"Not so good." Astro Sovereign answered.
As the black blue light faded away, the Restful Immortal Valley showed itself again in front of everyone.
Due to the sharp frost before, all the living creatures in the forested valley were withered as if the place had just entered in winter in a second.
A man was walking out from the valley.
Then all the creatures started to be alive again as he walked.
The place he had stepped on became lush and green again with flowers blooming.
Yan Zhaoge looked at the man. That was a middle-aged man around forty.
He had an unremarkable medium build while his face looked featureless and unimpressive.
To put it bluntly, this kind of appearance could make him invincible in the crowd right away.
Even if people stared at his face for a long time, they would probably forget what he looked like the moment they turned around.
Nonetheless, this man who looked ordinary was the master of the Restful Immortal Valley.
He was Yang Ce, the Concealed Sovereign, the Exalted Concealed Luminary who had created the World beyond Worlds with the other people of the new Nine Luminaries of Kunlun such as Chen Xuanzong, Yan Xingtnag, Shao Junhuang.
Now, he was the most important and powerful person in the World beyond Worlds.
"Since you have already waited for thousands of years, what's the rush now?" Concealed Sovereign smiled with kindness and talked calmly as if nothing had happened.
Astro Sovereign looked at the man in front of him like it was the first day he ever met Concealed Sovereign.
A moment later, Astro Sovereign said slowly, "I have never wanted to wait for thousands of years. I cannot wait even for a moment, let alone thousands of years!"
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1195: The Shadow In The World Beyond Worlds
Having looked into Astro Sovereign's eyes for a while, Concealed Sovereign gave a faint smile.
"Fellow daoist Chen, I think you already knew the answer, right?" Concealed Sovereign said that while nodding, "You have guessed right. I'm the one who have told your little disciple about what had happened to her father, our fellow daoist Chu, Chu Heng."
Astro Sovereign remained silent while staring at Concealed Sovereign for a long while.
Yan Zhaoge who was listening to them by the side thought, 'Little disciple... father... fellow daoist Chu... that must be Chu Lili's father.'
He only had a scanty knowledge of what had happened at that time and could only had some limited view from Astro Sovereign and Female Emperor's conversation.
Now after hearing what Concealed Sovereign and Astro Sovereign had said, Yan Zhaoge finally could put all the pieces together even if the information he got was still limited.
"This must be the descendant of fellow daoist Yan. And your name is Yan Zhaoge, am I right?" Meanwhile, Concealed Sovereign said that with his eyes resting upon Yan Zhaoge.
"Your Majesty, it is my honor to meet you."
Yan Zhaoge gave his obeisance to Concealed Sovereign, being neither cringing or arrogant.
"I have wanted to see your father and you for a long time. But I never had the time. Today I can finally have my wish fulfilled."
Yan Zhaoge shook his head while replying, "Little did I know that I would meet you under the circ.u.mstance like this, your majesty." As he glanced at the two sovereigns, he added, "And I never expected that according to the conversation you two have had, you are the reason why Astro Sovereign was frozen in the ice for thousands of years..."
That action of Concealed Sovereign had caused the loss of an expert in the profound realm to the World beyond Worlds.
As for the new daoism world which had just revived after the Great Calamity, that was undoubtedly a great loss too.
Had it not been for Sword Sovereign who had filled the vacancy in time, the three sovereigns and five emperors' structure wouldn't be maintained in the World beyond Worlds anymore.
Although Concealed Sovereign seldom declared where he stood, he always went along with Earthly Sovereign's idea which was focusing on the stable development in order to bring the Three Clear lineage back to life.
However, the thing with Chu Lili that Concealed Sovereign had done seemed to be inconsistent with his original policy.
"Being frozen in the ice for thousands of years doesn't mean you are going to be locked forever or become a demon." Concealed Sovereign said that indifferently, "Once the situation is critical, I can help you out at anytime."
Astro Sovereign said coldly, "So, I guess Mingkong has learned that ritual from you."
In the old days, Astro Sovereign and Concealed Sovereign were the only two people who were in charge of the research of suppressing the demon.
