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Translator: Fate
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Just when the entire Wonder Domain was in an uproar because of the coming of the Immortal, a serious and grave atmosphere was now brewing in the majestic and tall centre hall among the layers of pavilions in the Illusion Gates.
At the moment, the many current leaders and Elders were gathered here with faces filled with respect and a hint of curiosity. Above them were a few ancient monsters that came out from retreat after hearing the news with frightening status and cultivation in the Sacred Realm. They were extremely powerful beings that were hidden in the Illusion Gates over the years, so they wouldn’t easily reveal themselves.
Today, they were awakened by their stunned sovereign as they rushed to the palace to take control over the situation. After all, the news was truly so shocking that they couldn’t afford to not take it seriously.
Outside the palace was a group of brilliant disciples and young prodigies from the Illusion Gates, and their eyes were also full of disbelief and shock as they gazed at Gu Changge, who had his eyes closed, as though he was resting, wearing a strangely calm expression as if nothing in the outside world mattered to him. He was exuding a strong sense of awe and incredulity.
“Could he be the rumoured Immortal?”
“He stands there as if he is from a completely different world. It’s no surprise that he is someone on a different level from us.”
“This is terrifying. It’s my first time seeing such a character.”
A prodigal damsel’s eyes were filled with shock and admiration.
“Such a being must have an unfathomable cultivation. Just his breath alone is able to send fear into anyone. This is much more horrifying than facing someone in the Saint Realm back then.”
“I’m afraid that he is listening to our words. Our Ancestors are probably such beings too!”
They kept on murmuring while being stunned when hearing the rumours that a being who had a relation with an Ancestor 800,000 years ago had personally come down to the Lower Realm to repay a favour. It was so shocking that one would only dare to believe it with their own eyes.
Facing their awe, praise and flattering words, Gu Changge didn’t pay much attention at all, as if he didn’t hear any of it, since he was long used to it already. To be honest, he quite hoped that someone would jump out at this moment to question him so that the situation wouldn’t be this boring.
“Greetings, Sovereign. This is how things came to be.” Inside the palace, Zhao Wu reported all that had happened with an excited and trembling voice.
He led Gu Changge all the way here to the Illusion Gates, and even though Gu Changge didn’t say anything during the journey, he could feel that he had some appreciation for him. That was why he spared no effort to explain the scene when Gu changge arrived to this Lower Realm, and no one suspected that the matter was false. Instead, they were filled with excitement just like Zhao Wu.
Listening to him, the Sovereign of Illusion Gates quickly came back to his senses and stuttered, “May I know how I should address you?”
He didn’t doubt Zhao Wu’s words at all since the Illusion Gates’ Ancestor back then was also a legendary figure who left a great reputation in the Wonder Domain and even the Heavenly Star Realm. Therefore, it was reasonable for the Ancestor to ascend to the Upper Realm and meet such a being like Gu Changge.
After all, even the old timers standing behind him couldn’t even detect the depth of Gu Changge’s cultivation which showed how powerful he was and convinced him of his suspicions!
“There’s no need to talk about that.” Gu Changge finally opened his eyes with a calm expression that had a hint of impatience.
While speaking, he looked aloof and cold as he swept his eyes across everyone in the palace, causing quite a few of the old men in the Saint Realm to shiver in fear. As they trembled, they couldn’t help but take a few steps back because they couldn’t withstand his gaze, not to mention the others who almost collapsed on the floor under his breath.
“Today, I shall return Chu Taixu’s favour. This Illusion Creation Technique is a technique that your Ancestor and I came up with back then. He has some difficulty coming down to the Lower Realm, so today, I shall teach this technique to you on his behalf,” Gu Changge stated flatly with a calm expression.
Chu Taixu was a name he simply glanced at on the magnificent status in the square when he entered the Illusion Gates. According to the normal cliches, it should be the name of the Illusion Gates’ Ancestor if there weren’t any mistakes, so Gu Changge’s casual lie wasn’t without basis.
*Hum!* Then, he simply waved his hand, and a series of ancient bright golden runes suddenly appeared in the void in front of him, as if they were a constantly evolving river of vast and profound stars.
