Chapter 2471: At Ease (3)

The entire *Xun Ri Gu Pan* cave heaven world trembled.

Sun Yin was falling endlessly, his eyes wide open.

Having reached this point in time, knowing Qian Chou's true identity and witnessing Ye Lingxiao's immortal body, how could he, with his wisdom, still not understand?

At first, he had always thought that in this war to purge Yi Zhen, he was the backup ensuring the execution of Yi Zhen's Dao executioner, the person ensuring the Equality Congress's "cooperation" with Jing Country's actions.

He thought that Jing Heavenly Emperor Ji Fengzhou and the female prime minister Lüqiu Wenyue had orchestrated everything, only miscalculating Kuang Min's strength.

But in reality, this wasn't a miscalculation either.

He was just one of the people pushing the Equality Congress into action... one of them.

Compared to the information he received from Li Yuan She, which was used once, untraceable and going with the flow, Ye Lingxiao was the one who directly cooperated with Jing Country and secretly led the situation!

He was also the true power behind this battle.

A Shangdao True Monarch accumulating wealth qi and dust qi, paying the price for becoming Dao.

Yan Chunhui displaying peak power, unleashing the sword from the blood lotus in his heart.

Plus Sun Yin and Qian Chou himself, plus the *Xun Ri Gu Pan*...

In fact, if the Yi Zhen Dao leader hadn't appeared today, Kuang Min would have been completely finished. No matter how deeply he hid, it still didn't match Ye Lingxiao's hatred for Yi Zhen Dao.

All of this was just because of one name, a name that was once a legend, almost becoming a legend—

Lüqiu Chaolu!

The champion of the unrestricted field at the Yellow River Assembly in Dao Calendar 3896.

Lüqiu Wenyue's only daughter.

The beginning of this story was due to a grand plan—Lüqiu Wenyue's presentation of the Six Harmonies Scheme to the Heavenly Emperor that year!

Lüqiu Wenyue had read ten thousand volumes, was well-versed in ancient and modern times, and inherently possessed great ambition. She sought not to be above ten thousand people, but to open up ancient and modern eras and create history. Even as the prime minister of the world's first empire, there had been over fifty such individuals accumulated over four thousand years. Her goal had never appeared before, representing the pinnacle of the new era's state system—the Six Harmonies Empire!

"How can I, bearing the central prime minister's seal, not be a prime minister who harmonizes the six for the country?!"

This and other widely circulated famous sayings were uttered before she became prime minister, and they became the ideal of countless scholars throughout the empire.

Like the calligraphy *Jing Ping Cang Hai*, she didn't just wave her brush once.

This existing painting scroll allowed her to outline a grand plan.

Today she schemed for *Cang Hai*, in the past she schemed for an "Immortal Court"!

In the past, when the immortal era ended, the immortals, with their supreme immortal arts, sent a batch of immortal seeds to "ascend." They entrusted hope to these true immortals to escape the final great calamity and descend in the most glorious era to re-lead it.

This, of course, was a beautiful hope, almost impossible to realize.

The Immortal Emperor had been beaten into eternal slumber, the Immortal Palace was shattered, and most of the Immortal Dao inheritance was lost. What remained barely survived through various obscure means... How could Yi Zhen Dao allow those immortal seeds to survive?

Over a long period, they never gave up the hunt and had already found and eliminated those immortal seeds one by one.

Yet, Lüqiu Wenyue set her sights on the legacy of the immortal era, wanting to realize that beautiful hope in the name of Jing Country.

The immortals had sketched an ideal outline but couldn't achieve it. The nine great Immortal Palaces of the past era, spanning the world, aimed to reach the final great achievement... Jing Country had the ability to realize it.

The Central Empire encompassed everything, not only enjoying the most abundant resources of the current era under its state system but also absorbing historical resources.

She wanted to construct the central court into an Immortal Court!

She wanted to lead the country to ascend! To surpass the existence of the ancient demon clan's heavenly court. To allow the great central hall, carrying the hundred officials of the Heavenly Capital, to completely escape the calamities of heaven and earth and humanity, to not suffer the eight sufferings of human life, and to leap to a higher place in the present world, shining eternally like the sun and moon.

This was the Immortal Court scheme.

