Chapter 643: Personal Descent?!

"Scheming?" Di Jun froze for a moment.

"Do you really think that, relying on themselves alone, they could break the seal Bai Ze laid down and the restrictions of the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array?"

Di Jun was struck as if by lightning.

That's right!

The Sun Star Palace's defenses — even a Quasi-Sage would find them hard to shake.

How could those ten infants, just born not long ago, possibly have gotten out?

"Who?!" Di Jun's killing intent boiled over in an instant.

"I don't know." Gu Yuan shook his head. "Perhaps it's the Witch Clan, or perhaps it's some Saints who don't want to see our Yao Clan faring well."

"However, pursuing this now holds no meaning." Gu Yuan's gaze fell upon Kuafu.

"Di Jiang played this move beautifully. He used one Kuafu's life to exchange for the entire Witch Clan's prestige — this deal was profitable."

"Then what should we do?" Di Jun asked subconsciously.

"What to do?" Gu Yuan smiled, that smile appearing somewhat sinister on his pale face.

"Elder Brother, do you think these ten little brats are your sons, or the Heavenly Court's Crown Princes?"

Di Jun replied without hesitation: "They are both Our sons and the Heavenly Court's Crown Princes!"

"Wrong." Gu Yuan shook his head. "From the moment they flew out of the Southern Heavenly Gate and brought calamity to the Great Wasteland, they were merely the Heavenly Court's Crown Princes."

"And when a Crown Prince breaks the law, he is punished the same as a commoner."

Di Jun's pupils contracted sharply.

He vaguely understood Gu Yuan's meaning, yet dared not believe it.

"Younger Brother, you mean..."

"Isn't Kuafu chasing the suns? Then let him chase." The corner of Gu Yuan's mouth hooked into a cold arc.

"We not only won't stop him, we'll help him."

"Issue Elder Brother's Heavenly Emperor's Edict, proclaiming it to the Great Wasteland."

"First, severely condemn the ten sons for lacking virtue, descending to the mortal realm without permission, bringing disaster to the living. To uphold heavenly law, We as Heavenly Emperor must uphold justice at the cost of kinship — list these ten sons as Our Heavenly Court's number one most wanted criminals!"

"Second, commend the Witch Clan's Great Witch Kuafu for sacrificing his life for righteousness, eliminating harm for the people. Our Yao Clan Heavenly Court will fully support his righteous act. And dispatch the Yao Clan's Divine Archers to lend him a hand."

"Help him?" Di Jun cried out involuntarily. "Help him kill My sons?"

"Who said kill them?" Gu Yuan countered leisurely. "Just wound them so they can't fly, make them fall, then capture them and bring them back to the Heavenly Court. Outside the Southern Heavenly Gate, before all living beings of the Great Wasteland, publicly execute them."

"Break their legs, cripple their wings, then throw them into the Eighteen Layers of Hell to serve a sentence of a hundred thousand years."

Gu Yuan's voice was light, but every word was like a poison-tipped knife stabbing into Di Jun's heart.

"Elder Brother, do you want to save ten bear cubs' legs, or save the entire Yao Clan's lives?"

Di Jun froze in place, face deathly pale, lips trembling violently.

He looked at Gu Yuan's pair of eyes, calm without a single ripple, and for the first time felt a chill rising from his soul.

Ruthless.

Too ruthless.

This was not only ruthless to enemies, but even more ruthless to his own people, to his own nephews!

Yet he had to admit, this was the only way to instantly reverse the situation, even counter Di Jiang's entire army — an extinction-of-lineage stratagem!

"Report——!!!"

Just at this time, Ji Meng, covered in blood, stumbled into the great hall and dropped to one knee.

"Oracle to the Emperor! Great Emperor Taiyi! The Youming Underworld... something major has happened!"

"Speak!" A foreboding premonition surged in Di Jun's heart.

"All the Witch Clan ghost soldiers and strongmen inside the Underworld have suddenly turned traitor! They smashed the Wangchuan River's embankments and released the million evil ghosts of the Eighteen Layers of Hell!"

Ji Meng's voice trembled. "The entire Underworld has been completely paralyzed. Countless evil ghosts and vengeful spirits are currently assaulting the Underworld Merit Bureau established at the Southern Heavenly Gate. White Ze is leading the Star River naval forces in a desperate defense, requesting the Emperor to swiftly dispatch reinforcements!"

Inside the great hall, a deathly silence.

Fuxi, Kunpeng, and the other Yao Gods only felt a cold qi rush from the soles of their feet straight to their crowns.

Too ruthless!

Ten suns hanging in the sky creating killing karma in the yang world, the Underworld erupting in the yin world to sever the foundation.

