"My lord, how did it go?"
Seeing Gu Yuena end the call with a satisfied look, Di Tian asked hesitantly.
"A mere mortal naturally submitted obediently before this king's majesty."
Gu Yuena lifted her chin proudly.
During this time, her cultivation had been crippled, and she had seen the Soul Beasts' future betrayal. It had infuriated her.
Thankfully, Ye Xiao's submission had restored some of her health. Otherwise, she, the great king Gu Yuena, would truly have lost all face!
Thanks to that, Gu Yuena even found the human child a little easier on the eyes.
Di Tian said nothing, merely casting a slightly hesitant glance at the Myriad Demon King.
"Ahem. Since you've already made Ye Xiao submit to the Soul Beasts, my lord, that's naturally for the best."
"But in that case, to secure his loyalty, we'll need to snatch his father's remains and the other two humans back from the Sun Moon Empire."
The Myriad Demon King pondered for a moment before starting to flatter her.
As he saw it, although his lord's choice of words was somewhat...
The boy on the other end was clearly a smart man. He must have understood what his lord meant before responding.
In that case, if there was nothing wrong with the result, then there was nothing wrong!
So thought the half-baked strategist, the Myriad Demon King.
"It's only a mortal empire."
"Even though this king has fallen below the divine level, I can still slap them to death with one hand!"
Gu Yuena nodded, paying the Sun Moon Empire no heed whatsoever.
"Your divine might knows no bounds, my lord!"
Di Tian, the Myriad Demon King, and Bi Ji exchanged glances and began to flatter her on instinct.
"That person just now... who was she?"
Seeing the projection before Ye Xiao disappear, Wu Qingyao asked softly.
Judging by Ye Xiao's reaction, he seemed certain that she could rescue his friends and family from the Sun Moon Empire.
"She is the ruler of all the Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, the Dragon God's other half. In our world, she should be invincible."
Xiao Bai explained in a muffled voice.
She didn't actually know Gu Yuena, but Gu Yuena had been revealed in the sky screen's earlier disclosures.
And the reason Wu Qingyao didn't recognize Gu Yuena was probably because she had still been asleep at the time?
"A god?!"
"How is that possible? After the sky screen appeared, how could a god still interfere in the affairs of the Douluo Continent?"
Wu Qingyao frowned. Could it be that this other half of the Dragon God had already grown powerful enough to shield herself from the sky screen's control?
"I think I know why..."
Ye Xiao came back to his senses, his expression complicated as he murmured softly.
"If nothing unexpected happened, the god who was downgraded in chapter five was Gu Yuena."
"It's precisely because she was downgraded below the divine level that she isn't subject to the sky screen's restrictions on gods."
Ye Xiao looked up at the sky, a sense of urgency rising in his heart once more.
That also meant that the future Tang San might stake everything on crippling his own cultivation, then descend to the lower realm to come after him.
He was so done with this. The future Swarm Disaster was right there, yet every last one of them insisted on coming after him. Wouldn't it be better for everyone to get along and weather the storm together?
Just like the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and the Far North!
Sure enough, everyone on the Douluo Continent was a fucking idiot!
Having been forced to sell himself, Ye Xiao was in a foul mood. He wanted nothing more than to point at those idiots' faces and curse them out.
Ye Xiao took a deep breath and suppressed his anger, his gaze growing even more complicated.
Forget it. Han Xin endured the humiliation of crawling between a man's legs, and Goujian slept on brushwood and tasted gall. All I did was sell myself to an old monster, and she's pretty good-looking, too.
Once I grow stronger, I can naturally break off this relationship. And since Gu Yuena helped me, there's no need for me to take revenge on her.
Ye Xiao let out a long sigh. Ye Guyi really owed him big-time!
Come to think of it, why did his story feel more and more familiar?
(Gu Yuena: Ye Xiao, you wouldn't want your wife to lose her father, would you?)
"Xiao Bai, keep practicing for now. What comes next has nothing to do with you."
"Sister Wu, sorry for the trouble, but please take me to the Snow Empress."
After grumbling resentfully to himself for a while, Ye Xiao gathered his thoughts and gave the two their instructions.
Although Gu Yuena's cultivation had fallen to level 99, Ye Xiao didn't think there was anyone in this world who could defeat her.
Even if they joined forces!
That being the case, he naturally wouldn't pass up this chance to settle his grudges and beat the drowning dog!
Sun Moon Empire, since you want the future, I'll give you the future!
Ye Xiao's gaze turned cold.
If he didn't make this world hurt, who knew what other disgusting tricks those bastards might pull!
Under pressure from the Sun Moon Empire, he had finally taken his first step toward killing decisively!
"All right!"
Wu Qingyao's heart trembled, and she tucked Ye Xiao under her arm, somewhat nervously.
Her senses told her that the current Ye Xiao had actually begun to resemble the future Ye Xiao in the sky screen!
She hesitated no longer and hurried toward the place where the Snow Empress was teaching Ye Guyi swordsmanship.
Open the panel.
[Teaching Panel] Name: Ye Xiao Level: 13 Comprehension: 15 (9+6) Martial Soul: Epiphyllum Sword (yellow) Soul Skills: 1. Power of Sharpness (300 years): Increases the Epiphyllum Sword's sharpness attribute, and every swing has a 0.05% chance of unleashing sharp Sword Qi. Number of people taught: 769321 Sword Dao inheritances: Permanence Sword Body, first layer (Sword Qi conversion), Treading on Snow Without a Trace (upper limit: Soul King), Aura Concealment Technique, Cold Jade Sword Scripture (breathing cultivation method), Sword Heart, Sword Dao Sequence (15.5%), Intercepting Sword Technique, Equilibrium (currently able to fuse only two attributes), Heaven and Earth One Sword (sovereignty), Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin
Ye Xiao looked at the two new techniques he had just developed at the end of the list, a cold light flickering in his eyes.
Heaven and Earth One Sword drew upon the power of heaven and earth. At its core, it had evolved from the Snow Empress's Emperor Sword.
But with Ye Xiao's current cultivation, he would probably be crushed to death before he could even begin drawing upon it.
This sword technique had actually been developed to strengthen the Snow Empress. Once she became familiar with it, fighting Di Tian to a draw would be no problem. In the Far North, she might even be able to kill him outright!
As for Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin, that was the ultimate life-saving weapon he had prepared for himself!
After discovering that the Sword Dao Sequence was becoming increasingly difficult to develop, he decided to try extracting one of his conjectures, just as he had when deriving the second layer of the Permanence Sword Body (he had been unable to derive the endless cycle of life, so he had settled for developing a breathing cultivation method).
Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin, as its name implied, allowed him to call upon nearby Sword Qi or sword-attribute Soul Power to a certain extent.
With this technique, the living beings of the world were, to him, nothing more than living Sword Qi, perfectly suited to replenishing what he expended.
"Sister Wu, I currently have no means of helping a Martial Soul evolve."
"But I know where to find Aromatic Silk Beauty."
"You can no longer take part in the coming battle. I'd like to ask you to return to the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect in person."
Ye Xiao closed the panel and spoke solemnly to Wu Qingyao.
Also, Mom, please call the Demon Empress over too. Tell her I agree to her condition.
Since they want war, I'll give them war!
They're fearless only because they think they can crush me on a whim...