"Is this the Eastern Xuan Continent ten thousand years later?"
Ye Ling stepped out of the exploding time machine, his eyes flashing with surprise as he scanned the surroundings filled with precision machinery.
After emerging from the temporal tunnel, Ye Ling sensed that he was still on the Eastern Xuan Continent. However, he hadn't expected the continent to develop into its current state!
The World-Ending Spiritual Fire asked suspiciously, "Kid, since this is also the Eastern Xuan Continent, why would the people of Eastern Xuan Continent want to kill you? I can feel a lot of hostility towards you all around."
"Who knows?"
Ye Ling looked towards the main control console and teleported over, approaching the base director.
The director, seeing Ye Ling appear before him, was instantly scared out of his wits. He stumbled backward, his face filled with terror, "Demon, Demon King, you actually managed to come through the temporal tunnel..."
Ye Ling frowned at the director's fearful expression, "Why do you call me Demon King? Who exactly are you people? And why go to such great lengths to return to the past to hunt me down?"
However, the director seemed to have been scared witless by Ye Ling. He just stared blankly at Ye Ling, unable to utter a complete sentence for a long time.
Seeing that the director was stunned, Ye Ling sighed and stopped wasting his breath. He grabbed the director's head with one hand, his soul power invading the man's mind to begin a soul search.
Soon, Ye Ling had grasped all the information about the current Eastern Xuan Continent.
"The Eastern Xuan Continent is now controlled by a company called the Long Corporation, and its chairman is Long Ye?"
Ye Ling tossed aside the foaming director and looked back at the exploded time machine, his brow furrowed.
Although this director was a minor figure, Ye Ling had learned quite a bit from his memories.
On this Eastern Xuan Continent, Ye Ling had been missing for a long time. Furthermore, before his disappearance, he had committed many earth-shattering evil deeds on the Eastern Xuan Continent, bringing endless calamity.
Ye Ling was now known as the Demon King by the world.
The Long Corporation had built the time machine and gathered the strength of the entire Eastern Xuan Continent to return to the past and hunt him down, preventing the descent of calamity!
"What bad things have I done over the years to make Long Ye hate me so much? And where am I in the present?" Ye Ling murmured, his heart filled with questions.
Long Ye was Ye Ling's most trusted disciple on the Eastern Xuan Continent. Moreover, Long Ye had always been extremely loyal to Ye Ling. Ye Ling had never imagined that Long Ye would betray him.
The World-Ending Spiritual Fire commented at the opportune moment, "You've forgotten that you just destroyed the Eastern Xuan Continent? Based on what you did before, you are more than enough to become the public enemy of the Eastern Xuan Continent."
Ye Ling said, "I'm not going to fail to restore the Eastern Xuan Continent. Isn't the future Eastern Xuan Continent doing well?"
The World-Ending Spiritual Fire continued, "If you have doubts, why not go and ask your precious disciple? But don't say I didn't warn you. Since the people of this era dare to go back and hunt you, it means they possess power that can threaten you. If you rush in recklessly, you'll surely capsize in the gutter!"
"Hmm... I'll be careful about these things." Da Feng Novel Network
Ye Ling nodded slightly, glanced at the chaotic base around him, then released the Unnamed Void Realm to freeze the base's time and teleported away.
Whoosh!
The moment Ye Ling teleported above the city, a hovering sports car zipped past him, its strong gust of wind blowing Ye Ling's long hair.
"Kid, are you trying to die! Go find someone else to cause trouble with!"
The hovering sports car stopped, and a gaudily dressed young man wearing sunglasses poked his head out and roared at Ye Ling.
Ye Ling ignored the shouting youth and surveyed the city.
The City of Heaven was filled with towering skyscrapers flashing with neon lights. Numerous hover trains and sword-wielding cultivators shuttled between the buildings, making the entire city extremely prosperous.
On the city streets, many pedestrians were equipped with mechanical prosthetics, and their bodies pulsed with spiritual energy, possessing considerable combat power.
The entire city appeared to be a hybrid of cultivation and science fiction.
The World-Ending Spiritual Fire tutted, "Tsk, tsk, tsk... I've seen civilizations where martial arts and technology develop together, but those civilizations, without exception, either saw martial arts completely replace technology or technology completely replace martial arts in the later stages. A civilization like the Eastern Xuan Continent... where both martial arts and technology are highly developed and have integrated well with each other, is truly rare."
"I'm becoming more and more curious about what the Eastern Xuan Continent has experienced."
Ye Ling looked at the tallest building in the center of the city, piercing the sky, and whispered, "That building should be the headquarters of the Long Corporation. I can sense many top-tier experts within it... In just ten thousand years, what has happened to the Eastern Xuan Continent in this timeline?"
"Kid, I'm talking to you! Did you hear me?"
Just as Ye Ling was about to fly towards that tall building to investigate the situation, the youth who had been shouting at him got out of his hovering sports car, flew in front of Ye Ling using hover boots, and grabbed Ye Ling's arm, saying, "Don't think you're amazing just because you can fly. In this city, my word alone can ensure you die without a burial place!"
Ye Ling turned to look at the youth, Li Xiao, and asked calmly, "Who are you?"
The youth shouted, "I'm Li Xiao of the Long Corporation. My dad is a high-ranking executive at the Long Corporation. So what? Are you scared yet?"
"Your dad is a high-ranking executive at the Long Corporation?"