Watching the scene, everyone in the palace held their breath while the young disciples outside the palace were also wide-eyed and breathing faster. They never expected an Immortal like him to be this straightforward and reveal an extremely precious scripture in the void right in front of everyone. Immediately, everyone stared closely at the ancient runes, trying to understand its meaning without blinking an eye.
“These are no longer… as simple as those scriptures of the Sacred Realm…”
“It contains a transcendent meaning and mystery that far-surpasses the Sacred Realm…”
Soon, one of the Elders in the Quasi-Sacred Realm perceived the mystery of the scripture, so he couldn’t help but open his eyes wide and exclaim in disbelief. He was incredibly excited and thrilled.
Seeing him, the others quickly stared at it without a moment’s hesitation, afraid that they might have missed something. As for the credibility of Gu Changge’s words, they didn’t doubt him at all. After all, who would spend all this energy to come down to the Lower Realm just to give them this scripture unless the person didn’t have a brain?
Gu Changge’s attitude gave them an indifferent feeling which was something that they felt that a person of higher status should have.
After presenting the scripture to them, he quietly closed both his eyes and didn’t say anything else while ignoring everything. In the eyes of everyone else, this was the image of someone from a higher status who was aloof and cold.
However, many thoughts were popping up in Gu Changge’s mind at the moment, which was quite interesting.
One couldn’t help but feel that the saying ‘nothing in this world was free’ was very true, let alone such a huge reward that fell from the sky, so naturally, the ‘Illusion Creation Technique’ was just nonsense from Gu Changge to trick these fools into cultivating. Even though his plan seemed simple and crude, his every step was flawless, and even his cultivation techniques were the same too. At the moment, even someone in the Sacred King Realm would fall into his trap and obediently cultivate using his method.
Of course, any normal person definitely wouldn’t have any suspicions at the moment since they wouldn’t want to miss out on such a given opportunity, but this cultivation technique that Gu Changge gave them was far more effective in controlling others than any Slave Mark as it was the same as the Entanglement Immortal Might.
It was a fact that the Illusion Gates had been passed down for at least hundreds of thousands of years with deep roots, so if Gu Changge wanted to take control of it, it would take some effort. However, if he chose to suppress them just by his cultivation alone, it would inevitably provoke strong resistance and might even draw the attention of other factions, which was against his intentions.
After all, the main reason he came down to the Lower Realm was because of the Mortal One’s reincarnation, so before that, he needed to keep a low profile. That was why he decided to use this method to make the Illusion Gates cultivate on their own accord so that they would be for his own use.
Soon, under his plan, the people inside the palace had more or less memorised the scripture, and many of the young disciples outside the palace also did the same.
Even though Gu Changge maintained a calm expression on the outside, he was actually laughing inside his heart.
The Sovereign of Illusion Gates even got greedy when he heard that it was deduced by Gu Changge and their Ancestor, so he straight away traced it down as an inheritance to be used by future generations of disciples in their cultivation.
In a short amount of time, they had already understood the mystery behind this cultivation technique which had far-surpassed any cultivation technique they cultivated before. As for Gu Changge, he looked as though he didn’t see the Sovereign tracing down the scripture, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.
“The Immortal is so gracious! The entire Illusion Gates will forever keep it in mind.”
“We are all grateful!”
Soon, the palace and even its outside surroundings were filled with such grateful voices. Seeing Gu Changge personally coming down to this Lower Realm to present a cultivation technique and repay a favour, they were all full of admiration. [This is what having an honourable heart is like!]
“Now, I’ve returned Brother Taixu’s favour,” Gu changge said while a hint of intrigue flashed across his face.
Then, under the intention of the Sovereign and the others to make him stay, Gu Changge was content to stay on the highest peak of Illusion Gates, and within a few days, the controlling aspect of this cultivation technique began to take effect. Its range quickly engulfed the entire Illusion Gates to a point where even the Ancestor of Illusion Gates with the most powerful cultivation was alarmed. With his cultivation in the Sacred Noble Realm, he could simply sweep aside the entire Wonder Domain, making him invincible, but unsurprisingly, he couldn’t withstand the temptation of this cultivation technique.
Just like that, the whole Illusion Gates began to cultivate this cultivation technique, other than those unqualified disciples.
