“It shouldn’t be like this…” Zhong Tianyi muttered through gritted teeth, his killing intent surging like a tide.
Originally, everything was under his control.
But he never expected Jiang Ye to not only send the transformation dao stone back to the Jiang Clan, but also to destroy the Ancient Immortal Court!
That was an important chess piece he had cultivated for a long time!
He had made many arrangements at the Ancient Immortal Court.
The most direct one was in the deepest part of the Dragon Vein Secret Realm; if the Ancient Immortal Court still existed, he could have used those three quasi-Emperor fools to prematurely open the depths of the Dragon Vein Secret Realm, and, using the unique “Ancient Immortal Sacrifice Method” of the Ancient Immortal Bloodline, trigger the appearance of the innate immortal liquid!
But now, Zhong Tianyi could only slowly bide his time and wait for the Opportunity.
Given the current flow of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, without external interference, it would take at least another half a year for the innate immortal liquid to naturally appear.
No one knew if any variables would arise during this time.
Zhong Tianyi wasn’t worried at first; at most, it would just mean waiting a few more days.
But now, something had changed.
“Ye Qingyun…”
Zhong Tianyi murmured, frowning.
Because of his pursuit, Ye Qingyun had, by some strange twist of fate, inexplicably stumbled into the deepest part of the Dragon Vein Secret Realm.
This unexpected turn of events struck him like a bolt of lightning, causing Zhong Tianyi’s expression to change several times, unable to calm down for a long time.
He didn’t know what was hidden in that deepest part.
That area seemed to be shrouded in the mist of Heaven and Earth Creation, making it difficult for even Divine Sense to probe it in the slightest, as if even the Heavenly Dao was avoiding it, concealing its true appearance.
But he also couldn’t step into it, because that area had long been filled to the limit with the Qi of Heaven and Earth Creation, so dense that it almost materialized into colorful clouds, unusual phenomena, and the sound of the Dao, making one’s Divine Soul restless.
Moreover, because he had arranged the Netherworld here… That was the most terrifying evil forbidden zone, a place of decay he had created in his early years using Netherworld secret techniques, sacrificing hundreds of souls of evil spirits from outside the domain!
What grew within it were evil plants, a convergence of all evil.
They did not belong to this Heaven and Earth, but were distorted products of otherworldly evil demons.
Carrying endless pollution and curses, they naturally and silently seeped outwards over a long period of time.
Eventually, that deepest part was quietly polluted and corroded.
Now, that deepest part, which should have been a place where Heaven and Earth Opportunities converged, had been personally refined by him into a Netherworld evil land, where the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi became cold and viscous, as if merely touching it would bring great calamity.
Now, even if he went there himself, he wouldn’t dare to easily step into it!
Zhong Tianyi was unsure whether Ye Qingyun was dead or alive after that accidental intrusion.
He had sent those half-crippled evil fetuses, nurtured by demonic embryos and discarded after failure, to assassinate Ye Qingyun, yet the repeated pursuits, repeated accidents, and repeated escapes… all made him extremely wary, and an unprecedented sense of irritation and unease arose in his heart.
That feeling made him feel as if he had thorns in his back, his mind restless.
An indescribable taboo, vague and indistinct, emerged in the dark, seemingly affecting a certain trajectory of destiny.
Once touched, it would bring unpredictable calamity and chaos.
Such an extremely bad situation, he had almost never encountered since his debut countless eons ago.
He had once shattered star rivers and stained divine realms with blood; when had he ever feared fate or Karma?
But at this moment, he had to admit it.
This time, he truly felt an indescribable pressure, a “variable” not belonging to this world had already begun to brew.
And Zhong Tianyi was unable to interfere with it, which was the most worrying and uncomfortable part for him.
At this moment, a subtle, almost imperceptible piece of information suddenly surged in the depths of Zhong Tianyi’s Divine Soul, quietly descending like a lingering thought traversing the Netherworld, stirring slight ripples in his Sea of Consciousness.
He raised an eyebrow, his expression subtly changing.
“Hmm? Reincarnation body Fang Ming… dead?”
The voice emerged from his throat, like cold iron grating, carrying a hint of displeasure and surprise.
He immediately fell into contemplation, his gaze as deep as an abyss, seemingly able to see the temporal traces from hundreds of millions of miles away through the Void Realm.
