I Am the Fated Villain

Chapter 1798. Only a True Ancestor Can Hide Things from Another True Ancestor — The Origin World Is Incomplete

The current situation within the Vast Expanse was chaotic and unstable. After pondering for a long time, Emperor Weiyang finally decided to place all his hopes on the Heaven-Defying Alliance.

And the Alliance Leader of the Heaven-Defying Alliance, Gu Changge, was also the first person he had ever encountered whom he could neither see through nor comprehend — an existence unfathomably deep.

Sending his daughter to the Heaven-Defying Alliance this time was also a tremendous gamble on his part.

The reason he dared to say all these things openly in front of Jiang Weiyang was because this place belonged to the Heaven-Defying Alliance. No matter how bold the master of Yinxu Cave was, he would not dare spy upon this place.

Therefore, to him, this was instead the safest place possible.

Inside the courtyard, Gu Changge leisurely sipped his tea while listening to Jiang Yun speak, yet he showed no hurry to respond.

Jiang Yun had not proposed cooperating with him, which actually surprised Gu Changge a little. But from this alone, it was enough to show that Jiang Yun was a smart man.

Moreover, Jiang Yun’s guess was not wrong. From beginning to end, Gu Changge had never placed the Fate Master or the Orthodox Unity Alliance in his eyes. What he had truly been considering all along were the enormous fish hidden deep beneath the surface.

A mere Fate Master — if Gu Changge wanted to deal with him, it was only a matter of whether he wished to or not.

“You saying this does indeed make me somewhat interested,” Gu Changge said as he looked toward Jiang Yun. His profound gaze seemed probing, as though trying to see through all of Jiang Yun’s thoughts.

Emperor Weiyang smiled bitterly once more.

“Alliance Leader, please rest assured. At present, this is the only method I can think of, so naturally I would never dare deceive you.”

“The master of Yinxu Cave has always believed that I would never dare resist his control over the years. But in truth, I began planning against him long ago, and I also learned many things concerning him…”

Jiang Weiyang stood quietly at the side with lowered hands. This was the first time she had ever seen her father adopt such a humble posture.

As the ruler of the Weiyang Immortal Dynasty, the fact that he was speaking this way was enough to prove that he truly had reached the end of the road and was staking everything on one final gamble.

“Then tell me your request,” Gu Changge slightly nodded.

Naturally, the master of Yinxu Cave whom Jiang Yun spoke of was the Fate Master.

In truth, learning about matters related to the Fate Master was not difficult for Gu Changge. The last time he accompanied Ji Hanjing back to the Primordial Era, he had already witnessed many of the Fate Master’s methods.

It could only be said that such methods might appear flawless in the Fate Master’s eyes, but to Gu Changge, they were merely trivial tricks, no different from children playing house.

Emperor Weiyang nodded and said solemnly,

“I wish to request that Alliance Leader destroy the Orthodox Unity Alliance.”

Upon hearing this, Jiang Weiyang was immediately shocked, though she quickly realized it was indeed reasonable.

But if outsiders were to witness this scene, they would absolutely be so stunned that they could not utter a single word.

Emperor Weiyang was the current leader of the Orthodox Unity Alliance, yet now he was asking Gu Changge to destroy the Orthodox Unity Alliance…

Gu Changge, however, was not surprised in the slightest. His deep gaze remained calm as he indifferently asked,

“And what else?”

What Jiang Yun had said was essentially meaningless, because Gu Changge was already destined to destroy the Orthodox Unity Alliance. There was no doubt about this.

“I know Alliance Leader possesses heaven-reaching abilities and is capable of anything. I only hope that Alliance Leader can allow Weiyang to see the light once more. For this, I am willing to pay any price.”

“From this day forward, the entire Weiyang Immortal Dynasty shall follow Alliance Leader’s command. Even if Jiang Yun becomes nothing more than Alliance Leader’s chess piece, I will harbor no resentment and will willingly accept it.”

Emperor Weiyang glanced toward Jiang Weiyang beside him before taking a deep breath and speaking earnestly.

His words caused Jiang Weiyang’s small mouth to part slightly in shock. She froze for a moment before her nose turned sour and her eyes reddened.

“Father, you don’t need to do this…”

She truly had not expected that, in the end, this would be Emperor Weiyang’s request.

Although she had long been blind for many years, she had already become accustomed to it.

Emperor Weiyang’s gaze softened, and he shook his head.

