Urban Undying Lord
Chapter 367 - 367 366 The Hope of Confronting a Daluo Golden Immortal

367: Chapter 366: The Hope of Confronting a Daluo Golden Immortal 367: Chapter 366: The Hope of Confronting a Daluo Golden Immortal Without ripples or waves, they gazed at each other indifferently.

Ye Xuan calmly watched Zhao Gou, who knelt at his feet, without any intention of allowing him to rise.

As time trickled away, large beads of sweat gradually appeared on Zhao Gou’s forehead.

Clearly, in this silent and still atmosphere, Zhao Gou felt extremely uneasy.

Yet he knew he was not facing an ordinary person, so until Ye Xuan bid him to rise, he could only quietly kneel there.

As the sun set, night fell.

Candles were already lit around the Imperial Palace, yet the palace where the two men were had plunged into darkness.

“Rise,” Ye Xuan finally said calmly, bringing a flicker of joy to Zhao Gou’s face.

He struggled to his feet with some difficulty, his long time spent kneeling making his body unstable, his legs numb.

“Yet to ask for Senior’s esteemed name,” Zhao Gou said with a flattering smile in the pitch-black Illusion Realm, but anxiety lurked in his eyes.

Ordinarily, as the second prince of the Lesser Sacred Kingdom, he embodied royal majesty innately, able to stand tall and unbowed even in the presence of a Cultivator from a great Sect.

However, for some reason, facing this enigmatic figure in black, he felt a formidable pressure, forcing him to be extremely cautious in his words and actions.

“I can see in your eyes that you are a man with great ambition and certainly not of benevolent kind.

What is on your mind is also very clear to me,” said Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan did not care about Zhao Gou’s thoughts, but now that he was in the Lesser Sacred Kingdom, Zhao Gou could be very useful to him in concealing his own whereabouts.

Hearing Ye Xuan’s words, Zhao Gou’s expression changed slightly, but he could only offer a servile smile and bow, saying, “Senior sees clearly, as long as you can help the junior seize the imperial throne, I will surely never forget your great kindness.”

Zhao Gou was a clever man, and Ye Xuan enjoyed talking to clever people.

Zhao Gou wanted to use his strength to seize the throne, and Ye Xuan needed to hide in the Lesser Sacred Kingdom for some time—thus, a mutually beneficial deal.

“Three days, I will give you only three days.

Launch a military coup in three days to directly take the throne, and I will lend you a hand when the time comes,” Ye Xuan said calmly.

“A military coup?”

Hearing this, Zhao Gou’s face paled, and his voice trembled, “Senior may not know, but my elder brother, Zhao Xun, commands thirty thousand troops of the Forbidden Army in the Capital City, and our father king has…”

Before Zhao Gou could finish, Ye Xuan waved his hand to interrupt, “Remember, before absolute power, all things in the world are like passing clouds, and this is your only chance.”

“You may leave now.”

Ye Xuan did not give Zhao Gou time to explain, for to him, the rule of a mere mortal realm could be turned to ash between his fingers.

Had it not been for his need to go into hiding in the Lesser Sacred Kingdom, he would not bother with Zhao Gou at all.

“Junior takes his leave.”

Zhao Gou bit his lip and turned to walk out of the palace, his hesitation clear in his eyes, evidently shocked by Ye Xuan’s proposal.

Inside the palace.

Ye Xuan sat cross-legged on the bed, a beam of moonlight streaming through the window eaves and casting a glow upon his face, making him gaze towards the Taiyin Star in the Heavenly Vault, with the visage of Guanghan Fairy emerging in his mind.

“I wonder how that foolish woman is doing now?” Ye Xuan murmured to himself.

His thoughts withdrew, and Ye Xuan’s eyes narrowed slightly.

He had survived the Heavenly Demon’s backlash and suppressed the dark negative emotions within his Primordial Spirit, finally reappearing in the world.

