Whoever Doesn't Listen to Me Is a Bad Guy

Chaos! In this instant, confusion seized almost everyone. Even several powerful combatants were at a complete loss. Jing Tian had backstabbed Huo Tian, while Ji Tian was backstabbing E Tian. Su Yu, joined by several mighty experts, was besieging the Human Ancestor. Meanwhile, spurred by Su Yu's furious bellow, the Lord of Dead Spirits was battering the Earth Gate! The Prison King was rapidly opening her heaven, entangling Si Tian in combat. The situation had undergone a colossal shift! At this moment, Ji Tian backhanded a sword strike that severely wounded E Tian. Witnessing the battlefield, he was shocked and roared in rage, "Su Yu!" Stripped of his previous composure, fury laced his voice as he bellowed, "Since you figured it out, you should know what we're doing! You fool!" Su Yu launched a frenzy of strikes at the Human Ancestor! His voice reverberated between heaven and earth with frigid chill. "So what if I figured it out?" Naturally, he had deduced it. Of course, it had only been a guess earlier, but now it was confirmed. Indeed, Ji Tian, the Human Ancestor, the Prison King, Jing Tian, the Earth Gate, and even the Heavenly Gate—they were all in league! It was beyond unexpected! Yet, looking back, it seemed perfectly logical. Their objective was the Human Gate! Yes, a grand scheme spanning countless eras had been laid specifically for the Human Gate. The simultaneous descent of all Eight Great Saints today was no accident; it had all been orchestrated within these conspirators' calculations. Taking advantage of Su Yu and his companions invading the Earth Gate, they had lured every one of the Eight Great Saints into descending. Aside from Ji Tian and Jing Tian, their plan was to slaughter the remaining six Great Saints, amputating the Human Gate's wings so they could join forces to confront the Human Gate itself. In fact, slaying the six Great Saints served other purposes as well! Su Yu and his people were both pieces on the board and outsiders to the game. None of this originally concerned Su Yu's group. Yet having entered this board, they became an asset; the conspirators continually adapted their plans, whittling away the Human Gate's strength and enticing its powerhouses to descend. From the initial three Great Saints, all eight had eventually emerged! The Human Gate possessed only eight Great Saints in total! Once all eight were slain, the Heavenly Gate and Earth Gate would be confident in dealing with the Human Gate. At this moment, the Earth Gate, suffering wild assaults from the Lord of Dead Spirits, also roared in fury: "Idiot! The Human Gate's might exceeds your wildest imagination! Su Yu, right now you should be joining forces with us to sever the Human Gate's wings and face it together, not turning on us! "The Human Gate possesses the strength of at least forty-five Daos!" The Earth Gate bellowed and raged. All previous bewilderment, shock, dread, and anger were gone, replaced solely by blazing fury stoked by Su Yu! It roared, "Killing E Tian and the others is what you ought to be doing..." Su Yu paid no heed, continuing his ferocious onslaught against the Human Ancestor, his voice chillingly cold: "Is that so? But even with your forces combined, you wouldn't stand a chance against the Human Gate, would you? First eradicate its wings, then wipe out the Myriad Realms to merge Yin and Yang—would that be enough? "If not, cycling life and death, annihilating heaven and earth, devouring heaven and earth—would that be enough?" Su Yu's voice was icy: "Why kill the Lord of Chaos? Even now, do you think I can't see through it? Did you really think I, Su Yu, have never experienced annihilation? What colossal ambition! Devour the Dao of Seven Emotions and Six Desires, then consume the Dao of Life and Death... The Lord of Dead Spirits must be in your crosshairs as well, isn't he? If all that succeeds, forging an expert of forty Daos or more would be effortless..." He finally understood why the Lord of Chaos, a powerhouse of the Earth Gate, was also among those targeted for death! Because of rotten luck! The Immortal Ancestor was dead, leaving these conspirators short of the Dao of Life. Who told you to possess the Ageless Root and command such a formidable Dao of Life? To forge a supreme existence capable of confronting the Human Gate, you naturally had to die! Killing the Lord of Chaos would also clear the Earth Gate of suspicion. Who would suspect the Earth Gate was part of the conspiracy? After all, the Earth Gate had suffered horrific losses, its people nearly wiped out! Su Yu swung his blade, sending the Human Ancestor stumbling backward, coughing blood. The Human Ancestor's expression shifted repeatedly as Su Yu pressed the offensive, slashing again and again. "King Dou is your man, isn't he? What undercover agent of the Human Sovereign? Since he's your descendant, you probably brought him to heel the moment he entered! "Perhaps he pledged loyalty to the Human Sovereign in ancient times, but once the Human Sovereign's influence waned, you, his old ancestor, likely subdued him long ago. You intentionally used the matter of the Ten Thousand Daos Stone to lure us inside! "Of course, back then I hadn't risen yet. Perhaps your initial plot wasn't aimed at me, but at the Human Sovereign and his group." Su Yu struck blow after blow, and Qiong and the others followed with relentless thrusts of their swords! Everyone strained their ears, listening intently. Qiong