Chapter 2023 - 1533: The Aged and Feeble Da Li, Questions of Fate! What Is Fate?

The Emperor smiled calmly, "Five hundred years is just the final deadline, not the best time. I just want to tell you, every time you do something you believe you should do, you’re preparing for a good opportunity..."

Jiang Dali paused and pondered, "What do you want me to do?"

The Emperor laughed heartily, turned around with a confident smile at Jiang Dali, saying, "It’s not about what I want you to do, but what you want to do. Just go ahead and do what you wish to do."

Jiang Dali frowned, suddenly feeling as if the Emperor was covering something up, avoiding something.

The question about why he was reborn in this world had been heard by the other party but not responded to. The other party clearly knew something, otherwise, there wouldn’t be a trace of surprise, seeming to understand very well that he would ask this question.

He was about to ask again.

The Emperor’s penetrating eyes seemed to see through all his thoughts, turned around, and waved his hand, "Go, do what you want to do!"

"Wait—"

Jiang Dali instinctively resisted, but a mighty force of will had already descended upon him.

The Emperor smiled and pushed with one palm.

Suddenly the previously disappeared twisted space-time passage reappeared.

Jiang Dali’s elderly body crashed into it, as if immediately diving from the ground into water.

The scene of previous time deprivation appeared again, but this time it was quite the opposite. His body and movements seemed to be played backward from the pose of earlier entry.

The lifespan originally lost returned with the reverse of time, and not only did his body become young again, it returned to the prior state of Heart Body, twelve times Li Wuqiong’s ultimate state. Bright white hair swung out, his whole body surrounded by terrifying energy like Extreme Light lightning.

Meanwhile, Jiang Dali’s demeanor also quickly transformed from unwillingness to resolute determination. Vaguely, he could still feel the regal gaze of the Emperor across the space-time casting upon him.

But soon, he was shocked to find that the other’s figure including appearance had become blurred and dim in memory, even the words he had just remembered faded away, as if everything about the other party was stripped away by the retraced time.

...

Human Emperor Tower, eighth floor.

Dugu Qiubai looked horrified, watching as Jiang Dali’s body aged from young to old in almost an instant, the passage to the Human Emperor Tower’s ninth floor also suddenly accompanied by the collapse of the Emperor’s avatar.

But just as the remnants of the Emperor’s avatar hadn’t dispersed, the debris scattered in the air was eerily reassembled as if being rewound by mysterious forces, from shattered particle remains.

As if being played backward, the space-time passage to the Ninth Floor reappeared, and Jiang Dali’s figure rapidly retreated returning from old to young.

Dugu Qiubai instinctively gripped the sword hilt: "!!"

Bang!—

Jiang Dali’s figure suddenly landed on the ground, his body covered with black, gold, and white patterns, maintaining the previous sprinting posture, even his thoughts returned to the initial state of wanting to rush into the Emperor’s avatar, except that his breakthrough Power Realm hadn’t retreated.

He was about to shout angrily, rushing into the passage in the Emperor’s avatar, suddenly an abnormal omen emerged in his mind, sensing something wrong he immediately halted his forward stance.

Almost at the same time, the Emperor’s avatar ’boom’ exploded into countless crystal points with Qi Force scattering, the passage to Human Emperor Tower Ninth Floor also disappeared accordingly.

"Emperor... "

Jiang Dali gritted his teeth, his gaze fixed intently on the spot where the avatar dissipated, vaguely feeling there should be some blurry memories in his mind, yet somehow he couldn’t recall what those blurry memories were supposed to be, only a sense of déjà vu remained, hard to shake off...

"Did you see the Emperor?"

Just then, Dugu Qiubai’s voice came from behind.

Jiang Dali stiffened, then immediately turned around, tiger eyes locked on Dugu Qiubai, said in a deep voice, "Did you just see me enter the Ninth Floor and see the Emperor?"

Dugu Qiubai froze, recalling the situation just now... He just saw the scene of Jiang Dali aging quickly, then the Emperor’s avatar and the passage to Ninth Floor collapsed and disappeared together.

But then it reappeared again, and as if time had rewound, Jiang Dali’s figure emerged anew, as for whether the other party met the Emperor, he hadn’t seen it, seemingly from beginning to end Jiang Dali only after emerging had achieved a breakthrough, without any changes...

"Wait... You’ve broken through?"

Dugu Qiubai’s eyes widened, looking at Jiang Dali, feeling the overwhelming and surging power emanating from him, said, "You’ve broken through to Breakthrough Realm?"

Jiang Dali frowned, looked down at the body blooming with dazzling energy white light, said in a deep voice, "Yes, I’ve broken through. But that’s not the question I asked."

Dugu Qiubai slightly tightened his grip on the sword hilt, collected his turbulent emotions, shook his head calmly, "I didn’t see whether you met the Emperor."

Saying this, he paused in his speech, then described the situation he witnessed.

"Something that happened yet rewound? Was it time rewinded? But if time rewound, why hasn’t my Power Realm reverted to its original state?"

Jiang Dali had many doubts in his mind.

At that moment, he also couldn’t be sure whether he had seen the Emperor or hadn’t seen the Emperor.