Chapter 304: Besiege Ye Guan and Plain-skirt Lady

The young woman was wearing a shabby skirt.

Her hair was a little messy, resembling a bird’s nest. Her face was covered with charcoal ash, but her eyes were as clear as a placid lake. She was hugging an entire sack of sweet potatoes.

She was obviously hungry because she was taking huge bites of a sweet potato, even though she had yet to clean it.

Seeing that no one was chasing her, she heaved a sigh of relief before sitting at the corner of a street. She continued on taking huge bites of her sweet potato, making her look like she was absolutely starving.

Ye Guan slowly walked up to her. The young woman was stunned to see Ye Guan, but she quickly hugged her sack of sweet potatoes. She cast a wary glance at Ye Guan.

Ye Guan felt a pang of pain in his heart upon seeing her wary gaze toward him.

He crouched and asked softly, “Do you know me?”

The young woman stared at Ye Guan for quite a while before shaking her head.

Ye Guan clenched his fists tightly.

“Will you come with me?” he asked. He extended a trembling right hand toward her.

The young woman stared deeply at him before shaking her head.

Ye Guan fell silent.

After a long while, he took out a large bowl and gave it to her. “This is yours.”

The young woman was unwittingly transfixed on the large bowl, and she remained silent as she stared at it.

Ye Guan asked again, “Come with me, please?”

The young woman shook her head and said, “No.”

Hearing that, Ye Guan couldn't speak for a while. Eventually, he took out a storage ring and gave it to her. “This ring contains a lot of delicious food, and they’re all your favorites. Take this ring and enjoy your food.”

The young woman was quiet.

Ye Guan muttered, “I’ll get going now, then.”

The young woman remained silent.

Sadness flashed past Ye Guan's eyes at the young woman's silence, but he eventually got up to leave.

Just then, the young woman suddenly got up.

Ye Guan stopped in his tracks and turned around to take a look at her. However, the young woman didn't even spare him a glance as she hugged the large bowl and started walking away from Ye Guan.

Ye Guan stared at her departing figure before eventually walking away. The two walked in the opposite direction from each other, and neither of them turned around even once.

The young woman inexplicably started crying, and her tears fell onto the large bowl.

Soon, she found herself standing before a stone hut. She put away the large bowl before entering the hut. The hut contained nothing but four small wooden beds placed flush with each other.

The young woman’s gaze turned blank upon seeing the four wooden beds. The memories of her past inundated her, and she realized that she was truly happy at the time.

Just then, a lady slowly walked into the house. It was the mysterious lady.

The mysterious lady said, “He was worried, so he told me to come and see if you needed anything else.”

The young woman sat down on the bed before she lay down completely.

She put her arms behind her head and looked at the ceiling in silence.

The mysterious lady walked up to her and lay on the bed as well.

“When did you recover your memories?”

The young woman replied, “I recovered them the moment I saw him..”

The mysterious lady was taken aback.

The young woman explained, “I didn't expect it either."

The mysterious lady asked, “Why did you not leave with him, then?”

The young woman replied, “I loved him, and it taught me a lesson.”

The mysterious lady fell silent, unable to refute. She knew that the biggest problem between Ba Wan and Ye Guan was the fact that one of them was a denizen of the True Universe while the other was the King of the Guanxuan Universe.

At the moment, it was a dilemma with no correct answer.

“What about you?" Ba Wan asked, "You’ve been following him; just what are you planning?”

"What?" the mysterious lady replied blandly, “Are you scared that I might harm him?”

Ba Wan shook her head and said, “Sometimes, you overthink more than Big Sister.”

The mysterious lady laughed at that.

Ba Wan suddenly said, “Go on then.”

The mysterious lady got up and looked at Ba Wan.

“What about you?” she asked.

Ba Wan said, “I’d like to stay here a little longer.”

The mysterious lady nodded lightly and turned around to leave.

Just as she was about to open the door to exit the hut, the mysterious lady recalled something, and she couldn't help but ask, "Did you guys really not use any protection?”

Swoosh!

