The situation in the Vast Expanse is now chaotic and turbulent. Weiyang Emperor Lord had thought it over for a long time before finally deciding to place all his hopes on the Heaven-Slaying Alliance.
And Gu Changge, the leader of the Heaven-Slaying Alliance, was the first person he could not see through and found unfathomable so far.
This time sending his daughter to the Heaven-Slaying Alliance was also a huge gamble for him.
The reason he dared to say these words in front of Jiang Weiyang now was because this place was the territory of the Heaven-Slaying Alliance. No matter how bold the Master of Yinxu Cave was, he would never dare to spy here.
So, to him, this was actually the safest place.
In the courtyard, Gu Changge leisurely sipped his tea, listening to Weiyang Emperor Lord Jiang Yun's words without rushing to respond.
Jiang Yun did not propose a collaboration, which somewhat surprised him. However, judging from this, it was enough to show that Jiang Yun was a smart man.
Moreover, Jiang Yun's guess was correct. From beginning to end, Gu Changge never took the Master of Fate or the Alliance of Righteous Unity seriously. He had always been considering those deeply hidden big fish.
A mere Master of Fate — whether Gu Changge wanted to deal with him or not was simply a matter of choice.
"Since you put it that way, I am indeed somewhat interested." Gu Changge looked at Jiang Yun, his deep gaze as if probing, trying to see through all his thoughts.
Weiyang Emperor Lord still smiled bitterly. "Alliance Leader, please rest assured. This is the only way I can think of at present, so it is absolutely impossible for me to deceive you."
"The Master of Yinxu Cave has always thought over the years that I dared not resist his manipulation, but in fact, a long time ago, I had already begun to scheme, and I have come to know many things about him..."
Jiang Weiyang stood quietly to the side with her hands lowered. It was the first time she had seen her father adopt such a subservient attitude.
As the master of the Weiyang Immortal Dynasty, speaking like this was enough to show that he had truly reached the end of his rope and was now making a desperate last stand.
"Then tell me your request." Gu Changge nodded slightly.
The so-called master of Yinxu Cave in Jiang Yun's words was naturally the Master of Fate.
In fact, matters related to the Master of Fate were not difficult for Gu Changge to find out. The last time he accompanied Ji Hanjing back to the Primordial Ancient Era, Gu Changge had already seen many of the Master of Fate's methods.
It could only be said that such methods, which the Master of Fate might consider flawless, were in Gu Changge's eyes mere child's play, no different from playing house.
Weiyang Emperor Lord nodded and spoke in a deep voice, "I want to request that you, Alliance Leader, annihilate the Alliance of Righteous Unity."
Hearing this, Jiang Weiyang at the side was startled, but very quickly she realized that this was also within reason.
But if outsiders saw this scene, they would absolutely be so shocked that they would be speechless.
Weiyang Emperor Lord was currently the leader of the Alliance of Righteous Unity, yet he was now begging Gu Changge to annihilate the Alliance of Righteous Unity...
Gu Changge was not surprised, his gaze deep and distant. He calmly said, "And?"
Jiang Yun's words were actually stating the obvious, because Gu Changge was definitely going to annihilate the Alliance of Righteous Unity. There was no doubt about it.
"I know that the Alliance Leader's methods are heaven-reaching and omnipotent. I only hope that the Alliance Leader can allow Weiyang to see the light again. For this, I am willing to pay any price. From now on, the entire Weiyang Immortal Dynasty will follow the Alliance Leader's lead. Even if Jiang Yun becomes a pawn of the Alliance Leader, I will have no resentment and will spare no effort."
His words made Jiang Weiyang's small mouth open slightly as she stood there dumbstruck. Then her nose felt sore, her eyes reddened, and she said in a low voice, "Father, you don't have to do this..."
She truly hadn't expected that in the end, Weiyang Emperor Lord's request was this.
For so many years, although she couldn't see, she had actually gotten used to it.
Weiyang Emperor Lord's gaze softened, then he shook his head and said, "Actually, it is Father who has wronged you. Your blindness was caused by me. It's just that you have suffered, bearing the consequence."
Jiang Weiyang stood there dazedly, then gently shook her head. "No matter what, Weiyang will not blame Father."
