Compared to the black-robed figure walking ahead, the one following behind was clearly more easygoing and casual in the way he spoke.
He said indifferently, "Although our Mystery Path isn't strong overall, that's only because we have too few people."
"Compared to the other paths, the individual strength of our path has always been quite formidable."
"Even the two of us rank in the top ten among all those old monsters. And with how strange, mysterious, and impossible to guard against our path's abilities are, which of the other paths doesn't fear us?"
"So forget sending a few ordinary God Kings to keep an eye on us. Even if those three old geezers from the Immortal Heavenly Tomb came personally, they might not be able to keep us in check."
Hearing the black-robed figure behind him, the one walking ahead frowned slightly. Cold light flickered in his golden eyes as he lowered his voice and reminded him,
"Wu Ai, it's fine to use words like that to fool outsiders, but don't fool yourself too."
As he walked, the face beneath the leading black-robed figure's hood flickered in and out of sight, revealing long golden hair, golden eyes, and golden markings across his face.
He said, "The two of us are indeed fairly strong, but among all High-Level God Kings, we can only be considered above average. And among the Six Great Paths, our Mystery Path has the fewest High-Level God Kings. The two of us simply can't make up for the gap in numbers."
"Adding so many conditions to narrow the gap between us and them is only meant to unite the power of those on our path and intimidate the petty rabble from other paths."
"If we start believing it ourselves, it'll be easy to overestimate ourselves and cause a catastrophe."
Hearing the words of the black-robed figure ahead, the smile on Wu Ai's face slowly faded. He gave a soft "Mm."
Unlike the God King ahead of him, he had short black hair and silver eyes. Even the markings on his face were silver.
Seeing that the black-robed figure behind him did not continue arguing, the expression of the one ahead finally eased somewhat.
In truth, neither of them was wrong.
As High-Level God Kings of the Mystery Path, the two of them ranked among the strongest of the more than twenty High-Level God Kings in terms of individual power alone.
Moreover, the Mystery Path's abilities were bizarre, unpredictable, and impossible to guard against. Thus, even High-Level God Kings stronger than them were unwilling to provoke them lightly.
The other God Kings of the Mystery Path were similar to them: individually powerful, but few in number.
Therefore, the Mystery Path's overall strength was not great. It ranked at the bottom of the Six Great Paths, even weaker than the Life Path. Anyone could push them around.
This had left the Mystery Path's two High-Level God Kings worrying themselves sick over their path.
For example, competing for the attribute of the next era was their next objective.
The Mystery Path had strong individuals but too few members, so they naturally had to find a way to increase the number of deities on the Mystery Path.
And the best way to greatly increase the number of deities from a particular path was, naturally, through the inherent attributes of the Ancient Continent.
Therefore, in order to obtain the Ancient Continent's attribute for the next era, the Mystery Path had made no small number of moves over the years.
But who would have thought that just as they were evenly matched with the Order Shrine and had a strong chance of winning, the Immortal Heavenly Tomb would suddenly emerge halfway through?
That was precisely why the Mystery Path's two High-Level God Kings, Feng Lei and Wu Ai, had personally appeared in Chaos West Capital.
They needed to determine the Immortal Heavenly Tomb's strength and how resolute it was before deciding on their next plan.
Thus, they silently infiltrated White Mist.
God King Feng Lei and God King Wu Ai soon arrived at the outskirts of Chaos West Capital.
At this moment, the outskirts of Chaos West Capital had been completely swallowed by war. Calamity Abilities and Heavenly God Skills flew everywhere as the deities of Chaos West Capital fought fiercely against the deities of the Immortal Heavenly Tomb.
Calamity Power surged wildly, as though it might form a Calamity storm at any moment.
However, God Kings Feng Lei and Wu Ai were clearly accustomed to such scenes.
They casually found a high vantage point and observed the battle.
Yet just as they cast their gazes downward, they discovered that people in several other directions seemed to be "watching" them as well.
In that instant, both were startled, then turned to look in the directions from which they were being watched.
"It's Order."
"Mine should be Life."
After making only a brief distinction, they had roughly reached a conclusion and exchanged information.
