Chapter 2532: A Page of Time

To rescue Lou Jiangyue, a prisoner unforgiven by Jing Guo, from the Central Heavenly Prison, is undoubtedly a great feat.

If this were before Bian Cheng Wang wore his mask, and the Divine Hero had stepped forward to say these words and send this still breathing, only comatose Lou Jiangyue, Yin Guan would certainly have gladly accepted this reward and given the Divine Hero the full effort of Hell No Gate in return.

But things were already different with Bian Cheng Wang's interference.

They had already negotiated terms with Jing Guo and preserved Lou Jiangyue's life.

Later, they even sent a Zhen Dao member to provide information, which could be considered as accumulating "points" for Lou Jiangyue's future release from prison and also allowing Lou Jiangyue to live a little better in prison.

But Lou Jiangyue had now escaped from prison!

One moment they were humbly negotiating peace, the next they were breaking the agreement and breaching the gates.

This was trampling on Jing Guo's face, treating Jing Guo's laws as waste paper, and fooling Jing Guo's people like fools. How could Jing Guo tolerate this?

Did they still not recognize the power of the Central Empire today?

Escaping from the Central Heavenly Prison cut off her path to life and connected her to the path of death!

Jing Guo could no longer pardon Lou Jiangyue, nor could they simply imprison her forever.

More importantly, the cooperation between Hell No Gate and Equal Country was a real thing.

Yin Guan had indeed proposed a transaction to the Divine Hero.

Even if they sent Lou Jiangyue back to the Central Heavenly Prison now, Jing Guo's trust in them was already lost—who knew what Lou Jiangyue had done during her escape? Who knew what her purpose was in returning to the Central Heavenly Prison?

Furthermore, if there were any other changes in the Central Heavenly Prison during this period, it could never be explained clearly.

Yin Guan didn't know exactly what was inside the Central Heavenly Prison, but he realized that a story had certainly already happened there. The Divine Hero didn't do useless things; since he saved someone, he must have the assurance that this person could not go back.

This was an account that could not be settled clearly.

The Divine Hero's laughter at this moment was truly sinister, and his intentions could be called vicious!

He didn't say Lou Jiangyue shouldn't die, didn't say anyone shouldn't have the heart to harm Lou Jiangyue, but the cooperation between Hell No Gate and Equal Country had been an effort from beginning to end. He was worthy of every penny of reward given by Equal Country.

The Divine Hero abandoned this transaction.

"Saving her was not easy, even for me, it cost a huge price—but you don't seem happy?" The Divine Hero's voice echoed in the waves.

From the beginning until now, Yin Guan hadn't even seen his face.

Unlike Qian Chou, perhaps the Divine Hero, who represented "justice," had never looked down on Hell No Gate from beginning to end.

The killing intent in Yin Guan's green eyes instantly calmed down, letting his long hair drift in the sea wind. He said: "Sorry, I was too nervous."

He even laughed: "If not for Your Excellency's action, I might never have been able to do this thing in my life. This friendship makes me very touched, I truly don't know how to repay you."

The Divine Hero didn't laugh, his voice in the sea wind was somewhat rough and solemn: "This is not friendship, this is just a transaction. You don't need to repay me. I pay the reward, you execute the task, that's all."

"Of course, business is business, and we value our reputation." Yin Guan calmly accepted all of this, touching his heart with his hand to show respect: "May I know what task Your Excellency has to deliver? Hell No Gate will serve you wholeheartedly."

The Divine Hero's voice gradually faded away: "Gather your manpower, wait for my notification."

"Hell No Gate earns gold every day, and our colleagues have worked so hard for so long, they should also have their own lives..." Yin Guan said in a discussing tone: "All members can be on standby for at most five days. After five days, regardless of success or failure, regardless of whether we have done anything or not, it should all be counted as us having completed the task."

"Three days is enough." The Divine Hero's voice was meaningful, then suddenly fell silent, like a stone thrown into the sea, disappearing with a crisp sound.

Yin Guan slowly walked up to the reef, half-squatted down, and used his curse power to carefully check Lou Jiangyue's condition—

Indeed, she was still alive. And she didn't seem to have received the grand welcome of Sang Xian Shou like Wu Guan Wang, or experienced all the torture tools inside the Central Heavenly Prison. Her only suffering should be Yuan Tu disease. Her father, the first True Person of Zhongzhou, must have played a big role.