Gu Changge watched their deep father-daughter affection, and a strange sense of interest arose in his heart.
This Jiang Yun had really surprised him repeatedly today. However, this kind of parental love was something he could not experience.
"I indeed have a way to resolve your daughter's blindness. However, as you said, if the information you give me is not enough to satisfy me, then you should be able to imagine the consequences." He said calmly.
Weiyang Emperor Lord responded in a deep voice, "Alliance Leader, please rest assured. In fact, I have known since very early on that in the Vast Expanse, besides the Master of Fate who has been scheming all along, there are actually many beings of the same level lurking and biding their time. However, those existences are all very smart and have been hiding in the Void Beyond the World, almost never making contact with the various worlds."
"This time, the forces behind the Immortal Dao Alliance are actually related to those existences. I suspect it should be one of the former leaders of the ancient sages, Xi Sheng, also known as the Sage Xi."
"The Prime-Origin Civilization is now completely under the Alliance Leader's control, and even Xiyuan Sacred Hall has not been spared. But the Sage Xi, the founder of Xiyuan Sacred Hall who once controlled the Mirror of Reincarnation, has yet to appear. After the end of the Black Calamity Catastrophe, Xi Sheng went into hiding for a period, and only later reappeared with the Mirror of Reincarnation to establish Xiyuan Sacred Hall..."
"Moreover, the current Saintess Xiyuan has disappeared for a long time. I heard that she escaped from the Alliance Leader's hands last time, and I have also thought that she was very likely rescued by the hidden Sage Xi."
These speculations that Weiyang Emperor Lord spoke about at length were actually his way of proving his value to Gu Changge.
Gu Changge's gaze was deep and profound, noncommittal toward Jiang Yun's words.
As for the whereabouts of Saintess Xiyuan, he had actually always been well aware. Letting her escape last time was intentional, using her as bait to lure out bigger fish.
It's a pity that the big fish behind her was very clever, knowing that Saintess Xiyuan was bait and that she carried the Mirror of Reincarnation, yet still managed to hold back and refused to appear.
Weiyang Emperor Lord's words gave Gu Changge some other hints.
He didn't care much about those leaders who once opposed Heaven's Proxy, but those who could survive to the present must have come into contact with some existences from the Innate Era along the way.
For example, Zhong Jun, who is Ji Hanjing's father, is a genuine Innate Deity.
The Innate Era is far too distant from the present, so distant that it can be traced back to before the birth of the Vast Expanse. In fact, he had long known that existences like the True Ancestor would surely know countless futures after the birth of the Vast Expanse.
In other words, there were some fish that slipped through the net, deliberately left behind with the permission of a certain True Ancestor at the time.
After all, only True Ancestors can deceive True Ancestors.
After the birth of the Vast Expanse, clarity and turbidity separated. The clear qi rose and formed the Origin Realm, while the turbid qi sank and formed the Vast Expanse.
In fact, the origin of the cataclysmic tribulation that later generations have speculated about has always been rooted in the philosophy of one of the three True Ancestors.
The Origin Realm is not complete, so the existence of cataclysmic tribulations is needed to continuously extract true matter and origin matter from the Vast Expanse, refining clear qi from the turbid qi, making the Origin Realm approach completeness.
Of course, this was not Gu Changge's philosophy.
"Behind the Immortal Dao Alliance, there are indeed quite a few figures hidden. As for whether it is the Xi Sheng you mentioned, that remains to be verified." Gu Changge returned from his thoughts, glanced at Weiyang Emperor Lord, and didn't take his earlier words too seriously.
No matter how formidable Xi Sheng might be, she was ultimately just a former sage. Her strength might be much greater than Ling Yuxian at her peak, but it was still limited.
Gu Changge would not go so far as to fear such a minor figure.
The only thing he cared about was how, during the Black Calamity Era, the so-called blueprints for forging the supreme treasures of the first civilization circulated into the Vast Expanse...
The records in Xiyuan Sacred Hall say that a figure at the End of the Path moved the heavens, and thus this blueprint drifted out from the Land of Truth.
At that time, Gu Changge was already considering how to arrange reasonable means to make the Lord of Heaven's Proxy disappear.
Although the appearance of the blueprints for the supreme treasures of the first civilization helped Gu Changge, those records, in his eyes, were actually quite laughable.
