From then on, between this Heaven and Earth, a Dark Crow flew across the planes. From heavenly cities to the most dangerous edges and secret places, it flew without free will, straight through the Nine Worlds for eras without end.
As time passed, millions of years had come and gone; a new peerless master rose up as another fell. Slowly, the crow would appear again. It wanted to escape its master; it wanted to find a purpose to its life.
From the Medicine God to the Immortal Emperor Fei Yang, Immortal Emperor Xue Xi, Immortal Emperor Min Ren to Immortal Emperor Tun Ri and Immortal Emperor Bing Yu…all the way up until the Black Dragon King.
Behind each of these paragons lied the shadow of a crow; one that struggled to find freedom.
As these strongest beings came and went, the crow still mysteriously appeared in the river of time.
The crow was not willing to have his fate controlled, it wanted to oppose the most frightening character in this world.
Millions of years till now, and the changing of era from era…
***
Li Qiye who was floating in the river was suddenly dragged up by a person.
“Aaa!”
As he was being dragged out, Li Qiye suddenly woke up. His first reaction was jumping up as he was unfamiliar with his own body. He was unstable and almost fell down to the ground again.
“Ah, my body!”
Looking down and seeing that his body had stayed the same, Li Qiye was both ecstatic and scared. Even after the thousands of struggles while fighting against the unending waves and winds, the Dark Crow, Li Qiye, still couldn’t contain his emotions after regaining his own body.
Taking a deep breath, he lifted his head and saw an old man in front of him.
“Hehehe, it is this old man that has saved you from your impending doom.”
The old man laughed loudly in an inglorious manner, revealing his three remaining yellow teeth. This made others to feel that his smile was very lowly.
Upstream, Li Qiye could still see the dimming structure of the Immortal Demon Grotto. His eyes became increasingly cold; his aura exceeds anything that a thirteen year old child could produce.
Li Qiye took a deep breath, and then stared at the old man. After a while, he finally asked:
“How should I address you, old man?”
“Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect, San Gui Ye.”
The old man answered with his mouth agape revealing his three gold teeth, smiling and spitting everywhere.
“Cleansing Incense Ancient Sect…”
Li Qiye whispered under his breath. This name reminded him of the sealed memories in his head; the time when he was still imprisoned in the body of the Dark Crow.
“Right now, who has the Heaven’s Will?”
Li Qiye regained his composure and asked the man.
“Heaven’s Will eh? Right now, in this era, no one has been able to carry the Heaven’s Will.”
The old man was still smiling as he answered.
“Where is Immortal Emperor Ta Kong?”
After hearing his answer, Li Qiye’s complexion darkened. How long has he been asleep for? Over one hundred thousand years?
“Immortal Emperor Ta Kong has been missing for thirty thousand years.”
“What about Black Dragon King of the Heaven Protector Palace?”
Li Qiye inquired about the Old Man once again.
“No one knows, the Black Dragon King went missing at the same time as well.”
San Gui Ye shook his head.
Hearing this, Li Qiye crazily changed his expression. He looked back at the Immortal Demon Grotto again and finally knew why he had regained his body.
“Let us go.”
Wearing a sad expression, Li Qiye turned around and started to walk away, and didn’t care whether San Gui Ye was following him or not. After experiencing near immortality, he knew exactly what he had to do.
***
The Heaven Protector Palace has the strongest lineage of a peerless master in the current times. That era, when the Black Dragon King was still alive, no one could match him across the Nine Worlds. For three generations he was still respected!
Even though he has been missing for thirty thousand years, the Heaven Protector Palace was still residing arrogantly in this heaven.
At this moment, a young boy around the age of thirteen and a lowly old man with three gold teeth was standing outside of the Heaven Protector Palace.
Standing outside the palace’s outer city, Li Qiye was burning ceremonial money while whispering.
“Little Black Dragon, you don’t have to worry. This life, you have helped me by obtaining my body again; one day, I will stomp the evil land to get revenge for you.”
After the burning was complete, Li Qiye stared at the Heaven Protector Palace ahead. The scenes were still the same, but the people were no longer there; everything had become foreign. He reminisced about the old days; Little Black Dragon and the memory of them building this city from the ground up through their sheer effort.
Unfortunately, after thirty thousand years, not many still remembered the Dark Crow hiding behind the curtain.
“Heh, let us go back to