"I have long heard of you, Heng Emperor."
The battle over, Carefree Heavenly Venerate rose from his battlefield and flew toward the Immortal Bell in the sky. He first cupped his hands to Yuangeng, then nodded in greeting to the four supremes, including the Corpse Emperor, Prison-Suppressing, and Yama.
He did not return to the Reincarnation Sea forbidden zone. With his true identity exposed and so many karmic entanglements, leaving his current Life Forbidden Zone would spare him considerable trouble.
Clearly, the Corpse Emperor and the others bore him no ill will. As some of the Underworld's earliest supremes, they knew many ancient secrets. Before founding the Underworld, for instance, the Netherworld Venerable had once sat with Carefree Heavenly Venerate to discuss the Dao. Supposedly, the two had felt a certain mutual admiration.
Strictly speaking, Carefree could even be counted among the Underworld's founders.
"I, too, have long admired your illustrious name, Heavenly Venerable," Yuangeng said with a nod.
He studied Carefree Heavenly Venerate. This ancient Heavenly Venerable had already left the state of ultimate sublimation, his cultivation falling until he stood there like an ordinary old Daoist. Yet his bearing remained transcendent. Even in this condition, if he employed Nine Secrets: Xing, few in the universe could rival him.
Even Yuangeng could not help admiring the battle he had just witnessed. To summon the river of time from within the human Dao domain-as long as someone in this universe had not reached the point where time could no longer touch them, the sight of Carefree Heavenly Venerate would make them frown.
Such a heaven-blessed genius was likely no less gifted than the Lunar Essence Human Emperor of old, or the future Fighting Saint Emperor and Demon Emperor Xue Yueqing. He truly possessed the potential to become an immortal.
Yuangeng