500: Chapter 500 Reunion with the Heavens

The main doors opened, and Zhou Yan strode quickly into the main hall.

Seeing Zhou Yan's arrival, Sect Master Qing Xu picked up his wine cup, took a small sip, and looked in his direction.

"Oh, King Qingxu has arrived."

Zhou Yan was stunned for a moment upon hearing this. He turned his head left and right, then looked behind him. After confirming there was no one else around, he pointed at himself.

"What King Qingxu? Are you talking about me?"

Sect Master Qing Xu slammed the wine cup onto the table, his face full of resentment.

"I heard that you tell everyone you meet that I was the one who harmed you."

"That you experienced three years of hardship to achieve supreme greatness, and then specifically crossed the river of time to slay me and ascend the throne as some King Qingxu."

"You have some nerve!"

With that, Sect Master Qing Xu released his full Aura. An overwhelming pressure bore down on Zhou Yan, blowing his hair back and revealing the dead-fish eyes beneath his bangs.

After blowing for a while and seeing that Zhou Yan made no move, Sect Master Qing Xu stopped the pressure and scratched his cheek awkwardly.

"I mean, I'm the Sect Master after all. Can't you give me a little cooperation?"

Zhou Yan let out a long sigh and stared at Sect Master Qing Xu.

"Sect Master, how old are you?"

"The Old Ancestor has business with me, and you're still here playing around?"

"At your age, you don't do any proper work and just want to play all day. When are you going to find a Dao Companion? When will you Breakthrough to Undergoing Tribulation? Is the Yao Race battlefield finished? Have you handled all the affairs? And you're still playing?"

With every sentence Zhou Yan spoke, Sect Master Qing Xu's face grew a shade grayer. By the time he finished, Sect Master Qing Xu looked like a corpse drained by the exhaustion of work.

"Alright, I give up. Stop talking."

"I'll send you to the Old Ancestor right now. Just hurry up and withdraw your Divine Ability."

Sect Master Qing Xu slumped over the desk and snapped his fingers. Zhou Yan vanished into thin air, leaving only a distorted point of light that gradually dissipated.

"Honestly, I saw you were in a bad mood and tried to comfort you, but you actually retorted like that. You really don't recognize a good heart when you see one."

Zhou Yan's vision distorted for a moment, and when it returned to normal, he had already arrived in the familiar cave.

At this moment, Yu Kou was still sitting there with a gentle smile.

"You're here. Have a seat."

Without a word, Zhou Yan sat opposite Yu Kou, waiting for him to speak.

At this, Yu Kou felt somewhat curious.

"What is it? You look troubled. Have you encountered some problem?"

Zhou Yan shook his head and said,

"Yu Kou should speak first. My matters can wait."

Hearing this, Yu Kou seemed to understand something and immediately got down to business.

"I am very gratified that you have returned."

"You are a rare talent, practically the leader of this generation. It would be a waste if you were to stay in the ancient past."

"However, I didn't call you here just for small talk."

"Although you have reached the Soul Transformation Stage... Hm?" Yu Kou's eyes suddenly widened, filled with disbelief.

"You really... gave me a surprise. Soul Transformation Late Stage."

"Never mind. Since you've had such an Opportunity, I'll nag a bit more while I'm at it."

"The reason I called you here is, naturally, hoping you will enter the Cang Tian Library once more."

"Unlike last time, which was to let you see the truth of this world—even if only a little—this time, Cang Tian has actively requested to see you."

"I haven't heard of such a situation happening often. Only those few Ancestral Masters who were Reincarnations of former Immortals have faced this."

"I imagine you must have met some condition."

"My suggestion regarding this is to simply go back in."

"Now that your cultivation has improved, you might be able to see things you couldn't see before, which will be of great benefit to your future Body Integration."

"Alright, the main business is handled. Now let's talk about what I wanted to nag you about."

Yu Kou's expression was no longer gentle, becoming incredibly serious instead. He looked at the somewhat despondent Zhou Yan and said in a deep tone,

"What exactly did you encounter within the river of time?"

Hearing Yu Kou's words, Zhou Yan instantly recalled that sensation of being pulled.

He could clearly remember feeling someone tugging at him in the river of time, as if trying to pull him somewhere.

He hadn't paid much attention to it then, but thinking back now, Yu Kou had also brought him away by means of fishing, yet those tugging sensations were completely different from the feeling Yu Kou gave him.

