The darkness before his eyes gradually changed, turning into something familiar...
A scene.
It was the Spirit Pagoda.
Gu Chen fell silent again.
The image before him gradually sharpened. It was a small child, his face full of delight, holding a dragon egg wrapped in black-red Dragon Scales. He could hear something, too.
He could not make it out, but Gu Chen could fill in the words he had once said himself.
But he no longer wanted to keep watching.
Double Pupils could see through falsehood. Illusions could not trouble him; the true obstacle was the trial of the mind. Trying to disgust him with these regrets from the past that had already happened was impossible.
It was still the same thing: once he was strong enough, there would not be so many problems. The laws of this universe were not as powerful as he had imagined. When he could truly control the River of Time at will, he would simply fish them out of the past.
Ignoring the cries by his ears, Gu Chen opened his eyes again. All the binding on his body shattered, and his divine power returned to his control. But in the next second, terrifying Thunder of Destruction swept in from every direction. In the haze, he could see a kind of strange beast he had never heard of roaring beside his ears.
A black storm once again blocked his vision. Vaguely, he could see nine "dragon" heads, each with a different eye color.
"Hm?"
His gaze pierced through the storm. Seeing the creature with nine heads, Gu Chen let out a surprised sound.
"Here comes the funniest part."
Here came the one that was powerful in the setting but weak in its actual showing.
All the gray Soul Crystals in Gu Chen's body transformed