Urban Undying Lord
Chapter 572 - 572 591 Upright Spine

572: Chapter 591: Upright Spine 572: Chapter 591: Upright Spine Many great figures with divine skills cursed Ye Xuan inwardly for his ignorance and foolishness, their eyes turning to him intermittently, unsure if Nuwa would place blame on him.

Nuwa stood in the sky, her body shrouded in holy light, showing no signs of anger—only her calm gaze rested upon Ye Xuan as her gentle voice rose in the air.

“Ye Xuan, why do you not kneel upon seeing me?”

Her words were as authoritative as heaven and earth—under the infinite and boundless saintly aura that filled beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, all the great figures with divine skills shuddered with fear, while Ye Xuan stood at the center of this saintly might, a bead of cold sweat forming on his forehead.

Terrifying, frightfully terrifying, terrifying to the utmost!

This was the sense Nuwa gave Ye Xuan; it was his first time facing a saint directly, yet he felt as insignificant as an ant before her.

“Is this the might of a saint?”

Ye Xuan internally screamed in horror—under the saint’s aura, he couldn’t even move a finger, his mind trembling intensely, as fear began to take root in the depths of his heart.

“Six Desires are Heartless, Heaven and Earth are unconcerned!”

Ye Xuan’s eyes became distant as the Undying Immortal Scripture ran wildly within him.

With a Heraclitean yell from deep within, he managed to suppress his fear, his black pupils gradually turning grey-white, a wisp of mist quietly spreading around him, calming his turbulent spirit.

“Hmm?”

Nuwa made a sound of light inquiry, her eyes shifting slightly as she looked at Ye Xuan.

Almost instantly, her expression returned to normal, as if she had never been emotionally disturbed.

“Ye Xuan, I am questioning you—why do you not respond?” Nuwa spoke again, her voice slightly colder, causing the complexions of the great figures around to turn pale, since a saint’s wrath could be terrifying indeed.

“Ye Xuan, why do you not quickly kneel and pay respect to Master Nuwa?”

The Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden urged anxiously, her gaze on Ye Xuan showing utmost complexity, not understanding why he was so audacious to act so recklessly even in the presence of a saint.

Alas, Ye Xuan’s form did not move; he slightly clasped his hands towards Nuwa in the starry sky, his demeanor neither servile nor overbearing, “Ye Xuan has seen Nuwa, but in my life, I only believe in myself and do not worship Heaven and Earth.

Though you are respected as a saint, I cannot kneel to you.”

“Oh?”

Nuwa’s expression shifted, her voice slightly colder, “What if I insist that you kneel?”

My word as law, my action as principle—a single thought, a single will can stir Heaven and Earth.

As Nuwa spoke in her icy tone, time and space around seemed to freeze, and an extremely terrifying pressure invaded Ye Xuan’s body.

Click, click, click!

Ye Xuan’s straight spine began to bend slowly, the bones in his knees creaking, his complexion reddening extremely as he endured the saintly might emanating from Nuwa, as if he could fall to his knees at any moment.

“Ha ha!”

Suddenly, Ye Xuan burst into loud laughter, a cold fierceness flashing across his eyes as his voice echoed across the heavenly expanses.

“You are a Saint,” began Ye Xuan, “and to you, I am merely negligible, just an ant.

If you wish me to kneel, I, Ye Xuan, naturally cannot resist.

However, should there come a day when I, Ye Xuan, reach the fruit of a Saint, the retribution of today will be repaid tomorrow.”

“How audacious!”

Suddenly, the expressions of various Great Divine Power wielders changed, and they all vocally rebuked Ye Xuan, for his words were too horrifying.

He was openly challenging the dignity of a Saint; even dying a million deaths would not make up for it.

A Saint must not be insulted, and one who insults must be killed.

Although Ye Xuan’s words were not an insult to Nuwa, they still constituted immense disrespect.

Nuwa could have easily struck him dead, and nobody would have been able to say anything.

“Silence!”

Suddenly, before the Great Divine Power wielders could rebuke him again, a calm voice from the Nine Heavens Starry Sky intervened, and the Saintly Might originally imposed on Ye Xuan gradually dissipated.

“Ye Xuan, you have done well.”

Nuwa’s voice was very calm, so calm it lacked any ripples, and she did not impose any punishment on Ye Xuan.

It seemed as though she did not care about his immense disrespect, which slightly shifted the expressions of the Great Divine Power wielders.

They had not expected that Saint Nuwa would not blame Ye Xuan.

But what no one saw was that, hidden under the Holy Light, Nuwa’s eyebrows were tightly furrowed, and a trace of gravity swept across her eyes.

Today’s retribution, tomorrow’s repayment!

These eight characters were spoken by Ye Xuan, and although they seemed simple, to Nuwa they held earth-shattering power!

The reason was simple!

In Nuwa’s eyes, Ye Xuan was highly likely the seventh Heavenly Determined Saint.

If today she truly forced Ye Xuan to kneel, when he eventually became a Saint, he would certainly seek retribution for this great humiliation.

The karmic ties between Saints are not merely spoken; they carry extremely dire consequences.

Look at the Deification Great War, where The Three Pure Ones fell apart, and the Heavenly Sect Master wielded the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation alone against four Saints.

He even set up the Myriad Immortals Formation to destroy the Three Realms.

Although finally, Hong Jun appeared and prevented this calamity, the karmic ties formed between the Heavenly Sect Master and the four Saints have not dissolved to this day.

Endless time passed, and as the Infinite ages reappeared, the Heavenly Sect Master, leveraging Ye Xuan, stirred up trouble again.

It’s feared that he will definitely settle the past karma with the four Saints, and this is the terrifying nature of the karmic ties between Saints.

Moreover, Nuwa had a strong premonition that during this Infinite age cycle, even Saints were at risk of perishing.

This feeling was so intense that it deeply convinced Nuwa.

When Ye Xuan uttered these eight characters of today’s retribution tomorrow’s repayment, how could it not disturb Nuwa’s mind?

Saintly karma must not be tainted—this is Nuwa’s philosophy.

Having gone through so many Heaven and Earth calamities, she had never formed bad karma with the other five Saints.

Although she was only guessing Ye Xuan might be the seventh Heavenly Determined Saint, she did not want to take that risk.

In contrast, Ye Xuan had not thought so deeply, as he had never considered himself the seventh Heavenly Determined Saint, nor did he see himself as any main protagonist of Heaven and Earth with great fortune upon him.

In Ye Xuan’s perception, he had gone from a frail youth to the position of Heavenly Emperor step by step.

His journey was accompanied by storms of blood, having endured countless tribulations to achieve his current Cultivation.

Ye Xuan also firmly believed that even if today he was coerced by Nuwa to kneel, when the day came that he proved the Dao and became a Saint of all beings, he would surely not forget today’s great humiliation and would surely repay it a thousandfold, and would certainly seek retribution from Nuwa—this was Ye Xuan’s simplest thought.

Not just a thought, Ye Xuan had always been forging ahead, never slacking in his Cultivation.

He also believed that one day he would transcend the Three Realms and become an existence above the Heavenly Dao.

Whether it was ambition or unwillingness to submit to others, Ye Xuan’s mindset had never wavered!