“In truth, Father has wronged you. Your blindness was caused by the karma I planted. Yet you were the one forced to bear the consequences.”

Jiang Weiyang stood there blankly before gently shaking her head.

“No matter what, Weiyang will never blame Father.”

As Gu Changge watched the deep affection between father and daughter, he unexpectedly found it somewhat interesting.

Today, Jiang Yun had truly surprised him time and time again. However, this sort of parental devotion was something Gu Changge himself could never understand.

“There is indeed a way for me to cure your daughter’s blindness. However, just as you said, if the information you provide is insufficient to satisfy me, then you should be able to imagine the consequences.”

He spoke indifferently.

Emperor Weiyang solemnly replied,

“Alliance Leader, please rest assured. Actually, I have long known that within the Vast Expanse, aside from the Fate Master scheming in secret, there are also many other existences of the same level lurking and watching from the shadows.”

“Those existences are extremely clever. They have always hidden themselves within the void beyond the world and rarely come into contact with the myriad realms.”

“Behind the Immortal Dao Alliance this time, there are actually connections to those existences. I suspect one of them may be Xinu, the Western Saint, one of the former leaders of the ancient sages.”

“The Xiyuan Civilization is now entirely under Alliance Leader’s control. Even the Xiyuan Sacred Hall could not escape. Yet Xinu, the founder of the Xiyuan Sacred Hall and former wielder of the Samsara Mirror, has still not shown herself.”

“After the Black Calamity ended, the Western Saint once disappeared for a period of time before later returning with the Samsara Mirror and founding the Xiyuan Sacred Hall…”

“Furthermore, the current Xiyuan Saintess has also vanished for a long time. I heard that she escaped from Alliance Leader’s hands last time. I have considered the possibility that she was secretly rescued by Xinu.”

As Emperor Weiyang eloquently voiced these speculations, he was also trying to prove his value to Gu Changge.

Gu Changge’s gaze deepened, though he neither confirmed nor denied Jiang Yun’s words.

In truth, he had always known exactly where the Xiyuan Saintess was.

Allowing her to escape previously had been intentional — he had wanted to use her as bait to lure out an even bigger fish.

Unfortunately, the fish behind her was extremely clever. It knew that the Xiyuan Saintess herself was the bait, knew that the Samsara Mirror was on her person, yet still remained patient enough not to reveal itself.

Still, Jiang Yun’s words did provide Gu Changge with some additional clues.

Although he did not care about those former leaders who once opposed the Substitute Heaven, any of those who had survived until today must certainly have come into contact with certain beings from the Primordial Era.

For example, Zhongjun — Ji Hanjing’s father — was a genuine Primordial God.

The Primordial Era was simply too ancient, ancient enough to trace back to before the birth of the Vast Expanse itself.

In truth, Gu Changge had long understood that existences such as the True Ancestors would naturally know the countless futures that would unfold after the birth of the Vast Expanse.

Which meant that some surviving remnants had deliberately been allowed to remain by one of the True Ancestors back then.

After all, only a True Ancestor could conceal things from another True Ancestor.

After the Vast Expanse was born, purity and turbidity separated.

The clear qi rose upward, forming the Origin World, while the turbid qi sank downward, becoming the Vast Expanse itself.

In truth, the origin of the calamities speculated about by later generations had always stemmed from the ideology of one of the three True Ancestors.

The Origin World was incomplete.

Therefore, calamities were necessary — constantly extracting real matter and origin matter from the Vast Expanse, refining clear qi from turbid qi, and allowing the Origin World to gradually approach completeness.

Of course, this was not Gu Changge’s ideology.

“It is true that many hidden figures stand behind the Immortal Dao Alliance. As for whether one of them is truly the Western Saint you mentioned, that still remains to be seen.”

Gu Changge withdrew his thoughts and glanced at Emperor Weiyang. He did not care much for the theory Jiang Yun had just proposed.

No matter how powerful the Western Saint was, she was ultimately only one of the ancient sages. She might be somewhat stronger than Ling Yuling at her peak, but only to a limited extent.

Gu Changge would never fear such a minor figure.

The only thing he truly cared about was this:

During the era of the Black Calamity, how exactly had the blueprint for forging the primordial civilization treasures circulated into the Vast Expanse?

The records within the Xiyuan Sacred Hall claimed that a Road’s End-level existence had moved the heavens, causing the blueprint to drift out from the Real Land.

But at that time, Gu Changge had actually already been considering how to reasonably arrange the disappearance of the Substitute Heaven Lord.