in particular had no clue what was actually happening. Whatever—kill, take the sword, that was all that mattered! Meanwhile, Su Yu's booming voice rang out, clearing up the mysteries for all to hear: "Did Zhou truly betray the Heavenly Gate? Couldn't it be that back then, the Heavenly Gate felt powerless against the Human Gate and unable to survive the crisis, so it crafted Zhou into the image of a traitor, making the Human Gate believe he could be won over? That's why he could reside within the Earth Gate all these years without issue, never facing pursuit from the Human Gate! "Too many secrets have been buried in time! All I know is that you people made immense sacrifices to bring down the Human Gate! Did you lure the Eight Great Saints to descend just to seize their Daos of Seven Emotions and Six Desires? Combine that with Ji Tian's Dao of Wisdom and Civilization, and then the Dao of Life and Death... I imagine every one of you would experience a surge in power, wouldn't you? "By turning into sealed gates, you gained time to linger on, gaining the chance to devour experts from the Myriad Realms and merge Yin and Yang. Only then could you break through otherwise insurmountable bottlenecks, couldn't you? All without drawing the Human Gate's suspicion!" Su Yu's voice shook the surroundings! The only replies were muffled grunts, relentless clashes, and the metallic ring of colliding blades! Over by the Human Gate's faction, E Tian was immensely powerful. A ferocious aura rocked heaven and earth as he roared, "Ji Tian, you betrayed His Sacred Majesty?" "Betrayed?" Ji Tian sneered, slashing a sword strike that cracked E Tian's body all over. "What betrayal?" "Every apocalypse, every chaos—it was all engineered by the Human Gate solely for his own revival! Why would he care about anyone else? All he requires is the aura of world destruction, the Daos of Seven Emotions and Six Desires, and the dread, panic, terror, and death of the Myriad Realms..." Ji Tian's booming voice resounded as well: "Su Yu, the so-called world destruction is nothing more than the Human Gate seeking his complete resurrection! The Human Gate is mighty, terrifyingly so, yet he was sealed! Sealed by the River of Time, sealed by the Lord of Time! Over countless years, he invaded the River of Time, fabricating cataclysms solely to corrode it! "Originally, the river wasn't just this length. The segment inside the Heavenly Gate is the very part he corroded away—it was actually part of the seal! "The so-called opening of heaven was merely the seal laid by the Lord of Time to imprison him. Over these years, he has continually ground away at it. Once this final stretch of the river in the Myriad Realms is thoroughly corroded, he will revive! "When that fiend who once rivaled the Lord of Time awakens, none of us will survive!" Revealing these ancient secrets, he shouted at the top of his lungs, "Su Yu, even at this point, do you still insist on killing Zhou? Join forces with us!" Su Yu's cold chuckle carried across the battlefield: "Join forces? How grand you make it sound! The Human Gate is rotten to the core, and none of you are any better! What you want are also the Daos of the Myriad Realms, to empower yourselves by assimilating them! If you truly intended to cooperate, you would have informed us in secret long ago. But you didn't! You even deliberately arranged for the Human Ancestor to approach us, just waiting for the chance to turn your blades on us, didn't you? "You laid your plans ages ago, scheming across countless eras, all for this very day to catch the Human Gate's Great Saints in one net! Under normal circumstances, even working together, you couldn't kill all six Great Saints—because they would never step out of the Human Gate all at once!" Su Yu's voice thundered, "Yes, you are fighting the Human Gate, struggling to survive and chasing freedom... But it is an undeniable fact that you also plan to use us as consumable resources! Not a single one of you is clean!" None of them were good! Neither the Heavenly Gate, the Earth Gate, nor the Human Gate. No matter how they fought among themselves, the Myriad Realms was a prize they all intended to conquer! The Human Gate sought to conquer the Myriad Realms to shatter the final seal and emerge entirely! The River of Time was actually nothing more than a seal. In this instant, Su Yu grasped the immense power of this seal. Every time beings in the Myriad Realms cultivated, they reinforced it; every time the Human Gate instigated an apocalypse, it eroded it! This was a struggle between the Lord of Time and the Human Gate! The Lord of Time's method of opening heaven was simply too profound. No matter how peerlessly mighty the Human Gate was, as long as new powerhouses emerged from the Myriad Realms and grasped the Great Dao, the River of Time grew stronger. In other words, until the Myriad Realms perished, the seal upon the Human Gate could almost never be undone! The Human Gate had no choice but to repeatedly engineer apocalypses! Again and again, until the river was completely corroded away, granting him freedom. Evidently, Ji Tian and his conspirators had seen through to the core of the matter. Knowing that if the river fell and the Human Gate broke free, their own fates would be grim, they had chosen betrayal! Where had the Lord of Time gone? That was the crux of it all! The Lord of Time had left behind a river sealing the Human Gate and vanished, leaving the Human Gate room to repeatedly