What Did Li Yuan Want?

Wei Jiu looked at the distant sea. "Knowing this, I am even more certain that the old man will not let me go easily, and I don't like to hand over the initiative to others."

"If he wants to kill me, I can't just sit here and wait to die; I have to strike first."

Li Yuan turned his head and said, "Then what are you going to do? The only way you can kill him now is by relying on natural disasters."

"But as I said, if these six crowns are not in your hands, then the person who wants to kill you will not just be the I Ching."

"Why don't you tell me more about yourself? You said your teacher Xue told you that you died and were reincarnated, but you lost your memory."

"Do you remember where you fell, and how you fell?"

Wei Jiu pondered for a moment. He still trusted Li Yuan quite a bit, after all, Li Yuan had indeed helped him a lot.

This is one of the few allies he can rely on now.

"I heard Teacher Xue say that we perished in a place called Shenzang. As long as I can enter Shenzang again, I can get back everything I lost."

A secret treasure?

Li Yuan's pupils shifted, "I do know such a place. There is an island on this ocean."

"There is a gate on that island, and that gate might lead to the sacred treasure you speak of."

Wei Jiu sighed, "But the guardian of the Divine Treasury is an enemy I cannot defeat, Sixth Tier Fifth Realm Great Saint Domain."

"He made a request: if I want to enter the Divine Treasury and regain my previous abilities, I must help him kill Yi Jing. That's the condition."

Li Yuan pondered for a moment, then realized, "So that's how it is, the guardian of the divine treasure..."

"In that case, we might as well take a gamble. You kill Yi Jing with the Heavenly Calamity and enter the Divine Treasury. If you can regain your previous abilities, then you won't need to worry about the other sequences."

Wei Jiu turned to look at Li Yuan, "Is it possible? What level of power does the natural disaster possess?"

Li Yuan shook his head. "No one has ever used it, so no one knows what the power of a natural disaster is, or in what form it descends."

"Therefore, natural disasters are generally only used for deterrence. It is precisely your way of using them, using natural disasters to achieve great results with a small investment, that is the optimal way to utilize natural disasters."

"But the situation is different now. This time, you may really bring about a natural disaster."

Wei Jiu also had many concerns, "But I still need to find Teacher Xue. What will be the consequences of releasing the natural disaster, and whether I can get my power back? I'm not sure right now."

"Only now that I hold these crowns in my hands do I have the time to slowly search for her."

Li Yuan: "But similarly, your enemies can also slowly find ways to deal with you. In that case, what seems like a loss may actually be a blessing in disguise. I'm afraid we might lose both men and horses."

Wei Jiu looked at Li Yuan. He wasn't stupid; he vaguely sensed something.

Why is Li Yuan so considerate of him? Before, he taught him to protect himself from Li Yuan's perspective, and he still does now. However, Li Yuan seems to be more fixated on the so-called divine treasure.

"Hey, you used to know 009, didn't you?"

What was your relationship with him before?

Li Yuan's eyes flashed. "I'm helping you simply because I want to. It has nothing to do with whether you're 009 or not. Don't misunderstand."

Li Yuan didn't help him because he was 009. Although Wei Jiu was somewhat relieved by this statement, he was also a little confused.

If he learned anything from the Snow Woman, it was only one thing.

No one is kind to you for no reason; this saying also circulates in the desert army of the Golden King.

The world is bustling, all for profit; the world is in turmoil, all for gain.

The Snow Woman is unconditionally kind to him and helps him unconditionally because of 009.

Since Li Yuan wasn't helping him because of his relationship with 009, it inevitably made Wei Jiu think of some things.

Li Yuan must have wanted something from me, or there must have been some conflict of interest involved.

"That's not what I meant. I was just asking about your relationship with 009."

Li Yuan did not answer immediately, but hesitated for a moment.

"We... have a very close relationship. Every time we meet, we're always very enthusiastic. We've known each other for a long time, so we're friends."

Does a completely open and honest relationship qualify as friendship?

Wei Jiu had no friends, so he didn't know what it meant to be a friend.

Li Yuan looked up. The night sky was filled with twinkling stars, and the full moon hung overhead. "The moon is so round tonight. I have a feeling something is about to happen."

Before Wei Jiu could think much about what he heard, he suddenly noticed that the full moon overhead had turned blood red, and a dense swarm of bats swept across the sky!

Seagulls took flight in fright, the world was bathed in blood-red light, and the sea turned into a sea of blood, its surface churning and the creatures in the ocean becoming restless!

Wei Jiu realized what was happening and then heard screams and cries for help suddenly coming from the village!

"Blood... the Blood Clan have arrived!"

"Help!"

"Puff!"

"No, no, I have a child, spare my life, spare me... Ah!!"

Large hordes of the Blood Clan attacked, instantly decimating cities and villages along their path, sparing not even livestock.

The Blood Clan were all extremely excited; this blood hunt was a rare feast for them!

"Hahaha, it's been so long since I've had this much fun killing!!"

"That little girl is mine!!"

"Don't worry, your son will be downstairs to keep you company soon!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!!"

Two Blood Clan grabbed a man, dragged him into the air, and tore him in two, leaving him covered in blood. The humans on the ground screamed in agony, while the Blood Clan in the sky laughed wildly.

"What a scene of hell on earth," Li Yuan said calmly.

Wei Jiu was very confused. "Although I may not be able to say it well, aren't those people your subjects? Aren't you going to care about them?"

Li Yuan looked at Wei Jiu, "Who said those people were my subjects?"

"Do you think I am some kind of god of mankind?"

Wei Jiu: "Isn't that right?"

Logically speaking, the people of God should have similar characteristics to the gods, a fact that Wei Jiu has witnessed along the way.

Li Yuan, with his human form and body, how could he not be a human god?

Seeing Wei Jiu's expression, Li Yuan laughed, "Then I'm really sorry. Actually, I'm just like the gods behind those Blood Clan. We are all monsters who kill without blinking an eye."

"In fact, the things my family and I have done are far more outrageous than what they are doing now."

"This is the norm in this world: human life is cheap, gods are cruel and murderous, monsters roam freely, and hell is on earth."

Wei Jiu didn't say anything about it, because he knew he wasn't a good person, or rather, he was one of those bloodthirsty gods that Li Yuan described.

He felt no sympathy for the people's plight and suffering, because they had no connection to him.

He had no intention of helping those people, even though he had the ability to.

"But I feel that you are different from those gods who actually kill."