Although Female Emperor was the disciple of Astro Sovereign, she had never dabbled in this area too much.
Nonetheless, the ritual she had employed before was quite powerful. Even Astro Sovereign could do nothing about it because his attention had been distracted by all the demons.
And if Astro Sovereign hadn't asked Yan Zhaoge to stay secretly and lend a hand, the result would be Chu Lili who had been in the Roving Jade Heavens undertaking the demon rune all by herself.
"Fellow Daoist Chen, I feel that things didn't go exactly as I thought seeing the look on your face." Concealed Sovereign put on a thoughtful look and asked, "So my little fellow Chu didn't become a demon even though she has undertaken the demon rune by herself?"
"That's very unlikely, she did have pushed open the door to Immortality, but she's not powerful enough to stop Gui Shui Demon's rebirth alone."
"But if she has already turned into a demon and escaped from the Roving Jade Heavens without being killed by the experts there, you wouldn't be so relaxed right now." As Concealed Sovereign talked, he noticed the scar on Astro Sovereign's forehead, "The scar..."
Astro Sovereign said in a cold voice, "What's done is done. Your original plot failed." Then he asked,
"However, I still have some doubts. I know we are not close friends. But I still consider you my fellow. Also, we had nothing against each other at that time. Why did you set me up?"
"Did you want me to kill Lili because you want to prevent Gui Shui Demon from being reborn for good?"
Concealed Sovereign smiled and said, "If I only wished to kill little fellow Chu, I could simply do it myself. It's not like I didn't have the chance."
"I can see that you want to protect Chu Heng's daughter. Therefore, we have a.s.sumed that you would definitely sacrifice yourself for her. After all, you are a more suitable incarnation for Gui Shui Demon than her."
"You mean, your target has always been me, from the beginning." Astro Sovereign raised his head and stared at Concealed Sovereign calmly.
After a long while, Astro Sovereign suddenly uttered, "I was not wrong about you at that time. You did have plotted something."
There was a brief silence. Then Concealed Sovereign said smilingly, "Fellow Daoist Chen, you truly are a sensitive man. That's why I had to let you leave the World beyond Worlds for a while."
Hearing his words, Yan Zhaoge squinted his eyes all of a sudden.
Then he looked to Astro Sovereign who was talking slowly, "Fu Jinxiu from the Ingenious Flying Peak who is the descendant of Daoist Xuanzhong, I have already known about what had happened to him."
"At that time, I only had some doubts. But now I know that you have already prepared to hurt the Grand Clear lineage. So you must be responsible for Fu Jinxiu's suffering."
"Although the descendant of Daoist Xuanzhong is from the Grand Clear lineage instead of our Jade lineage, they still belong to the Three Clear lineage. Fu Jinxiu is the most excellent cultivator of his lineage. Why did you plot something against him?"
As Yan Zhaoge heard of that, he exhaled heavily.
Because the puzzle which haunted him for a long time was finally resolved.
So, Brocade Emperor really had been set up.
Yan Zhaoge h
adn't understood at the beginning why a powerful cultivator like Brocade Emperor would have made such a huge mistake in his cultivating period
When Brocade Emperor who had used to be fickle in love turned to a devoted man, he had even given birth to another daughter, Ming Wan other than Fu Ting. And that almost made him lose all his daoism cultivation.
What had been stranger was that Brocade Emperor had seemed to know nothing about this daughter before he met Meng Wan.
Not only had he gone on the wrong path, he also hadn't even realized that.
That was not something like making a mistake in his cultivating procedure.
Was it possible for a true immortal emperor who had already pushed open the door to immortality and possessed an impeccable body to give birth to a daughter without knowing it himself?
As a matter of fact, any cultivators who had reached a certain level of their cultivation were able to control if they wanted to have a baby or not, not to mention Brocade Emperor.
Unless his sperm had been collected by force. But Meng Wan's mother, Liu Xianting surely had no power to do that.
However, if Concealed Sovereign was behind all of this, then everything could be explained...
