Chapter 190

Chapter 190: The Cultivator’s Robe, Grasping the Grand Dao!

After saying that, Ye Tianming suddenly laughed again, “It’s good to have you too.”

Xiao Hun trembled slightly, letting out a joyful sword cry. Facing this new master, she genuinely liked him from the bottom of her heart. She, Xiao Hun, was willing to share glory and hardship with him!

Sensing Xiao Hun’s emotions and intent, Ye Tianming laughed heartily. He gently stroked the Tianming Sword, then turned and walked away.

“Young Master Ye, please wait.”

At that moment, Chu Zhaoxue, who had been standing nearby, suddenly spoke up.

Ye Tianming stopped and turned around. Chu Zhaoxue walked up to him.

Ye Tianming said earnestly, “Miss Zhaoxue, regarding your matter, I truly am powerless to help.”

Chu Zhaoxue shook her head. “That is not what this is about.”

Ye Tianming was a little puzzled.

Chu Zhaoxue smiled. “I was too forward yesterday. Young Master Ye, I sincerely apologize to you.”

Ye Tianming shook his head. “It’s fine.”

Chu Zhaoxue said, “At the dinner table that day, I gained a great deal. Though it may not count as much of a favor to Young Master Ye, to me personally, it was an enormous one. Young Master Ye, thank you……”

Before she finished speaking, without giving Ye Tianming a chance to respond, she suddenly stepped forward and embraced him directly, then gently kissed him on the lips.

Ye Tianming was completely stunned.

By the time he came back to his senses, Chu Zhaoxue had already stepped back to one side.

Ye Tianming stared fixedly at Chu Zhaoxue, the Tianming Sword in his hand trembling slightly. Chu Zhaoxue smiled and said, “Young Master Ye, please don’t misunderstand. A kiss is a very common gesture of courtesy where I come from. It simply means gratitude, nothing more.”

Ye Tianming furrowed his brow.

Chu Zhaoxue added, “Young Master Ye, until we meet again.”

With that, she gave a wave of her hand, then turned and vanished into the distance.

Ye Tianming could no longer sense her presence at all. It was clear that her strength far surpassed his.

After a moment of silence, Ye Tianming said, “Is that really how people express gratitude? Did I just get played?”

Xiao Hun suddenly said, “Young Master, I don’t know whether she was playing you, but I do know that on the other side of the galaxy, some places are very open, and kissing is indeed quite common.”

Ye Tianming glanced in the direction Chu Zhaoxue had left, and fell silent. He knew something about this felt off, but he couldn’t quite figure out what Chu Zhaoxue’s true intentions were.

“Looks like I need to keep my distance from women from now on.”

With that, he turned and walked away.

An uncharted stretch of the stellar river was boiling at this very moment. Countless streams of the Great Dao intertwined and collided endlessly, then annihilated one another.

The entire universe was trembling!

A great war!

An unprecedented war between super civilizations!

Deep within this stellar river, a vast ancient city stood like a colossal beast of the starry sky. The city was boundlessly wide, spanning millions of star fields. And at this moment, above the city, countless arrays of light surged endlessly into the sky, hovering above it. Wave after wave of terrifying Great Dao energy rose like a tide, crashing toward the depths of the stellar universe.

This ancient city was none other than the divine capital of the Chu Zhao Divine Kingdom.

Above the divine capital, countless top-tier powerhouses charged one after another toward the depths of the stellar universe. Among them, many of the most powerful even ignited their own souls, detonating themselves one after another!

Utterly devastating!

And the national fortune of the entire Chu Zhao Divine Kingdom was visibly fading at a speed the naked eye could follow.

Deep in the void above the divine capital, far into the depths of the stellar universe, there was a terrifying blood-red Great Dao. The path was hundreds of thousands of zhang wide, stretching straight out from the depths of the universe. Upon it, countless ancient Dao talismans drifted and swirled, ferociously suppressing the national fortune of the Chu Zhao Divine Kingdom.

At the very center of that great path stood a towering banner ten thousand zhang tall. On the banner was a single blood-red character: Tian.

The Tian Clan!

In contrast to the Chu Zhao Divine Kingdom, which had sent out all its powerhouses, the Tian Clan had dispatched only three. Three warriors clad in flame battle armor faced the entire Chu Zhao Divine Kingdom, and their combined aura completely suppressed all of the kingdom’s top-tier powerhouses.

Just then, a middle-aged man suddenly stepped out from that blood-red path. He wore a black robe and stood with his hands clasped behind his back. With each unhurried step he took, an air of absolute control emanated naturally from him.

The moment the three Tian Clan armored warriors caught sight of this man, they immediately stopped and stepped aside, then bowed to him with great reverence.

The middle-aged man looked coldly down at the top-tier powerhouses of the Chu Zhao Divine Kingdom below. He stepped forward, raised his right hand, and pressed down lightly. With just that single press, countless powerhouses of the Chu Zhao Divine Kingdom below were instantly reduced to ash. Not only that, but the entire national fortune of the Chu Zhao Divine Kingdom also began to vanish at a visibly rapid pace in that very moment.

In the blink of an eye, the national fortune of the entire Chu Zhao Divine Kingdom was on the verge of disappearing completely.

Once the national fortune vanished entirely, it would mean the destruction of the kingdom.

Sensing the national fortune of the Chu Zhao Divine Kingdom rapidly fading, countless powerhouses within the kingdom fell into despair.

Many wanted to resist, but it was all in vain. The middle-aged man’s strength completely overwhelmed them.

“Insolence!”

At that moment, a voice suddenly rang out across the heavens and earth.

