Perfect Double Agent

"Having committed such a grave error, you still dare to look us in the eye? What do you intend to do!" someone spoke, their voice filled with great authority.

Bai Ye raised an eyebrow and retorted, "What's wrong with taking a look? Will it cost you a piece of your flesh?"

“Young friend, Fellow Daoist Ning is just angry, there’s no need to take it to heart. Let me ask you, is your talent for spacetime innate?” Jin Taijun spoke, her old face full of kindness.

Bai Ye nodded, there was no need to deny it, but the old man's question was a bit strange, their relationship wasn't that good.

"What do you want from me?"

"That box is very important. Now that it's lost while it was in your possession, the details of which aren't very clear. I'll wait..."

"It was stolen. I know, and I saw it." Bai Ye said calmly. He had found the item, and strictly speaking, it was his property, so he had the right to dispose of it.

"You saw it, why didn't you stop it? Do you know how important that thing is to our realm!" The Ning family's supreme leader shouted, finally unable to hold back any longer.

When the Supreme Being was enraged, the entire city was filled with fear, and countless living beings looked up.

"You still have the nerve to say it's important? Your lives are lives, but mine aren't? Even the Supreme Beings of the Otherworld know about the past, so why aren't any of you going? Or do you want me to use the Immortal King Artifact to trigger the Immortal King Tribulation and get struck by lightning!" Bai Ye pointed at a group of Supreme Beings and shouted, his icy gaze sweeping across the entire ancestral altar, silencing the entire place.

"Young friend, you're joking. That wasn't your fault..." an invincible person said, thus letting the matter drop.

Even the others remembered that this was a monster that could trigger a tribulation at any time. They didn't know if it could trigger a Celestial King Tribulation, but at least it could trigger a True Celestial Tribulation that would surely lead to certain death. If the monster really went mad and, with the help of a Celestial King artifact, chose to perish together with the Celestial King, it could most likely trigger a True Celestial Tribulation. At that time, it would definitely be a disaster, although such an opportunity would only come once.

"You should go back first. The alien realms have been appearing frequently lately, and the situation is very serious," another invincible being said, his attitude relatively good.

But they all understood that once the other party left, they would most likely never ascend the ancestral altar again.

Everyone has their own pride; some people are just too reserved.

In this era, there is probably only one person who dares to point at and rebuke a group of supreme beings.

"A bunch of good ants...keep up the good work..."

Whispers echoed from the celestial palace behind Taurus.

"My lord, I'll go and wipe them out. How can we let Xiaobaiye suffer the humiliation of a bunch of ants?" Zi Cang said.

"What's the rush? I've never taken this realm seriously. They're nothing but a bunch of ants jumping around. The more they pressure me, the happier I am!"

The old demon's eyes were cold. He had never forgotten his thoughts from back then. His disciple had been forced away and his heart had grown cold. He would then take action, capture people, and let the little guy kill them. His resentment would be gone, and his hands would be stained with blood. Wouldn't that mean he would never look back?

Only in this way could he wholeheartedly stay in the foreign land and become his apprentice.

……

"What's wrong? Did they give you a hard time?" Upon seeing Bai Ye return, the witch rushed over, her pretty face filled with worry.

"Let's talk about it when we get back."

Bai Ye waved his sleeves and led the group to a secluded bamboo forest.

This is a corner of the Imperial Pass. He waved his hand, and a stone table and benches appeared on the ground, followed by plates of divine fruits and fine wine.

“Brother Ye…” Shi Hao hesitated, unsure how to begin.

"Sit down and let's talk, there's no rush," Bai Ye smiled, making no mention of what had happened before.

"If all else fails, let's go back. We can survive anywhere." The witch couldn't bear it the most. In all her life, her junior brother had never suffered such humiliation.

The items were found by my junior brother. Handing them over shows great righteousness. Does not handing them over mean I'm letting down the world? You know this, but you still don't go. When something happens, you start blaming others. As the supreme being, can you force your will upon others and judge the world with a single word?!

If you can coerce a minor immortal king today, can you coerce others tomorrow? If you have no power to resist, then wouldn't you die in vain?

"Don't talk nonsense, it's the same everywhere in the world." Bai Ye laughed and patted the witch's hand. Pu Du and Hong Mao, on the other hand, remained silent and ate their fruit in silence.

"Brother Ye, do you know what's going on with my clan?" Shi Hao asked, looking up after taking a sip of wine.

