Chapter 411: I Will Let Her Off

Today, Mu Wanyu was dressed casually in a sportswear outfit, but her outfit couldn't hide her beauty at all. Obviously, a woman with a good figure would look charming wearing just about anything.

Mu Wanyu trembled ever so slightly before asking, "Can we talk?"

Mu Wanyu knew that Ye Guan was coming today, so she had been waiting here since early in the morning.

"Sure." Ye Guan nodded and put down the lobster in his hand.

He followed Mu Wanyu out toward a nearby garden.

Xuanyuan Ling cast a curious gaze upon Ye Guan and Mu Wanyu in the distance.

Ye Guan and Mu Wanyu walked slowly toward the garden.

Ye Guan was quiet along the way.

Mu Wanyu asked, "Are you still mad at me?"

Ye Guan shook his head and smiled. "Not really."

Mu Wanyu stopped walking and looked at Ye Guan, but she didn't say anything.

Ye Guan smiled, "We live in two different words, so our perspectives and approaches to things are naturally different from each other. What I had done at the time was a bit extreme here, so it's not strange that you couldn't accept it."

Mu Wanyu clenched her fists. She bit her lips as tears welled up in her eyes.

Ye Guan sighed and said, "Miss Wanyu, you're a good person, but we're not from the same world. What I mean is that our living environment is different; the world I live in does not allow me to be kind to my enemies.

"Against enemies, I have to be decisive, or there will be endless trouble."

Mu Wanyu shook her head.

"You're still angry at me," she said.

Ye Guan went silent.

Mu Wanyu looked at him with tear-filled eyes and said, "I know you're angry because I didn't trust you. If I had just asked you, I believe you would have explained things to me, but I immediately scolded you rather than doing that..."

Mu Wanyu started crying.

Ye Guan took out a tissue and was about to help her wipe her tears away when his hand paused midway. After a moment, he placed the tissue in Mu Wanyu's hands and whispered, "Miss Wanyu, we're not suitable for each other. I'm a hundred times—no, a thousand times more ruthless than you can ever imagine!"

With that, Ye Guan turned around and left.

Left all alone, Mu Wanyu fell into a daze. She looked as though her soul had flown away as she stood rooted in place while tears streamed down her face.

...

Su Zi appeared in front of Ye Guan as soon as he returned to his seat.

"Wanna go for a walk?" Su Zi suggested.

Ye Guan nodded. "Sure."

Su Zi smiled slightly and wrapped her arm around Ye Guan's arm.

The two started walking outside the Su Residence.

Beside Gu Yunman, the auburn-haired young woman whispered, "Aunt, he... seems to be a bit of a womanizer..."

"What do you think of him? Is he handsome?" Gu Yunman asked.

The auburn-haired young woman nodded. Her first encounter with Ye Guan wasn't exactly pleasant, but she had to admit that Ye Guan was handsome.

Gu Yunman made a sidelong glance at Ye Guan in the distance and muttered, "His looks will bring him endless trouble!"

The auburn-haired young woman had no idea what to say.

Meanwhile, Xuanyuan Ling's gaze was full of curiosity as she stared at the departing pair.

...

Ye Guan and Su Zi left the Su Residence and walked down the street outside.

Today, Su Zi was wearing a white dress that accentuated her figure. Her excellent figure combined with the dress created a silhouette capable of stirring the hearts of countless men.

"You and Wanyu..." Su Zi started.

Ye Guan shook his head.

"She's been really sad these days," Su Zi said, "I've never seen her so sad before."

Ye Guan remained silent.

Su Zi asked, "Are you really angry at her?"

After a moment of silence, Ye Guan sighed and replied, "An explanation is meaningless. Anyway, we're going to Yanjing tomorrow, right?"

"We're leaving tomorrow morning," Su Zi nodded and said, "I've made the necessary arrangements."

Ye Guan nodded and looked up at the sky.

