Celestial Dragon Sword Venerable

Ye Tianling’s heart trembled as a warm current flowed through it.

Little Dragon Girl, who looked no older than four or five, deliberately gave him a cute wink. She was trying to cheer him up.

But with everyone around him having met such a fate, and with Little Dragon Girl herself having been on the verge of Destruction, how could he possibly be happy?

"You... didn’t I tell you before? If you’re okay, I’m okay. Your divine might was invincible earlier, so naturally, I woke up. That’s why I know everything that happened."

Little Dragon Girl said with a giggle.

Her proud yet endearing nature was on full display.

Another warm current flowed through Ye Tianling’s heart. His lonely, desolate heart felt as if it had found a harbor to anchor in.

"You know? Then why... why..."

Ye Tianling couldn’t finish his sentence.

He wanted to ask why Little Dragon Girl hadn’t warned him that there was a problem with Yao Yusu.

If she had, his father, Ye Fengyang, his mother, Long Qingzhuo, and his two younger sisters, Long Tianyu and Long Tianmo, wouldn’t have been in danger.

But how could he say something so contemptible?

It was his own incompetence. He had failed to protect the people around him and had instead dragged Little Dragon Girl down, causing her to sacrifice so much that even the Xuanyuan Celestial Evil Sword lost its Divinity.

"Why didn’t I intervene? There was a reason. I only awakened after you started Entering Demon. By then, the tragedy had already occurred, and there was nothing I could do. I couldn’t even wake you up. Your willpower is too strong. That’s a terrifying strength, but it’s also a fatal weakness.

The weakness is that when someone with willpower as strong as yours enters a demonic state, it’s an absolute disaster.

I’ve told you before what would happen if you were to completely enter the demonic state.

After you started Entering Demon and were awakened from the ’Evil Venerable’ state, you were almost completely drained of Energy. I am the Mechanical Heart; when you aged to the point where your teeth were about to fall out, I naturally fell into a state of decline again.

If the Xuanyuan Celestial Evil Sword hadn’t slain the Taotie Divine Beast’s clone projection and fed some Divine Energy back to me, I’m afraid I would have fallen into silence along with you."

"I’m sorry..."

Ye Tianling was filled with immense shame.

"You don’t have to say you’re sorry. Things aren’t as bad as you think, and it’s certainly not time to fall into utter despair."

Little Dragon Girl said softly.

As she spoke, she flapped her Spiritual wings and landed on Ye Tianling’s shoulder, leaning gently against his neck.

It was as if she was deliberately offering him a pillar of support, trying to give him a sense of security and happiness.

Although the gesture seemed comical, childish, and even absurd.

In reality, Ye Tianling truly felt an indescribable sense of security and a deep sense of happiness.

Murky tears couldn’t help but well up in his hollow, blood-red eyes.

"Is there... still hope for them?"

Ye Tianling’s voice trembled again. As he asked Little Dragon Girl, it felt as though this one sentence contained all his remaining Life Force.

"Under normal circumstances, there would be no hope. But right now, there is. Do you know why?"

Little Dragon Girl asked with a giggle.

Her figure flickered in and out of existence, but neither Long Fengyang and the others, nor the withered old woman, could see her.

The withered old woman’s gaze was no longer on Ye Tianling. Instead, she looked up at the sky above the gradually collapsing Ancient Cyan Dragon Warfield. Her ancient eyes, which contained mottled Dao Marks and Ancient Qi, flickered with the profound and uncertain Law of Netherworld Destruction.

"Alas... the punishment of the rules..."

She murmured, her expression growing dim and wistful.

The four members of Long Fengyang’s group remained kneeling, not daring to stand.

This small space, an Ancient Battlefield that was like a Secret Realm, had now shattered beyond repair.

For a Holy Land to lose such a heaven-defying Enlightenment Secret Realm was a truly enormous loss.

They knew they were sinners of the Holy Land. Now, before this withered old woman whose identity and seniority were unknown, they had no right to stand.

...

"Why..."

Ye Tianling’s throat bobbed as he murmured.

His voice was even hoarser and weaker, as if he were about to undergo Transformation Dao.

When things reach an extreme, they reverse.

His previous Demon Heart Sword Body, his infinitely stacking Battle Power—just as everyone had thought, it was all fueled by an endless reserve of foundational Energy and life potential.

At that moment, he was like a brilliant meteor.

But when the light burns out and darkness descends, all that remains are the ashes of calamity.

And that was Ye Tianling’s state right now.

He had already begun the process of Transformation Dao. The skin on his body, as dry as tree bark, was cracking and flaking away. He was on the verge of complete death.

And though the sliver of Divine Energy fed back to him by the Xuanyuan Celestial Evil Sword had helped him recover somewhat, it now seemed to have only temporarily stabilized his injuries.

"Sigh..."

Hearing his own voice, Ye Tianling sighed in his heart.

’So what if I can’t let go of all these things?’

He was, after all, decaying. His potential was exhausted, and he was about to undergo Transformation Dao. His life had truly reached its end.

Even though Little Dragon Girl had appeared, and though she was proud and cute and could warm his heart, he was already old and decrepit. He truly needed Little Dragon Girl’s support just to move.

"That Guardian from the Dragon Race actually gave you a partial answer. It wasn’t the whole truth, but it was a decent explanation. As long as Long Fengyang does not die, Ye Fengyang, as the Child of Celestial Mandate who evolved from him, cannot possibly die before him. As for Long Qingzhuo, what appeared here was something like a Void Body or a Clone. That version of her did indeed die, but her true body is in the depths of the forbidden Celestial Demon Blood Domain, on the eighteenth level of the Ancestral Dragon Abyss, suffering all kinds of horrific torture.

And the fundamental reason she’s being tortured is that she and Ye Fengyang created you—an existence that transcends the Life Chart.

The Yin Yang Harmony of a Double Void Body should not produce offspring, but because Ye Fengyang is a Child of Celestial Mandate, you were born as an act of Transcendence.

Therefore, anything related to you can actually be changed. Once the rules are repaired and you are erased, many things will return to how they were supposed to be."

Little Dragon Girl explained seriously.

Ye Tianling’s heart skipped a beat.

Little Dragon Girl continued, "Many things might feel familiar, like déjà vu, as if they’ve happened before. That’s because they *have* actually happened. But because something that transcended the rules occurred, it touched upon a taboo of the Celestial Dao. As a result, the Celestial Dao Rules repaired themselves, erasing certain events that were supposed to exist and had a great impact. This, in turn, caused people under the rules’ influence to lose memories they should have had."

Ye Tianling became thoughtful, understanding what Little Dragon Girl meant.

"For example, when you’re doing something, you might suddenly get the feeling, ’I feel like I’ve done this before, so why am I doing it again? This is so familiar. Have I experienced this? But why can’t I remember?’"

Looking adorably innocent, Little Dragon Girl nuzzled Ye Tianling’s neck as she spoke, acting cute and spoiled.

"Yes, that’s happened to me, multiple times."

Ye Tianling trembled slightly.

"That’s the rules of heaven and earth correcting themselves, imperceptibly changing things. And in this world, there is a place extremely close to the Celestial Dao Rules. You can go there and try to change things. That is the hope I was talking about."

Little Dragon Girl’s voice was clear and pleasant.

"What place? I... in my state, can I still go?"

Ye Tianling’s voice quivered once more.

"Yes, you can. Because the rules of this world were established by the ’Evil Venerable,’ and your Demon Heart Sword Body is the Evil Venerable’s Demon Heart Sword Body!"

Little Dragon Girl gave Ye Tianling a completely unexpected answer!