Chapter 458: Action

Ants.

They can only drift with the waves stirred up by the strong.

A single careless splash could wipe out thousands upon thousands of ants.

Even as death descends, many ants do not know what has happened.

Therefore.

He, Ye Qingxuan, absolutely will not allow himself to become such an ant.

Before possessing sufficient strength, he will lie deeply dormant until the day he breaks his cocoon and becomes a butterfly.

The horrific images witnessed by his clone replayed in his mind.

Ye Qingxuan's heart was not shaken; instead, it became even more resolute.

This war is not something he can intervene in at present.

All he can do now is survive well and then grow within the shortest possible time.

To become a strong one capable of tipping the balance of a world.

After gazing at the distant horizon for a long while, waiting for his thoughts to settle into calm.

Ye Qingxuan looked again at the message sent to him by Ye Zhao before his death.

Because the distance was too great, combined with the intensified suppression of heaven and earth, he only received this message three months after Ye Zhao's fall.

At that time, he was still in seclusion cultivating, so he did not notice the message.

The content of the message was very brief.

It mainly requested that if, one day, a member of the Ye family arrived at the Qingxuan Blessed Land carrying the Ye family head's token.

Ye Qingxuan should lend the person a hand and help them rebuild the Ye family.

Seeing Ye Zhao's message and learning that someone from the Ye family had indeed escaped the calamity, and that it was Ye Zhao's arrangement.

Ye Qingxuan immediately felt a weight lift from his heart.

The Ye family had been destroyed for three years, and Ye Qingxuan had never made up his mind regarding its future.

He had thought about rebuilding the Ye family, but absolutely not by stepping forward himself to stand in the spotlight.

In any case, neither he nor Ye Qingxiao could currently leave the Profound Heaven Sect to rebuild the Ye family.

Now that Ye Zhao's final arrangements existed, Ye Qingxuan felt much more at ease.

For Ye Qingxuan.

Helping the survivors of the Ye family rebuild their clan was acceptable.

Avenging the Ye family was acceptable.

But personally appearing, leaving the Profound Heaven Sect, and rebuilding the Ye family was impossible for now.

It was not that Ye Qingxuan did not wish to wield a cultivation family through blood ties.

Rather, he felt that with his current strength, he could not protect his family in the Earthly Mystic Realm.

Moreover, the Earthly Mystic Realm was about to plunge into chaos.

Let alone him.

Even the Profound Heaven Sect could not claim it could smoothly weather the successive tribulations of the future.

Investing too much effort and emotion, yet being unable to protect and preserve the other.

When that moment arrived, it would only make him more painful and self-blaming.

Ye Qingxuan no longer wished to experience such things.

Just like this time, when the Ye family was suddenly destroyed.

Although there was sadness in his heart, it was not intense; what dominated was anger at the destruction of the Ye family.

Because he had left the Ye family at twelve, his bonds with them were extremely thin, so his heart held no great sorrow.

But if he had cultivated in the Ye family from childhood until now, if his parents and brothers still lived there, if the Ye family had been built by his own hands.

Under such circumstances, once the Ye family was destroyed, he would absolutely fall into unspeakable grief.

He might even, for the sake of revenge.

In his rage, directly storm into the Green Demon Realm to seek vengeance against the Green Demon Clan.

Therefore, to avoid such a situation occurring, to avoid the things he cared about dissipating again while he was powerless.

To prevent the rise and fall of external things from affecting his emotions and state of mind, delaying his pursuit of the Immortal Dao.

Ye Qingxuan has always tried to avoid forming karmic ties with others, especially emotional ones.

Unless necessary, he does not easily invest too much emotion in strangers.

Even regarding the Ye family.

After his parents in this world perished, he only provided resources to support the Ye family and did not invest too much emotion in them.

What he feared was the recurrence of the situation from three years ago.

This was also the reason he had never sought a Dao companion, never married or had children.

Perhaps one day, when he treads upon the peak of the world.

He will marry and have children; he will create a supreme Ye family in some place, passing it down forever.

But that will absolutely not be now, nor will it be in this world.

Because the level of this world is ultimately too low; one day he will still have to leave.

He does not wish to experience that powerless separation again.

Since descending into this world.

Except before his parents in this life.

At all other times, he has perhaps always been uneasy and lonely.

After his own relatives passed away, this feeling in his heart grew even more intense.

Yet all of this, he kept deeply hidden within his heart.

Therefore, he subconsciously sought to escape or avoid such a situation happening again.

His pursuit of the Immortal Dao and power, besides wanting to secure an eternal position for himself,

was also to protect what he wished to protect.

To ensure he would no longer do anything with lingering doubts as he did now.

Freedom of body and mind.

That is true great freedom.

Slightly closing his eyes, after adjusting his state of mind,

Ye Qingxuan sent a message to Ye Qingxiao, asking him to search for surviving members of the Ye family around Daoguang Commandery.

Although Ye Zhaojun had made arrangements before his passing,

the teleportation arrays were now unusable, and chaos had already engulfed all regions.

Ye Zhaojun's arrangements might not be realized.

Currently, Ye Qingxiao served as the Patrol Envoy in Daoguang Commandery, assisting in the inspection of the entire commandery.

Asking him to keep an eye out for signs of surviving Ye family members active around Daoguang Commandery was the best choice.

As for himself?

Regarding the rebuilding of the Ye family, before finding the surviving members, he had no better plan.

But regarding the Green Demon Clan, he did not intend to let them off.

Although the Green Demon that annihilated the Ye family had not invaded Daoguang Commandery through the wormhole passage again in these years,

it did not mean he could not trouble other members of the Green Demon Clan.

Especially after witnessing through the perspective of his avatars the dire plight faced by mortal humans following the Green Demon Clan's invasion in recent years,

he felt no pity whatsoever for the Green Demon Clan in his heart.

Only slaughter could quell the anger that had accumulated in his heart during this time.

This was a life-and-death war between two worlds and two great races.

Once failed, it would mean the world being swallowed and one's own race annihilated; no one could remain an onlooker.

As a being of the Earthly Profound Realm and a human cultivator, even if his main body would not appear to fight,

his avatars scattered across the Earthly Profound Realm could act without restraint.

To contribute a part of strength for the human race and the Earthly Profound Realm.

Ye Qingxuan had already made his decision.

Except for the avatars needed to guard cities and maintain specific strongholds,

all other avatars would be sent into the Green Demon Realm.

First, to scout the situation in the Green Demon Realm and prepare for future decisions.

Second, to hunt down vast numbers of Green Demons and destroy the environment of the Green Demon Realm; while weakening the heavenly and earthly laws of that realm, they could also acquire vast resources to enhance the Grotto-Heavens and Blessed Lands.

Although his avatars possessed limited spiritual power and could only briefly unleash the combat strength of the Void Penetration realm,

he did not intend to send his avatars into the Green Demon Realm to hunt down Green Demons of the Void Penetration realm.

Since the Void Penetration experts of the Green Demon Clan could strike against low-level human cultivators and even mortals,

then he, naturally, would not speak of benevolence or righteousness.

A flash of cold light passed through Ye Qingxuan's eyes, and his heart stirred.

His numerous avatars scattered across the Earthly Profound Realm all began to move.

(End of Chapter)