Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

King Gu was unaware.

He could only do his best to live a little longer in order to create an opportunity for his junior sister, Duan Xingchen, to survive.

Duan Xingchen's beautiful eyes widened. Although she saw the descending black light, she couldn't react at all.

That's too late.

It's too late to activate the Cleansing Demon Desolation Record again.

She could only watch helplessly as the black light mercilessly descended upon Gu Tianren's head.

Despair spread through my heart.

Duan Xingchen recalled his brother Duan Xingyao's smile, the kindness of his sect leader grandfather, and the wisdom and gentleness of his senior brother Gu Wangjun...

She didn't want to see the tragedy of the past repeat itself.

In the very end, as the black light was about to fall, Duan Xingchen was still unable to do anything.

Overwhelmed by despair, she closed her eyes in hopelessness and cried out the last glimmer of hope that should not even exist in her heart.

Yes, that was the last, the very last hope.

"teacher!!!"

As the words fell.

Darkness arrived as promised.

Gu Wangjun's physical body was simply unable to withstand the extreme power. The moment the black thorn touched him, a crack appeared on the skin on his head.

But just as the black thorn in Gu Tianren's hand was about to continue its downward plunge, preparing to slice Gu Wangjun in two—

boom! !

A storm, even more terrifying than Gu Wangjun's full-force punch, swept in, and a fair hand grabbed "Gu Tianren's" face, slamming him into the ground.

A snow-white figure appeared before their eyes. Duan Xingchen and Gu Wangjun stared wide-eyed in disbelief at the suddenly appearing youth.

With dead fish eyes, dressed in a simple white shirt, and a uniquely listless expression on his face, the young man who arrived here looked as if he had just woken up—

Yunping turned around, picked at his ear, and glanced sleepily at the dazed Duan Xingchen. He said irritably, "Why are you yelling so loudly?"

"If you accidentally wake me up, you're really doomed."

While making teasing remarks, Yun Ping stepped on the head of "Gu Tianren," whom he had pressed into the ground, and looked at his two precious disciples with a wicked smile that made him want to punch them.

42. I've been tricked again.

Inside the vast main palace of the Blue Feather Heavenly Palace.

The young man named Yunping glanced with interest at Gu Wangjun and Duan Xingchen, who were drenched in cold sweat at the moment, and a hint of relief appeared in his eyes.

He could naturally see the growth of his two precious disciples over the years, and what made Yunping even more at ease was that, at least neither of them had lost an arm or a leg.

The astonishment in Duan Xingchen's beautiful eyes gradually turned into joy, and she exclaimed excitedly, "Teacher...it really is you!"

"Long time no see, little light bulb girl~" Yun Ping smiled faintly, lifted his foot and stepped on "Gu Tianren's" head as if nothing had happened, stomping the latter's head hard into the ground: "It looks about the same as before, oh, it seems not as bright as before... the light has become much softer."

"Is this a compliment...?" Duan Xingchen was a little confused.

Gu Wangjun blinked and interjected, "I guess so."

After speaking, Gu Wangjun quickly shook his head. Although Yun Ping's appearance put him at ease, he recalled what Yun Ping had said about the Divine Eye and hurriedly asked, "Speaking of which, teacher, what exactly is going on? Why are these twenty-one extremes also appearing in the dream?"

"That's a much more complicated explanation."

Yun Ping seemed unwilling to waste words on this matter. His flippant gaze turned slightly somber as he continued, "Instead of this, do you know the location of the Blue Ice Pool?"

"Blue Ice Pool..."

The one who answered Yunping's question was neither Gu Wangjun nor Duan Xingchen, but Lan Chun, who slowly emerged from the wall in the distance.

He frowned deeply, sensing another unfamiliar figure appear before him. Judging from the figure's defeat of the eerie and terrifying source of demonic energy, it must be a colleague: "What are you going to the Blue Ice Pool for..."

