Paragon of Sin
chapter-1674

"...What?"

Wei Wuyin's sudden offer was unexpected! Recover? Provide products to do so? What?! Additionally, the slight tug of a grin at his lips was enough to cause palpitations of the heart!

Almost instinctively, most of the leaders of the No-Name Galaxy's various organizations immediately recalled the details of the sworn oath. They ran through the conditions at lightning speed, combing through every word with extreme carefulness! While they had done this before agreeing, the uncertainty was enough to trigger this type of response!

"..."

"Hahaha! It seems World-Saint Neo-Dawn has quite the humor," Sage Nepit laughed heartily, his tone relaxed and his emotions stable. Just like the others, he had run through the wording, phrasing, and details of the Heaven-Bound Mythical Oath several times and had made several amendments prior to its finalization. Out of everyone present, he was the most certain that there was no hidden trick.

As if they understood Wei Wuyin's words, finally realizing he was making a humorous joke due to their overly cautious nature before agreeing, several leaders began to smile and chuckle in jest.

"Oh!"

"Haha! You almost had us worried there, World-Saint Neo-Dawn! Hahaha!"

"Good one! Good one! I haven't laughed like that in a long time."

The reactions were filled with laughs and the Main Hall was transformed into a comedy stage for a brief moment, invigorated and amused by Wei Wuyin's 'joking offer'. Yet the jokester in question was oddly silent holding a faint grin, his silvery eyes observing Sage Pakhet's stern stare.

Young Master Shang quietly shook his head. Others might not understand what trap these so-called leaders of the No-Name Galaxy had fallen into, but how could he not? With a conventionally established, logically sound, and incredibly reasonable thought process, it makes absolute sense to believe that, with the banning of almost all external elements, eight Earthly Saints could never match eight Sages.

With a 'reasonable' thought process…but they've never met Wei Wuyin, they've never seen any of his absurd Prime Ascendants, or they haven't witnessed his convention-breaking streak of a lifetime! After all, Wei Wuyin had battled an Enlightened Sage outside of the Sky Heart Galaxy and returned alive! No—he was victorious!

While Young Master Shang was unaware of Wei Wuyin's exact cultivation base, he was competent enough to know that Wei Wuyin was a frightening cultivator with plans upon plans! If not, how could he conquer two galaxies within the shortest period?!

Cao Cuifen's smile was extremely big, and her eyes shone with expectation and excitement. Wei Wuyin's tactics of transforming two galaxies into his vassal states were far different than this galaxy, and he was far more ruthless, yet seeing the ending near, her heart couldn't stop racing with powerful thumps!

Sage Khonshu had to mentally run through the oath and the details of the battle several times before his heart relaxed utterly and completely. "World-Saint Neo-Dawn is an interesting man of many talents. Who would have thought he could find prime comedic timing so easily and with only a few words?" he commented light-heartedly.

Cao Cuifen eyed this white-robed Sage curiously. "Do you not want to recover before the fight? My husband is being very generous right now."

"...?" Sage Khonshu frowned before turning to face Cao Cuifen who looked very genuine in her words, eyes, and facial expression. Moreover, the hyped excitement was pulsating from her heart and surging through her veins.

She added, "I recommend you take this opportunity to do so. You might regret not taking it later."

"..."

Sage Imentet stared at Luo Ning, her beautiful eyebrows were furrowed and her eyes carried a heavy, solemn light. It was clear the gravity of Wei Wuyin's so-called humorous joke hadn't missed her, and she was questioning Luo Ning with her eyes.

Luo Ning returned her gaze, "Take the offer." It was only three words yet Sage Imentet felt that her words were utterly ludicrous. The conditions for the oath were that any eight cultivators in the upper stages, whether they were World Emperors, Original Magistrates, Mystic Overlords, or even Sages, could be selected and Wei Wuyin could only choose those at the Rune King, Highland, Venerable, or Exalted level!

There was no suspense! Furthermore, the Sages had long since decided to have the eight Sages, excluding Sage River Oasis and Sage Nepri, as participants regardless of Wei Wuyin's selection! They had repeatedly combed over the details without underestimating anything!

Was there a traitor amongst them or something? But unless they were all eight willing to surrender, that would essentially be useless!

That said, they had made a slight error.

Wei Wuyin's wager was seen as an offering to provide reasonable support with a defined oath to secure his foothold and influence in the long run of the No-Name Galaxy after Sage Hathor attempted to segregate from the galaxy and the various forces, limiting his goals for the immediate future by restricting access, but the battle was not with a non-zero chance of victory!

Given the conditions, there was no reason to reject. What if Wei Wuyin decides to simply recede his intent to wager after they refused to accept anything other than mortals participating from his side? The possibility of that happening wasn't a non-zero chance either! And if Wei Wuyin, a possessor of the Alchemic Stars of Transcendent Purity and founding Emperor of a fledgling empire, decided to simply withdraw his support, the tragedy of their future would be set in stone!

None of them wanted that! So they hurriedly rushed to the first deal, only ensuring that there was no chance of a loss!

Despite everything being hashed out, even giving Wei Wuyin the very, very slight chance of a miracle through the usage of rampant and reckless Heavenly Treasure usage by Earthly Saints, if they somehow decided to rely on Mystic Overlords or Original Magistrates as they avoid shamelessly going against Earthly Saints, they had still made a crucial, irredeemable error!

Sage Imentet's expression darkened as she turned away from Luo Ning, finding Wei Wuyin's unearthly visage that carried a carefree grin unnerving.

