Chapter 1653: The Old Man's Admonition

Moreover, this so-called reward was forcibly imposed by the will of the Supreme God. Every cultivator who broke through to the Boundless Realm was inescapably destined to face this fate.

Naturally, there must have been some who resisted and wished to defy this will. However, their ultimate fate remained unknown. "Perhaps some among your Eighteen Guardian Saviors are the bearers of this alternative fate I speak of.”

The words of the old living fossil guardian were truly revelatory, bringing an unprecedented and paradigm-shifting understanding to Xu Yang's beast army and Ancestor Mo Tian, who was solely focused on revenge.

“My heavens! Boss, what in the world is going on? I feel that after hearing this old man, the so-called Kunlun Divine Path is nothing more than a deception woven by the Supreme God alone. Everyone living within the Kunlun Divine Path, regardless of their cultivation level, is merely a pawn in this world. Even those who enter the Boundless Realm and reach the peak of human cultivation simply assume a different form of enslavement. They become the highest existence among all enslaved pawns, but fundamentally, there is no difference.”

Long Kun's exclamation immediately met with unanimous agreement from everyone present.

At this moment, Xu Yang, who had been standing majestically above the cage, slowly descended and rejoined the old man inside it. This time, Xu Yang intended to personally dismantle the confinement. He could discern the old living fossil guardian's deep-seated desire for a fair and open conversation. However, just as he was about to proceed, the old man suddenly spoke, declining Xu Yang’s offer.

“Young man, if you did not possess the ability to create this cage law, I would never have spoken to you about any of this. Precisely because this cage exists, the law you have woven falls outside the dominion of the Supreme God’s will in the Kunlun Divine Path. Therefore, isolated by the power of this law, none of my actions will be controlled by the Supreme God’s will. If you remove the law surrounding this cage, any single word I dare to reveal from what I just said would instantly destroy my body and soul.

I neglected to mention that for every peak cultivator in the Kunlun Divine Path who achieves the Boundless Realm, their so-called 'never-extinguishing soul fire' is, in fact, a bargaining chip firmly held by the Supreme God’s will. The Supreme God’s will can control the life and death of every Boundless Realm soul at any time, through the various laws within the Kunlun Divine Path.

So, as someone who has experienced this, I want to offer you a piece of advice: if you wish to contend with the Supreme God’s will, the inherited power of the Eighteen Old Gods will be your best allies. Seek out as many later inheritors of this power lineage as possible, or their original totem consciousnesses; this will provide you with the most accurate guidance.

Furthermore, young man, if you truly intend to use the core power of the Beast Race as leverage to overthrow the Supreme God’s rule, it is far from sufficient. This is because the myriad beast races nurtured by the Kunlun Divine Path have only two sources of power: the two diametrically opposed bloodlines possessed by the feline entity on your shoulder. All other beast races are essentially evolved from these two purest forms of beast emperor blood. Therefore, other beast descendants will play almost no role in a war against the Supreme God’s will at that level. Only the hermaphroditic feline divine beast on your shoulder is a crucial asset that can determine the final outcome of the battlefield. Beyond that, the power of the Eighteen Old Guardian Gods and the sources of power of the Six Royal Lines of Human Spirits are the important goals you should strive to obtain.”

The guidance this living fossil guardian wished to impart to Xu Yang seemed entirely consistent with what he had previously heard from Little Grey regarding the nine sources of power within the Kunlun lineage.

“Senior, are you referring to the so-called Nine Sources of Power of the Kunlun Veins? Do you mean that to completely overthrow the Supreme God’s consciousness, it’s necessary to gather these nine sources of power through other means, only then making it possible to utterly destroy the Supreme God’s consciousness?”

The old man chuckled and revealed no more. He feared that speaking too much might alert the enemy and expose his identity as a traitor in the eyes of the Supreme God’s consciousness. In that case, it would hinder Xu Yang and his beast army’s subsequent progress.

“The secrets of heaven cannot be divulged. What I can tell you is limited to this. Next, the only thing you must do is to completely eradicate this law’s internal space, along with my soul’s origin. And absolutely do not allow my aura to return to the space of this Fifth Forbidden Zone! Otherwise, our previous series of conversations might be detected by the Supreme God’s will.”

When the old man spoke these words, Xu Yang’s perception of him fundamentally changed from the bottom of his heart. It also solidified a particular resolve in him: to completely overturn the current era of rule by the so-called Supreme God’s will on the main continent. Their very existence was a suppression of all hope for all living beings on the main continent. In other words, the infinite possibilities for the destiny of all living beings were entirely restricted due to the existence of this so-called Supreme God’s will. This would be disastrous for the development of the main continent’s civilization. And Xu Yang, bringing Long Kun and the others to the main continent era hundreds of thousands of years later, intended precisely to guide the main continent’s civilization back onto the right path within this timeline.

After processing the old man’s guidance, Xu Yang now had a completely new strategy for his campaign. That was, upon entering the Peak of Kunlun, to seek out the respective sources of power of the Six Royal Lines of Human Spirits as much as possible. Then, to eradicate the root of evil within them, directly controlled by the Supreme God’s will—the so-called "living fossil ancestors." Subsequently, by gaining control over the sources of power of the Six Royal Lines, to bring as many human powerhouses from these lines into his own faction as possible. This would help save the lives of the young cultivators from the Six Royal Lines of Human Spirits to the greatest extent, preventing them from falling into the endless abyss by following the Supreme God’s will.

Firmly resolved, Xu Yang gazed deeply at the old man in the cage. Without any further hesitation, he directly conjured his most powerful Eternal Sword Glow. In front of everyone, with a single strike, he utterly annihilated the cage and the life force of the old man sealed within it! The old man felt no pain as he perished beneath Xu Yang’s sword.