I Have A Sword

The Existing Dao was also feeling quite helpless; he couldn't help but bemoan his luck in encountering such a family.

When he first met Ye Guan's father, he initially thought that the man was upright and righteous, but he unexpectedly turned out to be shameless.

A hundred thousand Eternal Crystals were almost half of his life savings! He was also finessed and had willingly handed over several divine artifacts…

Yes, it was all the father’s doing, but the son was even more hopeless. The brat was a sly one as well.

The whole family was just outrageously shameless.

Ye Guan opened his palm, revealing the IOU. He looked at the stone gate and earnestly said, "Senior, my father borrowed one hundred thousand Eternal Crystals, and I truly can’t repay that amount. However, my Yang family is not one to break promises."

Upon hearing that, hope was rekindled in the Existing Dao's heart.

"What do you propose?"

Ye Guan thought for a moment and said, "Senior, if you trust me, lend me another hundred thousand Eternal Crystals!"

Ye Guan earnestly said, "Senior, you know that my family’s goal is to unify the vast expanse, and I need a ton of capital to do that. Once we achieve our goal, our Immortal Treasures Pavilion will open throughout the vast expanse.

"By then, I will repay my debt and my father's debt to you. What do you think?"

The Existing Dao remained silent for a long time before saying, "Your father can't be the guarantor; you need to find someone else."

Seeing a chance, Ye Guan quickly said, "My grandfather will guarantee it!"

The Existing Dao angrily replied, "Three generations of the same family are trying to borrow money from me? Are you trying to con me?"

Ye Guan awkwardly laughed. "My grandfather's character is great, really."

The Existing Dao sternly said, "Let your aunt become the guarantor."

Ye Guan fell silent. My aunt as the guarantor? If I do that, I'm going to get beaten to death.

The Existing Dao added, "If you can’t get your aunt to guarantee it, there’s another way. I can invest these hundred thousand Eternal Crystals in your Immortal Treasures Pavilion, and a hundred years later, your pavilion will have to pay me dividends."

Ye Guan asked, "What percentage are we talking bout?"

The Existing Dao replied, "I want a one percent share of the annual profits. That’s fair, isn't it?"

Ye Guan remained silent.

A hundred thousand Eternal Crystals in exchange for one percent of the profits was certainly a great deal at the moment. The majority of the Immortal Treasures Pavilion’s earnings were from Ancestral Veins; it had yet to start earning Eternal Crystals.

A hundred years later, however, the Immortal Treasures Pavilion would certainly start earning Eternal Crystals. The Immortal Treasures Pavilion would essentially become a monopoly by then!

The pavilion’s earnings in a hundred years would be terrifying, so the Existing Dao's suggestion was a bad deal!

With that in mind, Ye Guan called out, "Yi Nian."

Swoosh!

Yi Nian appeared beside Ye Guan. She opened her palm, and a Tianxing Flame appeared in her hand. She raised an eyebrow and asked, "Are we robbing someone? I can strike immediately!"

The Existing Dao had no idea what to say.

Ye Guan’s face darkened—when did this girl become a bandit?

Ye Guan asked, "How many Eternal Crystals do you have right now?"

Yi Nian glanced at the small pouch at her waist and replied, "About twenty thousand."

Twenty thousand!

Ye Guan thought for a moment and then said, "Senior, I can agree to the shares, but with one condition—you must become a guest elder of the Guanxuan Academy."

"Deal!"

The Existing Dao agreed without any hesitation.

Ye Guan’s face darkened. Damn! Something feels off here.

Just then, a storage ring floated over toward him. There were exactly one hundred thousand Eternal Crystals inside the storage ring, and they were all of the highest quality, just slightly inferior to Yi Nian’s Eternal Crystals.

One hundred thousand Eternal Crystals! Ye Guan’s lips curled up into a smile. With these one hundred thousand Eternal Crystals, he could accomplish many things.

He put the Eternal Crystals away and said, "Senior, if experts from the Evil Dao Alliance were to cause trouble for the Great Zhou or the Guanxuan Universe, I implore you to help them."

"Sure," the Existing Dao replied, "But I must warn you—I can't stop the First Hall Master and the Second Hall Master."

Ye Guan nodded. "Just do your best."

The Existing Dao responded, "Of course."

"Senior, how do I get to Abyssal Hell?" asked Ye Guan.

Swoosh!

A scroll slowly floated out of the stone gate. "This is a teleportation scroll to Abyssal Hell. Additionally, here’s a Dao Token. With this token, the Hell Lord won’t trouble you. You can train there in peace."

"Farewell, then, Senior." Ye Guan nodded. He put away the scroll and the Dao Token before transforming into a ray of sword light, disappearing from the spot.

Not long after Ye Guan's departure, a man suddenly appeared. He glanced in the direction where Ye Guan had disappeared before staring at the stone gate. "You just gave up like that?"

The Existing Dao calmly replied, "What? Was I supposed to him?"

The man smiled and replied, "Back in the day, your master fought the old Dao for ten thousand years to establish a new order. That was such a difficult ordeal, but today…"

The man shook his head and went silent.

The Existing Dao coolly asked, "Is that jealousy I'm smelling?"

"Why would I be jealous of you? If it weren't for his father and aunt, killing him would be as easy as crushing an ant—"

Rumble!

A spacetime rift cracked open above the man, and a sword descended toward him.

The man’s pupils contracted sharply. He opened his palm, and a divine seal shot out of his hand to meet the sword. However, the divine seal shattered in an instant.

Swoosh!

The sword pierced the man from the crown of his head.

The man’s eyes widened in disbelief.