If Jing Court were truly constructed into an Immortal Court, even the three veins of the Dao Gate would no longer be able to restrain it, and Yi Zhen Dao would be insignificant. Ji Fengzhou would possess authority surpassing all previous monarchs. From the perspective of the Immortal Court overlooking the human world, the Six Harmonies uniting would also be a natural outcome.

This was a grand design that transcended the contemporary pattern, surpassed space, and sought answers in time.

And the first step of this grand plan was to fish for immortal seeds.

Lüqiu Wenyue, using the unformed fetus in her womb, nurtured with literary qi, as bait, and the dragon qi of the Central Empire as the fishing line, set up the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Slay Immortal Array, hidden within the power of Great Jing Country, using this as the fishing hook!

Sun Yin no longer knew the details of this fishing, because the entire history had been intentionally erased.

In short, this Great Jing female prime minister, whose "literary thought illuminated ancient and modern like the moon," finally successfully received the legacy of the last generation of immortals, obtaining the blessing of the immortal era, making her unborn child already an immortal seed.

This child nurtured within Lüqiu Wenyue's womb was later the peerless prodigy—Lüqiu Chaolu.

Born an immortal seed, growing into an immortal body.

Whether she was lucky or not is unknown.

Her birth was already a legendary story. From a young age, she displayed talents that ordinary geniuses could not reach. Born carrying an immortal spoon in the era of the shattered Immortal Palace, she was destined to become the first decreed true immortal within Jing Country's Immortal Court, even potentially the supreme one... the Immortal Empress!

Ji Fengzhou needed to borrow her power to construct the Immortal Court, and also promised Lüqiu Wenyue that he was willing to share the authority of the Immortal Court with her beloved daughter, this first true immortal.

But for someone like Lüqiu Chaolu, how could her love submit to the will of others?

Whether it was the most powerful Heavenly Emperor in the current world or the mother who gave birth to, raised, and educated her.

She only submitted to free will and did not fear worldly authority. She only sought the supreme Immortal Dao internally and was indifferent to everything external.

She fell in love with a dawdling man named "Ye Xiaohua" regardless of everything, and the Immortal Court scheme was unfortunately captured by Yi Zhen Dao.

The mainstream evaluation of Ye Xiaohua by the important figures at the time was that he "had luxuriant branches and leaves covering his quality, too flashy and hard to support the heavens."

He was a playboy, a person with nothing to his name except a face.

And the pre-emptive revelation of the Immortal Court scheme directly ignited a war!

That was an earth-shattering change, affecting the various forces of the Dao veins and almost splitting the Dao Country.

The last immortal seed recorded in history disappeared under the Yuan Jie Technique just like that, their traces forever erased.

At the end of that change, just as old decay like Xun Jiucang had expected, the internal rift in Jing Country was healed, and Jing Country's external dignity was not damaged.

The Jing Heavenly Emperor, with his superb political skills, curbed the situation in time, appeased all sides, and patched up the central giant ship, allowing it to continue sailing far.

The internal turmoil in Jing Country, despite being so immense, was quelled before the various sides even had time to react.

But in Sun Yin's view, setting aside all the dazzling actions, the essence of that turmoil was the compromise of the emperor's party and the end of it. Lüqiu Wenyue accepted the death of her only daughter, and the Jing Heavenly Emperor gave up the beautiful dream of the Immortal Court. Thereafter, no one in Jing Country explored the Immortal Palace again, no one replicated immortal arts, and no one... mentioned the name Lüqiu Chaolu again.

Ye Lingxiao, Lüqiu Chaolu, Lüqiu Wenyue.

Linking these names together, if Sun Yin still didn't understand the situation today, he wouldn't deserve to bear the disaster of the entire Tai Ping You Clan and seek revenge on Yi Zhen Dao alone.

Now he looked back at everything that had happened in the past, those scenes. The thread of the story lurking within the enormous shadow of the first empire gradually lit up, like a torch in the long night, winding like a dragon, so clear! So grand!

After the failure of the Jing Hai Plan, Lüqiu Wenyue prostrated herself in the central great hall, begging for death, and finally retired and went into seclusion. This was considered swallowing the bitter fruit of the Jing Hai matter's failure alone, completely fading out of politics, providing an explanation to the various veins.

But who could have thought that that was in fact a rehearsal for exterminating Yi Zhen Dao?

Lüqiu Wenyue wasn't begging for her own death!

The failure of *Cang Hai* instead intensified the Jing Heavenly Emperor's determination.

