My gorgeous wife Chapter 2307 - 2275: The Debtor

"Other than those Dormant Burial Mounds, the other place where the anomaly arose should be this Heavenly Domain."

Outside the Eight Directions Domain, a lone figure was slowly making his way forward.

After a journey spanning several years, Li Chen finally arrived above the Eight Directions Domain.

During these years, Li Chen walked very slowly, because he was digesting the words Shadow Dao Saint had left him at the moment of his Extinction.

His foundation was still far too shallow.

Indeed, the speed of his cultivation’s progress had exceeded many people’s expectations. Not long ago, he had even leapt in one stroke from the Early Heaven-Earth Realm to the Late Phase of the Heaven and Earth Realm.

Yet although his cultivation had now settled, his combat power was still only average.

The fact that his cultivation had found Stability did not mean he had truly and fully mastered all the special Power and means of the Palm Realm.

This honing of combat power took even more Time than stabilizing his cultivation.

At his current Realm, he could no longer take great strides forward like before. Every single step now had to be taken with extreme caution. Otherwise, it would likely leave behind immense hidden dangers.

For many cultivators, this level of cultivation might already be enough.

But for Li Chen, it absolutely could not be where he stopped.

During these years of slow advance, Li Chen began to immerse himself in studying the myriad strange methods and special ways of using Power as someone of the Palm Realm. He paid no heed to the progress of his cultivation, and over these few years he truly gained quite a lot.

The Heavenly Domain was the first Great Domain of the Eight Directions, and likewise, it was the most prosperous region in all the Eight Directions.

Whether in commerce or heroes and the like, it was second to none across the Eight Directions.

On his way, Li Chen encountered quite a few passing heroes. When they saw him, many heroes even smiled kindly and greeted him.

After all, heroes had to eat too. Out in the world you relied on friends; one more friend was one more path. Even if nothing else, a smile cost nothing—no big deal.

From these people, Li Chen caught a faint whiff of the Jianghu’s air.

"This is the Jianghu." Li Chen could not help but sigh.

As for the frontline of the Four Great Realms—places like the Borderland Realm or the Starry Sky Immortal City—those were not the Jianghu. They were battlefields.

Those there were all warriors.

Yet, perhaps because he had long grown used to being a warrior, although Li Chen could still chat and banter with these heroes and gallants steeped in the aura of the Jianghu, he always felt a sense of not quite fitting in.

It wasn’t that his cultivation was too high, but that it seemed long ago, he had ceased to be one of the Rivers and Lakes People.

He stood outside the Jianghu.

The Jianghu looked at him, and he looked at the Jianghu.

As Li Chen slowly walked through the Heavenly Domain, he faintly began to understand the Supreme’s loneliness back then.

...

Amidst the Starry Sky, a figure was racing at extreme speed.

This figure carried a long spear on his back, his face taut.

A terrifying aura surged from his entire body; wherever he passed, whether void creatures or Starry Sky Behemoths, none dared approach this fearsome existence.

Suddenly, the figure halted abruptly, and a voice rang in his mind.

"Advance one thousand and thirty light-years in the southeast direction, then seven light-years upward. There is a Void Wormhole there. Entering it will save you quite a lot of Time."

"Got it." The figure nodded, then his body turned into a stream of light, shooting at extreme speed toward the direction indicated by the voice.

This time, he had only set out after secretly receiving a message from someone.

Otherwise, he might already have found some corner of a Universe to quietly lie low, waiting until the day some great war erupted before coming out again.

Because his identity was far too special, even though he had already chosen a side, he could not show himself lightly. Otherwise, he would easily be targeted.

A century ago, he had found someone.

Someone he had chased across countless eras.

Someone for whom he had once regarded the entire Heaven Realm as his enemy.

She had appeared again.

Although she was no longer the same her as back then.

But in his eyes, though she was not her, she was still her.

For some reason, the instant he saw her, all the anger and resentment he had buried and hidden in his heart for countless years vanished in an instant like smoke.

He came to know her anew; the two fell into love, continuing a romance separated by countless years.

She was not a cultivator, and he did not force her to cultivate. She grew old, and he accompanied her in growing old. The two simply stayed together like that, spending a brief hundred-odd years, until she died of old age, turned into a handful of Yellow earth, and her Soul returned once more to the Nether River. Then he alone kept watch over the place where the two of them had once shared a lifetime together.

As an old man.

To him, having this one lifetime together was enough.

He was, in truth, someone easily satisfied.

Although he felt he still owed her, he had promised her that if in the next life he could find her again, he would definitely accompany her for another lifetime.

Yet just as he was keeping watch over her Reincarnation, someone came to him.

"He needs your help."

He slowly raised his head, looking at this Palm Realm Powerhouse who had once appeared beside Li Chen. His eyes held no hesitation. "Speak."

"This time, he will undergo a tremendous life-and-death crisis. Without anyone’s help, one could even say he is certain to die." Suan Tian’s gaze was somewhat complicated.

Lord Dao Saint had told him not to intervene, yet in the end he still could not refrain from acting.

Though it was not a personal intervention, such meddling would have a considerable impact in terms of law of causality. On this point, he was very clear, having delved deeply into causality.

Yet to make him watch Li Chen meet Extinction before his eyes—he still could not bring himself to do that.

"The location." He spoke simply and directly as ever. Though his appearance was Long Zhong with age, the words he uttered carried a powerful, overwhelming Momentum.

"First set foot in the Starry Sky. When the Time comes I will use the law of causality to guide you." Suan Tian said.

He nodded, said nothing more, slowly stood, and stepped into the Starry Sky one step at a Time.

With every step he took, his features grew a fraction younger.

By the Time he had passed from the ground into the Starry Sky, he had changed from an old man aged and Long Zhong into a high-spirited youth.

"I do indeed owe you. This Time, it’s my turn to repay." He murmured softly to himself, setting foot upon the Starry Sky.

When it came to the Starry Sky, Suan Tian, who was familiar with the positions of innumerable wormholes, was naturally much quicker than Li Chen. So though his speed was not equal to Li Chen’s, his journeying was faster than Li Chen’s.

The youth advanced in silence Amidst the Starry Sky, wildly rushing toward some destination.

As for the grudges of the Heaven Realm, he had long since let them go. However, he still owed that man a favor.

He could slaughter people by the thousands, his hands drenched in blood.

But this favor—he had to repay!

Though he knew full well that this Time would be extremely dangerous, that he might even lose his life, in his eyes, none of that mattered.

Life and death—he had long since seen through them.

"Li Chen, I’ve come to pay my debt!"

He let out a low roar, a raging Heaven and Earth Realm aura sweeping across the heavens and earth, frightening all the void creatures around into retreating back into the spatial membranes. His body turned into a stream of light and vanished into the depths of the Universe.