Meng Chuan, the Little White Dragon of the Waves

Splash!

The sounds of surging water rang in Meng Chuan's ears, rousing him from his secluded cultivation.

Meng Chuan looked toward Jade Lake, divine light flickering in his eyes, and saw the mighty river that only a Great Emperor could behold.

"Someone is reversing time?"

Meng Chuan saw the truth at a glance. Such a feat was possible for a Great Emperor, let alone someone with Heavenly Emperor-level strength.

In the original story, Ye Fan had unleashed his Heavenly Emperor might on Mount Tai, punching through the barriers of one era after another until he saw the Desolate Heaven Emperor.

Of course, that was only the Desolate Heaven Emperor at the point when he had just awakened from the Burial Soil.

Meng Chuan gazed toward Jade Lake, thoughtful. "A Great Emperor from a later era, appearing in the direction of Jade Lake... it could only be Wushi!"

Great Emperor Wushi!

Meng Chuan appeared above Jade Lake and looked at the figure downstream in the River of Time.

Wushi abruptly turned his gaze toward Meng Chuan. He had noticed him!

"A Great Emperor from a later era," Meng Chuan said, perfectly calm. They were both Emperors; he had nothing to fear.

Wushi looked at Meng Chuan, his expression shifting slightly. "You really are an anomaly. You've only been a Great Emperor for nine hundred years, yet you're terrifyingly powerful."

An enhanced innate Dao embryo, the removal of the world shackles, and everything I've gained over these years—how could I not be powerful?

"You know me? By all rights, I should already have passed away by the time you became a Great Emperor!" Meng Chuan said.

Great Emperor Wushi did not know whether to laugh or cry. "xxxxx..." Upon discovering that the River of Time automatically obscured what he wanted to say, he stopped speaking.

Meng Chuan's expression shifted. Great Emperor Wushi's words had touched on something that could not be revealed.

"It seems something changes in the future..." Meng Chuan looked at Great Emperor Wushi and asked, "Disturbing the River of Time and traveling against the current of the years—what do you intend to do, Great Emperor?"

At Meng Chuan's question, Great Emperor Wushi looked down at Jade Lake, a little melancholy. "I merely wanted to see the people and events of the past."

Meng Chuan looked at Wushi without speaking again. Separated by time, neither could say much. After exchanging those few words with Meng Chuan, a powerful repelling force had already gathered around Great Emperor Wushi—the backlash of the River of Time!

"Heaven... Great Emperor, live on, and live well." The instant Great Emperor Wushi said those words, he was kicked out of the River of Time.

Meng Chuan's eyes lit up. By the looks of it, the future Wushi was on quite good terms with him! After all, he had immediately recognized the hope in those words.

No one would tell someone they disliked, much less an enemy, to live on and live well...

"Woof!"

"Great Emperor, did you succeed?" a big black dog asked, looking at Great Emperor Wushi.

Wushi stroked the black dog's head and said, "Something unexpected happened this time. I only saw as far back as a few tens of thousands of years ago."

"A few tens of thousands of years ago?" The black dog caught on. "Wasn't that the era when the Heavenly Emperor was still called Dao Beginning Great Emperor?"

"Did he stop you, Great Emperor?" The black dog bared his teeth. "Given your relationship with him, that shouldn't have happened!"

Wushi smiled. "Why would he stop me? We exchanged a few words, and I was forced out of the River of Time."

"Dao Shi would absolutely rank among the top three of all Extreme Dao powerhouses throughout history, even when he was still at the Great Emperor stage!" Great Emperor Wushi sighed in admiration. Seeing him today, Wushi had discovered that even shortly after becoming a Great Emperor, Dao Shi had been immensely powerful!

A trace of disbelief appeared in the black dog's eyes. That man was indeed immensely powerful, gloriously invincible, but at the Great Emperor stage, the black dog believed the man before him was second to none!

"Great Emperor, tell me about Dao Beginning Great Emperor back then!"

Hearing the black dog's request, Wushi reminisced. "The first time I met him was when I was a child..."

Upon the teacups carved from divine jade, true dragons played in the water, divine phoenixes soared, and a black tortoise upheld the heavens. Just a few small tea leaves had manifested astonishing phenomena.

Meng Chuan sat opposite a woman of peerless beauty. Staring at his jade cup, he felt something was off about the atmosphere and took the initiative to break the silence.

