Yuanshi Tianzun, You Old Gray-Bearded Thief

"Human Emperor Di Xin, how dare you!"

"You actually presume to use your exalted position as Human Emperor to protect a guilty clan. Who gave you leave to run amok like this?"

The voice was somewhat aged, but its thunderous sound carried throughout heaven and earth, brimming with might.

All the great powers could tell.

The speaker was one of the current Saints, the great master of the Chan Sect, Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun!

The Dao of the Chan Sect was to follow the Heavenly Dao and expound the ultimate principles of the Great Dao of the Primordial World.

The Human Emperor's attempt to use the Human Clan's fortune to protect the Dragon Clan was clearly an act against heaven.

This naturally ran counter to Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun of the Chan Sect's beliefs.

That was why he had spoken up to rebuke him.

Strictly speaking, Yuanshi Tianzun was the one in charge of all heaven and earth in the Primordial World.

Among the Four Saints of the East, Taishang Laozi was the leader of the Mystic Gate and Dao Ancestor Hongjun's foremost disciple.

But he had always upheld tranquility and nonaction: he did not contend, seize, kill, covet, rage, or fall into delusion.

He rarely paid attention to the affairs of the Primordial World.

Sect Master Tongtian of Biyou Palace on Jin'ao Island, meanwhile, was both righteous and wicked, always pursuing a free and easy life and acting as he pleased.

He had never paid much attention to the Primordial World's trivial affairs.

Empress Nuwa of Wa Huang Palace had no forces of her own and had established no sect. She also lived in seclusion and seldom ventured out, always disdaining to concern herself with such matters.

Thus, Yuanshi Tianzun was the one who generally stepped forward to maintain order throughout the Primordial World.

Now that the Human Emperor actually dared to act so recklessly, he was naturally enraged.

Hearing Yuanshi Tianzun's voice, many great powers immediately erupted in an uproar.

By seeking to pardon the Dragon Clan's sins, the Human Emperor had directly offended Yuqing Saint Yuanshi.

Now that Yuqing Yuanshi had stepped forward to rebuke him, how would the Human Emperor respond?

Just as the many experts of the Primordial World were speculating, Ye Xuan, inside the Nine-Chambered Hall, was suddenly stunned.

Anger then surfaced on his face.

The anger in his heart surged forth.

It was this hypocritical Saint who presided over the Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods in the first place, and Ye Xuan was already extremely dissatisfied with him.

All of his own tribulations stemmed from this, and this fellow still dared to provoke him?

He had yet to go looking for trouble with him, yet this fellow had come out to rebuke him instead?

At that thought, Ye Xuan rose to his full height and strode straight out of the Nine-Chambered Hall.

He stood ramrod straight in the enormous square, like a javelin.

The next instant, a gale swept violently out from him.

The gale carried a surge of fortune with vast divine might, sweeping out in all directions and engulfing the whole of Chaoge in an instant.

The fear of all the living beings in Chaoge was swept away by the gale.

Standing with his hands behind his back, Ye Xuan raised his head to the sky:

"I am the Human Emperor, the common sovereign of heaven and earth, born in accordance with the will of the Great Dao of heaven and earth. What right do you have to comment on how I conduct my affairs?"

"Never mind that I have brought the Dragon Clan under my command. Even if I were to take in the entire Phoenix Clan and Qilin Clan and shelter them within the Human Clan's fortune, what would that have to do with you? Who do you think you are, daring to rebuke me?"

"Who gave you the nerve?"

As the Human Emperor, Ye Xuan held the exalted position of common sovereign of heaven and earth. Nor was he as muddleheaded as the rumors claimed, so he naturally enjoyed the protection of the Human Clan's fortune and had the will of all living beings behind him. Standing in Chaoge, the Human Race Holy Land, Ye Xuan had nothing to fear.

Moreover, the Human Emperor was a key figure in the Kalpa of the Investiture of the Gods. Even a Saint could not casually strike him, or the Kalpa of the Investiture of the Gods would lose its meaning.

Under all these circumstances, Ye Xuan naturally had no favorable impression of the hypocritical Yuanshi Tianzun.

Rumor had it that this fellow did not play by the rules either. During the Kalpa of the Investiture of the Gods, when the Chan Sect could not defeat the Interception Sect, he personally entered the fray to deal with the Interception Sect's disciples.

By the time Sect Master Tongtian reacted, the Interception Sect had already suffered devastating losses.