"Your clan is innocent; on the contrary, it is a testament to their achievements. The reason for this is that some people have distorted the truth. If we truly consider bloodline, your clan's ancestor was a Celestial King."

"Turning black into white... Immortal King..." Shi Hao was stunned, deeply feeling the complexity of the situation, and this kind of news was difficult for him to digest for a while.

"So this kid is actually a member of the imperial family..." Pu Du and Hong Mao both glanced sideways.

"Thinking about those things now is useless. You should know about the Willow Goddess you mentioned. Her remains are inside the Imperial Pass. She was once an ancestral sacrificial spirit. She fought her way in and out of the foreign land nine times and later underwent multiple rebirths. The reason she fell at the entrance of your village hundreds of years ago was because she was attacked and killed."

"This..." Shi Hao was speechless. He didn't even care that Liu Shen was a woman.

The Nine Heavens seemed to be more complicated than he had imagined. He thought the Three Thousand Provinces were chaotic enough, but he never expected the Nine Heavens to be even more so.

Even the witch was drinking in silence, her usually smiling face now heavy with worry. She sensed something was wrong with her junior brother.

"But you, like me, are not a peaceful person either."

"I'm very low-key, okay..." Shi Hao retorted.

“The person who wields this sword is never low-key.” Bai Ye pointed to Shi Hao’s back.

"Does Brother Ye know its origin?" Shi Hao put aside his complicated thoughts, drew out the Great Luo Sword Embryo, and handed it over.

"Forged from scraps, the swordsman's fate is whatever he sees."

"What do you mean?" Even the others looked puzzled.

Bai Ye took the sword and activated it with all his might. Instantly, the sword embryo seemed to be soaked in water, and a whistling sound came out.

At the same time, a blurry image appeared: a being holding a blood-dripping sword embryo, treading on a boundless, hazy ocean, leading some indistinct, tall figures, gazing at the dark and gloomy void, seemingly looking at something.

But around him, time stood still, and the years seemed to stand still. The whole world appeared to be frozen in time, like a picture that flashed by and then vanished.

“What is that… I think I see you…” Junying said strangely.

"Really..." The old demon was puzzled, but his brows were furrowed. True strong people don't believe in the future; they only respect the present. But what kind of place is that? His future self seems very strong... Could it be that one day I can really break through the King and become an Emperor?

"The aura of the cycle of reincarnation... You went to the cycle of reincarnation in the future?!" the witch exclaimed, clutching her sleeve tightly, her reaction extremely strong. This time, she truly couldn't laugh anymore.

What others may not know is that she received a gift from a Celestial King, truly witnessed the horrors of the cycle of reincarnation, and even carried the coordinates of that place with her. How could she not know?

That place was a calamity land where Immortal Kings gathered, even more terrifying than the alien realm. She even forgot about the anger her junior brother had suffered and guarded against Bai Ye as if he were a thief.

"Uh... the future is all an illusion, isn't it?" Shi Hao took the sword embryo strangely. Brother Ye seemed to know a lot about this sword embryo.

"Who knows?" Bai Ye smiled, a vision of the future that dispelled the heaviness in Shi Hao and the witch's hearts. The witch, however, kept covering her sleeve, where the Dark Immortal Golden Coffin was hidden.

"Therefore, the matter of the Imperial Pass is nothing to me. I am a man destined to conquer the cycle of reincarnation!"

“You dare? You definitely can’t go,” the witch retorted.

"Then you keep watch, I'll steal it later."

As Bai Ye spoke, he placed a Qiankun bag in front of Shi Hao. "No matter how the future changes, I believe that you will always be you, and I will always be me."

Shi Hao nodded, but when he scanned the bag with his divine sense, he suddenly paused. There wasn't much inside: a sheet of silver-white paper, a piece of animal hide, two broken plates, and a jade slip.

The former is for him, the latter should be for... the witch sister.

Chapter 414 One Man Separates Two Realms

Night fell.

Amidst a bamboo grove, wine jugs lay scattered about. Red Hair sat on the ground, his face genuinely flushed. Beside him stood the burly man with horns; the two of them were relatively quiet and reserved.

Meanwhile, another couple was there, arms around each other's shoulders. "Let me tell you, little one, I'll let bygones be bygones about the time you beat me up, but you're the first person to dare eat my demon whiskers!"

But these two guys were quite unserious, and as they talked, they started discussing food. One of them wouldn't eat humanoids, but would eat anything else, while the other wasn't picky at all.