"Fu Jinxiu truly is an outstanding expert. Unluckily, he has walked on the wrong path at the beginning." Concealed Sovereign replied that calmly, "He was too eager to push open the door to immortality due to the pressure from Mars Halberd. So someone else could take advantage of him because he was anxious to achieve quick success."
"We both know that he only became an immortal by good luck. So there had to be a story behind." As Concealed Sovereign talked about that, he chuckled.
"Take advantage of him?" Astro Sovereign frowned and asked, "You mean..."
Concealed Sovereign took a look at Yan Zhaoge and said with a smile, "We don't need to hide anything in front of this little fellow Yan. He has already gone to the Immortal Court with Fu Jinxiu's eldest daughter. So he must have heard of the name of Immeasurable Heavenly Lord."
While Astro Sovereign heard of that, the expression on his face changed sightly at once.
"Don't get too anxious, your majesty, I will tell you the details afterwards." Yan Zhaoge comforted Astro Sovereign while giving him a rea.s.suring look.
Concealed Sovereign who was watching at the two people in front of him with great interest then continued, "Fellow daoist Chen, you were right. The Immortal Court has got involved secretly to help Fu Jinxiu to push open the door to immortality so early. Too bad for Fu Jinxiu that he knew nothing about that and only considered him as a supremely lucky man."
"However, after he has been through the cultivation deviation this time, he should have already reflected on every corner of his spirit. Then he must have already realized that he wasn't just being lucky at that time.
History's Strongest Senior Brother Chapter 1196: Not In The Same Camp
In comparison with Roving Jade Heavens or the people who followed the Southern Extremity Longevity Emperor, the World beyond Worlds still had a smoother relations.h.i.+p with the Immortal Court.
However, they were never aligned.
The spying or prying attempts had never been stopped between them.
What had happened to Fu Yunchi was an obvious example.
However, all of the dirty tricks were conducted on the sly.
So no one knew about these things except for the persons concerned.
"Fu Jinxiu's split personality is quite unexpected for me though..." On these words, Concealed Sovereign glanced at Yan Zhaoge with a smile.
However, Yan Zhaoge still remained a composed look with no changes of the expression on his face.
Although it had happened when Concealed Sovereign had secluded himself, it didn't mean that Concealed Sovereign had cut himself off from all the matters from the outside. Therefore, Yan Zhaoge was not surprised to hear that Concealed Sovereign knew about what had happened to Fu Jinxiu.
Let alone that most of this thing had been in the expectation of Concealed Sovereign.After all, he was the one who had plotted this.
"However, even if his soul was split into two, there is nothing to worry about." Concealed Sovereign grinned and said, "After this time, he could impede a future disaster."
"And the possibility of his two sides making any progress is not our concern too."
Concealed Sovereign looked at Yan Zhaoge and said, "I don't need to say too much about the unfeeling side. As for the feeling side, I've already had plan for it."
"After all, when I let Fu Jinxiu give birth to his second daughter, I didn't know where to find the Taiyi Fist of Grand Simplicity and the Grand Simplicity Splendour Cloud. So I didn't see any promising future for the unfeeling side. Then I have only prepared the path for his feeling side after I eliminated the hidden danger.
Hearing that, Yan Zhaoge squinted his eyes and said, "You truly are a very thoughtful person, your majesty."
"Like what fellow daoist Chen has said, although there are some differences between the Grand Clear lineage and the Jade Clear lineage, we still belong to the Three Clear lineage together. I still consider the people from the Grand lineage different from the people of the Prime lineage who are not in the same camp with us. I also don't want to lose excellent talents like Fu Jinxiu." Concealed Sovereign said that smilingly.
Yan Zhaoge chuckled ironically.
Concealed Sovereign stated that he didn't want to lose the people who were in the same camp with him.
So the other way around of his statement was that he would show no mercy to the people who were not in the same camp with him.
Now Yan Zhaoge didn't even need to guess who had contribute to Chu Lili's refuge in the Roving Jade Heavens.
Having looked Yan Zhaoge up and down for a while, Concealed Sovereign said, "To be honest, I felt more pity for you than Fu Jinxiu."
