Chapter 1016: The First Target
Who would become Emperor at the end of the immortal path? Cultivators gathered like rain, yet few ever reached the end. Li Xiaofei raised his hand and swept it across the sky. The clouds dispersed in an instant, and the skies above the Thirty-Third Heavens cleared.
When he felt the power of laws within him return to its purest essence, Li Xiaofei experienced a strange sensation. It was as if he had become one with the human race, breathing and sharing their fate.
With a single glance, his eyes pierced through the endless void. He saw what was unfolding far away in the Realm of Ruins.
"It is time," muttered Li Xiaofei.
Divine radiance shimmered in his eyes, interwoven with countless blazing patterns. A moment later, he arrived at Doushuai Palace. At that moment, Tan Qingying, the young lady, had already sensed the shift in the world’s energy. She knew her beloved had become an Emperor, but seeing it with her own eyes still brought a joyful smile to her face.
"You don’t seem all that different." She stepped forward and lightly smacked Li Xiaofei’s chest. "I thought you’d be all radiant, sparkling, dazzling, and cool. But now that you’ve become an Emperor, you still look like an ordinary man."
Li Xiaofei smiled faintly. His path to Emperorhood had indeed taken a shortcut, but it was one no one else could ever replicate. If she saw him as ordinary, then that was best. If power created distance between husband and wife, then that would truly be a tragedy.
"Come on, let’s go see Father." Tan Qingying said, "He’s returned."
Li Xiaofei nodded. "Alright."
Little Aunt was not at Doushuai Palace, so Li Xiaofei and Tan Qingying went together to the Peach Garden. Old Tan was sitting under a tree, eating peaches. His mouth was dripping with peach juice.
Well, that's something, even Li Xiaofei was momentarily surprised.
These were not ordinary fruits; they were divine peaches. Old Tan was enjoying quite the treatment. Old Tan had changed over the years. He looked younger, his skin now fair and smooth like jade. His appearance and demeanor resembled that of a youth no older than eighteen or nineteen. Yet his eyes carried the weariness of someone who had seen ten thousand years of life.