Chapter 181: Three Conditions

After saying all that, we just can't deal with those three, so we should obediently wait to die?" Hong Liang asked impatiently, fear already making him feel uncomfortable. For Hong Liang, he had just completed a major matter concerning their Hong Sect, changing the history of the big and small Hong Sect; after finally stabilizing everything, when he could finally achieve something, this issue came up, leaving him unable to accept.

At this moment, everyone's gaze turned to the Royal Ancestor, their eyes filled with hope, anticipating a miracle.

The Royal Ancestor smiled and said to everyone, "They are at the Seventh Heaven Great Completion; as long as one reaches or surpasses this realm, they can defeat them and stop everything."

That's pure fantasy; in three months, surpassing the Seventh Heaven Great Completion is utterly impossible!

Even Chen Yi He, who believes in miracles, felt there was no sign of any success.

Therefore, the three with the greatest hope are undoubtedly Dongfang Wuji, Elder Zhang, and the Royal Ancestor himself.

The Royal Ancestor seemed to see through everyone's thoughts, giving a bitter smile and shaking his head, saying, "I've only just entered the Seventh Heaven, at its early stage; compared to the Great Completion, there's a gap of several hundred or even a thousand years—don't pin your hopes on me."

"What about Zhang Huayu?" Yan Shan Hai asked. Yan Shan Hai's question now ignored friend or foe, even bringing Elder Zhang onto the table without asking if he was willing.

"His cultivation is on par with mine."

"Then Dongfang Wuji is still far behind?"

"Indeed."

Chen Yi He sighed, "Even you three are off by hundreds or thousands of years; even giving us tens of thousands of years wouldn't be enough." He then suddenly asked the Royal Ancestor, "You've told us all this—are you just saying these things? You must have a way."

The Royal Ancestor gave a slight smile and praised Chen Yi He, "Young brother, good thinking! No wonder you could rise to the position of Chief of the Jianghu Grand Alliance."

Hearing the Royal Ancestor say that, everyone felt as if they had seen a dawn, looking at him with great anticipation.

"But I have three demands; if they aren't met, I'd rather everyone perish together." The Royal Ancestor suddenly shifted tone, speaking of the demands, revealing the old fox's nature once again.

Chen Yi He immediately felt a bad premonition welling up in his heart.

The Royal Ancestor's purpose was very clear.

This time it was the turn of the ten top leaders of the Jianghu Grand Alliance to make a decision; they never expected the Royal Ancestor to propose conditions at such a critical moment.

"Chief, what do you say?" The speaker was Duan Sheng again; unbeknownst when, Duan Sheng had become the initiator who opens the topic.

Chen Yi He didn't know what to say; although he had no concept of saving all living beings, he knew that if he did nothing, the entire Heavenly Peace Continent would be destroyed along with everything else.

Chen Yi He didn't realize when it started, but he had already come to see himself as someone living here; he was almost forgetting the name of the book "Marvelous Martial Arts Great Chaos." He even wanted to forget that he was merely a senior high school student preparing for college entrance exams, that he had a family in reality with loving parents, and that his school had a crush he liked.

"If I die here, will I come back to life in the real world?" Chen Yi He silently asked himself.

At this moment, Chen Yi He recalled the "other self" living inside his body—a silent, bottomless black hole with no response.

That day, in the Eastern Sea, Chen Yi He awakened it, paying a great price in exchange for its intervention—the condition was sacrificing ten years of his life.

As long as he could save Dongfang Xing, what were ten years of life?

Dongfang Xing? She would also die, so they couldn't get married.

She would never wait for the day he marries her.

"Chief?" Seeing Chen Yi He lost in thought, Duan Sheng urged him for an answer.

"Sect Master Yan, what do you say?" Chen Yi He simply passed the question to Yan Shan Hai.

As the second-in-command and actual controller of the Jianghu Grand Alliance, Yan Shan Hai had an inescapable duty to answer this question.

Yan Shan Hai also found it difficult, asking the Royal Ancestor, "What are the three conditions? Can you tell us?"

The Royal Ancestor kept shaking his head, merely smiling, "I've lived long enough; countless people have accompanied me, and this journey in the mortal world has been worthwhile. But I must say, to defeat those three, if my proposed method is to be completed, it will be extremely arduous, with even a very low chance of success." The Royal Ancestor's words were clear and plain.

"Damn, that's deceitful." Chen Yi He silently cursed.

"Allow us a night to think, and we'll give you an answer tomorrow morning—can we?" Yan Shan Hai asked the Royal Ancestor again.

"Fine." Before the words even faded, the Royal Ancestor vanished before everyone's eyes at an unimaginable speed. Yet even such a figure could not deal with those three who had escaped the Heavenly Dao.

……

Chen Yi He, together with nine others, sat on the floor of the main hall's great palace. They convened the first meeting of the Jianghu Grand Alliance.

The dragon throne on the high platform stood silently there; the two golden true dragons on its armrests glared down at the crowd below.

"What do you all say?" This time, without waiting for Duan Sheng to speak, Chen Yi He took the initiative. This ball, he wanted to kick it out first.

"We'll just follow the Chief's lead; worst case, we die—what's there to fear?" Chen Yi He never expected that his ball, not yet kicked, would be kicked back to him by Duan Sheng.

"Hahaha! My goodness, you're making things difficult for me—I can't bring you all to die with me!" Chen Yi He spread his hands helplessly.

"Everyone, stop pressuring the Chief to decide; he's still young, so everyone just give ideas." The Western Desert Sword Demon said, he rarely lost his temper and even spoke up for Chen Yi He.

"Amitabha, good, good, the poor monk thinks we can give it a try." Monk Leshi said.

"I think the same; anyway, it's a dead end—better to take the initiative than wait to be slaughtered." Nun Shang Rong said firmly, "I just don't know what conditions the Royal Ancestor has."

"When that time comes, it won't be up to him; if we can beat those three, why fear him?" Hu Bao countered.

"I think the same; why not give it a try? Saving all living beings, in the future, won't it just become a beautiful tale told by later generations?" Seeing that several people had voiced their opinions, Chen Yi He no longer held back, "Let's give it a shot—what do you all think?"

Chen Yi He mainly wanted to see just what divine being or what divine weapon could stand against the trio of the Heavenly Dao.

Could it be the Palace Master of the Five Absolutes Palace? That's the only person he could think of.