"You kept asking to see me just to keep an eye on me, right? You know that I was the one who exterminated the Bai Family," Chen Le said.
Lu Yin replied, "I didn't before, but I do now."
"What do you want?"
Chen Le asked.
Lu Yin replied, "I promised the crazy old man that I would protect him or avenge him. What do you think I'll do?"
Chen Le replied, "Kill me, and the Hall of Freedom won't let you off."
Lu Yin pointed at the Emissary, "He said that he'll recommend me to the Hall of Freedom."
Chen Le shook his head, "He's just a key."
The Emissary didn't understand, "What key?"
Lu Yin didn't understand either; he was curious about Chen Le's attitude towards this Emissary. Even if this person was the son of an extreme powerhouse, Chen Le shouldn't have tolerated him so much.
Chen Le sighed. "The world is ever-changing. I never thought that I would lose to luck at the last step." He sighed. "This person isn't a member of the Hall of Freedom. He's just a vessel for the Hall of Freedom. The moment Mister Daheng brought me into the Hall of Freedom, he planted a door in my body. A door that won't affect my cultivation, but will only obstruct me when I try to break through to the Extreme Realm. With that door in place, I won't be able to break through no matter what."
Lu Yin was shocked.
There was such a thing?
"It's not difficult to open this door, you just have to complete the task that Mr. Daheng gave you."
"This stone?"
Lu Yin asked.
Chen Le nodded and looked at the stone with a burning gaze, "As long as you give this stone to Mr. Daheng, he'll give me the key to that door. It's this person."
The Emissary's expression changed, "What nonsense are you talking about? How can I be the key?"
"You've cultivated the Freedom Technique," Chen Le said.
The Emissary's face paled, and he looked lost. Of course he had cultivated the Freedom Technique. The Hall of Freedom would select suitable people from countless people to cultivate the technique, and only those who could cultivate it could join the Hall of Freedom. This was common knowledge, but what did it have to do with a key?
"The Mahesvara Technique is the key to opening that door within my body, but the prerequisite is that Mister Daheng must agree to infuse a strand of power into this person's Mahesvara Technique. That strand of power will completely absorb this person and form the key to opening that door." He then looked at Lu Yin. "Tell me, why would a mere key allow you to join the Mahesvara Palace?
Those who can truly join the Hall of Repose can be counted on one hand. I don't know who exactly there are, but only those at my level can join. Him?
Why? "
The Emissary shouted, "Impossible! You're lying! I'm a member of the Hall of Repose, and everyone respects me. No one dares to offend me, and the Hall of Repose still has missions for me to complete."
Chen Le shook his head. "It's just a key. Why would a person bother with a key? Mission?
With your cultivation, what kind of mission could you possibly have?
He's just a messenger. His cultivation is low, so he won't attract any attention. "
Lu Yin looked at the Emissary. That's right, why would a person care about a key?
The others did not know that he was the key. They respected him because he was a member of the Hall of Repose.
This person was somewhat lamentable. His fate was destined to be a key.
"Impossible! Impossible!" the Emissary roared, unable to believe this fact.
Chen Le immediately attacked and slapped the Emissary to death. "Too noisy."
Lu Yin looked at Chen Le. "You don't care that the key is gone?"
Chen Le looked up. "Will you give me the stone to complete the mission?"
"Of course not."
"Then there's no point in keeping the key."
Lu Yin was curious. "Why would the Hall of Repose collect such stones?"
Chen Le's eyes flashed. "Collect?
You've seen other stones? "
Lu Yin casually tossed the stone to Chen Le. "The diagram on it is obviously incomplete. It must have been knocked off from an entire diagram."
Chen Le stared at the stone in a daze. He was just one step away.
"If Mister Daheng finds out that this stone is with you, your fate won't be any better than his. Even if you have an extremely strong backer, no one can stop the Hall of Repose from getting what they want. Their actions are both righteous and evil, and they are not restrained. They will definitely get what they want." Chen Le tossed the stone to Lu Yin.
Lu Yin laughed. "Then don't let them know."
"They'll find out," Chen Le said.
"Just like how you found out that this stone was in the hands of the Bai Family and then wiped them out?"
Lu Yin asked.
Chen Le was cold. "The world of cultivation is cruel. Morals and bottom lines are just the wails of the weak. Now that you know all of this, I have no intention of living. As for the Bai Family, do you think that their stone was passed down by their ancestors?
They also stole it from someone else. "
"The Bai Family's disciple is from your Red Domain. I was the one who framed him and forced him into a corner, forcing him to go to the new inn. But if it was just a trap, how could he have ended up in such a miserable state? No one dares to say that they haven't done anything wrong at their level of cultivation. The Bai Family is like that, and so is his disciple. That includes you, Xuan Qi."
Lu Yin smiled. "What eloquence. You wiped out an entire family, but you're blaming the world of cultivation for everything."
Chen Le closed his eyes and did not say anything else. There was no point in saying anything now.
"Do you want to die?"
Lu Yin suddenly asked.
Chen Le's eyes were still closed, and his tone was calm. "What's the point of asking this? Don't you want to take revenge for the Bai Family?"
Lu Yin wanted to fulfill his promise to the Crazy Old Man and do his best to take revenge for the Bai Family. But at the moment, killing Chen Le and keeping him alive were two completely different things. Besides, he wanted to use four Everlasting Half-Progenitors in exchange for the Crazy Old Man's life, which was already enough. As for Chen Le's life, that could be dealt with later.