bring about the end of eras. And both factions viewed Su Yu's group as targets! Targets to replenish their Yang energy, targets to dismantle the river! Since neither side was good, Su Yu naturally wouldn't let Ji Tian and the others succeed easily. If they pulled it off, that would be truly terrifying. Ji Tian possessed thirty-eight Daos, the Human Ancestor thirty-six, Jing Tian thirty-seven, the Earth Gate likely forty, and the Prison King—once her heaven was fully opened—at least thirty-six. Add to that the Heavenly Gate, who was no weaker than forty Daos, plus Kong and Shi within the Heavenly Gate... By then, Su Yu and his comrades would be lambs to the slaughter! How could the Lord of Dead Spirits alone hold them off? Furthermore, their goal in killing the six Great Saints was to perfect their own Daos. Su Yu was unsure whether they intended to elevate Ji Tian or the Prison King, but one of the two would likely seize the Daos of Seven Emotions and Six Desires! At that point, another powerhouse of forty Daos or more might be born! How could he simply stand by and watch them succeed? Only now did Su Yu fully comprehend the true alignment of factions across the Myriad Realms: the Human Gate on one side, the Earth and Heavenly Gates on another, and their own Myriad Realms standing alone as a third! Su Yu barked coldly, "Yu and the Human Ancestor both hail from the Myriad Realms... Leaving the Human Ancestor aside, Yu, why did you betray us to serve the Earth Gate and Heavenly Gate?" The Human Ancestor belonged to the Heaven-Opening Era! Yet the Prison King was a true native of the Myriad Realms! At this moment, the Prison King, still opening her heaven, finally spoke for the first time. Her voice was cool and detached: "Betrayal? Perhaps... you see it that way. I have never betrayed anyone... because from the very beginning, I had my own stand!" Just then, Qiong's sword pierced the Human Ancestor's shoulder. Rapidly healing his wound, the Human Ancestor shattered the lingering sword intent and chuckled breathlessly: "What betrayal? Su Yu, you are clever, but... who told you Yu was a traitor?" Su Yu's eyes flickered slightly. The Human Ancestor's voice boomed: "She is my daughter, my true direct descendant! How could she be a traitor? We are merely wagering our lives for a future! We simply don't want the Myriad Realms to suffer the death of yet another era... How could that be betrayal?" At this, the Human Sovereign's voice rang out: "She's your daughter?" "Indeed!" Looking at the powerhouses surrounding him, golden radiance surged across the Human Ancestor's body. With an icy tone, he said, "Weren't you wondering where Tian went? Let me tell you where she is!" At that very moment, beyond the Earth Gate, the Myriad Realms suddenly convulsed! The barrier of the Upper Realm shattered! The next instant, the Human Realm violently shook! Amidst the tremors, the sky split open, revealing a colossal human face—faintly discernible as that of a woman. The Human Ancestor's voice shook heaven and earth: "Tian is, of course, the heavens you behold! To prevent her from being sealed away, she became the spirit of my heaven and earth! I believe both Su Yu and Xingyu understand what a Heaven and Earth Spirit is! Only in this manner could she avoid the seal, escape the Three Gates, and sustain the operation of my world!" The Human Ancestor bellowed, "If you kill me, the heavens will collapse, the earth will split, and the Human Realm will plunge into ruin! Must you take it to this extreme? Su Yu, the speed of your rise exceeded our expectations... Yet that worked out well, granting us the opportunity to lure all eight of the Human Gate's Great Saints down at once... We waited countless ages for such an opportunity, and it was realized through you, Su Yu!" Without Su Yu, even an alliance between the Heavenly Gate and Earth Gate would never have drawn down all eight Great Saints simultaneously. Without their descent, they couldn't be eliminated! Without eliminating them, their Daos of Seven Emotions and Six Desires couldn't be extracted! Hence, this opportunity was extraordinarily precious—one they had awaited for endless ages. "Back then, even Xingyu failed to draw the Human Gate's full attention; he couldn't make multiple Great Saints descend together to kill him... Su Yu... shouldn't we be thanking you?" The Human Ancestor laughed: "Indeed, I said long ago that only when an expert emerges in this era who gathers the collective fortune of the Myriad Realms would the Human Gate take him seriously. As expected... I was right!" At those words, the Human Sovereign and the others changed color! Fury blazed within the Human Sovereign: "You mean... the turmoil in our destiny back then was your doing? You stripped away the fortune of the Myriad Realms to concentrate it into a single person?" Who? Su Yu, of course! The Human Ancestor said placidly, "If destiny is divided, it would only be like the previous era, unable to produce an existence capable of making the Human Gate wary! The ultimate outcome would be no different from the Heaven-Opening Era—no one could reverse it! But isn't the present situation wonderful? Su Yu has indeed struck fear into that entity, hasn't he?" Had the realm's fortune not been concentrated in Su Yu, how could all eight Great Saints have descended? The Human Ancestor said heavily, "As long as Su Yu doesn't die, the fortune of the Myriad Realms won't extinguish, and the river won't collapse! If Su Yu