Evil Venerable of the Sword Dao

Yanyan and Hou Chen nodded at the same time, but they only hugged Zhou Yan even tighter.

At this moment, Zhou Sisi also appeared.

Beside Zhou Sisi stood the girl who had once been incomparably cute and incomparably beautiful, Lin Xuefei.

It was just that now, Lin Xuefei had truly grown up; tall and slender, incomparably beautiful, worthy of being called a true Extraordinary Woman.

Only, now, Lin Xuefei no longer clung to Zhou Yan like she had in the past; instead, she only watched from afar, with visible sorrow deep in her eyes.

"Father King, don’t worry. Yanyan can clearly feel that Mother and the others are still alive, still here. One day, they will definitely come back."

Yanyan choked up. Never had there been a moment when she felt so relaxed, so at ease, as in this one.

All the suffering had become the past; the family seemed to have ushered in a complete happiness.

But the lives that perished were immeasurably many.

Zhou Yan took a deep breath, nodded, and said, "I know, and I can sense it as well. It’s just a pity that so many lives were lost because of this Destruction catastrophe."

"Father, with your current ability, leading the Human Clan to prosperity is no longer as hopeless as it once was. Now, we might still find it difficult, but we’ve already taken an excellent step compared to the past, haven’t we?"

Hou Chen spoke excitedly.

The change in the timeline had been witnessed by all living beings. With the Strength of Hou Chen and Yanyan, they could more or less comprehend the Tao within it, so they understood, only they were not as powerful as Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan nodded and said, "Chenchen, Yanyan, and Sisi, you’re right. Now, we’ve already taken the most difficult step. We’re only one step away from the final beauty. And Father King will certainly create a perfect place to live, changing all those unreasonable and cruel rules of the strong preying on the weak..."

Zhou Yan spoke with certainty.

Perhaps he had still felt a little lost before, but now, after seeing his loved ones, that little bit of confusion had completely vanished.

In its place was a powerful aura that pressed ever forward, an Endless and mighty conviction.

With such belief, Zhou Yan walked into the interior of the ancient castle.

Hou Chen, Zhou Sisi, and Yanyan, as well as Lin Xuefei, all followed beside Zhou Yan.

Inside the ancient castle, all the scenes were very similar to those places they had experienced in the past. The layout was like that of the Elf Territory, yet also resembled the style of the Great Zhou family. In every aspect, there were similarities, so that as soon as he entered the ancient castle, Zhou Yan truly felt as if he had returned to his own home.

His heart felt warm; that taut emotion was completely released.

He exhaled a long, turbid breath, and then he saw Zhou Gucheng, Zhou Qianqian, Jia Yongheng, Yun Shi, Ye Xu, and many other familiar presences appear.

These were the final foundations of the Human Clan.

Among them, Zhou Yan even saw Ji Wu—or rather, Wu Ji—who had also been unsealed because of Lee Ran’s situation.

And among these people, Zhou Yan naturally also saw Hong Yuqiao, saw Zhao Xiaoxiao, saw Qin Ruyu and the others. These beauties were just as they had been in the past; only now they were all very mature, having endured the hardships of the years. Even if their faces remained as before, their hearts were almost weathered with vicissitudes.

If there were no feelings, the Mental State would not age, and the years would not grow so old.

But how could such experiences not leave a deep ravine in the heart of every Cultivator?

"Zhou Yan... Evil Venerate."

After a long time, Qin Ruyu came to stand before Zhou Yan, then stretched out her incomparably beautiful pale hand to gently caress his cheek.

In that instant, the scene fell utterly silent.

Zhou Yan did not stop her; he even took the initiative to hold Qin Ruyu’s hand.

Qin Ruyu’s hand stroked Zhou Yan’s face, and her hand kept trembling.

In the end, her tears fell like rain.

Qin Ruyu was like this, Zhao Xiaoxiao was like this, and Yun Shiyin was the same.

As for Hong Yuqiao, he only sighed again and again.

Now, all former conflicts were no longer conflicts. After what they had gone through with the timeline, the bad memories had been washed away, shattered and erased.

So what remained were all reasonable, perfect memories.

And as Zhou Yan repaired his own memories, he also made corresponding changes; the corresponding Tao Establishment was thus borne upon him under such circumstances.

Thus, he and these Extraordinary Women still shared some past that was either intimate or ambiguous, but it went no further than that.

"Th–this really isn’t an illusion, nor is it the True Void."

Qin Ruyu’s voice was somewhat choked.

"Zhou Yan..."

Lin Xuefei also softly called out his name under her breath, her beautiful eyes slightly reddened.

The scene fell silent again for a moment. Zhou Yan clasped Qin Ruyu’s hands and placed them in his own palms, then looked at everyone present and said, "Everything is real. We truly crossed that Endless suffering, found the endpoint of fate, broke through fate’s shackles, and lived out the Heaven and Earth we have now!"

"Moreover, I have now become a true Tao Establishment, capable of creating an existence comparable to the Time Ancient Land."