Yin Guan of course didn't sigh or worry. He just took out the mask engraved with "Chu Jiang Wang" and slowly placed it on Lou Jiangyue's face.

This was a gift he had no right to refuse.

This was an extremely glorious great era, where prodigies rose together and the history of cultivation was repeatedly innovated. This was also an era where human life was as cheap as grass. The weak deserved nothing.

Under the stimulation of the curse power, Lou Jiangyue slowly opened her eyes... then closed them again.

"Open your eyes and get up, you've just received a big job." Yin Guan said lightly: "Holiday's over. Get up and work, don't pretend."

Lou Jiangyue then opened her eyes again, somewhat weak, somewhat painful, and then inexplicably wanted to laugh, but after all, she didn't laugh out: "I thought it was a dream."

"Having to work even in a dream, that's too bitter." Yin Guan said.

"Isn't waking up to work not bitter?" Lou Jiangyue asked.

"Having work to do is better than having no work to do, and they're not not paying you." Yin Guan stood up.

Lou Jiangyue glanced at his long hair tucked into his waist and asked: "What do we do next?"

Yin Guan always did things in a very orderly manner: "First, handle the work at hand."

"Then?"

"Avoid Jing Guo's pursuit, I guess. After all, you are now an escaped criminal. The highest level kind. No one in the organization can compare to you."

"Later?"

"...Think about curing your disease."

"Still managing members' illnesses? I haven't heard our organization has this kind of care."

"Newly added rule." Yin Guan shrugged: "Bian Cheng Wang is back, you know, he's very troublesome. Always likes to stir up things that exist and don't exist."

Lou Jiangyue was silent for a moment. Of course, she knew in what situation Bian Cheng Wang would come back—Qin Guang Wang was about to go mad, or was already mad.

She was still lying on the reef, her body in simple prisoner's clothes, her face covered by the cold mask of the forest, but her eyes were open very clearly, just quietly looking at Yin Guan like this: "You know, I'm more and more having the impulse to kill you."

"Oh. Then what?"

"I will eventually have times when I can't control myself."

"You don't need to control yourself, just have an episode when you want to have an episode, you can't kill me."

Lou Jiangyue's mouth was slightly exaggeratedly open, but that wasn't a smile after all: "What if it's still not cured in the end?"

Yin Guan lifted his foot and walked forward, his voice extremely faint and extremely cold: "Then I'll just kill you then."

Chu Jiang Wang finally laughed: "Good."

She crawled up and followed him into the sea.

The sea wind rolled the waves, as if turning a page of a book.

There was no accident on this line of cause and effect.

In the darkness, that round, open, compassionate Buddha's eye just blinked lightly...

One world had already closed its curtain, another world was pulled open.

Hua la la!

Bao Xuanjing lifted his head from the water basin, his eyes still wide open.

Long eyelashes hung with water droplets, and the shallow down on his face was all wet.

Just looking at this face, he was indeed an exquisite and noble young master.

His eyes were very complex, fear, anger, pain, viciousness, and then in an instant, all empty, leaving only loneliness.

Only those who have experienced eternal existence can be corroded by time to produce such loneliness.

Eternity in the Nether Great World is indeed not true eternity, because the Nether Great World itself cannot exist forever. Immortality in the Nether Great World is also not true immortality, because once the Nether Great World is destroyed, the characteristic of immortality will disappear.

So the Nether gods who live in the Nether Great World and possess great power above the absolute peak in the Nether Great World, strictly speaking, are only "false" transcendents.

The Nether gods and the Nether Great World are bound so deeply that outside the Nether Great World, they can only maintain the power of the Derived Dao level.

This is obviously lacking in competitiveness when facing opponents above the absolute peak.

If the entire Nether Great World is attacked from outside the Nether Great World, even strong Nether gods can only enter an infinite period of endless defense. It is even possible to be exhausted to death—there have indeed been such painful falls in history.

So today's Nether gods are all so "sensible."

Sensible children all have unhappy childhoods.

So the White Bone Venerable God just wanted to leave that place at all costs, wanting to pursue true immortality and eternity!

But there was always someone who wanted to block his path.

Bao Xuanjing carefully washed his face and slowly wiped it with a towel.

He looked at himself in the bronze mirror for a while, and suddenly remembered what his grandfather had told him—after killing someone, always wash your hands clean.