"I don't know. At the time, it just felt like someone was pulling me. I was just about to reach my destination, but once that tugging sensation hit, my remaining power wasn't enough to get back."

"There were many forces at the time, and I couldn't distinguish how many types of forces there were."

"Anyway, it was roughly five forces pulling at me."

"When I released..."

"Enough." Yu Kou suddenly reached out and interrupted Zhou Yan. The gravity on his face didn't lessen; instead, it grew even thicker.

"This is troublesome."

"I can only hear you say there was something inside the river of time; I can't hear anything else at all."

"Even if you continue, I likely wouldn't be able to understand it."

Zhou Yan was instantly dumbfounded.

A drop of cold sweat slid down his forehead, signaling that Zhou Yan's dao body was losing its balance.

"If even you can't understand it, Senior, then what could it be?"

Zhou Yan's emotions had originally been stuck on his identity as a transmigrator being exposed by Lv Yang. Now, hearing that what he encountered in the river of time might far exceed the Mahayana stage, he instantly began to feel a lingering fear about his experience.

Good heavens, what kind of day is this? Why are the shocks coming one after another? Are we sure the script hasn't been changed? This isn't even the same play anymore, is it?

Yu Kou pondered for a while before eventually shaking his head.

"I indeed cannot hear those words clearly, but that doesn't mean a Mahayana can't listen."

"After all, as you can see, I am just a dead man. Being alive is always better than being dead."

"Perhaps other Mahayana cultivators could understand what you mean."

"In any case, you must never step into the river of time again. Everything must wait until we have investigated the situation."

As Yu Kou's voice fell, Zhou Yan felt a sensation of the world turning upside down.

Unlike the last time when he was taken away in a daze by Yu Kou, the current Zhou Yan, having reached the Soul Transformation Late Stage, could already vaguely perceive the changes in space here.

The original space was like an unfolded plane, and now this plane had folded. Zhou Yan thus moved from one point on the plane to another through the fold.

Through unfolding, rotating, and folding again, he returned to the original position in space, just in the opposite direction.

The original cave had turned into that familiar long corridor. Unlike the last time when Yu Kou led him, this time Zhou Yan proceeded alone.

With his cultivation improved, Zhou Yan could see many disordered Powers of Law around him, which seemed somewhat similar to Luyuan Heaven.

By intentionally avoiding and neutralizing them, he didn't suffer from severe dizziness like last time. Instead, he arrived at the door very clear-headed.

Taking a deep breath, after experiencing Lv Yang and Yu Kou, Zhou Yan really didn't know what major things this Cang Tian had left to say.

He also didn't know if he was prepared to solve so many mysteries all at once.

But since he was here, he couldn't back down. After all, this was deeply connected to his identity. Zhou Yan had to know if this was the only chance in his life.

After finishing his deep breath, Zhou Yan slid the door to the left... It wouldn't budge?

"I forgot to mention, seeing how poorly you adapted last time, I suggested changing it back to a push-pull door."

"I said it before—the ways of the ancestors cannot be changed. They kept talking about adapting to the new era."

"As it turns out, you people of the new era still adapt better to push-pull doors. Those old fogies were just trying too hard to be trendy, which came off as showy."

Yu Kou's voice explained why the door didn't open. Zhou Yan, who had been full of tension, was now just full of annoyance.

"Well, at least I'm not that nervous anymore."

Zhou Yan's expression recovered a lot. He pushed the door open in one go, revealing the familiar library inside, as well as that... not-so-familiar Cang Tian.

The door suddenly shut, but Zhou Yan couldn't care why it closed so urgently. He just looked warily at the 'person' sitting on a bench flipping through a book.

That person had a square face, white hair but a youthful complexion, and wore a set of white Chinese-style exercise clothes.

But the most unacceptable thing was the pair of shoes on his feet! If Zhou Yan wasn't mistaken, those were exactly the famous brand for middle-aged and elderly people from the Blue Star era—Jialijian!

It was just that the appearance seemed slightly different from his memory.

"Who are you?"

These words weren't spoken by Zhou Yan, but by the 'person' sitting on the bench.

He put down the book, stood up, and looked straight at Zhou Yan with a smile.

"Let me ask that question for you."

"After all, you've asked the 'who are you' question enough times today."

"No need to doubt. As I said before, I can see the information I want through your expressions and emotions."

"Then let me introduce myself once more. My name is Cang Tian. You can also call me the Cang Tian Library."

"As for this appearance of mine, it is naturally modeled after the original source of this library..."

"The appearance of the Human Ancestor."