457 Master, Yousve Finally Arrived! (2/2)

There was confusion in the young boy's eyes. He almost wept when he heard what his parents said, but he had long since cried all his tears. The eye bags under his eyes were charcoal black. He seemed to be on the verge of a mental breakdown. He didn't know how he had managed to survive the past two hundred thousand years… every day he had to go to school, attend tutoring after school, do practice papers, memorize all sorts of information…

The days repeated themselves. The years repeated themselves… Under the care and company of his parents, he kept on studying, and studying, and studying…

He had thought about resisting and fighting back, but it didn't matter what methods he resorted to. Even when he had tried to kill himself, he would wake up the next morning as if nothing had happened. He would carry on studying and going for tutoring…

The only thing that was keeping him sane was the thought that everything was false. He knew that Wang Baole was going to come for him one day, so he kept on waiting. He waited for two hundred thousand years, but Wang Baole didn't come.

Wang Baole had a strange look on his face when he heard the conversation between the boy's parents. Shock stirred inside him when he saw how miserable the boy looked, and he felt some pity for him. He coughed.

When the cough rang out in the air, the entire world froze instantly. Everything fell still. Only he and the boy remained untouched by the spell.

The boy hadn't noticed anything amiss at first. He had continued to lug his school bag and drag his feet forward, loss and misery clear on his face. After a few steps, he finally noticed something was wrong. He lifted his head abruptly and stared around him. When he saw Wang Baole, he was immediately overcome with excitement. He burst out into tears and leaped towards Wang Baole. With a thud, he fell to his knees.

”Master, you've finally arrived! I was wrong. Please take me away. I don't want to stay here. I don't want to go for tutoring anymore. I want to return and be an Artifact Spirit. Please, master, take me away, please…”

The young boy sobbed terribly. He seemed afraid that Wang Baole would ignore him, so he hugged Wang Baole's thigh tightly. His weeping grew louder.

Wang Baole could only put a look of exasperation on his face. He led the boy out of the Rebirth Hallucination Array Formation. After some thought, he headed into the world which contained the sly fox who had called himself a State Preceptor.

The vastness of this world exceeded that of the young boy. The stars stretched on endlessly into the horizon, and it resembled the real world to a certain extent. There were cultivators here, even extremely powerful cultivators. However, regardless of how powerful they were, no one noticed when Wang Baole entered this world. With a single thought, Wang Baole could destroy this entire world.

He entered the world and found the old fox that had been a State Preceptor in his past life. He was… running for his life!

He was fleeing madly. He appeared to be in a wretched state, and his hair was in disarray. Regardless, he fled at an astonishing speed. He seemed to be running for his dear life without care for anything else in the world.

Behind him were countless people in pursuit. Amongst them were countless cultivators and a great number of cruisers clustered together and crowding the sky. They chased after him relentlessly.

It was clear that both the cultivators and the cruisers didn't belong to the same faction. On closer examination, it seemed that they belonged to at least a dozen different camps.

Wang Baole might not have been so surprised if they had only been chasing after the sly fox. However, this was a different sort of pursuit. The expression on Wang Baole's face grew odd… the pursuers were running and shouting at the same time. There was hostility amongst the different factions, and they seemed to be fighting amongst one another.

”State Preceptor, you are no longer young. You shouldn't be running so quickly. Be careful not to injure yourself.”

”State Preceptor, don't go. Our country cannot live without you. Its tens of millions of citizens cannot live without you!”

”State Preceptor, the emperor has decreed. If you do not return, he'll kill himself…”

”State Preceptor, we've discovered another galaxy. There are thousands of civilizations there, waiting for you to become their State Preceptor!”

The cheers of those in pursuit echoed and rang out in the air. The old man fleeing in front was about to go mad. His unbound hair flew in his face, and his eyes were red as he howled in fury and sorrow.

”Scram, all of you. I'm not the State Preceptor. You're the State Preceptor. Your whole family are State Preceptors!” As he said that, his tears began to flow once more. A deep sorrow filled his heart.