becomes a fourth gate... that would merely sustain yet another era. The Human Gate can wait no longer, and neither can we!" Era after era! No one could wait any longer! Su Yu's appearance aligned with everyone's interests. The only hitch was that Su Yu... was impossible to control! He was an uncontrollable madman! That was the sole complication. For instance, right now, it had been clearly stated that the Human Gate posed the greatest threat, and with tremendous effort, the Great Saints had finally been baited out. Yet Su Yu, this madman, was actually sabotaging them! Otherwise, had the Earth Gate intervened, they would have succeeded already! Now, the table had turned. Su Yu had trapped the Human Ancestor, the Earth Gate was pinned down, and though Ji Tian's side held the upper hand, if anything happened to the Earth Gate and the Human Ancestor, it would be a catastrophic loss! As he spoke, Su Yu showed no interest in his grand rhetoric. Instead, he chuckled: "Tian became the Heaven and Earth Spirit? So Yu is the daughter of you and Tian? Then Yu ought to be named Zhou Tian. All this time, I wondered if King Dazhou was your son—turns out he isn't?" The Human Ancestor sneered, "Must my descendant be named Zhou Tian? This Myriad Realms is a prison, a hell! A hellish cage constructed solely to trap the Human Gate! Yu—a prison—is the very essence of the Myriad Realms!" Su Yu didn't understand! The Human Ancestor felt he was too shallow. Zhou Tian? Didn't that sound infantile? Yu—prison—was the truth behind the Myriad Realms! It was the truth behind all these eras! Su Yu sighed with emotion: "Spending so many ages... Yu... the Dao of Seven Emotions and Six Desires... utterly emotionless and pathless, only to then be filled with the seven emotions and six desires. What a scheme, what a magnificent scheme! So the expert you intend to forge this time is Yu? Fill her world with myriad Daos, fill it with the seven emotions and six desires, fill it with life and death, perfecting the essence of her prison? "And then use heartlessness to counter the Human Gate? Because the Daos infused into her weren't hers from the beginning, Yu is merely a pawn, a tool for you to deal with the Human Gate?" Su Yu chuckled: "She is truly devoid of emotion and path, isn't she? Her very nature was crafted by you solely to counter the Human Gate!" Because the Human Gate specialized in the human path, the Dao of Seven Emotions and Six Desires, raising an emotionless, pathless Prison King might grant a specific edge against it! The Human Ancestor said no more on the subject, merely gazing into the distance and murmuring softly, "Release me. Otherwise... Su Yu, the Human Realm you seek to protect will be reduced to absolute rubble!" Far away, above the Human Realm, that colossal face materialized! Earlier, Su Yu and the others had speculated whether the Human Ancestor's world was hidden within the Human Realm. The Human Ancestor had definitely opened a heaven! Without opening a heaven, he couldn't have escaped the seal. Now it was proven: he had truly concealed his world inside the Human Realm, watched over by a Heaven and Earth Spirit that had slumbered until now, waking today! And currently, without his world on hand, the Human Ancestor possessed the power of thirty-six Daos. He might not be able to merge Yin and Yang worlds like the Lord of Dead Spirits, but once he retrieved his world, he might reach thirty-seven or even thirty-eight Daos! Su Yu smiled: "No rush. What is your relationship with Ji Tian? I'm quite curious about that. Both of you seem like cunning old foxes. Would Ji Tian and the others willingly help elevate your daughter?" With so much Great Dao power at stake, would a clever man like Ji Tian be willing to surrender it? Su Yu was certain their cooperation had experienced countless twists and turns. Of course, he wasn't terribly invested in the specifics—he was only curious about the connection between Ji Tian and the Human Ancestor! In the distance, Ji Tian had first severely wounded E Tian and was now pressing to secure a kill. Yet E Tian was, after all, a supreme expert of thirty-eight Daos! For the moment, Ji Tian had not managed to finish him off. Hearing Su Yu's words, Ji Tian laughed softly: "What relationship? Nothing much. Wouldn't Zhou count as an ancestor of mine?" Su Yu froze slightly, looked back and forth between the Human Ancestor and Ji Tian, and grinned: "I understand a bit now... Could it be that you and Zhou Ji truly merged completely? The Human Ancestor provided you with a flawless vessel, and you descended with the power of your Great Dao back then, merging your Dao into Zhou Ji's body?" In essence, it was a disguised possession, albeit through far more sophisticated means. Was this how he shed his Human Gate identity? Powerhouses from the Human Gate faced constraints when entering the Myriad Realms. Was that why Ji Tian reached an accord with Zhou, cementing this cooperation? "So, you are both Zhou Ji and Ji Tian..." Su Yu smiled: "Does that mean you're also Wan Mingze?" "In a manner of speaking, yes!" Su Yu remarked pensively, "Wan Mingze... Mansion Master Wan walking the path of the Seven Emotions and Six Desires has something to do with you people too, doesn't it? Interesting. Did you influence Mansion Master Wan unintentionally, or did you treat him as a vessel as well... a vessel to hold the Dao of Seven Emotions and Six Desires?" Just like Yu! Yu was merely a vessel as well! Ji Tian laughed: "My