Cheng Xilin naturally understood He Li’s thoughts to some extent, knowing what He Li was thinking at the moment. Facing the Lord of Time, they were naturally comrades fighting side by side.
Now that the Lord of Time was dead and He Li had become the new Lord of Time, and he himself had awakened the primordial chaotic power that could devour time, he had naturally become a major concern for He Li.
Cheng Xilin retracted his chaotic power, walked slowly towards He Li, and grinned, "Thank you."
He Li breathed a sigh of relief, then sheathed his saber, "It's nothing. Helping you is also helping myself. Only when I achieve the highest and strongest will my heart be at peace."
In a few words, the two understood each other's intentions.
However, their mutual wariness did not disappear, but was deeply buried in their hearts, too unpleasant to speak of.
The two emerged from the River of Time, passed through the half-shattered eternal void space, and arrived on a lush planet in the universe.
On the hillside facing the sea,
With a wave of his hand, He Li conjured a stone table and three stone stools from the ground. After sitting down, He Li took out his treasured fine wine and handed it to Cheng Xilin.
Cheng Xilin took a large gulp of wine, wiped his mouth, his eyes filled with melancholy, and said in a low voice, "My family is still sealed by a strange power. I need to find a way to break the seal."
He Li nodded gently. When he stole Cheng Xilin's time, countless scenes flashed before his eyes. He had some understanding of Cheng Xilin's state of mind, but he hadn't expected such a person to endure nineteen epochs, countless eons of loneliness and solitude for his family.
Cheng Xilin sighed softly again, drank heavily, and after a moment of silence, "I thought this was the work of that old bastard, the Lord of Time. I didn't expect him to be unaware of it, or perhaps he knew but didn't tell me.
But it doesn't matter. Whether he didn't know or didn't want to say, I can do nothing about him. Now that you are the new Lord of Time, please keep a close eye on matters concerning my homeland. If you get any news, you must tell me."
He Li was full of confusion. He asked, "What exactly happened back then? What happened during your nineteen epochs? Although I saw a glimpse, they were all fleeting temporal fragments, not coherent, and I couldn't see clearly."
Cheng Xilin's expression suddenly turned grim, and killing intent surged from him. Unlike Yan Li's overwhelming killing intent, which was like a mountain roaring and a sea surging, Cheng Xilin's killing intent was not vast and turbulent, but extremely sharp. With this sharp killing intent alone, even Divine Lords and Divine Kings would find it difficult to resist.
The next moment.
"Alas..."
Cheng Xilin sighed, not bringing up the events of that year, nor what happened during the past nineteen epochs. Instead, he said softly, "You are the Lord of Time. You will have plenty of opportunities to observe the past and future. I don't want to talk about it."
"That old fellow said it was sealed by a strange power, and he couldn't do anything about it."
He Li narrowed his eyes, his fingers moved slightly, and he looked to the side. A thin white line appeared in the void.
After a while,
He Li shook his head, "I crossed the temporal points of nineteen epochs and observed your era, but it was shrouded in darkness. Unlike your chaotic power, that darkness was more evil, filled with the aura of death and decay."
He Li's expression became more serious, and he asked again, "Are you really not going to tell me?"
Cheng Xilin shook his head, "It's useless to tell you."
Cheng Xilin took another sip of wine, paused, and said, "I plan to return to my homeland. With my current primordial chaotic power, I will immerse myself in that darkness and search for the truth."
As he spoke,
Cheng Xilin suddenly started laughing, a desolate, sorrowful laugh.
"I never expected that after enduring nineteen epochs in solitude, I would get such a result. I thought I had finally found the source, only to return to the starting point. What a pity, all in vain."
After speaking,
Cheng Xilin tilted his head and drank another large gulp of wine. He finished the wine, lowered his head, and tears streamed down his face. He wept silently. How could a stable life in an ordinary family be so difficult for him?
He Li also remained silent. He looked at Cheng Xilin, who was lowering his head and crying, as if he saw him standing alone with his halberd in the boundless starry sky, with no path ahead and no home to return to. He was like a lost and helpless orphan, even more like a wandering ghost, drifting in the vast universe, searching for a way home.
"Because of my existence, that epoch was rejected by the River of Time. There was only a segment of recorded history, but no trace of actual existence. The demon race was an accident. I protected them with most of my star god power in that epoch.
It was only after the end of the previous Primordial Era that I unsealed them, so their memories are still stuck in my era."
Cheng Xilin said.
He Li asked doubtfully, "Then what about Xiaobai... uh... Tata?"
Cheng Xilin explained, "Tata's innate ability is 'Dream Weaving'. She wove a dream for herself, breaking free from my divine power, and has been following me, wandering in the universe. I have also been paying attention to her, supplying her with star god power. Because of my divine power, she has been able to possess a long life.
During the Primordial Era, I discovered you, and of course, she also discovered you.
After I blocked the Lord of Time's attempt to kill you, the Primordial Era also perished.
In the New God Era, Tata has been paying attention to you. She knows that you are someone I pay special attention to, and you will definitely be the one to revitalize the demon race and rebuild the Guixu.
So, the subsequent events happened.
Seeing that she had this idea, I decided to help her."
He Li raised his hand and weighed his head, "The tens of thousands of demon beast corpses in the Star Sea?"
Cheng Xilin nodded, "That's right. This is my gift, and also the demon race's gift. You are very much like me, very indifferent. If there were no immense kindness and bond, why would you bother with this matter?
The demon god's body and the service of several demon kings of the demon race were all pushed by me. Heh heh... If it were solely up to that little cat, the demon race would still be a scattered mess."
He Li nodded, feeling a sense of awe in his heart. The current situation was actually orchestrated by Cheng Xilin behind the scenes. He had originally thought Chen Du's intelligence was already heaven-defying, but he didn't expect Cheng Xilin's intelligence to be even greater than Chen Du's.
The two talked for a long time, and the empty wine bottles on the table grew more numerous.
Suddenly,
A clear voice rang out, filled with laughter and joy,
"Drinking without calling me, you're really disloyal."
He Li didn't turn his head, but simply pointed to the empty stone stool, "Your seat is still here, and there's plenty of wine."
The two people and three stools, the third person had finally arrived.
Xia Kudu walked to the stone table, but did not sit down immediately. He reached out and snatched the wine from He Li's hand, and drank more than half of the bottle in one gulp.
"Ha... Hooo..."
"This is truly good wine. I feel like I haven't tasted it for millions of years, yet it also feels like I drank it just yesterday. The River of Time is truly not a good place, fluctuating and hazy, making it hard to distinguish yesterday from today."
He Li wiped the corners of his eyes, looked up at Xia Kudu, and grinned brightly:
"It's good to have you back."