Chapter 860: Chapter 31: Strategizing
"In my lifetime, there are few people I truly care about. My parents in this life, the Holy Daughter Ning’er, the Divine Maiden Qingyan, and my daughter Yanyan, along with Sisi and my friends— for any one of them, I would fight to the death.
Since I know that my worthless life is wanted by someone, there must be danger that won’t let me die completely, and this is my greatest trump card.
Even if I make a mistake in judgment—that doesn’t matter. If I can’t save my beloved ones from torment, then I shall die in battle.
Once I die, their hopes will be shattered, and they will die too.
For everyone to die together is also a kind of happiness."
"Death, actually for them, is also a kind of happiness, a happiness of family reunion, isn’t it?"
"You... you’re crazy."
Xuanyuan Ancestor’s soul body was trembling, utterly shocked by Zhou Yan’s words.
"No, Wan’er said, wherever you are is Heaven. In other words, where you are not, is Hell. In Hell, one persists on living because they know those they care about are waiting for them."
"But if those waiting for her are already dead, she can also escape this kind of torment immediately, isn’t that happiness? Rather than letting the loved ones live through years of despairing hope and endless agony every day, it’s better to directly free them. If I’m not dead, they might hold onto the thought of happiness and persevere even through pain, but if I’m no longer here..."
"Regardless of the accuracy of judgment, since returning from the Earth Ancestral Land, I comprehended part of the Supreme Dao of immortality and understood that the present is also eternal."
"So, it’s not that I’m mad, Zhou Yan. It’s when it’s time to fight, you must fight! I’ve truly grown, truly understood that if you don’t vie for certain things, you’ll never make progress."
"At the very least, Zhou Zheng and Qing Wan, who originally were destined for a miserable fate, have now found their own happiness, haven’t they?"
Zhou Yan also said a lot, but this tone made Xuanyuan Ancestor’s heart tremble.
Xuanyuan Ancestor suddenly felt a surge of fear, as if seeing the prototype of ’him’ in the Great Domain.
"If Zhou Yan doesn’t fall this time... perhaps a remarkable new star will rise."
Xuanyuan Ancestor has already made this judgment in his heart.
"Your understanding of the Immortality Dao comes from me, but don’t stick to conventions; learn to be flexible. Also, facing the Jiang Family, if there’s danger, you can draw on my soul power to help you... I can still aid you in battle two or three more times."
Xuanyuan Ancestor changed the topic.
This topic, originally proposed by him, he now scarcely dared to continue.
"Your Immortality Dao, I have a sense of it, but it’s just a reference. What I comprehend truly belongs to me. As for aid in battle, I don’t need it for now. I have my own method, already derived and strategized. Since I can transcend the game, I must completely control the enemies and grasp everything in my hand."
Zhou Yan said confidently.
"If successful, then seize the ’Ancient Evil Heart.’ It’s a ’Life Soul Heart’ crafted in imitation of Lei Yan King’s Demon Heart. I’ve heard about it before, and the Jiang Family must have completed it for some time now, just unable to capture you. If you seize it, it would be like cutting off one of the Jiang Family’s arms. Furthermore, this Ancient Evil Heart would greatly benefit you."
Knowing Zhou Yan’s intention was decided, Xuanyuan Ancestor stopped advising and proposed instead.
"Rest assured, Ancestor, when that was said, I had already included this in my plan. All is ready now, only awaiting the east wind."
Zhou Yan spoke with great confidence.
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Sacrificial Heaven Domain.
Jiang Tianxin held the Flame Throne, feeling somewhat hesitant.
The identity of the ’Evil Venerate’ puzzled him, yet he dared not show any sign of doubt, resulting in him saying many things where he made an error in one small matter.
But the ’Evil Venerate’ didn’t notice.
The instant his heart moved, it was sensed by the ’Evil Venerate,’ nearly causing a disaster.
Jiang Tianxin’s mood was heavy, his gaze deep and flickering, yet no one knew what he was thinking.