A discarded “Children of the Netherworld,” had been killed by Jiang Ye.
Although it was a failed creation, discarded by him.
But it was, after all, one of his Reincarnation bodies, with his imprinted Netherworld Origin remaining within it.
Moments before its death, it could still use a secret technique to intercept a wisp of residual memory and transmit it back to the main body.
The residual thought emerged in his mind, and he saw the scene of that battle.
Fang Ming had exhausted his reserves, burned his evil fetus, and used Netherworld demonic thoughts to activate a secret technique, forcibly stepping into the Saint Realm, his aura monstrous, extremely eerie and sinister, originally intending to suppress and kill his target with this, but ultimately he was still cut down beneath the radiance.
With a single strike, his Primordial Spirit shattered, and his evil bones fractured!
Zhong Tianyi’s heart was instantly moved.
What moved Zhong Tianyi was not that Jiang Ye had killed Fang Ming, but Jiang Ye’s methods.
The young man was covered in Saintly brilliance, with countless rays of Dao light, his entire being seemingly forged in the scorching sun, like a divine sun in the sky, blazing and dazzling.
His entire body was surrounded by a vast, bright Saint Qi, righteous and awe-inspiring, irresistible!
That wisp of light did not belong to ordinary immortal Dao power; it seemed to possess a power that inherently restrained the Origin of evil.
It was that vast, bright Qi that caused the demonic Origin within the Children of the Netherworld to boil, disperse, and disintegrate, leaving not a single trace of residue, as if completely refined by that utterly yang and rigid divine flame, turning into ashes!
“Jiang Ye is also a great variable…”
Zhong Tianyi muttered in a deep voice, his expression flickering between light and shadow, an unprecedented solemnity flashing in his eyes.
He prided himself on his Heart-Nature, as tough as iron, his patience and arrogance both under his control, hidden in the shadows for billions of years, setting up chess games, planning endlessly, all for that sliver of an Opportunity to attain the Dao.
For this, he could abandon countless chess pieces, and even a part of his own Divided Soul and will, which he had decisively discarded.
It could be said that in this Heaven and Earth, there were few people or things that could stir his heart.
But at this moment, he was uncharacteristically lost in thought.
Because he discovered from the battle with Jiang Ye that the vast, bright Saint Qi and the power of Radiant Flames on the opponent were extremely shocking.
“Isn’t Jiang Ye an Eternal Immortal Body?”
“Why would he possess such powerful Yang energy? This kind of Saint Qi is clearly the most righteous Qi that naturally restrains the Netherworld demonic Origin… Unless, he possesses another extremely ancient and extremely secret Physique within him.”
“Truly incredible…”
A rare trace of hesitation arose in his heart, a trepidation he had not felt in countless eons, making him uneasy.
Should he… act now, and eliminate Jiang Ye in advance?
Even if he had to pay a heavy price, should he forever eliminate this variable from the world?
At this moment, Zhong Tianyi stood quietly in the Void Realm, his sleeves dancing without wind, his entire being seemingly merged with Heaven and Earth, yet his face was shrouded in an unprecedented gloom and hesitation.
Unease surged in the depths of his Divine Soul, his mind churning like surging waves.
Because he had a vague but extremely dangerous premonition.
That premonition, like a biting cold wind, seeped into his bones, impossible to dispel.
It was like whispers crawling out of the Netherworld abyss, murmuring incessantly in his ears.
He knew this was not an illusion, but his sixth sense, honed by billions of years of cultivation and traversing time and space.
That bright, sun-like Saint Qi and the vast, majestic power caused an unprecedented wariness to rise in the depths of his heart.
Because he felt that even if all his schemes eventually succeeded, he would ultimately, one day… face the Jiang Clan, face Jiang Ye!
And the vast, bright Saint Qi on Jiang Ye was like a sharp blade forged from the righteous Qi of the Heavenly Dao, naturally an absolute counter to the Dao of the Netherworld.
That kind of power made him feel as if he had thorns in his back, his Divine Soul trembling uncontrollably.
As if he had met his natural nemesis.
“No!”
Just as the thought was about to solidify into killing intent, Zhong Tianyi suddenly whispered, a flash of aurora in his eyes, his expression shifting from confusion to cold clarity.
“No, how could I be so unwise?”