"Even if there are immortals above us and fiendish demons below us, are we just going to sit here and wait for our deaths?"
'Heaven Battering King' Qi Changsheng grinned hideously. He spat on the ground and declared, "I don't care what deities, deities, or devils they are. Whoever wants to kill me is free to come and try!"
"Of course, we would not wait to be killed!"
Wu Suiyun said. "After discovering the deities and the devils, Meng Chixin and I tried to break out of the Land of Eternal Night more than once to deliver the message to the outside world. But the tempests and the snowstorms were too ferocious, and the ice was mixed with a lot of demonic fog. We failed to break out of the place even though we tried many times.
"Thankfully, there were still a lot of intact Cloud Qin Gold Statues on the deities' warship.
"In the more than ten years that followed, Meng Chixin and I focused our attention on the usage of the Cloud Qin Gold Statues, hoping that we could break out of the ice field with one of them!
"It was a pity that the Cloud Qin Gold Statues were designed for the living at the beginning. The souls of the living and the souls of the dead are slightly different after all. Also, we did not have the guidance of any famous teachers and had to fumble about on our own. Our progress was very slow after more than ten years. With the two of us working together, we managed to control a Cloud Qin Gold Statue and perform the basic movements such as walking, jumping, and punching.
"With those moves, it seems possible that we will break out of the Land of Eternal Night. Meng Chixin and I planned to collect as many crystals as we could in the deities' warship and perform a thorough examination on the Cloud Qin Gold Statues. Then, we would drive the Cloud Qin Gold Statues into the ice field and reappear in the human world!
"However, exactly at that moment, you came!
"Your arrival was not out of Meng Chixin's and my expectation. After we discovered that the Ancient Sages Sector might have been exposed, we deduced that the 'mother port' of the deities' warship would probably send deities to the Ancient Sages Sector by following the signal!
"Once they did arrive at the Ancient Sages Sector, the deities' warship that sent out the signal would naturally be their target!
"It means that we had long guessed that some 'deities' were lurking among you!"
"That explains a lot!"
Qi Zhongdaoist took a long breath and said, "Sister Wu and Senior Meng have been hiding inside the Cloud Qin Gold Statues because you want to lure the 'deity' out, right?"
"That's only part of the reason."
Meng Chixin smiled. "At that time, we didn't know how strong the deities were. Naturally, we couldn't let the deities discover us. That way, should the situation go out of control, we would have a chance to fight with our lives!
"On the other hand, we also wanted to hide deep inside the Cloud Qin Gold Statues and peep at how the deities used them. As we expected, we found a lot of tricks that improved our skills in using the Cloud Qin Gold Statues by multiple times. If we had to explore on our own, we might not have found the tricks even after a hundred years!"
"Also, when the Cloud Qin Gold Statue is used, one's soul will have to be boosted to the maximum, which will be very exhausting for the user. It is exactly the moment when the deities are most vulnerable. Only by launching an assault at such a moment can the deities be captured safely!
"But most importantly, we also want to observe you in secret!"
Qi Zhongdao was slightly dazed. "Observe us?"
"A hundred years have passed. We don't know the situation of the Ancient Sages Sector right now," Meng Chixin said. "We don't know what kind of heroes have emerged in the world of Cultivators, nor do we know whether or not the experts are qualified to discuss our great plan with us. Of course, we need to observe them carefully!
"Wu Suiyun and I, two spectral Cultivators, are not enough to save the entire Ancient Sages Sector. We need the help of more experts!
"The experts who are qualified to decide the future of the Ancient Sages Sector naturally cannot be simple-minded warriors with more brawn than brains, nor can they be cunning, sophisticated, selfish, and ill-intentioned people. Instead, they must be the ones who truly care about the world and are willing to pay everything to prevent the destruction of the Ancient Sages Sector!"
Glancing at everybody, Wu Suiyun continued with a smile. "Although the ten of you have different stances, positions, and sides, and you may consider each other to be villains, in the eyes of Meng Chixin and I, your performance in the fierce battle just now was a hundred times better than the selfish guys of the six major sects!
"Even though the emperor was once controlled by Deity Raincloud, he was determined to revive the Great Qian Dynasty for the sake of the world. I believe that you will not betray the interests of the entire Ancient Sages Sector for your selfishness, will you?"
The young emperor was greatly moved after hearing that. He almost choked and gnashed his teeth. "Even if I am crushed to pieces, how can I betray the cause of my ancestors?"
"That's right. If we have to choose some fellow Cultivators to fight side by side with the two of us to prevent the destruction of the Ancient Sages Sector …"
Meng Chixin's eyes suddenly turned sharper than ever. His voice was resolute, too, like the blowing wind on a prairie. "Wu Suiyun and I have decided that it will be the ten of you!"
The ten Yuanying looked at each other in bewilderment. Other than Li Yao and Long Yangjun, everybody felt that a fiery dragon seemed to be lurking in their chest, which was burning fiercely!
