Chapter 989: How About You Go Test the Waters?

The Old Sage asked tirelessly, but Han Yu remained tight-lipped.

In the end, he couldn’t hold it anymore, his tone turning wistful.

“Can you just be honest? Stop using those flimsy excuses.”

Han Yu let out a series of cold laughs, “Why don’t you show your cards first, stop hiding?”

When dealing with these things, he has to use every tiny bit of his cunning.

Everyone is too adept at hiding, without a single honest word.

They say nothing earlier or later, only now, it’s clearly suspicious.

Before he seized the rules, the Old Sage had only half-understood the matters, and now suddenly asking him to get involved obviously shows a spur-of-the-moment decision.

The Old Sage probably didn’t have any arrangements, so the answer was obvious.

“Did the Heavenly Dao send you to do this?”

He felt his guess was mostly correct.

The Old Sage was silent all of a sudden, but isn’t silence the best answer?

“So, you, old geezer, are also hiding things. The Heavenly Dao sought you out, where is it? Let that guy come to me directly.”

Han Yu couldn’t help but grit his teeth at the end.

He does the work, cleans up the mess.

The Heavenly Dao prowls around, seeking senescence but not him.

How can he tolerate it?

Do they truly think he’s a hired hand!

The Old Sage was silent for a long time before he spoke slowly.

“It indeed appeared.”

Han Yu’s heart stirred, indeed, his guess was correct; it was the profligate Heavenly Dao that appeared.

Since it appeared, didn’t that mean he could gloriously retire, leaving that guy to clean up the mess?

“But it can’t fully appear yet.”

The Old Sage shifted the topic, and Han Yu frowned deeply.

“What do you mean by can’t fully appear? Could it possibly mean just showing half a face and continuing to hide?”

This is really nonsensical.

Once out, why hide again?

“It’s not confident in handling those two.”

The Old Sage’s muffled voice sounded slowly.

Han Yu nearly exploded when he heard it, saying as if it could handle them.

“After millennia, both sides are probing each other. The Celestial Beings probably don’t dare come down rashly now, but if the Heavenly Dao’s bottom line is discovered, once they come down, it will definitely be a thunderous strike.”

The Old Sage thus explained.

“So it’s not that it doesn’t want to move; it just can’t move unless…”

Han Yu’s thoughts stirred, and he asked.

“Unless what?”

The Old Sage paused for a moment, his tone peculiar, “Unless you probe the bottom of the Celestial Beings on both sides.”

Han Yu’s eyes widened suddenly, blurting out without thinking.

“Do you even listen to what you’re saying?”

Asking him to probe the bottom line is equivalent to asking him to single out the Celestial Beings on both sides.

If he had that ability, why would he need the Heavenly Dao?

He could directly deal with each one, then let the Heavenly Dao quickly step down.

The last time overseas, the opponent merely displayed a divine sign through the Celestial River, nearly killed him.

He figured that the Celestial Beings wanting to kill him would be about as difficult as swatting a mosquito.

The gaps between the two sides span millennia; frankly speaking, when the other side attained the Dao, the people of the Central Continent hadn’t even emerged yet.

A guy who could wreak havoc during the Celestial Being era, is he someone a small fry like him could probe?

Thus, the Old Sage surely was dreaming.

“Why are you not speaking?”

The Old Sage coughed dryly several times, couldn’t help but ask.

Han Yu took a deep breath, then grimaced and gritted his teeth.

“I want to curse you, yet afraid you’ll enjoy it.”

Damn it, daring to speak such a thing as sending him to die.

The Old Sage seemed to be choked by Han Yu’s words, dryly coughing a few times, followed by a bout of silence.

Finally, he continued speaking, “Then you at least need to put the rules in a safe place, right?”

Han Yu, while flying, spread his hands, “Place the rules in a bowl, and the bowl in my Sea of Consciousness works just the same.”

In his view, the Old Sage and the Heavenly Dao certainly won’t do anything useless, those arrangements might secretly be planning something else.

If they want it placed, let them explain clearly before discussing.

