Chapter 415: Let’s Cooperate

Seriously? Using me as bait again?

Now you expect me to obey you too?

I haven’t even gotten An Li to back down yet, and now you’re bringing in another one, still treating me like some lackey?

Lu Ye! Where the hell do you keep finding these women?

Why do they all have to be so damn bossy?

How is obeying Yin Qingcheng any different from obeying An Li?

Dark Origin was completely lost.

"What if I refuse to listen to you?" Dark Origin said.

Yin Qingcheng remained calm.

"Suit yourself. If you have the ability, then go take on Lu Ye yourself," Yin Qingcheng replied indifferently.

Dark Origin was on the verge of losing it.

Why is it always like this? Doesn’t it bother you at all as Lu Ye’s power skyrockets?

Aren’t you worried he’ll achieve the Dao and become an Emperor at an alarming speed, leaving you powerless against him?

What kind of messed-up thinking is this?!

Dark Origin just didn’t get it.

At this moment, it even started questioning itself—was it because it wasn’t a woman that it couldn’t understand their reasoning? Maybe I should just become a woman?

Would that make their thinking click?

Turns out, Dark Origin had a point!

Whether it was An Li or Yin Qingcheng, Lu Ye’s women didn’t give a damn about his power level. In their hearts, Lu Ye had always been stronger than them, and they never planned to fight him head-on.

They preferred outsmarting him instead.

That was their true expertise.

Dark Origin sighed, its black mist dissipating. Whatever. It’d just find someone else—there had to be someone else out there.

But who?

Dark Origin fell into deep thought.

Maybe Yue Hongling was worth a shot.

At that moment, Yue Hongling was relentlessly grinding herself to the bone, as if she had returned to the days when her senior brother had taken her to that chaotic land. She fought opponent after opponent, her Fearless Dao growing from shaky to firm, then unbreakable!

"Yue Hongling!"

Dark Origin’s voice echoed in her ears.

Yue Hongling stiffened, her face tightening with caution as she weighed who’d spoken.

That voice… Dark Origin?

Yue Hongling was ecstatic inside—Dark Origin had finally come to find her!

She had been eagerly waiting for this moment. With Dark Origin seeking her out, she could completely emulate An Li, becoming Dark Origin's human vessel, then rush to her senior brother and let him use her to relentlessly attack Dark Origin. This way, she would still be working for her senior brother.

Even if her senior brother might not forgive her, his impression of her would surely improve!

As long as she kept at it, there would surely come a day when her senior brother forgave her.

She truly had realized her mistakes—Feng Wuxie had only been her obsession. She loved her senior brother deeply, and now that the demon was gone, she was no longer as spoiled and selfish as before. As long as she showed genuine remorse and kept striving for his forgiveness, what reason would her senior brother have not to forgive her?

She and her senior brother had a strong bond.

As for that Shen Xitong, if she wanted to mock her, let her. Yue Hongling would endure it. Once her senior brother truly forgave her, she wouldn’t care if she had to go toe-to-toe with Shen Xitong.

So now that Dark Origin had come to her, she was genuinely elated.

Dark Origin looked at Yue Hongling’s barely-contained excitement and couldn’t help but feel utterly drained.

"Dark Origin, why have you come?" Yue Hongling asked impatiently.

"Are you planning to pretend to join me, only to hand me over to Lu Ye?" Dark Origin asked pointedly.

Yue Hongling’s expression shifted slightly.

Crap, could Dark Origin read minds?

Probably not—it must be bluffing!

"How could that be? I’ve long wanted to side with you. Look at what I’ve become now! My senior brother hates my guts—he won't even stoop to killing me himself. My only choice now is to oppose him!"

"Because I’ve realized that if I just follow behind him, he won’t even glance back. But if I face him as an enemy, he’ll have no choice but to look at me."

"In the end, there are only two outcomes—either I defeat him and rise to supremacy, or I lose and let him kill me with his own hands. If I’m not even afraid of death, what else is there to fear?" Yue Hongling’s voice was tinged with desperation.

Dark Origin…

From Yue Hongling’s word-vomit, Dark Origin heard only one thing.

That was… "Let me trick you! Come on, let me trick you! Please, I beg you!"

Dark Origin…

Screw this. Next!

"Don’t go! Stay! Let's work something out!"

Its presence shifted to the Vermilion Bird.

The Vermilion Bird was mid-awakening her bloodline. The bloodline of the Celestial Four Guardians was immensely powerful—once the awakening began, her power spiked dramatically.

But she was still too weak!

After much deliberation, Dark Origin doubted the Vermilion Bird would be as cutthroat and unscrupulous as An Li or Yin Qingcheng in pursuit of her goals.

Aaaah!

Dark Origin was about to lose it!

These women—utterly impossible!

Apart from these women, was there truly no other option?

Originally, there was one option—the Myriad Spirits Demon Emperor. But the Myriad Spirits Demon Emperor never formed an obsession, as its true spirit had long since reincarnated and faded into oblivion.

The Dark Origin racked its dark consciousness.

In the previous life, aside from these eight women, who else had inflicted unforgettable scars upon Lu Ye?

It racked its memory.

The Dark Origin emitted a hollow, echoing sigh.

Though Yin Qingcheng and An Li were not so dissimilar, Yin Qingcheng had only recently made contact, so to her, the Dark Origin still held an air of mystery.

An Li, however, had already pinned down its every secret.

In that case, it would cooperate with Yin Qingcheng first and leave An Li hanging for a while, making sure she understood who held the real power here!

Playing decoy? No matter. After enduring aeons of punishment, the Dark Origin had nearly grown accustomed to it. Even if a single strike cost it centuries of accumulated power, it had hoarded power over countless millennia that even if the Providence kept striking it endlessly, it would take an eternity to deplete!

It feared nothing!

What were centuries—it could endure!

Thus, it sought out Yin Qingcheng once more.

"Let’s cooperate!"

Yin Qingcheng instantly opened her eyes.

"So you do possess some wit!"

The Dark Origin... *I'll tolerate this!*

Curse them! Just let them try... If these women pushed too far and provoked it beyond reason, it would just defect to Lu Ye.

Because serving as a lapdog to these women was worse than being a dog for Lu Ye. What was the point of replacing the Providence? Fine, it wouldn’t replace it anymore—was that acceptable?

But this was merely the Dark Origin’s dark fantasy. Even if it wanted to side with Lu Ye, the eldritch entities infesting its core would never allow it!

What kind of surprise—or perhaps shock—would Yin Qingcheng bring next?