Chapter 628 - 548: What? Me Pretending to Be the Faceless Man? (2.8K)

"Elder Wan, thank you for your righteous intervention earlier."

Looking at the woman exuding maternal radiance before him, Su Yuan smiled and spoke.

"And thank you for making the right choice between me and the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity."

Upon hearing this, Wan Chenxin sighed lightly and said:

"Su Yuan, you flatter me. With your current strength, even if you remained neutral, you could still defeat the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity's avatar and reclaim this Chaos Creature."

"As for whether standing by your side was truly the right choice, to be honest, I'm not certain."

She gazed at Su Yuan with a complex look, murmuring:

"To be honest, I can't see through you at all now."

"I have no idea how you survived the chaos or how you mastered powers related to chaos."

"In all my long life, I've never seen someone as peculiar as you, making me even suspecting whether you are a spy sent by chaos."

Hearing that Wan Chenxin harbored the same suspicion as the Faceless Man, Su Yuan laughed silently.

"Elder Wan, rest assured, I am absolutely loyal to the Cultivation Realm. I am even willing to take a demon blood oath to prove this."

However, despite Su Yuan's resolute words, he indeed harbors some concerns.

He himself is a pure Blue Star human, willing to go to any lengths to protect this universe, which is beyond doubt.

But whether the system bound to him shares his intentions is uncertain.

This damn system seems abstract at times, but who knows, it might be an artifact from chaos?

Still, no matter how worried he is, he has no way to expel the system from his mind right now.

He can only proceed cautiously, trying not to be led astray by the system.

Of course, all these concerns must be dealt with alone, unable to share them with outsiders.

After hearing Su Yuan's assurance, the worry in Wan Chenxin's eyes diminished slightly, but she was far from fully trusting Su Yuan.

She asked solemnly:

"Su Yuan, considering my full support, are you confident you can defeat the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity?"

Su Yuan pondered seriously upon hearing this.

Wan Chenxin's full support likely includes all the Primordial Dao she possesses.

With the support of this Primordial Dao, plus ample supplies of Chaos Qi, his cultivation might reach the Third Layer of Divinity Transformation Realm, or even the Fourth Layer, in a short time.

But compared to the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity, who holds over seventy percent of the Primordial Dao and has merged countless other daos, wielding peak Divinity Transformation cultivation, it's still somewhat insufficient.

Therefore, he must leverage external forces.

These external forces must naturally come from chaos.

After pondering for a long while, Su Yuan asked solemnly:

"Elder Wan, if I say I want to recklessly excavate the Cosmic Boundary Wall and let Chaos Qi spread in, would you support it?"

With Su Yuan's current power, even without relying on the Immortal Slaying Sword, he can easily break the Cosmic Boundary Wall.

Wan Chenxin frowned, instinctively wanting to reject this insane proposal.

But after a brief hesitation, she didn't rush to speak.

After deliberating thoughtfully, she persuaded from a unique perspective:

"I do not support this idea of yours."

"If you really do this, the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity might stop trying to mend the Cosmic Boundary Wall's breach, instead choosing to eliminate you first."

Su Yuan blinked, compelled to admit that Wan Chenxin was absolutely right.

Currently, in the universe, there's only the huge gap made by the Immortal Slaying Sword.

The breach is large but not impossible to mend, hence temporarily restricting the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity there.

But if the Cosmic Boundary Wall has gaps everywhere, like an old house with drafts, why bother mending it?

He might directly opt to let it go.

And in letting it go, he would definitely crush Su Yuan, the pest causing chaos everywhere.

Considering this, Su Yuan proposed a new idea:

"Since we must fight the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity within the confines of rules, I hope to first rally all forces we can among the universe's new-generation Divinity Transformation cultivators."

"We defeated the Venerable's avatar and are the strongest among the new generation of Divinity Transformation cultivators across the universe; we can raise the flag of rebellion."

"Any Cultivation Civilization wanting to resist the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity can ally with us!"

"By uniting all Cultivation Civilizations into a grand alliance, we not only have a chance against the Venerable himself but also can sweep away all forces under his command."

"Once we eliminate all Abyssal Shadows under the Venerable and absorb the Primordial Dao within them, my combat power will increase substantially."

"By then, I might have a chance against the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity."

Wan Chenxin fell into contemplation.

Su Yuan's speech hadn't wholly answered her initial question.

She had asked whether Su Yuan could defeat the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity, yet Su Yuan's answer was quite convoluted.

