Chapter 2169

The old man smiled bitterly. "Whether I return home or not no longer matters. Just having news is good enough. Many here don’t even know the last word from their loved ones."

Zhu Yanyi frowned slightly. "This is wrong. Whether they are family or soldiers on the battlefield, their futures must be arranged."

She spoke from her heart.

"Arrange their futures, young lady? You are still too young. In these times, surviving without being stabbed is already a blessing. Who knows if the sun will ever rise again?" The old man looked at the sky. "It has been dark for over ten years. I wonder if this old man will ever see the sun again in his life."

Zhu Yanyi also looked up. "Indeed, the fog layer is too thick. I don’t know when the sun will come out. But if it does, many people might sacrifice themselves."

The old man gazed at the sky and smiled softly. "Blue skies, white clouds, and the red sun—these should always exist. For this existence, some sacrifices are necessary."

Zhu Yanyi was stunned. She looked at the old man. "You don’t seem like an ordinary old man. Who are you? Don’t tell me you’re just a commoner, or that you have a second son. If you did, and she knew you cursed her to death, what would her heart feel?"

The old man chuckled, turned around, and transformed into an elegant man. "My name is Ouyang Mingyue. You must have heard of me."

"Immortal Emperor Ouyang Mingyue?" Zhu Yanyi pointed at the sky, then at Ouyang Mingyue. "Can an Immortal Emperor even come to this place?"

"I came to give you the answer," Ouyang Mingyue said helplessly. "And it’s normal for me to be here. An opponent is stirring up trouble here. I had to come."

"An opponent?" Zhu Yanyi looked at her.

Ouyang Mingyue nodded. "You don’t need to ask for now. You haven’t become an immortal yet, so telling you would be useless."

Zhu Yanyi waved her hand. "Don’t say that. I’m not curious. I just wonder if you immortals and gods are very bored. If you are, why not help these people improve things? At least let the sun come out first."

"Don’t you have that ability yourself?" Ouyang Mingyue smiled elegantly. "Your blessing and purification power is very strong."

"I know. But I didn’t plan to purify it yet. I don’t know who the mastermind is," Zhu Yanyi said, looking at her. "Are you here to tell me the answer?"

Ouyang Mingyue pulled out a folding fan from nowhere, opened it, and fanned himself. "It’s not that I won’t tell you. It’s that your current cultivation isn’t enough to fight a human opponent."

"If you can’t say anything, why did you appear?" Zhu Yanyi asked directly. "Are you here to laugh at my helplessness?"

Ouyang Mingyue suddenly didn’t know how to respond.

"I say, Immortal Emperor, why are you making trouble here for no reason?" Yan Aohan appeared.

Zhu Yanyi’s eyes lit up when she saw Yan Aohan, but she still asked with concern, "Is it okay for you to come like this?"

Yan Aohan smiled lightly. "I control reincarnation. The souls here are struggling. My appearance accelerates their reincarnation speed. They will only be grateful. So, do you see any problem? There won’t be any." Then Yan Aohan looked at Ouyang Mingyue. "I never thought you’d be so leisurely coming here."

"Do you think I want to come? My adopted son told me the Heavenly Dao of this plane was obscured. I calculated it, so I had to come," Ouyang Mingyue sighed. "I am the Peerless Immortal Emperor. All immortals are under my jurisdiction, and so are the Heavenly Daos of these planes."

"I think the Supreme Black Emperor was bored and dumped this on you," Yan Aohan said directly, glancing at him. Everyone knew that all Heavenly Daos, big and small, should be managed by Xie Jifan, but he had disappeared.

Ouyang Mingyue shook his fan and didn’t deny it. "No choice. He is the greatest Heavenly Dao. Whatever he says goes."

Yan Aohan glanced at Ouyang Mingyue, then looked at Zhu Yanyi. "The situation here isn’t good. It’s not that you can’t handle it, but there is an outsider here. She is already an immortal, and you can’t defeat her."

Hearing this, Zhu Yanyi understood. Yan Aohan could appear so smoothly not just because he controlled reincarnation, but because an outsider from another world had appeared here.

"Is it that demon kingdom’s state preceptor?" Zhu Yanyi asked.

"No," Yan Aohan shook his head slightly. "That preceptor is only at the Golden Core level. I checked your reincarnation impression of fighting him. He is no match for you. But now he is missing because someone covered his aura and sent him to hide elsewhere. That was the outsider’s doing."

"Hiding elsewhere? Is this a spy movie?" Zhu Yanyi twitched her mouth, feeling speechless.

"No choice. That’s how it is where there are monarchs," Yan Aohan said, rubbing Zhu Yanyi’s head. "Were you scared these past few days?"

As soon as Yan Aohan finished speaking, Ouyang Mingyue, who had been listening to the couple, nearly fell over. Ouyang Mingyue knew the situation well. The Divine Doctor Throne, who killed several people every day and dozens in a few days, was scared? Who would believe that?

"I say, Yan Aohan, can you not be so foolish? Who is your wife? The Divine Doctor Throne! She killed dozens in just a few days. Her methods are like this." Ouyang Mingyue gave a thumbs up. "You worry she was scared? Why don’t you worry she scared others?"

Yan Aohan glared at Ouyang Mingyue. "I say, Immortal Emperor, can you speak nicely? What do you mean my wife scared others? Is my wife such a bad person? The bad ones are others. My wife is the best in the world. If she kills, it’s because they deserved it."

"Biased," Ouyang Mingyue sneered.

"If you have the ability, find someone with a righteous heart for me," Yan Aohan retorted without holding back.

Ouyang Mingyue paused. It seemed true. In this heaven and earth, it seemed impossible to find a person with a truly righteous heart.

Zhu Yanyi smiled beside them. "Immortal Emperor, since you came down so rarely, and this is our first meeting, my heart is very fragile. Turning from an old man to an Immortal Emperor suddenly scared me. So, shouldn’t you give some compensation?"