**Thick-skinned!**
Hearing the elder’s words, Ye Xuan’s brows instantly furrowed.
What nonsense was this?
Who was out there ruining his reputation?
The elder suddenly turned to the Sin King and gave a cold laugh. “Sin King, I never imagined you would actually submit to this Backer King. You have truly brought shame upon our True World!”
The Sin King remained silent.
He knew the True World was still underestimating the Backer King.
They were beyond saving.
If the True World had ever taken Ye Xuan seriously and sent their absolute top-tier powerhouses from the start without giving him any breathing room, although they might not have been able to kill Ye Xuan, they could at least have prevented him from achieving godhood.
Yet from beginning to end, these people had never once taken the Backer King seriously.
Just as the elder was about to say more, the Sin King waved his hand. “I do not speak with idiots.”
With that, he entered the small tower directly.
The elder’s gaze gradually turned icy.
This fellow dared ignore him!
Ye Xuan looked at the elder and smiled. “You didn’t come all this way just to chat, did you?”
The elder collected himself and turned to Ye Xuan. “Backer King, I hear you obtained the treasure of this universe’s Spirit of the Universe.”
At those words, Ye Xuan’s eyes narrowed at once. “How do you people know about that?”
The elder laughed. “Guess!”
Ye Xuan suddenly vanished from where he stood.
The elder’s pupils contracted sharply. Just as he was about to act, a sword slashed straight across his throat.
Chi!
The elder’s head flew off. His soul was instantly pinned in place by the Qingxuan Sword.
The elder stared at Ye Xuan in horror. “You…”
Ye Xuan said calmly, “Do I still need to guess?”
The elder glared at Ye Xuan. “It was the Spirit of the Universe who sent us the message!”
The Spirit of the Universe!
A cold glint flashed through Ye Xuan’s eyes. This fellow really had ill intentions.
The elder said gravely, “Backer King, I hear you possess hundreds of millions of spiritual yuan. Is that true?”
Ye Xuan suddenly turned and thrust his sword, not towards the elder but straight into the sky. The Qingxuan Sword shot upwards.
Boom!
The heavens themselves were torn apart.
Ye Xuan stared at the distant horizon. “Not coming out?”
Then he suddenly called, “Qing…”
Before the name fully left his mouth, a man appeared on that horizon.
It was none other than the Spirit of the Universe.
The Spirit’s expression was extremely ugly.
Ye Xuan fixed his gaze on the Spirit. “I have hundreds of millions of spiritual yuan?”
The Spirit remained silent.
Ye Xuan said calmly, “If I cannot achieve godhood, I will drag both you and the Master of the Avenue Brush down with me.”
The Spirit’s brows knitted together. “Backer King, what do you mean by this?”
Ye Xuan stared at it. “You want to play tricks? Fine, I’ll play along.”
The Spirit said gravely, “Backer King, you must be reasonable. Don’t just give up and rot, understood?”
Actually, a Backer King who still had the will to strive was not frightening. What was frightening was a Backer King who had lost all will to fight and simply wanted to rot.
Ye Xuan said calmly, “How will you compensate me?”
The Spirit’s face instantly darkened.
Damn it!
This bastard wanted to extort it!
The Spirit sighed softly. “Everything I owned has already been robbed… borrowed by you. I have nothing left now!”
Ye Xuan replied, “I don’t believe you.”
The Spirit fell silent.
At that moment, the elder from the True World spoke in confusion. “You are a grand Spirit of the Universe. Why do you grovel before him? You are losing all dignity!”
The Spirit waved its sleeve.
Boom!
In an instant, a terrifying power enveloped the elder. His soul was immediately incinerated to ashes.
He was truly dead.
Seeing this, Ye Xuan was stunned. The Spirit of the Universe could actually kill a powerhouse from the True World, and so effortlessly at that.
The Spirit turned to Ye Xuan. “I really have nothing left.”
Ye Xuan said, “Then help me fight.”
The Spirit immediately shook its head. “I cannot participate in battles of this kind.”
Ye Xuan was puzzled. “Why not?”
The Spirit said gravely, “The Cosmic Covenant.”
Ye Xuan grew curious. “The Cosmic Covenant?”
The Spirit nodded. “A covenant signed by all Spirits of the Universe. The rule is that we Spirits may not personally take part in the battles below. For example, if divine spirits from outside come to attack this universe, I cannot join the fight myself. Of course, if you were to counter-invade their universe, their Spirit would also be forbidden from intervening.”
Ye Xuan asked softly, “What if their Spirit does intervene?”
The Spirit replied, “Then it would be targeted by every other Spirit of the Universe united.”
Ye Xuan asked, “Among all the Spirits of the Universe, where do you rank in strength?”
The Spirit fell silent.
Ye Xuan blinked. “Pretty low?”
The Spirit shook its head. “I’m still decent.”
Ye Xuan’s expression turned strange.
This fellow probably wasn’t doing too well.
The Spirit suddenly said, “Backer King, why not go out and explore the wider cosmos?”
Ye Xuan’s brows furrowed slightly. “Go out?”
The Spirit nodded. “Exactly.”
Ye Xuan said, “After I successfully achieve godhood, I will go out and explore.”
The Spirit fell silent.
Achieve godhood?
Achieve what?