Because whether it was him or the other two True Ancestors, to deal with a variable like the 'Lord of Heaven's Proxy,' why would they need to go through such trouble? At the moment of revival, a single thought, a single finger, would be enough to crush him to death.
Therefore, the blueprints of the supreme treasures of the first civilization flowing out from the Land of Truth was an absurd lie from the start.
The people of the world imagined the Lord of Heaven's Proxy to be too terrifying and dreadful, believing that he already had the qualifications to entangle with the True Ancestors in the Land of Truth. But all of this stemmed from the fact that Gu Changge at that time did not understand the strength of the top experts across the Vast Expanse, so when shaping the character of the Lord of Heaven's Proxy, he did not properly gauge the degree.
In his eyes, anyway, they were all ants, just of different sizes. But before the true ants, the Lord of Heaven's Proxy seemed somewhat like a divine dragon hidden in the heavens and cosmos.
Of course, this point became unimportant later on; Gu Changge's goal had already been achieved.
"It seems that the Alliance Leader had long made arrangements..."
Weiyang Emperor Lord heard this and was first stunned, then realized, and couldn't help showing admiration on his face.
He had actually also wondered, with Saintess Xiyuan's strength, how she could escape from the hands of such an invincible Gu Changge.
But now it seemed that all of this was actually Gu Changge's arrangement.
If that was the case, the whereabouts of Saintess Xiyuan had always been under Gu Changge's control, including the already lost Mirror of Reincarnation.
Gu Changge nodded slightly and said no more.
From the current situation, Weiyang Emperor Lord still had considerable value to him.
As for Jiang Weiyang's blindness, this was something Ji Hanjing would have to come and resolve herself. After all, Jiang Weiyang was her bloodline descendant, more precisely, the bloodline descendant of her younger sister.
If not for the curse she left behind back then, Jiang Weiyang naturally would not have gone blind.
At this moment, taking advantage of the environment where they didn't need to worry about being detected by the Master of Yinxu Cave, Weiyang Emperor Lord also began to tell Jiang Weiyang about her origins and eye disease.
The Weiyang Immortal Dynasty was established several hundred epochs ago. At that time, the Weiyang Immortal Dynasty was not called by this name but was known as the Great Yang Ancient Kingdom, which had long-standing friendly ties with the Nanzhao Ancient Kingdom, possessing deep and powerful foundations.
The last ruler of the Great Yang Ancient Kingdom was named Emperor Yang.
Emperor Yang was tyrannical, incompetent, debauched, and addicted to wine and women. During his reign, he indulged in excesses, killed the innocent, harmed loyal officials, and ruled with tyranny. All races suffered greatly and were miserable.
At that time, the biological father of Weiyang Emperor Lord Jiang Yun was a feudal prince of a different surname in the Great Yang Ancient Kingdom, with a trace of imperial bloodline in his ancestry. Discontented with Emperor Yang's tyranny, he led troops in rebellion and later died in battle at Nine Yin Mountain.
Jiang Yun inherited his father's legacy, received a mandate from heaven, obtained divine weapons falling from the sky, and later, with the support of remnants of his father's old faction, united various feudal lords and clans, finally capturing the Great Yang Imperial Capital. Emperor Yang committed suicide inside the palace...
"In truth, there was no mandate from heaven. All of this was merely the arrangement of the Master of Yinxu Cave. At that time, your mother was precisely the disciple of the Master of Yinxu Cave. Thanks to her help, I barely managed to storm into the Great Yang Imperial Capital..."
"Later, as our feelings deepened and our bond grew stronger, one day she finally couldn't help but tell me about all the arrangements of the Master of Yinxu Cave. Although I was furious, I was powerless. In the end, I could only watch helplessly as the people of Yinxu Cave came and took her away."
"After that, to ensure your mother's safety and be able to see her every once in a while, I was forced to become the disciple of the Master of Yinxu Cave and follow him to learn his methods. He taught me the way of establishing a dynasty as a ruler, and gave me many of the records and scriptures that once belonged to the Radiant Ancestral Court, having me manage and run the Weiyang Immortal Dynasty for him..." As he spoke of these things, Jiang Yun's face showed some pain, but more of it was anger and helplessness.