granduncle... In my view, he was the true nexus of destiny in this era! Back then, the divine character I sent down was the character for 'Fortune.' Only the person with the greatest fortune could attract it! When my divine character descended upon the Wan family, it should have been drawn to him. I was quite puzzled as to why it ultimately chose you." Wan Tiansheng, the one with the greatest fortune? Su Yu pondered, smiled, and nodded: "You could say that. Before I was born, or rather before I turned six, Mansion Master Wan's fortune was indeed at its peak!" Looking back across that era, Su Yu had to admit: if one spoke of the greatest fortune... it truly had belonged to Wan Tiansheng! A peerless genius! In just a few decades, he had stepped into that realm, capable of slaying Eternals—and back then, an Eternal was the very symbol of invincibility! Later, the moment he opened his Dao, he slaughtered Harmony stage experts! The storms of the Myriad Realms all stemmed from the Great Xia Civilization Academy, and Wan Tiansheng was its head, standing at the very center of the realm's turbulence! Even Ye Batian, King Dazhou's incarnation, was viewed by some as less talented than Wan Tiansheng in those days. King Dazhou believed Liu Wenyan was the gathering point of destiny. Yet Liu Wenyan came decades after Wan Tiansheng; prior to that, Wan Tiansheng was an equal to Ye Batian. At this moment, Ji Tian unleashed another sword slash, driving E Tian to roar in agony as blood poured from his wounds. Ji Tian spoke again: "Su Yu, that granduncle of mine... is far from simple! You had better look out for yourself. In this world, no one seemed capable of independently opening the Dao of Seven Emotions and Six Desires... Not me, not the Prison King, not the Human Ancestor. If we could, why would we need to seize others' Dao power? Yet my granduncle managed to pioneer it all on his own. He likely has some tie to the Human Gate... While we were searching for the bearer of destiny, did the Human Gate truly pay no heed?" Ji Tian laughed loudly: "The Human Gate is everywhere! You had best be careful. That granduncle of mine... might have been seized by the Human Gate long ago. He might even be an incarnation of the Human Gate itself, and now he has infiltrated your world. You even strengthened his Dao of Seven Emotions and Six Desires—beware of being consumed by a backlash in the end!" At this moment, because the Earth Gate stood wide open, the cultivators of the Myriad Realms could hear every word! Just outside the Earth Gate, within the Upper Realm, a host of Rulers of Rules had gathered. Hearing Ji Tian's words, the powerhouses paled, turning to look at Wan Tiansheng at the front of the crowd. Wan Tiansheng remained placid, indifferent. Yet his aura was surging! Previously near the level of sixteen Daos, he had rapidly soared beyond twenty Daos because Su Yu had devoured half of Bei Tian's Great Dao—the Dao of a thirty-six-Dao powerhouse. Even half was immensely formidable! Half the power of a thirty-six-Dao expert was enough to elevate someone to thirty-two Daos. Of course, that required comprehension. Yet Wan Tiansheng's comprehension of the seven emotions and six desires seemed extraordinarily profound. Though he didn't reach thirty-two Daos immediately, in the blink of an eye, he attained the boundary of twenty-four Daos! A powerhouse of twenty-four Daos! Such was the present Wan Tiansheng. An aura of sorrow radiated around him; those weaker than him who looked upon him suddenly felt an overwhelming urge to weep! At this moment, first-rank experts like King Ming and the Martial Emperor wore shifting expressions as they gathered around Wan Tiansheng. Was something wrong with Wan Tiansheng? Was he an incarnation of the Human Gate? Did the Human Gate have arrangements within the Myriad Realms as well? Though Ji Tian's words might not be trustworthy, the Dao of Seven Emotions and Six Desires was indeed the hallmark of the Human Gate's experts. Furthermore, no one had ever mastered all of them simultaneously; in the entire Myriad Realms, Wan Tiansheng was the only one to pioneer this path! Even Su Yu only gained this Dao within his world after Wan Tiansheng merged into it! At this moment, complex emotions swirled through everyone. They formed a perimeter around Wan Tiansheng, yet made no further move. All of them were worried—worried that something was genuinely wrong with Wan Tiansheng. Ever since Su Yu had hidden away his family and teachers, the person he was closest to in the entire Myriad Realms was Wan Tiansheng! He was both teacher and friend, a fellow traveler of the Dao. From the day Su Yu stepped into the academy, Wan Tiansheng had silently protected this youth of the new generation. His avatar of will had entered Su Yu's body, residing in his heart, accompanying and guarding him. He had helped Su Yu overcome crisis after crisis, resolved powerful enemy after powerful enemy, and unknotted his heart time and again. Even now, with the Human Realm held hostage by the Human Ancestor's world, no one was overly worried about Su Yu, because Su Yu... could be utterly ruthless at times! Yet if something went wrong with Wan Tiansheng... that was an outcome Su Yu could never accept. At this instant, even King Dazhou felt conflicted. Back when he was disguised as Ye Batian, he had loved discussing the Dao with Wan Tiansheng most of all. This nominal junior brother had always possessed astonishing insights regarding the Great