In the spacetime tunnel at this moment, the faces of all the Guanxuan Academy powerhouses behind Ye Guan were extremely grave.
This battle had truly been devastating for the Guanxuan Academy side!
Of the ancient Guanxuan Guards that Li Ban Zhi had summoned, only five remained.
Of the hundreds of Sword Sect sword cultivators, only a little over two hundred were left.
In this battle, the Sword Sect had lost more than a hundred sword cultivators!
The rest of the Guanxuan Academy powerhouses had suffered countless deaths.
It was tragic!
In this battle, the Guanxuan Academy had been caught completely off guard.
Ye Guan slowly swept his gaze across everyone in the field. He remained silent.
These people were neither relatives nor friends to him, yet they had all risked their lives to protect him, Ye Guan!
Why?
Because he was the son of the Human Sword Lord!
This identity was not merely an honour. It was also a responsibility.
To guard the entire Guanxuan Universe?
He had to admit, Ye Guan felt immense pressure. After all, before today, he had still been just an ordinary sword cultivator.
Now, he had suddenly become the son of the Human Sword Lord. He had not yet adjusted to this identity, especially when he saw the people from the academy desperately fighting for his sake. The feeling was indescribable.
Li Ban Zhi suddenly walked to Ye Guan’s side. She spoke softly, “Do not overthink it!”
She had also followed along. She was no good at fighting, so staying behind would have been useless.
Ye Guan took a deep breath, then turned to look at Li Ban Zhi. “Aunt Zhi, if I am not mistaken, we probably will not have any reinforcements. The moment the True World learned my identity, their gods would surely spare no cost to pin down Aro the Great Sword Emperor and the others in the True Void World!”
Li Ban Zhi fell silent.
She had thought of this possibility too!
Ye Guan continued, “Our current destination is the Zhou Realm. Aunt Zhi, I do not know much about the Zhou Realm. I want to ask: if we reach the Zhou Realm, can we truly withstand those gods?”
After a moment of silence, Li Ban Zhi replied, “I cannot be certain. But right now, the Zhou Realm is our only option.”
Our only option!
Ye Guan suddenly asked, “Aunt Zhi, earlier I heard you say that Martial God Guards from the Zhou Realm are coming to reinforce us?”
Li Ban Zhi nodded. “At most a quarter of an hour. They will meet up with us!”
Ye Guan gave a slight nod and fell into thought.
Li Ban Zhi looked at Ye Guan. “Do you have an idea?”
Ye Guan thought for a moment, then said, “They were able to turn people from the True Void World. Could they not also turn people from the Immortal Treasure Pavilion?”
Li Ban Zhi’s pupils contracted sharply.
Ye Guan said calmly, “We can go to the Zhou Realm, but it would be best not to meet up with this batch of Martial God Guards. Better safe than sorry. When we entered the spacetime tunnel to head to the Zhou Realm, Taihe Divine Emperor and the others did not desperately try to stop us. That is not normal.”
Li Ban Zhi immediately said, “Dark Hidden Academy Head, open a new spacetime tunnel!”
Dark Hidden immediately replied, “Understood!”
With that, he took people and disappeared into the distance. Soon after, Dark Hidden and the others forcibly opened a new spacetime tunnel. Thus, the group changed course.
Li Ban Zhi turned to look at Ye Guan. There was a trace of admiration in her eyes.
This little fellow had such meticulous thinking.
Ye Guan suddenly said, “Dark Hidden Academy Head!”
Dark Hidden immediately responded, “Subordinate is here!”
Ye Guan looked at Dark Hidden. “Do you have people in the Zhou Realm?”
Dark Hidden nodded. “Yes!”
Ye Guan asked, “Can you contact them?”
Dark Hidden gave a slight nod. “I can.”
Ye Guan said gravely, “In the Zhou Realm, who is the most reliable? The kind that is ninety percent reliable.”
Dark Hidden replied, “Martial Pavilion’s Martial Elder. He is someone personally brought up by Pavilion Master Qin. He would absolutely never betray Pavilion Master Qin or the young master. Right now, he is the one managing the Martial God Guards.”
