Chapter 437: Experimental Subject Number Nine

"How I did it is not important; what's important is that you didn't notice."

Li Heng said a platitude, but this platitude was exceptionally useful. Wujian fell silent again, and the surrounding Void rippled slightly, as if it were contemplating his words.

"Outsider, you truly are a variable."

Wujian sighed with emotion and also said a platitude.

"Since I am an outsider, I am naturally a variable."

Li Heng answered with a smile.

The face manifested by Wujian shook, as if in denial. Then it spoke, "This is different. Ordinary outsiders can only be called accidents; they cannot be upgraded to variables."

"It seems I am not the only outsider?"

Li Heng inquired.

"After the anomaly in the True Realm that you all perceive, many outsiders entered this Ascension Road. Some were seeking refuge, while others wanted to dominate this place; their purposes were all different."

"But in the end, they either slunk away or perished here, becoming a part of this Ascension Road, becoming actors in that so-called Emperor Road, and were no longer variables."

Wujian calmly narrated the Reality.

"Did you take action against them?"

Li Heng inquired.

"I only take action against outsiders who violate the Wujian Iron Law."

Wujian replied.

"Then what about those who did not violate the Wujian Iron Law?"

Li Heng asked again.

"I do not take action against them, but that does not mean they can escape disaster. Weakness is the original sin in the True Realm at this stage. Furthermore, Outsider, you have likely traveled through the True Realm; other than yourself, have you seen any truly living people?"

Wujian threw a question at Li Heng.

Instantly, the little golden dragon beside them shuddered.

Even as foolishly cute as he was, he could immediately realize the truth hidden behind these words. This was not a question of having not seen them, but a question of the True Realm being full of dead people.

Li Heng nodded, his expression calm.

"You seem not surprised? Why is that? You must know that you are the only living person in the True Realm. You walk all alone among piles of dead people, in a kingdom of the dead, in a world of the dead."

Wujian reminded him.

Li Heng did not answer directly; instead, he posed a question.

"Then are you dead or alive right now?"

"Are you asking me?"

"Since my birth, I have had no concept of life or death."

Wujian answered slowly.

"Then what exactly are you, a Calamity or something else?"

Li Heng raised an eyebrow and asked.

"I don't know about that. On the surface, I am a mixture of the power of Calamity and the obsessions of the heaven-defying geniuses on the road in the past, but in essence..." Wujian said, then suddenly fell silent.

But finally, he spoke again, continuing to narrate.

"Outsider, you are a variable I did not anticipate. I can tell you a part of the truth I know, especially regarding the reason for my birth. However, you must agree to one request of mine."

"Impossible." Li Heng refused nonchalantly.

Wujian seemed not to have expected Li Heng to answer this way and was stunned for a moment. But in the end, he compromised and spoke, "You can do your best regarding this request of mine, and I also hope you can do your best."

Li Heng nodded, "Very well."

The little golden dragon clicked his tongue in secret; the Exalted One is indeed the Exalted One, indeed a Forbidden Existence from before the Immortal God Era, easily holding this Wujian in the palm of his hand.

But when exactly did he start holding him in his hand?

He began to ponder in his heart.

"Actually, my birth is the product of an artificial experiment."

Wujian first dropped a bombshell.

"Artificial experiment, a deliberate experiment by the Immortal Gods of the Heavenly Court?"

Li Heng inquired.

However, contrary to Li Heng's expectations, Wujian shook his head to indicate no.

"Although I was born on the Ascension Road established by the Immortal Gods of the Heavenly Court, it does not mean my birth has any connection to the Immortal Gods of the Heavenly Court. This point is very easily confused, and I hope you remember it."

The little golden dragon beside them was stunned for a moment.

He could accept that Wujian's birth was an accident, and he could accept that Wujian's birth was because of some Immortal God's experiment, but he never would have guessed that Wujian's birth originated from an artificial experiment and did not belong to the Immortal Gods of the Heavenly Court. What was going on!?

One must know that the Ascension Road is the territory of the Immortal Gods.

What person, what force would dare to stir up trouble on the Ascension Road!

"Actually, my birth is the result of a black hand stirring things up behind the scenes. Although I do not know if that black hand is a person, a force, or some kind of natural factor, I can be certain that the black hand is definitely not the Immortal Gods of the Heavenly Court."

Seeing the little golden dragon's confusion, Wujian spoke again to emphasize.

"Anything else?"

Li Heng did not dwell on this point and instead demanded more information.

Although according to Xuanyang, they, the Immortal Gods, suppressed an era and were the center of the Wujin Daxukong.

But since they could be crushed by a suddenly appearing Calamity, it showed that the Immortal Gods were not invincible either; it would not be strange for a person or force capable of conducting experiments under the noses of the Immortal Gods to appear.

"I suspect that giant hand comes from the future."

Wujian said slowly.

"From the future?"

Li Heng was somewhat surprised and repeated the emphasis.

"The future of the True Realm?"

The little golden dragon also exclaimed in surprise.

Wujian shook his head and spoke, his words astonishing.

"No, it is the future of the Wujin Daxukong. The future of that Shikong Changhe Muhe which has existed since time immemorial, flowing silently, standing above the Heavens and Myriad Worlds."

Li Heng frowned slightly upon hearing this; he did not speak, but fell into deep thought.

The little golden dragon was also stunned, standing blankly on the spot. But his thoughts drifted to the past, recalling some information his father had let slip back then, some experiments regarding the Time-Space Mother River.

Wujian continued his account.

"When I was first born, I had no consciousness, but as time passed, due to the influence of the obsessions of those heaven-gifted geniuses on the Emperor Road, I developed consciousness and began to have the desire to trace my origins."

"However, in the end, I only traced it back to a river, and a giant hand slowly withdrawing at the end of the river; I faintly heard a sentence: 'Test Subject Jiuhao has been born...'"

Wujian repeated this sentence, then spoke again.

"Although I remembered this sentence, I did not understand its meaning, even after I searched through the Heavens and Myriad Worlds; almost all racial languages and scripts could not explain its meaning."

After speaking, he looked at Li Heng with burning eyes.

He hoped this variable could give him a surprise.

One who could surpass his power, self-print Underworld Money, and even deceive him while under his very eyes.

Furthermore, one who could ignore his rules, ignore the constraints of the shopkeeper status to leave the inn and head to the Emperor Road, and even leap from shopkeeper to partner shareholder, nominally equal in rank to him.

Such a variable was something he had never heard of or seen before.

Yet, even though the strength was weak now, it was worth him treating it seriously.

Li Heng listened to the sentence Wujian repeated.

He fell into deep thought once more, his heart even feeling incomparably astonished.

It was not that the information in this sentence was so shocking to him.

It was that the sentence Wujian repeated was Chinese.

Proper, authentic Chinese, and even Mandarin at that!