Lin Ye had not seen Xia Li for nearly half a year. Half a year did not sound long, but the changes the world had undergone in those six months far exceeded those of the previous thousand years. It could be said that these past six months had been the fiercest period of resistance against the Heaven Alliance so far, and it was only the beginning. Mo Ye had used blood sacrifice on both human and demon armies, slaughtering even the innocent who had accompanied the campaign against Xia Li without knowing the truth. No matter how much the upper ranks of the Demon-Hunting Army tried to suppress the news, claiming it had all been Mo Ye's personal act and that the army itself had been deceived, the problem was that Mo Ye had never exactly been a good person. He had rely been better at acting before, better at inventing excuses, and the Demon-Hunting Army had covered for him.Now that the cover-up no longer worked, they wanted to wash their hands of him entirely. That was a little too wishful. As for why the cris of the Demon-Hunting Army beca tied to the Heaven Alliance, it was because in this battle, people discovered all the countless hidden links between the Heaven Alliance and the Demon-Hunting Army. People even thoroughly dug through the recent cooperation between the Demon-Hunting Army and the demon race's Human-Subjugation Army, along with the long history of conflict between them. Only then did they realize that the "heaven" of the Heaven Alliance had long since ceased to belong to humanity alone. It was a filthy false heaven that controlled both humans and demons, constantly manufacturing hatred between them and squandering the righteous cause of both races. Perhaps the ti really had co...A certain saying, started by no one knew who, began spreading everywhere. Unlike the earlier theory that the Heaven Alliance was fighting to dominate the age, this one explained the Alliance's behavior in a more reasonable way. Plunder heavenly fortune. Seize heavenly secrets. Steal heavenly number. People possessed a asure of fate, aning the total number of breaths they could draw in a lifeti. That was why people often used the phrase "one's fate is exhausted" to describe a life already approaching its end. And so, that mysterious phrase "there is heavenly number in all things" referred to the total number of people in a given era who could attain the Dao. What the Heaven Alliance had done was seize all the fortune of future generations, ensuring that the ones who attained the Dao in every era would forever belong to their side.It resembled the old theory of fighting over the age, but it was more believable and more effective at igniting the anger of the new generation. For cultivators, blocking soone's path of cultivation was like murdering their parents. Every young person had dread of becoming a great power one day.Why couldn't they?Was it because they had not worked hard enough?No.It was because they had not been born inside the Heaven Alliance. If you were not, then you could never climb the heavenly ladder in this life. Maybe you could have beco strong. The only reason you never did was because the Heaven Alliance existed."Why are you staring at like that?"Xia Li noticed Lin Ye watching him, lost in thought, and was rather puzzled. Could looking at him lead to enlightennt or sothing?"I just never imagined the current push against the Heaven Alliance would arrive today, and even less that Brother Xia, you would be the one to open the curtain.""You're getting too formal. No need to call brother. And I never started all of this. At most, I lit the fuse."Under the crushing pressure of the Heaven Alliance, even people inside the Alliance would surely feel endless resentnt if their status was not high enough. Every phenonon needed the right conditions to arise, yet people always ignored those conditions and focused only on the final spark."But that's exactly the point. The Heaven Alliance calculated every step as far as it could. It would never allow anyone to light the fuse. It took away every source of fire. Yet soone still chose to light himself on fire just to leave one spark in this world. Brother Xia, your existence is like a teor from beyond the heavens, the bit of heavenly number that can never be fully calculated.""When there is no fire under heaven, then fire must co from the sky!"Lin Ye seed to gain so kind of insight as he said that, which made Xia Li give him an extra look. It felt like there was sothing beneath the words. Perhaps Lin Ye had already sensed sothing."Let's go back. So how are things in the sect now? Is there still room for ?"Only then did Xia Li casually toss away the charred remains of the Soul Transformation cultivator he had still been holding. The scorched corpse hit the ground and instantly shattered into black ash.
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"You're already the third true transmission of Lingxu Cave Heaven now. The sect even invited heavenly mandate to grant you a dao title. You're called Lord Cangxuan.""They were afraid you wouldn't make it back, so they did it in advance. Even if you died outside, later disciples would still have a morial tablet to pay respects to."Only after the sect invited heavenly mandate to bestow a dao title did one truly enter the core of the sect. After death, such a person would also receive incense offerings from later generations of disciples. Lin Ye grinned at Xia Li as he delivered the news. He had not told Xia Li beforehand. Hearing it, Xia Li looked genuinely surprised. Not only had Lin Ye never ntioned it, even the Third Elder had kept silent. It carried the feel of a posthumous honor for the dead, the sort of thing done to claim prestige for the sect.In other words...the upper levels of Lingxu Cave Heaven must still be highly ambivalent, still wavering, and not especially eager for him to return."If Lingxu Cave Heaven dares accept the fa I brought, then it naturally has to bear the karma that cos with . In that case, I have to go back and enjoy the treatnt due a true transmission disciple.""That's exactly right. So people are probably going to start sweating."Naturally, Lin Ye hoped Xia Li would return and teach the capitulation faction a lesson. Over the last half year, Lin Ye had not been driven mad by enemies so much as disgusted by the capitulationists inside the sect."It's just that your title carries a lot of aning. 'Jun' is an honorific for Nascent Soul cultivators. For a golden core cultivator to be called that is unheard of. Forcing you up to the level of Nascent Soul feels a bit like praise ant to kill, and the na itself is almost too big.""'Cang' matches your thods, your Azure Sun Fla, but it also ans heaven, the vault of heaven, the sky itself. And the word 'xuan' is even less sothing that should be used lightly. This world is called the Profound World, and the path we cultivate is the Profound Path. To seal you with 'xuan' is both recognition and a provocation to all prodigies under heaven. If you ask , it's an open sche. Second praise-to-kill.""'Cang' linked to heaven, your title is practically Heavenly Profound Lord. Then you've got a golden core being called 'jun.' Three characters. Every one of them borders on overstepping. That's praise-to-kill for the third ti.""Brother Xia, are you ready?"Lin Ye went out of his way to explain just how excessive the title was. An ordinary prodigy would never be able to bear that kind of reputation and would be crushed beneath it. But after hearing all that, Xia Li felt nothing much. Titles and dao nas were whatever. If people wanted to call him sothing, let them. The so-called open sche was nothing more than an attempt to sow discord between him and the talented youths of the world. If soone really fell for such a crude sche of praise-to-kill, then maybe they were never much of a prodigy to begin with."If soone really cos looking for trouble with over a re dao title, then I'll be the first to surrender."Xia Li had no intention of proving he deserved the title by charging stupidly into one fight after another. All that nonsense about prodigies being born in battle, about stepping over one another's corpses to rise... His fa was at its peak right now, which made this the exact ti to lie low and conceal his brilliance. He would be delighted if soone blocked the spotlight for him. Better to respond to change with stillness and see what kind of tricks the Heaven Alliance could co up with."Actually surrender?"Lin Ye looked at Xia Li with complete seriousness. Xia Li now possessed exactly the kind of fa every prodigy dread of. Wasn't fa and gain what people lived for? This was not a matter of whether one saw through such things. It was precisely because one saw through them that one needed fa. Without it, nothing could be achieved."Just watch. Tricks like this from the Heaven Alliance, heh..."They were leftovers from Earth's traffic era five hundred years ago. Raise soone up first, then kill them through the backlash of fa. Reduce them until they were worth nothing. But if he refused to take the bait, then the Heaven Alliance could go punch empty air. It would even help him cool himself down and step away from the center of the storm.
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