The mysterious lady's figure blurred to avoid a flying brick. She left a peal of laughter in her wake as she turned into a ray of light that disappeared into the distance.

Left all alone in the stone hut, Ba Wan picked up the large bowl and stared quietly at it for a very long time.

…

Ye Guan had been waiting for the mysterious lady's return from the Stone Village.

Soon, the mysterious lady finally returned.

"How was it?" he asked.

The mysterious lady replied, “You don’t have to worry about her.”

Ye Guan nodded. He wanted to ask more questions, but he realized that there was no need for him to ask so many questions.

With that in mind, Ye Guan's eyes fell on the plain-skirt lady. “Aunt, let’s go!”

The plain-skirt lady waved her sleeve, and the two of them vanished into thin air.

…

The cultivators of the Heaven Seizing Clan had no choice but to retreat into the boundary in the aftermath of their surprise attack against the Guanxuan Universe.

Sovereign Heaven Seizing Dao was the most frustrated out of everyone. He had brought about a hundred elite cultivators of the Heaven Seizing Clan to attack the Guanxuan Universe, but he had to return all by himself without those elite cultivators.

To make matters worse, their failure had made them obtain nothing, but they had also lost roughly seventy percent of the Heaven Seizing Clan's forces.

The entire Heaven Seizing Clan was in shock.

Sovereign Heaven Seizing Dao was currently sitting on a random rock in the middle of a chaotic chunk of spacetime. The members of the Heaven Seizing Clan stood quietly behind him.

The clan members had no idea just why Sovereign Heaven Seizing Dao had decided to retreat so fast and out of the blue. Afterward, Sovereign Heaven Seizing Dao even ceased all communication to focus on his closed-door seclusion.

The expressions of the Heaven Seizing Clan members were sour and heavy. Of course, they also looked a bit afraid. It couldn't be helped because the clan leader had returned to the clan by himself without his crew.

None of them thought that the Guanxuan Universe would end up being so scary. It had to be known that more than ten Great Time Sovereigns had gone with the Clan Leader to the Guanxuan Universe.

In other words, the fact that the clan leader had returned by himself was a huge flag.

The people criticizing Sovereign Heaven Seizing Dao had no idea about what had transpired on that day. Sovereign Heaven Seizing Dao also didn't tell them about what had happened. In the end, they could only deduce that internal strife had to have broken out while they were traveling toward the Guanxuan Universe.

Boom!

A powerful aura burst out of Sovereign Heaven Seizing Dao. The aura was so strong that the members of the Heaven Seizing Clan fell into a daze.

The aura of a Great Destiny Sovereign!

The process didn't end here. Sovereign Heaven Seizing Dao’s aura grew increasingly stronger, and the spacetime around him quivered violently. The members of the Heaven Seizing Clan hurriedly left; they didn't wish to disturb him.

Meanwhile, a Grand Elder of the Heaven Seizing Clan, Heaven Seizing Que, suddenly asked in a low voice, “Did the True Universe end up making any moves against the Guanxuan Universe?”

"No," said an elder in a low voice, “The True Universe didn't attack the Guanxuan Universe. In fact, they immediately pulled out their troops upon hearing that we've decided to attack the Guanxuan Universe.”

Heaven Seizing Que’s expression turned gloomy. “We've been had.”

The expressions of the other elders turned sour as well.

They had truly been bamboozled.

Of course, it wasn't like they were completely faultless.

They had made a mistake by launching an ambush without assessing the situation, which led to them getting bamboozled by the True Universe. Naturally, none of the elders were daring enough to complain as the mission was kickstarted by Sovereign Heaven Seizing Dao.

A member of the Heaven Seizing Clan suddenly said, “I received news that Ye Guan is heading to the Chaotic Star World.”

Heaven Seizing Que frowned. “Chaotic Star World?”

“Yes.”

“What is he going to do there?”

Chaotic Star World was a place that even Great Sovereigns avoided, and it was more special than the Heaven Seizing Clan's boundary of their own universe. Of course, it was a place filled with perils that'd certainly catch anyone by surprise.

