Chapter 680: This Blade, Even the Heavenly Emperor Cannot Defend Against

"So, you are Half-step Supreme, and I am not, but what does that prove?"

Amidst the confused gazes of the crowd, Ren Yidao chuckled indifferently and retorted:

"So what?"

"What are you trying to express? To prove your Dao attainment is higher and deeper than mine? Or to prove you are more outstanding than me?"

Ren Yidao spread his hands and said helplessly: "Be good, stop making a scene. You aren't young anymore; do you really have to play that ranking game?"

"Comparing Dao attainment? Comparing realms? Do you want to rank us on a Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow list too?"

"Isn't that childish?"

The youth ignored the increasingly icy gaze of the new Heavenly Emperor and continued speaking to himself: "You deliberately emphasize it, which only proves your lack of confidence; it only proves you care very much, oh."

"Oh, right! Let me tell you another piece of news!"

Ren Yidao clapped his hands as if he had remembered something and said with a beaming smile: "You have been looking for that old ghost, the Heavenly God, worried that He would ruin your grand plans at a critical moment, right? You don't need to worry now; He hasn't taken that final step either and is still stuck at the peak of the Ascension Realm."

The youth shook his finger with a look of schadenfreude.

"Are you feeling more at ease now?"

Sikong Yu is not capable.

The old man really couldn't hold on at the critical moment.

Di Zui did not know why Ren Yidao knew about the Heavenly God's affairs, nor was he clear about the relationship between the two, but this news did indeed make his heart stir slightly, and another worry was put to rest.

He had no doubts whatsoever regarding Ren Yidao's intelligence.

The other party had no need to deceive him about such minor matters, not to mention that at their realm, it was easy to distinguish the truth from the falsehood in one's words.

What Ren Yidao said was the truth.

"Tian Jiangjun is also missing that final bit, but that is normal. After all, He is in poor condition, and it is difficult for Him to even recover his strength to its peak, let alone make progress."

Regarding Tian Jiangjun, this old senior and ancestor who was the source of the Li Family bloodline, Ren Yidao was still slightly more respectful than he was toward his Sect Leader senior uncle, and his choice of words was a bit more deferential.

But this respect did not amount to much; it was only a tiny bit more respectful.

"Of course, no one is counting on the final gasp of a half-dead old senior before he dies."

After Ren Yidao finished speaking, Di Zui's brows furrowed slightly.

This was also the truth.

But... why did it feel so strange? Why would he deliberately volunteer this information?

Ren Yidao was not finished yet.

He continued to output information as if he were chatting about daily life:

"As for the current Demon Emperor, although He inherited everything from the Phoenix Demon God, He has not yet completely mastered it and is also missing a tiny bit."

Truth.

"Although my master, that old lady, can be said to have three lifetimes of accumulation and a profound foundation, she still lacks some seasoning and needs more time to comprehend and digest it."

Truth.

"Oh, and the Demon Buddha; He has walked further than the others, but His heart is not set on this, and He has long since voluntarily abandoned the path to the Supreme, quietly waiting for the arrival of the moment when His lifespan is exhausted."

Still the truth!?

Di Zui's expression was becoming difficult to maintain, and his brows were deeply furrowed.

What on earth does he want to do!!?

And after saying so much, Ren Yidao suddenly stopped, then gave a strange smile: "I've said so much; do you feel a lot more relaxed now?"

Relaxed?

Let alone Di Zui, the others watching here were almost suffocating.

Far from feeling relaxed, they felt an extreme sense of eeriness.

A mountain storm is coming; something big is about to happen!

Di Zui stared at Ren Yidao and said in a deep voice: "What, exactly, do you want to do?"

"What do I want to do? Hehe, isn't that simple?"

Ren Yidao laughed, staring at him meaningfully, and said kindly: "Of course, it is to make you listen to what I have to say seriously."

"I said so much just now so that you would listen seriously to what I say next; I just wanted to tell you one thing..."

He said:

"It is not only the Half-step Supreme who can seize the Dao Fruit, oh."

!!!

Crack!

Without warning, a bloody tribulation lightning bolt like crimson flame struck down above the Heavenly Emperor Palace, crashing onto the roof of the palace!

Di Zui's complexion changed completely, his expression turning icy and cold.

There was only one reason he had such a huge reaction... because this sentence was also the truth.

While the Heavenly Emperor was furious, the youth in front of the palace still wore the same smile and continued to output: "It is not only by seizing the Dao Fruit that one can become a Supreme, oh."

This... was also the truth.

And upon hearing this, Di Zui, who should have been even more agitated, suddenly calmed down and sneered at Ren Yidao: "... Heh, more words are useless."

Di Zui finally understood Ren Yidao's purpose in saying so much; it was to disturb his Dao Heart.

But could the Dao Heart of a Heavenly Emperor really be destroyed by just these few words?

And Ren Yidao was not surprised to see Di Zui's detached appearance; if anything, it would be strange if his Dao Heart could be destroyed so easily.

Then, Ren Yidao suddenly laughed and chuckled: "So, do you think you have now become the Heaven-mandated savior of the world? Do you think that as long as you become a Supreme and save the world, the sins you have committed in the past can be wiped clean?"

