Chapter 620: Experts Entering a Village Full of Elderly

Ye Guan laughed out loud. He found the Clan Leader of the Immortal Origin Clan to be quite an interesting person. He knew that there was a deeper meaning behind Sima Ru's actions, but he couldn't care less.

"I'll be in touch with you again soon," said Ye Guan before disappearing into the distance.

The smile on Sima Ru's face immediately disappeared. After a moment of silence, he returned to the Immortal Origin Clan and conducted a clan meeting.

Every single elite of the Immortal Origin Clan gathered in the great hall of the Immortal Origin Clan.

Sima Ru swept his gaze across the elites and said, "Everyone, I've reached an agreement with Ye Guan. We're going to be his allies in both life and death."

"But Clan Leader... he's just one person..." an elder said hesitantly.

Sima Ru glanced at the elder and retorted, "You fool, do you really think that he's just one person ?"

"But..." the elder muttered with a puzzled look.

Sima Ru sounded serious as he said, "Young Lord Ye has revealed his background to me. He's the Young Master of the Ye Family from the outside world… I'm sure you haven't heard of the Ye Family before, but it's a family full of experts, and they're the strongest family in the outside world. Any one of them would be capable of wreaking havoc here."

The elder hesitated for a moment before asking, "Then, why was he forced to come here, and why is he being pursued even now?"

Sima Ru was about to respond when another black-robed elder chimed in, "It might just be their way of raising their children. An extremely powerful family often doesn't adhere to common sense."

"Exactly!" Sima Ru slapped his thigh and said, "It's free-range parenting! The Ye Family practices free-range parenting when it comes to cultivating new leaders of their clan, as the one that grows stronger through adversity are extraordinary individuals!"

"So..." an elder muttered, "So, he came here… to experience life?"

Sima Ru nodded. "Exactly."

The same elder hesitated before asking, "Clan Leader, is he actually reliable?"

Before Sima Ru could reply, the black-robed elder said, "Have you guys already forgotten how Young Lord Ye didn't take even a single penny for himself after we annihilated the Wang Clan? What does that mean? It means that he doesn't care about such things at all. Try and imagine the background of an individual who'd shun even Ancestral Origin."

The other elders hurriedly nodded in agreement. They could still remember how Young Lord Ye had left without even looking back; he had displayed an air of complete indifference to wealth at the time.

Sima Ru immediately heaved a sigh of relief. He was the clan leader, but he was still rather stressed about how he was supposed to explain his decision to stand with Ye Guan. After all, Ye Guan was just one person, and they were about to go against a myriad of powerful enemies. He had to be careful, or the clan members would start harboring resentment toward him. However, everyone had agreed to ally with Ye Guan, which meant that there wouldn't be any discord in the future.

In other words, it could be considered a collective decision! They'd share blessings and carry burdens together.

How about Ye Guan? Did he really have such powerful backers? Actually, Sima Ru himself wasn't sure about that.

***

Ye Guan's figure transformed into a ray of sword light that took to the clouds. The next moment, an invisible force descended upon Ye Guan, pushing him back to the ground. Ye Guan resisted fiercely, and the moment his feet touched the ground, the mountains around him were reduced to dust. He was using the power of the seal as a training tool. Since he started looking at the seal from a different perspective, Ye Guan no longer hated the seal. In fact, he was starting to become familiar with it.

He had discovered that the seal's power scaled according to the individual's strength. Simply put, a stronger cultivator would face a more powerful suppression, and Ye Guan discovered that the scaling seemed to have no limits.

It was surely terrifying in anyone else's eyes, but the seal was the perfect training tool for Ye Guan.

Ye An walked out of the world inside the tiny pagoda and started training using the cultivation seal.

Boom!

A streak of sword light fell straight from the sky, and a massive cloud of dust and rubble manifested the moment the streak of sword light pierced the ground.

Amidst the rubble, Ye Guan waved his sleeve, and a wave of sword light swept out, reducing the debris into dust.

Ye Guan looked up and grinned. Then, he stomped with his right foot and transformed into a streak of sword light that flew to the sky.

Swoosh!

Every inch of spacetime in his way was torn apart as he charged at the clouds up above. Moments later, a terrifying wave of energy emerged from above and made a beeline for the flying streak of sword light.

Boom!

The sword light was shattered, and Ye Guan fell straight to the ground. However, he immediately started flying the moment he landed on the ground. The seal sent another terrifying wave of energy to suppress Ye Guan, but the latter no longer had any intentions of taking the beating quietly. When the terrifying wave of energy was just a few meters away from Ye Guan, the latter drew his sword, and his figure became illusory as he slashed out—Space Overlap!

Boom!

The terrifying wave of energy shattered, and a smile blossomed on Ye Guan's face. Before he could celebrate, however, a much more powerful wave of energy swept toward him.

Clang!

Ye Guan's sword light shattered, and he fell to the ground like a kite that had lost its strings. It took him quite a while to crawl out from the human-shaped crater in the ground. When he was finally out of the crater, he sprawled out on the ground as blood flowed out of the corner of his mouth. He wiped the blood away and realized that the seal had a loophole. He could break the seal temporarily by increasing the power of his next attack explosively. However, the seal's scaling would take effect on the next wave of suppression, which would explosively increase its strength as well.