The Chaotic Star World was at odds with the True Universe, so the True Universe sent troops to prevent the denizens of the Chaotic Star World from escaping the world. In other words, the entrance to the Chaotic Star World was heavily guarded.

"I don't know…"

"Is he by himself?” Heaven Seizing Que asked.

“It seems like he’s gone with a woman wearing a plain skirt.”

“A woman?”

“Yes!”

“Are you sure there's no one else?”

“Yes, I’m sure. The Martial Goddess and the other supreme elites of the Guanxuan Universe are on the Xuzhen Battlefield at the moment.”

The revelation surprised Heaven Seizing Que, and he paced back and forth for a long time before saying, “We’ll get rid of them.”

The old man was slightly taken aback.

Heaven Seizing Que exclaimed, “It's an extremely rare opportunity!”

The old man hesitated and asked, “How come?”

Heaven Seizing Que explained, “Think about it: our Heaven Seizing Clan has just suffered a lot against the Guanxuan Universe. Do you really think that the Guanxuan Universe will even think that we're going to attack Ye Guan again so soon?”

The old man fell silent.

Heaven Seizing Que's words made sense, but something felt off.

Heaven Seizing Que continued. “The Guanxuan Universe has gotten too arrogant. Ye Guan has actually decided to head to the Chaotic Star World with just one person! That decision alone is the epitome of arrogance. We should definitely carry out another ambush.”

Another ambush! The Heaven Seizing Clan members were shocked.

Having made up his mind, Heaven Seizing Que ordered, “Gather the remaining elite cultivators of our clan; we’ll go there and kill him together with that woman.”

The old man hesitated for a while before saying, “Pardon me, Grand Elder, but I really think that there's something weird about all this. Shouldn’t we wait for our clan leader to come out of closed-door seclusion before we make a decision?”

“Why should we wait?” Heaven Seizing Que was furious, and he yelled, “This is an extremely rare opportunity for our clan! If we miss this chance, it'll be extremely hard for us to try and kill Ye Guan once he's back at the Guanxuan Universe.”

The old man wanted to say something, but Heaven Seizing Que said, “Are you scared, Heaven Seizing Lie?”

Heaven Seizing Lie replied in a low voice, “I just think that this matter is of huge importance, and we should let our clan leader decide our next course of action.”

Heaven Seizing Que's voice sounded cold as he said, “The Clan Leader is in closed-door cultivation at the moment, do you even have the guts to disturb him? I know that you're familiar with his personality.

"If Clan Leader were in my shoes, he would definitely even up creating the same plan as mine."

The Heaven Seizing Clan members went silent because Heaven Seizing Que was right. Their clan leader would definitely approve of such a strategy if he were in Heaven Seizing Que's shoes.

"Heaven Seizing Lie," Heaven Seizing Que said before continuing, “There are only two of them. Think about it: even if that plain-skirt lady is strong, she'll just be a Great Time Sovereign at best. If I were to exaggerate, she would be a Great Destiny Sovereign.

"We still have two Great Destiny Sovereigns on our side. The plain-skirt lady is as good as dead; we just have to besiege her."

Heaven Seizing Lie was silent. He was cautious and meticulous, so he preferred waiting for Sovereign Heaven Seizing Dao's decision upon coming out of closed-door seclusion.

Just then, Heaven Seizing Que said, “How can we achieve great things if we keep on staying passive?”

"Yes, I think we should give it a shot," said another member of the Heaven Seizing Clan, “Our opponents are just Ye Guan and a woman wearing a plain skirt. Ye Guan is extremely talented, but he's much too young. There's no way he can defeat us."

"As for that plain-skirt lady…" Heaven Seizing Que trailed off. He waved his hand dismissively before saying, “I’ll deal with her myself! Anyway, we must not lose this rare opportunity. Let’s go!”

With that, the remaining elites of the Heaven Seizing Clan took to the skies with Heaven Seizing Que. Of course, Heaven Seizing Que brought the Heaven Seizing Clan's remaining two Great Destiny Sovereigns with him.

Soon, hundreds of beams of light flew across the vast expanse, and they all headed straight to Ye Guan and the plain-skirt lady.