He washed his hands again.

Speaking of which, he had lived for an extremely long time, annihilating countless lives under his palm, but for what his grandfather taught him about killing, he was unexpectedly mysteriously touched.

At this moment, he finally thought clearly—

In his almost eternal life, he had long ago lost the fear of life and forgotten the fear of death.

Even during these years when he descended as Bao Xuanjing, he almost saw the path to eternity right in front of him. He believed that he could definitely reach it.

He had never truly felt the threat of death, never thought he would fail, not even death.

Until this time!

And his grandfather, who was the contemporary True Person, titled Shuofang Earl, and single-handedly supported the momentum of the Bao family, was the one who truly killed weak lives with a weak life, walking on the edge of a knife in the equally risky bloody storm.

Grandfather was truly qualified to discuss the art of killing. Because before killing someone, grandfather always held the awareness of being killed.

Today was a day of walking on thin ice, a day of escaping from death.

Today, he ended his outing with Zheng Shangming, returned to the Shuofang Earl mansion located in the core area of Linzi city, asked people to buy a handful of Kai Mai Dan as candy beans, and chewed on them while thinking.

At the moment he buried his head in the water basin, he gave up Huang Quan!

But he knew this was still not enough.

Far from enough.

He emptied everything and saw nothing in the water, but he clearly felt a pair of eyes watching him!

He was being stared at, and he understood.

His White Bone Dao Embryo was a fragrant treasure medicine, and everything he had as a Nether god was a huge treasure waiting to be developed. Precious as Huang Quan was only a part of it.

If there was a first time, there would be a second time.

He could not merely rely on hiding himself and escaping after abandoning Huang Quan—what if he was found?

Although he had already solved the problem of his body and escaped the enemy's view of Heaven Will, how did he know that in the process of that generation using Heaven Will as a knife, he was not captured for more clues?

Facing opponents of this level, he dared not say he was completely without leaks.

On the way back to the Shuofang Earl mansion, including locking himself in the room until now, he had been constantly asking himself—how should I do?

"What should I do, Xuanjing?" Miao Yuzhi looked at him worriedly, with a mother's concern.

She was undoubtedly willing to die for her child, but her ability was limited.

"First, we must know who the opponent is!" Bao Zonglin, who had personally captured Bao Weihong and taken him to sue Changhua Earl, looked serious and frowned in thought.

This old man, who had long since retired from official positions and had been cultivating in Yin Qiao County to impact Dongzhen, actually had no hope of Dongzhen.

He was sealed as an Earl at the age of sixty, and achieved Shenlin with the help of national power. At that time, his vitality and blood were already beginning to decline, his Jin Qu was almost incomplete, and he only produced a few drops of Yu Sui.

Choosing to stay in the Bao family's land in Yin Qiao County was more about his own hopeless future and focusing on the family's future.

The title of Changhua Earl was destined to be only for one generation. How long he could live, how long he could preserve this title for the Bao family.

Originally, Bao Bozhao and Bao Zhongqing were both enlightened and taught by him, from literature to martial arts, up to Kai Mai. It was only then that Bao Yi made time to guide them himself.

Bao Xuanjing was different. From the day he was born, this child was personally brought up by Bao Yi. What books he read, what laws he cultivated, what weapons he practiced, Bao Yi planned everything one by one and personally guided him. No matter how busy he was, he never missed checking his lessons... This child truly carried the hopes of several generations of the Bao family.

"Could it be that one in the Wash Moon Nunnery?" Bao Zonglin picked out the clues one by one: "Didn't Xuanjing meet the White Bone Saintess in Linzi? This led to a series of changes. It was actually strange that the Wash Moon Nunnery accepted the White Bone Dao Saintess as a true disciple. Perhaps from the beginning, they were targeting Xuanjing."

"Wash Moon Nunnery?" Miao Yuzhi listened very hard.

"The Wash Moon Nunnery has a person in a painting, her Dharma name is 'Yuan Kong'. She cut off worldly affairs early, doesn't touch cause and effect, and is seeking the last step leap." Bao Xuanjing explained and shook his head: "Not her. That old nun hasn't transcended yet, it's impossible for her to calculate about me. Even if she accepted the White Bone Saintess for the White Bone Dao Embryo, she couldn't know I am I... She doesn't easily take action, tying herself to a fate she cannot receive, blocking her path to transcendence, let alone pushing Heaven Will to this level of knife art."

"What about Luo Sha Ming Yue Jing?" Bao Zonglin asked again: "Besides being Yu Zhen of Wash Moon Nunnery, the White Bone Saintess is also Mei Yue of Three Points Fragrance Building. Among these..."

Miao Yuzhi said thoughtfully: "Yu Zhen of Wash Moon Nunnery is Mei Yue of Three Points Fragrance Building. Then could Master Yuan Kong in the painting be Luo Sha Ming Yue Jing?"

"I don't completely know the secrets of the relationship between the Wash Moon Nunnery and the Three Points Fragrance Building. But Luo Sha Ming Yue Jing once offended He Lian Shan Hai, and the Wash Moon Nunnery is still developing in Mu Country now. They shouldn't be the same person, they only have secret contact behind the scenes..." Bao Xuanjing said while retrieving information: "This matter can be used as a chip. I'll use it when I contact these two forces later."

He took a breath: "It's also not Luo Sha Ming Yue Jing. She cultivates the Extreme Bliss Immortal Law and Calamity Country Divine Power, she can't push Heaven Will as a knife."

"Could it be Tian Anping?" Miao Yuzhi suddenly thought of something: "We were just preparing to deal with him."

"Mother, don't guess blindly." Bao Xuanjing looked at her, somewhat helpless: "If Tian Anping had this ability, he wouldn't have been pierced through the throat by a sword from my uncle Jiang Wang."

Mentioning Jiang Wang, Miao Yuzhi was somewhat in a trance: "Otherwise, ask your uncle Jiang Wang what to do?"

"Although I call him uncle, he doesn't truly treat me as a nephew!" Bao Xuanjing said in a bad mood: "Asking him what to do is still like walking directly in front of Jiang Shu and telling him I am the White Bone Dao Embryo, that I descended to this world just to transcend. Use loyalty to exchange for his protection—"

Saying this, he paused: "This is indeed a method. But it cannot be now. Going to Jiang Shu now will only result in him eating me clean. Unless there is no other way, or I truly have the means to protect myself."

He slowly walked around the room.

"Actually, when I detected that I was targeted by Heaven Will, who my opponent was, it was already very clear."

"In the current world, those who are good at stirring Heaven Will are nothing more than those Star Divination Masters, but with the level of these current Star Divination Masters, it is absolutely impossible to push the Heaven Will knife to this degree. Even Star Witch Zhuge Yi Xian is still far from this step. Even Jiang Wang and Yuan Zhi Ben, who can most splash in the sea of Heaven Dao, do not have this momentum to grasp heaven and swallow the sea—"

He exhaled a long breath: "To be able to force me to this step without even meeting me or capturing my identity, just with Heaven Will, can only be done by a transcendent."

"My child!" Miao Yuzhi said in shock: "Why would a transcendent target you?"

Bao Xuanjing curled his mouth, exposing his neat white teeth: "Cherish jade its crime!"

"Which transcendent?" Bao Zonglin directly entered the problem-solving state: "Can you guide Him and His Majesty against each other? As a direct descendant of the Bao family, the future Shuofang Earl of Great Qi, it is a matter of course for national power to protect you."

"This idea can indeed be realized, but it cannot be done like this." Bao Xuanjing was very satisfied with Bao Zonglin. This Changhua Earl was truly smart, of course, still not comparable to his grandfather, but he still couldn't be so frank in front of his grandfather...

He explained: "The Emperor is very suspicious. He will certainly pursue why I would be targeted by a transcendent. At that time, my life and death will not be my own, all in his one thought."

"As for who that being targeting me is..."

"It can only start from Heaven Will. In the current era, there are not many who can influence the deep sea of Heaven Dao stronger than Jiang Wang and Yuan Zhi Ben. One is the demon record history Wu Zhai Xue, one is the Heaven Concubine during the Qi Wu Emperor period—if they are still alive."

Bao Xuanjing's true reliance was that as the White Bone Venerable God, he had lived for a long time, and that he was once above the absolute peak, possessing transcendent-level insights. This allowed him to easily discover secrets that others could not detect when reading history in the dust of time.

Once sitting in the White Bone God Palace, he only occasionally peeked at the present world and did not dare to examine it in detail, missing many details. After descending to the world as the White Bone Dao Embryo, he painstakingly read history, from Qi to Yang, a hundred generations in his eyes, the central four directions, and the countries in his heart.

"Heaven Concubine?!" Miao Yuzhi didn't recognize who Wu Zhai Xue was, but the title Heaven Concubine was like thunder piercing the ear. Several idle books in the boudoir couldn't escape this name: "Do you think she might still be alive?"

Then she blamed him: "What kind of books are you reading at such a young age!"

Bao Xuanjing was somewhat baffled, but only said: "These two people are only possibly alive, but even if they are alive, they are not the existence targeting me. Because they are not transcendent ones."

"Besides?" Bao Zonglin asked.

"That existence in the Calamity Water that combines Confucianism and Zen." Bao Xuanjing said cautiously: "He himself is a person of the Yi Luo race, born to survive in the deep sea of Heaven Dao, successively cultivated under two great learning ancestors, and then proved transcendence... But He is suppressed in the Sin Sea, isolated from the deep sea of Heaven Dao, blocked by the red dust gate, fundamentally unable to contact the power of Heaven Dao, and can do very limited things. Among the limited things He can do, it definitely does not include chopping me with this knife."

The fact that the No Sin Heavenly Person was simultaneously a disciple of Confucian Ancestor Kong Ke and a follower of the World Honored One Shakyamuni was probably known to very few people in this world.

Perhaps it was precisely because the restless Nether gods saw too many things they shouldn't have seen that they were one by one blood-washed. Now they are all locked in their god countries, saying they will never look outward.

Bao Zonglin had no time to think about the complex identity of the No Sin Heavenly Person. He only cared about Bao Xuanjing's future: "If He is also not, who else could there be?"

Bao Xuanjing lifted his head: "An existence that can grasp Heaven Dao even more than the one I just mentioned... naturally is His teacher."

Bao Zonglin was shocked: "World—"

Bao Xuanjing stopped him: "You cannot call his name directly!"

Miao Yuzhi beside him also fell into shock.

Although she was the daughter of a county guard, her vision did not even exceed the Shenlin level. It was only after marrying into the Bao family and giving birth to Bao Xuanjing that her vision opened up. But no matter what, the matter of the World Honored One, a transcendent, was something she absolutely could not imagine.

Let alone that the World Honored One might actually be the person targeting her son!

"He..." Miao Yuzhi's voice unconsciously trembled: "Isn't he dead?"

Bao Zonglin, on the other hand, quickly calmed down: "Some people also say He is not dead. Didn't the masters of Ku Rong Court often say that the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Buddhas is eternally immortal, not dying and not perishing... It's normal that Jade Zhi doesn't know, by the time you were born, Ku Rong Court no longer existed."

"He died, but also didn't die. I'm not very clear about what happened that year..." Bao Xuanjing frowned in recall: "I only know that the last three Dao Venerables also took action, and a part of Him was suppressed under Heaven Capital City. Perhaps He has already escaped the seal now?"

He murmured: "Perhaps I can let my grandfather check the information on Jing Guo's side to confirm whether there have been changes in the Central Heavenly Prison."

He then shook his head: "But it shouldn't be in time..."

If the World Honored One's escape from the seal was already widely known, then the suppression from the Dao Gate would also necessarily follow.

So if the World Honored One had something to do, it would certainly be done before the news of His escape from the seal was exposed.

What did the World Honored One have to do?

Among them already clearly included him, Bao Xuanjing.

In other words, by the time he waited for his grandfather to check the news related to the World Honored One on Jing Guo's side, it was very possible that he would have already been swallowed!

That Heaven Will knife that brushed past his neck made him uneasy to this day. Just thinking about it made him cold all over.

He must react as soon as possible! Abandoning Huang Quan was to extinguish the possibility of being found as much as possible, but at the same time, the best defense is offense.

The way to escape being coveted is to gouge out that pair of covetous eyes!

"Jing Er." Bao Zonglin was somewhat numb. Before this, the fiercest opponent he had imagined was only the Chong Xuan family, who had long been in overt and covert struggle with the Bao family. Now he thought it was truly too far beyond: "If it's really that one... what do you want to do?"

"Now people are the chopping board and I am the fish meat. He is a transcendent, I am only an eight-year-old child."

"Should say—"

Little Bao Xuanjing looked up at the dome, his eyes abnormally lonely at this moment: "What can I do?"

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