Forced to become a pure and innocent female pharmacist in order to cultivate immortality.

With so many people talking back and forth, it's driving God Ming crazy.

"Everyone, everyone, please go back first. There's no point in arguing here. Give me some time to calm down and think about this issue, okay?" Shen Ming couldn't help but persuade everyone to go back.

After all, he had just been slapped by his father not long ago, and he was currently very irritable.

Upon hearing the god's words, these high-ranking members of the divine race could only rise and take their leave one by one. They understood that the god indeed needed time to plan ahead.

Soon, the palace was completely empty; even the maids had been driven out by the god, who wanted to be alone.

But at that moment, the voice of the Taoist Taiqing suddenly rang in the ears of the deity.

"God Ming, do you really want to find a bright path for the gods?"

The sudden sound delighted the god, for this was the first time the Heavenly Venerable had ever sent him a private message.

"Grandmaster, Grandmaster, please show your disciple a clear path for the God Clan. My father won't listen to advice, and I can't persuade him either. I understand that you are very unhappy, Grandmaster. The failure to attack the Eastern Heaven Realm not long ago was a lesson taught to us by you and the other Heavenly Venerables." Shen Ming was like someone who had grasped a lifeline, and hurriedly sought advice from Daoist Taiqing.

Chapter 1003 The Gods' Retreat

After a moment of contemplation, the Taoist Taiqing spoke.

"Your divine race's fortune is destined to decline, and you are also destined to go through a great calamity to change your divine race's fate. Originally, what your divine race did was destined to lead to the martyrdom of the entire race."

This statement tells the gods that the entire divine race's transformation into the Dao and merging with Heaven was originally intended to allow them to return to the body of Pangu, the Heavenly Venerable, and coexist with the Dao of Heaven. This is also known as martyrdom.

Of course, martyrdom is just a euphemism; to put it bluntly, it means that the entire Protoss race is no longer worthy of living as free beings.

"This, Grandmaster, you know what Father and the others did, then why didn't you stop them? My father and the others thought that the Heavenly Venerables were unaware, that they had kept it from the Heavenly Venerables." Shen Ming suddenly became somewhat agitated.

He felt that if the Celestial Venerable had intervened, the divine race might not have ended up in this predicament.

“We cannot stop it. After all, this world was created by Fellow Daoist Pangu, and he is the master of this place. As your father said, we are all outsiders. We can intervene indirectly, but we absolutely cannot control the operation of this world. In other words, your divine race is destined to be unable to escape this calamity,” said Daoist Taiqing.

The gods could not understand this.

"Can't you just tell my father directly what will happen to the gods who went their own way?" God Ming asked again.

Master Taiqing smiled.

"Hehe, if I were to tell your father, do you think he would listen or not?" Master Taiqing asked in return.

These words silenced the gods.

Based on his understanding of the Jade Emperor, he knew that the other party would most likely not listen and might even do something more drastic.

"Alright, stop overthinking. Your divine race's benefactor is arriving soon. Perhaps you can find a way out for your divine race through him." After saying this, Taiqing Daoist fell silent, clearly having already left.

As the Taoist Taiqing left, the deity remained stunned.

"A benefactor, what benefactor could help my divine race preserve a glimmer of hope?" God Ming muttered to himself.

But just then, Yao Xi's voice came in.

"Brother, brother, I need to talk to you. Where are you?" Yao Xi led Ye Liuyun in.

God Ming was taken aback. He quickly stood up and looked towards the palace entrance.

He was puzzled to see his sister leading a strange human youth into the room.

"Eighth Sister, what do you want with me? And why did you bring a human here?" God Ming asked, quite confused.

Yao Xi quickly looked around, then ran to the god and whispered something.

"Brother, let's find a safe place to talk. Safe, you know what I mean."

Seeing his sister's mysterious expression, Shen Ming couldn't help but glance at Ye Liuyun again. Ye Liuyun, being the most obedient person at the moment, stood there without saying a word, waiting for Yao Xi and Shen Ming to finish their conversation.

