The Lord of the Future had not yet seen Little Nonpoint Return.
Don't misunderstand. It wasn't that Little Nonpoint couldn't make it back.
It was that someone else had arrived first.
The Fire Emperor had come with his daughter, Huo Ling'er.
Upon entering the Enchanted Cottage, the Fire Emperor was stunned by the sight before him.
A towering figure stretched from earth to heaven, merging with the entire void. It was so vast that he could not take it all in at a glance; he could see only a fraction of it.
Points of starlight flickered within the phantom figure like apertures in a human body.
Each aperture held a world, a great star.
The Fire Emperor felt as though he were looking at a universe shaped like a human body.
He stood at the peak of the Lower Realm as a Venerable, yet before this human-shaped universe, he was as tiny as a speck of dust.
And the Fire Emperor noticed that the enormous figure was gradually growing more insubstantial, as though it were about to merge completely with the void.
Was this a deity?
I may not be one myself, but the Fire Nation has produced deities before.
I do know something about what deities can do.
And this senior before me is supposed to be a deity too?
I haven't seen much, but don't try to fool me.
What deity could be this mighty?
"Greetings, Senior." The Fire Emperor bowed with utmost respect.
"What is it?" The Lord of the Future's voice came from above, distant and detached, as though he occupied a different dimension from the Fire Emperor and his daughter.
"I heard you had entered the Enchanted Cottage, Senior, so I brought my daughter to pay our respects."
The moment the Fire Emperor learned that