Ye Xuan stared at the Sin King without speaking.
The Sin King gave an awkward laugh. He definitely could not answer that question.
This Young Master Ye was full of cunning. It was better to speak cautiously.
Ye Xuan shook his head with a smile. “No need to worry. Just tell the truth.”
The Sin King hesitated for a moment, then said, “Actually, Young Master Ye, your strength would be considered very strong even in our world. Unfortunately, your sword still cannot break the rules. You cannot even break the rules of this Xuzhen World. Therefore, if you fought the true powerhouses of our world, you would be at a great disadvantage.”
Ye Xuan narrowed his eyes slightly. “The rules of the Xuzhen World?”
The Sin King nodded. “Your world, this Xuzhen World, also has rules. They are the Xuzhen Laws. These Xuzhen Laws actually suppress us as well. You might not know this, but when we come here, we are suppressed by the Xuzhen Laws and our strength is reduced by several tenths.”
Ye Xuan fell silent.
He genuinely had not realised that.
The Sin King continued, “We have tried to break these Xuzhen Laws before, but none of us succeeded. The source of the Xuzhen Laws is this universe itself. Breaking the Xuzhen Laws would be equivalent to injuring the very origin of this universe. Of course, we are not afraid of harming the universe’s origin. The main issue is that the Xuzhen Laws are extremely powerful. We do not wish to provoke them.”
Xuzhen Laws.
Ye Xuan frowned. As if something had just occurred to him, he suddenly looked at the Qingxuan Sword in his hand. The more he looked, the more he laughed, a self-mocking laugh.
He had encountered the Xuzhen Laws before, but at that time the Xuzhen Laws had been terribly cowardly.
That was why he had never taken them seriously until now.
Only at this moment did he understand that what the Xuzhen Laws truly feared was not him, Ye Xuan, but this Qingxuan Sword. Or, to be precise, the person behind the Qingxuan Sword, Qing’er.
She was the one the Xuzhen Laws genuinely feared.
At that moment, Qin Guan suddenly walked over to Ye Xuan’s side. She took the Qingxuan Sword, then said softly, “Little Xuanzi, I don’t think you should think like this.”
Ye Xuan looked at Qin Guan. She smiled. “It is true that this sword was forged by Tianming and possesses special abilities, and it is also true that you have been using it for so long. Now that you have discovered the key issue, what you should do is adjust your mindset instead of denying yourself. As I said before, do not worry about any status or identity. Just be yourself.”
Ye Xuan remained silent.
Qin Guan smiled. “I understand the pressure you feel. When I think of your little sister, I too feel despair. I believe that even someone as heaven-defying as the owner of the Great Dao Brush would feel helpless and despairing in front of your sister. So what you need now is to get your mindset right.”
Ye Xuan nodded. “I naturally understand that principle. I just regret realising it too late.”
As he spoke, he looked at the Qingxuan Sword before him and smiled. “Actually, it is not too late.”
The Qingxuan Sword suddenly trembled slightly, then turned into a streak of sword light and flew into his hand.
Buzzz!
A sword hum suddenly resounded throughout the entire Xuzhen battlefield.
Qin Guan gave a faint smile and said nothing.
The Sin King suddenly spoke. “Young Master Ye, that God Lord of ours will arrive here in ten days. His strength is very great.”
Ye Xuan nodded. “Enter the pagoda first.”
With that, he brought the Sin King and Qin Guan into the small pagoda.
Once inside, the Sin King was completely stunned.
After a moment, he looked at Ye Xuan and said in a trembling voice, “Young Master Ye, you cultivate here?”
Ye Xuan nodded.
The Sin King fell silent.
Bloody hell.
No wonder this fellow’s strength had increased so terrifyingly.
This was just absurd.
Inhuman.
Ye Xuan suddenly looked at Qin Guan. “Little Guan, how is the battle armour coming along?”
Qin Guan snapped her fingers.
At that moment, Little Ai appeared before Qin Guan and Ye Xuan. She gave a slight curtsy, then said, “Young Master Ye, regarding the Doomsday God Generals, we have already built sixty of them. In another ten years at most, they will all be completed.”
Ye Xuan asked, “And the battle armour?”
Little Ai said gravely, “That might take a little longer.”
Ye Xuan said in a deep voice, “Roughly how long?”
Little Ai thought for a moment, then answered, “To forge several hundred thousand sets of battle armour, it will take roughly three hundred years.”
Three hundred years.
Ye Xuan said softly, “In other words, about one month.”
Little Ai nodded. “Yes.”
Ye Xuan nodded. “That is enough.”
He then looked at Qin Guan. “I think we cannot just sit here and wait for them to attack.”
Qin Guan stared at Ye Xuan. “You want to enter their world?”
Ye Xuan nodded.
At the side, the Sin King immediately shook his head. “Young Master Ye, forgive my frankness, but you simply cannot enter our world. We enter your world with our consciousness. For you to counter-invade our world would mean breaking two sets of rules: the rules of the Xuzhen World and the rules of our True World. As things stand, that is utterly impossible for you.”
Ye Xuan smiled. “I rather think anything is possible.”
The Sin King frowned. At that moment, Qin Guan suddenly said, “Actually, Sin King, you have misunderstood Little Xuanzi’s meaning. He wants me to research a method similar to yours, invading other worlds with consciousness.”
After a brief silence, the Sin King said, “If it is possible, I would not recommend you do this.”
Qin Guan looked at him. “Why not?”
The Sin King shook his head. “Once everyone begins to achieve eternal life, new problems will follow one after another. The way we dealt with those problems back then was to continuously invade other universes, thereby diluting the internal contradictions that arose. Your world currently does not have the ability to invade other universes. If you gained that ability now, the result would be the collapse of internal order in your world, especially regarding resources. Once everyone becomes immortal, your resources would be completely exhausted in less than ten thousand years. At that point, you would essentially be digging your own graves.”
Qin Guan frowned. After pondering for a moment, she nodded slightly. “I had not considered that.”
Yet Ye Xuan said, “Still, research it.”
Both of them looked at Ye Xuan. He smiled. “Once we have researched it, we can choose not to use it, but we cannot be without it. Because in the distant future, our universe will definitely face the same situation as the Sin King’s world. At that time, this method might be a way out. Of course, if there is another path we can take, this method can be sealed away forever and never used.”
The Sin King nodded slightly. “That does work.”
Qin Guan also nodded. “Indeed. Then I will start planning.”
With that, she turned and left.
After Qin Guan departed, Ye Xuan looked at the Sin King and smiled. “Sin King, you can stay here and cultivate.”
The Sin King nodded. “Good.”
Ye Xuan suddenly asked, “Is your true body safe?”
The Sin King smiled. “Safe. I hid it very well. They cannot find my true body.”
Ye Xuan gave a slight nod. “That is good.”
With that, he turned and walked away.
In the original spot, the Sin King looked around and said softly, “This place is no ordinary special. The benefits of following the Backer King are not bad.”
…
On the other side, Ye Xuan arrived before a special stretch of space-time. This space-time was the one Qing’er had left behind long ago, the only space-time she had left inside the small pagoda.
He had not come to study it before because his strength had been insufficient. Now, he wanted to take a look.
Ye Xuan stepped directly into that stretch of space-time. He slowly closed his eyes. Suddenly, as if he had discovered something, his pupils contracted sharply, his face filled with shock…
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