Chapter 96
Time has perfectly explained the meaning of "unpredictable things in the world". The four people who had decided to test Cao Sheng were not ready yet, and the final accident dragged them into the battlefield where their fate was determined.
Ceobe's supernatural power reactions appeared near all the cracks in the underworld, and the entire CPA-related deployment instantly entered operation.
At the same time, Gu Qingming and Chu Zhongyuan were standing on the Yellow Springs Road that they had just repaired, staring at each other.
Gu Qingming thought that as a seventh-level mysterious boss, Ceope must have terrifying power, but he did not expect that the power he controlled could extend into dreams.
In the pitch-black darkness, Gu Qingming saw the leader wrapped in bandages and surrounded by dirty black fog during his normal sleep at night.
"Oh my, isn't this our little Cretaceous Immortal?"
The chief clapped his hands, but what he said was not at all pleasing to the eye.
But he is Ceobe's boss, so it is understandable that he can't say anything nice.
Gu Qingming is not a man with an aggressive personality. If Zheng Qiuji was here, he might have started to curse, but he didn't. He just reiterated it simply and calmly.
"I am not the respected senior of the Cretaceous Immortal Monarch. I have my own name."
"Oh? What does it matter if you have your own name or not."
The leader shrugged his shoulders in a provocative manner, "Anyway, the people around you approach you because they think you are the Cretaceous Immortal Monarch."
Gu Qingming rolled his eyes in his heart. Langying had clearly separated the superpowers from the masters. He and Chu Zhongyuan were just the new masters chosen by Bai Kelan and Jiuyoujing. They had nothing to do with those two mysterious beings, and yet this guy was still talking nonsense here.
However, the other party is indeed well versed in the art of worrying. If he had not met such a good companion, if he had not met such a good group, he might really suspect that everyone approached him just for the Cretaceous Immortal Lord.
Unfortunately, Chief Ceobe's limitations as a demon from the Nine Abyss restricted him, preventing him from seeing what good and beauty could achieve.
"Don't be so nervous. I'm not here to cause any trouble."
The leader thought that Gu Qingming's silence was just because he was afraid, but the latter scoffed at what he said.
Gu Qingming: I don't believe you at all. You are a mysterious and evil old man. Your purpose has not changed for four hundred years from ancient times to now, which is to open the gate of Jiuyuan, release all the brothers and sisters in your eyes, and gain the so-called freedom with corpses everywhere.
He didn't say it out loud, but just complained in his heart.
"I came here just to invite you and Jiuyou Jun to play a game—"
The leader pretended to be mysterious: "Let's see who finds each other first."
He snapped his fingers, and Gu Qingming felt the surroundings suddenly lighten. He seemed to begin falling in the endless universe, but soon, his feet touched the solid ground.
Someone caught him accurately as always.
"...Chu Zhongyuan?"
Gu Qingming saw the familiar light blue water tide in his blurry vision. He tried to focus his eyes, and Chu Zhongyuan's worried expression appeared in front of him.
"Huh, you're finally awake. You falling from the sky unconscious just now really scared me. If I hadn't picked you up -"
Gu Qingming suddenly covered his mouth to stop him from speaking any further.
"No, you won't,"
Gu Qingming suddenly laughed, and laughed happily.
"Because no matter where I fall, you will catch me."
Chu Zhongyuan was dazzled by the boy's bright smile, as if he was blown by the gentle breeze of early spring, and felt a little ecstatic.
"You know very well that I can never do anything to you."
Chu Zhongyuan's pleasant voice was suppressed very low. Although he had made up his mind about his feelings, he had no time to confess. At this moment, he suddenly heard Xiao Ming's cheating-like speech and felt that he was about to lose all his strength.
Fortunately, a gust of cold wind blew and pulled the two people out of the strange atmosphere.
Fluorescent water waves and green wind snakes surrounded the two of them, helping them to block the deathly aura from the underworld. Everything in front of them was too familiar. The Yellow Springs Road that they had risked their lives to repair that night was still standing there, like some kind of silent symbol.
"Were you also dragged in by that bastard leader?"
Chu Zhongyuan suddenly realized something.
Gu Qingming nodded with a heavy expression, and he became serious again, as if the softness just now was just Chu Zhongyuan's illusion.
Maybe the decisive battle has already begun, but they haven't confirmed it yet.
An ominous premonition lingered in Chu Zhongyuan's heart. He almost wanted to immediately grab the wrist of the young man in front of him and tell him his long-cherished feelings, but the remaining rationality stopped his body from going crazy instinctively.
"He said he wanted to play a game with us."
Gu Qingming began to recall every detail of the dream and told Chu Zhongyuan everything the leader had said as a joke.
"…What that guy said to you was pretty much the same as what he said to me."
Chu Zhongyuan rubbed his aching forehead. He was still doing his biology homework before going to bed, and his mind was full of gene definitions. In the blink of an eye, he found that Keobe's boss appeared in his dream. He was about to throw a Tunguska at him, but the leader threw him to the underworld in disgust.
"Then let's move forward. Since that guy said he wanted to play games with us, let's go find him."
Gu Qingming pondered for a moment and made a judgment.
