I tried to kill the heroines of destiny, but they ended up chasing after me.

"Hmm." The four of them exchanged glances and spoke in unison.

"Since that's the case, I won't say any more. As long as everyone cooperates well, I believe that in the end, everyone will get what they want... Alright! It's about time, let's go!"

……

On the other hand, two women, whose bodies were completely covered, walked slowly through the small town that the Emperor Sword Clan had temporarily built.

"No matter what, from today onwards, I will absolutely not allow anyone to harm the Emperor Sword Clan," one of the women murmured to herself.

……

Perhaps because of the Emperor Sword Clan's joyous occasion today, the town has become more crowded and bustling.

Apart from the Daoling Clan, which only sent two people, and the Emperor Sword Clan, the largest groups came from the Yansheng Clan and the Zhutian Clan. Perhaps it was just in case, or perhaps it was to train them and broaden their horizons, so the number of people brought by these two clans exceeded fifty.

At the entrance of the Emperor Sword Clan, people from the three clans came and went, creating a lively and bustling atmosphere.

Zhang Shen didn't care about this, or rather, the number of people wasn't enough to attract his attention. His focus remained on the marriage ceremony.

As for the Green Pavilion in the East District, its exterior and northern part have been decorated in bright red and gorgeous style by some servants of the Emperor Sword Clan, which is very beautiful and does have a festive feel.

In addition, Zhang Shen specially arranged for people to set up about a hundred small seats outside the Green Pavilion for people of different statuses from the three clans. In short, according to the previous hierarchy of the Emperor Sword Clan, the closer to the Green Pavilion, the more extraordinary their status.

There are eight seats inside the Green Pavilion.

It's obvious that these are the main seats. Whether it's Zhang Shen, the eldest young master, or the clan leaders, they will all be sitting here.

However, the most attractive feature is a large platform outside the Qingge Pavilion.

There was nothing on this platform, but it was the key to the ceremony, because it was the platform for the eldest son to demonstrate his strength, and also the platform for Huang Quan to take Liu Xiyao away.

……

Huang Quan arrived at the East District early in the morning and sat in a small seat.

After all, he is a person with a legitimate status, so he naturally will not encounter any inexplicable obstacles.

Those sitting with him at this moment were all people of minor status, inconspicuous at all, which he naturally found quite good, at least they wouldn't attract too much attention.

"Brother, what's your name?" The speaker was a member of the Zhutian clan named Zhu Tu.

After observing this person for a period of time, Huang Quan discovered that although his cultivation level was only at the Creation Realm, he was extremely good at chatting.

Before he arrived, everyone at the table tried to avoid talking as much as possible. But since he came, he has disrupted that peace, often getting the people sitting in other seats chatting away until they were completely disoriented...

Now, he has his sights set on the Yellow Springs.

“Huang Yan,” Huang Quan replied calmly.

Huang Quan had witnessed this person's conversational skills before. If he didn't respond, this guy would keep asking questions until he got to the bottom of it. But he couldn't answer every question, otherwise this person would become like a raging river, endless and unstoppable, like the Yellow River overflowing its banks.

Therefore, the best approach is... to adapt to the situation.

But then, Zhu Tu uttered something that made Huang Quan's pupils shrink.

"Huang Yan? Hehehe! Bro, you're so handsome, why do you need a pseudonym?"

Upon hearing this, Huang Quan frowned slightly, his heart churning violently. He tried his best to calm himself down, but his mind was racing.

"No, this can't be right..."

“I have never met this person before, and he has no reason to know that I am using a pseudonym.”

"If this person has no basis for their claim, then... is he just putting on a show?"

"If that's really the case? This person... has quite the cunning."

The last sentence was the best evaluation Huang Quan could give to Zhu Tu.

Yes, it was precisely because of his cunning and disguise that he was noticed and cultivated by an elder of the Bamboo Sky Clan. Otherwise, he would not have been chosen to come to the Emperor Sword Clan to broaden his horizons.

"Hehehe... Brother Zhu, what do you mean by this?" Huang Quan sneered, using only the aura of the Nirvana Realm to suppress Zhu Tu.

