Chapter 1967: Entering the Ancient God Battlefield

"Eh?"

Xuanji the Heavenly Sovereign, who was performing the spell, suddenly sensed something unusual.

His eyes seemed to pierce through the void, directly landing on Ye Yuan in the passage.

"This young man is interesting! Quite interesting!"

He said 'interesting' twice in a row, which for Xuanji the Heavenly Sovereign meant he had encountered something that truly piqued his interest.

Beside him, a middle-aged man asked in surprise, "Father, what has caught your interest so?"

Xuanji the Heavenly Sovereign smiled and said, "This time the Ancient God Battlefield has opened, and I've discovered a very interesting little fellow."

"Oh? I wonder what is so peculiar about this little fellow that he could attract Father's attention?"

He knew that the Ancient God Battlefield had opened countless times, and his father had never shown such an expression before, indicating that this little fellow was truly interesting.

He understood that someone at his father's level had long reached a state of utter tranquility, where very few things could stir his emotions.

But today, his father's emotions were clearly stirred, which shocked him deeply.

Xuanji the Heavenly Sovereign smiled and said, "He's a little fellow from the Imperial Capital of Ultimate Fortune. I, your father, cannot see through his depths."

The middle-aged man's pupils contracted, and he exclaimed in shock, "Father calculates all heavenly secrets and knows everything under heaven. Could there really be someone in this world that Father cannot see through?"

Xuanji shook his head and laughed, "Calculate all heavenly secrets? That's just what you think. I, your father, have merely lived a long time and know a bit more about this world than others."

Xuanji stood with his hands behind his back, turned to look at the distant sky, and sighed, "The world says I, Xuanji, know everything and can do everything, but they don't know that whenever our Jian family moves the counting rods, Heaven's Dao laughs! The higher one stands, the more one feels like walking on thin ice, the more one feels that Heaven's secrets are unfathomable."

The middle-aged man was utterly confused; he simply could not understand Xuanji the Heavenly Sovereign's words.

In his eyes, his father always had everything under control.

There was nothing in this world that Xuanji the Heavenly Sovereign could not calculate.

Even the unattainable Dao Ancestor treated his father with great courtesy.

His father was definitely an anomaly in the Tongtian Realm, a being beyond worldly matters.

What he said was something he himself could not comprehend.

Could Heaven's Dao laugh?

"What Father said... Yunxin does not understand."

"Heh, perhaps one day you will. Go and inquire about this little fellow's background," Xuanji said with a smile.

"Yes, Father." Jian Yunxin accepted the order and left.

...

In the passage, Ye Yuan suddenly frowned.

"Senior, I just felt as if someone was spying on me," Ye Yuan said to Wuchen.

Wuchen was somewhat surprised and said, "Spying on you? I didn't sense anything."

Ye Yuan was taken aback; even Wuchen hadn't felt it?

"Maybe it was my imagination," Ye Yuan said.

Wuchen frowned thoughtfully and said, "Not necessarily. Tell me what you just felt."

Ye Yuan said, "It was like... a gaze from Heaven's Dao, elusive and intangible."

Wuchen said, "This passage to the Ancient God Battlefield was opened by Xuanji the Heavenly Sovereign using his great divine power. Sending you into the Ancient God Battlefield is also his doing. Could it be... that he was spying on you?"

Hearing this, Ye Yuan couldn't help but frown.

Being noticed by such a powerful figure was not what he wanted.

Although he admired Xuanji the Heavenly Sovereign greatly, he also knew that such a person was too ethereal and not someone he could contact at his current level.

Being noticed by Xuanji the Heavenly Sovereign was not a good thing.

"Oh well, if it's a blessing, it's not a curse; if it's a curse, you can't avoid it."

Just as Ye Yuan was hesitating, his vision blurred, and a fierce, killing aura rushed toward him.

Before him was a vast, yellow sand-covered land stretching endlessly.

Suddenly, the scene shifted.

In the sky, two powerful beings, their divine essence vast and mighty, were locked in a fierce battle that shook heaven and earth.

Suddenly, a stray attack scattered and headed straight their way.

Song Yu and the others' faces changed drastically, and they shouted, "Oh no, run!"

With that, they turned and fled.

At this moment, there were probably no fewer than several hundred young powerhouses in the area.

Seeing the terrifying energy fluctuations, everyone turned pale with fear and, like Song Yu, turned and ran.

But how could they escape?

The energy fluctuation arrived in an instant, yet there was no explosive sound as everyone had imagined.

It simply dissipated into nothing.

Looking up again, the two powerhouses had also vanished without a trace.

"What the hell? It was just a false alarm!"

"Damn, scared me to death. What was that?"

"Don't tell me those two powerhouses were just illusions?"

...

Those young powerhouses cursed angrily, clearly feeling they had been tricked.

At that moment, Liu Yi suddenly appeared beside Ye Yuan and exclaimed in admiration, "Little brother is truly extraordinary, facing such earth-shattering energy fluctuations without changing expression."

Just now, only a few people had stood still without moving.

Ye Yuan was one of them.

Ye Yuan glanced at the sleazy Liu Yi and said with a faint smile, "Playing the pig to eat the tiger—it seems Brother Liu has mastered it to perfection."

Liu Yi was startled inwardly, but on the surface he said with a sleazy grin, "What is little brother talking about? I don't understand."

Ye Yuan smiled and said, "You and I know it in our hearts."

Liu Yi, having been snubbed, awkwardly retreated to the side.

But he became wary of Ye Yuan.

Although Song Yu was strong, Ye Yuan didn't take him seriously.

He was just a pampered young master who wouldn't even know how he was ambushed in a place like the Ancient God Battlefield.

But from the start, Ye Yuan had been very alert to Liu Yi.

He instinctively felt that Liu Yi was not simple.

A rogue cultivator like him, able to rise all the way and reach the Imperial Extreme Qi at such an age—this could not be summed up by the simple word 'luck'.

In fact, from the moment he entered the Ancient God Battlefield, Ye Yuan had been observing Liu Yi.

Sure enough, when everyone panicked and ran just now, Liu Yi's face showed feigned surprise as he ran along with everyone.

His frightened expression was very fake, but in such a chaotic moment, naturally no one noticed him.

Even so, he still put on that expression, showing how deep his scheming was.

Ye Yuan believed in fate, but he did not blindly trust it.

Human effort can determine outcomes; defying fate to change one's destiny is not just a legend.

Liu Yi's step-by-step rise to where he was today was by no means due to luck alone.

"That was not an illusion!" Just then, a deep voice sounded in everyone's ears.

"Who? Who's speaking?"

Everyone was greatly alarmed, for they could not find the speaker.

"No need to look. I am in seclusion deep within the Ancient God Battlefield; you won't find me. I am the guardian of the Ancient God Battlefield. Now that you have entered, I have a few warnings for you." The voice sounded again.

"I am a Sovereign! That's... a Heavenly Sovereign!"

Hearing this, everyone was greatly shocked.