This fellow was utterly shameless, perhaps second only to Saint Zhunti. Faced with such a fellow, Ye Xuan naturally let loose a torrent of abuse.

The Human Emperor's response, which gave him no face whatsoever, instantly left the many great powers watching the matter reeling.

None of them had expected the Human Emperor to dare provoke him so. It was truly inconceivable.

But when they recalled that the Human Emperor had once cursed Saint Zhunti to his face, it no longer seemed so strange.

"Well, well, you muddleheaded ruler! You dare insult a Saint like this?"

Yuanshi Tianzun was completely enraged.

He was one of the Three Pure Ones, formed from Pangu's Primordial Spirit, and one of the Six Saints of the Primordial World.

For countless years, he had ruled over the Primordial World and been revered by others.

When had anyone ever insulted him in public like this?

Naturally proud by nature, he was driven to the height of fury.

The moment he spoke, a terrifying presence tore through the void and descended, locking firmly onto the Human Emperor.

He was ready to strike at any moment.

Ye Xuan, however, paid it no mind:

"What? Are you so humiliated that you're flying into a rage and planning to strike already?"

"Just as I thought, an old thief who bullies the young and throws his age around!"

"And those Chan Sect disciples under you-all of them have shifty, rat-like eyes and are hypocritical to the extreme. They skulk behind others' backs, chasing gain like flies and dogs, yet put on a righteous face in public. Do you take the many great powers of the Primordial World for blind fools?"

"And you, white-haired old thief, your mouth is full of benevolence and morality, but your belly is full of rooster-crowing, dog-thieving schemes."

"The Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods clearly began because your twelve disciples brought about a mortal-world tribulation of slaughter."

"Yet behind everyone's backs, you joined forces with those two wretches from the West to scheme against your own brother and force him to sign that damned Investiture of the Gods. After all you've done, do you really take all the experts under heaven for blind fools?"

"And when Zhunti clouded my mind, do you dare say you had no hand in it?"

"You keep claiming that your Chan Sect is the orthodox Mystic Gate lineage under heaven. Where do you get the gall? What a shameless white-haired old thief!"

The moment the Human Emperor said this, the entire Primordial World was shaken to its core.

The Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods???

Were heaven and earth in the Primordial World about to enter the next kalpa?

Many reclusive experts were also dumbstruck.

None had expected to learn such important information from the Human Emperor's own mouth.

The great tribulation had yet to truly begin, and only those Saints were making preparations in secret.

The many experts of the Primordial World did not yet know about it.

Now that the Human Emperor had laid it bare in a single stroke, the revelation left those many experts so shocked that heaven and earth seemed to go dark.

Were heaven and earth in the Primordial World about to enter another sweeping kalpa?

Meanwhile, in the Jade Void Palace on Kunlun, Yuanshi Tianzun's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, his eyes were red, and his hair and beard bristled!

Clearly, he was furious to the extreme.

Though that fellow held the exalted position of Human Emperor, he was no more than an ant.

Who had given him the courage to show such gross disrespect to a Heavenly Dao Sage like him?

Since the first opening of heaven and earth, no one had ever insulted him like this.

Having suffered such humiliation for no reason, how could he let the matter rest?

Light flashed in his hand, and the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi appeared in it.

Just as he was about to hurl it, Daoist Randeng, the vice sect master of the Chan Sect, suddenly appeared beside him.

"Sect Master, you absolutely must not act rashly!!"

"If you kill that Human Emperor here and now, wouldn't that ruin the Kalpa of the Investiture of the Gods?"

"Besides, he is the Human Emperor, surrounded by boundless fortune, protected by the Great Dao, and backed by the will of all living beings. I fear even you, Sect Master, would be unable to succeed!"

Hearing this,

Yuanshi Tianzun, though furious, finally managed to restrain himself.

After all, he could not ruin the grand plan for the Investiture of the Gods!

At this moment, however, Ye Xuan's mind and spirit were in turmoil under the pressure of Yuanshi Tianzun's immense presence.

Every muscle seemed to be trembling.

Fortunately, he possessed the Ancestral Dragon Bloodline. The spine in his back was like a peerless great dragon, keeping his body ramrod straight.

Like a javelin standing tall between heaven and earth.

His bearing was so piercingly sharp that it almost seemed capable of stabbing through the firmament.

He now raised his head toward the heavens and spoke once more: