Chapter 390: Chapter 376: Confrontation

“Old fox.”

Fu Qingjun sat in the tavern, silently cursing under his breath.

“One trap after another, one doll nested within another, these people’s endless schemes are giving me a headache. Finding Jiaxia on my own is simply impossible, so this is the only way.”

But there was truly no other option; this universe was being manipulated in their hands, and alone he was too weak to accomplish anything. He could only make a deal with the devil.

The cosmic rules exist in fragments.

Like the lowest-level fragments such as the rule of fire, there are said to be millions of them.

The higher the level of the rule, the fewer the fragments.

There are three fragments of the life rule, and only by combining them can the powers of life in the Ancient Cosmos be perfectly executed.

Fu Qingjun sat waiting in the tavern, soon a letter fell from the void onto the table, “When there’s a benefit to be gained, they act quickly. After all, to them, the intelligence of Emperor Xia isn’t too important. They’ve already obtained Emperor Xia’s rule, and in their eyes, Emperor Xia is already a spent force, it doesn’t matter where he goes, he can’t threaten them.”

Fu Qingjun kept reviewing the information, “Hmm, they’re going to spend a certain cost soon to track and observe Emperor Xia’s whereabouts? Let me wait?”

…

Meanwhile.

Immortal Celestial Venerable and Venerable of Longevity were discussing in the shadows.

“Venerable of Creation actually seeks an alliance with you? Then asks you to contact me? To form a life faction?” Primordial Longevity Celestial Venerable was surprised, pacing continuously in the palace, deep in thought, “What is he up to?”

Fu Qingjun considers their tactics deep, yet they similarly perceive that Venerable of Creation has deep schemes.

They are those who love to ponder, skilled in calculation, or else they wouldn’t have lived to today.

“Not only does he know Emperor Xia, but he must know Emperor Xia hasn’t decayed, which is why he’s going to such lengths to find him!”

Primordial Longevity Celestial Venerable exhaled heavily, hands clasped behind his back, speculating calmly:

“Given that, he must have met Emperor Xia to be so certain of Emperor Xia’s character, and Emperor Xia has been missing for over a hundred billion years, fleeing and wandering in time’s currents, it’s extremely difficult, because we control his demonic thoughts, we can use his rules to hunt him, making him dare not leap into the past timelines, thus making survival more challenging, difficult to take a step, thus, the opponent can only have seen Emperor Xia before his frenzied escape….”

Their deduction, stripping away layers, seems reasonable and indeed true.

They have already speculated that Fu Qingjun, for some reason, knows Emperor Xia, understands his character, and this Celestial Venerable hasn’t yet become as corrupted as them.

“Venerable of Creation, truly an ancient existence, concealed for hundreds of billions of years, knowing the prehistoric Emperor Xia.” Primordial Longevity Celestial Venerable mused, “If he truly lived for hundreds of billions of years, even without the sentient beings we’ve bestowed upon him, his strength could achieve at least the Celestial Venerable level, far from as weak as we imagined.”

Immortal Celestial Venerable replied curiously, “Since he’s not that keen on cultivation strength, why this intense search for Emperor Xia? He even proposes an alliance with us?”

“That’s indeed odd.” Primordial Longevity Celestial Venerable pondered,

In fact, whether Venerable of Creation’s cultivation matters to them, these ancient beings aren’t concerned, even if the other’s cultivation reaches their level, so what?

Whether one more Celestial Venerable or one less makes hardly any difference.

After all, in the presence of a large group of dragons, whether the opponent is another dragon or merely an ant, it’s fundamentally no different, equally weak. They fear not direct combat, rather they worry about the opponent leveraging the grand trends, as was done before.

Therefore, they are indifferent towards Venerable of Creation’s power increase, it’s not unacceptable for him to grow stronger, they even hope the other is a straightforward warrior, wasting vast energy and time to become stronger, indulging in foolish endeavors to overthrow them, hence allowing this trade to commence.

“Let’s sort our thoughts, he wants to unite us two, together we’re a complete life rule, add to it Summer Celestial Venerable who can deduce past and future, plus must contact ally Nether Celestial Venerable, a complete life, past and future time, concealed space….” They furrowed their brows, feeling like they grasped something undefined but profound.

“Forget it, we should first find Summer Celestial Venerable, maintain the status quo against changes.” They were unconcerned.

Time flew by, a month later.

This Angel incarnation of Fu Qingjun was still at the inn next to that tavern waiting, finally another letter arrived.

He glanced at the letter, tearing it gently.

Scrap.

A space door manifested where he stood, Fu Qingjun stepped boldly through.

Upon opening his eyes, he found himself in an entirely chaotic outer domain, surrounded by desolation, “Is this the backside of the Cosmic Continent?”

If the old universe was a ball, then the new Cosmic Continent established by the Celestial Venerables was like a massive flat mushroom rooted on the ball.

Here was the opposite side of the fungus root on the ball, also the place with the lowest governance from the Cosmic Continent, and it was sufficiently deserted here.

Sounds of water gushed.

A voice echoed:

“Summer Celestial Venerable is within that ray of light ahead, but he vanishes as soon as he senses Celestial Venerables searching. Can you make him stay? Even we cannot stop his escape.”

“We’ve found Emperor Xia multiple times, yet capturing him is challenging, as he leaves upon first contact.”

Fu Qingjun nodded.

Truly the apex ruler like a Celestial Venerable, if it were up to me to search, it would take ten thousand years to locate this spot.

Fu Qingjun advanced, lightly touching the light gate opposite.

From across came a familiar sensation.

A voice uttered, “Is it you? God? We haven’t met for two hundred billion years, yet you appear in this era now. Indeed, you’ve altered your identity, becoming Venerable of Creation of this era?”

It was Emperor Xia’s voice.

Concealed in the shadows Immortal Celestial Venerable and Venerable of Creation’s hearts pounded, “Indeed they know each other! Emperor Xia escapes into flight upon seeing us, yet when seeing Venerable of Creation he remains, utterly enigmatic!”

“Moreover, he’s older than we expected, Emperor Xia saying: you continually change identities, Venerable of Creation, what kind of person are you?”

However, Emperor Xia’s next words struck them beyond silence.

“It’s been hundreds of billions of years, I still recall that moment when I was utterly defeated.”

The two Celestial Venerables began to feel a bit shocked.

Venerable of Creation was already a remarkably strong Celestial Venerable hundreds of billions of years ago, utterly defeating Emperor Xia, and now, after hundreds of billions of years, he’s undoubtedly among the strongest Celestial Venerable masters.

He’s pretending to be younger!!!

The two Celestial Venerables exchanged glances, fear enveloping their hearts,

This Venerable of Creation is more concealed than we imagined, profound and inscrutable, indeed as scheming as we are.

And having hidden for so long, what kind of plan is he plotting secretly, what kind of grand scheme to overthrow their rule?

Amid their reverie.

Emperor Xia once more, as if facing a formidable foe, uttered words that startled them even more:

“Who are you? This evil puppet master from behind the scenes, what era do you belong to? What is the Divine Demon Night Banquet?”

“I’ve heard about it, you’ve reincarnated through one era after another at the Divine Demon Night Banquet, and appeared; previously reincarnating back to two hundred billion years ago, now you’ve reincarnated into this era?”

“You are probably still not of this spacetime, could it be you still hail from the distant future, is your true form from hundreds of billions of years after the new universe is completely established?”

“You are from a future established mature universe, observing us as prehistoric, chaos undeveloped inhabitants of Hongmeng Cosmos, prehistoric apes, seeking amusement now?”

Words of soul-inquisition crossing hundreds of billions of years left everyone present shaken to their cores.

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