Feeling the pressure, Zhu Tu's somewhat immature face was startled, revealing an expression of disbelief.

"He's at the Nirvana Realm?"

"How...is this possible?"

Zhu Tu originally thought that although he couldn't tell Huang Quan's cultivation level, the person sitting in this position must not have a high cultivation level or status, so he wanted to tease Huang Quan to amuse himself.

But to my utter surprise, I encountered such a thorny nail.

"But... why would someone at the Nirvana Realm be sitting here? That doesn't make sense."

Huang Quan was unaware that the aura he had unintentionally revealed could have caused this guy to change his mind so much. His thought was that this guy was so cunning that if he couldn't suppress him in one go, he would definitely suffer from the guy's verbal attacks, so he chose to be more decisive.

I didn't expect it to be so useful.

"Big brother, big brother... I was just joking, just joking!" Knowing that Huang Quan was now in the Nirvana Realm, Zhu Tu immediately put on a fawning smile. If he didn't know to back down now, then he would be a complete idiot.

"Hmph!" Huang Quan snorted coldly, then said, "Some jokes are better left unsaid, or you might lose your life without even knowing why."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Zhu Tu quickly replied.

Seeing Zhu Tu's attitude, Huang Quan lost interest in the matter and quickly fell silent.

Seeing Huang Quan remain silent, Zhu Tu breathed a sigh of relief. However, not long after, his eyes flickered, as if he had thought of something, and his whole demeanor suddenly became a little strange.

Only at the very end did he muster his last bit of courage and approach Huang Quan once more, speaking in a voice only he and Huang Quan could hear: "Brother, I have something to ask you, I wonder if you would be interested?"

"Hmm?" Huang Quan asked softly, puzzled.

……

A little while later.

Southern District of the Imperial Sword Clan.

In a small forest adjacent to the western district, two figures were constantly moving about.

"Zhu Tu, is what you're saying true?" The two were Huang Quan and Zhu Tu, and at this moment, Huang Quan seemed to be confirming something.

"Brother Huang, do you think I could fool you with your intelligence?" Zhu Tu said helplessly.

"I won't consider what you've said... I just want to know the result..." Huang Quan said calmly.

But Zhu Tu understood the chill in those words.

Zhu Tu swallowed hard. Huang Quan was a ticking time bomb in his mind. If he didn't handle it well, it would definitely hurt him in the end. But if he handled it well, it would definitely be a great help to him.

"The source of the information is a very reliable person of mine, so it should be true... Not long ago, someone did indeed escape from the Imperial Sword Clan's cemetery..." Poor Zhu Tu was unaware that the person he was with at this moment was one of the people he had mentioned escaping.

"But what does all this have to do with the secret treasure you mentioned?" Huang Quan asked, feigning ignorance.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Tu suddenly stopped in his tracks under a large tree.

Seeing that Zhu Tu was acting strangely, Huang Quan didn't move.

At this moment, Huang Quan and Zhu Tu were about five meters apart, their eyes meeting.

Suddenly, a gentle breeze stirred, rustling the leaves in the woods. However, this seemed to create a sense of tension between the two of them.

"Who are you?" In that instant, Huang Quan's gaze suddenly turned serious, and he asked abruptly.

"Oh dear! You noticed?" Suddenly, Zhu Tu let out a wicked laugh. He seemed like a completely different person, showing no fear whatsoever in front of Huang Quan.

"Nonsense! If I hadn't noticed, how could I have followed you here?" Huang Quan replied calmly.

"Tsk tsk tsk! How clever." Zhu Tu's voice became even lower.

“I’m not smart, because I don’t know who you are. Why did you deliberately approach me? Why did you lure me out? Are you really a member of the Bamboo Sky Clan?” Huang Quan asked four questions in a row, but his tone suddenly became serious.

Surprisingly, after hearing these four questions, Zhu Tu's attitude underwent a complete 180-degree change, as if he had transformed from a tragic actor into a comedic star, and he directly said, "Who I am is not important, a harmonious world is the most important, yay!"

