Chapter 1440: Afraid Of Your Grandpa

All this while, Ye Guan had always been wondering why the Great Daoist Brush Master was targeting him so relentlessly.

It made no sense at all!

There was no enmity between them, so why was he persistently haunting Ye Guan like a ghost?

For justice? That was bullshit!

The Great Daoist Brush Master was no saint, and he definitely wouldn't do things for the sake of justice.

Moreover, Ye Guan was not going to sacrifice all beings. He was just trying to establish a brand-new Order. If anything, his goal would actually benefit the people.

To make matters worse, when the Ancestral Dao had decided to sacrifice all living beings, the Great Daoist Brush Master helped him instead of stopping him.

Clearly, the Great Daoist Brush Master wasn't being motivated by the concept of justice.

If it wasn't justice and there was no enmity between them, then there was only one explanation—personal interest.

Ye Guan's plan to establish a brand-new Order had to be a threat to the personal interests of the Great Daoist Brush Master. In other words, the Great Daoist Brush Master had to have another identity—an ultimate identity that transcended every civilization in this observable universe.

Things were finally clear.

The Great Daoist Brush Master suddenly laughed. "You're just like your father. You have a sharp mind."

Ye Guan turned to Sui Gujin. "Lady Sui, I'll let you handle things next."

Sui Gujin nodded slightly and stared at the Great Daoist Brush Master. "Shall we work together to enter the Ancestral Starry Domain?"

The Great Daoist Brush Master turned to his right. Spacetime suddenly split apart, and Shang Hongyi slowly walked out of it.

The moment she appeared, her gaze, sharp as a blade, locked onto Ye Guan.

The Great Daoist Brush Master turned to her and said, "I told you not to underestimate him, but you didn't listen to me. How did that hit taste? Great?"

Shang Hongyi withdrew her gaze and looked at Que Zhan in the distance. "To enter the Ancestral Starry Region, we must first join forces to deal with him."

Everyone turned to Que Zhan.

Shang Hongyi opened her palm, revealing billions of Great Daos. In an instant, she broke through Que Zhan's mysterious suppressive energy and restored her cultivation base.

The masked man flipped his right hand, revealing a seal. The seal trembled slightly, and his cultivation base was also unsealed.

The gray-robed, hunchbacked elder tapped his cane on the ground, and his cultivation base returned as well.

Sui Gujin remained unmoving.

Shang Hongyi looked at her.

Sui Gujin calmly said, "It doesn't matter."

Ye Guan stepped beside her, smiling. "I'll protect you."

Sui Gujin glanced at him but said nothing.

"Then let's begin," said Shang Hongyi. She flipped her right hand, and billions of Great Daos condensed into a massive Dao character that flew toward Que Zhan. The star field trembled like a sheet of paper being thrown away.

Almost simultaneously, the masked man vanished into thin air. He was so swift that he left behind a series of overlapping afterimages. Every inch of spacetime in his path was torn apart like a piece of paper.

The gray-robed, hunchbacked elder pointed with his cane. The area around Que Zhan erupted into flames, and he was caught in the conflagration as well.

Boom!

A bronze light manifested in the distance. A terrifying energy flew across the field, shattering the Dao character above Que Zhan's head and extinguishing the flames around him. An afterimage retreated violently for more than a hundred thousand meters before stopping. It was the masked man.

The energy didn't stop. It flew toward Ye Guan and Sui Gujin. Ye Guan stepped forward and waved his sleeve. A sword intent rushed out and neutralized the shockwave.

Everyone looked at Que Zhan. He stood holding a bronze spear and looked just like a war god.

Shang Hongyi narrowed her eyes and was about to strike again when Ye Guan said, "Let me talk to him."

She sneered. "What's there to talk about? It'll be a waste of time."

Ye Guan glanced at her. "One more word from you and I'll have my grandfather beat you up."

"

Pfft!

" Shang Hongyi laughed in anger. "What? You think I'm afraid of your grandpa? What a joke!"

Shang Hongyi raised her hand to attack, but the Great Daoist Brush Master raised his hand, interrupting her, "Let him talk to Que Zhan."

Shang Hongyi nearly exploded in frustration.

Ye Guan handed his Qingxuan Sword to Sui Gujin. She understood and accepted it. Her cultivation base was sealed, so she needed it to defend herself.

Ye Guan approached Que Zhan.

Que Zhan didn't attack and simply stared at Ye Guan.

"We meet again," Ye Guan said, smiling.

"You want to go in, too?" Que Zhan asked.

Ye Guan nodded. "Yeah."

Que Zhan looked at him but didn't respond.

"You know you can't stop them," Ye Guan said.

"My duty is to protect the Universe Ruler Seal."

"Exactly. Your duty is to guard the Universe Ruler Seal, not the Ancestral Starry Region."

Que Zhan fell silent.

"The Ancestral Civilization is gone. Don't you want to know why?" asked Ye Guan.

"The truth can be cruel. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss," Que Zhan said.

Ye Guan smiled. "You've recovered some of your memories, haven't you?"

Que Zhan nodded. "Most of them. I remember a lot now."

"You're stopping us for our own good?"

Que Zhan nodded once more..

Ye Guan pointed at the Great Daoist Brush Master. "Can you beat him?"