"I'm flattered by your preference." Yan Zhaoge started at Concealed Sovereign's face and responded indifferently.
Concealed Sovereign then asked in curiosity, "Fellow daoist Chen has got out of the ice but the finally result didn't go as I have expected. So are you involved in this?"
Then Yan Zhaoge replied, "I'm not capable of doing it by myself. But since I was there, I had to do the best I could."
"Fellow daoist Chen must be happy to see that little fellow Chu didn't have to undertake the demon rune by herself. However, the other disciple of him, my little fellow Jie, must be very disappointed." Concealed Sovereign laughed and said to Yan Zhaoge, "In consideration of the Broad Creed Mountain's situation in the World beyond Worlds, I think the best choice for you is to do nothing, right?"
Doing nothing was a completely different thing from stopping it or lending a hand.
Even if Yan Zhaoge had done nothing, he wouldn't offend Astro Sovereign.
No one should demand another person to be all mighty and create a miracle.
A decent person like Astro Sovereign would never demand that much from Yan Zhaoge or even vent his anger to Yan Zhaoge because of the latter's uselessness.
And If Yan Zhaoge hadn't done anything, Female Emperor's plan would succeed.
The Roving Jade Heavens might be shaken by that. And the worst result would be Profound Sovereign and Vine Sovereign coming out from their seclusion in advance.
If the two sovereign were there when Chu Lili became a demon, she would definitely be killed right away.
Also, they couldn't blame Yan Zhaoge for being unable to stop all of this.
After all, how could they ask a cultivator in the Martial Saint realm to do something even Astro Sovereign hadn't managed to do?
If Yan Zhaoge hadn't got involved at that time, no one would even know about his capability.
Even though he had already had some discussions about the demon rune with Astro Sovereign, Yan Zhaoge was still the only one who knew how much he could do in the real battle.
And to put it bluntly, Yan Zhaoge had only taken a risk at that time and not been sure of the result.
So as long as he did nothing, he wouldn't need to be responsible for anything.
The more he did, the more mistakes he might make. The less he did, the less mistakes he might make. And the only way to make zero mistakes would be do nothing.
Even if Chu Lili became a demon, Astro Sovereign who got out of the ice wouldn't blame Yan Zhaoge. And considering the relations.h.i.+p between Exalted Gold Luminary and Astro Sovereign, the latter would still help Yan Zhaoge and Broad Creed Mountain.
As for the irreparable rift between Female Emperor and Astro Sovereign had nothing to do with Yan Zhaoge.
Also, the Roving Jade Heavens wouldn't blame Yan Zhaoge either.
Everything would be perfect. And the problem of Astro Sovereign being unable to help would also be solved easily. Meanwhile, Yan Zhaoge didn't need to do a thing.
It was like the good luck just stoke him.
However, that result was not what Yan Zhaoge wanted to see.
At least he wouldn't choose to do that unless there was no other way.
"I admit that I am a man who go after benefits." Yan Zhaoge looked at Concealed Sovereign with his hands threw up, "However, I can't do things only because they seem beneficial to me."
Concealed Sovereign smiled and said, "That's right. No wonder why people always say that man's mind is unpredictable."
Astro Sovereign stared at Concealed Sovereign while shaking his head, "Fellow daoist Yang, you can't just follow my words and think you can fool us by beating around the bush."
"There were so many strange places about you at that time. Spying on the Grand Clear lineage of the Ingenious Flying Peak was just one of them, which was also the most obvious one. That's why I have detected that."
"If what you have just told is true and Fu Jinxiu did have a problem in himself, you didn't have to use such an extreme way to stop me from saying anything even though what you have done was up to discussion."
Astro Sovereign's eyes gradually turned sharp, "I don't believe you would put my two disciples and me into danger only because of the reason you have said."
"It wasn't that dangerous like you said. I always have confidence in your ability, fellow daoist Chen." Concealed Sovereign said with a smile, "As for now, although things had happened beyond my expectation, you three are still not in danger, aren't you?"
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