The Old Sage seemed to understand Han Yu’s thoughts, couldn’t help sighing.

“Those rules, the Heavenly Dao plans not to let those two sides take them away, putting them into the Five Elements world in your Sea of Consciousness is the most reliable.”

Han Yu suddenly halted, found a spot to land, and then carefully pondered the Old Sage’s words.

“So can I understand it this way, the Five Elements world is also arranged by you guys?”

If not, how could they be so sure it was safest to put them in there.

He wasn’t stupid, conjuring up a Five Elements Divine Techniques unexpectedly, yet letting him gather them all.

More crucially is the Old Sage’s words which indirectly indicated that the Five Elements world wasn’t formed from the gradual acquisition of Five Elements Divine Techniques.

Moreover, this change was perhaps stealthily schemed by the prodigal Heavenly Dao during some unknown, god-forsaken eras.

However, isn’t this process too prolonged?

“Why couldn’t you clean up the mess from the start, only when necessary?”

Han Yu couldn’t help speaking, during millennia, even if the Heavenly Dao used such covert arrangements, they should have filled these gaps sooner.

Not to mention, even a pill from Ping could elevate the development of the Central Continent during these millennia.

“No, now is the best time, and you are the best choice.”

The Old Sage’s words left Han Yu confused.

“Because, the Heavenly Dao also wants them dead!”

No matter how well the Central Continent developed, a barren land remains barren, akin to rootless duckweed.

They can never compare to the fortuitous places taken away by the Yama Hall and Celestial Dao Sect.

Even if the Heavenly Dao could transform the Central Continent into an impenetrable iron fortress during these millennia, the Celestial Beings lingering outside are like swords hanging overhead, poised to fall at any moment.

The Celestial Beings want to kill the Heavenly Dao for ascension, and the Heavenly Dao likewise wants to eliminate these renegades to prevent future troubles.

“Now, neither side has any retreat.”

Forcefully descending the Heavenly Dao’s possessions has already drained both small worlds’ origins, leaving the origin’s advantage extinct.

Either the Celestial Beings descend or retreat into an even more impoverished broken world.

Yet surely retreat isn’t possible, descending is only a matter of time.

Now both sides have reached a stage of mutual probing, the Heavenly Dao wants to probe them, they’re probing the Heavenly Dao as well.

“So, you remain the key importance.”

The Old Sage sighed heavily.

Before the Heavenly Dao truly acts, Han Yu still needs to stand in the forefront.

If possible, prompting the Celestial Beings to come down earlier is better.

“The more rules you occupy, the more urgency it triggers in the Celestial Beings…”

The Old Sage hadn’t finished speaking when Han Yu couldn’t help but interrupt.

“Then they’d turn around and deal with me, right?”

This was nearly foreseeable, the three thousand rules are undoubtedly what the Celestial Beings earnestly want.

Once Han Yu really occupies most, the spearhead just happens to point directly at him.

Regarding this point, the Old Sage did not deny.

“Indeed, it will directly provoke the Celestial Beings to take action against you, but by then they have descended, and the Heavenly Dao can act as well.”

“In a certain sense, the Five Elements world also counts as a small world, integrating rules into it can further expand your world.”

“At least in the current scenario, you wouldn’t want to give the Celestial Beings even the slightest chance, then the best approach is to merge these rules into your world.”

Han Yu fell into silence; he wasn’t sure if the Old Sage’s words were hiding some pitfalls.

In this situation, it’s unnecessary for the Old Sage to lie, but he could still hide some traps for him.

Who knows if there are other issues awaiting once merging these rules.

“If I merge the rules inside, can I use those rules then?”

Han Yu suddenly thought again.

Like the Artifact Spirit, like Ping, they serve as mediums providing rules; then the Five Elements world is his too, won’t merging the rules let him use them?

“No! When they merge into the Five Elements world, they become its foundation; you can’t use them, nor will you be able to.”

Han Yu suddenly furrowed his brows, “Can’t use them, then why did I fight with the Central Continent to snatch them?”

“Have you ever thought why the people on both sides plot for it?”

The Old Sage sighed helplessly.