"Zhenyuan Daxian orchestrated the myriad heavens, sparing no effort to use his own disciples as bait to lure me into the Xuanhuang Great World, thus resolving the troubles that had plagued the Xuanhuang Great World for countless years."
Is this considered an invitation? Is this really a visit?
Behind Luo Tian, Yin Changsheng was suddenly startled, as if a flash of inspiration had appeared in his ignorant mind.
On the other side of the shattered chessboard, Zhen Yuanzi, with an unchanging expression, said:
"Your Excellency is too kind."
"I merely had that wicked disciple deliver an invitation to the Lord Prefect. I had no malicious intent whatsoever. How could that be considered enticement?"
Luo Tian remained noncommittal to Zhen Yuanzi's explanation, instead focusing his gaze on the few remaining chess pieces on the shattered chessboard that had miraculously escaped the damage.
Extend your index finger and gently press it on one of the black pieces. The black piece is easily crushed by the index finger, which carries the power of soul-draining pain.
Above the starry sky, a large star began to collapse without warning, then spewed out terrifying heat, turning into a dazzling supernova firework in the night sky.
The already dwindling causal connections of the Xuanhuang Great World returned to chaos once more, a state that even Zhen Yuanzi couldn't help but twitch at the corner of his mouth.
As if he had finished a trivial task, Luo Tian looked up at Zhen Yuanzi and said with a mocking tone:
"No malice whatsoever? With your status, how could you not know that there is a causal connection between the Dao Fruit and the power of death?"
If I had never interacted with the Xuanhuang Great World, that would be fine; this causal connection would not affect my subjective will at all.
However, since you, as the master of the Xuanhuang Great World, took the initiative to invite me, you have established a causal connection between me and the Xuanhuang Great World.
Under such influence, the Dao Fruit of Death will inevitably attract the Authority of Death. Unless I consciously reject this attraction, I will inevitably be drawn to the Xuanhuang Great World.
At this point, Luo Tian couldn't help but clap his hands with a smile, his eyes full of admiration for Zhen Yuanzi.
"A simple invitation is all it takes to sit back and watch the tigers fight."
If He wins, He, who holds the power of the Death Dao Fruit, will be able to easily mend the Underworld, and this vast world will become more and more stable, allowing you to advance further.
If I win, you will be able to easily eliminate an unstable factor, and the entire Xuanhuang Great World will no longer be subject to the constraints of calamity.
Such an arrangement truly befits the title of Ancestor of Earthly Immortals!
After these words were spoken, silence fell over the starry sky.
Luo Tian stared at Zhen Yuanzi before him, his narrowed eyes revealing a deep and furious glint in them.
In fact, even before arriving in the Xuanhuang Great World, Luo Tian sensed that Zhen Yuanzi was plotting something, so he took advantage of the Yin clan's visit to intentionally avoid Zhen Yuanzi's investigation.
He even deliberately entered Tartarus when entering the Starlight Guiding Array in order to avoid Zhen Yuanzi's sight.
Luo Tian did not believe that his actions were flawless. All he wanted was to delay Zhen Yuanzi's discovery of his whereabouts as much as possible, so as to provide him with an opportunity to find clues about the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
However, Luo Tian, unaware of the full details, ultimately underestimated Zhen Yuanzi's scheme.
Zhen Yuanzi didn't need to know Luo Tian's whereabouts at all, because Luo Tian had already entered the game the moment the invitation was sent out.
Everything was done without leaving a trace. If Luo Tian hadn't been reborn from the Six Paths of Reincarnation and sorted out all the information about the White Bone Bodhisattva, he would have had a hard time discovering this.
Judging solely from the outcome, Luo Tian was undoubtedly the beneficiary of the whole affair.
Killing the White Bone Bodhisattva completed his Death Dao Fruit and further solidified his Six Paths of Reincarnation, making him the winner of this battle.
However, after death, Luo Tian, with a God-like perspective that disregards all cause and effect, surveyed the entire situation and was shocked to discover that the real biggest winner was not him, but Zhen Yuanzi, who had seemingly done nothing all along!
The White Bone Bodhisattva has been plotting within the Xuanhuang Great World for countless years, and Zhen Yuanzi, as the master of the Xuanhuang Great World, must know this.
However, Zhen Yuanzi did not intervene in either the calamity or the cramming-style cultivation brought about by the inscribed heavenly book.