"Hmm, come with me. Is he coming too?" the god asked doubtfully.

“I came to find you because of him,” Yao Xi replied.

So Ye Liuyun followed the Shen Ming siblings into a bedroom that could be isolated from the detection of even the strongest beings. This was Shen Ming's bedroom, and even a Celestial Emperor could not sense the situation here.

After entering, the god asked directly.

"Speak, what is it?"

Yao Xi quickly summoned Ye Liuyun over.

“Hey! Come over here and talk to my brother yourself. If you can convince him, then there won’t be any problem.”

After a moment of thought, Ye Liuyun removed his disguise and revealed his true appearance.

When Ye Liuyun revealed his true form, Shen Ming was greatly surprised.

"It's you, the woman who took away my divine race's most precious creation treasure." God Ming was startled.

He never imagined that the woman who had caused trouble for their divine race would actually come to their race on her own initiative.

"Greetings, God Prince Ming. I am Ye Liuyun, and I am here to help your divine race," Ye Liuyun said with a smile.

After learning of Ye Liuyun's purpose, Shen Ming quickly recalled what the Heavenly Venerable had just told him.

"The Celestial Venerable just said that a noble person from the Divine Race had arrived, and then this woman who caused chaos in the Immortal Realm appeared before me. Could she be the noble person the Celestial Venerable spoke of?" Shen Ming quickly understood.

"You're really bold, Ye Liuyun, the sect leader of the Longevity Sect. You've come to my God Clan on your own initiative. Are you planning to join my God Clan?" Shen Ming asked with a serious expression.

This peak-level Divine Immortal King would be able to deal with Ye Liuyun with a single hand, so it's very risky for Ye Liuyun to come and see him.

“I think that the God Clan doesn’t necessarily have to follow the path of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans. Moreover, what your God Clan is doing in secret will probably not achieve the same result as the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans,” Ye Liuyun said with a half-smile.

Ye Liuyun's words immediately revealed Shen Ming's weakness at that moment.

"You, you actually know about that matter? It was the Heavenly Pearl that told you?" God Ming was shocked.

This is no joke. If it gets leaked, the gods will probably immediately turn against all the races in the immortal realm, especially since their thing hasn't even fully developed yet.

“Indeed, we already know what your divine race has been doing in secret, Prince Ming. We all know, so how could the Heavenly Venerable not know? So, if I may be so blunt, your divine race had better find another way out. I know that your divine race has multiple factions, and Your Highness, you are a conservative. You don’t want the divine race to perish, but you cannot disobey His Majesty the Jade Emperor’s orders, and His Majesty the Jade Emperor probably has no intention of backing down,” Ye Liuyun added.

Alright, now that we've said all that, Ye Liuyun has basically got God Ming completely under his control.

He dared not do anything to Ye Liuyun. The more Ye Liuyun acted this way, the more he believed that the other party was a person of the Heavenly Venerable.

This puts you in the initiative, so everything becomes much easier.

Shen Ming quickly fell into deep thought.

"Then tell me, what good ideas do you have to help my divine race find a way out?" God Ming asked.

Ye Liuyun then gave the god a single sentence.

“Establish your own faction, win over the higher-ups within the God Clan, and make them distance themselves from the radicals. In this way, even the Celestial Venerables will find it difficult to deal with all the human people of your God Clan. This is the only way out for the God Clan.”

Upon hearing these words, Shenming and Yaoxi's pupils constricted.

Neither of them showed any particular surprise, because this was indeed one of the solutions they had considered. However, this approach would undoubtedly split the divine race and make the radicals bear the wrath of the Celestial Venerable.

“I know this choice is difficult, but sometimes, the gods have no choice but to do this. As the saying goes, some people are terminally ill and beyond saving. The only way is to remove the necrotic tissue so that they can be reborn,” Ye Liuyun continued.

Ye Liuyun's words were ruthless and cold, but every single one of them also made sense.

The god could no longer make a decision immediately; such a big matter could not be handled by him alone.