Dao. Even as a Ruler of Rules, King Dazhou had enjoyed listening to him discourse on the Dao and human nature. Even though Wan Tiansheng had been weak at the time. Yet King Dazhou had frequently debated with him, occasionally having disagreements. Looking back now... he was indeed brilliant! It was just that during that period, King Dazhou's primary focus lay elsewhere. Liu Wenyan's emergence had shown King Dazhou someone remarkably compatible with himself, young and possessing charismatic presence. Nevertheless, he had always kept a close eye on Wan Tiansheng. Could this man... truly be an incarnation of the Human Gate? Had the Human Gate fully revived or not? According to Ji Tian, the Human Gate was omnipresent, yet he had not fully revived. Because as long as the Myriad Realms and the River of Time endured, he could not break free of the Lord of Time's seal. The Human Gate's goal was to utterly annihilate the River of Time! King Dazhou took a deep breath. Once certain things were pointed out, thinking deeper into them became chilling. Wan Tiansheng had cultivated a future body! It was just that his future body had been shattered, and afterward, he had ceased cultivating one. His future body had been extraordinarily powerful; even without his Three Bodies, Wan Tiansheng could effortlessly navigate the River of Time. For a time, he had been called the Human Demon! And the Human Gate... Ji Tian and the others also referred to him as a demon—the greatest demon of all! Wan Mingze, or rather Ji Tian's divine character, was the character for "Fortune," attracted to individuals of immense destiny. Whose destiny could have overshadowed the likes of King Dazhou back then? Wan Tiansheng's had! Wan Mingze had descended into the Wan family! Because Wan Tiansheng had never married or had children, the character had descended upon his elder brother's lineage, making Mingze his grandnephew rather than his own grandson! Thought after thought flashed through everyone's minds. Everything occurring today shocked them to the core. Shocked by the appearance of countless hidden experts, shocked by the realization that the Earth Gate and Heavenly Gate might be allies, shocked by the internal strife of the Human Gate, and shocked by... Wan Tiansheng's identity! Right now, the River of Time was growing darker and darker! This signaled that the descent of the Heavenly Gate and Human Gate drew near! And the Human Realm was currently held hostage. If something went wrong with Wan Tiansheng on top of this... everything Su Yu had fought for would turn to ash! At this moment, King Dazhou and the others were desperately worried for Su Yu! Worried that he would go mad, that disaster would strike! King Dazhou's expression fluctuated erratically. The Human Ancestor... holding the Human Realm hostage to threaten Su Yu—that was something even he had never anticipated. ... Meanwhile, Su Yu listened in silence. Once the talking ceased, he silently resumed his savage pummeling of the Human Ancestor! Besieged by several powerhouses, the Human Ancestor was already struggling to hold his ground. He roared, "Su Yu! Do you truly intend to kill me? If you kill me, the Human Realm will be destroyed! Do you think that won't affect you at all? You are the child of destiny of this era! If the Human Realm is destroyed... you will be heavily wounded! Your life is inextricably bound to the human race..." Su Yu's blade drove straight through his throat. The Human Ancestor's golden body manifested, rapidly regenerating as he stumbled back, blood spilling as his 720 acupoints erupted with blinding light in frantic resistance! Over the Human Realm, the sky fractured and the earth split as that colossal face above displayed rage: "Su Yu, would you watch the Human Realm perish?" It was a woman's face! It was Zhou's companion, Tian, who had become a Heaven and Earth Spirit to guard and stabilize Zhou's world—just like the Book Spirit had tended King Wen's world in his absence! Su Yu let out a sigh: "For a hundred thousand years, your world was there, with a Heaven and Earth Spirit, right in the Human Realm... yet you never showed yourself!" The Human Ancestor snapped, "Show herself? If she showed herself, if the Human Gate discovered her, do you know what the consequences would be? How could she show herself? Over those hundred thousand years... only the weak died! It was precisely their deaths that gave rise to human powerhouses like you! Su Yu, are you reproaching me? You have no right to reproach me!" Su Yu had no right to blame him for standing by and doing nothing! Because it was necessary! If the era had not reached the brink of destruction, how could existences like Su Yu have been born? Without reaching this point, the Myriad Realms itself would never have birthed a child of destiny like Su Yu! "Ah!" At this moment, a bloodcurdling scream rang out—not from Ji Tian's direction, but from Jing Tian's! With a single sword strike, Jing Tian executed the heavily wounded Huo Tian! A dazzling Great Dao manifested, instantly absorbed by the Prison King's world. The Prison King's aura continued to surge, and now Jing Tian and the Prison King joined forces to surround Si Tian! The fourth of the Eight Great Saints had fallen! A thirty-six-Dao expert, sneak-attacked and critically wounded by a thirty-seven-Dao expert, never stood a chance! At this moment, surrounded on both sides, Si Tian wore an expression of sorrow and melancholy. A sigh escaped her, helpless and