It's him! It's definitely him!
At that moment, Li Dan gasped sharply in the crowd, his mouth opening unconsciously, but he couldn't utter a single word.
That otherworldly aura, that detached indifference seemingly existing outside of time, especially that face—
Heavenly Emperor Hao! Lin Hao!
What are you doing here?!
Shouldn't he be in the Big Dipper, deep within the starry sky, in his supreme Heavenly Court?
How could this happen?!
They even came out of this dilapidated temple?!
Could it be... could it be that the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin... is related to him?
Or was he just... passing by?
Li Dan's mind was in complete chaos, his CPU was practically overheating, and he could only watch helplessly as Lin Hao's figure slowly and steadily walked away, disappearing behind the broken walls and ruins on the other side of the ancient temple.
Only when Lin Hao's figure was completely out of sight did the invisible pressure that had been weighing on everyone's hearts suddenly ease.
"Huff... huff..."
Several people then realized what had happened, panting heavily; they had almost instinctively held their breath.
"That... that person just now..."
A girl's voice trembled, "Did you see that? He came out of the temple... Is he a human or a ghost?"
"I don't know... but it feels... so scary..."
Another boy, still shaken, said, "He didn't even glance at us... I was too scared to move..."
" Li Dan!"
Ye Fan suddenly looked at Li Dan, who was pale and still in a state of extreme shock, and frowned, asking, "You know him? You reacted so strongly just now."
Pang Bo and the others immediately looked at Li Dan.
Li Dan swallowed, feeling a dry, sore throat.
He glanced around at his companions' astonished and uncertain faces, then looked in the direction Lin Hao had disappeared, his voice hoarse and trembling with disbelief:
"He... he is Lin Hao."
" Lin Hao?"
Ye Fan was taken aback. The name sounded a bit unusual, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it before.
"Which Lin Hao? A celebrity? An athlete?" someone asked instinctively.
No... it's not...
Li Dan shook his head violently, feeling his worldview shaking wildly. "It's... it's the Heavenly Emperor of the Heavenly Court! The Heavenly Emperor Hao, Lin Hao!"
"What the hell? The Heavenly Court? The Heavenly Emperor?"
Pang Bo picked at his ear, giving him a "you fucking kidding me" look.
" Li Dan, are you scared out of your wits? The Heavenly Emperor... is he filming a movie?"
Not the one from your Earth mythology!
Li Dan tried to organize his thoughts, but the huge information gap left him at a loss for words. "It's... it's the ruler of the Heavenly Court, the supreme power in another world, a world called Shrouding the Heavens, the supreme Heavenly Emperor!"
"He's incredibly powerful. It's said he's lived for countless years, possesses superhuman strength, and could suppress an entire era..."
Seeing Ye Fan Fan's increasingly disapproving look, as if he were a madman, Li Dan's voice grew softer and softer.
He couldn't explain it, since he roughly knew that Blue Star was a modern society that believed in science and not in God.
Suddenly, in front of a dilapidated temple on Mars, he points to a mysterious figure who has just passed by and claims to be the Heavenly Emperor of another fantasy world?
Who would believe that!
" Li Dan, calm down."
Ye Fan patted his shoulder, but his eyes were sharp as he looked in the direction where Lin Hao had disappeared, and then at the dilapidated temple with smoke rising from it.
"Whoever he is, his presence here is highly unusual."
"Let's take a look inside this temple... and see what's inside."
Upon hearing this, everyone managed to suppress the shock and absurdity in their hearts and refocused their attention on the dilapidated temple that was just a stone's throw away.
The wisp of smoke that had drawn them there was still drifting away, and there seemed to be figures moving inside the temple gate.
Meanwhile, the entire Douluo Continent was also stunned into silence by Lin Hao's sudden appearance, before erupting into an earth-shattering uproar!
" Lin Hao?! It's Lin Hao?! The Lin Hao who appeared on Mount Tai on that blue planet?!"
Ning Rongrong gasped in surprise, covering her mouth with her small hand.
"That's right! It's him! Although the clothes are a little different, that face, that feeling... it's definitely him!"
Oscar stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
"How could he be here again?! On Mars?! At that Great Thunderclap Temple?!"
Ma Hongjun's chubby face was trembling. "Didn't the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin just fly over from Earth? Is he faster than the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin?!"
"This..." Dai Mubai's throat bobbed as he looked at Tang San.
Tang San was also filled with shock and doubt, staring intently at the direction in which Lin Hao disappeared in the Heavenly Screen.
"There are two possibilities," he said in a deep voice, his tone carrying a gravity he himself was unaware of. "First, he possesses methods we cannot even imagine, enabling him to traverse the cosmos at a speed far exceeding that of the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin, arriving here before us."
Secondly... he might have some connection with this Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin, and with these Mars ruins, that we are unaware of!
Yu Xiaogang nodded.
"But either possibility is absolutely terrifying!"
"This person... is unfathomable! His appearance here is no accident! Did Ye Fan and the others... really just stumble upon this place by mistake? That wisp of smoke..."
Inside the main hall of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect School.
"First Mount Tai, then Mars... the footprints of this Heavenly Emperor Hao..."
"What exactly is he doing? Observing the ceremony? Or... setting up a plan?" Ning Fengzhi with a look of surprise and uncertainty.
"Sect Master, this man's abilities far exceed our expectations."
Sword Douluo Chen Xin slowly exhaled, his tone more serious than ever before, "Crossing the starry sky as if it were nothing... What kind of realm is this?"
"Even the gods might not be able to do that, right?"
Gu Rong said in a muffled voice, "The way he looked at those mortals just now... it was like he was looking at thin air."
"No, it's not even as good as air."
"That was true indifference, treating all things as mere straw dogs. Ye Fan and the others... I hope that the people in that temple really were just ordinary 'people'."
Eastsea Academy, outside the dormitory window.
For the first time, a deep sense of apprehension and... a barely perceptible fluctuation appeared in Gu Yuena's silver-purple eyes.
As the Silver Dragon King, she possesses an extraordinary perception of space and energy.
In the brief moment Lin Hao appeared and walked, she keenly sensed that the spatial rules of the Mars region in the Heavenly Screen display seemed to have undergone an extremely subtle yet essential "compliance" and "yield" as he passed by.
It wasn't a forceful, overwhelming pressure, but rather... as if he were meant to be this way, and the world was meant to make way for him.
"He's even more terrifying than we initially estimated."
Gu Yuena's voice remained cool and aloof, but Tang Wulin could detect a hint of tension within it. "Moreover, his presence here is no coincidence."
"That dilapidated temple, that bronze coffin, and that Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin... perhaps, they were all part of his plan?"
Tang Wulin felt a chill rise up his spine.
He looked up at the Heavenly Screen and saw Ye Fan and the others cautiously approaching the dilapidated temple gate. Deep inside the temple, a lively and agile girl seemed to be curiously peeking out.
Mars, in front of the Great Thunderclap Temple.