Hearing Hua Yunfei's words, Hua Zizai looked at him and chuckled. "You think you have some connection to the Heavenly Emperor?"
Hua Yunfei nodded. "The man at the top of the Emperor Pagoda, who called himself the Heavenly Emperor, looked exactly like Duobao. I've been suspicious ever since."
At this, Hua Yunfei looked straight into Hua Zizai's eyes. "But he wasn't actually the Heavenly Emperor spoken of in the Immortal Realm's legends, was he?"
Hua Yunfei was so certain because, before leaving the Emperor Pagoda, he'd asked the man a question: Was he really the Heavenly Emperor?
The man who looked like Jia Duobao had answered, "More or less!"
Hearing those two words, Hua Yunfei had known the man probably wasn't the real Heavenly Emperor.
By saying "more or less," he'd suggested that he was likely someone very important to the Heavenly Emperor. They were so close they were practically one and the same, which was why he'd answered that way when Hua Yunfei asked whether he was the Heavenly Emperor!
Hua Yunfei also thought the Heavenly Emperor was connected to him because of what had happened afterward.
The Heavenly Emperor had gone out of his way to seal Teng Emperor, who possessed the Primordial Heart, in a later age. And by sheer coincidence, Hua Yunfei, who needed the Primordial Heart, had appeared in this era!
He'd also learned about it from Dao Xuan Old Man, the only person who had survived from the Heavenly Emperor Epoch!
It was plainly all been arranged long ago!
And now, for example, the Heavenly Emperor had sealed the Ancient God Emperor and told him someone would come to meet him in a later age and take him to a better place. By another remarkable coincidence, Hua Yunfei was the only one who could