Chapter 375: We Had Agreed To Die Together

Ye Guan was stunned. The Adjudication Sword Master was furious, but the blush on her cheeks betrayed her emotions.

"Cijing, you’re such a beauty..." Ye Guan muttered unconsciously.

The tip of the Adjudication Sword Master's ears and her face became as red as a tomato. She glared at Ye Guan and shouted, "What nonsense are you spouting?!"

Ye Guan opened his mouth to speak once more, and the sight made the Adjudication Sword Master feel anxious. She was afraid that he would say something embarrassing, so she chided, "Speak more nonsense, and I’ll stab you to death!"

Ye Guan stared at the Adjudication Sword Master; he was starting to see her in a different light. Tenderness filled his heart. He was about to say something, but the Eternal Sovereign spoke, "Adjudication Sword Master, what game is the True Universe trying to play here?"

The Adjudication Sword Master turned to look at the Eternal Sovereign.

The Eternal Sovereign laughed and said, "Didn’t the True Universe ask to work together with my Eternal Civilization? However, you came here to help the Guanxuan Universe’s King. What's the meaning of this? Are you representing the True Universe?"

The Adjudication Sword Master was quiet. Moments later, she opened her hand, and a command token appeared in her hand. She looked down at it for a very long time before flicking her wrist and sending the command token to the ground.

"I am no longer the commander of the True Universe’s Jin Guards. I represent no one but myself."

Ye Guan was shocked. She was resigning as the Commander of the Jin Guards?

"Cijing..."

The Adjudication Sword Master’s gaze turned cold.

"I am not doing it for you; don’t get too ahead of yourself."

Ye Guan suddenly grabbed her hand. The Adjudication Sword Master tried to free her hand from his grasp, but his grip on her hand was too tight. Ye Guan looked at her with a mind full of complicated thoughts, but more than anything, he was touched. He knew about her relationship with True God and the True Universe, but she decisively stepped down as the Commander of the Jin Guards to help him.

Seeing the tenderness in his eyes, the Adjudication Sword Master got a little nervous. She didn't dare to look him directly in the eyes. She looked away and coldly said, "Don't overthink it. My resignation doesn't have anything to do with you, do you understand?"

Ye Guan shook his head. He was about to say something when the Eternal Sovereign chimed in, "Oh, you're representing yourself? Then, you better do a good job at it."

Rumble!

A low rumbling echoed as the Eternal Sovereign set a punch toward the Adjudication Sword Master.

A terrifying power surged toward the Adjudication Sword Master. The destructive power was so powerful that it annihilated every inch of spacetime that dared to stand in its way.

Zhantai Yuejia's hands and feet quivered, and her expression turned solemn. She picked herself up and decisively retreated tens of kilometers away.

The Adjudication Sword Master’s eyes flashed coldly. She took a step forward and slashed out with her sword. A colossal ray of sword light long tore through the air, tearing apart everything that stood in its way.

However, the ray of sword light crumbled immediately upon making contact with the Eternal Sovereign's attack. The Adjudication Sword Master was blasted away, and blood trickled down her lips as she came to a halt, her face becoming pale.

Zhantai Yuejia's expression was gloomy as she stared at the Eternal Sovereign.

The Zhantai Clan was in the Xuane World, and it was located in an isolated pocket of space. They weren't familiar with this place, and she had just realized that she had underestimated the people of this place.

The Eternal Sovereign didn't send another attack. He chuckled and said, "Actually, I'm not that interested in the True Universe. However, I would like to meet the True God of the True Universe. I want to see if she's as powerful as the legends depict her to be!"

The Adjudication Sword Master wiped the blood from her lips and suddenly disappeared from where she was standing. A kaleidoscope of sword lights burst out of her and rushed toward the Eternal Sovereign in the form of thousands of sword lights.

The Eternal Sovereign chuckled at the sight and clenched his right hand into a fist before sending another punch.

Bam!

𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

The sword lights shattered; they became countless light fragments that dissipated into nothingness. The Adjudication Sword Master was blasted away, returning to where she was standing earlier.

The Eternal Sovereign made a sidelong glance at Ye Guan and smiled. "You've always been under someone else's protection from the very first time we met until now. What’s wrong? Are you so powerless and useless that you can only rely on women for protection?"

Ye Guan ignored the Eternal Sovereign. He appeared in front of the Adjudication Sword Master and took out a spiritual pill. He fed it to her and then gently wiped away the blood dripping down her lips.

He finally turned to the Eternal Sovereign and asked, "How old are you?"

The Eternal Sovereign's eyes narrowed, but he didn't reply.

Ye Guan stared into the Eternal Sovereign's eyes as he said, "You must be over a hundred million years old, and even a pig can become a Great Destiny Sovereign if they were given that much time to cultivate. How about me? I'm only eighteen years old. I don't think it's shameful to lose against such an old fossil like you."

The Eternal Sovereign stared quietly at Ye Guan.

