Chapter 686: A Single Fireball

Surrender directly?

The expressions of the statues were somewhat strange.

Although this enemy who came to visit was indeed fierce, there was no need to surrender without even fighting, right? And what if the other party didn't accept your surrender? Wouldn't that be seeking your own death?

"Busi Xianweng, are you being serious or joking?"

The statues began to ask aloud.

"Why would I lie? If it were up to me to handle this matter, I would definitely choose to surrender directly. You wouldn't really want me, an old man about to be buried, to go fight someone, would you? Do you even understand what it means to respect the old and cherish the young?"

Busi Xianweng replied calmly.

The statues fell silent.

They could feel that the matter was absolutely not simple; with this old immortal's personality, he would definitely not surrender so easily. But at the same time, an absurd feeling rose in their hearts—they really felt that this old immortal would truly surrender and become a guide for the enemy.

"It seems you have no objections, so I'm going out."

Busi Xianweng dropped these words and walked out without looking back, leaving behind the statues staring at each other, yet not one of them spoke up or moved to stop him.

The old man walked to the gate of the Gong Dian, not intending to walk straight out; after all, even that strange bird most skilled at playing with fire had been burned to death in an instant, so going out himself would just be throwing his life away.

He used a secret technique to condense his voice into a line, transmitting his words from inside the Gong Dian to the outside. "Senior outside, stop burning, please stop burning. We are also poor people coerced by this Gong Dian, so I ask that you show mercy, Senior; we surrender."

Busi Xianweng called Li Heng 'Senior' very naturally.

Hearing these words, Li Heng couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He looked at the Nine-Life Resentful Empress Di Youyou beside him and asked.

"Who is the person speaking? Do you know him?"

Di Youyou's expression was strange. After thinking for a moment, she spoke softly. "I know him; his name is Busi Xianweng. He is also someone whose Primordial Spirit True Spirit is entrusted to the Gong Dian. However, his origins are extremely mysterious; it is suspected that he has lived from the very beginning of the Time-Space Mother River until now."

Li Heng was somewhat surprised.

Lived from the very beginning of the Time-Space Mother River until now?

That is interesting.

He then spoke loudly, "Busi Xianweng, since you have chosen to surrender, you should show some sincerity, such as shutting down the defenses of this Gong Dian."

Upon hearing this, Busi Xianweng felt a shock in his heart.

How could this person outside the Gong Dian know his name? Could he be some old acquaintance from the past? But listening to his voice and sensing his aura, it was clearly different from everyone he knew.

"Does Senior know me?" he immediately asked.

"I know you, but you do not know me. I will emphasize this again: since you want to surrender to preserve your life, you should show some sincerity; otherwise, being burned to fly ash by this flame is only to be expected."

Li Heng responded calmly, not intending to betray Di Youyou.

Beside him, Di Youyou breathed a sigh of relief. She had indeed not misjudged him; this Li Heng was not some villain walking in the shadows and would not hand over her name.

Otherwise, her statue inside the Gong Dian would likely meet with an accident.

However, after thinking about it, she also felt that Li Heng truly had no need to betray her, as he could build for himself a mysterious, unfathomably powerful, and omniscient identity.

"I ask for Senior's forgiveness. Although we are inside the Gong Dian, we are not the masters of the Gong Dian; we can only be considered as insignificant Menial Servants and cannot close the Gong Dian's defenses at all."

Busi Xianweng said loudly, full of helplessness.

Di Youyou nodded upon hearing this.

"That's right, what this old man says is true. Although our Primordial Spirit True Spirit is entrusted to this Gong Dian, in terms of status, we can only be considered Menial Servants within the Gong Dian and cannot obtain any permissions within the Gong Dian at all."

"Moreover, just now when you released the flames to burn this Gong Dian, the Gong Dian sent a message saying that as long as one can resolve you, one can shed the status of a Menial Servant and be promoted to a candidate successor."

She decided to bet on Li Heng and sell out the Gong Dian.

"No wonder you kept wanting to make a move just now but didn't dare to. What a pity." Li Heng shook his head, feeling somewhat helpless and emotional.

Di Youyou remained silent, feeling even more fortunate in her heart. Sure enough, Li Heng was fishing; luckily she hadn't acted rashly just now, otherwise she would have had to resurrect again and suffer heavy losses.

"If that is the case, your surrender is meaningless to me."

Li Heng continued to say loudly.

If the group of people inside the Gong Dian held no hostility toward him, he naturally had no reason to attack them; after all, he had to abide by his own bottom line. But if these people could not withstand the aftermath and died during the process of him destroying the Gong Dian, then that could not be blamed on him.

When two people fight, who cares about the ants at their feet?

Not to mention that these ants might even harbor malice toward oneself.

"This Senior, I know some things about the origin of the Time-Space Mother River, as well as some things about the end of the Time-Space Mother River. I wonder if information about these matters can buy this old man's life?"

After a brief silence, Busi Xianweng said.

He had currently only decided to surrender mentally and would not interfere in any way. If this person could not break the Gong Dian's defenses, his life would be safe; if this person broke the Gong Dian's defenses, he could use that information to keep his life safe.

Either way, he wouldn't die, so it wasn't a loss.

It was just that he preferred the latter.

After all, what had he lived so long for? Naturally, it was to continue moving forward, to live until the Terminal River Section of the Time-Space Mother River, and to witness some things he wanted to witness.

But now he was trapped by this Gong Dian; although it made him immortal, it prevented him from continuing to live forward until the end of the Time-Space Mother River.

Since this Gong Dian had flowed upstream from the Terminal River Section of the Time-Space Mother River to here, it seemed to have developed some problems, permanently anchoring itself to a certain moment in time and no longer heading toward the future, which made things very difficult for him.

Li Heng frowned. He was indeed interested in the information Busi Xianweng mentioned, and sparing this old man's life would be fine, but he would have to control his strength a little.

He was currently performing a harmless treatment on this Gong Dian; if he accidentally killed Busi Xianweng inside with the aftermath of a clash of power, where would he get this information?

Thinking of this, Li Heng withdrew the flames that were scorching the area around the Gong Dian, condensed them to the extreme, and turned them into a terrifying fireball, which he smashed toward the gate of the Gong Dian.

With a loud boom, the gate of the Gong Dian shattered. The status of being untainted by ten thousand calamities instantly fell, and the transcendent aura it displayed vanished instantly, revealing the scene inside the Gong Dian.

Di Youyou was dumbfounded.

So simple and crude, a single fireball handled the defense?

What kind of terrifying fireball is this!

"Let's go, let's go in and take a look."

Li Heng said calmly. For the sake of that old man's information, he gave up on the siege of this Gong Dian and did not choose the previous method of scorching with flames, like boiling a frog in warm water.

However, after the fireball blasted open the gate, it had achieved most of the effect he wanted. The Gong Dian was not completely harmless now, but at least it was ninety-nine percent harmless.