Wu Ai said, "They actually arrived before us."
Feng Lei nodded. After warily sweeping his gaze across the two paths watching him once more, he said, "They most likely arranged people in Immortal's camp long ago."
"Once the two sides started fighting, they teleported over directly."
Wu Ai nodded slightly before saying, "Most likely."
He said, "I originally thought we were the ones most concerned about this matter. I didn't expect Order and Life to care so much as well."
Hearing this, Feng Lei pondered briefly before speaking. "Perhaps it isn't just Order and Life."
Seeing Wu Ai's puzzled expression, he pointed at Chaos West Capital and said, "Immortal attacked Chaos. How could Chaos possibly have no one paying attention?"
"As for Destruction."
"This time, weren't they the source of it all from the start?"
"Do you really think those fellows from the Destruction Royal Court have cut off contact with Tyrant?"
Hearing God King Feng Lei's words, an expression of realization appeared on God King Wu Ai's face, which was covered in silver divine patterns.
Seeing God King Wu Ai's expression, God King Feng Lei's face remained impassive, but the golden eye on his forehead flickered faintly with lightning in response to his shifting emotions.
The Immortal Heavenly Tomb currently held the advantage and was the attacking side. All the Immortal Deities were charging into Chaos West Capital.
Therefore, when Qiu Tu's group of three rushed toward Chaos West Capital, they entered it without being noticed and without incident.
The moment they arrived in Chaos West Capital, a pungent stench of blood struck them head-on.
Qiu Tu looked around and saw corpses everywhere.
Clearly, the two sides had once fiercely fought over this area.
Qiu Tu glanced at Qing E and Mo Li. Mo Li looked as though nothing had happened, completely unconcerned by the mountain of corpses and sea of blood before her.
Qing E, by comparison, was pale. Though she tried her best to restrain her gaze, its unsettled tremor was still visible.
Qiu Tu had, after all, just been intimate with her. Seeing her discomfort, he could not help gently patting her back, comforting her through his actions.
Sensing Qiu Tu's concern, Qing E looked at him. She forced a smile and softly said, "I'm fine."
Qiu Tu nodded slightly and was just about to continue forward.
But Mo Li spoke in a sickeningly coquettish tone. "Brother~ Sister is fine, but I'm scared."
Qiu Tu:
To be honest, before he had figured out Mo Li's identity, Qiu Tu had found her Little Green Tea act rather amusing.
But after learning who Mo Li really was, seeing her act like this every day became somewhat unbearable to Qiu Tu.
To some extent, Mo Li was deliberately toying with him.
Sooner or later, I'll make her perform uniform linear reciprocating motion.
After silently grumbling, Qiu Tu came back to himself and glared at her irritably. "What the hell are you scared of?"
"If they run into you, they're the ones who should be scared."
Hearing Qiu Tu's words, Mo Li did not care in the slightest.
She deliberately put on a pitiful expression with her large watery eyes and played dumb. "Brother, I'm not some terrifying monster. Why would they be afraid of me?"
When handling serious business, Qiu Tu had never liked fooling around. He could not be bothered to keep arguing with Mo Li, so he directly instructed, "Contact Shepherd Heart God King."
"Ask where he is and how things are going."
At that, Qiu Tu paused before adding, "Most importantly, ask whether the transaction can still proceed."
Mo Li seemed to have become too immersed in her persona to pull herself out.
Hearing Qiu Tu's words, she paid no heed to her image. With a faint smile, two little dimples appeared at the corners of her mouth. "Yes, Brother. I'll contact him right away~"
After saying that, she took out the Communication Treasure Item used to contact Lao Bai and activated it in front of Qiu Tu and Qing E.
Mo Li was, after all, the ruler of the Chaos Path. Her communication privileges with Lao Bai were certainly the highest.
Thus, less than two seconds later, the connection went through. Lao Bai's voice slowly came from the Communication Treasure Item. "Qiu Tu?"
Hearing Lao Bai's words, Qiu Tu could not help laughing.
Sure enough, even after all these years, Lao Bai still understood him best.
So Qiu Tu did not beat around the bush and directly said, "It's me, Lao Bai."
"We've infiltrated Chaos West Capital."
