Chapter 417 416: The Immortal Dao Is Not Simple

"Yang... Yang Xiao, where are you going?"

Ye Wanyu completely ignored Yang Xiao's actions, but the injured Ye Wanqing could not. At this moment, he was the only person she could rely on.

If even he were to abandon them,

Ye Wanqing feared that no matter how strong she was, she wouldn't be able to hold on.

Hearing her words, Yang Xiao paused for a moment.

But he did not turn back.

"I'm just stepping out. I'll be back soon."

Yang Xiao said calmly.

He continued onward.

Ye Wanqing opened her mouth, but in the end, she said nothing more.

"Hmph, coward!"

Just then, Ye Wanyu suddenly sneered. "Grandma Lio told him to take care of us, and look at him now. The moment she's gone, he wants to leave. But I bet he hasn't considered that the Realm Gate to the outside world has already closed. It's impossible for him to get out!"

Ye Wanyu was acting hysterical.

As her older sister, Ye Wanqing couldn't possibly leave her alone, and she held her even tighter.

Her eyes were filled with sorrow.

Grandma Lio was gone, and with her, their pillar of support.

Ye Wanqing found she couldn't bring herself to say a single harsh word to her younger sister.

Yang Xiao, who hadn't gone far, naturally heard her words.

He offered no explanation.

There was no need.

It wasn't necessary.

'Returning with the head of the Vast Heaven Immortal Lord will be more convincing than any explanation.'

'As for how I'll get out?'

Yang Xiao communicated directly with the Emperor's Weapon Spirit.

"Emperor's Weapon Spirit, I want to leave this place and go outside. Can you help me?"

"Of course. From the looks of it, you want to avenge that little girl, Ye Lio, don't you?"

At these words, Yang Xiao fell silent.

He didn't really know.

'Am I doing this because of Grandma Lio?'

'Perhaps.'

'Or perhaps, that's only part of the reason.'

For Yang Xiao, Grandma Lio's death left a heavy, suffocating feeling in his chest.

He needed an outlet.

And the best outlet was revenge—to kill every last person who had plotted against her, trapped her for a lifetime, and ultimately caused even her Divine Soul Brand to dissipate into nothingness.

But that wasn't the only reason.

Besides that, Yang Xiao had another reason for leaving the Northern Wilderness Sword Mansion and the Celestial Cloud Region to come here. Beyond exploring the Profound Sun Secret Realm for clues about his past life, he had another goal: to destroy the Vast Heaven Immortal Sect. At the very least, he had to stop the Vast Heaven Immortal Lord from breaking through to the True Immortal Realm and threatening the Celestial Cloud Region.

Now, Grandma Lio had used her life to annihilate over a hundred Void Immortals, and he himself had killed more than twenty. The Vast Heaven Immortal Sect, and indeed the entire Immortal Dao Influence on the Profound Sun Continent, had been severely weakened.

If he didn't press the attack now and waited for the Vast Heaven Immortal Sect to recover, wouldn't Grandma Lio's sacrifice have been in vain?

'And this is probably my best chance.'

"Fine, if you don't want to talk about it, then don't. But I should warn you, Immortal Cultivators aren't so simple. Back then, even the Great Emperor... sigh. Let's not talk about that. I'll open a gate to the outside world for you."

The voice of the Emperor's Weapon Spirit rang out once more.

Yang Xiao couldn't help but frown slightly.

'Immortal Cultivators aren't so simple?'

He wanted to ask for more details.

But the Emperor's Weapon Spirit was clearly unwilling to elaborate.

With a great RIP, a rift tore open the void before him. Yang Xiao could see the outside world, but it didn't seem to be the Profound Sun Secret Realm he'd been in before.

"The Profound Sun Secret Realm has been destroyed. This is the weakest point in the void closest to its former location. Once you're out, I'll revert to my true form. You just need to carry me with you. If you run into a powerful enemy, you can hide inside me for a bit. With my power, no one weaker than a Divine King Level expert can even dream of finding me, hehe."

The Emperor's Weapon Spirit had seemed a bit melancholy—after all, he had watched Ye Lio grow up—but he quickly reverted to his usual smug, idiotic demeanor.

Clearly, while he might remember Ye Lio and the descendants of the Ye Family, it was unlikely he could ever truly care for them.

Yang Xiao didn't mind this.

Compared to humans, beings like this Artifact Spirit—or even the Spirit Body born of heaven and earth that he had been in his first life—were severely lacking when it came to emotions.

Expecting an Artifact Spirit to feel deep sorrow over the death of a living being was simply impossible.

As for the "true form" the Emperor's Weapon Spirit had mentioned, Yang Xiao understood perfectly.

Having once set foot in the Realm of the Unparalleled Divine King, just half a step away from achieving the Dominator Realm and attaining the Dao of a Great Emperor, how could he not know that an Inner Realm was, in fact, the manifestation of an Emperor's Weapon?

So, when Yang Xiao stepped out of the Inner Realm and a quaint, simple, nine-story pagoda appeared before him, he wasn't the least bit surprised. He picked it up casually, and the small pagoda shrank to the size of a dust mote, settling on a strand of his hair. Even he would have trouble finding it without looking closely.

Let alone anyone else.

"We're finally out! Let's go, Yang. I was so sick of that place."

Hearing this, even though Yang Xiao knew the Emperor's Weapon Spirit was deficient in so-called emotions, he still felt the urge to curse. 'Shouldn't he feel at least a little bit of loss, now that the Profound Sun Secret Realm is gone?'

'After all, it existed there for hundreds of thousands of years.'

'Unbelievable...'

'Thinking about it now, my Little Blood seems much more like a normal person.'

'Even though he can be absurd at times, too.'

'At least emotionally, he has far more depth than this one.'

After silently grumbling to himself for a moment, a flash of golden light appeared behind Yang Xiao as a pair of wings unfurled. However, just as he was about to take flight...

Suddenly.

A call for help reached him from a certain direction.

'Huh? Is the Life-taking Thousand-leaf Willow sending me a distress call?'

Yang Xiao's expression shifted.

He was puzzled.

'To be able to send me a distress signal, this Life-taking Thousand-leaf Willow must have developed considerable sentience. It seems that compared to the other two seeds, this one has had a much greater opportunity. But the only expert in the Eastern Domain at the Void Immortal Realm was Ye Donghuang, and he's already dead. What kind of existence could possibly threaten it?'

Yang Xiao couldn't understand.

The greatest flaw of a Life-taking Thousand-leaf Willow formed from Ten Thousand Poison Origin Qi was its lack of sentience. It matured more than ten times slower than a natural one.

But even so, unless a Void Immortal took action, an ordinary Immortal Cultivator—even one at the Peak of Dao Tier—couldn't hope to destroy it.

But Ye Donghuang was long dead. Who else could possibly threaten it?

'Forget it. Instead of overthinking it, I should just go take a look. This is perfect timing. I'll destroy the Immortal Dao Influence in the Eastern Domain first, and then head to the Vast Heaven Immortal Sect!'

After a moment's hesitation, Yang Xiao changed his direction.

He no longer headed due west toward the Central Domain.

Instead, he turned to the east.

With a beat of the wings on his back, he shot off into the distance.

There...

...was the location of the Profound Celestial Sect, one of the three great influences of the Eastern Domain.