However, he couldn’t now appear in the Three Realms because Ye Xuan was well aware that everyone thought he had perished.

If he were to show himself within the Three Realms, merely Yu Ding and the Ancient Twelve Golden Immortals wouldn’t let him live.

Ye Xuan was a very cautious person, and he valued his life greatly.

He definitely wouldn’t put himself in danger, but he wouldn’t keep hiding indefinitely.

He intended to refine a true trump card during this time, one that could stand against the Daluo Golden Immortals.

Hum!

With a sweep of his palm through the air, stars flickered, and the Reverse Immortal Array Map materialized, floating in the void.

The map was already riddled with cracks, having suffered greatly during the battle with Yu Ding.

“Brother Baiyi, if it wasn’t for this Reverse Immortal Array Map, I’m afraid I would have perished that day,” Ye Xuan said as he held the map, a trace of sorrow flashing in his eyes.

He truly hadn’t expected that, at the moment his life was threatened, the Reverse Immortal Array Map would save him.

Liu Baiyi, a prodigious genius of all ages, who arranged the heavens and laid out the earth, created this unparalleled Great Formation with the body of a mere mortal.

Initially, Ye Xuan had viewed the Reverse Immortal Array Map merely as a memory of Liu Baiyi, never imagining that the map could possess such incredible power, not only saving his life but also becoming his sole means to confront the Daluo Golden Immortals.

“Those who comply become Immortals, those who resist become Mortals, separated by Heaven and Earth, Transforming Immortals into Mortals?”

Ye Xuan held the Reverse Immortal Array Map, murmuring as the map emitted specks of starlight.

He continued to study the Reverse Immortal Array Map, infusing his Divine Sense into it, and it wasn’t until several hours later that his Divine Sense returned.

“The Life and Death Eight Gates, separated by Heaven and Earth, Qiankun Inversion, all things in Reincarnation, what a Reverse Immortal Formation,” Ye Xuan exclaimed with admiration for Liu Baiyi’s talent.

“What a pity, this Reverse Immortal Array Map was forged from mere mortal materials.

Though the Array is unparalleled in history, ultimately it falls short in terms of materials.

If it could be combined with the Nine Heavens Crystal Jade, Cold Iron, and many other Strange Treasures of Heaven and Earth, it would surely unleash the legendary power of the Reverse Immortal Array Map.”

Ye Xuan put away the Reverse Immortal Array Map, his voice low and weighty, a resolution rising in his heart.

The Reverse Immortal Array Map, the only method by which he could contend with the Daluo Golden Immortals.

He intended to refashion the Reverse Immortal Array Map, gathering the world’s Strange Treasures in one furnace, to truly manifest the formidable power of the Great Formation created by Liu Baiyi.

But the first thing he needed to do now was to conceal his whereabouts and help Zhao Gou seize the throne so that Zhao Gou could help him collect the materials to construct the Reverse Immortal Array Map.

…

Three days later.

It must be said, Zhao Gou truly deserved to be called a hero, and his actions bore a resemblance to Ye Xuan’s own.

He was prepared to make a last stand and initiated a military coup right in the Capital City of the minor holy nation.

Logically speaking, Zhao Gou’s foundations were not yet stable, and he shouldn’t have had the courage to start a military coup, but who was to know that he had Ye Xuan’s support?

That day, returning to his residence, he stayed up all night.

When he thought of Ye Xuan wiping out hundreds of thousands of Quanrong troops, it definitively resolved him to follow Ye Xuan’s instructions and prepare to seize the throne.

On this day in the Capital City of the minor holy nation, all the civilians hid in their homes while Zhao Gou led ten thousand troops to fight his elder brother, Zhao Xun, within the city.

Blood from the violent conflict stained every inch of the city, countless soldiers dying in the fray.

Since ancient times, the Royal house has been the most ruthless.

Brothers turning against each other, vying for power and profit, all for the so-called throne, even fathers and sons, brothers, would become sworn enemies.