desolate. The Human Gate, supposedly the most unified of all, was nothing more than an illusion. Jing Tian had likely turned traitor long ago; he might have been the one to contact the Human Ancestor and the Heavenly Gate. Ji Tian and Jing Tian must have been plotting together for ages! Jing Tian was the intermediary between them. Otherwise, the Human Ancestor would have had no channel to contact Ji Tian—at least not during the Heaven-Opening Era. "Jing Tian... why must you?" Si Tian sighed. Jing Tian remained expressionless, holding his blood-stained longsword as he stared at her. After a pause, he said, "Do you truly not understand? The Dao of Seven Emotions and Six Desires is the human path. If the human path is destroyed, we will perish! Yet His Sacred Majesty's goal is to destroy the Myriad Realms and obliterate the River of Time. If the human path is destroyed... we, who were born of the human path, will fall alongside it! "His Sacred Majesty only cares about his own liberation, not about taking us with him! Si Tian, can't you see that?" It was merely self-preservation! Jing Tian spoke flatly. He didn't want to die, didn't want to be destroyed, so he had to rebel! Now, four of the Great Saints were dead! Only Si Tian and E Tian remained. Once these two died, aside from the Human Gate himself, who was exceedingly difficult to handle, his remaining retainers were few and unworthy of concern! Across all these years, this was the finest opportunity they had ever had! ... Meanwhile, on Su Yu's side, the Human Ancestor roared again: "Su Yu, do you truly want to witness the destruction of the Human Realm? "Release me, and let us join hands against the Human Gate... that is the only right choice!" Su Yu sighed softly: "Except... you people want to kill us! Leaving you aside, how could the Earth Gate, the Heavenly Gate, and Jing Tian survive in the Myriad Realms without killing?" Su Yu chuckled: "Even if Ji Tian no longer needs to kill to replenish Yang energy, let me calculate: the Heavenly Gate, the Earth Gate, Jing Tian, Kong, and Shi—that's at least five supreme existences that need to be slaughtered! Me, the Lord of Dead Spirits, the Human Sovereign, Wen Yu, King Wen, King Wu... even if you killed every last one of us, it would barely be enough for your needs!" Su Yu smiled: "So tell me, is joining hands even possible?" It was impossible! To survive, to grow stronger, and to contest the Human Gate, these beings would unquestionably kill Su Yu and his comrades. As for cooperation, it was utter nonsense! If they truly had any intention of cooperating, they wouldn't have waited until now. "You've been spouting so much, including Ji Tian's speech earlier, all just to sway my decision into fighting E Tian and the others to protect the Prison King, right? And then, you'd deliver a backstab... wiping us all out in one fell swoop!" Su Yu smiled: "Playing hard to get—quite a neat trick. Ji Tian was so terrified I wouldn't take the bait that he even sent the Ten Thousand Daos Stone and the Heaven-Opening Sword over there, all to lure me in, wasn't it?" At this point, the Human Ancestor fell silent. Ji Tian, however, struck another sword blow that drew fountains of blood from E Tian, chuckling as he spoke: "Su Yu, I'm even more curious how you deduced that we were aligned. We had no apparent connection; the Earth Gate and Heavenly Gate were mortal enemies in ancient times... How did you conclude we were on the same side?" Su Yu grinned, his smile faint and eerie: "If I said it was entirely your fault, would you feel sad?" Ji Tian paused. Su Yu sighed: "Because... I despise people who talk more than I do! Someone who talks as much as you clearly isn't a good person. My teacher once taught me that when dealing with people like you, there's no need to say much or listen much—if you can kill them, just run them through with a sword! So the moment you opened your mouth, I was already thinking about how to stab you to death! Furthermore... anyone who isn't on my side is my enemy! Naturally, I lumped all of you into the same group. Understand now?" Put simply: anyone who wasn't one of his own was an enemy! They were all in league! So no matter how eloquently you spoke, the more you said, the more determined he was to kill you. He simply grouped you all together first, and then deduced the reasons you had to be aligned! Indeed, Su Yu reached the conclusion first! That was how he operated! I determine in advance that you're all in league. If I guess wrong, it doesn't matter; if I guess right... it still doesn't matter! Because you are all enemies! In this instant, everyone was stunned. Even Wen Yu couldn't help saying, "Aren't you being a bit too hasty?" Qiong was dumbfounded as well: "You deduced they were working together just like that?" It was that simple? Su Yu felt a bit tired: "Does it matter whether you're in league or not? Everyone I see, everyone I meet, everyone I hear—whoever doesn't listen to me is an enemy, and therefore in league! Within my sight, my word is absolute truth! Anyone who disobeys is a wretch doomed to be purged!" "..." Silence fell across the entire battlefield! Only now did everyone truly grasp just how insane Su Yu was! As long as you didn't obey him, you were part of the same enemy camp. So no matter how intricate your schemes were, against him, they were useless! There were no neutrals! There were no allies! There were only enemies and his own people! Even Qiong was at a loss for words: "Then