Chapter 808: How to Choose

“Luo Tian… you really aren’t dead!” Yue glared at the young man, her eyes shooting looks of deep-seated hatred.

“How could a good person like me die so easily?” Xu Luo looked at Yue with a teasing expression and smiled. “If I died, wouldn’t you feel it was a great pity?

“Also… to think that Yue, one of the Four Great Assassins of Wind and Hua Xueyue, is actually… the biological daughter of Gu Zongren, a Celestial Venerable of the Ancient Celestial Valley, one of the three great Holy Lands! Tsk… this really is quite the anecdote!”

Xu Luo smiled faintly. “I wonder what others would think if this got out? They would definitely be very envious that you, Ancient Celestial Venerable… have such a good daughter, right? To have a daughter in your old age is truly a blessing!”

“Don’t you dare!” Extremely cold light shot from Yue’s eyes. “Don’t even think about leaving here alive today. I will personally slice you to pieces, cut by cut!”

Xu Luo sneered expressionlessly.

Gu Zongren also stared fixedly at Xu Luo, saying coldly, “You still dare to come?”

“Why wouldn’t I dare?” Xu Luo looked at Gu Zongren as if seriously discussing a problem. “Is your place a perilous death trap? I can come and go as I please!”

“Hahaha, what a bold claim to come and go as you please! Today, I’d like to see exactly how you plan to leave!” Gu Zongren laughed out of extreme anger.

“Gu Zongren, Ancient Celestial Valley, heh… you should be of the direct bloodline of the Ancient Celestial Valley. The actual controller of the Divine Maiden Tower, and the biological father of Yue, one of the notorious Four Great Assassins…” Xu Luo said with a smile.

“You’re the notorious one!” Yue glared angrily at Xu Luo.

It was true that she was one of the Four Great Assassins, but her hands had never been stained with blood! It could be said that among the four, she was the most wrongfully accused. However, no one would ever believe her if she told them!

“Oh? Don’t assassins take pride in being notorious? It seems you don’t like it?” Xu Luo looked at Yue strangely.

Yue’s pretty face was filled with murderous intent, her gaze looking as if she wanted to eat Xu Luo alive.

Gu Zongren, however, calmed down. He spread out his Celestial Venerable’s Divine Sense, covering thousands of miles in radius, but failed to find the slightest anomaly. This instead made him even more suspicious. He did not believe that a young man who had not even reached the Venerable Realm would dare to appear before him so openly on his own.

He thought, “He must have a backup plan!” His eyes flickered as he looked at Xu Luo and pondered.

“Stop thinking about it, Gu Zongren. Since I came here today, I naturally came prepared. Right now, I have two paths for you to choose from.” Xu Luo looked at Gu Zongren. “You see, I am much kinder than you. I’m not like you, directly resorting to coercion, acting so ruthless.”

Yue glared at Xu Luo, wanting to say something, but was stopped by Gu Zongren. He looked at Xu Luo and said indifferently, “Let’s hear it.”

“You see, the Ancient Celestial Venerable is still the reasonable one.” Xu Luo curled his lips at Yue, angering the pretty woman opposite him so much that she almost charged forward to fight him to the death.

“Junior, speak your piece quickly.” Gu Zongren was, after all, a Celestial Venerable of his generation with extremely high status. Even when facing the Sect Leaders of major sects, he had the right to throw his weight around. Yet now, he was being manipulated by Xu Luo. If it weren’t for the doubts in his heart, he would have likely slapped the young man to death long ago.

Xu Luo smiled faintly and said, “The first path is for both of us to bury the hatchet and laugh off our grievances. To be honest, Ancient Celestial Venerable, I don’t think there is any deep-seated hatred between us…”

“Don’t even think about it!” Yue shouted harshly from the side. “You killed Wind. I won’t let you off!”

“Shut up!” Gu Zongren barked, his face cold as he immediately stopped Yue.

Yue looked at Gu Zongren with a wronged expression, her face pale. Biting her lower lip forcefully, her eyes filled with mist as she murmured, “You yelled at me. You actually yelled at me! Gu Zongren! I hate you!”

With that, she turned around, kicked the door open, and dashed straight out.

Gu Zongren’s expression instantly turned incredibly ugly. His brows furrowed tightly, but he didn’t say anything.

Xu Luo shrugged. Looking at Gu Zongren, he said, “It seems your daughter isn’t very close to you…”

“Get to the point!” Gu Zongren narrowed his eyes, looking coldly at Xu Luo.

“Old people really have no patience,” Xu Luo muttered. Then he said, “The so-called enmity is nothing more than my relationship with Xue Chuqing, which you feel ruined your grand plans. However, let me just say, Ancient Celestial Venerable, if you truly have the whole world in your heart, then… using women to conquer the world probably isn’t a glorious thing to do.”

“What do you know?” Gu Zongren said coldly.

Xu Luo smiled. “Yes, I don’t know. I only know that Xue Chuqing is my woman now. I won’t allow anyone to hurt her.

“This… is the first choice I am giving you, the first path. From now on, we mind our own business. You fight for your world, and I’ll live my life.

“As for your daughter…”

Xu Luo pondered for a moment before continuing, “I didn’t know about the relationship between you two before. I was planning to wipe out all the Four Great Assassins. After all, they put a high bounty on my head. Those who kill… will inevitably be killed!

