I became a god through frontier slaughter, and I crushed the academy's prodigies!

Ouyang Qianjue suddenly changed the subject.

That "however" instantly caused the surrounding temperature to drop a few degrees.

Ye Zhen and Lu Changfeng's smiles instantly froze on their faces.

Both of them felt a sudden jolt of fear, and simultaneously felt an extremely ominous premonition.

"Ouyang...but what?"

Ye Zhen swallowed hard and asked cautiously.

Ouyang Qianjue sighed and turned to look at the two of them.

"You two have just come out of seclusion, and there are some things you don't know yet."

"Our Tian Shu Bureau also has a Tian Zhu (Heavenly Pillar), you haven't forgotten, have you?"

Ye Zhen and Lu Changfeng were taken aback.

"Xu Daozhen."

"What happened to him? Yeah, such a big thing, why hasn't he come?"

Won't……

Ouyang Qianjue shrugged, revealing an expression of anticipation for a good show.

"He really offended Shen Tian terribly."

"What?!"

Ye Zhen and Lu Changfeng both widened their eyes and raised their voices by eight octaves.

Ouyang Qianjue smacked his lips and spoke slowly and deliberately.

"Just recently, Xu Daozhen tried to suppress Shen Tian."

"They made things difficult for Shen Tian quite a bit."

Seeing the increasingly grim expressions on their faces, Ouyang Qianjue dropped the final bombshell.

"He directly cut off the supply of goods to Shen Tian's hometown, Tianyun Prefecture, for three whole years."

Did they cut off the supply of goods to that family's hometown for three years?

Holy crap!!!

Is this something a human being would do?!

May I ask you this?

Ye Zhen's burly body swayed violently.

Lu Changfeng's hand trembled, and with a "thud," the cane in his hand fell directly onto the ice.

His face instantly turned a deep liver color.

His face looked like he'd eaten shit.

"Xu Daozhen...that old senile man!!!"

Ye Zhen started cursing loudly.

"Are you out of your mind?!"

Just now, he kept praising her as "polite" and "a good junior."

He just thanked the Tian Shu Bureau. Was he thanking the Tian Shu Bureau for its cultivation of him?

That's like setting up a target in front of the entire planet!

Lu Changfeng was so anxious that he jumped up and down, grabbing Ouyang Qianjue's sleeve.

"Ouyang! Why didn't you say so earlier!"

"If that kid were to turn around and storm the Longjing Tianshu Bureau, given his 'gratitude-seeking' nature..."

"They mustn't tear down our Tian Shu Bureau and set us old bones on fire!"

Just thinking about that boy shrouded in dark red killing intent, cleaving through the void with a single slash...

Both of these peerless experts, who were at the late stage of the ninth rank, were terrified.

This Xu Daozhen is simply inhuman!

Ouyang Qianjue spread his hands, looking completely innocent.

"I just wanted to make you happy first."

"Besides, Xu Daozhen caused this trouble, so the blame should be placed on the perpetrator."

"When Shen Tian arrives, just tie him up and hand him over."

"Perhaps, Shen Tian might spare you some face because of your willingness to turn your own family away for the greater good."

Ye Zhen and Lu Changfeng looked at each other in silence, their faces filled with grief and indignation.

What kind of nonsense is this?!

Having just emerged from quarantine, I hadn't even had a few minutes to experience the joy of being invincible.

They were now facing a life-or-death crisis!

Unexpectedly, while the two were in seclusion, Xu Daozhen led the Tian Shu Bureau to this predicament.

What if this young man isn't as grateful as Ouyang Qianjue described, or even as vindictive?

It's possible that they could destroy the entire Tian Shu Bureau!

Are you angry?

Of course I'm angry.

But more than anything, it was a complex feeling that was hard to put into words.

Ye Zhen gazed at the endless Kunlun Mountains.

His gaze seemed to pierce through the wind and snow, returning to that era of devastation.

At the beginning of the Great Cataclysm.

The power of heaven and earth has just been restored.

That was a nightmare that all of humanity could never forget.

Countless abyssal rifts tore open without warning all over the planet.

Countless ferocious and terrifying alien races and beasts surged out like a tide.

The entire human race was plunged into unprecedented turmoil overnight.

That was the most desperate and darkest era in human history!

Skyscrapers were reduced to ruins under the iron hooves of the strange beasts.

The once bustling city has been turned into a battlefield, littered with corpses and rivers of blood.

Every day, tens of thousands of people die, without even having time to cry out, before becoming food for other races.

Ye Zhen, Lu Changfeng, and Xu Daozhen at that time.

They are not yet some lofty pillars of heaven, nor are they giants who can command the wind and rain.

Instead, they were three comrades who fought side by side in a sea of ​​blood and mountains of corpses, risking their lives!

They were the most dazzling and unparalleled geniuses in the Dragon Kingdom during that dark era.

The three supported each other, stepping over the corpses of alien races and beasts, and experiencing countless struggles on the brink of life and death.

With great difficulty, step by step, I broke through to the ninth level!

finally.

They used overwhelming force to forcibly suppress the dark unrest within the Dragon Kingdom.

They pulled the Dragon Kingdom back from the brink of collapse and led humanity into a relatively stable new era.

In order to protect this hard-won hope and to prevent the tragedy of that year from repeating itself.

The three of them joined forces to establish the Tian Shu Bureau.

Back then, they were full of vigor and determined to exterminate all alien races and restore a bright and clear world to Earth!

but……

Reality is far crueler and more despairing than ideals.

After breaking through to the ninth level, their realm seemed to have encountered an insurmountable chasm.

It will be difficult to break through again.

at the same time.

The armies of various alien races have grown to an unprecedented size.

Faced with a still powerful alien race, what path should the Dragon Kingdom take? How can humanity survive?

Hope still rests on those three.

The three of them made a decision.

Use a rotation system.

One person will remain outside to oversee the Tian Shu Bureau, coordinate the overall situation, and maintain the stability of the Dragon Kingdom.

The other two must remain secluded and detached from worldly affairs.

Concentrate all resources and focus all your energy on reaching a higher level!

It can only be awakened when humanity faces a life-or-death crisis, or when someone breaks through to a higher level.

For the past decade, Xu Daozhen has been in charge on a rotating basis.

"Ouyang..."

"Now I roughly understand why Xu Daozhen and Shen Tian are such bitter enemies."

Ye Zhen sighed.

next to.

Lu Changfeng shook his head bitterly, his face full of helplessness.

"yes."

The two old friends exchanged a glance and both saw the sorrow in each other's eyes.

They knew Xu Daozhen too well.

The brother who dared to fight alongside them in a sea of ​​blood back then has changed in the end.

Xu Daozhen firmly believed that before the human race produced a tenth-rank or even higher-rank powerhouse, this was the case.

Do not engage in direct conflict with any foreign race!

There is only one thing that is most important right now.

That is to buy time!

We will stop at nothing, even if it means playing the fool, to buy time for the breakthrough of top-tier combat power!

Under this absolute premise.

Xu Daozhen believed that the people of the Dragon Kingdom, the martial artists at the grassroots level, and even some important strategic resources.

They can all be used as bargaining chips to make necessary sacrifices!