In the next instant, a streak of blade light tore through the void from deep within the stellar river. In the blink of an eye, the slash ripped a massive gash through the stellar river itself. The blade radiance broke through the void and struck directly at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man slowly turned his head and extended a single finger.

Boom!

The blade radiance was shattered by that one finger, but the middle-aged man’s finger cracked as well.

In the distance, a woman holding a blade walked forward at a measured pace. Blade intent surged from her body, dominating everything in its path.

The one who had arrived was none other than Chu Zhaoxue.

Unlike before, Chu Zhaoxue at this moment was cold as ice, radiating an aura that warned all to keep their distance.

The middle-aged man looked at Chu Zhaoxue and smiled. “Worthy of being the most extraordinary talent in the history of the Chu Zhao Divine Kingdom. Given more time, you might truly have surpassed your Chu Zhao ancestors and reached that level. But unfortunately, you no longer have that chance.”

As he spoke, he suddenly laughed. “How about this, if you are willing to become my concubine, I will spare the hundreds of millions of subjects of the Chu Zhao Divine Kingdom.”

Chu Zhaoxue stared at the middle-aged man. “You think you’re worthy?”

The middle-aged man’s eyes narrowed slightly. “Then perish together with your Chu Zhao Divine Kingdom.”

As he spoke, an unknown Great Dao suddenly surged forth from the passage behind him. The moment this unknown Great Dao appeared, every powerhouse present felt a wave of dread.

Chu Zhaoxue looked at that passage. She slowly closed her eyes, and after a brief moment, she opened them again. She spread her palm open, and a beam of light rose from it, scattering into a curtain of light that spread across the heavens and earth.

Within the light curtain was the scene of her kissing Ye Tianming.

The middle-aged man laughed. “Chu Zhaoxue, what are you doing? What, you think you can rely on this man to save your Chu Zhao Divine Kingdom? You……”

“Fool!”

Chu Zhaoxue stared at the middle-aged man. “Look at his clothes.”

The middle-aged man furrowed his brow and looked at Ye Tianming’s clothes. When he saw them, his face filled with confusion. He looked back at Chu Zhaoxue. “What trick are you pulling?”

Chu Zhaoxue said mockingly, “Your rank really is too low.”

The middle-aged man flew into a sudden rage and was about to make his move, when a voice came from within the passage, “Stand down.”

The middle-aged man was startled.

At that moment, an elderly man stepped out from within the passage. He stared fixedly at Ye Tianming in the light curtain, and after a moment, he looked at Chu Zhaoxue and asked carefully, “He is……”

Chu Zhaoxue said, “He is the re-transmitted disciple of the ‘Ancient God’!!”

Her voice rang out like a clap of muffled thunder across the stellar river, and in an instant, the entire stellar river fell as silent as death.

The moment the elder heard Chu Zhaoxue’s words, fear appeared in his eyes in an instant.

The Ancient God!

This was a name that had nearly been forgotten by the world. But those of the older generation like him had still heard some of the legends, passed down to them from the mouths of their own ancestors.

The elder stared fixedly at Ye Tianming in the light curtain, his gaze fixed on the cultivator’s robe Ye Tianming wore.

The cultivator’s robe, wielder of the Great Dao.

This was the invincible legend of that era.

Now, the cultivator’s robe had appeared in the world once more.

After a long while, the elder withdrew his gaze. He took a long, deep look at Chu Zhaoxue. “Retreat.”

With that, he led the powerhouses behind him and quietly withdrew.

The middle-aged man was clearly unwilling to accept this, and immediately said, “Grand Desolation Master, why……”

“Silence!”

The elder suddenly turned his head and glared furiously at the middle-aged man. “Say one more word and I will end you.”

The middle-aged man’s face went pale, and he dared not speak another word.

Soon, the elder and his group disappeared into the blood-red path in the distance.

Chu Zhaoxue looked at Ye Tianming in the light curtain and said softly, “All cause and consequence, I, Chu Zhaoxue, am willing to bear it all on my own……. Do not vent your anger on my Chu Zhao Divine Kingdom!”

With those words, the blade in her hand shattered with a thunderous crack. What shattered was not only her blade, but also her Dao heart.

A person as proud as she was had done something that weighed so heavily on her conscience. In the end, she could not pass this inner trial of her own heart.

With her Dao heart shattered, if she could not forge it anew in this lifetime, she would never be able to advance another step on the path of martial cultivation.

On the other side.

Deep within the blood-red passage, the elder known as the Grand Desolation Master stood with a face as pale as paper, both hands trembling.

The middle-aged man, seeing this, was filled with confusion. “Grand Desolation Master, who is this ‘Ancient God’? He……”

“Silence!”

The Grand Desolation Master suddenly turned and delivered a slap.

Boom!

The middle-aged man’s physical body was directly shattered.

The Grand Desolation Master glared at him furiously. “If you dare speak His name again, I will reduce you to nothing, body and soul.”

The middle-aged man: “…….”

The Grand Desolation Master murmured as if in a daze, “The cultivator’s robe…it has appeared again……”

The middle-aged man beside him said in a trembling voice, “Grand Desolation Master…… what exactly is the cultivator’s robe? And that ‘Ancient God’, is He actually stronger than our ‘Tian Clan’? He……”

“Damn it!”

The Grand Desolation Master suddenly turned and slapped the middle-aged man’s soul directly into pieces. Even after shattering it, he was still not satisfied, and stomped down hard. “I told you not to say His name, and you just had to say it. Are you trying to get me killed? Are you trying to get me killed? What the hell is wrong with you!!”