and space in the world of the Tomb of the Gods, the innate, indestructible spiritual light projected by the Tomb of the Gods radiates into the past and future, and then spreads towards another transcendent world, encompassing all things and including the river of destiny in which the fates of countless beings rise and fall.

This time, however, his innate immortal spiritual light was suppressed in the River of Destiny. The beings of countless eras since the birth of all living beings in the River of Destiny, from the past to the future, exerted a pulling force strong enough to shake the innate immortal spiritual light, trying to pull the immortal spiritual light condensed by the projection of the divine tomb into the bottom of the River of Destiny.

The innate, indestructible spiritual light clashed with the river of time and the river of destiny in the world of the Tomb of the Gods, shaking the history and future of the world of the Tomb of the Gods and causing a huge upheaval that threatened to rewrite everything.

"If it's not a purely one-lifetime law, it can only go this far."

After resisting for a period of time and capturing most of the rules of time and destiny, the projection of the Divine Tomb, with its undying spiritual light radiating boundless spacetime and destiny, curled up on the river of time. The undying spiritual light that transcended the five innate primordial elements transformed into an undying true form, standing outside the world of the Divine Tomb.

(End of this chapter)