Birds chirped, butterflies danced, and fish swam joyfully.
Chu Qing looked around and found the scene incomparably real, without the slightest trace of falsehood.
"What a bizarre method!"
Could I have crossed through time and space again?
Chu Qing was curious.
Just then, a weak voice sounded. "Outsider, thank you for saving me!"
Chu Qing turned around and saw an old man hunched over beneath a great tree.
"Who are you?"
"Where is this?"
The old man chuckled. "This is an illusion of my mind!"
Chu Qing raised an eyebrow.
His strength was already terrifying.
Even a Path Pioneer who specialized in illusions could never make him fall into one.
Yet this old man had dragged him in.
This method... was extraordinary.
At that moment, the old man continued, "I am the last Emperor of the ancestral land!"
Chu Qing's heart stirred. "Such a vast ancestral land had only one Emperor?"
The old man nodded. "That's right!"
Chu Qing smiled. "You were quite capable!"
The old man gave an awkward laugh. "I inherited my father's legacy!"
Chu Qing merely smiled and said nothing.
Being able to inherit a continent from one's father and become the last Emperor was, in truth, a kind of capability.
At that moment, the last Emperor sighed. "Outsider, thank you for giving them hope!"
Chu Qing smiled. "Even without me, others would have come."
"I merely arrived a few hundred years early."
The last Emperor shook his head. "It is different!"
"A few hundred years from now, their hope of resurrection would have been utterly severed!"
"But because you came early, they have gained the faintest sliver of hope to revive!"
Chu Qing's heart stirred. "Those people are all dead?"
The last Emperor said, "That's right. After darkness swallowed the continent back then, everyone died."
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