His change completely baffled Huang Quan.

"Is this guy crazy?" Huang Quan couldn't help but wonder.

However, as if he knew Huang Quan was speaking ill of him, he suddenly laughed and said, "Hahahaha! Judging from your eyes and expression, are you thinking I'm crazy?"

"You're a lunatic," Huang Quan admitted bluntly.

"No, no, no! I'm not crazy. That's the line the author gave me. Plus, the book is almost finished and I'm only coming out now. I'm still a little resentful of him. What a trash author! Someone as important as me should have come out much earlier!" Zhu Tu said, sounding like a lunatic.

"Hey! Aren't you afraid he'll kill you off if you talk badly about the author behind his back like this?" Huang Quan said, breaking out in a cold sweat.

"What? Did I say anything? What did I just say? What author? What is that? I don't understand." Zhu Tu seemed to have forgotten the previous two conversations and suddenly said, "Alright, alright, let's get down to business."

"Important business?" Huang Quan frowned and murmured.

“That’s right. First, let me introduce myself. My name is Huang Shaotian, and I’m from the Huang clan. You should have met Huang Mao before; I’m from the same clan as him.” Zhu Tu officially changed his name to Huang Shaotian and said calmly.

"The Yellow Clan? The only remaining outsider race?" Huang Quan murmured.

“That’s right, but it’s not the only one. It’s just that our Huang clan is more powerful. We’ve brought all the remaining outside races into our clan and made them our people,” Huang Shaotian replied.

"Oh? So, there aren't many of you outsiders left, right?" Huang Quan suddenly said.

"Wait, wait, wait, you have a problem! You should have asked me the questions I asked earlier, like why I contacted you, instead of trying to probe our situation, right?" Huang Shaotian said, leaning slowly against the tree.

"Same here. You answer my question first. After all, you came to see me so mysteriously, you must have some purpose, right? So you will definitely tell me the questions I asked you before, but I won't just tell you what you want. I want to know more about the outside world," Huang Quan replied.

"Know more? Heh! So, I'm like a lamb entering a tiger's den?" Huang Shaotian said with a smirk.

“Whether it’s like a lamb entering a tiger’s den, I don’t know, but there is definitely something about you that I want to know,” Huang Quan said.

"But this is too sudden, it's a little scary! You!" At this point, Huang Shaotian subconsciously grabbed a leaf and asked Ye Xiang.

"Sudden? No, it's not sudden. Otherwise, why would you come looking for me?" Huang Quan retorted.

"Alright, alright! You're amazing! You're awesome! I'll answer, I'll answer, okay?" Huang Shaotian threw away the leaf and continued, "Under the influence of the consciousness of the True Profound Continent... that is, the Tree of Time you encountered, it's very difficult for us to survive on the True Profound Continent, so we can only create our own space..."

"Unfortunately, the spatial environment we can create is vastly different from the True Mysterious Continent created by the true gods of our generation. As time goes by, it will be affected by the causal cycle of the Tree of Time. In short, people in that space will not have a very long lifespan..."

"So those who should die have died, and those who should grow old have grown old. Even now, we probably still have more than a thousand people left!" Huang Shaotian said casually, but his eyes concealed a deep sorrow.

Huang Quan discovered this, but he didn't feel much about it. A world, a space, a race, if favored by fate, will naturally exist for a long time; if rejected by fate, it will naturally be destroyed.

Now the entire universe is being rejected by that fate, let alone a single world, so it's already quite remarkable that they've managed to hold on until now; at least some of them are still alive.

In fact, the situation in the True Profound Continent is not much better than that world. Once that world is completely destroyed, it will be the turn of the True Profound Continent. If the Tree of Time's method doesn't work and Huang Quan can't think of a solution, then what awaits them... is still annihilation.

At least the remaining outsiders might still have a chance to survive, but not in this world. From this perspective, the people of the True Profound Continent are not as good as those outsiders.

"Alright! Just tell me why you wanted to see me! Let's finish this quickly and go back home. I have other things to do," Huang Quan said.

“Okay,” Huang Shaotian said politely.