"Is the door that Mister Daheng left in your body really unsolvable?"
Lu Yin was curious.
Chen Le opened his eyes. He cared about breaking through to the Extreme Realm, and he had not hesitated to kill his way into the Red Domain. As for life and death, he had already accepted it the moment that Emissary had died. "Unsolvable."
"What if an Extreme Realm powerhouse intervenes?"
Lu Yin asked.
Chen Le looked at Lu Yin. "Who are you?
I can confirm that you are not an Extreme Realm powerhouse, but you have the power of an Extreme Realm powerhouse. This is very unusual, and you've been hiding it all this time. Now that you're saying this, it means that there is an Extreme Realm powerhouse behind you. "
Lu Yin replied, "Everyone knows that I invited Senior Xu Wuwei to guide me in my cultivation of Void God's power. I also have a good relationship with the Void Yang and Void Yin Tribes. Can it be them?"
"Impossible." Chen Le was certain. "The Extreme Realm powerhouse behind you is definitely not one of them. It might even be someone we don't know." He then stared at Lu Yin. "An Everlasting?"
"What if it is?"
Lu Yin asked.
Chen Le met Lu Yin's gaze. "I don't want to be a spy."
Lu Yin raised his brows. "What you've done isn't much better than being a spy. If Lord Luo finds out that you've sided with Freedom Palace and have been working for Mister Daheng, will he let you off?"
Chen Le was calm. "Betraying Lord Luo and betraying humanity are two different things."
Lu Yin did not know what Chen Le was thinking. Perhaps this person was telling the truth.
Perhaps Chen Le was certain that Chen Le was not a spy and was just putting on an act for Lu Yin. Otherwise, most people would kill a spy, even if they were willing to become one.
Lu Yin did not need to know what Chen Le was thinking, as this person was very valuable.
"I hope that you're telling the truth. You have to take revenge for the Hundred Family. Back to that question: if you have an Extreme Realm powerhouse helping you, will you be able to open that door?"
Lu Yin asked.
He was testing Mister Daheng's strength, and through Chen Le's words, he could determine Mister Daheng's level within the Six Direction Association.
Chen Le thought about it and then shook his head. "Unless you have an Extreme Realm powerhouse behind you that is comparable to the Six Direction Association's Spacetime Ruler, it's unlikely."
Lu Yin's heart sank. "Is Mister Daheng that strong?"
Chen Le was helpless. "If he's not strong, how can he be free and unfettered?"
Regardless, Lu Yin still wanted to try. He needed a Progenitor to help him understand the three Monarchs' Spacetimes and Lord Luo. Elder Chan could not do it, and no one around him could either. Chen Le was the most suitable candidate.
Lu Yin put away Mount Supreme and tore through the void to return to the Eternal Kingdom. He then headed to the Fifth Mainland to find Mu Xie.
When Chen Le saw Mu Xie, his expression changed. An Extreme Realm powerhouse! This was a pressure that only someone on the same level as the three Monarchs could give him.
Mu Xie also looked at Chen Le, his gaze penetrating Chen Le's body as if he had seen something.
A moment later, he sighed. "Someone sealed a power in his body, causing his Monarch's Qi to be incomplete. Once he tries to break through to the Progenitor realm, although there is no Origin Tribulation, he will not succeed."
Outside of the Primordial Space, breaking through to the Progenitor realm in other spacetimes did not require Origin Tribulation. Breaking through in the Void God Spacetime depended on one's innate talent, but breaking through in the Three Monarchs' Spacetimes required both innate talent and a complete circulation of Monarch's Qi.
Mister Daheng knew this, which was why he had been able to prevent Chen Le from breaking through.
Chen Le did not dare to tell Lord Luo, as that would be tantamount to admitting that he had dealings with the Repose Palace. Lord Luo might not be able to break through Mister Daheng's door.
In Chen Le's heart, Mister Daheng was an existence that surpassed Lord Luo.
He did not hold out much hope for Mu Xie either, even if this person was also an Extreme Realm powerhouse.
The gap between them was huge.
"Senior, do you have any confidence in helping him break through that door?"
Mu Xie's eyes flickered.
"The person who left this seal in his body is extremely powerful, and it's not any weaker than Nine Mountains and Eight Seas. However, it's hard to tell exactly how strong they are. that door.."
He paused.
Lu Yin's heart sank. Even Senior had no way?
Chen Le was not surprised, as this had always been the case. This was why he had not sought out Lord Luo the first time Mister Daheng had left a seal in his body.
"We can try," Mu Xie said.
Lu Yin's eyes lit up. "Senior, are you confident?"
Mu Xie laughed. "I can't say I'm confident. Let's use the Evil Relic to clash with this door. Besides, I also want to see this person's strength." He then pointed at the location where the door had been planted in Chen Le's body. A shrunken Evil Relic appeared and entered Chen Le's body, viciously slamming into the door.
The method was simple and crude, but Chen Le was shocked. "No!" Just as he finished speaking, his mind rumbled as two terrifying powers collided with each other, producing a tearing sensation. His face paled; this was not good.
Fresh blood flowed from Chen Le's eyes, ears, mouth, and nose. His entire body was covered in blood, and he looked extremely miserable.