"Are the twelve of us going to decide the future of the Ancient Sages Sector?"
Qi Zhongdao mumbled, "What about the six major sects and other Cultivators?"
Wu Suiyun sniffed and said casually, "The scoundrels are not worth our time!"
The six words were indeed enough.
"What do you think?"
Meng Chixin's eyes were glittering, and he put on a weird smile. "What do you think about the crisis that the Ancient Sages Sector is faced with right now, Fellow Cultivators?"
"We …"
Ba Xiaoyu the Beggar scratched his hair hard, raising a lot of dandruff. "Senior Meng, as you said, the deities' realm is boundless, and there are too many experts to count. The twelve of us may be dominators of the Ancient Sages Sector, but we are nothing more than grains of sand in the sea of stars. How can we resist the massive attack of the devils and the deities?"
Meng Chixin smiled and said slowly, "Wu Suiyun and I only said that we would protect the Ancient Sages Sector. We did not say that we had to resist the deities and the devils. The future of the Ancient Sages Sector will be decided by you together. If you all agree that surrendering to the deities is a better choice, I'm all for it."
"What!"
This time, it was Ba Xiaoyu, Qi Zhongdao, and Li Yao's turn to be dumbfounded. "Surrendering to the deities?"
What kind of Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator was this? He had been talking so passionately and passionately just a moment ago, but now, he had changed his tone and become a supporter of surrendering. How shameless!
* sshole. Is this guy a spy of the Imperium of True Human Beings in disguise?
Although he knew that the possibility was slim, Li Yao still could not help but scream in his heart.
"Why not?"
Meng Chixin pointed around and said, "Look at the scale of the deities' warship and the finesse of the magical equipment. Also, look at how powerful the weapons used by the deities' bodies are, not to mention the invincible power of the Cloud Qin Gold Statues. Is there anything that we can resist? If the deities really want to lay their hands on the Ancient Sages Sector, we will barely be able to fight back at all!
"Knowing that we cannot defeat them, we are still trying to hit a rock with an egg. Aren't we asking to be killed? It doesn't matter if we are asking to be killed on our own. Chances are that we can leave our names in the history books and earn the title of 'loyal, brave, and unyielding'. But what we are talking about right now is the life and death of billions of people in the entire Ancient Sages Sector!
"Letting hundreds of millions of people die with him just for his' unyielding will '? That doesn't seem like something a cultivator of the righteous path would do!"
Qi Zhongdao and Ba Xiaoyu looked at each other and struggled to say, "But …"
"Hehehehe …"
Meng Chixin chuckled in a low voice. He pointed at Wu Suiyun and said, "The look on your face right now is exactly the same as Fellow Cultivator Wu's when I proposed the option of 'surrender' to her just now!
"Getting to the bottom of it, Wu Suiyun, Qi Zhongdao, Ba Xiaoyu, you are all Cultivators from central plateaus. You are all used to the feeling of being worshipped by the barbarians from everywhere!
"For you, surrender is the greatest humiliation and an absolutely unacceptable, despicable behavior!
"However, for the wretched people living in the desolate lands such as us, it is perfectly normal that we choose to surrender and submit to the central dynasties when they are strong enough!
"For tens of thousands of years, the Cultivators from the Dark Cloud Prairies, the Cultivators from the Southland of Sorcerers such as you, Fellow Cultivator Spiritual Vulture, and the Cultivators from the depths of the mountains in the southeast, the scorching land in the northwest, and the surging islands in the East Ocean … have all been doing the same, haven't they?
"If the barbarian Cultivators like us are asked to talk about integrity and never surrender, the desolate lands would've been emptied a long time ago. They would've all been slaughtered by the central dynasties!
"What's so shameful about surrendering temporarily? As long as surrendering can be traded for survival, there will always be a chance for a comeback if we live on in any way!
"Surrender to the central dynasties, learn the culture and techniques of the central dynasties, build up our own forces in secret, and wait for the internal strife of the central dynasties. When the power of the central dynasties is exhausted, we will seize the opportunity to rise and replace them!
"In the hundred thousand years of history of the Ancient Sages Sector, all the barbarian regimes that moved from the desolate lands to the central plateaus did exactly that!
"The Dark Cloud Prairies under my leadership were going to do exactly that, too!
"Big Bear, it seems that you have done a good job on that path, haven't you? Hahahaha!
"In that case, why don't we do the same and recognize our own capabilities and our current situation? Why don't we consider the Ancient Sages Sector to be a 'barbarian regime' and the deities' realm to be a 'central dynasty'? Why don't we surrender to them for now, learn from them modestly, and swallow all their essence before we take our time?"
"Well …"
The Yuanying cultivators were truly shocked by Meng Chixin's courage.
Other people were still shocked by the vastness, magnificence, and mysteriousness of the deities' realm, but Meng Chixin was bold enough to suggest that he was planning to 'take his time' in the deities' realm!
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