150: No need to justify my name, I just want this blood to burn again!
The Great Qin King's words were cold, clearly tinged with anger.
As his voice faded, he clenched his hand, as if intending to utterly crush the figure in the dark-gold robe.
Ye Longqiu's dark-gold robe pressed tightly against him, and wisps of black airflow continuously diffused from his body, flowing towards the Great Qin King.
However, his expression remained unchanged; he merely lifted his eyelids slightly.
In an instant, the starry sky seemed to transform into a dark swamp, a black curtain obscuring the heavens.
At the same time, everything around them disappeared until only the Great Qin King and Ye Longqiu remained.
"Heaven-Shrouding Art?"
The Great Qin King's eyes shifted slightly.
Ye Longqiu shook his head, and with a slight movement, easily broke free from the Great Qin King's restraint.
He sighed, his expression slowly turning serious.
"The Heaven-Shrouding Art is too minor a path. What I've cast is a False Heaven."
"Great Qin King, you should know that I am, after all, a figure ten thousand years older than you, and I even stepped into the God Path a step earlier than the First Emperor."
"Though I lack the First Emperor's grandeur, who wished to fully establish Immortal Qin and wield control over this heaven,"
"I also possess some pride. This False Heaven is the trump card I kept for myself."
"After I stepped into the God Path, I already discovered the rule changes in this world."
"That Immortal, though merely a wild beast that coincidentally took the third step of the God Path and ascended to Immortality,"
"Is ultimately the only one. It feared being replaced, so it altered the rules."
"From then on, there was only one way to advance in the God Path realm: devour the power of others to strengthen oneself."
"And it established the Heavenly Court, raising God Path wild beasts to devour the humans who entered the God Path."
"I originally thought that I only needed to maneuver between the First Emperor and the Immortal, and when the First Emperor truly took control of this heaven, I could use the False Heaven to secure a position of Immortality."
Speaking of this, Ye Longqiu looked up at the sky obscured by the black curtain, then continued:
"But I didn't expect that this Immortal, sensing danger, would actually plan to overturn the board."
"Even an Immortal is ultimately subject to the Great Dao. Once the world restarts, it too will restart. Even if it can retain some power, it will be extremely weak, and it may not be able to cultivate to Immortality again."
"A beast is a beast; even upon ascending to Immortality, it is timid as a mouse and doesn't even dare to contend with the First Emperor head-on."
A hint of disdain flickered in the corner of Ye Longqiu's eye.
Although he said this, he also knew in his heart that for that Immortal, this was the method with the greatest chance of success.
It initially disregarded the First Emperor and didn't anticipate the terrifying speed of his growth.
By the time it paid attention, the First Emperor had already laid the foundation of Immortal Qin, and it no longer had full confidence in victory.
Therefore, before the First Emperor could completely threaten its Immortality, it ultimately did not wish to gamble.
But now, the appearance of that God-Controlling Path left it with no other choice.
Once the four pillars of Immortal Qin were gathered, and the First Emperor launched his heaven-usurping move, the possibility of its failure would be extremely high.
And restarting the world, even it would be reset.
But it could still retain some power, and the possibility of re-ascending to Immortality was not low.
And the premise of all this was to first eliminate that outsider.
He came from another world, and the Immortal could not fully perceive him; he was an unknown variable.
Therefore, it had to eliminate him to prevent that outsider from still helping the First Emperor complete the last of the four pillars of Immortal Qin after the restart.
The Great Qin King listened quietly, his expression changing slightly.
He felt Ye Longqiu's aura surge rapidly, stopping only when it reached the peak of the God Path.
"The third step of the God Path, so you've been hiding your true strength all this time?"
Ye Longqiu spread his hands.
"I originally intended to keep hiding, to reap the benefits from the struggle between the First Emperor and the Immortal, and to gain control over a piece of true heaven through the False Heaven."
"But unfortunately, that's no longer possible now."
"The First Emperor's strength is now above mine. After the restart, he will also enter the God Path earlier than me, so I will certainly have no ability to contend for a piece of heaven."
"But I am, after all, human, and ultimately unwilling to see a wild beast completely control the heavens in the future."
"So, I want to use this last trump card to try my best to obscure that variable."
"This False Heaven is constructed with all my God Path power; perhaps there's a sliver of a chance."
As he spoke, Ye Longqiu suddenly narrowed his eyes, looking into the distance.
"Has he arrived?"
The Great Qin King followed his gaze and saw a figure walking towards them; it was Qin Feng.
He sighed softly, saying nothing.
Qin Feng, possessing the Immortal Sky Painting and having a preliminary grasp of parallel time and space, could already easily perceive the changes in Great Qin. His arrival here was expected.
Even though he had informed Qin Feng through the Emperor God Path of the Immortal's intention to eliminate him, he still came.
However, hiding was also meaningless; it couldn't block the Immortal's gaze.
The only hope could only be placed in this False Heaven, that it could obscure the Immortal's prying.
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Qin Feng surveyed his surroundings, a hint of curiosity in his eyes.
After he emerged from Holy Light City and arrived in the starry sky, he was directly pulled into this place.
The starry sky disappeared, and everything around was enveloped by a black curtain, as if he had arrived in another world.
He took a step, looking at the two people before him, and his steps suddenly halted.
He saw that in the sky, obscured by the black curtain, a massive gash was suddenly torn open, and the boundless starry sky reappeared.
And at the torn gash, a crimson eyeball slowly peered in, with countless red tentacles gently swaying at the edge of the eyeball.
"Are you betraying this Immortal?"
A deep voice resonated.
At the same time, in the starry sky, one crimson eyeball after another continuously opened.
Soon, the entire starry sky was completely covered by those crimson eyeballs, dense and boundless.
Ye Longqiu's expression drastically changed, his body instantly tensing.
The False Heaven he had prepared couldn't even obscure for a moment before being directly torn apart.
He looked at the sky curtain before him, his lips twitching, opening and closing, yet he uttered no words.
Yes, a False Heaven was ultimately a False Heaven. How naive! How delusional to try and obscure an Immortal!
He listened to that voice, his hands dropping, his fingers trembling slightly.
A moment later, he suddenly let out a scoff: "Heh...betrayal?"
He raised his head, and a hint of killing intent suddenly surged in his eyes, staring directly at the countless eyeballs in the starry sky, a wave of arrogance suddenly sweeping over him.
"I never belonged to any side, so how can I betray?"
"Hiding and waiting for tens of thousands of years, all my pride has been worn away."
"After such a long time, I still couldn't wait for the moment to reap the benefits."
"Too boring, too monotonous."
Ye Longqiu scoffed and shook his head, moving his feet, stepping on the void, and ascending step by step towards the heavens.
"No need to justify myself, I just want to test the Immortal's power, to let this blood burn once more, not to betray the name of genius I once held."
The arrogance in his eyes grew increasingly intense, his entire body's blood boiling, until his aura reached its peak, the starry sky beneath his feet suddenly shattered, his dark-gold robe wildly swirling, carrying a blazing killing intent, as he fiercely soared towards the heavens.
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