Yanjing. My father and aunt must be in Yanjing. I must find them.

Ye Guan reckoned that he would be able to find the people he had been looking for if he were to group up with his father and aunt. More importantly, he could ask his father to lift the restriction on his cultivation base.

Ye Guan had never been worried about Cishu and Cijing. The True God was here, after all.

"You know Miss Xuanyuan Ling?" asked Su Zi.

Ye Guan nodded. "Yes."

Su Zi stared curiously at Ye Guan. "When did you meet her?"

"We met not too long ago." Ye Guan smiled and explained, "She gave me a sword, and I gave her a cultivation method and a sword art."

"

Oh.

" Su Zi went silent.

"Did you like my gift?" Ye Guan asked with a smile.

"Like?" Su Zi took out the Nuwa Stone and grinned. "I love it!"

"This is something special, right? Xuanyuan Ling looked like she wanted to take it away earlier," Su Zi added.

Ye Guan smiled and said, "You should wear it. It's going to be beneficial to you."

"All right, I'll wear it, then!" Su Zi replied.

The pair started talking about many different topics as they walked down the street. Ye Guan was really enjoying the peaceful atmosphere. Actually, he had many realizations during his time here, and one of them was the meaning of life.

People weren't born to cultivate and fight. The cultivators of the Guanxuan Universe would spend tens or even hundreds of years in secluded cultivation once they had decided to face a bottleneck.

Most of the time, they would shatter their bottleneck and emerge from their secluded cultivation as an even stronger cultivator, but it wasn't like they hadn't paid any price to achieve such power.

The price they had to pay was their humanity—an individual without humanity was frightening, and a great example of this was his plain-skirt aunt. His father had preserved the tiniest vestiges of humanity in his plain-skirt aunt by staying next to the latter.

If it weren't for Ye Xuan, the plain-skirt lady would have lost her humanity long ago, and she would have long become a terrifying monster.

Humanity...

Ye Guan opened his hands, and a sword appeared. He had been walking down the Invincible Sword Path, which meant he had been chasing after divinity itself. How could he chase after divinity when he still didn't have complete mastery over his humanity?

Humanity is ephemeral...!

Ye Guan closed his eyes. He could feel it. He had always thought that he had already reached the Ephemeral—no, the Ephemeral Transcendence Realm, but Ye Guan suddenly found everything laughable.

He had never really pondered over the ephemerality of humanity until now, which meant that the biggest flaw of his Sword Dao was the fact that he had never truly entered the Ephemeral Realm.

It all made sense, as he had never sensed the Divine Realm despite reaching the so-called Ephemeral Transcendence Realm.

Hum!

The sword in Ye Guan's let out a resonant hum and started trembling.

Ye Guan looked up as the mysterious force appeared above him once again. Ye Guan was startled, and he quickly suppressed his sword intent. The mysterious force soon vanished.

Ye Guan breathed a sigh of relief. Ye Guan's sword intent was about to undergo a qualitative change, but Ye Guan had no choice but to suppress it. There was no way around it; he simply couldn't contend against the mysterious force.

He had to bear with it for the time being.

A great man could withstand any suffering for the sake of the greater good.

Regardless, Ye Guan was curious. Just how powerful would he become once the restriction on him was lifted?

Su Zi seemed shaken; the latter's sword intent had startled her.

Ye Guan smiled and explained, "Actually, I'm a swordsman."

"Swordsman? What kind? Like those swordsmen in dramas?" Su Zi blinked.

"Yep, you got it right!" Ye Guan replied.

"Does that mean you can fly on your sword?" Su Zi asked.

"I can do it, but not for now," Ye Guan replied.

"For now?" Su Zi smiled and asked, "So you can do it in the future?"

"That's right." Ye Guan nodded.

"Can you bring me with you to fly on a sword when the time comes?" Su Zi asked.

"Sure, why not?" Ye Guan replied with a chuckle.