However, given the previous warning from the Celestial Venerable, and now the arrival of someone who seems to be related to the Celestial Venerable, the Gods and Gods have no choice but to consider this issue.

"It's easier said than done. Miss Ye, please return to your previous state first. I need to discuss this with others before we can reach a conclusion," Shen Ming said, stabilizing his emotions.

Ye Liuyun quickly spoke again.

"Your Highness, no one can make this decision for you. If they all disagree, does that mean we shouldn't do it? Some things can be done democratically, but some things must be decided unilaterally. Of course, you can discuss it with your confidants."

God Ming nodded solemnly.

"Eighth Sister, go and arrange accommodations for Miss Ye. I'll summon the gods and the others to have a talk and see what their attitude is," the deity said to Yao Xi.

Yao Xi immediately gestured for Ye Liuyun to follow her. Ye Liuyun understood that this matter would take time. If the gods agreed as soon as she mentioned it, then there would be a problem.

After leaving the god's palace, Yao Xi couldn't help but whisper.

"You're really bold to come up with such a method. Don't you understand what you're talking about? Isn't that splitting the God Race? It's hard not to wonder if you're deliberately trying to undermine the unity of our God Race."

Ye Liuyun smiled faintly.

“Your Highness, you all know that this is the only way to protect the gods. Is there any other way? I have only mentioned the method that you have thought about but have not yet spoken out.”

After thinking for a while, Yao Xi did not deny Ye Liuyun's words.

Soon, Ye Liuyun was arranged by Yao Xi to live on a floating island specifically for foreigners who had come to join them. The island was mainly inhabited by foreign immortals who were valued by the gods.

"Eh? Greetings, Princess Eight. What brings you here?" The foreign immortals who encountered Yaoxi all bowed to her.

"Hmm, no need for formalities. I'm just bringing over a new talent who has joined the Divine Race." Yao Xi replied casually before leading Ye Liuyun to the most luxurious pavilion on the island.

The foreign immortals looked at Ye Liuyun following behind Yaoxi with hostility on their faces.

"Who is this person that Her Highness the Princess would personally deliver? Could it be someone Her Highness values? Strange, this pretty boy is only a Celestial Immortal, and he's not even that good-looking. What makes him so special that Her Highness the Princess would personally deliver him?"

The competition among the foreign immortals who joined the gods was fierce. They would definitely be hostile to any immortal who posed a threat to them.

Looking at the gods' side, several very valiant divine beings had just arrived, including one Immortal King who was no weaker than the gods themselves.

There are quite a few hidden Immortal Kings within the God Clan. The Immortal King in front of us has three eyes, looks young and handsome, and exudes an air of arrogance.

This person is the God General mentioned by the gods, and is the number one person below the Immortal Emperor of the God Clan. He possesses the realm of a half-step Immortal Emperor and is also known as the Heavenly Eye Immortal King.

Back then, the Heavenly Eye Immortal King was the only one who could fight Sun Yuan single-handedly without being defeated. However, he was then entangled with one of Sun Yuan's sworn brothers, who risked their lives for him. Although he eventually killed the other party, it also allowed Sun Yuan to break into the Jade Emperor's Palace.

This Heavenly Eye Immortal King is the cousin of the gods and is known as the number one genius of the gods.

However, the Heavenly Eye Immortal King and the Jade Emperor were at odds because the Heavenly Eye Immortal King's mother was the Jade Emperor's sister. His sister had secretly fallen in love with and married a person from another race. When the Jade Emperor found out, he killed the Heavenly Eye Immortal King's father, and his mother was also imprisoned. Therefore, the Heavenly Eye Immortal King was born from the union of a god and a person from another race.

He is a god of impure blood; the only reason he stays with the gods and helps them is for his mother.

If he could, he would kill the Jade Emperor and take his place.

In addition to having a divine surname, the Heavenly Eye Immortal King also had a foreign surname, Yang, and his given name was Yang Zhao.

The powerful members of the Divine Race sitting here are all from the same generation as the gods, and all of them are at the Immortal King level. This shows how many Immortal Kings the Divine Race has. There are more than twenty on the surface, and if you add those here, there are probably more than thirty. And that doesn't even include the Dark God Race.

