A Hundred Lifetimes to Renew the Heavens
Chapter 23

An Unsurprising Ending

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Bai Shendong quickly sorted out the situation, but then he burst forth with even greater confusion:

"You hate the Ascending the Steps Families, and just because of that you're willing to give up wealth and status to fight them to the death?"

"You're a cultivator who has mastered the Dual Attribute Spirit Law, and you can kill a Calamity Demonic Monster with one blow. No matter which town you're in, your status would definitely be high. Perhaps you'd have to be obsequious, but it also represents the possibility of further advancement!"

"The Spirit Realm grants a lifespan of over two hundred years, and the Law Realm grants a lifespan of over four hundred years. Are you going to antagonize all the Spirit Law cultivators in White Stone Town for a moment's anger?"

A moment's anger?

Being exploited like an ox for twenty years.

A brother who killed his wife.

The entire village slaughtered, and finally, his daughter was kidnapped to be used as a tool.

No matter which one, it's an irreconcilable hatred!

And aren't there many people who really don't want to resolve this "moment's anger"? No, it's because the chances of winning are slim!

If they had the strength, if someone glared at them, they would probably feel that they were provoking them and would immediately capture them and subject them to slow slicing.

"The Ascending the Steps Families are enemies, I must slaughter them... This is my Dao, and if I don't carry it out, I will die, it's that simple. If you want to change it into a nicer slogan, then it's for the sake of all living beings, so that Tomorrow isn't crawling in the mud, working like an ox for the Ascending the Steps Families!"

Yun Ye said lightly.

The main reason he didn't mention the Tomorrow Society's ideals was that he felt a member of an Ascending the Steps Family probably wouldn't understand.

Therefore, he should subtly influence them, rather than forcibly change their understanding.

If subtle influence doesn't work, then discuss the ideals and use more drastic means to change them.

If that still doesn't work, then they are enemies, kill them...

That's all.

"Your Dao?"

Bai Shendong chewed on the words, and then his face turned horrified, "You are a Dao Artifact Wielder? Does your Dao mean that for the sake of all living beings, you will kill all the Ascending the Steps Families? Are you the Dao Artifact Wielder who was newly born two years ago?"

"You actually know... Is this matter spread so widely?" Yun Ye frowned tightly.

When Bai Shendong saw Yun Ye admit it, he immediately took a few steps back and pointed at Yun Ye with extreme horror: "You're in big trouble, the Luo Dynasty will never allow a new Dao Artifact Wielder to develop, you're breaking the existing order!"

"But I haven't died until now, which means the Luo Dynasty can't find my location either, right?"

Yun Ye said.

"Can't find your location? In fact, you can say that, even Divine Law can't deduce anything about a Dao Artifact Wielder, unless you're right in front of them, then they can do a small amount of deduction through direct observation of the lines of cause and effect..."

"But ah, there's no need to locate you as a person at all! If a Dao Artifact wants to grow, it will inevitably engage in Dao Domain disputes, and although the Luo Dynasty is a series of separate cities, counties, and towns, the Dao Artifacts have the same origin. Once you start seizing them, you might be able to hide for a short time, but you can never hide forever!"

"At that time, even if the various Immortal Clans and Immortal Sects restrain each other, and only send out some insignificant small forces, even one of their little fingers would be enough to crush you. This remote little place can't be compared to them at all!"

"You're courting death!"

Bai Shendong was completely desperate. Even if a miracle really happened and they could defeat White Stone Town.

The result would only be that they would be extinguished by a higher level of power. There was no possibility of winning at all!

This is the order of the entire world, the order of the entire Luo Dynasty, an order that has lasted for countless years!

The reasoning behind it may be twisted, or completely wrong, but if just anyone could succeed, the world would have changed countless times over such a long period.

But the reality is that it hasn't, and that's because there is a powerful enough force to extinguish everything!

"I see, it does give one a strong sense of despair."

Yun Ye said this.

However, Bai Shendong couldn't see any change on his face—did this man really understand the situation?

Naturally, Yun Ye had long anticipated these possible difficulties. He didn't believe that White Stone Town and the Luo Dynasty had no connection at all. At least every so often, the Luo Dynasty would come to confirm the changes in the Dao Artifact of White Stone Town.

He didn't know how much time he would have after seizing White Stone Town, but he couldn't let that stop him.

This was indeed an extremely dangerous situation.

If one wanted to overthrow the Ascending the Steps Families and even the immortal sects and immortal clans in this kind of world, there was only one way...

That's right, to fill it with lives.

If one wanted to take a shortcut, be reborn into a family of cultivation, and seek a more stable path to change through the power of the family...

That was a joke.

Did they really think that families were places with feelings?

When a cultivator had lived for hundreds of years, high above, did they establish a family because of kinship?

No, it was for their own rule, so that someone would solve their troubles and collect resources for them!

In such a family, without ability or talent, it would be impossible to be nurtured, and one would only be relegated to a collateral branch, making it even more impossible to access the family's high-end cultivation methods...

This was something whose power would be divided with each additional person, and it was impossible to give it to someone without value!

Even if one overcame all difficulties, and truly had the talent and strength to climb to the highest position in the family step by step, it would be useless.

Because one would still be limited by the family's Dao Artifact, and must act according to the rules of the family's Dao Artifact.

There was no possibility of breaking through from the inside!

Yun Ye wasn't trying to become a walking corpse, nor was he trying to ignore all external voices and then amuse himself and enjoy life... If that were the case, what would be the point of him being reborn into a family?

Therefore, only this bloody path remained.

To put it bluntly, this path required sacrificing all the early supporters. The first to awaken were always the cornerstone, and would never see the possibility of success.

Only sacrifice can strengthen resolve... daring to teach the sun and moon to change to a new sky!

If the weak want to succeed, they are destined to have countless sacrifices and blood and tears. This is extremely difficult. Countless such sacrifices are needed to forge the final victory, and most of the time such sacrifices are only the beginning, with no end.

Because their ideas are rapidly deteriorating, rapidly being corrupted, and cannot be maintained for long.

Yun Ye's appearance is a kind of luck. With him, sacrifices will indeed exist, but victory is also inevitable.

As long as Yun Ye is still alive, then the ideas will continue to be passed on, which is something that would never happen under normal circumstances.

Yun Ye knew that he was probably destined to bear countless lives and deaths, but he also promised to complete this journey, to exchange sacrifice for a new sky, and then... to happily watch the thousand waves of rice and beans, with heroes everywhere enjoying the evening glow!

"This is indeed difficult. Even just thinking about it makes me feel breathless. To bear so much life, death, and hope... However, when I think about how the world has been like this for countless years, I know I have to do it."

Yun Ye sighed, then said to Bai Shendong, "If you don't agree, I won't do anything to you. I can even send you to the border. You can continue to seek your own survival."

"I understand... Have you gone mad? If that's the case, send me to the border. Although I'm not afraid of death, I don't want to die so valuelessly. I want to go to the Cloud Heaven Spirit Sect!"

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