Su Zi smiled slightly and wrapped her arm around Ye Guan's arm.

Do you know that I like you?

she muttered to herself. Ye Guan was right beside her, but she felt that he was far, far away. She didn't dare to confess because she was afraid of the negative consequences. However, she was also afraid that Ye Guan would suddenly leave without knowing her true feelings and how her feelings for him were quite intense!

"I want to tell you something!" Su Zi exclaimed.

Ye Guan stared in astonishment at Su Zi.

Su Zi blinked and said, "Love tiger oil[1]!"

Ye Guan was puzzled. "Love tiger oil?"

"Yup! Love tiger oil," Su Zi said with a grin.

Ye Guan was confused. "What does that mean?"

Su Zi hugged Ye Guan's arm and grinned. "It's a special greeting in the Milky Way."

Ye Guan whispered, "Love tiger oil..."

Su Zi's grin became a charming smile as she stared at Ye Guan absentmindedly muttering the phrase.

Ye Guan and Su Zi had inadvertently turned into a remote alleyway.

Swoosh!

A middle-aged man suddenly appeared in front of them.

Su Zi's expression changed instantly.

Ye Guan grabbed Su Zi's hand and smiled at her. The flustered Su Zi instantly calmed down, and a sense of security wrapped around her heart, making her feel comfortable all over.

Ye Guan stared at the middle-aged man in the distance and said, "I'm curious. The Li Family has already been destroyed, and as for the Wang Clan, it's unlikely that they still have the will to send people against me.

"Which is exactly why I'm curious: just who sent you here?"

The middle-aged man chuckled and asked back, "Have you already forgotten what you just did?"

"What did I do?" Ye Guan asked with a frown.

"Oh, so you've already forgotten how you killed one of our people," the middle-aged man stared at Ye Guan and spat coldly, "How courageous."

"Your people?" Ye Guan asked, sounding puzzled.

The middle-aged man didn't reply.

He unsheathed the broadsword on his back and took half a step forward with his left foot before activating the latent energy[2]inside of him; the broadsword started emitting a faint cold light.

Ye Guan stared quietly at the middle-aged man.

"Sundering the heavens and splitting the earth!" the middle-aged man roared with the broadsword in hand, but instead of swinging the broadsword toward Ye Guan, the middle-aged man pulled out a gun with his other hand, aimed it at Ye Guan and fired.

Su Zi's expression changed instantly. The world seemed to slow down as Su Zi jumped in front of Ye Guan and shut her eyes.

Bang!

A gunshot echoed, startling Su Zi. She opened her eyes and found the middle-aged man in the distance with a sword sticking out of his forehead.

It turned out that when the middle-aged man's other hand was in the middle of pulling out a gun, Ye Guan's sword was already flying toward the middle-aged man's forehead.

When the middle-aged man squeezed the trigger, Ye Guan's sword had already pierced his forehead, which disturbed the middle-aged man's aim.

Ye Guan's sword was faster than a gun as long as his target was within ten meters from him. What about beyond ten meters? Ye Guan just had to imbue profound energy into his sword, and it would be faster than a gun!

Ye Guan turned to Su Zi and breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing that she was fine.

Ye Guan pulled Su Zi behind him and stared at the middle-aged man.

"My Future Clan will not let you go!" the middle-aged man said in a raspy voice.

The Future Clan?

Ye Guan frowned, but he suddenly recalled something and exclaimed, "Ying Qing!"

He ran over to the middle-aged man and said, "Are you familiar with Ying Qing? Ask her to meet me, and I will let her off!"

"Let my master off?" The middle-aged man glared sinisterly at Ye Guan, "Master will not let you off! She'll kill every single member of your family!"

The middle-aged man writhed as he took his last breath.

Ye Guan had no idea what to say, and so was Ying Qing.

1. 爱老虎油 = ài lǎo?hǔ yóu. It sounds like I love you when you say it ?

2. the latent energy isn't specified ?