After thinking for a moment, Ye Guan said, “The Martial God Guards who are about to meet up with us will arrive soon. Have your people go meet this batch of Martial God Guards. If the leader is not this Martial Elder, then we have no need to go to the Zhou Realm anymore.”
Dark Hidden was stunned.
Soon, his expression turned extremely ugly.
The Zhou Realm had not been sealed off by the True World. That meant this Martial Elder must already know that Ye Guan was Pavilion Master Qin’s son. In such a situation, Martial Elder would definitely come personally to provide support.
If he did not come personally, there was only one explanation: something had gone wrong in the Zhou Realm.
And if something had gone wrong in the Zhou Realm, then going there would truly be walking straight into a trap.
Dark Hidden gave a deep bow, then turned and withdrew.
Ye Guan turned to look at the people behind him. His expression was complicated.
He did not want to overthink things, but right now he had so many people following him. He had no choice but to think more and be more cautious. One careless mistake could cost many, many lives.
These people should not have been dragged into a battle of this level!
Ye Guan suddenly looked at Li Ban Zhi and asked again, “Aunt Zhi, who is currently in charge of the Immortal Treasure Pavilion?”
Li Ban Zhi replied, “Miss Ying Qing!”
Ye Guan said softly, “She should already know what is happening here.”
Li Ban Zhi gave a slight nod. “It is impossible for her not to know. If I am not mistaken, she should be thinking of ways to rush here right now.”
Ye Guan gave a slight nod, then turned to look at everyone behind him. “Everyone, please focus on healing your injuries first!”
The group nodded.
Although they had all survived the previous battle, nearly everyone was heavily injured.
Especially the Sword Sect side. Many sword cultivators had charged at the very front and suffered the heaviest losses.
Ye Guan looked towards the Literary Academy nearby. Leading them were the Literary Academy Head Shu Xian and Ye Guanzhi.
When they saw Ye Guan looking over, Ye Guanzhi gave a slight smile.
Ye Guan nodded in return, then turned to look at the other side, where the Divine Dao Academy was led by Nan Ling Yi Yi.
In the previous battle, the divine technique masters of the Divine Dao Academy had played a huge role. Without their efforts to hold back those gods, the losses on the Guanxuan Academy side would surely have been even greater.
When she saw Ye Guan looking over, Nan Ling Yi Yi was first stunned, then waved at him.
Young master?
In her heart, Ye Guan would forever be her junior brother!
Ye Guan gave a slight smile, then turned to look at another side. At the edge of the group stood a woman.
Silver hair, snow-white robes.
It was Ji Xuan.
Ji Xuan belonged to the Nether Palace, and the entire Nether Palace had only her as a disciple. Thus, standing there by herself, she looked very lonely.
When she saw Ye Guan looking over, Ji Xuan immediately turned her gaze away. She said nothing.
Ye Guan was silent for a moment, then withdrew his gaze.
Ji Xuan glanced at Ye Guan, who had looked away. Her expression darkened, and she lowered her head slightly.
Her heart was also very complicated!
Now, Ye Guan had suddenly risen to become the young master of Guanxuan Academy.
The young master of the academy!
Ji Xuan gave a slight smile. This was clearly an extremely good thing.
The better he became, the happier she felt.
Ye Guan suddenly looked towards the Time-Space Cave Heaven nearby. By now, more than half of the Time-Space Cave Heaven’s powerhouses had been lost.
Not only the Time-Space Cave Heaven—even more than half of the Spirit Void Divine Land’s powerhouses had been lost.
At the very beginning, these two clans had fought the most desperately to help him block the divine generals.
Ye Guan walked over to Nan Li Yin and Zhang Yuntian. Just as the two were about to bow, Ye Guan quickly stopped them.
Ye Guan said softly, “Two seniors, I am sorry.”
Zhang Yuntian hurriedly said, “Young master, please do not say such things…”
As he spoke, he also gave a helpless smile. “I truly never expected that you would be the son of the Human Sword Lord, our young master!”
As he said, he really had not expected it. Only now did he truly understand why his ancestor had told him to assist Ye Guan with all his strength back then.
It turned out his ancestor had already known Ye Guan’s identity long ago!
