Evil Venerable of the Sword Dao Chapter 1724 - 211: Joining Forces with the Pan Emperor

"However, I, Zhou Yan, have no regrets at all. I’ve done everything I could at this point. Therefore, I only hope that the Pan Emperor can give me a bit of hope. This hope isn’t about demanding anything but... if I truly perish, I hope the Pan Emperor would spare my daughter Yanyan Sisi and my son Hou Chen. They can actually step into the Immortal Buddha Divine Race, but it’s your excessive prejudice that’s led to the so-called division between the Human Clan and the Divine Race."

"Of course, apart from them, I hope to preserve some lives, like Hong Yuqiao and others. They are pure preachers, and were nurtured by the Immortal Buddha Divine Race... As for the rest, it depends on your own view, Pan Emperor. If you wish for destruction, then destruction it is; if you wish to keep them, keep them."

Zhou Yan said in a deep voice.

At this time, like a man whose words become kind before death, Zhou Yan found himself utterly helpless, with no way to respond.

Lee Ran, although he didn’t say what he learned, Zhou Yan possesses the Perfection of the Evil Venerate Realm, naturally having a sense of life and death.

When the calling aura manifested, Zhou Yan already sensed the opportunity for destruction.

This situation surpassed all previous instances, everything in its entirety, and precisely because of this, Zhou Yan made his explanations like a final testament.

After such explanations, the Pan Emperor fell completely silent.

Subsequently, the Pan Emperor also released all precautions, all vigilance.

At this moment, if Zhou Yan were to fully exert himself, the Pan Emperor would surely be seriously injured.

If Zhou Yan unleashed all his abilities, it was highly likely that the Pan Emperor would be killed instantly.

After all, Zhou Yan’s current abilities are indeed somewhat stronger than both the Pan Emperor and the Soul Emperor.

Though not by much, with a surprise attack, in an utterly defenseless state, it wouldn’t be particularly difficult to deliver a fatal blow.

But given Pan Emperor’s current stance, Zhou Yan understood that the Pan Emperor agreed with him.

This time, they had a genuine heart-to-heart, and a temporary alliance was truly formed between them.

"Zhou Yan, in truth, the Immortal Buddha Divine Race has never intentionally opposed the Human Clan, but the Human Clan has shared the motivation for progress and the source of Transformation of the Immortal Buddha Divine Race."

After a moment of silence, the Pan Emperor spoke.

Zhou Yan remained silent, knowing the truth in this statement.

Because the Immortal Buddha Divine Race is equivalent to an already transformed Human Clan, and the situation is quite stable.

Otherwise, there would be no so-called Immortal Buddha Divine Race.

And for the Human Clan to grow, it must undergo a Transformation and then seek another path.

If development followed one direction, then after one Transformation, the Human Clan would become a brand new Immortal Buddha Divine Race.

However, the Immortal Buddha Divine Race has only transformed to a certain level, not to the level of Perfection, so this path is clearly exploratory. Therefore, the Human Clan’s development did not need to follow this path and thus forged another path of Transformation.

This change caused the Human Clan and the Immortal Buddha Divine Race to diverge in their paths of Transformation.

Two races of the Same Origin thus became two separate races.

This is the current situation.

The Pan Emperor’s statement was, of course, correct.

Zhou Yan understood this deeply, so he had no further retort.

Different Tao indeed makes it hard to plan together. If not for the urgency of the situation, the two would have no real intersection.

Moreover, in the future, this gap will become even larger.

"Precisely because of this, the Divine Race will not easily relinquish, after all, compared to the Human Clan, whose development is still on the road, the Immortal Buddha Divine Race, having undergone one Transformation, is now a very complete race. Therefore, in terms of the path of Transformation, the Immortal Buddha Divine Race’s difficulty is less than that of the Human Clan. If resources from both sides were merged, the Divine Race could naturally take a much more advanced route, perhaps even establishing an absolutely perfect and powerful race. But much of the foundation and Qi Fortune of the Immortal Buddha Divine Race has been shared with the Human Clan.

As a result, the Divine Race’s path forward is fraught with difficulty.

Without sufficient resources and foundation, this path will never be easy."

"Now, the Human Clan has grown to be on par with the Immortal Buddha Divine Race; this too is an accomplishment you and Lee Ran achieved together, so at this stage, be it success or failure, it doesn’t matter, you and I have both given it our all."

"As for Derivation, this is the key reason I came here. Like you, I sensed the real catastrophe, one that cannot be avoided or changed—the catastrophe of Annihilation."

"Therefore, given your honesty, I, Pan Emperor, will also not be evasive."

"If... if afterward, I perish, then the path of the Immortal Buddha Divine Race is entirely entrusted to you. At that time, I won’t make things difficult for you, but I hope you can forgive the Emperor and the Immortal Phoenix Peacock.

The Emperor, after all, is the ancestor of the Human Clan, and the Immortal Phoenix Peacock could be considered half your mother."

"As for the rest, you may handle them as you see fit. By then, many of the inheritors will go with me in the Transformation, to not make things difficult for you."

The Pan Emperor said, his tone gradually lowering.

The words of the Pan Emperor struck Zhou Yan’s heart like a bolt of thunder.

"How, how is it possible! With the Eight Array Map, how could your side, Pan Emperor, have no chance of winning!"

Zhou Yan couldn’t help but exclaim in shock.

