Chapter 318

Chapter 318: Qin Guan, A True God!

After witnessing the terrifying power of Ye Tianming’s Sentient Beings Ranking, Xu Tianzhu realized he absolutely could not let Ye Tianming leave.

Once Ye Tianming was allowed to leave, he would inevitably become a great enemy in the future.

He had to die!

At this moment, he wanted Ye Tianming dead even more than the Yang family did.

So when he heard Ye Tianming say he was going to exile him, he stepped forward without hesitation.

You think you can just walk away?

No way!

But the moment he finished speaking, a gaze suddenly turned toward him.

Xu Tianzhu turned to look at the woman in the plain skirt. His eyes narrowed slightly, and in that instant, he charged straight toward her.

He decided to strike first.

Thud!

To everyone’s utter disbelief, Xu Tianzhu, who had been charging at the woman in the plain skirt, dropped to his knees right then and there.

Everyone was stunned.

Xu Tianzhu himself was stunned.

What was going on?

Why had he just knelt?

The woman in the plain skirt looked at Xu Tianzhu calmly, her gaze as if looking at an ant.

Xu Tianzhu stared at her with complete disbelief, his heart gripped by an extreme terror.

Fear!

This was a feeling he had never experienced in his entire life.

As a peak-level cultivator of the Circle-Drawing Realm, he had always considered himself to be at the ceiling of this universe. He wouldn’t claim to be invincible across the entire universe, but in his view, the number of people who could defeat him, Xu Tianzhu, was very few, and as for anyone who could actually kill him — that was simply impossible!

And yet at this moment…

He knew the woman before him was no ordinary cultivator, but he hadn’t expected her to be this terrifying.

Not just Xu Tianzhu — everyone around was left completely dumbstruck.

That was Xu Tianzhu!

The current master of the Divine Arrival Grounds… had been suppressed into kneeling just like that?

Absolutely absurd!

Ye Tianming glanced at the woman in the plain skirt but said nothing.

The woman in the plain skirt turned to look at Ye Tianming, and as her gaze landed on him, a trace of softness had crept in without her even noticing.

Ye Tianming remained silent. He suddenly realized that even if he reached beyond the Circle-Drawing Realm, he probably still couldn’t beat the person standing before him.

And at this moment, everyone in the field was also looking at Ye Tianming.

The Sentient Beings Ranking!

This was undeniably too heaven-defying.

It could be said that once Ye Tianming’s mortal body broke through again and became capable of bearing the power of faith from hundreds of billions of sentient beings, at that point, forget the Yang family — there would be very few people in the entire universe who could suppress him.

The Yang family!

Everyone thought of the Yang family again, and they all looked up toward the void above, wondering how that father and son were getting along.

Somewhere in the void, the Azure-Robed Sword Master and the Mortal Sword Master walked side by side, father and son.

The Mortal Sword Master spoke first. “Father, I know that what those people down there did wasn’t your intention. For you, things like power and the masses no longer hold much meaning.”

The man in the azure robe laughed softly but said nothing.

The Mortal Sword Master continued, “But you knew what they were doing, didn’t you?”

The man in the azure robe turned to look at the Mortal Sword Master and smiled. “Son, can you say more?”

The man in the azure robe thought for a moment, then smiled and said, “I’ve never felt the need to explain myself to anyone my whole life. If anyone else asked, I wouldn’t even bother giving them the time of day. But since it’s you asking, I’ll have a little chat with you.”

With that, he glanced downward. “First, this whole business of establishing order was something you and little Guanzi were working on. I didn’t agree with it before, but because of you two, I didn’t oppose it either. But do you know what order truly means?”

The Mortal Sword Master smiled. “Go ahead, Father.”

The man in the azure robe said, “In his final moments, little Guanzi realized the greatest flaw in his order, so he needed someone to help him keep that order in check. But do you think the Sentient Beings Law has no flaws? That little fellow made the Sentient Beings Law public and established the Sentient Beings Ranking, claiming it was to restrain the Yang family’s power and order. But who is there to restrain him, Ye Tianming?”

The Mortal Sword Master’s brow furrowed. In that moment, he was beginning to understand.

The Azure-Robed Sword Master smiled. “He’s now made the Sentient Beings Law public, giving all sentient beings the power to disregard realm boundaries. But he’s overlooked one very important thing — he and his teacher have sufficient cultivation and mental discipline to wield the Sentient Beings Law, but the masses do not. If you suddenly give people power that doesn’t match their state of mind, what do you think will happen?”

The Mortal Sword Master fell silent.

Very often, when people from the bottom suddenly gain power, the result is far more terrifying.

Because they never had it before, never enjoyed it before. Once they suddenly have the ability to obtain and enjoy it… they will be more frenzied than anyone.

The Azure-Robed Sword Master smiled. “He wants to restrain my Yang family, yet he never thought about restraining the masses. Are unrestrained masses not frightening? Of course, given his talent and intelligence, he’ll surely figure that out in the future. But the problem is, he and my Yang family have no ties of kinship whatsoever. Why should the Yang family go all out to help him? That makes no sense, does it?”

The Mortal Sword Master nodded. “Father, I understand now.”

With everyone now cultivating the Sentient Beings Law, it was undeniably a serious blow to the Yang family’s order, because not everyone would make good use of it.

