At the sight of the man, Chen Cuo narrowed his eyes. He showed no surprise, but inwardly he was on the highest alert!
He had already guessed the man's identity, and he was almost certain.
Inside the Mansion, however, the Jade Void Cult Leader and Daoist Qingxu rushed out of their respective Secluded Courtyards. When they looked up and saw the Daoist, both trembled to their very souls.
"You came to this stretch of time in person!"
"If I hadn't, how would you two Daoist Friends escape?" The Daoist chuckled and pointed at Chen Cuo. "And how would this Variable be suppressed?" Then he turned to Chen Cuo at his leisure and bowed. "I imagine the Lord of Rise and Fall has guessed who I am."
Chen Cuo did not beat around the bush. "You must be the Yellow Emperor's Master, Immortal Guang Chengzi, who led the transformation of humankind. These past few years, tales of Daoist Guang Chengzi have risen one after another throughout the Mortal World. I could hardly avoid hearing them. But while you are a True Immortal, I can scarcely call myself a Dao Lord."
"So I couldn't hide it from you after all. In this age of the Mortal World, talk of Rise and Fall has already spread. Your conversation with the Ancestral Dragon, in particular, planted the idea deep in people's hearts. Concealing it from you would be harder than a thousand trials and ten thousand ordeals." Guang Chengzi smiled and descended from the sky, landing before Chen Cuo with his hands tucked into his sleeves. "With your aptitude, becoming a Dao Lord is only a matter of time. After all, amid the Chaos, at the source of the River of Time, the outline of your Dao Tree already occupies the eighth Dao Fruit's