Looking at the scene, Gu Changge felt that it was similar to when he controlled the Black Hawk Family and other clans back in the Celestial Ancient Continent, but the Elders and disciples of the Illusion Gates still hadn’t noticed that they were being controlled. Instead, they were all engulfed in excitement as they felt that there were signs of breakthrough in their cultivation.
Being a bit playful, Gu Changge decided not to reveal everything to them as he used the cultivation technique to control the Sovereign of Illusion Gates and give out some orders. Nearly half of the Wonder Domain was actually under the control of Illusion Gates, and now, it meant that it was all under his control too.
The first thing that he needed to do naturally was to search for fortuitous people all over the world because the Mortal One’s reincarnation would definitely be hidden within them. As a dominant force in the Wonder Domain, the thorough search of Illusion Gates allowed him to gather quite a lot of information.
However, it wasn’t enough. In order to further narrow down the scope, he thought of Jiang Chuchu whom he trapped in the Inner World. [She must have other methods on her to determine the location of the Mortal One’s reincarnation.]
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*Hum!* Inside the Inner World, sitting on a huge boulder, Jiang Chuchu had her eyes closed and her body covered by a layer of hazy divine light when she suddenly felt a fluctuation in the space.
All of a sudden, she opened her cold eyes that were filled with hatred and murderous intent, but soon, she returned to her previous calmness, as if her expression just now was an illusion.
As a layer of ripples spread, Gu Changge’s body walked out of it, ignoring her expression just now. Meanwhile, she closed her eyes and refused to look at him as she wasn’t willing to see this man who had endlessly humiliated her.
“Open your eyes and look at me.” Gu Changge opened his mouth and spoke in an imposing tone. “You know the consequences. If you disobey my orders here, you will meet a fate worse than death.”
Jiang Chuchu gritted her teeth and looked at him. She understood what the consequence was, so she didn’t dare to disobey his words and coldly asked, “Gu Changge, what does a monster like you want from me?”
During this period, she had been thinking of a way to break through this world, but her actions were futile. At one point, she fell into such despair that she actually thought that she would be trapped in here for the rest of her life, and now in the outside world, there was someone using her identity to walk among others and scheming with Gu Changge to doom the world into chaos. Unfortunately, she was unable to resist at the moment and could only accept her fate of torment.
The only chance she had was the forbidden palace in her mind, but with her current cultivation level, she couldn’t activate it at all, let alone use its powers. As for submitting to Gu Changge, it was even more impossible as she would rather die of age while suffering from torture!
“Tell me how I can find the Mortal One’s reincarnation.” Gu Changge went straight to the point as he wasn’t in the mood for nonsense.
Listening to him, Jiang Chuchu was stunned and in disbelief. [Not only did he find someone to impersonate me, he now has his eyes on the Mortal One’s reincarnation!? He really has a lot of guts!]
“I don’t know.” She shook her head, implying that she had no idea.
“Oh, do you really don’t know? Or are you faking it?” He couldn’t help but chuckle.
“If I knew where the Mortal One’s reincarnation is, I would have gone out to look for it long ago. Then, I wouldn’t be here, trapped by you,” she coldly replied.
The thought of her innocence getting destroyed by this monster immediately filled her with sorrow and hatred as she couldn’t wait to die with him.
“As the Successor of Mortal Palace, how can you not know? Saintess Chuchu, at this point, have you not given up on the fact that you might escape this place?” Gu Changge said flatly while ruthlessly teasing her.
However, she remained calm and stated, “It doesn’t matter whether I can escape or not. Even if I know, I won’t tell you about it. I’m not going to help the enemy, so you can just give up, Gu Changge.”
At the moment, she still didn’t know that Gu Changge had already left the Upper Realm and was heading towards the place where the Mortal One’s reincarnation was going to emerge from because even she knew nothing about it.
The search for the Mortal One all relied on the secret method and instruction of Mortal Palace as well as her talent. Also, most of the time, it didn’t need the intervention of Mortal Palace because the Mortal One’s reincarnation could stand out from various trials and retribution by overwhelming its peers, which would make it a dazzling figure.