Hearing Qiu Tu's words, Lao Bai fell silent for a second, as though using his World Master authority to search for Qiu Tu and the others.
A moment later, he said, "Relax your bodies. I'll move you here."
As he spoke, Qiu Tu felt a terrifying force descend upon him the next moment.
Qiu Tu did not resist and simply allowed the force to swallow him.
A moment later, darkness flashed before his eyes, then light returned.
When he could see clearly again, he found himself in the palace where he had previously played chess and chatted with Lao Bai several times.
Qing E and Mo Li, meanwhile, were nowhere to be seen.
He did not know whether White Robe had not moved them at all or had moved them somewhere else.
Does Lao Bai have something he wants to say to me alone?
After silently making a guess, Qiu Tu followed the route he had taken during his previous visits to Lao Bai and walked straight ahead.
Soon, Qiu Tu arrived once again at the main hall of the palace where he and Lao Bai played chess.
At this moment, Lao Bai was dressed in white robes and seated before the chessboard, seeming to be waiting for Qiu Tu to play chess again.
Given how familiar Qiu Tu and Lao Bai were with each other, there was no need to hide anything. Qiu Tu walked over, plopped down, picked up a Black Chess Piece, and toyed with it while studying the chessboard's endgame.
Then Lao Bai's gentle voice sounded beside Qiu Tu's ear. "You should have already guessed Mo Li's identity."
Mo Li's acting was difficult to use to deceive anyone, so Qiu Tu was not surprised that Lao Bai had figured it out.
His eyes remained fixed on the incomplete game as he said, "That hardly even requires guessing, does it?"
Lao Bai nodded slightly, then said, "You should have met the High-Level God King from the Order Shrine as well."
"Who did I meet? Ink God King?"
That truly caught Qiu Tu by surprise.
After all, only Ilena, Qing E, Heavy Stone, and Vast Sea knew about Qiu Tu meeting Ink God King.
Unless White Robe had guessed blindly, at least one of those four had leaked the information to him.
Thinking that, Qiu Tu casually said, "It was indeed Ink. But... how did you know?"
Hearing Qiu Tu's words, White Robe smiled faintly and said, "I was just trying my luck."
Qiu Tu:
Qiu Tu did not believe a word of it. Ever since meeting this guy in New Realm City, Qiu Tu had known that he liked keeping things hidden.
Who knew how many secrets he had buried in his heart? He was impossible to see through or figure out.
Just as Qiu Tu was thinking this, White Robe spoke again.
He said, "I'm going to die."
Qiu Tu's hand paused. Then he helplessly looked up at White Robe.
"How many times has this been now?"
"Is this a real death or a fake death?"
Hearing Qiu Tu's words, White Robe smiled gently and said, "Fake death, fake death."
If White Robe had said it was a real death, Qiu Tu might not have cared and would have assumed he was joking again.
But White Robe said it was a fake death, and Qiu Tu could not help feeling uneasy.
Could something really be about to happen to this guy?
As Qiu Tu was thinking that, White Robe slipped his right hand into his left sleeve and took out a small golden box.
He looked at Qiu Tu, extended his hand, and offered him the box.
Qiu Tu cautiously accepted the golden box, then looked at White Robe and asked, "What does this mean?"
White Robe smiled freely. He pointed at the small box and said, "A gift for you."
"However... I placed a restriction on it. Only after I die will this little box open."
"Only then will you be able to see what's inside and receive the gift I prepared for you."
Qiu Tu frowned slightly at White Robe's words.
It was not that he distrusted White Robe or was judging a gentleman by his own petty standards.
He simply felt a faint sense of concern.
So he asked, "This isn't some contingency plan you left behind, is it?"
"If something happens to you, you'll use the contents of this little box to seize my body, resurrect, and change your fate."
Hearing Qiu Tu's words, White Robe could not help smiling.
He said, "You must have watched too many TV dramas back in New Realm City."
"Even at my peak, I might not be your match. If I die, my soul will certainly be weakened. How could I possibly be your opponent?"
After saying that, he paused and gently explained, "This box contains my greatest secret."
"And you'll definitely be interested in it."
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