Que Zhan looked at him and shook his head. "There are two people here that I can't beat, and he's one of them."

"Really?" Ye Guan laughed. "Don't tell me the other one's me?

Hahaha.

"

"You've got some thick skin."

Ye Guan chuckled once again.

Only the Great Daoist Brush Master could eavesdrop on their conversation and disregard the rules of Que Zhan's domain.

"Brother Que," Ye Guan said earnestly. "Go live the life you want."

Que Zhan shook his head. "I have a duty, but I won't stop you. I will serve whoever becomes the Universal Ruler."

He withdrew his domain, allowing everyone to hear them.

Ye Guan nodded. "Alright."

With that, he turned around to leave.

"You should go in first," Que Zhan said suddenly.

Ye Guan stopped to look at Que Zhan and asked, "Why?"

"You didn't want me to die. I should thank you."

Ye Guan smiled and turned to Sui Gujin. "Let's go."

Sui Gujin joined him.

Ye Guan cupped his fists and thanked Que Zhan. Then, they approached the water droplet. Up close, it looked like an ordinary drop of water. It was clear and unremarkable. However, no one could ever imagine that such a simple droplet of water actually contained the terrifying Ancestral Civilization.

"How do we go inside?" Ye Guan asked.

"Just take one step forward," Que Zhan replied.

Ye Guan pulled Sui Gujin forward, and with one step, they vanished.

They reappeared in a vast starry sky. Tens of thousands of meters away stood a majestic palace that was so huge it blotted out the starry skies before them.

"That's the Ruler Divine Temple?" Ye Guan asked.

Sui Gujin nodded.

Ye Guan smiled. "I didn't think I'd get here so soon."

"You didn't want to come here earlier?"

Ye Guan nodded.

"Why not?" Sui Gujin asked.

Ye Guan smiled but didn't answer.

Just then, Shang Hongyi and the others appeared. The Great Daoist Brush Master was present as well. He looked at the Ruler Divine Temple and revealed a strange smile.

Ye Guan said, "Not everyone's here yet, right?"

The Great Daoist Brush Master looked at him. "Why are you so eager to fight?"

"I just don't want to waste time."

"Fair. So, shall we lay our cards on the table? You first, or us?"

Ye Guan looked at Sui Gujin.

"We'll go first," Sui Gujin said. She opened her palm, and a halo rose from it. When it reached the sky, it expanded tens of thousands times its size, becoming a huge halo blotting out the starry skies.

Moments later, frightening auras rushed out of it.

The first ones to appear were Qiu Yuan of the Old Lands Civilization and Li Chen of the Eternal Civilization. A few moments later, nineteen thousand top-tier cultivators walked out behind them.

The weakest among them was an Emperor Lord. Overall, there were a hundred nine Immortal Emperor Lords and twelve Domain Lords.

The elites were here!

Moreover, the golden halo beneath their feet was strengthening them over time.

The Old Lands Array! It was a joint creation by the Three Great Civilizations. Once activated, it would boost each cultivator's cultivation base by an entire realm.

The ultimate weapons of the three civilizations were behind them all, and those weapons were ready to fire at any time.

Three divine trees from the Suiming Civilization blanketed the Old Lands. They emanated spacetime light arrays, pouring energy into the cultivators within the array. These cultivators were now invincible among their peers.

Among the ranks of the Eternal Civilization, mysterious crystal blue light pillars shot up into the sky and arrived in front of the Ruler Divine Temple in the blink of an eye.

In each crystal blue light pillar was a mecha cultivator at the Domain Lord Realm. There were thousands of them, and each of them was equipped with the perpetual crystals from the Eternal Civilization.

The Eternal Civilization had played all their cards.

Meanwhile, the Old Lands' final trump card was a pitch-black ancient book.

The Book of the Old God! It contained the Old God Law of the Old Land Civilization. When it appeared, Shang Hongyi and the others were forcibly suppressed by an entire realm.

When the Three Great Civilizations were closely working together, this law was added to the Other Shore Holy Ark. It was borrowed from the Old God Book, so the Other Shore Holy Ark's version of the Old God Law was a far inferior version of the original.

If one wanted to resist the suppression, one's Dao had to surpass the Old God's Dao. The Three Great Civilizations had summoned their elites and revealed all their trump cards.

However, they weren't done yet. The Domain Lords of the Four Immortal Regions appeared with their people. They were part of the alliance, so they also received enhancements from the Old Land Array and the three divine trees from the Suiming Civilization.

At this point, Shang Hongyi's side seemed utterly outmatched. However, she actually laughed at the sight.. "Impressive. You actually convinced the other two civilizations to join the alliance. You're truly capable..."

"However, I have three helpers," Shang Hongyi said, grinning coldly. "And all of you must know them well."

Rumble!

The spacetime behind her cracked open. Two men and a woman stepped out.

Everyone's faces dropped upon seeing the three. They were the Civilization Rulers of the Three Great Civilizations.

Hadn't they vanished a long time ago?

When they appeared, their terrifying auras suppressed everything around them.

Shang Hongyi sneered as she turned to Ye Guan and asked, "Do you know why I've been staying quiet all this time? It's because the Civilization Rulers have long formed an alliance with me.

You actually wanted to impeach me? You idiot! You even threatened to bring your grandfather into this fight. You think your grandfather can defeat three civilization rulers?"