As the master of the Xuanhuang Great World, Zhen Yuanzi's strength is definitely higher than that of the half-baked great god, the White Bone Bodhisattva. So why would he allow the White Bone Bodhisattva to do whatever he wants in the Xuanhuang Great World?
The reason is not hard to find: the White Bone Bodhisattva is exploiting all living beings, but from a macro perspective, many of His measures are beneficial to the Xuanhuang Great World.
The White Bone Bodhisattva caused calamities and plundered the immortals, yet His authority over death is the foundation upon which the Xuanhuang Great World constructs its death system.
Without the White Bone Bodhisattva, the Xuanhuang Great World, having lost its foundation in the death system, would fall in status.
The White Bone Bodhisattva rapidly catalyzes the growth of immortals through a force-feeding method, cultivating a Golden Immortal whose power rivals that of a powerful deity every 30,000 years.
Although its original intention was also to reap, it undoubtedly accelerated the growth of the Xuanhuang Great World.
This approach allowed the Xuanhuang Great World, as a later entrant, to catch up with the World of Gods and the Endless Abyss in just a few eras, becoming a Great Thousand World on par with the two.
Furthermore, while the White Bone Bodhisattva reaped the benefits of the immortals, he not only refrained from harming the numerous mortals, but also established a smaller underworld to maintain the operation of the underworld in the mortal realm.
There may well be a reason for this, which is that a consensus was reached with Zhen Yuanzi.
Otherwise, given the White Bone Bodhisattva's greedy nature, how could he so easily forget about those trillions upon trillions of living beings?
The reason for this is mostly because mortals are the foundation of the Xuanhuang Great World. If the White Bone Bodhisattva is allowed to attack mortals, it is easy to destroy the foundation and cause the Xuanhuang Great World to lose control.
Of course, these traces alone can only be considered Luo Tian's guess for the time being.
What truly convinced Luo Tian of the connection between Zhen Yuanzi and the White Bone Bodhisattva was a statement made by Yin Changsheng.
Several Golden Immortals joined forces to attack the Lesser Underworld, but ultimately failed because they were stopped by the disciples of Wuzhuang Temple.
The Lesser Underworld is itself part of the White Bone Bodhisattva's authority over death, and the connection between the two undoubtedly confirms Luo Tian's conjecture.
After a long silence, Zhen Yuanzi frowned slightly, seemingly quite puzzled by Luo Tian's words, and said with displeasure:
"If Your Excellency has any complaints about me, just say so. Why accuse me of plotting or scheming?"
"And what about the authority over death and the Dao Fruit that Lord Fu mentioned? These are not matters of your Underworld, so what do they have to do with me?"
"Besides..."
Shaking his head, Zhen Yuanzi chuckled softly and looked directly at Luo Tian with a frank expression:
"I have never heard of the being that the Lord mentioned who controls the power of death, so how could I possibly plot against the Lord and that being?"
Moreover, plotting against such a great being as the Lord of the Underworld is an extremely risky undertaking; what benefit would it bring me?
Luo Tian grinned: "Benefits? Wouldn't his death be the greatest benefit for Zhenyuan Daxian?"
Zhen Yuanzi was taken aback, then heard Luo Tian continue:
"In the present Xuanhuang Great World, the city gods established by the Lesser Underworld have almost completely controlled the life and death of the mortal world in the Xuanhuang Great World."
On the surface, He holds the power over death, but He never pays attention to mortals, so the underworld is not valued.
Tens of thousands of years ago, the Lesser Underworld was placed under the jurisdiction of Wuzhuang Temple, and there were even disciples within Wuzhuang Temple guarding the Lesser Underworld.
Once He falls, the Lesser Underworld will fall completely under the control of Wuzhuang Temple.
"Of course, the lesser underworld is nothing more than some insignificant details."
If Zhenyuan Daxian so desired, he could easily establish a death deity to replace the Lesser Underworld. While the effect would be slightly less, given the current status of the Xuanhuang Great World, it wouldn't be unbearable.
"The real reason why Zhenyuan Daxian wanted to plot His death was that there was a fundamental conflict of interest between Him and Zhenyuan Daxian!"
Zhen Yuanzi's pupils suddenly contracted.
His connection with the White Bone Bodhisattva was so close that he sensed something was wrong the moment the White Bone Bodhisattva's information disappeared.