Ye Guan continued. "On the contrary, I think that it's quite shameful for an old fossil who had lived for over a hundred million years to mock an eighteen-year-old cultivator."

"

Pfft!

" The Eternal Sovereign erupted into laughter and said, "You're pretty good with words. Sadly, words won't get you anywhere. In the end, what matters is strength. Words are useless because I can still beat you to death, while you can't do the same to me. Your words can't kill me."

Ye Guan chuckled and said, "I finally understand the dilemmas that my father had faced during his cultivation journey. People call you the

King of Relying On Others

if you were to call for backup against enemies who are too strong, but if you don't call for backup, your enemies will still mock you for being too weak.

"I'm sure he was having a hard time back then."

Ye Guan shook his head and turned to look at the Adjudication Sword Master.

The Adjudication Sword Master said, "He’s recovered half of his true power. You should leave and return to the Guanxuan Universe."

Ye Guan reached up to wipe the blood flowing from her lips again and said gently, "I really am sorry for being too weak. I've always been under your protection, and if it hadn't been for you, I would have died long ago. I have nothing that I can offer you, but I can fight with you, and I can...die together with you."

Die together with me?

The Adjudication Sword Master stared deeply at Ye Guan and asked, "Are you sure?"

Ye Guan nodded.

The Adjudication Sword Master smiled. She pinched his cheeks and muttered, "Even if we somehow survive this, a happy ending isn't guaranteed. With that in mind, I don't think dying together sounds like a bad idea."

"Yeah." Ye Guan smiled and said, "I'm actually getting pretty tired as well."

He turned to look at the Eternal Sovereign and laughed maniacally before igniting his fleshly body.

Boom!

Ye Guan's aura surged crazily as entered the Time Immortal Realm, causing the spacetime around him to fluctuate violently. He then activated the Dao Imprint, and the burst of power directly shattered the spacetime around him.

The Great Sovereign Realm!

Boom!

A deafening explosion echoed next to Ye Guan, and a mighty conflagration ignited at the same time.

The Adjudication Sword Master had ignited her fleshy body!

Ye Guan smiled wryly. He stomped with his right foot and turned into a ray of sword light that shot toward the Eternal Sovereign.

The Adjudication Sword Master also vanished into thin air as she chased after Ye Guan.

Two rays of sword light tore through the air, heading straight toward the Eternal Sovereign.

The Eternal Sovereign chuckled coldly, and his eyes were filled with disdain. He had only recovered fifty percent of his true strength, but he was second only to the Great Daoist Brush Master.

It didn't matter whether he was fighting a Great Destiny Sovereign or a Cosmic Spirit; they were all ants in his eyes!

The Eternal Sovereign stepped forward and swung his fist.

It was an ordinary-looking punch, but the landscape swayed, and the Divine Ruins quivered violently. The punch contained enough power to destroy an entire world!

Boom!

The fist's destructive power collided with the two rays of sword light, and the rays of sword light shattered as if they were pieces of paper.

Ye Guan and the Adjudication Sword Master were blasted away. The Adjudication Sword Master recovered first, and she snatched Ye Guan out of mid-air to take him into her arms.

The Adjudication Sword Master looked down at Ye Guan in her arms; her blood-stained lips opened as she asked, "Will you remember me?"

Ye Guan's expression stiffened as a sense of ominous foreboding gripped his heart.

"Cijing!" Ye Guan cried out.

Cijing smiled wryly and put her sword in front of her glabella.

She then pointed the sword at the sky and exclaimed, "Open!"

Boom!

The skies were torn apart, and a ray of golden light flew wrapped around Ye Guan.

The Eternal Sovereign’s face darkened upon seeing the ray of golden light.

Ye Guan was both shocked and afraid upon realizing that he couldn't shatter the golden light. He turned to look at the Adjudication Sword Master, and his voice was trembling as he said, "C-Cijing..."

The Adjudication Sword Master said softly, "Don’t struggle. It's a spell that Big Sister had left behind for us. It's called the True God's Sanctuary. It has been millions of years since she left it for us, but it's still not something you can break."

"I knew that death was my happy ending since I started having feelings for you."

The Adjudication Sword Master's eyes welled up with tears, and they started falling like raindrops as she continued. "I can't betray Big Sister, but I don't wish to fight you as an enemy as well. It's really an unsolvable... dilemma, and I've gotten exhausted trying to come up with ways to resolve it."

"We had agreed to die together!" Ye Guan roared.

The Adjudication Sword Master shook her head and said, "Live well. There are many things out there that you haven’t done just yet. You're extremely talented, so even the Eternal Sovereign will not be your match so long as you're willing to work hard."

The Adjudication Sword Master looked up and stared at the end of the golden light before muttering, "Second Sister, I've never asked you for anything, but today, I have one favor to ask you. Please... take him away."

She then turned around and started walking toward the Eternal Sovereign.

Boom!

Destructive power ran rampant as an incredible conflagration of profound energy burst out of her. The Adjudication Sword Master had ignited her soul!