Yunping glanced at Lan Chun, but didn't ask any questions about his identity. Instead, he continued, "The Blue Ice Pool is the final trial in the Cleansing Demon Desolation Record. Although theoretically, it's not impossible to go to the Blue Ice Pool for the trial after leaving this dream, it seems we don't have that much time right now."

He immediately turned his solemn gaze to Duan Xingchen: "Little light bulb girl, you must go to the Blue Ice Pool with the King right now to complete the final trial of the Cleansing Demon Desolate Dust Record. This is your last chance."

"Based on my past judgment and deduction with the Holy Profound Gold, the Cleansing Demon Desolate Dust Record can even suppress the ultimate level of demonic energy. As long as I can suppress the demonic energy emerging from the Central Divine Eye, I will have a way to return to reality through the Central Divine Eye."

Duan Xingchen and Gu Wangjun had heard most of Yunping's words and roughly understood what their teacher meant.

However, as one of the direct disciples of the Blue Feather Heavenly Palace, Lan Chun didn't understand anything about the "Purifying Demon Desolate Dust Record" or the "dream." After a few seconds of being stunned, he couldn't help but ask, "What are you talking about..."

In response to Lan Chun's question, Yun Ping glanced at him.

next second.

The snow-white figure suddenly appeared in front of Lan Chun and threw a powerful abdominal punch.

boom!

A blast of air swept through, and Lan Chun's vision went black in an instant; he lost consciousness in the blink of an eye.

"Teacher?!" Duan Xingchen exclaimed in surprise.

Before Xingchen could react, the old rogue kicked Lan Chun like a soccer ball, sending him flying through the air in a meteor-like arc before disappearing from sight.

After finishing all this, Yunping clapped his hands in satisfaction, turned around, and saw the bewildered expressions on Gu Wangjun's and his companion's faces. He smiled and explained, "Don't worry, I didn't kill him. At most, he'll be seriously injured in the free fall, the kind that will heal in a few years."

Yunping's gaze fell on the spot where "Gu Tianren" had been. In the sunken pit, there was no trace of "Gu Tianren" anymore, only a pool of dark, dirty water.

"It would be best for unrelated individuals to leave as soon as possible."

Yun Ping spoke in a deep voice, his gaze falling on Gu Asan, who was already too frightened to speak. The moment he saw Gu Asan's face, Yun Ping's expression froze.

He slowly closed his eyes, and after a few seconds of silence, he said to Gu Wangjun, "Wangjun, listen carefully. When the little girl is undergoing her soul tribulation, you must protect her. This is your responsibility as the senior brother."

Upon hearing this, Gu Wangjun seemed to understand something and nodded with a resolute look in his eyes.

Yun Ping turned his head again, looked at Duan Xingchen who was being carried on his shoulder, and said coldly, "Xingchen, you must remember that you are the only one who can save Lanyu Heavenly Palace. No matter what happens when you are undergoing the tribulation of the divine soul, don't care. Close your eyes, don't look, and don't listen."

"……I see."

Although Duan Xingchen didn't quite understand why Yun Ping would warn her like that, since it was Yun Ping who said it, she would keep it in mind.

Seeing the resolute looks in his two disciples' eyes, Yun Ping smiled and patted Gu Wangjun on the shoulder, then patted Duan Xingchen on the head. He then pointed at Gu Asan and said, "Put this kid down, Your Highness. You only need to take care of our junior sister. I'll look after this kid."

"..."

at this time.

Looking at the blank-faced Gu Asan, and seeing that face that was exactly the same as the Martial Emperor's, Gu Wangjun couldn't help but start to think about the relationship between Yunping and this person.

But time did not allow him to hesitate any longer. He slowly put Gu Asan down and handed him over to Yunping to take care of.

"Teacher, please help me."

Yunping put his hands behind his back and gave Gu Wangjun a meaningful smile: "I'll leave my junior sister to you."

"it is good."