"Your grace is undiminished, Fairy. You're still as captivating as ever."

Qingyue looked at Meng Chuan and smiled, eclipsing heaven and earth. "You're still as smooth-tongued as ever, Great Emperor. Who knows how many goddesses you sweet-talked with that mouth of yours back then?"

"Ha, nothing of the sort." Meng Chuan gave a somewhat awkward laugh. I might have been a little glib back then, but I hardly ever acted on it!

Seeing his reaction, Qingyue did not dwell on the subject and looked down at her jade cup.

"What brings you to my Jade Lake, Great Emperor?" Fairy Qingyue asked.

"Would you believe I came to see you..." Meng Chuan muttered softly. But before Qingyue, a Quasi-Emperor, it was no different from shouting through a megaphone.

Seeing that Qingyue's expression remained unchanged, without the slightest ripple, Meng Chuan sighed and said, "A Great Emperor from the future traveled upstream through the River of Time. I came to see what he intended to do."

Meng Chuan hid nothing. There was neither any reason nor any need.

A hint of shock appeared on Qingyue's exquisitely beautiful face. Once again, she marveled at a Great Emperor's might. Records in ancient books could only ever leave later generations to imagine it.

"Even time cannot stand in your way..." Qingyue murmured.

Meng Chuan shook his head in denial. "How could that be? Traveling back through the River of Time merely makes you a spectator. What's past is past, and there's no way to change it. There are also many restrictions, such as location. If I travel back through time at Jade Lake, I can't see the entire universe—only Jade Lake."

"As for freely returning to the past, or even changing it, forget Great Emperors—not even immortals can do that!"

Meng Chuan spoke with absolute certainty. Qingyue gave him a sidelong glance. "You say that as though you've met an immortal!"

Meng Chuan froze for a moment. That single glance seemed to span ten thousand years.

"What are you staring at?"

"At a fairy!" Meng Chuan smiled. Ignoring Qingyue's disdainful look, he said, "I've never met an immortal, but you have!" As he spoke, he pointed at himself.

"You?" Qingyue had no desire to speak and simply rolled her eyes at him.

"Me. I will become an immortal!" Meng Chuan declared firmly. If I can't even become an immortal, I won't qualify to be a foot soldier in the future!

"So many Heavenly Venerables, Ancient Emperors, and Great Emperors throughout history, and not one became an immortal. Yet you think you can?"

Qingyue did not know why, but whenever she was with Meng Chuan, she could never maintain her aloof goddess demeanor.

"How do you know no one became an immortal? How many heroes have there been throughout the eternal ages? The founder of the Heavenly Venerable Era, the unrivaled Lord of the Heavenly Court at the end of the Mythological Era, the deity of the Ancient Myriad Races who brought the Mythological Era to an end, the Female Emperor who stood proudly above the Nine Heavens with nothing but a mortal body—with so many figures who could astound immortals, I refuse to believe they couldn't uncover an Immortal Path leading to the heavens!"

"Even if all those before me failed, I, Meng Chuan—Dao Shi—will become an immortal!"

Meng Chuan brimmed with confidence. Such a perfect chance to show off doesn't come along often...

Qingyue gazed at the man before her, momentarily lost in thought, then chuckled softly. "I hope that when you become an immortal, Great Emperor, I will be able to witness it with my own eyes."

"Then would you be willing to walk the Immortal Path together with me?" Meng Chuan pressed.

Qingyue smiled and shook her head, refusing almost without hesitation. "Your talent is unsurpassed, Great Emperor, and your divine might unrivaled. I could never keep up."

Meng Chuan stared at Qingyue, simply stared at her, and did not repeat his invitation.

After watching her for a while, Meng Chuan picked up his jade cup and drained the tea brewed from the leaves of the Enlightenment Tea Tree.

"You haven't changed at all, Fairy."

"You, on the other hand, have changed a great deal, Great Emperor."

"Hahahaha!" At those words, Meng Chuan burst into laughter, then vanished from Jade Lake, leaving only a few words to drift into Qingyue's ears.

"I'm not used to hearing you call me Great Emperor, Fairy. I still prefer it when you call me..."

"The Little White Dragon of the Waves! Hahahaha!"

Qingyue's delicate face flushed instantly. Gritting her teeth, she cursed under her breath.

"Shameless little rogue!"

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