"Although it’s strange, it must be said that this is indeed a fact, a cruel fact! The most critical point is, that despite our painstaking calculations and Derivations up till now, we cannot even touch the source direction of danger."

The Pan Emperor remained silent, then spoke in a deep voice.

Zhou Yan’s heart trembled fiercely.

A sense of great horror arose spontaneously.

"This time—we might all be unable to escape unscathed."

Zhou Yan spoke, immediately feeling the strange movement in his brow.

At this moment, at Lee Ran’s request, Zhou Yan opened his Creating Dao domain.

Lee Ran’s figure condensed in the Void, but due to certain reasons, upon appearing, his power was immediately weakened by tenfold or more, and his strength was quickly dissipating. This dissipated power vanished without being absorbed by either Pan Emperor or Zhou Yan in the slightest.

However, just then, a faint Blood Light suddenly appeared on Lee Ran’s body. The Blood Light ethereally shimmered, casting a beautiful glow that surrounded Lee Ran, like a faint blood-colored bubble, enveloping him within.

"The power of the Blood Coffin? Impressive!"

Pan Emperor’s eyes narrowed as he witnessed this scene, and he commented with admiration.

This was a genuine, heartfelt expression of admiration. Although Lee Ran was not weak, he had not yet reached the Evil Venerate Realm; in the face of this Void, his power would be unstable, for he was not a Creator and could not exist long-term in the Creator’s realm.

Lee Ran smiled faintly and said, "Pan Emperor overpraises, it’s just some minor tricks not worth mentioning."

Lee Ran’s words made Pan Emperor nod slightly, without saying much more.

Clearly, this was not the time for pleasantries.

After a moment of silence, Pan Emperor also opened his brow, and within it appeared a mass of purple qi.

Within the purple qi, an ancient Eight Diagrams came into being, and within the Eight Diagrams, the Emperor appeared.

"Lee Ran, it seems that this time we should best join forces again to deduce the key to breaking this impasse. Whatever you sense, consider yourself the primary entity. As for me... I will utilize the Three Pure Purple Qi of the Moral Saint Spirit and Fu Xi’s Eight Array Map to conduct the derivation."

The Emperor said.

"Exactly my intention."

Lee Ran replied.

He then looked at Zhou Yan and the Emperor.

Zhou Yan and the Emperor exchanged a glance and said, "Alright!"

The two spoke and decided almost simultaneously.

Presently, within the Chaos Lake, Lee Ran and the Emperor sat facing each other.

Pan Emperor began to exert his power, channeling all of it into the Emperor’s Eight Array Map.

Zhou Yan, similarly, infused all his strength into Lee Ran’s body.

Lee Ran and the Emperor joined forces, and with Lee Ran sensing the direction, the Emperor activated the Eight Array Map.

But the moment the Eight Array Map was activated, the entire Void suddenly trembled, and a formidable aura pressed down fiercely as if suppressing Heaven and Earth, directly upon the Eight Array Map.

"Boom—"

The Chaos Lake suddenly quaked and shattered.

An entire Void instantly collapsed.

The Eight Array Map was shattered.

The Emperor was severely injured in an instant, nearly reduced to dust; had it not been for Pan Emperor’s intervention, the Emperor would likely have had his soul scattered.

In such a manner, Lee Ran’s situation was not much better.

His body was almost obliterated in an instant, but the Blood Light suddenly engulfed him, sweeping him into a fleeting Blood Coffin within the Void.

Obviously, had it been any slower, Lee Ran, too, would have been reduced to dust.

This situation was even more perilous than the Emperor’s because Zhou Yan had no time to react.

Yet at this moment, a colossal phantom of a corpse appeared in the depths of both Pan Emperor’s and Zhou Yan’s minds. Although it flickered and disappeared in an instant, the massive silhouette of the corpse was etched as if branded, causing their hearts to tremble fiercely.

This terrifying scenario truly left Pan Emperor and Zhou Yan’s hearts pounding with fear.

"What was that!"

Pan Emperor gasped, clearly unsettled.

Zhou Yan took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "I don’t know, but it’s certainly the source of danger."

"Everything seems indeed related to the Soul Emperor. Could it be that the Soul Emperor has acquired some method to manipulate us?"

"It should be so. If the Soul Emperor has acquired a way to further transform his realm and combat power, given the short time, our discrepancy may not be vast. However, if this continues, his strength is bound to surge, and then we would be even more passive.

Moreover, he has set up a killing trap; if we act sooner, we might counter it earlier, possibly before his arrangements are perfected. But the more time that passes, the more complete his layout becomes, worsening our situation."

"Indeed, precisely like that, let alone the power of that tempting call, which has steadily strengthened. Following this trend, soon we won’t be able to resist it. By then, if we’re passively summoned over, we might be instantly killed without any resistance!"

Zhou Yan and Pan Emperor exchanged a glance, simultaneously analyzing the situation almost at once.

After the Emperor and Lee Ran were severely injured, Pan Emperor and Zhou Yan retracted their respective Creating Dao spaces.

Afterwards, Pan Emperor and Zhou Yan’s will could help the injured two restore, which was not difficult.

Only, if they were to die outside, both Pan Emperor and Zhou Yan would be powerless.

Thus, the previous derivation was highly perilous yet, fortunately, without mishap.

Still, neither Pan Emperor nor Zhou Yan dared to attempt it again.

Perhaps Lee Ran’s Blood Coffin has a certain level of protective ability, but should it be attempted again, if Pan Emperor fails to react in time, the Emperor will inevitably perish.