“But now… since I want to reconcile with you, I can let this matter go. As long as she doesn’t provoke me, I won’t touch her!”

Xu Luo raised his head and looked at Gu Zongren as he spoke. “Now I’m going to tell you the second path. This path leads to death!”

“Hmph!” Gu Zongren sneered with a face full of disdain. “Even Xiahou Kaiyuan… doesn’t have the right to say such words to me!”

“I know, you’re of the direct bloodline of the Ancient Celestial Valley, one of the three great Holy Lands. I’m afraid the Ancient Celestial Valley is fully aware of all the things you’ve done. Right now… you indeed have the confidence to act like this.”

Xu Luo smiled and continued, “But my confidence has nothing to do with Celestial Brilliance!

“Aren’t you curious why that fake Luo Tian was able to fool you, the Bounty Guild, and that bunch of scum from the Jin Family? Aren’t you curious how Xue Chuqing disappeared without a trace right under your nose?

“Gu Zongren, there are always some existences in this world that you simply cannot afford to provoke!

“That’s right, I’m just a young man who hasn’t even reached the Venerable Realm. In your eyes, I am as weak as an ant. But have you ever considered if a Celestial Venerable like you… is just as insignificant as an ant in the eyes of others?”

“That’s impossible!” Gu Zongren sneered. He was just about to say something but suddenly froze. Two divine lights shot from his eyes as he stared fixedly beside Xu Luo.

There, a woman seemed to have appeared out of thin air. She was a young maiden wearing a long blue skirt, possessing a graceful figure and peerless beauty! Without any warning whatsoever, she just… materialized next to Xu Luo out of nothingness!

“Who are you?” Gu Zongren suddenly felt a chill.

He had not experienced this feeling in many years. Deep down in his heart, he actually felt a wave of intense fear! No matter how his Divine Sense probed, he could not sense the slightest trace of the maiden’s aura! This meant that if he closed his eyes, he would think that only Luo Tian was in front of him! Yet, this peerlessly beautiful maiden was standing there so realistically, not even sparing him a single glance! She was earnestly looking at Luo Tian, and how could Gu Zongren not understand the affection contained in her gaze?

He thought, “Is she this kid’s woman?” A bizarre feeling suddenly welled up in his heart. He found it hard to believe that a mysterious woman whom even he couldn’t see through… someone unfathomable to the extreme, was actually connected to Luo Tian.

“She says she can’t be bothered to pay attention to you,” Xu Luo looked at Gu Zongren and said with a straight face. “Don’t try to provoke her, or you will regret it deeply.”

“…” Gu Zongren stared at the staggeringly beautiful Blue-skirted Maiden in bewilderment, somewhat at a loss for words.

“Now, it’s time for you to choose. If you choose the first path, we will go our separate ways from now on. By the way, the Divine Maiden Tower belongs to Xue Chuqing; you cannot lay a finger on her!

“Of course, if you can afford the price, you can choose to cooperate with the Divine Maiden Tower.

“If you choose the second path, I’ll have her beat you to death right now.” Xu Luo looked at Gu Zongren seriously. “You don’t have a third path! And don’t even think about testing the waters. Once you do… you won’t have any chance or room for redemption.”

Gu Zongren was not someone who grew up being easily scared!

He had been a peerless genius since childhood. Born in the Ancient Celestial Valley, he was the orthodox direct heir of the Ancient Celestial Valley! His status and position were quite astonishing! His seniority was unimaginably high. When he was a teenager, he became a Jiuzhou Seed, with talent so good it was terrifying. He had participated in the Peak of Jiuzhou and even became the champion of that term’s Peak of Jiuzhou! He was a true peerless powerhouse!

Although he was very old now and had lived through long years, he had become a Celestial Venerable quite early on! Today, he was already a mighty figure at the Celestial Venerable Ninth Step! This was also the fundamental reason why he harbored the ambition to unify the world! Among the quadrillions of people in the entirety of Jiuzhou, just how many experts at the Celestial Venerable Ninth Step were there?

But now, he was truly a little hesitant. He found that he completely couldn’t see through this maiden whose beauty was so breathtaking it made one doubt such perfection could exist in the world.

Truthfully, he really wanted to make a move and test the waters! But he also knew clearly in his heart that this little bastard was right. If he really made a move, there would only be two outcomes. The first outcome… the other party was lying to him! There was no peerless powerhouse at all; instead, they had used some method even he didn’t know about to blind the heavenly secrets and deceive his Divine Sense. The second outcome… the other party wasn’t lying to him. This was an unimaginably terrifying existence who could probably turn him to ash and smoke with just a single finger!

“How should I choose?” This was a real dilemma. Gu Zongren couldn’t help but shift his gaze from the Blue-skirted Maiden to Xu Luo, hoping to discern a clue from this little bastard.

But he was disappointed. The other party’s expression was frighteningly calm! That handsome face, which he wished he could smash to a pulp with a single punch, still carried a faint, barely discernible smile. It seemed composed, yet also mocking. There was just not a single trace of fear!

Gu Zongren took a deep breath and cupped his fists toward the Blue-skirted Maiden. “Senior… previously, this junior and Young Master Luo had many misunderstandings. Now, the misunderstandings have been resolved. It was this junior who wrongly blamed Young Master Luo. I hope Senior will be magnanimous and not hold it against this junior!”