Chapter 466: The Yang Family Must Agree

The True God!

Ye Guan's mind went blank as he stared at Cizhen. Cizhen turned and appeared in the white-robed woman. Cizhen stared indifferently into the white-robed woman's eyes, and a silent exchange unfolded between them.

However, the white-robed woman was devoid of any fear.

She wouldn't die if she didn’t want to die. It didn't matter even if Cizhen had decided to abandon her humanity.

"Stall her, and I can make a breakthrough!" the blood-red woman exclaimed.

The white-robed woman shook her head gently. "It's too late."

"What do you mean?" the blood-red woman asked. However, a realization struck her almost immediately, and she stared at Cizhen, asking, "Are you crazy?"

Cizhen neither replied nor took her gaze off of the white-robed woman.

Cizhen was waiting for the white-robed woman's answer.

In the worst-case scenario, Cizhen could flip the entire table, ending everything. The white-robed woman knew that, and he turned to look at Ye Guan. Cizhen's final vestiges of humanity were with Ye Guan.

After a while, the white-robed woman said, "Do you really think that he will be able to surpass the Great Dao within the hundred years of time you've decided to buy for him?

Cizhen said, "Perhaps he might not even need a hundred years."

The white-robed woman stared at Cizhen for a long time before nodding. "We will wait and see, then."

The white-robed woman turned around, and the Time River appeared in front of her.

The white-robed woman started walking toward the Time River, prompting the blood-red woman to cry out, "Are we going to give up just like that?!"

The white-robed woman stopped and replied, "She's become ninety percent divine, and I cannot stop her anymore."

The blood-red woman stared intently at the white-robed woman.

"What if we join forces?"

The white-robed woman shook her head. "It's not going to be enough."

The blood-red woman was astonished. However, she remained undeterred and pointed at Ye Guan in the distance. "What if we kill him?"

The white-robed woman shook her head once again and replied, "We cannot kill him because four swordsmen who are ninety percent divine are standing behind him."

The blood-red woman's pupils constricted as her expression darkened.

"Evil Dao, she's going to suppress you once more, but you'll make a breakthrough by then. A hundred years later, nothing can stop us anymore. You will merge with the Virtuous Dao by then, and we can kill her together."

The white-robed woman glanced at Ye Guan and remarked, "If he calls for help one more time in his lifetime, he will never be able to become invincible."

The white-robed woman turned around and entered the Time River.

The rest of the supreme elites entered the Time River as well. As they left, they cast one last glance at Ye Guan. If Ye Guan ended up dying, the True God would lose all of her humanity, and she would no longer suppress the Universe Tribulation.

The blood-red woman stared at Cizhen as if she were pitiful and said, "How dumb. You actually chose to shed your mortal coil and abandon humanity to suppress me in your true form, all for the sake of a man. You are going to lose this gamble.

"He's not going to become invincible in just a hundred years!"

The blood-red woman's figure became more and more blurry as she spoke, and when the final syllable of her sentence echoed, the blood-red woman vanished completely.

Cizhen with a bed of white hair was quiet as she started flying away.

Ye Guan called out, "Sister Zhen!"

Cizhen stopped, but she didn't turn around. Ye Guan walked up to her and stared intently at her back. Cizhen's voice was losing its warmth as she said, "Do you still remember what I told you earlier? This is our affair..."

"I know," Ye Guan said, nodding, "I have a deadline of a hundred years, and I have to save you before time is up."

Cizhen clenched her hands tightly, but she didn't say anything in response.

"I also know that you did all this to stop me from calling for help.

"The reason my father managed to achieve Divine Transcendence and become invincible despite calling for my aunt's help was that my aunt's final vestiges of humanity were with him.

"However, I'm not in the same situation as my father. I don't have my aunt, my father, or even my grandfather's final vestiges of humanity, so I can't ask for their help."

Ye Guan lowered his head slightly and said, "Sister Zhen, I understand what you're trying to do, but I really can't bear to let you go..."

Tears welled up slowly in Cizhen's eyes as she stared into the distance. After a long time, she said, "I'll be waiting for you in the Tribulation Realm."

Cizhen resumed walking, and her figure became more and more blurry with each step while the Universe Tribulation that had pervaded the starry sky was fading away along with Cizhen's figure.

Ye Guan stared at Cizhen with his fists clenched and eyes bloodshot.

When Cizhen vanished, the Universe Tribulation disappeared as well.

The starry sky was calm once more, but Ye Guan remained frozen and silent.

Cirou and Cishu walked up to Ye Guan.

Cirou asked, "Do you have any plans?"

Ye Guan pondered for quite a while before saying, "First of all, let's go and meet the Great Daoist Brush Master. I need to know the identity of that white-robed woman."

Ye Guan vanished with the two women in tow, arriving on the summit of Mount Fanjing in the proverbial blink of an eye.

Ao Qianqian was in the middle of a breakthrough inside the world in the tiny pagoda, so only Ye Guan, Cirou, and Cishu were around.

The Great Daoist Brush Master was sitting on the stone steps, and his expression didn't even change upon seeing Ye Guan.

Ye Guan asked, "Which side are you on?"

"Strictly speaking, I am on neither side," replied the Great Daoist Brush Master.

Ye Guan's brows furrowed instantly.

The Great Daoist Brush Master looked at Ye Guan and said, "Their goal is to suppress the Virtuous Dao and allow Evil Dao to destroy all living beings in the vast expanse. The vast expanse's healing is their goal, but it's only because it's aligned with their true goal of achieving immortality."