what about me..." Su Yu smiled: "Senior Qiong, you're a good person! I like you!" "..." Damn it! Qiong cursed inwardly! You're the good person, your whole family are good people! I don't need your damn affection! Because coming from Su Yu, that sounded dripping with... pure mockery! Su Yu smiled faintly: "If you don't want the Human Ancestor to die, hand over all the Great Daos, the Heaven-Opening Sword, and the Ten Thousand Daos Stone!" Buzz! A blade flashed out with a sickening squelch. The Human Ancestor could endure no longer; his head was cleaved clean off. He roared frantically, "Su Yu, do you no longer care about the living beings of the Myriad Realms?" "What does that have to do with me?" Su Yu's voice was tinged with laughter: "If all the living beings of the Myriad Realms are killed and there isn't enough Yang energy left, if I go mad, I'll kill the Human Sovereign and the others myself and detonate all their Yang energy... You can just keep playing with me! Did you think I'd fear your threats? Hahaha!" Su Yu laughed maniacally: "How hilarious! You've reached beyond thirty-six Daos, yet you still try to threaten me with the Human Realm? Threaten me with the Myriad Realms? Don't you think... you're being utterly ridiculous?" Boom! Su Yu reached out a massive hand, grabbing the Human Ancestor. Overwhelming strength erupted alongside the power of his world, grinding down the Human Ancestor's formidable physical body! The Human Ancestor shrieked in agony! Life and death forces cycled through Su Yu's grasp as he said indifferently, "Hand over all the Great Daos and everything I demanded, and I will spare him! Otherwise, after killing him, I'll move on to besiege the Earth Gate... Ji Tian, think it over!" Boom! At this moment, the Human Ancestor went mad as well. The Human Realm trembled violently as he roared, "In your dreams... Su Yu... if the Human Realm is broken, your doom will arrive as well!" "Ignorant!" Su Yu curled his lip and punched out, unleashing tens of millions of overlapping shadows. With an earth-shattering crash, the Human Ancestor's body was blown to smithereens! Far away in the Human Realm, his world shook convulsively! Landslides and tsunamis erupted in an instant! Countless humans wailed in despair. Su Yu remained impassive, entirely unbothered. Yet right at this moment, within the Human Ancestor's world in the Human Realm, that colossal face suddenly let out a shrill scream. The next second, a burst of manic laughter rang out: "Delicious, so delicious... I love it!" Boom! The Human Realm erupted into total commotion. Within that world, another face abruptly surfaced, crazily devouring the face belonging to Tian! At this moment, Great Daos across the Myriad Realms manifested, converging into a single face—shifting between man, woman, child, and beast... "Merge with me!" "The Dao of All Living Beings—all living beings are me!" That face instantly integrated into the Human Realm, filled with madness and laughter: "You are me, and I am you... Strong though you may be, your master is not here. This world... belongs to me now!" Two streams of world power erupted, yet one of them was not invading—it was directly assimilating! Having just regenerated his body after being pulverized by Su Yu, the Human Ancestor shuddered, roaring in shocked fury: "Damn it... what are you doing?" Lan Tian's laughter held a coquettish lilt: "Nothing at all, darling! I'm just merging myself into Tian's body, becoming one with you. You are me, and I am you..." Lan Tian could not match Zhou, nor could he match Tian. But he wasn't trying to overpower or devour her; he was assimilating himself, fusing entirely into the Human Ancestor's world within the Human Realm! Once fused, there were only two possible outcomes. The first: the Human Ancestor's world would become stronger! The second... Tian's will would be shredded into chaos by Lan Tian, from then on fused inextricably with Lan Tian, completely turning into a lunatic! And Lan Tian was already a lunatic. A lunatic who gathered the collective wills of the Myriad Realms. He didn't even know who he truly was; he might be Lan Tian, or he might not. Having absorbed too many wills, shattered too many times, split too many times... Such a person was the ultimate counter against a world's will! Win or lose, Tian's consciousness would plunge into madness! At this moment, the Human Ancestor's face finally drained of color! Even if Su Yu killed him here, he still had hope of reviving within his world. But once his world was hijacked by a chaotic lunatic like Lan Tian, it would completely spin out of control! "Su Yu, tell him to stop..." The Human Ancestor roared! Su Yu remained emotionless. His massive palm clamped tight, repeatedly crushing the Human Ancestor's body. The moment he regenerated, he crushed him again—regenerate, crush, regenerate, crush... At this moment, Su Yu merely looked toward the Prison King and her allies. I want the treasures! Give me the treasures, and we can talk! Refuse, and the Human Ancestor dies! Opening her heaven, the Prison King's eyes shifted slightly. Gazing across the distance, Su Yu smiled. "Devoid of desire? Emotionless and pathless?" "Pah!" A single spit echoed across heaven and earth! Su Yu sneered: "So-called emotionless and pathless simply means... your feelings haven't been pushed far enough! When someone kills your father and kills your mother, even you will flinch! Heh!" His mocking laughter resounded through heaven and earth!