"Heh, that is only natural."

After figuring out Ren Yidao's goal, Di Zui relaxed, even finding the leisure to play along with him, wanting to see what kind of trick he was trying to pull.

"That won't happen."

Di Zui:!!?

Ren Yidao looked at the Heavenly Emperor, whose expression was constantly shifting, and whispered with a smile: "No matter what you have done now, the sins you once committed can never be washed away."

"... Nonsense!"

Ren Yidao smiled, having no intention to argue, and simply said softly: "Whether I am talking nonsense or not, you know better than I do in your heart; you are just unwilling to admit it."

The truth.

"Also, you have mistaken one thing: the mandate of Heaven lies with me, not with you."

This... was still the truth.

"Have you never noticed? Recall, when have you ever felt the Dao Fruit respond to you?"

This time, Di Zui finally lost his composure completely, glared at the youth, and asked in a booming voice: "Did you tamper with it!?"

At this moment, Di Zui's patience reached its limit, and he chose to strike directly.

He pointed his fingers like a sword and waved his hand; a sword gleam capable of annihilating the Ascension Realm reached the youth's face in an instant.

There was one thing Ren Yidao said that was very true: Di Zui was indeed extremely wary of him, convinced that he was the only variable in this world capable of hindering him.

And for such a dangerous existence, Di Zui would not strike unless necessary, but once he did, it was a kill shot!

However, when the Heavenly Emperor's world-destroying Dao Technique landed on Ren Yidao, it passed straight through him without slowing down at all, instantly falling onto the distant palace complex behind him and silently devouring a large area of the Heavenly Court palaces.

!!!

Di Zui's pupils shrank suddenly, and for a moment, he even felt a lack of confidence; could it be that Ren Yidao was not actually here, and this was just a clone!!?

But the next moment, he denied this absurd thought; the other party was right here, and there was absolutely no possibility of it being a clone.

Yet Ren Yidao, having been struck by a sword, acted as if nothing had happened, and continued the previous topic leisurely: "No, don't put it so harshly. Of course, Ren has never tampered with anything. Why you have never been able to feel it is, of course, because you are simply not favored by the Dao Fruit."

Ren Yidao moved.

He walked toward the Heavenly Emperor Palace with his hands behind his back, strolling leisurely.

He stepped onto the stairs and walked up step by step.

While walking toward the Heavenly Emperor, he kept whispering: "Did you ever feel that you were someone favored by Heaven? Did you feel that this world should revolve around you?"

"But later, you discovered you were wrong."

"You are not the darling of Heaven and Earth; everything you obtained was merely exchanged for by your father's hard work. It was your father who was favored by Heaven and Earth, while you, in fact, were nothing."

"But your efforts ultimately led to a great mistake, resulting in the destruction of everything. Your once closest allies fell apart, and your father died to save you; he even betrayed his closest allies for your sake before he died."

"You later repented, realized your mistakes, and tried to make amends for the past by founding an organization named after mending Heaven."

"Others thought you wanted to mend the Heavenly Dao, but in reality, it was to make up for the heaven-reaching mistake you once committed."

"But later, you accidentally discovered some truths and learned the truth about the incompleteness of Heaven and Earth."

"And later still, you chose to fake your death, attempting to keep the information to yourself, but you did not expect the news to leak out anyway."

"Worried that things would be exposed, you chose to use a new face to start over, hoping to cast off the past and begin anew."

"Perhaps it was a turn of fortune, or perhaps it was just good luck, but you ultimately succeeded, relying on your advantages to surpass your father and reach a height no predecessor had ever stepped upon."

"However, have you ever thought that everything you have done was actually not for atonement, but merely for yourself?"

"To cover up the sins you committed, you renamed yourself 'Zui' (Sin), considering yourself a sinner in need of atonement, beautifying everything, and using the name of justice, the name of mending Heaven, and the name of atonement to achieve your goals."

"So, to put it bluntly, the source of all your actions is nothing more than two words."

Ren Yidao finished the last palace step, stood before Di Zui, looked him in the eyes, and spat out those two most cruel words.

"Greed."

"Because of greed, you betrayed the expectations of your elders, committed acts of betrayal, caused the collapse of the Heavenly Court, and led to the fall of countless people."

"Because of greed, you monopolized the truth of the changes in Heaven and Earth, faked your death to escape, rebuilt the Butian Alliance, and secretly controlled Zhongzhou, using the heavenly treasures within to cultivate."

"Because of greed, you wanted to monopolize the Dao Fruit and wanted to become a Supreme being, transcending the world."

From the moment Ren Yidao started walking, Di Zui in the Heavenly Emperor Palace... no, the son of the previous Heavenly Emperor, Di Fan, did not speak again.

He watched Ren Yidao in silence, looking at this variable who had seen through everything about him.

"..."

And every one of Ren Yidao's heart-piercing words... of course, still did not contain a single lie.

Lies do not hurt people; only the truth is a sharp blade.

This blade.

Even the Heavenly Emperor could not defend against it.