The first time he looked up, the Retired Emperor froze slightly. He rubbed his eyes and gave a helpless, bitter smile. "A dying man's old eyes really are failing! I even managed to overlook this little spring. What a joke!"
He shook his head, smiled bitterly, and rubbed his eyes. After going through all those motions, he looked ahead again, his pupils gradually widening.
"Huh??"
At his second look, his helpless, bitter smile turned into bewildered stupor. This time, not only did he fail to see the origin spirit spring and origin soul spring, he also saw a person!
It was a white-haired youth, possessing a vitality he envied beyond measure and an imperial bearing that stood like an unscalable peak. This was the very image the Retired Emperor dreamed of attaining if he could be reborn!
A slender figure, gold-and-black eyes, a resolute face, white hair streaming...
The Retired Emperor knew he had never seen this person before, yet at this first sight, he felt a strange familiarity, as though this person had long existed in his life...
"Ah!"
Yet he was not shocked. Instead, he lowered his head and sighed. "Before death, does even the mind descend into confusion?"
Unless his mind was confused, there should never have been an unfamiliar youth inside this core barrier, much less the disappearance of the remaining origin soul spring and origin spirit spring... Everything before him was utterly absurd.
"Retired Emperor."
Suddenly, the youth spoke. Smiling at the old man, he said each word distinctly, "Actually, this isn't our first meeting. It's just that this time, I'm formally showing myself to tell you that my name is Li Tianming."
Those words were spoken very softly, but when the final name rang out, it was undoubtedly like a hundred thousand mountains crashing