"Okay, I, Chu Zhongyuan, have never lost to anyone in a game."
Chu Zhongyuan smiled and nodded, then naturally took Gu Qingming's arm.
The underworld was still terrifyingly dark, but the eyeball-shaped vortex clouds seemed to be a little bigger, and the shriveled branches of the surrounding red forget-me-not trees pointed out into space like hideous hands.
They had not walked far when their attention was drawn by the strange white bubbles scattered along the road.
"What is that?"
Chu Zhongyuan was a little confused. While asking, he approached the white bubbles floating in the air, but he felt a mysterious aura before he got close enough.
What followed was a sudden change in the surrounding environment.
With the white foam as the center, the surrounding scenery distorted into hazy colors, and then seemed to explode and change completely.
"Where have we come to again..."
Gu Qingming looked at the unfamiliar scenery around him speechlessly. It was a magnificent sea of flowers on the other shore.
"Could it be the sea of red spider lilies from four hundred years ago?"
Chu Zhongyuan saw a familiar shadow among Yaoyao's red spider lilies. The man was dressed in a green robe, with half of his long hair tied in a ponytail and the rest loose, with a heroic look and a hint of gentleness.
He was wearing a white bamboo hat, and his face was hidden by the hanging white veil, so it could not be seen clearly. In his hand was a familiar bronze spear, which was the same spear in Gu Qingming's hand.
Gu Qingming took out the snake-shaped carving, and a green light flashed. In Gu Qingming's hand appeared a long spear that was exactly the same as the one in the man's hand, but it was a little old. It seemed that four hundred years had made this magic weapon a little sharper.
"That's the Cretaceous Immortal."
Without confirmation, Gu Qingming recognized the immortal at a glance and found that his image was exactly the same as in his memory.
It seems like they really have gone back four hundred years... No, not entirely.
Chu Zhongyuan looked at his and Gu Qingming's slightly transparent fingertips. In the world four hundred years ago, they were just passers-by. Just now, the two of them tried to pick a flower of the other shore, but they didn't even touch the flower and passed straight through.
The situation now is more like that the memories of the past recorded by the underworld have begun to be played around them by some mysterious technology or mysterious object.
"Will there be any truth to the disaster that happened four hundred years ago?"
Although Gu Qingming and Chu Zhongyuan had some understanding of what happened back then through Wolf Shadow and archival materials, they only knew that the Gate of Jiuyuan that separated Jiuyuan and the underworld was opened four hundred years ago, and countless resentful souls and evil ghosts rushed out of the Gate of Jiuyuan. The CPA suffered heavy casualties at that time, and the Cretaceous Immortal King even died in the line of duty.
That was the first time that Gu Qingming realized so clearly that everything in the world will eventually change, and even gods will die one day. Even the Cretaceous Immortal King, who left a significant mark in the history of mystery, will perish. Perhaps nothing in the world can really stop the passage of time.
"We can only take it one step at a time."
Chu Zhongyuan sighed and refocused his attention on the figure walking towards the sea of flowers with his back turned.
"Cretaceous Immortal Lord... you really have a good taste. You actually have time to come to the sea of flowers on the other shore instead of just sitting there in front of your Nine Abyss Gate?"
A distant voice was heard, and a ghost in blue clothes emerged from the sea of red spider lilies. He tapped the folding fan in his hand and smiled brightly. He did not look like a ghost from the depths of the Nine Abyss, but more like a rich young master from the common people.
"Stop teasing me."
The Cretaceous Immortal King is obviously not good at speaking.
"But...Yan Jun also said the same thing. Am I really...boring?"
The Cretaceous Immortal paused and asked a shocking question.
Now it was Jiuyou Jun's turn to be confused: "Ah?"
Jiuyou Jun: "No, is there a possibility that Yan Jun and I are suggesting this to you just to hint that you should stop putting the gatekeeping above everything else?"
Immortal Lord Baichao righteously retorted: "But guarding the Nine Abysses Gate is my duty after being awakened by the Heart of the Universe (world consciousness). The Heart of the Universe transformed me from an ignorant beast into a soaring divine creature, the Teng Snake. How can I not shoulder this responsibility?"
Jiuyou Jun rubbed his forehead in pain at his stubborn friend and said, "What I mean is that maybe you can relax a little. The Jiuyuan Gate won't have any major problems, and there are more than just you guarding the gate. There are also other ghost messengers and the King of Hell."
The Cretaceous Immortal was about to retort: This is a matter of great importance, how can you just ignore it and delay others?
But he quickly remembered Lord Yan's earnest advice, saying that he was worried that since he had been guarding the gate for hundreds of years without leaving, his mental state might become bad, resulting in half the effort and twice the result, so he did not refuse immediately.
"If you keep guarding the gate like this, the people who care about you will get worried."
Jiuyou Jun threw out the final trump card.
"Even the currently dormant Heart of the Universe (world consciousness) would be worried."
The Cretaceous Immortal King stopped talking. After a long time, he thought for a while.
"...Maybe you are right. I should go out and broaden my horizons, and learn how to better guard this door."
Lord Jiuyou: ...He only had one thing in his mind, but fortunately I finally persuaded him to come out, so I achieved my goal.
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