Gu Changge furrowed his brows as it seemed like Jiang Chuchu indeed didn’t know about this. After all, in his Inner World, he could sense the subtle fluctuations of her every emotion. Most importantly, from his perspective, the secret method of Mortal Palace was no better than using the System to search for the Mortal One’s reincarnation. After all, he could precisely determine where the Mortal One’s reincarnation was from the amount of Fortuity he has. However, it would be like searching for a needle in the haystack, and before this, Jiang Chuchu also had never seen the Mortal One’s reincarnation just like him.
“Gu Changge, have you already known about the place where the Mortal One’s reincarnation is going to appear?” Looking at his expression, she couldn’t help but feel shocked while having some suspicions.
[How is he faster than the Mortal Palace? How did he do it?]
“Not only do I know, I’m already there.” At this point, he had nothing to hide, so he smiled faintly with a few hints of intrigue. “What’s the problem? Are you worried that I’ll find the Mortal One’s reincarnation first and kill him? If you beg me, I may still give him a more relaxing death.”
Listening to him, Jiang Chuchu felt a shiver down her spine and her face turned pale as she sensed a casual murderous aura.
“The methods of the Mortal One are not something you can imagine. Even if you kill the Mortal One’s reincarnation in this life, he’ll think of some other way to come back. You’ll never beat the Mortal One,” she couldn’t help but refute. Since she grew up in the Mortal Palace, she understood how powerful the Mortal One was. He was almost invincible. Even though it seemed like Gu Changge had the upper hand at the moment, he still wasn’t a match for the Mortal One who could reincarnate multiple times.
Then, Gu Changge couldn’t help but chuckle and said, “Speaking of which, now that I at least count as your man, if the Mortal One kills me, will you be unswayed? I really wonder what the Mortal Palace has been feeding you all this while. He is just the Mortal One, but it is enough for you to fear him this much. Jiang Chuchu, do you know the purpose of nurturing you since you were a kid? It is to be a tool for the Mortal One. You really are despicable and shameless…”
Listening to his first words, she was no longer as calm as before while her face suddenly changed. She couldn’t believe he said those words, but he still maintained an indifferent attitude.
However, she couldn’t help but feel at a loss when hearing his words… [He is right. What is the purpose of nurturing me since I was a kid?]
No matter what, her relationship with Gu Changge at the moment had become very complicated. She hated him to the core because he was the Successor of Demonic Arts, who was destined to cause chaos to the world. It was her duty to purge him for the people and restore peace. This was the philosophy she had been instilled with since childhood.
“You are just a tool. Have you ever considered living for yourself?” Seeing her falling into confusion, Gu Changge didn’t mind the chaos and laughed. “A tool. That’s what Wang Zijin said to me at that time, saying that she didn’t want to be a tool. A slave.”
Jiang Chuchu was slightly stunned, but she quickly dispelled the distracting thoughts from her mind and regained her composure. She stared at him coldly and replied, “But I’m still the Successor of Mortal Palace. The purpose of my existence is to maintain the justice of the people and peace of the world by killing monsters like you.”
“Oh, then I’ll just stand here, but do you have what it takes to kill me? How dare a waste of space like you speak this arrogantly?” Gu Changge sneered with disdain. “If you can’t even kill me, how can you maintain justice for the people? How many moral people are there in this world? And do you think what they do is righteous? How come I don’t see you killing them?”
From what he saw, Jiang Chuchu’s Dao Heart was pretty unstable, which gave him a great opportunity to take advantage.
“You…” Listening to him, she could feel her breath stop as she almost gritted her teeth. This was the first time she was called a waste of space, but she couldn’t refute him at all.
“Am I wrong? You are nothing but a waste of space. You can only stare at me and do nothing about it. Do you have the slightest regard for the rest of the people who are doing evil? “Would you say that your actions are equivalent to condoning the evil in this world? Do you think you are worthy of your status? What makes you different from me?” With a smile, he kept on questioning her, each word striking directly at her heart.
He also noticed something interesting. Part of the Mortal One’s reincarnation’s Fortuity would be damaged due to the instability of Jiang Chuchu’s Dao Heart, which meant that his current Fortuity came from all the living beings of this world who revered him.
Naturally, Jiang Chuchu grew paler after hearing his words.
Yep, good and evil are sides of the same coin!
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That’s how it works in politics anyhow. “Good” ones are but winners of a PR war, while “Evil” ones are its losers. And propaganda war never stops.
When will we get to know how many Fatums he has?
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Thanks for the chapter