Chapter 2187: I Just Want to Go Home
"No... I won't do that! The damaged Immortal Domain looks strong, but it's actually fragile. With my own strength, I'd have a hard time breaking open a passage to it. Secret arts and Spirit Treasures could do it, but I couldn't control the energy released when the passage collapsed. It would damage the Immortal Domain. So I can't grant your request," Ren said calmly.
Tears ran from the Immortal Heavenly Emperor's eyes. "Hahaha... I was a young Phoenix when I stumbled into a spatial rift that appears once in countless ages and fell from the Immortal Domain to the mortal world. I dreamed of going back to my childhood home and seeing my parents again. For that Obsessive Thought, I had to live. I had to live... To prolong my life, I abandoned the person I used to be and assassinated Great Emperors. I still remember the first Ancient Emperor I killed. He was a nephew who had admired me. He was delighted to see me alive—and stunned when I killed him. That look of shock and despair drove me mad. I wanted to kill myself! I hated what I'd become, but I had to go home. I had to! So I betrayed my conscience again and again, assassinating Great Emperors and undergoing Nirvana until I became the very kind of person I once despised. Hahaha..."
His bitter laughter held all his anguish and hesitation. The tears he shed carried his regret.
The Immortal Heavenly Emperor had once exposed Emperor Zun's plot and even struck him by surprise. What courage he had shown! He had ushered in the Primordial Era and won the reverence of the Primordial Ten Thousand Clans. What glory, what grandeur! Would they have revered him if he had