Chapter 464: Suppressing Oneself

"I don't understand what you are saying."

Xuanyang replied in a cold voice.

"No, you do understand. You know that you are Xuanyang, and that the Xuanyang who suppressed you and left the True Realm is also Xuanyang, not the monster you claim is masquerading as you."

Li Heng smiled and said slowly.

Everyone was astonished upon hearing this; what exactly was going on?

"Nonsensical gibberish. Guangnan, Old Man Bai, are you two really not planning to save me? Have you truly betrayed the Heavenly Court? I can tell you, His Majesty is still watching you..."

Xuanyang said with a gloomy, dark look in his eyes.

"Fellow Daoist Li, what exactly is going on here?"

Heavenly King Guangnan asked aloud.

Li Heng smiled and replied.

"Heavenly King Guangnan, weren't you always puzzled before as to how Xuanyang could survive and escape the True Realm, especially against the backdrop of the Calamity's full-scale invasion and the fall of the True Realm?"

Heavenly King Guangnan nodded.

"That's right, that is indeed my doubt. Although I am only a version of me from the past and have not experienced the full-scale invasion of the Calamity, based on my understanding of the Calamity and the miserable state of my own corpse, I can roughly grasp the tragedy and despair involved."

"If you say a Sacred can escape the True Realm, I would believe it."

"But Xuanyang is merely a Half-step Divine."

Li Heng nodded.

"Fellow Daoist Guangnan's words are very pertinent, and logically speaking, that is indeed the case. But the Great Void is endless, with infinite possibilities, and there is no such thing as true loss."

"What if Xuanyang could truly leave the True Realm by paying a certain price through some method?"

Once these words were spoken, everyone was stunned.

After thinking it over, Guangnan spoke in great shock.

"Fellow Daoist Li, are you trying to say that this Xuanyang is the price?"

Li Heng nodded and said meaningfully.

"It is not necessarily impossible..."

To be honest, he was also somewhat puzzled when he first saw this Xuanyang suppressed beneath the High Tower; after all, both in appearance and aura, he was indistinguishable from the Xuanyang he knew.

He initially guessed that this was the Xuanyang of the past.

But then he thought about it, and there were many suspicious points, making it unlikely.

For instance, the current Xuanyang has not truly died.

Even if his strength has fallen now, his original realm was Half-step Divine, and he had long since stepped into time and space, fully capable of gathering his past, present, and future.

Theoretically speaking, such a past-self should not exist. Even if it did exist, it would be controlled by the true Xuanyang, and the true Xuanyang could also descend here through this past-self.

But judging from the conversation just now.

This Xuanyang does not recognize him, and in his words, he even slanders the Xuanyang he knows as a monster that stole his identity, which could not help but make one think deeply.

After dismissing this idea.

He then guessed that this Xuanyang was a clone of the true Xuanyang.

This scenario would be nothing more than a plot of a clone rebelling.

But after careful consideration, Li Heng felt he was being too biased. With such a pure aura, as if the true Xuanyang were here, how could one say it was merely a clone?

Then why couldn't it be Xuanyang?

The Void is infinite; is it strange for oneself to fight oneself?

After this line of reasoning was cleared.

Li Heng suddenly saw the light, feeling more and more that this was the case.

Perhaps the Xuanyang he saw initially was not the complete Xuanyang at all, but only one half of the true Xuanyang, and perhaps the one before him was the other half.

One half remains here to suffer the Calamity, while the other half escapes to safety.

That is reasonable, isn't it?

"Xuanyang, what exactly is going on!"

Hearing Li Heng's speculation, Heavenly King Guangnan frowned and looked at the Xuanyang suppressed beneath the High Tower.

Xuanyang smiled slightly upon hearing this.

"Guangnan, do you believe me, your former colleague, or this outsider? If I am not mistaken, this outsider has already encountered the monster that masqueraded as me and stole my identity, right?"

"Be careful... he is also a monster."

He said gloomily, attempting to sow discord.

Heavenly King Guangnan and Old Man Bai remained unmoved.

They had indeed considered this possibility.

But after thinking about it carefully, they felt it was meaningless.

After all, the reason they realized the truth and arrived at the present where the Heavenly Court was destroyed was entirely due to Li Heng. Even the monster they feared and wanted to avoid was killed by Li Heng with a single finger.

Li Heng's strength could clearly crush them, and they were merely past-selves destined to die, unable to change anything.

In this way, whether or not he is a monster has no meaning.

Just like if humans on Earth were suddenly told that the Sun was a tentacle monster, what could they do? They could do nothing, and could only pray that they were just being lied to.

"I said your time is short, and now the time is up."

Li Heng said with a smile, intending to take action to suppress and kill this Xuanyang.

Sensing the materialized killing intent, Xuanyang's expression changed abruptly, and he hurriedly spoke. "Wait, do you really intend to kill me? Don't you want to know the truth behind this!"

"The truth?" Li Heng's expression was subtle as he spoke with a smile.

"Isn't the truth just as you said? The monster that stole your identity sent me here, intending to kill you completely and eliminate future trouble; isn't that what you want to say?"

Xuanyang's temple twitched, and he was momentarily speechless.

He had indeed wanted to say that.

But, you just admitted it like that?

Is that how you debate with someone?

He suddenly realized he had dug a pit for himself.

"Wait, wait, I was just joking, just joking."

Li Heng's killing intent was already lingering around Xuanyang, and Xuanyang could finally no longer keep up the act, hurriedly shouting out loud, fearing that his head would roll the very next moment.

He still had some discernment.

This outsider was absolutely a ruthless person who acted with decisive killing intent!

"I have already said your time is up; knowing the so-called truth brings me no benefit. I am merely entrusted by that monster you mentioned to come and retrieve an item."

Li Heng smiled, a Dharma Sword already appearing in his hand.

This Dharma Sword was a manifestation of the many rules within his Heaven and Earth Dharma Form, such as space-time, Fate, Causality, soul, and so on, ensuring that with one strike, the head would fall and resurrection would be impossible forever.

It completely cut off any possibility of a resurrection match.

Xuanyang stared at that Dharma Sword, feeling his heart tremble with fear.

What level of divine weapon or supreme treasure was this, and why did it give him a sense of Great Terror—that there was nowhere to escape, and once struck, he would directly enter extinction and return to complete Emptiness?!

In this state, he dared not hesitate and spoke loudly.

"You are looking for something, I know what you are looking for! If you kill me, you won't be able to find anything!"

"But I can sense that the item is at the top of the tower."

Li Heng laughed aloud.

"That is because I placed it at the top of the tower myself, and to a certain extent, it is under my control. Once I die, that item will also disappear!"

Xuanyang said calmly.

"Why did you place it at the top of the tower?"

Li Heng frowned; this did not seem like a lie.

"Why?"

"Heh, naturally to Town and suppress myself!"

Xuanyang said calmly.