Your entire family is already invincible. Do you still need to achieve godhood?
Ye Xuan suddenly asked, “Can you do me a small favour?”
The Spirit glanced at him and said nothing.
Ye Xuan smiled. “It’s not difficult. Just let me go to the True World.”
The Spirit immediately shook its head. “Impossible.”
Ye Xuan frowned. The Spirit said gravely, “It’s not that I’m unwilling, I genuinely cannot do it.”
Ye Xuan was puzzled. “Even someone as powerful as you can’t manage it?”
The Spirit sighed softly. “This involves the Great Dao of the universe. The dimensional level of our universe is far lower than theirs. It’s outright dimensional suppression. Unless your personal strength is heaven-defying enough to reverse dimensions, there is no way you can reach their world.”
Ye Xuan instantly grew curious. “Reverse dimensions?”
The Spirit nodded. “Yes. However, among all the people and spirits I know, perhaps only five can do it.”
Ye Xuan’s eyes narrowed slightly. “Five? Apart from my little sister, my eldest brother, and my father, who else?”
Hearing this, the Spirit immediately felt a headache coming on.
Damn it!
This was simply ridiculous!
The Spirit collected itself and said, “There is also the Master of the Avenue Brush.”
Ye Xuan gave a slight nod, not particularly surprised.
The Spirit said gravely, “And there is one more who is not from our universe. However, she once visited our universe, so I know of her.”
Ye Xuan looked at the Spirit. “Not from our universe?”
The Spirit nodded. “She came from another universe. She said she detected an extremely powerful aura in this cosmos and came to take a look. Unfortunately, by the time she arrived, your sister and the others had already left.”
Ye Xuan grew curious. “How strong is she?”
The Spirit said calmly, “I don’t know exactly how strong. I never fought her. All I know is that she cultivates a very special path called the Dao of No-Self. Every once in a while, she forgets herself and everything else, then restarts her martial path from scratch.”
Ye Xuan shook his head. “Living like that sounds meaningless.”
The Spirit nodded. “I told her the same thing. Her reply was that after searching the entire cosmos, she had never found anyone worth remembering, so she chose to forget. If I met her now, she probably wouldn’t recognise me either.”
It smiled. “A very distinctive person.”
Ye Xuan suddenly said, “Senior, actually, we have no conflict of interest.”
The Spirit looked at Ye Xuan. “Are you trying to swindle me?”
Ye Xuan said seriously, “Since other universes can cultivate powerhouses to plunder us, why can’t we plunder them? You could cultivate powerhouses from this universe too!”
The Spirit shook its head. “It’s not that I never thought of it. I even tried. Do you know about the first civilisation of this universe? I created it myself. I nurtured them, helped them grow stronger. Yet in the end, they banded together to attack me.”
Ye Xuan was stunned.
He really hadn’t expected that.
The Spirit continued, “Of course, I wasn’t particularly angry. I just felt a bit emotional. In the end, the ultimate goal of every living being in this universe is just two words: profit. I raised them, helped them become stronger, yet they saw me as the obstacle on their path to the Great Dao. They believed that if they killed me, they could become even stronger and truly rule the entire universe. They never once considered that without me, they would still be nothing but beasts.”
Ye Xuan fell silent.
The Spirit looked at him. “After observing this universe for hundreds of billions of years, I discovered one thing. The hardest thing to fathom in this world is the human heart, and the most changeable thing is also the human heart. Today someone may be a good person, but the moment profit conflicts with you, they instantly become a bad person.”
It smiled faintly. “In the end, it all boils down to one saying: if a man does not think for himself, heaven and earth will destroy him. We spirits are the same. Why should I not think for myself? The world calls me cruel, but if I were not cruel, when they finally kill me, who would pity me then?”
Ye Xuan remained silent, unable to refute.
That was indeed the truth.
Everything he did was for this universe, but also for himself. In this world, who could be completely free of selfishness?
The Spirit continued, “Of course, that is not the main reason I gave up. The real reason is that our universe’s dimensional level is innately inferior to the True World. We can only ever defend; we can never attack. That is our natural disadvantage. So in the end, I abandoned the approach taken by the Spirits of the True World universes.”
Ye Xuan said earnestly, “You can cultivate me. My character is reliable. In the future, I’ll lead people from here to conquer the True World. Really!”
The Spirit thought for a moment, then asked, “Your character is reliable?”
Ye Xuan nodded. “Yes!”
The Spirit said indifferently, “Do you even have character?”
Ye Xuan’s face instantly darkened.
The Spirit shook its head. “Once you successfully achieve godhood, you will no longer remain in this universe.”
Ye Xuan was puzzled. “Why not?”
The Spirit said gravely, “At that point, you will have become a ‘person’.”
Ye Xuan said in a low voice, “A person without humanity?”
The Spirit replied calmly, “You don’t have any now either.”
Ye Xuan, “…”
At that moment, the distant passage suddenly trembled violently. In the next instant, a black-robed divine spirit stepped out.
Ye Xuan looked at the black-robed divine spirit. The spirit took a deep breath and said, “As expected of a low-tier world. The spiritual energy here is truly pathetic.”
Then he looked towards the distant Spirit of the Universe. “You must be the Backer King?”
The Spirit of the Universe, “…”
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