On the contrary, in the distance, a woman in a black dress leaned on Bai Ye's shoulder. A few strands of hair clung to her stunningly beautiful face, her eyes were dreamy, and her flawless white arms tightly gripped his arm. "Little Naihao is already married. I really didn't expect that."

Bai Ye looked at the dense Kunpeng runes engraved on the bone in his hand and said calmly, "I didn't expect this either."

"You know... aren't all men like this...? For the sake of cultivation, they forge ahead bravely, making their own lives magnificent, but when they look back, will the people of their hometown still exist...? Having seen so much splendor, will the new scenery replace the old...?"

"No, I'm a sentimental person. Old memories are the roots, and new scenery is the growing branches and leaves. Without roots, there are no leaves." Bai Ye glanced sideways at the bright red lips smiling on her shoulder. As they moved, her pearly teeth were slightly revealed, making her look extremely tempting and irresistible, making one want to take a bite.

As if sensing something, the witch's breathing suddenly became erratic, and even her closed eyes trembled.

But as soon as her divine sense swept over him, her eyes snapped open, wide and bulging. "You stole my things!"

She immediately objected; this was a coffin of death. Just as she was about to pounce and snatch it, a mournful horn sounded from the distant city, carrying out a long, rainbow-like arc that shot up throughout the city.

This is a call to arms; the alien realm has begun its attack again.

"Didn't they already get the item? How could they be here so quickly!" The witch sat up straight instantly, and everyone else sobered up, their drunkenness completely gone.

In fact, as soon as the bugle sounded over there, someone came to meet him here.

For Emperor Guan, this was a fighting force that was unmatched below the level of a Supreme Being.

"Your Highness, please follow me." The one who came was an elderly knight, the same one as before.

……

The area outside the pass was like two completely different worlds. Instead of boundless peace and tranquility, it was filled with ignited flames of war and an overwhelming sense of impending doom.

Under the illumination of thirty-three blood moons, alien creatures appeared, led by a knight who had vanquished a hundred of my men. They formed a battle formation and appeared at the edge of the desert like a giant spear.

Immediately afterwards, even more giant spear legions appeared, row upon row, a dense, dark mass stretching across the border, like a scroll unfurled, stretching as far as the eye could see, deeply shocking everyone who arrived.

There were over a thousand Transcendent Realm experts at the very front, not to mention the hundreds of Self-Slaying Realm experts behind each of them. The number of people in the front row alone exceeded one hundred thousand.

This was not a small-scale conflict, but a very rare clash between large armies.

"How could this be... How could the alien realm suddenly launch such a war!" Many veterans who rushed over were shocked, as such a thing had not happened for many years.

"Do they intend to launch a full-scale attack on the Imperial Pass?"

No one knows, it should be impossible. There are immortal artifacts in the Imperial Pass, and a group of supreme beings are stationed there. In addition, it is the greatest crystallization of an era. Its defensive power is so strong that even a resurrected true immortal could not break through.

The Heavenly Abyss blocks those above the Supreme level, while the Imperial Pass blocks those below the Supreme level. These are the two strongest barriers in the Nine Heavens and the reliance for blocking foreign realms.

"kill!"

With a command, thousands of soldiers raised their spears and began their charge. At that moment, the spears pointed and the killing intent swept across the heavens and earth, shaking the sun and moon.

This was an extremely terrifying force. With 100,000 troops working together, they were invincible. The entire world was in turmoil. As soon as the battle began, it was as if a thousand giant spears had pierced through, causing the Nine Heavens side to retreat step by step.

Countless supernatural powers and ancestral techniques were unleashed, and countless corpses fell, filling the entire desert with a bloody storm.

The roars of the strong, the neighing of mounts, the charging of chariots, the mountain-like giants and ferocious beasts, and the fierce battles soaked many places, turning the desert into a blood-red mess.

This was the true battlefield, making Shi Hao's scalp tingle and his fists clench. Even the gods here were just the lowest-ranking soldiers, and the Void Dao seemed insignificant among the densely packed fighting creatures. As for the thousands of knights, they were like invincible, immortal spears, tearing apart everything in their path.

"boom!"

On the other side, a great knight from the Nine Heavens was killed, and even his mount, a thousand-foot-long Devouring Beast, could not escape, being cleaved in two by a silver celestial blade.

In an instant, the Devouring Beast howled, and blood rain poured down from the sky, staining the heavens and earth red. Under the illumination of the thirty-three blood moons, the scene appeared incomparably tragic and beautiful.