Chapter 491 — Stepping Into the Annals of History

"The Supreme Emperor's twenty-six-thousandth birthday?

" Shen Mu was stunned. His own era lay twenty thousand years beyond the Kaihuang reign, and Kaihuang himself had likely sat on the throne for ten or twenty thousand years. Did that not mean they now stood thirty or forty thousand years in the past? A single teleportation by Ban Gongcuo had carried them back thirty or forty thousand years?

Beneath the chest, Ban Gongcuo was equally bewildered, an indescribably strange feeling rising in his heart.

He had merely activated the teleportation banner before his mana ran dry, and that had flung him thirty or forty thousand years into the past? This had to be a dream! He was about to pinch himself when a sharp pain suddenly lanced through his severed leg, and he could not help crying out. Shen Mu drew the long sword from the severed leg and murmured, "It hurts.

So it is no dream.

Could it be that we have passed through a flashback of history? That we are standing within history's final afterglow?

" The young girl before him caught sight of him stabbing the boy with the severed leg beneath the chest, and she was rather displeased. "You there," she said angrily, "how can you bully a cripple? What use is a handsome face? You have the heart of a wolf and the lungs of a dog!

" With that, she turned to leave. Shen Mu said hastily, "Good sister, wait a moment! " Hearing his voice, the girl could not bring herself to refuse him, and she stopped. But then the youth walked up to her and reached out both hands to cup her face. The girl's cheeks flushed crimson.

"What are you doing?

" she said, squirming. "This is the first time we have met. How can you be so intimate?

And you are very strange besides, carrying a strange chest and a great big pig, and bullying cripples. My father and my brother will not like you. . . My father is formidable, and so is my brother. They will beat you to death. Do not be like this.

. . " Shen Mu stood dumb as a wooden chicken, his mind roaring as if struck by heavenly thunder: "It is true! You are a living person, of flesh and blood! This is no afterglow of history!

We really have returned to the past, to the era of the Supreme Emperor. .

. Can one truly travel through time and space? " The girl asked curiously, "What are you saying?

What afterglow of history? What past?

What is traveling through time and space. . . " Before she could voice the doubts in her heart, a young man and woman came walking toward them, leaning on each other. The young man said in surprise, "Qu'er, who is this?

" The girl blushed and said softly, "Brother, I think I have found someone I like. . . " Ban Gongcuo crawled out from under the chest, just about to coax the dragon qilin into licking the wound on his severed leg, when he heard these words and felt as if struck by lightning. He spat and thought, "Liking him already?

So what if he is handsome? He is only good to look at, useless in practice. . .

" Shen Mu was utterly distraught.

Seeing his dazed, soulless look, the young man could not help shaking his head and said quietly to the girl called Qu'er, "This one seems to have no spirit about him.

There are so many talented young men in the world.

Why must you like him? " The woman beside him laughed. "Little sister, do not listen to your brother.

He is always introducing you to so-called talented young men, and never cares whom you actually like. By the way, how long have you two known each other? " The girl lowered her head and said shyly, "We just met. .

. " The woman covered her mouth with her sleeve and was left speechless. "You just met and you already like him? " The young man laughed in fury, glared at Shen Mu, and shouted, "A daughter of my Bai family should love a hero of the age.

Do you think you are worthy of my sister? " His aura erupted, truly earth-shaking. Behind him light blazed ten thousand zhang, and from within the radiance a primordial spirit with a dragon's head, a human body, and a dragon's tail slowly rose, giving off wave after wave of soul-seizing might.

Ban Gongcuo gaped, staring at his primordial spirit in shock. "A true dragon primordial spirit! No, should it not be an azure dragon primordial spirit?

He is not one of the four great spirit bodies. How could it be. . . " Shen Mu also came to his senses.

Looking at the young man's primordial spirit, he was slightly shaken and thought, "As expected, this world does not have only the four great spirit bodies. There are others as well. " The young man reached out to seize Shen Mu.

His hand became a dragon's claw, his five fingers quivering, thunder rolling with them.

"Come," he shouted, "let me test your depths! " At his fingertips the flesh shifted, and runes and patterns of every hue surfaced on his skin. With the burst of this strike, a hundred and more variations of divine powers lay hidden within it, concealed in the movement of his five fingers. It was a fleshly divine power of the very highest order! Shen Mu hurriedly retreated, dodging the blow. The young man lightly tapped his five fingers, and the space around Shen Mu burst with a thunderclap, flinging him high into the air.

The young man leaped up and shot straight at Shen Mu. Ban Gongcuo looked up, his heart turning cold. "This one surnamed Bai is of the dragon race! Otherwise he could never have refined the dragon race's fleshly divine powers to such mastery!

He is not old, yet he has already cultivated to the Heaven-Man realm. Are all the people of this Supreme Emperor era so formidable?

" After all, he was an old monster who had lived ten thousand years, had once traveled beyond the seas, and had seen masters of the dragon race. He knew well how powerful they were. But to reach the Heaven-Man realm at such a young age was truly rare. "Brother, do not hurt him! " the girl Bai Qu'er cried in alarm.

The woman beside her pulled her back and laughed.

"Your brother means well. He wants to see whether this youth is worthy of you.

Once your brother approves, Father will not stand in your way. Otherwise, if Father took a hand, there is no telling how many of your little sweetheart's bones would be broken. " Bai Qu'er understood, and laughed. "Sister-in-law is the clever one.

But. . . " Her face clouded with worry again. "Brother is so formidable. What if he hurts him.

.

. " The woman laughed. "Do not worry. Your brother's cultivation is very strong, and he has a good sense of measure.

Whatever cultivation your little sweetheart has, he will use only that much. He will not hurt him. " In the air, Shen Mu darted this way and that, but the young man's strength was terrifyingly formidable. In the quivering of his fingers and palms, the might unleashed by his fleshly divine powers was even greater than that of spell divine powers, his attacks reaching a hundred zhang, and his speed was extreme.

Soon Shen Mu was forced to open his divine repositories one after another. Bang! Bang! Bang! Three sounds rang out from within his body.

The young man could not help looking disappointed and shook his head. "The Six Harmonies realm? Your cultivation is too weak. Very well, I will contend with you at the Six Harmonies realm and see what your aptitude and comprehension are like!

" He sealed away his Heaven-Man divine repository and his Seven Stars divine repository, and the primordial spirit behind him vanished at once.

Even so, his fighting power was still astonishing. His fingers and palms shifted unpredictably as he attacked Shen Mu. Ban Gongcuo looked up, his heart turning cold. "This Bai youth's talent is very high. His fleshly divine powers surpass mine.

In a battle at the same realm, I could not defeat him. . . But is that villain surnamed Shen not at the Seven Stars realm?

" He had barely thought this when an earth-shaking boom came from midair.