Everyone thought he would definitely recuperate for a long time this time, waiting for the situation to stabilize and the emperor's party's strength to recover before slowly planning. Instead, he cut off his arm and scraped the bone, pulling out the poison with a posture of not fearing death!

Sun Yin, who now understood the Jing Heavenly Emperor better, didn't believe that posture of not fearing death. He was certain that Ji Fengzhou had a greater grasp of the situation before displaying such courage!

Such a Great Jing prime minister as Lüqiu Wenyue, harboring a huge hatred for Yi Zhen Dao, retired from that extremely important position only to allow Yi Zhen Dao to be more relaxed and more reckless before the final action began.

The emperor's party was defeated, Lüqiu Wenyue retired, and the emperor's party and the three veins fought for power... Wasn't this precisely the stage for Yi Zhen Dao to greatly display their power?

And it was also the last opportunity for Ji Fengzhou and Lüqiu Wenyue to observe Yi Zhen Dao, to peel their skin and bone!

Ye Lingxiao had endured for so many years, cultivating both immortal and divine paths. Of course, he wouldn't miss out on revenge.

Lüqiu Wenyue and Ye Lingxiao were originally mortal enemies, but their common hatred created a foundation for their cooperation. Not to mention that exterminating Yi Zhen was also an extension of Lüqiu Wenyue's political ideals.

There was truly no need for surprise!

Until Kuang Min appeared, Sun Yin still thought that Zhao Ziru and Qian Chou were pursuing the ideal of equality, that they were rashly drawn into this situation because of him, encountering opponents much stronger than they had imagined. He still felt very guilty and wanted to stay and cover their retreat—then Zhao Zi said she was only motivated by hatred, and Qian Chou's true identity was Ye Lingxiao.

The three murderers currently widely known for killing Yin Xiaoheng were indeed the three people who most wanted to kill Yin Xiaoheng.

Jing Country's setup was very precise!

Because they simply pinched names according to the list, because everything was under their control.

Sun Yin couldn't help but recall.

How did he get together with these two people back then, preparing to kill Yin Xiaoheng?

Did he really propose it himself?

It seemed that when they met, they were already eager to try.

As soon as he mentioned the name, Qian Chou was impatient, and Zhao Zi gladly went.

Originally, he thought they were like-minded, but now... they were overly like-minded.

Letting Ye Lingxiao deal with Kuang Min explained the importance of the Yi Zhen Dao executioner to the emperor's party. They didn't view him as someone who could be temporarily released and pursued later. Or it explained the emperor's party's control over the situation, refusing to let go of a key figure of Yi Zhen Dao.

But Ye Lingxiao's strength also increasingly indicated that there would be no backup here.

Because Ye Lingxiao was strong enough to prevent all accidents in theory.

Only the Yi Zhen Dao leader was an existence capable of rewriting everything. Even under the bitter hatred of Ji Fengzhou and Lüqiu Wenyue, in the midst of the emperor's party's sudden attack, he still counterattacked violently, stirring ripples in a pool of spring water!

An existence as strong as the immortal-divine dual cultivator Ye Lingxiao, relying on so many years of revenge preparation and a fierce battle, could only choose to open the *Xun Ri Gu Pan* and expose the Yi Zhen Dao leader's tracks. This was the only method.

Sun Yin stared fixedly at all this, while continuing to futilely impact the seal, hoping to cause even a tiny bit of interference for the Yi Zhen Dao leader.

He completely disregarded the fact that once the *Xun Ri Gu Pan* was opened, he would likely be exiled to the depths of the universe in this sculpture-like state, spending the remaining nine thousand years of his life in such loneliness, enduring bitterly until death. Perhaps he could only hope to encounter a danger strong enough to destroy this body, which would be a stroke of luck that he couldn't seek.

So he saw—

The Yi Zhen Dao leader spread out his five fingers and pressed forward.

*Ka ka! Ka!*

That wildly rotating sundial needle was forcibly stopped!

Violent, arrogant cave heaven power, and the divine ability named Hundred Treasures, actually dispersed!

The Yi Zhen Dao leader, with supreme means, forcibly peeled off Ye Lingxiao's influence over the *Xun Ri Gu Pan*, then flipped his palm!

The *Xun Ri Gu Pan* suddenly inverted.

It was like a pot lid that was about to open was fiercely closed again!