Just then, Ye Guan reappeared on the scene. "Senior, I forgot to—"

He stopped mid-sentence, turning to look at the man on the right. When he saw the sword sticking out of the man’s body, he was instantly stunned.

The sword was none other than the Path Sword!

The man saw Ye Guan and trembled. "Save me, Young Master Ye!"

Ye Guan looked confused. "And you are?"

The man hesitated briefly before replying, "I'm a prisoner on the eighth Heaven. My surname is Tian, and my name is Wushen..."

Ye Guan glanced at the man but said nothing. The fact that he was struck down by the Path Sword meant that he had to have done something wrong.

Just then, the Existing Dao suddenly said, "He has a penchant for being arrogant and saying things that he shouldn’t say. He's not actually a bad person, so why not spare him?"

Ye Guan shook his head. "I don’t know him."

Tian Wushen’s expression changed dramatically. "Young Master Ye, I have money!"

Ye Guan immediately became interested. He looked at Tian Wushen and asked, "How much?"

"Ten thousand Eternal Crystals…"

Ye Guan shook his head. "I don’t know you."

Tian Wushen panicked and exclaimed, "Thirty thousand Eternal Crystals! Thirty thousand, that’s all I have."

Tian Wushen opened his palm, and a storage ring flew toward Ye Guan.

The ring contained exactly thirty thousand Eternal Crystals.

However, Ye Guan didn’t accept it.

Tian Wushen was terrified at the sight, and he quickly said, "Brother Dao, help me!"

The Existing Dao was silent for a few moments before saying, "Young Master Ye, can you do me a favor?"

Ye Guan nodded slightly. "Alright!"

Ye Guan stroked the blade of the Path Sword and smiled. "Go now…"

The Path Sword trembled slightly, and then it transformed into a flash of sword light that disappeared into the distant horizon.

Ye Guan looked at the stone gate and said, "Senior, there's one more thing I forgot to ask. Do you know the Great Daoist Brush Master?"

The Existing Dao replied, "Not very well, but I know him."

Ye Guan's curiosity was piqued. "Can you tell me more about him?"

"Are you worried about him?" the Existing Dao asked.

"A bit." Ye Guan nodded slightly. He always had a feeling that the Great Daoist Brush Master wasn't exactly a good person.

The Existing Dao said, "His goal is similar to yours—establishing a new order. However, his power isn't that overwhelming, so he could only make an attempt. He couldn't actually do it. Perhaps he's been hiding his strength.

"Anyway, he is a mysterious individual, but he shouldn't have any ill will toward you."

"One of my brothers is training under him..." Ye Guan muttered with a solemn face. He wasn't particularly afraid of the Great Daoist Brush Master, but he was worried that Ye Qing would be led astray by the Great Daoist Brush Master.

"Don't worry," the Existing Dao said, "He has a mysterious background, but he has a good sense of propriety and won't resort to underhanded tricks. I believe you should be more concerned about the Evil Dao Alliance. The Evil Dao in the True Universe will surely be rescued by the Evil Dao Alliance.

"That Evil Dao has now become a pure manifestation of evil, and if she breaks free and is allowed to cultivate with a vast amount of resources, she will become an extremely terrifying existence. Her origin isn't that simple as well—"

The Existing Dao suddenly stopped speaking.

Ye Guan asked, "What do you mean?"

The Existing Dao remained silent for a while before saying, "This issue involves too many complexities, and there's some information I can't reveal to you.

"However, I can tell you this—she was born out of calamity, a calamity that has taken root in the evil thoughts of countless beings. Its very existence is not wrong. It aligns with the rules and laws of the vast expanse's Great Dao.

"Similarly, the True God isn't wrong either. She wants to save the beings of the True Universe, so she has been suppressing it."

"In the eyes of the countless beings in the True Universe, the Evil Dao is wrong, and it's evil, but the True God is wrong and evil in the eyes of the countless Evil Daos. It's like saving a sheep by driving away a wolf.

"You saved the sheep, sure, but the wolf starved to death because of you. With that in mind, is the wolf really at fault?"

Ye Guan fell silent.

"Of course, the constant law of the vast expanse is the law of the jungle. The Evil Dao of the True Universe can't defeat the True God, so it is still being suppressed—that's her fate.

"More often than not, right and wrong don't matter. If you're strong, you're right. If you're weak, even if you're right, you might still be considered wrong," the Existing Dao added.

Ye Guan nodded slightly. "I'll take care of the True Universe's Evil Dao when the time comes."

"I've seen your Guanxuan Law. I think your ideas aren't impossible, but implementing them will be extremely difficult. You need to be mentally prepared."

"Understood," Ye Guan said. He then cupped his fist and said, "Farewell, Senior."

Ye Guan transformed into a streak of sword light and disappeared from the spot.

Tian Wushen finally let out a sigh of relief. He had to admit that his soul had nearly left his body. He had come so close to dying!

Just then, Tian Wushen saw a lady walking toward them. The lady was wearing a mask and was dressed in a white robe; her calm gaze was as still as a placid lake.

Tian Wushen frowned. "Who are you?"

However, the lady ignored him completely.

Tian Wushen's frown deepened. "Trying to act all superior with me, huh?"

He waved his sleeve, and a terrifying aura surged toward the lady.

The lady stopped in her tracks and glanced at him. "Kneel."

Boom!

Tian Wushen's pupils shrank instantly. Before he could do anything, his legs gave out, and he dropped to his knees.

Amidst utter shock and fear, Tian Wushen cried out, "Brother Dao, save me!"

"Fuck off!" the Existing Dao cursed.

Tian Wushen had no idea what to say.