"All right, all right. I'm not some little girl. Gui Yeren is a good woman, and she's done so much for you. You mustn't let her down!"
Yun Qingyao spoke.
"Qing Yao, you're generous."
Lu Ren smiled.
"What woman doesn't have selfish feelings?"
Yun Qingyao gave a wry smile, then shook her head. "But you're so outstanding that other women are bound to fall for you. As long as they're sincere with you, I won't mind. If they dare scheme against you, though, I won't spare them!"
"Qing Yao, do you think I can win this time?"
Lu Ren's question came suddenly.
Opening the Chaos Great Dao to lure out Xie Wansheng was an enormous risk.
The formation laid by the Three-Extremes Ancient Ancestor could reduce that risk.
But no one knew how much of his strength Xie Wansheng had recovered.
"You can. I know you can!"
Yun Qingyao looked at Lu Ren, her face full of confidence.
Can I?
Unease stirred in Lu Ren's heart.
It was not Xie Wansheng who brought him that unease. It came from his Void of Destiny Battle Body.
It seemed this was a tribulation written into his fate, one he would struggle to survive.
Could this tribulation be something other than Xie Wansheng?
Time flowed on.
As the Immortal Path Great World continued to be polluted by evil energy, panic spread across the entire Myriad Heavens Plane.
Everyone knew that if the Immortal Path Great World fell, the other Great Worlds would suffer too.
Meanwhile, preparations for Lu Ren to open the Chaos Great Dao proceeded at full tilt.
The Three-Extremes Ancient Ancestor searched every corner of the Myriad Heavens Plane before settling on the depths of what had once been the evil path's central stronghold.
This stretch of ruined void had been