Although the appearance of the primordial civilization treasure blueprints had indeed helped Gu Changge, he found those records laughable.

Because whether it was himself or the other two True Ancestors, if they wished to eliminate a variable like the “Substitute Heaven Lord,” why would they need such trouble?

The instant they awakened, a single thought or one finger would have been enough to crush him to death.

Therefore, the story of the primordial civilization treasure blueprints emerging from the Real Land was itself an absurd lie.

People had simply imagined the Substitute Heaven Lord to be far too terrifying and powerful, believing he already possessed the qualifications to contend against the True Ancestors within the Real Land.

But all of this stemmed from the fact that Gu Changge himself had not understood the strength of the top experts within the Vast Expanse when he originally created the identity of the Substitute Heaven Lord, causing him to misjudge the scale.

In his eyes, they were all merely ants — only differing in size.

But to true ants, the Substitute Heaven Lord resembled a divine dragon hidden beyond the heavens and worlds.

Of course, by the later stages, this no longer mattered.

Gu Changge’s objective had already been achieved.

“So Alliance Leader had already made arrangements long ago…”

Upon hearing this, Emperor Weiyang was first stunned before finally reacting. Admiration immediately appeared on his face.

He too had once wondered how the Xiyuan Saintess could possibly escape from someone as invincible as Gu Changge.

But now it seemed that everything had been arranged by Gu Changge from the beginning.

If that were the case, then the Xiyuan Saintess’s whereabouts had likely always remained under Gu Changge’s control — including the already-lost Samsara Mirror as well.

Gu Changge slightly nodded and said no more.

From the current situation, Emperor Weiyang still possessed considerable value to him.

As for Jiang Weiyang’s blindness, Ji Hanjing herself would have to personally resolve it, because Jiang Weiyang was technically one of her bloodline descendants — more precisely, the descendant of her younger sister’s bloodline…

Had it not been for the curse Ji Hanjing left behind in the past, Jiang Weiyang naturally would never have become blind.

At this moment, taking advantage of the current environment and the fact that the master of Yinxu Cave could not detect them here, Emperor Weiyang also began explaining Jiang Weiyang’s origins and eye condition to her.

The Weiyang Immortal Dynasty had been established several hundred epochs ago.

Back then, it had not been called the Weiyang Immortal Dynasty, but rather the Dayang Ancient Kingdom, which had maintained close relations with the Nanzhao Ancient Kingdom throughout generations and possessed deep, powerful foundations.

The final ruler of the Dayang Ancient Kingdom was known as Emperor Yang.

Emperor Yang was cruel, incompetent, debauched, and obsessed with wine and women.

During his reign, pools of wine and forests of flesh filled the palace. Innocents were slaughtered, loyal ministers persecuted, and the people oppressed beneath brutal tyranny. All races suffered miserably under his rule.

Meanwhile, Emperor Weiyang Jiang Yun’s biological father had been a foreign-surnamed feudal lord within the Dayang Ancient Kingdom. His ancestors carried a trace of royal blood.

Unable to tolerate Emperor Yang’s tyranny, he raised troops in rebellion, but ultimately died in battle at Jiuyin Mountain.

Jiang Yun inherited his father’s cause, receiving the Mandate of Heaven and divine weapons descending from the skies.

With the assistance of his father’s remaining loyalists, he united the feudal lords and various races before finally capturing the capital of Dayang. Emperor Yang committed suicide within the palace hall.

“But where was there truly any Mandate of Heaven? All of this was merely arranged by the master of Yinxu Cave.”

“At that time, your mother happened to be the disciple of the master of Yinxu Cave. It was only because of her assistance that I barely managed to breach the capital of Dayang…”

“Later, as our feelings deepened and our bonds grew stronger, one day she could no longer endure it and finally told me about all the master of Yinxu Cave’s arrangements.”

“Though I was furious, I could do nothing. In the end, I could only watch helplessly as people from Yinxu Cave came and took her away.”

“Afterward, in order to guarantee your mother’s safety and continue seeing her from time to time, I had no choice but to acknowledge the master of Yinxu Cave as my teacher and follow him in cultivation.”

“He taught me the methods of ruling and establishing dynasties, handed over to me all the ancient records and scriptures of the former Shaking Light Ancestral Court, and had me manage and operate the Weiyang Immortal Dynasty on his behalf…”

As Jiang Yun spoke of these matters, his face carried traces of pain — but even more than that, resentment and helplessness.