This is a pincer attack from above and below, aiming to cut off the Heavenly Court's lineage!

"What a Di Jiang. What a going-with-the-flow."

The corner of Gu Yuan's mouth hooked into an arc; not only was he not panicked, he even revealed a trace of admiration. "Seizing the opportunity the Saints created, instantly unleashing a fatal combo. This is the bearing the First of the Ancestral Witches should have."

"Younger Brother! Now is not the time to praise the enemy!" Di Jun was anxious like ants on a hot pan. "Save the lower realm, and the Underworld will be completely seized by the Witch Clan — the ghost currency economic network we previously laid out will collapse entirely. Save the Underworld, and the killing karma those ten rebellious sons created in the lower realm is enough to summon heavenly retribution thunder punishment!"

"This is forcing Us into a dead end of choosing one of two!"

Di Jun's eyes were bloodshot, the veins on the back of his hand gripping the Imperial Sword bulging.

Whichever he chose, the Yao Clan would have to shed a layer of skin. And as a father, he could not possibly watch his sons die with eyes wide open.

"Choose one of two?"

Gu Yuan threw off the fox fur robe on his body and slowly stood up.

The servant girls hurried forward to support him, but he waved them back.

He walked to the center of the great hall, raised his head, and looked at that wailing Qi Luck Golden Dragon. In his clear eyes flashed a trace of heart-palpitating madness and coldness.

"Only children make choices. I want it all."

"Younger Brother, what method do you have?"

Gu Yuan did not answer directly, but turned his head to look at Fuxi: "Sheep Emperor, in the Heavenly Court treasury, the formation core of those ten thousand 'Profound Light Water Mirrors' — is it ready?"

Fuxi froze, subconsciously nodding: "Ready. As Your Highness instructed, once activated, it can achieve 'Full Great Wasteland Simultaneous Manifestation'. But what does this have to do with the current crisis?"

"It has everything to do with it."

Gu Yuan smoothed his sleeves. "Elder Brother, take the River Chart and Luo Book and the Heavenly Star Main Banners, and go to the Youming Di Fu at once."

"I go to the Di Fu? Then what about the Jin Wu?!" Di Jun grew anxious.

"The Di Fu is the foundation of the Heavenly Court's Reincarnation Wheel order; it cannot be allowed to fail."

Gu Yuan looked straight into Di Jun's eyes, his tone brooking no argument. "If Di Jiang dares to overturn the table, you use the River Chart and Luo Book to chop off his hands! Any Wu Clan members who participate in the riot, kill without pardon! If Pingxin Niangniang has objections, tell her this is the Heavenly Court maintaining the stability of the Six Paths of Reincarnation; she is an Earthly Dao Saint, she should uphold fairness."

"But those ten unfilial sons..."

"They are left to me."

Gu Yuan turned and walked toward the hall exit.

"Younger Brother! Your body is frail, the karma below is sky-high; how can you bear it?" Di Jun grabbed Gu Yuan's arm.

"Elder Brother, have you forgotten? I am the Donghuang. Half of this Heavenly Court's Qi Qi belongs to me. Within these Thirty-Three Heavens, let alone mere karma, even if a Saint came in person, wanting to harm me would not be so easy."

These words were arrogant, but for some reason, spoken from his mouth, they made all the Yao Shen in the court feel it was only natural.

"But..." Di Jun still could not set his mind at ease; that was sky-high karma, personally created by his ten unfilial sons — touching even a thread of it could damage one's Dao foundation.

If it were anyone else, fine.

Taiyi was his own blood younger brother; from the bloodline perspective, he indeed might suffer contamination!

"Elder Brother, if you trust me, then go to the Di Fu at once." Gu Yuan cut him off. "Di Jiang is deeply scheming; if you go late, Bai Ze and the others probably won't hold out. The authority of the Di Fu is far more important than the legs of those ten brats."

"As for the lower realm..."

Gu Yuan scanned the Da Dian, his gaze sweeping over Ji Meng, Ying Zhao, Qin Yuan and the other Yao Sheng.

"Me going down alone would naturally not work."

He coughed twice and said unhurriedly: "Qin Yuan, Ji Meng, Ying Zhao, Fei Lian... Ten Great Monster Sages, follow me down to the lower realm to 'Qi Na Yao Fan'."

The moment these words fell, the hall first fell silent, then erupted in a roar of assent like mountains and seas.

"Your subjects, obey the Great Emperor Taiyi's Decree!"

The Ten Great Monster Sages stepped forward in unison, dropping to one knee.

They looked at that frail figure, their eyes full of fanaticism.

The Great Emperor Taiyi might be frail, but every time he acted, he rescued the Yao Clan from a desperate situation.

This time, it would surely be the same!