Chapter 758: Que De’s Wickedness

"What’s wrong?"

Que De already understood. Ye Tianling had figured it out.

As amazement washed over him, he noticed Ye Tianling’s pupils suddenly contract, and his own heart couldn’t help but skip a beat.

"I’ve seen this method of engraving Primordial Runes before. Once, a peerless Empress used this method to open the Void and step into a special region to battle a Great Emperor."

Ye Tianling said in a low voice.

"Are you talking about... the battle between Empress Bai Yin and the Emperor’s Path Thunder Inference King?"

Que De exclaimed.

"You know about it?"

Ye Tianling was a little surprised.

"That battle projection of yours has been spread everywhere. Before I came, Wan Jimie even sent me a message specifically to show it to me. Here, I’ll show you."

As Que De spoke, he was about to take out a Projection Stone to display the projection.

"Don’t! Not here! Something will happen!"

Ye Tianling immediately stopped him.

Que De curled his lip, saying disdainfully, "It’s all fake. What could happen? Don’t tell me you’re really a disciple of the Emperor’s Path Thunder Inference King?"

Ye Tianling nodded. "Ninety percent of it is real. How are you so sure it’s fake?"

Que De shrugged, unconvinced. "A person like you is proud and domineering; you’d never deign to explain yourself. The Emperor’s Path Thunder Inference King is even more so. Why would he come forward and make a declaration for you? The Thunder Inference King either doesn’t show up, or when he does, he just slaughters an entire region. In a situation like this, if it were really the Emperor’s Path Thunder Inference King, he wouldn’t say a word. He’d just throw a punch, shatter a Star Domain, and teach them a lesson!"

Hearing this, Ye Tianling’s mouth twitched. He was actually speechless.

Que De was right.

The Emperor’s Path Thunder Inference King was just that domineering.

However, Que De didn’t know that the Thunder Inference King had another side to him.

"You have a point, but that projection really is ninety percent real."

Ye Tianling said again.

"Oh, come on. Forget about those people outside. I admit I don’t know the Thunder Inference King particularly well, so I can’t be sure if he’d do something like that. But I am sure of one thing: if you were really the Thunder Inference King’s disciple, you would never say it out loud. You’re far too cunning. You’d probably love for all those people to provoke you, enrage the Thunder Inference King, and then have him show up and kill them all.

If you didn’t seize an opportunity like that, you wouldn’t be Ye Tianling!

The fact that the Thunder Inference King ’came forward’ is precisely what proves you aren’t his disciple. This whole scene was probably just a trick you pulled off with some hidden resources."

Que De was certainly worthy of his name. Based on his understanding of Ye Tianling, he immediately stated what he believed to be the truth.

"Alright, thanks for the compliment. You’re not wrong, that’s more or less it. However, regarding the projection’s content, everything is real except for him taking me as a disciple! It originates from a memory I perceived. I once stepped into a region where I witnessed this battle."

Ye Tianling thought for a moment before offering a partial explanation.

There wasn’t much need to hold back with Que De. After all, Que De was a core member of his faction.

Que De’s disciple, Que Xinyan, was also Ye Tianling’s own Direct Disciple.

Upon hearing this, Que De was quite shaken. "The guidance from the Thunder Inference King... was real?"

He clearly found it hard to believe.

But the battle scene in the projection was indeed too realistic.

Que De had brought the matter up mostly because he wanted to confirm how Ye Tianling had managed to make it so realistic.

In truth, when he first saw it, Que De had been completely taken in. It was only because he knew Ye Tianling so well that he considered the issue from Ye Tianling’s perspective, which made him feel that something was off.

Now, learning that it was all true, he was naturally deeply moved.

A Great Emperor!

What was a Great Emperor? An existence that surpassed even Divine Spirits and Venerables! Even a peerless Venerable was nothing but an ant before a Great Emperor!

Ye Tianling nodded. "I’ve already made it so clear. Why would I still lie to you, you damn fatty?"

Que De showed obvious disdain. "Damn it, as if you haven’t lied to me, Lord Que, countless times before?"

Ye Tianling couldn’t be bothered to argue with the dark-faced fatty and said directly, "The meaning revealed by the Primordial Runes is an ancient Void Technique. It creates a Celestial Ladder to open the spatial nodes between voids and connect them. I’ve figured out the method and cracked it, but finding the spatial nodes isn’t easy.

Besides, without sufficient strength, actually traversing the void and crossing between two void nodes is just courting death.

This is a peerless Emperor Dao Technique, but unfortunately, we can’t practice it."

As Ye Tianling spoke, he tried to condense a similar Primordial Rune. Instantly, a bizarre turbulence appeared in the Void.

The turbulence caused the Celestial Ladder beneath Ye Tianling and Que De’s feet to become unstable, and cracks instantly appeared on its surface.

"Holy shit! If you can’t control it, what are you doing trying it out? If we get sucked into that level of space-time turbulence, we’ll be crushed to death!"

Que De jumped in fright, looking at Ye Tianling as if he were an idiot.

He was both terrified and a little angry. This Ye Tianling was truly reckless.

"What’s there to be afraid of? You can feel fear too?"

Ye Tianling stopped. As he used the technique, he felt a vague sense of unease, and a nauseating stuffiness rose in his chest.

As soon as the feeling emerged, Ye Tianling knew. Though it seemed he hadn’t lost any Energy, the cost of condensing that single Primordial Rune must have actually been terrifyingly high.

Ye Tianling sat down cross-legged on the Celestial Ladder.

Que De also noticed something was wrong. He glared at Ye Tianling and said, "This is the Emperor’s Burial Land. You think I wouldn’t be scared? In a place like this, countless Venerables who want to enter have to behave themselves. One wrong move, and they’ll be wiped out, suffering a miserable fate.

I, Lord Que, may be formidable and capable, but I’m no match for a Venerable. Of course I have to be careful."

Ye Tianling absorbed some of the Origin Energy from within the Space-Time Soul-locking Tower to recover.

He immediately felt much more at ease, and the feeling of dread subsided significantly.

After absorbing and circulating the energy three full times in one go, Ye Tianling then practiced all his Cultivation Techniques once more before finally feeling at ease.

Finally, Ye Tianling used the ’One Qi and the Three Pristine Ones’ technique, manifesting three great Dao Bodies. Que De’s face immediately lit up with delight.

"Yes, these Dao Bodies! The Demon Heart Sword Body, right? Here, give me two. Wan Jimie and I need to borrow your Dao Bodies to go do something big."

Que De’s eyes gleamed. He clearly wanted to use Ye Tianling’s name, either to build up his prestige or to cause some mischief.

After all, if Ye Tianling wanted to establish his own faction, he would definitely need a strong reputation.

"This is just a technique, not a true Dao Body. You want to borrow my body to stir up trouble? Don’t you think I’m in enough trouble already?"

Ye Tianling glared at Que De. The man was truly unethical to the core. How could he even think of such a shameless scheme?

"Pah! You’re one to talk about being in trouble? ’When you’re covered in lice, you stop feeling the bites.’ It’s precisely because you’re in so much trouble that these Dao Bodies are so useful! We can make a name for you and tell the whole world—Ye Tianling is back!"

Que De said shamelessly.