The Mortal Sword Master suddenly looked at the Azure-Robed Sword Master and smiled. “Father, all these years you and my elder brother have been out there — did you ever meet any worthy opponents?”

The Azure-Robed Sword Master laughed heartily. “There was a fellow called the Ancestral God who was pretty decent. Your brother and I once exchanged blows with him across time and space… oh right, he actually has some connection to that fellow down there…”

The Mortal Sword Master glanced down at Ye Tianming. “With him?”

The Azure-Robed Sword Master nodded.

The Mortal Sword Master suddenly said, “Father, what do you think of this kid?”

The Azure-Robed Sword Master glanced down at Ye Tianming, then broke into a smile. “You’ve been going around in circles just to bring your old man to this point.”

The Mortal Sword Master said earnestly, “Father, both my grandson and I owe Qing’er a great debt…”

The Azure-Robed Sword Master suddenly said something.

Upon hearing it, the Mortal Sword Master was immediately stunned.

The Azure-Robed Sword Master smiled. “You foolish son, do you really think your old man has absolutely no sense of the bigger picture?”

The Mortal Sword Master’s expression grew complicated. “Father…”

The Azure-Robed Sword Master said, “I know you don’t want the Yang family and Tianming to have a falling out at this point. Simple enough — from now on, you take charge of the Yang family. Everything will be your call. How about it?”

The Mortal Sword Master smiled.

Father and son, both full of schemes.

The Azure-Robed Sword Master smiled. “Are you doing it or not? If you do it, you can control the situation. If you don’t, both Tianming and I have explosive tempers, and at that point, things could really go in any direction.”

The Mortal Sword Master nodded. “I’ll do it.”

The Azure-Robed Sword Master laughed heartily. “Alright, from this moment on, you are the one steering the Yang family.”

Saying that, he paused, then added, “Don’t blame your Aunt Su and the others. They don’t crave power or anything like that. They just wanted to extend the Yang family’s fortune for another generation… it’s just that they don’t understand — our Yang family’s fortune was already spent in little Guanzi’s generation.”

With that, he slowly turned and looked around, saying softly, “The era of the Yang family has finally come to an end.”

The Yang family rose with Yang Ye and ended with Ye Guan.

He could naturally accept this with equanimity, but not every member of the Yang family could.

The era of the Yang family was over!

When the Mortal Sword Master heard those words, he too felt a wave of emotion. Back then, when his own era ended, he had thought the Yang family’s era would end with it — yet he never expected his son to extend the Yang family’s fortune for another generation.

But after his son…

The moment he saw Ye Tianming establish the Sentient Beings Ranking, he had truly come to realize that the future no longer belonged to the Yang family.

The Azure-Robed Sword Master suddenly gently patted the Mortal Sword Master on the shoulder and smiled. “No family lasts forever. The Yang family will eventually become a thing of the past. What comes next is up to you. As for Yang Jia…”

He shook his head slightly. “Honestly, this kid has disappointed all of us a little… forget it, for little Guanzi’s sake, I’ll go have another talk with that fellow.”

With that, he flicked his sleeve, and Yang Jia was instantly transported before them.

Yang Jia’s mood was low.

The Azure-Robed Sword Master fixed his gaze on Yang Jia. “From start to finish, you couldn’t even measure up to a single finger of Ye Tianming’s.”

The moment those words landed, Yang Jia’s body began to tremble.

The Azure-Robed Sword Master smiled. “Does it feel like your great-great-grandfather is being cruel? But this is the truth.”

Yang Jia lowered his head, not daring to speak.

The Azure-Robed Sword Master said quietly, “Do you know what our greatest disappointment in you is? It’s not that you couldn’t beat Ye Tianming. Being defeated by someone else is not shameful. Do you know what is truly shameful? It’s being a sore loser! My greatest disappointment in you is that when they told you to go and seize the Sentient Beings Ranking, you actually agreed.”

Yang Jia slowly raised his head to look at the Azure-Robed Sword Master, who shook his head. “Did you build that? You didn’t build it! Since you didn’t build it, what were you going to steal? If it were me, even if someone offered it to me as a gift, I wouldn’t want it. And yet there you were, shamelessly going to steal it.”

Yang Jia said in a trembling voice, “But the power of faith belongs to our Yang family…”

“What utter nonsense!”

The Azure-Robed Sword Master said bluntly, “Just now, my conversation with your grandfather was from the standpoint of our Yang family. But now, let’s stand on the side of fairness — do you think that without our Yang family, all these sentient beings would have no way to survive? Perhaps without our Yang family, they’d actually live better!”

Yang Jia was completely dumbstruck.

The Azure-Robed Sword Master continued, “Don’t take yourself or our Yang family too seriously. This universe will go on existing without us… I think the one who truly deserves to be exiled is not Ye Tianming, but you. And stop going around challenging people to fights — you may not care about losing face, but I do…”

With that, he looked at the Mortal Sword Master. “Find a place to exile him. If he still can’t amount to anything, then there’s no point in continuing the exile. Also, I think that eldest girl is quite good — tell her to stop wandering around out there and come back to take charge of the Guanxuan Universe. And the people down there have pretty limited vision and perspective — tell Qin Guan and the True God girl to come back and manage things. Tell them it’s my order.”