Not only Zhang Yuntian—Nan Li Yin had not expected it either. What she found even more unbelievable was that the boast she had made turned out to be true.
Thinking back now, even she found it laughable.
Like Zhang Yuntian, only at this moment did she finally understand why her ancestor Nan Li Meng had told her to help Ye Guan at all costs.
The elders of the Time-Space Cave Heaven were now extremely excited. They were not surprised. They were only excited, because they had known Ye Guan’s identity from the very beginning.
And even more excited than the Time-Space Cave Heaven and Spirit Void Divine Land were the Heavenly Dragon Clan.
At this moment, the Heavenly Dragon Clan leader Ao Sheng and the group of Heavenly Dragon Clan elders were truly overjoyed beyond words.
Young master!
Unlike the Spirit Void Divine Land and Time-Space Cave Heaven, the Heavenly Dragon Clan’s young clan leader Ao Qianqian had signed an equal contract with Ye Guan.
The two of them had already merged!
This relationship was no small matter!
In short, the Heavenly Dragon Clan had truly bet on the right side this time.
At this moment, all the Heavenly Dragon Clan powerhouses could not help but sigh inwardly: Qianqian’s vision was truly excellent!
If the Heavenly Dragon Clan had chosen Lu Tian instead, the Heavenly Dragon Clan would really have been finished.
Ye Guan raised his head to look at the far end of the spacetime tunnel. A trace of worry appeared in his eyes.
Because from what he could see now, the overall strength of the Guanxuan Universe was clearly inferior to that of the True World.
Moreover, there were huge problems within the academy!
For the True World to have silently struck all the way to the main campus of Guanxuan Academy was far too abnormal.
Just then, Dark Hidden suddenly appeared before Ye Guan. He looked at Ye Guan and said, “Our people have met up with the people from the Martial Pavilion.”
Ye Guan immediately asked, “How is it?”
Dark Hidden said gravely, “The one who came is not Martial Elder. Moreover, our people have also noticed something wrong with them!”
Hearing this, Ye Guan’s face immediately darkened.
Li Ban Zhi, who stood nearby, also furrowed her brows.
Even the Immortal Treasure Pavilion had problems internally?
This was simply terrifying!
Dark Hidden said gravely, “Young master, what should we do now?”
To be honest, even he was starting to panic.
If even the Zhou Realm had problems, that meant the Immortal Treasure Pavilion was currently unsafe as well.
In the field, Ye Guan fell into deep thought. Just then, the distant spacetime tunnel suddenly shattered. In the next moment, a terrifying force erupted violently.
Dark Hidden’s face changed dramatically. He stepped forward, swept his sleeve, and in an instant, the surrounding spacetime completely shattered. Then, the entire group appeared in a stretch of starry sky.
Not far in front of them stood more than a hundred people.
Leading them was a middle-aged man!
When he saw these people, Dark Hidden’s face immediately darkened. “Young master, they are the Martial God Guards who came to meet us.”
Martial God Guards!
Ye Guan looked at the leading middle-aged man and fell silent.
Sure enough, they had betrayed.
Ye Guan frowned deeply. Was the Immortal Treasure Pavilion really this incompetent?
The middle-aged man stared at Ye Guan. “Hold them back!”
No unnecessary words!
Behind the middle-aged man, the group of Martial God Guards was about to act.
“Who dares touch the young pavilion master!”
Just then, from deep within the starry sky, a furious roar suddenly rang out. The entire star river trembled because of it.
Everyone turned to look. At the end of the starry sky, a massive starship millions of zhang wide tore through spacetime and flew out directly.
Leading it was an old man.
Martial Elder!
Behind this starship were dozens of thousands of enormous starships!
Crack!
Suddenly, the surrounding spacetime shattered. Then, countless terrifying auras surged out. Next, hundreds of thousands of powerhouses clad in purple armour stepped out together. In an instant, the entire star river began to tremble violently.
“We pay respects to the young master!”
In the field, the hundreds of thousands of powerhouses who had emerged suddenly knelt on one knee together. “We have arrived late to protect you. Please forgive us, young pavilion master. We kowtow to you!”
With that, everyone bowed deeply together!
