"Good!"
"The Great Dao has fifty, Heaven unfolds forty-nine, and one slips away. In the unseen, there is a destined order. Even if the supreme Great Dao has targeted me, the inheritance remains."
Hearing Bai Yu's words, the Demon Venerable was first stunned, then burst into laughter.
Defying heaven and changing one's fate was no easy task. It required generations to press forward one after another to change it. Back then, of the four of them, the Empress had vanished without a trace, while the Human Emperor had been beaten from the summit into the abyss. Perhaps only that brat Qin Zun was still alive and well.
As for himself, even his name had been stripped away by the Great Dao. Had he not prepared in advance, no one in later ages would likely have remembered him. Everything he was would have been erased by that resplendent age!
But did he regret it?
No, because he had seen hope!
"The Empress's aura, the Human Emperor's Divine Baleful Gu, that brat Qin's Yin-Yang Reversal?"
"Very good. The future belongs to the young..."
The Demon Venerable murmured inwardly as his laughter continued to echo. After a long while, he calmed himself, then waved his sleeve. His voice was resolute as he looked at Bai Yu.
"Remember a few things from now on."
"Master the Heavenly Demon Chaos Scripture completely."
"If you encounter the Empress someday, help her if you can. Your master owes her a karmic debt."
"Keep your distance from that brat Qin Zun. He's a bit too single-minded, only ever looking at what's right in front of him. Don't let him sweet-talk you."
"As for the Human Emperor, stay as far away from him as you can. If he wants to pass his inheritance to you, don't waste words—just slap