Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor novel Chapter 1453

Chapter 1453 Land of Exile

"I'm afraid I have to refuse," Wang Wei said.

"Why?" Tian Xuan asked while frowning. "Is it because of the value of your technique?"

"Who said it was a technique?"

"Or come on. You wouldn't ask for an item since it's a foreign object and can be taken away. You wouldn't accept Grand Dao modifying your eyes so that only leaves a technique you can use to study or discover any possible problem," Tian Xuan said, almost rolling his eyes.

"Hehehe," Wang Wei chuckled.

"The point is I understand the thing is valuable, and I don't have anything of similar value to exchange now — unless you dare cultivate my Heavenly Dao Eyes," Tian Xuan said, staring at him. After seeing his calm demeanor, he continued: "My point is the information I know is truly the most valuable and unproblematic thing I can exchange."

"The problem is not the value of the technique. Well, to be specific, it's not the primary issue," Wang Wei stated.

"Then, what is the issue?"

"Well, first, there is the problem of trust," Wang Wei uttered directly. "How do I trust you? You were raised, spending all your life being compared to me. Although you have great control over your emotions, you obviously hold a grudge against me for what happened to you. Do you expect me to ally with someone as untrustworthy as you?"

"That's fair," Tian Xuan nodded, "which is why I'm willing to sign an [Existence Binding Contract]."

"A what?" Wang Wei asked despite the name being self-explanatory.

"People above the Paragon Realm do not trust Heavenly or Grand Dao contracts, and regular soul contracts or Dao oaths have little use on them. So, they created Existence Binding Contracts. The thing is hard to break, and even if someone tries, the other signer will know and can generate a backlash with terrifying repercussions."

"How do you have such a thing?" Wang Wei asked, slightly curious.

Tian Xuan pondered briefly. "I guess there is no point in hiding it now. The teacher (enunciating intensely) sent me to a fortunate encounter to get the Book of Contract left from an ancient age. This thing is a pseudo Transcendent item with this ability."

"So, he randomly just gave you such a huge opportunity? I must admit — I'm jealous of you sometimes," Wang Wei sighed as he fanned himself.

"He didn't do it out of the kindness of his heart," Tian Xuan sneered. "The book was so I could enslave a sect on par with the Dao Opening Sect so they would not intervene when I try to kill you."

"Your life truly evolved around me in all aspects — how sad," Wang Wei sighed.

"You said the trust issue was your first concern," Tian Xuan asked, ignoring that comment. "What are the others?"

"Your plan is a little too flimsy for my taste," Wang Wei said calmly. "From my perspective, you planned to fulfill your duty until after my tribulation. Then, you saw hope and concocted this plan, but everything seemed to be hasty. I will not be surprised if Grand Dao immediately detects your betrayal after leaving this room and sends divine punishment on you or your teachers come to fetch you for a new personality tuning."

Wang Wei shook his head. Scheming against a higher entity is a complex issue that requires patience and carefulness. However, while brilliant, Tian Xuan's plan came into existence and was executed in less than five hundred years, leaving too many flaws or possibilities for failure.

"I've thought of this."

"Oh?"

"As long as I can come to an agreement with you, I know your future self can hide my betrayal, buying me a few moments of respite."

Wang Wei's lips twitched; this bastard was scheming against his future self. However, that one statement revealed how much this bastard knew about him. "Aren't you putting your hope in something illusory?"

"I'm fighting against probably the most powerful entity in the Chaos Universe, and I have so little time to plan my escape," Tian Xuan said calmly. "I had no choice but to include luck and faith in my plan."

Wang Wei sighed. Their kind is meticulous and usually follows logic, fact, knowledge, data, and deduction of all possibilities when scheming. However, on a few rare occasions, they have no choice but to rely on luck, faith, or belief; they usually refer to these moments as calculated risks.

"Let's say you are right, and my future self does buy you some time. What are you going to do with it?" If Tian Xuan is as important to Grand Dao as he appeared, there is no way to hide this betrayal for too long.

"I'll escape to the Land of Exile."

"And that is?"

"It's a timeline or a group of them, I'm not really sure, that Grand Dao abandoned for some reason."

"Abandon?" Wang Wei asked. He knew one of the 13 taboos was the Lost Timeline, a timeline that Grand Dao had to wipe out from existence for some reason, but he had never heard of a group of abandoned timelines.

"If something went wrong with these timelines, wouldn't it make better sense to erase them than to abandon them since that could lead to instability," Wang Wei analyzed. "Unless —"

"Unless it cannot erase them," Tian Xuan finished.

"Things are getting more interesting," Wang Wei smiled as he fanned himself. What power or horror lay in these timelines for Grand Dao to have no choice but to separate them from the Infinite Trichiliocosm and grant them their independence?