Ahead lay the Sacrificial Heaven Domain, a giant Sacrificial Heaven Ancient City stood tall in the Star Domain Cloud Peak starry sky, like a royal palace ancient hall built through a vast wormhole, its imposing aura overwhelming.
"Who dares to intrude into the Sacrificial Heaven Domain?"
A dark centaur armored knight, holding a black lance, gazes icy at Jiang Tianxin.
The next moment, a spear as simple as it was powerful penetrated the void, instantly seeming to pierce Jiang Tianxin, nailing him to the void of the Star Domain.
Just because Jiang Tianxin didn’t answer in an instant.
Jiang Tianxin didn’t die, however, because a Flame Throne appeared in his hand.
The throne suddenly emitted a powerful divine glow, enveloping the knight’s attack.
In merely moments, the knight immediately knelt, and the Sacrificial Heaven Ancient City opened itself.
The Fiery Flame Throne at this time autonomously flew out, entering the Fiery Flame Domain.
"The return of the Fiery Flame Evil Venerate, the subordinates greet the Evil Venerate."
A sound as orderly as thunder echoed in all four directions, these voices dispelling all of Jiang Tianxin’s doubts.
The departure of the Flame Throne did not surprise him.
"The junior, Jiang Tianxin of the Jiang Family, entrusted by a Great Power self-proclaimed as ’Evil Venerate,’ comes to retrieve the item that restores ’Divine Soul Divine Power’, with the Flame Throne as the witness of the Imperial Decree. The junior only executes orders, and asks the lords not to blame."
Jiang Tianxin spoke appropriately, did not directly refer to that person as the Evil Venerate, but rather defined himself as someone executing the ’Imperial Decree.’
Since the Imperial Decree is true, even if that person’s identity is false, Jiang Tianxin would not be wrong.
For the Imperial Decree is something inviolable.
Jiang Tianxin was not foolish, yet did not want to become the target of all, an agent diverting calamity.
"The Imperial Decree is true, even if not the Evil Venerate, surely he is a close and trusted person of the Evil Venerate, granted."
In the void, appeared a one-armed blind woman, her voice cold, her white garment icy as a glacier.
The Cold Ice aura she presented was just a tiny wisp, yet nearly froze Jiang Tianxin completely.
A chill rose in his heart, as cold air emerged from his entire body, realizing the extreme peril of this place, wishing not to come again unless necessary.
As he was shocked and cold-hearted, a fragmentary space suddenly appeared in the void.
Space was fixed by a finger, forming suddenly into a barrier.
A black-hole-like space appeared, devouring countless Divine Energy and glittering Elixir.
Then, the one-armed woman pinched the void, causing it to explode, and a dull endless sound arose, instantly becoming a finger-sized ring.
This was a Space Ring, but it was a Venerable Level Space Ring, this terrifying ability to crush the void had Jiang Tianxin trembling all over, sweat pouring from his forehead.
Terror, this was simply indescribable how terrifying it was!
"Still unqualified to refine the Ancient Evil Heart? Seems you’ve been bested by Gles."
The blind woman seemed to have sensed Jiang Tianxin’s tremors through a silver lock.
The eyes like black holes, without eyeballs yet so coldly fix on Jiang Tianxin, causing his soul to tremble, his spine to cool, head to go numb.
"Junior, junior will definitely strive to surpass Gles."
Jiang Tianxin’s voice trembled.
He wasn’t such an inadequate person, but before this one-armed blind woman, he simply couldn’t perform better, just like a wastrel, hardly daring to breathe.
"Perhaps only he believes your nonsense. Convey to the Evil Venerate, if within half a month he does not complete slaying the Soul-Slaying Saintess nine times, nurturing nine perfect life souls, he shouldn’t return to the Sacrificial Heaven Domain."
The woman finished speaking and suddenly vanished.
That was truly vanishing as if she had never appeared.
No energy, no rules, not a trace left behind.
But Jiang Tianxin was anxious, holding the thumb-sized yet planet-like heavy ring, his heart sank to the bottom.