"Alas, a prodigy like you must not fall here..."
An aged voice suddenly sounded beside Mu Chen's ear without warning.
He raised his eyes and looked closely. A withered, elderly figure had appeared nearby at some unknown moment.
The man was truly ancient. His skin clung to his bones, dry as a length of rotten wood, his flesh long since wasted away.
Yet countless fragments of time danced and swirled around him, radiating a power that made the heart tremble.
He seemed to have walked against the river of years. Wherever he stood, time grew viscous and slow.
Even the five terrifying auras powerful enough to suppress all the heavens faltered for an instant beneath this power of time and space.
One instant could turn a fleeting moment into eternity!
"Who are you?" Mu Chen sensed no killing intent from the old man, only an indescribable weariness and sorrow.
The man's mastery over time and space gave him an inkling of his identity.
"A man who has borne infamy through the ages... Some call me the Gu Ancestor." The old man sighed softly, his voice dry and hoarse, as though the years had wrung every drop of moisture from it.
He looked at Mu Chen, an almost imperceptible ripple stirring in his clouded eyes.
"I came to help you leave. I mean you no harm," the Gu Ancestor said slowly. "My Gu Tribe possesses some innate command over time and space. Though I cannot hold them for long, I can still buy you enough time to escape."
"We still have a little time. Keep this man, soon to be buried and annihilated, company for a few words." His smile was gentle, but profound pain welled in his eyes.
"When one grows old, one cannot help recalling the past... And every