"I have also never seen Senior Bai in such a condition before," Yuan remarked with a sigh.
"You should talk to him now. I can wait," Meixiu then said.
Yuan nodded and quickly chased after Senior Bai.
"Senior Bai!" Yuan used Void Manipulation to appear before him.
"V-Void Manipulation?!"
Senior Bai’s face twisted with shock for a moment before he gradually calmed himself.
"You’ve grown tremendously since our last encounter..." he muttered with a weary sigh. "But then again, this seems to happen every single time, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised anymore..."
"Senior Bai... is everything okay?" Yuan asked him with a worried frown.
"We can talk about this later—"
Yuan shook his head and interrupted.
"I don’t think I will be able to enjoy my reunion with Meixiu like this..."
He continued before Senior Bai could respond, "Is this... about the Celestial Overlord’s sudden drop in karma?"
"So it really was you, after all..." Senior Bai released a deep sigh.
Even though he had already suspected it was Yuan, hearing the confirmation directly from him carried an entirely different weight.
"Although I trust that you had a good reason, I still need to hear it myself. Why did you clash with Heaven’s Mandate—the Celestial Emperor’s soldiers?"
Yuan fell silent, pondering how to explain the situation to Senior Bai without sounding ridiculous.
"You already know that the Celestial Emperor and I share some sort of hostility toward each other, right?" Yuan suddenly asked.
"Yes," Senior Bai nodded. "Though I still can’t understand how that’s even possible. There should’ve been no way for you to have met the Celestial Emperor in the first place, much less offend him."
"That’s because I haven’t met him in this life yet... but I have met him in the past... in my past life."
Yuan faced Senior Bai with a solemn expression.
"Your... past life?" Senior Bai swallowed nervously as he muttered in a daze.
Yet despite the shocking revelation, there was no true bewilderment in Senior Bai’s gaze, almost as though he had already anticipated such a possibility to some extent.
"The founder of the Celestial Overlords..." Senior Bai suddenly muttered.
Yuan nodded, confirming in a calm voice, "Indeed, one of my past lives was Tian Yingzhe, the founder of the Celestial Overlords."
He continued, "Remember when I handed over his techniques—his legacy to Xu Jiaqi, saying that I’ve found it? In truth, I regained some of Tian Yingzhe’s memories and recovered the technique in that manner."
"I see..." Senior Bai fell silent for a moment to digest this information.


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