"These brothers... really do feel like destined rivals. Just how deeply must their karma be entangled for this to happen?"
The crystal skull was speechless for a moment.
"They hardly count as enemies. They're on the same side now," the bleeding eyeball murmured.
"Barring anything unexpected, Shi Yi must have gone through this stone chamber too."
To appear in the ancient Emperorfall Era, he must have traveled through here. The only question was when Shi Yi had gone. In any case, it wasn't now.
Although the two had not entered at the same time, they had met at a certain point in the past.
"It must have been a long time ago. This Shi Yi who met Shi Hao in Emperorfall looks as though he had only just stepped onto the Extreme Dao Summit. He's nowhere near as strong as Shi Yi is now," the Lord of the Forbidden Zone said thoughtfully.
"This Land of Heaven-Reaching really is wondrous. Even when time is thrown into disorder, cultivators need not pay a price," the Golden Hand Bone sighed softly.
"Indeed. Even Immortal Kings want to enter," the Lord of the Forbidden Zone said with a nod.
At the same place, in different times, two ancient carvings on the rough stone wall crossed space and time and intertwined.
The Immortal Dao Reincarnation Disk at an earlier point in time was equally astonished. It stood guard before the stone chamber, watching the Emperorfall Engraved Image evolve all along.
"Shi Hao went to Emperorfall too?"
In the Emperorfall Era, within the Ancient Realm that would become the Burial Domain, Shi Yi's arrival greatly eased the drawn-swords-and-bent-bows tension between Shi Hao and Lin Tian.
The three sat around a fire, all somewhat silent.
"Brother Shi Yi, how is Sister Lin Ni? Do you know