"Are you confident of winning?" Sage Pakhet cut through the laughter, her voice strong, forceful, and direct. The humorous atmosphere vanished like faint smoke in a ravenous hurricane. Everyone went silent. Their gazes shifted from Sage Pakhet to the target of her steely, terrifying gaze—Wei Wuyin!

Wei Wuyin firmly nodded before the crowd's gaze, replying succinctly: "By this time next week, the No-Name Galaxy would no longer be an unnamed galaxy."

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Three hours later.

Battlefield of the Fallen Divine—within the No-Name Galaxy were several forbidden regions or realms of spaces that were restricted or only opened for specific reasons, such as the Land of Manu. Most of the forbidden regions were classified as forbidden by respective territorial leaders due to their rampant dangers or unsolvable inhospitable environments, so every area, even individual planets or the continents within, had forbidden regions. But there were genuine, non-negotiable, galactic-wide forbidden regions that were sealed off for multiple reasons.

The Battlefield of the Fallen Divine was a Shell World, an isolated realm created by the Guardian Divinity and the invading Supreme Sage long, long ago, and was the burial grounds for that Supreme Sage. Very few knew if that terrifying truth, with many believing they were forced into a retreat in history books and obscure tales. The Shell World was unbearably sturdier and contained an environment of chaotic energies and an aura of Laws.

As shell worlds were generally the site of high-level, highly destructive combatants of various cultivation bases used to prevent widespread and unreasonable destruction, the eight Sages would commonly open this particular forbidden region to practice their arts and spells or to spar and confirm their cultivations.

Most importantly, every millennium, the eight Sages—Sage Imentet, Sage Nepit, Sage Pakhet, Sage Khonshu, Sage Amunet, Sage Khepri, Sage Hathor, and Sage Shattered Sphinx—cultivated together using this forbidden zone to satisfy certain conditions of their cultivation method. To the outside world, this was a place of great importance, signifying and reminding the upper echelon of the galaxy that they had a protector, while to the Sages, it was their private cultivation grounds that were unable to be spied upon.

The world itself was a grand, flat, and sandy continent. At the very center of this isolated world was a great monument of a golden pyramid that towered over ten thousand kilometers in height effusing waves of beautifully colorful energies, cold and abnormal in origin. At the edges of the shell world, engulfing it were radiant, blazing solar flames exuding intense heat and yang aura. The entire Shell World was sixty-nine million miles long, being one of the largest shell worlds ever!

The two, the border and the centerpiece of the Shell World, created a natural balance.

Eight figures were together, segregated by a few dozen meters or so each, floating in the sky, and exuding a solemn aura. They were the eight Sages of the No-Name Galaxy! They were all outfitted in readied attire, suitable for battle, with Sage Khonshu in a full moon-white battle robe with crescent-moon pauldrons and silvery bracers.

Shockingly, they all emitted strong, healthy auras. Even Sage Pakhet and Sage Imentet, who suffered substantial injuries in the earlier fight against Zhan Jiangwen, were exuding robust and renewed auras! They were at their very peak. The remnant aura of accelerated temporal phenomenon lingered on their bodies.

However, while they had taken Wei Wuyin's offer of the Neo-Dawn Vortex-Zone Pellets' accelerated time fields, they didn't dare use his alchemical pills to recover and relied on their own means. Who was unaware that the utilization of an Alchemist's products could lead to all sorts of strange effects through their Alchemic Stars?! They weren't that careless!

"Are we seriously about to fight against eight Rune Kings with all of our strength?" Sage Khepri found this ludicrous as he adjusted his Heavenly Treasure, a golden disk the size of a wash bin etched with esoteric runes. They had exhausted a significant portion of their kept reserves to restore their exhausted mystic energies and recover from any ability-hindering injuries for this. Moreover, they were going to use the Supreme Sage battleground, the Battlefield of the Fallen Divine, a location that could withstand the intense conflict of Supreme Sages, for this? FOR THIS?!

"..." The other Sages didn't respond immediately, but their expression, while varied, all became increasingly overcast.

"We might have fallen for a scheme, so we have to be prepared. If the wager ends in our favor, what will these losses amount to? We'll receive ten Mystic-World alchemical products each century. Easily recovered losses," Sage Nepit reasoned while also readying his Heavenly Treasure. He hadn't—no, they hadn't expected this development, but the Neo-Dawn Alchemic Saint was clearly serious!

Sage Khepri pursued his lips.

"There's no need to think further about it," Sage Pakhet said, her voice laced with an icy chill, "It's almost time."

Her words were right! There was no need to think about it any further!

Then, from an established Gateway Door leading into the Shell World, eight figures walked through. At the lead was none other than Wei Wuyin in his signature combat outfit with his saber's scabbard at his waist! Behind him, Su Mei, Zuhei, Yao Houyi, Shui Fengbao, Tuo Bihan, a figure enveloped in hazy, indistinct darkness, and Wei Si!

They were all ready for battle!

"I have my eight," Wei Wuyin smiled. The others behind him took a concerted step back, as if practiced, and retreated to the edge of the Shell World without hesitation, while Wei Wuyin stood firmly alone.

"Eight?" The Sages counted seven.

"But they're not needed," Wei Wuyin said as he took a single step forward, his aura as a Mystic Star Phase expert finally leaking outwards! "I'll be your only opponent," the Alchemic Stars of Transcendent Purity glowed within his pupils as the perfected Celestial Eyes were fully activated!

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