"However, even if I can create everything, even if I can create life, what has disappeared, what has died, is still ultimately dead. Our family and friends are already eternally sleeping in the cold, desolate Void outside the timeline, never to return..."

Zhou Yan’s deep voice brought many Cultivators to tears.

This sort of situation is true grief, grief for all the dead of the Human Clan, for all the Life Races that have perished.

...

After a long time, the atmosphere on the scene gradually began to improve.

And Zhou Yan also engaged in very deep conversations with the friends present about the present and the past; amidst small talk, unconsciously, the hearts of these friends once again became interwoven.

Because of this, the time Zhou Yan spent with them even exceeded a week.

Yet Zhou Yan did not feel it troublesome; every sentence, every expression, all came from his true heart, and with the utmost sincerity of his own, he repaid these family and friends.

Afterwards, Zhou Yan calmed the hearts of all the surviving Cultivators, and established an entirely new set of Cultivation rules, so that the Tao of Cultivation would be more attuned to this Purple Flame Ancient Land.

Between one person’s heart and another’s, things also became more natural, more intimate.

This time, in Creating Dao, Zhou Yan employed the inheritance model of the Natural Elf Race, a genuine "establishing Tao upon the Origin of emotion."

Zhou Yan knew that even if there were desires or conflicts, if Tao was established upon emotion, then there would arise a true good and evil.

With true good and evil, only then could the Purple Flame Ancient Land truly possess a future.

After adding in the rule of construing natural compassion, that kind of Order in which all hearts are united as one caused the Purple Flame Ancient Land to resemble an Eternal, perfectly flawless kingdom.

Only after these changes appeared did the Purple Flame Ancient Land truly begin to flourish.

In this way, although Zhou Yan’s own energy consumption became all the more severe and all the more cruel, nurturing these harmonious and beautiful clansmen still filled Zhou Yan with incomparable comfort.

Zhou Yan was like a Life Ancient Tree, with Endless Life Ancient Trees growing upon his body; the more luxuriant these Life Ancient Trees became, the more withered he himself would grow.

This was also the reason why the Pan Emperor and Soul Emperor wished to cut down the other existences of the Evil Venerate Realm—to use the energy Origin of those other Evil Venerate Realm existences to propagate their race.

Now, Zhou Yan was doing this by relying on himself.

This would not only make him grow weaker, it might also cause accidents because his Strength fell below that of the Pan Emperor and Soul Emperor; yet Zhou Yan did not care in the least.

This was not short-sightedness, but rather because his heart had truly grown calm and peaceful.

The shackles within his heart also relaxed and dissolved, gradually fusing seamlessly with his heart of establishing Tao.

In this manner, ten days had already passed.

In truth, now there was no so‑called "day," no so‑called concept of time.

Yet the flow of time is, in the end, ever onward without return.

After ten days, Zhou Yan left this ancient and warm castle-like place alone, quietly seeking out the small Chaos Lake formed from discarded Memory Fragments; at this time, Lee Ran quietly followed.

These days, Lee Ran’s condition had not been very stable; he had been silently in Cultivation, recovering, and had not taken the initiative to speak with Zhou Yan.

Now, as Zhou Yan departed, Lee Ran followed; Zhou Yan thus felt a faint sensing in his heart, selected a tranquil place, and waited there for Lee Ran’s arrival.

After but a brief moment, Lee Ran had already appeared at Zhou Yan’s side.

If one were to say that, in the world as it now was, anyone could still engage in deep conversation with Zhou Yan, holding nothing back, it would be Lee Ran alone.

After Lee Ran appeared, he did not speak directly, but instead took out an item from between his brows—a blood-colored Crystal Coffin.

This blood-colored Crystal Coffin had now lost its blood hue, becoming incomparably transparent.

It seemed as though it had lost something very important.

As Lee Ran handed it out, Zhou Yan reached out to receive it, then let the Strength of his ultimate Evil Venerate Realm surge forth in his hand.

"Weng—"

The Crystal Coffin did not so much as tremble, without the slightest damage.

Lee Ran’s pupils narrowed slightly; after a moment of silence, he said, "Zhou Yan, your Strength now—is it the Evil Venerate Realm?"

Lee Ran’s question was very serious.

Zhou Yan nodded and said, "Correct. It is the strongest Realm in the Void above this Plane—the Evil Venerate Realm."

"If that is so, then why... are we still unable to see through this Crystal Coffin?"

Lee Ran had no intention of interrogating Zhou Yan; instead he spoke as though murmuring to himself.

"Could it be that it is like an ordinary person being unable to crush an ordinary stone? Then what is the underlying principle?"

Lee Ran continued to mutter to himself.

Only, it was evident that he was not very satisfied with his own Derivation.

"Perhaps I have overlooked something. No—one should say we have overlooked something."

Lee Ran said in contemplation.

Zhou Yan was silent for a moment, then said, "The alteration of the time axis? Or perhaps the origin of this Crystal Coffin?"

"Yes, both aspects! Zhou Yan, you know that the passage of time segments themselves is irreversible; thus the time that occurs within the time axis possesses what is called a ’sequence,’ and our experiences, clearly, in this ’sequence,’ contain an error."

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