Ye Guan frowned deeply and asked, "I thought that white-robed woman is already immortal?"

The Great Daoist Brush Master replied, "She's immortal, but the people around her aren't immortal. Like the True God and your father, they've entrusted the final vestiges trace of their humanity to someone else!"

"Who is she?" Ye Guan asked.

"I'll tell you later. Anyway, technically, you can say that they've been maintaining the order of the universe as well because destroying all living beings in the vast expanse and allowing them to propagate naturally is a part of the Great Dao's cycle."

The Great Daoist Brush Master shook his head and said, "In fact, the Evil Dao is supposed to annihilate all living beings. However, she knows that she cannot be public enemy number one, so she gathered a group of supreme elites by promising them eternal life. She promised to bestow them with eternal life as soon as the myriad beings of the vast expanse are annihilated."

"She gathered those experts?" Ye Guan asked.

The Great Daoist Brush Master rolled his eyes and said, "Do you really think that the incarnation of the Evil Dao is dumb? I'm sure you have no idea, but the supreme elites from the distant past are already on her side."

Ye Guan asked, "What about the Virtuous Dao?"

The Great Daoist Brush Master went silent. After a while, he replied, "The goal of the Virtuous Dao is to turn the entire universe into something similar to the Milky Way. A myriad beings will have limited lifespans, and they cannot cultivate as well!"

Ye Guan's frown deepened.

"It seems that you have the same goal as the True God: suppress Evil Dao without cutting off the path of cultivation."

"Doesn't that mean that if we follow the Virtuous Dao..." Ye Guan trailed off.

The Great Daoist Brush Master nodded, confirming Ye Guan’s doubts. "You have to kill every single living supreme elite or cripple them. The True God hasn't been able to do such a thing, and I'm sure you can't do it as well.

Ye Guan nodded.

There's no way I can do that!

How could I possibly kill every single supreme elite throughout the vast expanse?!

Crippling them was an impossible task as well. The Great Daoist Brush Master stared deeply at Ye Guan and said, "I'm not going to stand on the side of that white-robed woman, but I'm not going to stand on your side, too.

"I'm on the Virtuous Dao's side!"

Ye Guan was silent. He finally understood. The Great Daoist Brush Master ended up getting suppressed because he had chosen to kill every single supreme elite at the time to establish a vast expanse similar to Blue Planet.

"All three factions can't have their cake and eat it, too," the Great Daoist Brush Master said with a smile and added, "You have to make a decision. The True God has given you a hundred years to decide.

"She knows that the Universe Tribulation can't be suppressed forever and that she has to make a decision eventually. However, she decided to give you the option to choose."

Ye Guan was quiet. The Great Daoist Brush Master stared deeply at Ye Guan and said, "Between the Virtuous Dao and the Evil Dao, you must choose one. If you choose the Virtuous Dao, then I will assist you!"

"I choose the Virtuous Dao!" Ye Guan immediately replied.

The Great Daoist Brush Master's deep gaze remained on Ye Guan as he said, "You better make an oath first. The Yang Family lacks credibility, and each one of you has a penchant for deceiving others!"

"Aside from the Virtuous Dao, are there any other choices?" asked Ye Guan.

The Great Daoist Brush Master shook his head. "No, but you can annihilate the Great Dao itself. Unfortunately, doing that means annihilating the vast expanse, too."

Ye Guan nodded. "I choose Virtuous Dao, then."

The Great Daoist Brush Master looked at Ye Guan and snapped, "I'm not going to believe your nonsense!"

"If there's no better choice for me to take a hundred years later, then I'm going to choose the Virtuous Dao and establish a new order so that the vast expanse will become akin to Blue Planet. What do you think of this plan?"

The Great Daoist Brush Master was quiet for a long time. "Are you not lying to me?"

Ye Guan nodded. "The Yang Family never lies—"

However, Ye Guan stopped himself mid-sentence.

The Great Daoist Brush Master's eyes narrowed, but he didn't say anything in the end.

"You don't have a choice as well, do you?" Ye Guan pointed out.

The Great Daoist Brush Master's eyes flashed coldly. "What do you mean?"

Ye Guan stared at the Great Daoist Brush Master and said, "Even if I don't choose the Virtuous Dao, who in the world would dare to eliminate the Yang Family? The Yang Family must agree, or a new order cannot be established."

The Great Daoist Brush Master was silent. Ye Guan was right!

In reality, the biggest threat to the universe was the Yang Family! The Yang Family had to agree, or a monumental decision about the vast expanse couldn't be made.

And who would dare to eliminate them? Those daring enough were already dead.

Establishing a new order required the approval of the Yang Family, regardless of whether you had chosen the Evil Dao or the Virtuous Dao! Establishing any order would remain nothing but a pipe dream without the Yang Family's approval.

In other words, only the members of the Yang Family could establish a new order.

The Great Daoist Brush Master's expression was complicated as he said, "I know what you're thinking, but you have to understand that the vast expanse cannot thrive while supporting so many immortal cultivators.

"How can a myriad beings live if even the vast expanse cannot live?

"I also want the survival of a myriad beings, and I want them to cultivate freely while pursuing immortality. However, the vast expanse simply cannot carry the weight of so many immortal cultivators!"

"I understand." Ye Guan nodded and stared at the Great Daoist Brush Master before asking, "You still haven't told me that woman's identity? Who is she? Is she really immortal?"

The Great Daoist Brush Master was quiet for a long time before explaining, "She is the Clan Leader of the Past Clan, and she's infamous for slaughtering an entire era.

"Come to think about it, she actually has a connection with you."

Ye Guan frowned.