Gu Wangjun immediately agreed, and then carried Duan Xingchen and rushed to the location of the Blue Ice Pool at top speed.

Watching his two beloved disciples walk away, Yunping sighed helplessly. His complicated gaze fell on Gu A-San, who was slumped on the ground beside him, trembling as if he might wet himself at any moment.

The hazy memories in my mind became clear in the blink of an eye, and the shackles imposed by someone unknown were completely destroyed at this moment.

He understood everything.

"This is so troublesome..."

The old rogue scratched his head, his dead fish eyes filled with dejected reluctance.

Even though he still harbors a deep sadness about the past that he doesn't want to recall, the facts are undeniable, and he can't deny them even if he wants to.

"The Divine Eye, the eye that sees into the future."

Yunping's gaze slowly moved upwards, looking at the black figure that was slowly emerging from the vast darkness ahead.

The young man named Gu Tianren had a cold and heavy expression on his face, and his eyes were filled with killing intent and a trace of barely concealed fear as he stared at Yun Ping.

"Just as Lan Tianyi possessed the ability to see into the future, there was also a genius in this era, so far in the past, who could foresee the future."

His name is Gu Tianren.

Yunping spoke calmly, recounting the ins and outs of everything.

"The moment he obtained the Divine Eye, he saw the future where a monstrous demonic aura would be released from his own Divine Eye. However, another young man named Lan Chun was completely unaware of this and even thought it was a gift from Lan Yutianbing. That's why Gu Tianren took away Lan Chun's Divine Eye."

Hearing Yunping's words, Gu Asan was so frightened that his eyes widened and he couldn't utter a single word.

"That's why he refused to cultivate the Divine Eyes. He understood that the more he cultivated these eyes, the faster the Deathly Evil Ice, one of the twenty-one extremes, would descend upon the Blue Feather Heavenly Palace, bringing endless disasters."

Yunping glanced at "Gu Tianren" at this moment and could tell at a glance the damage and strangeness of his internal organs: "If he commits suicide, the Central Divine Eye will release that ball of demonic energy on the spot, so he can only desperately suppress his cultivation and stop cultivating the Central Divine Eye."

"He must have always wanted to know where this demonic aura came from... Unfortunately, he couldn't have foreseen it—he couldn't have foreseen that the Deathly Evil Ice didn't come from his era, but from the future, descending upon this world through the divine eye of a girl named Lan Tianyi."

The reason why Lan Tianyi's divine eye would go berserk was because of this.

The old rogue slowly closed his eyes. Everything was too coincidental, but it was precisely because of this that this series of events was triggered.

"Lan Yutianbing dreamt of the past, where the Divine Eye of the past and the Divine Eye of the future were connected, causing the dream to overlap with reality. Things that should have been illusory gained real meaning, and a bridge was built between the two generations of Divine Eye holders. It was through this bridge that the Deathly Evil Spirit Ice traveled from the future to this world..."

If Duan Xingchen and Gu Wangjun were here at this moment, they would surely recall—

When Xingchen was nearing the Blue Feather Heavenly Palace, she once sensed an indescribable and terrifying demonic aura.

But when they actually arrived below the Blue Feather Heavenly Palace, the demonic aura suddenly vanished.

That's because the Dead Evil Ice Spirit had already entered the passage between the Divine Eyes and was traveling from reality to the dream world, which is why Duan Xingchen was unable to perceive it.

"so--"

There were many terms that Gu Asan couldn't understand.

However, he had already vaguely sensed and realized the reason for all of this.

He trembled, his face deathly pale, and he even felt a wave of guilt creeping up his spine. He said in a trembling voice, "If... I hadn't put that talisman on..."

"Ah."

Yun Ping nodded, his expression turning somewhat cold as he looked at Gu Asan: "If the Divine Eye hadn't awakened, the Blue Feather Heavenly Palace wouldn't have suffered this ordeal."

Gu Asan's consciousness nearly crashed for a moment.