When He tried to reconstruct the missing memories and the people associated with them through the slightest clues, the information He obtained was almost identical to what Luo Tian had said.
At first, He didn’t pay much attention to these missing messages. The methods of great beings are beyond imagination. Some beings can achieve a similar effect by erasing themselves from the traces of history.
His ability to deduce the existence of the White Bone Bodhisattva was not particularly surprising to him.
However, Luo Tian had only been in the Xuanhuang Great World for a few days. After the White Bone Bodhisattva's information disappeared, Luo Tian was not affected in any way. Instead, he personally came to expose His scheme.
This finally made Zhen Yuanzi realize that things were slipping out of control, and the information about the disappearance of the White Bone Bodhisattva made Zhen Yuanzi feel increasingly uneasy.
Lost in thought, before Zhen Yuanzi could speak, Luo Tian continued speaking to himself:
"The Xuanhuang Great World has evolved to this point, and is now comparable to the two top Great Worlds, the World of Gods and the Endless Abyss, and has dozens of Golden Immortal powerhouses."
This is already the limit of what the Xuanhuang Great World has developed. Under such circumstances, His continued exploitation of the immortals is of no value.
On the contrary, the limitation imposed by the calamity, which limited a Golden Immortal with power comparable to a great god to only living for tens of thousands of years, is undoubtedly a huge loss.
Without sufficient foundation, the Xuanhuang Great World will find it difficult to truly catch up with or even surpass the World of Gods and the Endless Abyss.
Furthermore, even before His fall, He had already begun implementing the Nine-Nine-Six Calamities System in the Xuanhuang Great World, squeezing the immortals as much as possible, which was no longer in the interest of Zhenyuan Daxian, the master of the Xuanhuang Great World.
Zhenyuan Daxian needs a prosperous and thriving world, not a pasture where he can graze freely.
However, Zhenyuan Daxian did not choose to take action, partly because he feared that in his extreme anger, he might decide to fight back and damage the foundation of the Xuanhuang Great World.
The second reason is that it relates to the plans of another great being, and there may even be a powerful force secretly pushing it forward.
If Zhenyuan Daxian were to act rashly, it would highly likely involve the forces behind him, something Zhenyuan Daxian absolutely could not accept.
"That's why Zhenyuan Daxian lured me into this scheme, disguising the matter of eliminating Him as a battle for the power of death."
If He were to perish in the struggle for the power of death, even if the forces behind Him did not have concrete evidence, they would absolutely not implicate a great divine power.
Zhenyuan Daxian only needs to sit behind the scenes and reap the benefits!
With his deep gaze fixed on Zhen Yuanzi, Luo Tian smiled.
"Am I right, Your Excellency, Lord of the Xuanhuang Great World?"
Luo Tian's words finally caused a dramatic change in Zhen Yuanzi's expression.
Zhen Yuanzi flicked his sleeve and roared in fury:
"What nonsense!"
"I respect you as the new governor and have specially invited you to the Xuanhuang Great World for a chat."
Who would have thought that you would humiliate me like this, deliberately creating an unknown great deity to bully me? Do you really think I, Zhen Yuanzi, am easy to bully?
As soon as he finished speaking, the entire starry sky trembled.
The towering ginseng fruit tree stretched its branches across the starry sky, and on those ginseng fruits that resembled giant stars, the faces of infants began to show anger, and pairs of empty eyes opened to look at Luo Tian.
It was as if malice from the entire world surged forth like a tide, and the underlying order transformed into a chaotic tide that kept churning. It seemed that as long as Zhen Yuanzi uttered a single word, the malice of the entire Xuanhuang Great World would bury Luo Tian.
However, faced with the overwhelming power of this great divine force, Luo Tian merely smiled meaningfully:
"Even now, Zhenyuan Daxian still wants to deny it."
Is it simply because His information has been erased, and there is no evidence to prove His existence, that Zhenyuan Daxian is trying to deceive everyone? This is truly a clumsy attempt, like a child's game.
Under Zhen Yuanzi's furious gaze, Luo Tian helplessly spread his hands and said:
"Alright! Here's a hint for Zhenyuan Daxian: Do you know why, even though all of His information has been erased, I can still easily reveal so many secrets?"
Zhen Yuanzi's anger froze for a moment as a possibility he had never imagined surfaced in his mind.
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