Ye Ling almost burst out laughing. He was just about to cause trouble for the Long Corporation, and now a spoiled brat had delivered himself to his doorstep.
"Does your dad know Long Ye?"
"Of course, I know him! My dad is sworn brothers with Long Ye. You better not be so arrogant with me, or else..."
"Or else what?" Ye Ling chuckled, appraising the brat with a playful look.
Before getting down to serious business, it wouldn't hurt to have some fun with this brat to ease his mood.
Seeing that Ye Ling showed no fear, Li Xiao felt a bit intimidated and stammered, "Or, or I'll kill you."
"Is that so?"
Ye Ling chuckled, easily broke free from Li Xiao's grasp, and lightly patted his shoulder, destroying the power source of his hover boots!
Li Xiao looked at Ye Ling in horror, "What, what did you do... Ahhhhhh!"
With the hover boots deactivated, Li Xiao immediately plummeted from the sky, his shrill screams echoing through the city.
The World-Ending Spiritual Fire watched Li Xiao freefalling and commented to Ye Ling, "Why are you bullying a kid who's not even twenty? Have you no shame?"
"I'm happy to deal with such a troublemaking brat who picks fights for no reason."
Ye Ling chuckled, teleported to the ground, and just as Li Xiao's face was about to hit the ground, he grabbed his leg with one hand!
"Mommy!"
Li Xiao, seeing the ground so close, burst into tears and yellow liquid flowed from his body.
He had never experienced anything so thrilling in his life!
Seeing that Li Xiao had wet his pants, Ye Ling, with a hint of disgust, flung him to the ground and teased, "You actually wet yourself from fear. Pathetic."
Li Xiao's legs were now weak, and he couldn't get up. He could only slump on the ground, staring at Ye Ling, "Bastard, how dare you toy with me, you, you just wait!"
As he spoke, Li Xiao pulled out his phone from his pocket and quickly dialed a number!
Ye Ling smiled, "What? Still want to call for backup?"
"You just wait! I'll make you pay today!" Although Li Xiao couldn't stand up yet, he glared at Ye Ling and made threats, as if he was about to make Ye Ling pay immediately.
Ye Ling had no interest in wasting too much time with such a spoiled brat and turned to leave.
However, before Ye Ling could make a move, two hover cars flew over at extreme speed. More than a dozen heavily armed mechanical soldiers jumped out, surrounding Ye Ling.
Li Xiao was helped up by two mechanical soldiers and smiled at Ye Ling, "Bastard, I'm a diamond member of the Long Security Group. If even a single hair on my head is harmed, the mechanical soldiers will be deployed immediately! I'd like to see if you can still be so arrogant in front of the mechanical soldiers!"
Ye Ling stopped and surveyed the mechanical soldiers surrounding him, his brow furrowed.
It wasn't that he feared these pieces of scrap metal, but rather that he sensed an unusual aura within these mechanical soldiers.
The World-Ending Spiritual Fire also sensed something was amiss, saying, "Kid, something's not right... Why does the energy device inside these mechanical soldiers have the aura of the Remnant Evil Tribe?"
Ye Ling said gravely, "It seems this Long Corporation is not as simple as I imagined... I need to sense if there are any cosmic barriers left in this universe."
Saying that, Ye Ling released his divine soul to search for cosmic barriers.
He didn't know until he searched, and he was shocked!
Ye Ling could no longer sense the existence of cosmic barriers... and what shocked him even more was that outside the Eastern Xuan Continent, there was a vast expanse of chaos.
And within the chaos lay the tribal lands of the Remnant Evil Tribe!
"Holy crap! What in the world is going on?"
Upon discovering the Remnant Evil Tribe, Ye Ling broke out in a cold sweat. He immediately concealed his aura and divine soul to prevent his presence from being detected by the Remnant Evil Tribe.
The World-Ending Spiritual Fire also saw the tribal lands of the Remnant Evil Tribe through Ye Ling's divine soul and exclaimed, "Kid... Fortunately, you didn't directly attack the Long Corporation... This Eastern Xuan Continent has become an affiliated territory of the Remnant Evil Tribe. If you had attacked directly and been sensed by the Lord of Remnant Evil, you wouldn't even know how you died!"
Ye Ling quickly regained his composure and said sternly, "It seems the cosmic barriers have disappeared in this era, and the inner domain has suffered a great catastrophe... I'm currently unsure if the Lord of Remnant Evil is present in this era. We must proceed with caution in all matters."
Seeing Ye Ling standing still, Li Xiao thought Ye Ling was stunned by the mechanical soldiers and continued to shout, "Kid, do you still think you're so arrogant? If you kowtow and apologize to me, I'll let you go. How about that?"
Ye Ling snapped back to his senses, looked at the smug brat, and quickly formulated a new plan in his mind.
Having devised a strategy, Ye Ling deliberately smiled at Li Xiao and said, "With just this small force of yours, it'll take another eight hundred years to capture me, Wang Liren!"
With that, Ye Ling destroyed the two mechanical soldiers next to Li Xiao with lightning speed, then grabbed Li Xiao's shoulder and fled with him!
A black streak flashed through the city, and Ye Ling, with Li Xiao, disappeared from the soldiers' sight.
The remaining mechanical soldiers, seeing Ye Ling capture Li Xiao, had their eyes light up with red light, and they immediately reported to headquarters, "Emergency situation, diamond member Li Xiao has been captured by Wang Liren. Requesting headquarters to seal off the City of Heaven and conduct a carpet search!"