"The master of this cave heaven treasure tool is not you," the Yi Zhen Dao leader said indifferently. "The connection between you and it seems tight, but there is a crack a thousand miles wide, broad enough to hide a universe."

The effort to open the *Xun Ri Gu Pan* was shattered, and the divine ability holding the treasure tool was torn. Ye Lingxiao's face turned ashen instantly.

The Hundred Treasures divine ability was in a sense a divine ability to burn money and melt gold. The more invested, the more precious the resources, the stronger the divine ability's performance. This perfectly fit his merchant path and was an important reliance for him to cast the golden body of the merchant path and cultivate the Yang spirit of the merchant path.

As the saying goes, "No magic tools in the world surpass cave heaven supreme treasures, and the value of various treasures can hardly reach a fraction of a cave heaven."

The most precious cave heaven treasure tool, when added to the Hundred Treasures divine ability, was undoubtedly the strongest!

But in that instant just now, the Yi Zhen Dao leader precisely captured that one subtle discord between him and the *Xun Ri Gu Pan*, tearing that tiny crack into a heavenly moat—because the true master of the *Xun Ri Gu Pan* was Zhao Wang. Zhao Wang was willing to let his protector borrow the *Xun Ri Gu Pan* and use its power, but it was impossible to allow it to be borrowed and not returned.

No matter how much authority was released, as long as it was controlled by him, he didn't truly own it.

So he didn't expect to shatter the Yi Zhen Dao leader with just this *Xun Ri Gu Pan*. He merely wanted to open it.

But even this point, he couldn't achieve.

Clearly, it was only that tiny gap...

"Where is the universe you speak of?" Ye Lingxiao asked.

"The universe is in my eyes," the Yi Zhen Dao leader looked at Ye Lingxiao as if overlooking all beings. That hand reached out again: "I can give you a quick death! Tell me, who is Zhao Wang?"

Ye Lingxiao's immortal body was like thin paper, floating in the air, his wealth god golden body slightly resisting this body.

"This is indeed Zhao Wang's treasure tool, handed over for the Equality Congress to use. But only in my hands can it display its strongest form."

"I also imagined that one day, if Zhao Wang and I were enemies, or if he didn't allow me to take revenge on Yi Zhen Dao..."

Ye Lingxiao slowly closed his five fingers, the immortal light on his body flickered, and the wealth god behind him greatly unleashed treasure light—that sundial needle suddenly jumped!

The Yi Zhen Dao leader remotely pressed it to stop again, pressing it down, not allowing it to rotate.

This sundial needle, like a person who swore to resist to the death, simply broke on the sundial disk!

That enormous stone sundial disk also appeared with countless cracks—Ye Lingxiao resisted by destroying the *Xun Ri Gu Pan*!

There was no need to open it anymore.

The moment the *Xun Ri Gu Pan* was completely destroyed, the battlefield here naturally had no cover or blockage.

Even if the Yi Zhen Dao leader was already strong enough to peel off Ye Lingxiao's control over the *Xun Ri Gu Pan*, he was too late to prevent the collapse of this cave heaven and unable to save the destruction of this cave heaven treasure tool.

The treasure tool is destroyed, now witness the divine ability!

The cave heaven was destroyed in an instant, and the ultimate terrifying Dao principle shattering wave expanded in all directions.

Vast white light shone and flushed everything away.

Zhao Zi was already unable to maintain her vision, and Sun Yin's eyes were dazzling as if he were blind!

Kuang Min then curled his body like a cocoon, hugging his four arms, propping up light like an outer armor.

One instant of strong light, one instant of extinguishing again.

In the end, it was still the Yi Zhen Dao leader and Ye Lingxiao suspending relatively in the air.

*Ka cha ka cha ka cha!*

The enormous stone sundial broke into countless fragments.

The world of the *Xun Ri Gu Pan* had collapsed!

But it collapsed in the Yi Zhen Dao leader's palm.

This battlefield was still covered and concealed, only this time, it was the Yi Zhen Dao leader covering the sky with one hand!

He flattened his hand, gripping his five fingers into a fist, and the stone fragments of the *Xun Ri Gu Pan* just flew and fell from his fist heart: "In the face of true power, all your efforts are futile. You know that everything cannot change... right?"

But Ye Lingxiao looked at the so powerful Yi Zhen Dao leader, only splitting open his mouth full of fresh blood: "I already know... who you are!"