However, Ye Guan had discovered that breaking the seal meant obtaining access to his true strength, albeit for just a few moments. It was just a fleeting moment, but experts at their level could do many things in that short amount of time.

Eventually, Ye Guan stood up once again and transformed into a streak of sword light that took to the sky. This time, he didn't use any sword techniques and focused on honing his Invincible Sword Intent and Sword Dao using the seal as a whetstone.

His Sword Intent and Sword Dao were the true cores of his power!

Just like that, Ye Guan and Ye An confronted the seal nonstop, becoming significantly stronger as a result.

Ye Guan wasn't the only one becoming even stronger. Mu Yuan, the two Divine Generals, and the Barbaric Divine Bull in the world inside the tiny pagoda were becoming even stronger as well. It would be strange otherwise, as Ye Guan had been providing them with a steady source of Ancestral Origin.

The young talents like Lin Daimei and Guo Dan were progressing at a terrifying speed as well. They were all young to be compared with the older generation, but who could say for sure what their future was going to be?

…

The four major clans had already surrounded the entrance to the First God Paradise. No forces could get close to the First God Paradise's entrance, except for the Divine Academy.

Clearly, they were attempting to monopolize the inheritance, leaving many people frustrated but unable to express their grievances. The four major clans were simply too strong for them to fight, so they had to suppress their fury.

Mo Tiandu looked silently at the First God Paradise in the distance.

Honestly, he couldn't wait to enter the First God Paradise, but he dared not take any risks after what had happened to the Wang Clan.

He was going to wait for the news from the scouts that they had sent into the First God Paradise.

After a while, the clan leader of the four major clans finally received some news.

Mo Tiandu and the other clan leaders looked at each other.

Chen Yu said, "So, the local forces within the First God Paradise had annihilated the Wang Clan; it wasn't Ye Guan's work at all."

They all heaved a sigh of relief. If the Wang Clan had truly been wiped out by Ye Guan by himself, then they'd have no choice but to start panicking. After all, Ye Guan was only in his twenties, and his cultivation base was surely under suppression as well. However, it turned out that the local forces inside had annihilated the Wang Clan. Things had changed, and they were no longer afraid. After all, their target was Ye Guan, not those local forces.

Mo Tiandu suddenly said, "Should we send someone in to negotiate with the local forces?"

Chen Yu shook his head. "I don't think it'll be easy to negotiate with them. They probably don't even know that we're Descendants of the Gods. Furthermore, I don't think there's a reason for them to work with us, considering how our cultivation bases are sealed inside the First God Paradise."

Qin Yuan said, "What if we offer them something in exchange for their help in capturing Ye Guan?"

Mo Tiandu thought for a moment before saying, "That could work."

"Let's offer them five strands of Ancestral Origin from each of our clans for a grand total of twenty strands of Ancestral Origin. They'll definitely be tempted by that offer," Chen Yu suggested.

"Who should we send in to talk to those natives?" Qin Yuan asked.

Mo Tiandu replied, "Each of us will send one representative."

Qin Yuan smiled. "Sounds great."

Chen Yu and Zhao Tianji nodded in agreement as well. The four of them immediately sent four supreme elites into the First God Paradise.

Mo Tiandu looked at Chen Yu just then and asked, "Have your people entered the Time River yet?"

Chen Yu nodded. "They're already in the Time River."

"Regardless of what's about to happen, it is imperative that we prepare for the worst-case scenario," Mo Tiandu said," If the local forces inside the First God Paradise are unwilling to cooperate with us, then we will have to use Ye Guan's family members to lure him out."

Chen Yu smiled. "My people will bring his family members here in at most three days. I really want to know if he has a heart of stone and if he can withstand watching his family members die one by one."

Mo Tiandu nodded in agreement. He didn't think that such actions were beneath him. After all, those who had achieved great things had never been concerned with such a trivial matter such as ethics.

***

Dozens of supreme elites from the Old Era entered the Time River. They were all from the Chen Clan, led by Chen Qing, a Grand Elder of the Chen Clan.

To ensure that nothing would go wrong, Chen Yu had instructed a Grand Elder to lead the elite members of the clan to the Time River.

Chen Qing was a Peak Heavenly Sovereign Realm cultivator, and the people that he had brought with him were Imperial Sovereigns at the very least.

It was a rather terrifying lineup.

Chen Qing glanced at the distant end of the Time River and chuckled. "Coming here was a bit more difficult than I expected."

Chen Qing was right. The seals that the Gods had left behind here were briefly broken by the joint effort of the four major clans, and it was only through their hard work that they reached the Time River.

"I wonder how strong the cultivators are in this place," said an elderly man who was standing next to Chen Qing. "It'll be boring if they're too weak."

"I think we're like experts entering a village full of elderly.

Haha…"

Chen Qing laughed.

Everyone else laughed as well. In their eyes, this mission was like taking a piece of candy from a baby. Actually, coming here was an insult to their strength, as they believed that the Time River was like a village full of elderly and children while they were powerful experts who had survived many life-and-death ordeals.

Someone exclaimed, "Someone's coming!"

Everyone turned toward the distant horizon and saw a little girl standing in the distance. The little girl was grinning, and there was a white-furred creature on her shoulder, which was looking around vigilantly for some reason.