"Cousin and everyone else, I recently received a message from my grandmaster, the Taoist Taiqing." Shen Ming shared some of his thoughts with the group.

After hearing this, everyone, especially Yang Zhao, was deeply moved.

"So, the Celestial Venerable is willing to support you, Crown Prince, right?" Yang Zhao stood up and asked.

“That’s right, but you all know very well that we gods don’t have many choices. Last time we said that if we want to preserve the gods and prevent them from going to extinction, we can only choose to distance ourselves from the radicals. That’s the only option,” God Ming said in a deep voice.

Upon hearing this, everyone present fell silent. This was an attempt to split the Protoss race and completely oppose the radical faction.

This is a very difficult choice for them, because they certainly have radical relatives.

Chapter 1004 The True Purpose of the Gods

However, Yang Zhao was definitely rebellious. After hearing that the Heavenly Venerable was helping him, he decisively spoke to the God Ming.

“Your Highness, the current divine race, under the leadership of the God Emperor, is already rotten to the core. It’s long overdue to cut off that piece of rotten flesh. The divine race does not belong to the God Emperor alone. You cannot let the divine race follow him to the end.”

Yang Zhao's mother has not been released by the Jade Emperor to this day because she is imprisoned for eternity, simply because she secretly fell in love with a foreigner, bringing shame upon the divine royal family.

“Indeed, Your Majesty has been managing the Divine Ancestor since the beginning of time, after he transformed into the myriad divine races. You know that our divine race has been rejected by other races and even feared by the Heavenly Venerable. But what does Your Majesty mean? It's like knowing there are tigers in the mountains, yet still heading towards them. Our divine race cannot let the future be ruined by so-called face. I support Brother Yang.” A handsome young immortal king spoke up.

Only those two chose to cut ties with the radicals without hesitation, while the other Celestial Kings hesitated.

"What exactly are you thinking? You can't be half-hearted when doing things. Those who achieve great things don't concern themselves with trifles. Our faction's power has expanded several times over recently. Besides, do you think the God Emperor is an idiot? He doesn't know we have such thoughts. From what I know of him, he's probably hoping that some of the gods will stand up and divide the spoils with them. That way, they won't have to worry about anything when they do their heaven-defying thing." Yang Zhao stood up and roared at the silent Immortal Kings and Immortal Lords.

Yang Zhao had no interest in the future of the gods; he only wanted to rescue his mother and avenge his father's death.

Spurred on by Yang Zhao's words, some of these younger generation of Immortal King powerhouses solidified their own opinions.

“I agree with what God General and God Flame mean. Since we have decided to find a way out for the God Race, we must pay the price. We have no choice but to break through the barriers. Do you all think that the God Race can fight against the entire Immortal Realm? Or even against the Heavenly Venerable?”

"Back then, the Dragon Clan's Zhulong, the Phoenix Clan's Yuanfeng and Yuanhuang, and the Primordial Qilin were strong enough, strong enough to not fear the Heavenly Venerable. But what happened? The three strongest ancient gods were forced to merge with the Dao." Another Immortal King spoke up.

With the support of the young immortal kings, the other immortal lords had no choice but to take a gamble.

Since they saw no hope in following the Jade Emperor, they had no choice but to find their own way. Although others might find this path frightening, they were truly unafraid of death. Having lived for countless years, what was there to fear in death? They simply did not want to walk down a dead end.

“Let’s do it, Your Highness. It’s time for us second-generation gods to take charge of the divine race.”

The god looked at their resolute expressions, then hardened his heart and suddenly stood up.

"Alright, then we'll do it your way. However, I don't want any sneak attack on this matter. We will openly and fairly break with the current divine race," the god said in a deep voice.

“Yes, we’ll go back and prepare. Regardless of His Majesty’s attitude, since we’ve made our decision, we’ll rebel against the God Clan, gather powerful figures from all over the Immortal Realm, and attack the Heavenly Court,” Yang Zhao said.