What about uniting all the cultivation civilizations in the universe, defeating the forces under the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity, refining the Abyssal Shadow, etc., are just beautiful visions.

Is actual operation really that ideal?

Weaker cultivation civilizations may betray, and the enemy's forces accumulated over many eras are not to be underestimated, while the Abyssal Shadows created by the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity can be recalled by him at any time.

Moreover, the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity's true self may take action at any moment, crushing everything with absolute power.

These countless variables, any one of them happening, could possibly lead to an ultimate collapse.

Seeing Wan Chenxin deep in thought, Su Yuan himself was somewhat confused.

To become stronger, even if he did not vastly destroy the Cosmic Boundary Wall, he would surely make a small breach in it, fiercely drawing the endless energy from beyond.

But having endless energy without development time, how to solve this?

"Sigh, if only the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity were unaware of the Faceless Man's demise."

Su Yuan couldn't help but sigh with such a thought.

The role of Faceless Man as an imperial envoy was too special; his death would stir up big trouble.

Yet upon hearing Su Yuan's sigh, Wan Chenxin's beautiful eyes suddenly lit up.

She grabbed Su Yuan's shoulder excitedly and said:

"Exactly, the fact that the avatar fell, the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity's true self doesn't know this yet, there's a lot of room for maneuvering here."

Su Yuan: "??? "

Then Wan Chenxin explained:

"You know, I have a good relationship with the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity, so I know where that avatar came from."

"That avatar saying it's an avatar is actually more like his second body."

"The opportunity for the avatar's birth came before the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity came into contact with the Primordial Dao."

"At that time, the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity was already a Great Cultivator at the peak of Divinity Transformation, ambitiously aiming to break through to the Immortal Realm, but discovered the limitations of resources in the Cultivation Realm."

"As such, he constantly explored the possibilities of acquiring resources from beyond the universe, eventually breaching the Cosmic Boundary Wall, witnessing the mighty power from Chaos."

"I don't know how he sealed the initial breach, only that after he patched it up, his temperament changed drastically, deciding to walk the cultivation path anew to master the most enigmatic and powerful Primordial Dao among the three thousand Daos."

"To achieve this, he had to dissipate and rebuild his cultivation, and so the original body at Divinity Transformation Peak was refined into an avatar, which is the Faceless Man you saw."

"Later on...the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity, having mastered the Primordial Dao, initiated the first Primordial Great Tribulation."

Su Yuan nodded in realization.

No wonder he always felt the Faceless Man's character was vastly different from the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity's true self.

One extraordinarily lively, the other very dignified.

No wonder the Faceless Man had none of the Primordial Dao, because when he was first born, his true self had never cultivated the Primordial Dao.

Wan Chenxin continued:

"Precisely due to the avatar's uniqueness, they aren't subordinate to each other, only able to relay messages face to face."

"Which means, as long as the true self doesn't personally come to check on the avatar, he won't notice the avatar's demise."

Su Yuan's eyes brightened suddenly.

His face showed excitement as he said:

"Then it would be easy, as long as we forge news that the Faceless Man is still alive, we could significantly delay the time it takes for the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity to realize something's wrong."

Wan Chenxin nodded with a smile.

Then, she heard Su Yuan continue:

"Additionally, I can also impersonate the Faceless Man, going around swaying the new generation of cultivation civilizations, letting them feel the terror of the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity; by then, they would surely be eager to ally with Blue Star."

Wan Chenxin: "..."

I thought we were on the first layer, and here you are already jumping to the atmosphere!

I'm telling you this matter, letting you impersonate the Faceless Man to stir things up? I'm just trying to buy some development time for you and Blue Star.

And yet, you go and use this to draw conclusions, right!

It really has to be you! Only you can think of such insidiously clever tricks!

Wan Chenxin felt somewhat speechless.

But ultimately, she did not refute.

Since Su Yuan's plan, although defying the norm, was practically effective.

Waving the banner of the Faceless Man, many cultivation civilizations would realize the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity's dreadfulness, hence easily forming a grand alliance of the Cultivation Realm.

And when the grand alliance forms, Su Yuan could further use the identity of the Faceless Man to gather all the subordinates at the Divinity Transformation Stage under the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity, capturing them all in one fell swoop.

This way, the true self of the Venerable of Immeasurable Calamity wouldn't even have time to react, his faction being annihilated in an instant.

It truly is a brilliant scheme.

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PS: Someone at home is hospitalized, so there is only one chapter today, the author deeply apologizes.