"I... am still alive?"
A Yun slowly opened her eyes and saw Ye Ling and Tian Xing, her confusion deepening.
In her memory, she had been abandoned by the Overseers and should have long since perished...
"You are not dead. At the last moment before your soul was to dissipate, I saved your life." Ye Ling did not hide anything and told A Yun directly.
"You saved me?" A Yun looked at Ye Ling in astonishment. "How is that possible? The Overseers acted against me personally. My soul would wither irreversibly. How could you save me?"
"I have my own ways." Ye Ling did not offer A Yun further explanation. "The current fact is that you have survived, and that is indisputable."
"Unbelievable..." A Yun looked at her own unharmed hands, still unable to believe she was alive.
For them, once deemed defective by the Overseers and showing signs of losing control, they would be directly destroyed by the Overseers, who would then create new individuals to replace the failed ones.
A Yun was created by the Overseers precisely because a predecessor had been destroyed, to serve as an elder of Tianyun Island and monitor the Origin Upper Realm.
In fact, before A Yun, there had been countless failed products...
Throughout endless ages, there had never been a case of a failed product surviving. When A Yun lost control of her emotions, she had accepted her fate of being erased...
Yet now, she had been abandoned by the Overseers, and she was still alive. This sudden, immense change made her incredibly apprehensive, and for a moment, she didn't know what to say.
"A Yun, your life was given by me. By rights... you should belong to me now. That should be acceptable, right?" At this moment, Ye Ling's voice interrupted A Yun's thoughts.
A Yun snapped back to attention and instinctively nodded at Ye Ling. "I should have been destroyed by the Overseers. I am now ownerless. Since you saved me... I should naturally work for you."
"That's good!" Hearing A Yun's reply, Ye Ling nodded slightly, a flicker of joy in his eyes.
He had expected to use some minor tactics to make A Yun submit, but he hadn't anticipated it would be so easy.
This was simply like picking up a treasure for free!
Ye Ling suppressed his inner joy and asked A Yun, "A Yun, the Overseers you mentioned, are they those eyes?"
A Yun nodded. "Yes... we all call them Overseers."
"Since they are Overseers, they must be working for someone or some force. What is the force behind them?" Ye Ling asked again.
"I don't know..." A Yun shook her head. "After I was created by the Overseers, I had been working for them. Everything I did was simply following the commands issued by the Overseers."
"Then what did the Overseers have you do?" Ye Ling pressed further.
A Yun replied, "To serve as an elder of Tianyun Island, manage Tianyun Island, control the Origin Upper Realm, and pursue the two variables, Shan and E."
"Pursue Shan and E?" Hearing A Yun's words, Ye Ling's pupils contracted slightly. "Why pursue them?"
"According to the Overseers, Shan and E had glimpsed the truth without permission, refused to become Overseers, evaded sanctions, and created the Seed of Origin to threaten Truth. They are unforgivable evildoers."
A Yun listed the crimes of Shan and E as if reciting a familiar text, leaving Ye Ling and the others stunned.
This information... was simply too immense.
Shan and E, who created the Origin Continent and the Seed of Origin... were wanted criminals?
Then what kind of existence was the force that was pursuing Shan and E?
Suddenly, Ye Ling felt his imagination was too impoverished.
"Truth..." Ye Ling pursed his lips, then asked A Yun, "What is the truth they glimpsed?"
"I don't know." A Yun shook her head. "I am merely a tool responsible for executing the Overseers' commands. I do not have the authority to obtain more information."
Hearing A Yun's answer, Ye Ling did not dwell on the so-called "truth" and instead asked, "Then what was your purpose in using me to create Tianming?"
The Overseers wanted to use Di Zu to create Tianming, and after Tianming was taken by E, they wanted to replicate a new Di Zu, seemingly to create a second Tianming...
Ye Ling knew with his toes that Tianming was an incredibly important pawn for both sides.
A Yun did not conceal anything and said, "According to the Overseers, Tianming is the core that slays Shan and E and maintains Truth."
"Slay Shan and E, maintain Truth..." Ye Ling curled his lip. "With that old lecher Tianming, can he really bear such a great responsibility?"
Ye Ling had given birth to Tianming, but he was very clear about such things...
Ye Ling considered himself to be quite pure and abstinent, but after being influenced by Tianming, he lost all resistance to women.
That period could be described as being a walking cannon.
A Yun explained to Ye Ling, "Combining with the opposite sex is Tianming's instinct."
"Tianming can give birth to Tianming's offspring through heredity, and Tianming's offspring will inherit all the strengths and talents of their parents. Tianming's offspring will also absorb the essence of heaven and earth to nourish Tianming, making Tianming stronger."
"Therefore, the more offspring Tianming has, the stronger it will become, which is why Tianming needs to cultivate dual cultivation as much as possible."
"This..." Hearing A Yun's explanation, Ye Ling's heart suddenly tightened, and he quickly asked A Yun, "Then, you and Ji Ning, you haven't both gotten pregnant with my seed, have you?"
He had no emotional foundation with A Yun or Ji Ning. If he suddenly had two of his offspring like this, he felt he would go crazy!
A Yun shook her head. "Ji Ning's own strength and talent are insufficient to bear Tianming's birth. She cannot be pregnant."
"What about you?" Ye Ling asked nervously again.
A Yun shook her head. "I haven't either... Although we were together for a long time last time, for some reason, I was not able to conceive a Tianming's offspring... This is also one of the main reasons why the Overseers considered me a failure."
"That's good..." Ye Ling subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.
The World-Destroying Spirit Fire couldn't help but mock Ye Ling, "Kid... your current behavior is too much like a scumbag who ruined a girl and doesn't want to take responsibility!"
Ye Ling retorted irritably, "You say it so easily. If I really had Tianming's offspring, and they were taken by the Overseers to be trained as our enemies, how would I deal with my own child when we met?"
"Then it would be a father-son or father-daughter conflict, which would truly be a twist of fate... I don't want to be enemies with my own child."
The World-Destroying Spirit Fire, with the mentality of watching a show, teased Ye Ling, "Even so, this doesn't stop me from thinking you're a scumbag. Since you've done it, you should bear some consequences. How can you have all the benefits?"
Ye Ling: "..."
Ye Ling didn't know how to refute the World-Destroying Spirit Fire, so he simply ignored the topic and continued to ask A Yun, "A Yun, besides Tianyun Island, do the Overseers have any other strongholds in the Origin Upper Realm?"
"Yes," A Yun nodded. "In the Sword Tomb of the Shangqing Palace, there is a stronghold responsible for assisting Tianyun Island in finding Di Zu."
Ye Ling's eyes lit up slightly, and he asked A Yun again, "Do you know about that stronghold? Are there any Overseers inside..."
"Hmm..."
A Yun pondered for a moment, then said to Ye Ling, "There weren't any originally, but now there are, after you killed the new Di Zu."
"You know what I did in Shangqing Mountain?" Ye Ling asked in surprise.
Logically, A Yun should not know these things after falling into a coma.
"I know." A Yun nodded. "I'm not sure why, but although I am no longer controlled by the Overseers, I can still receive commands from them."
"Now, there is an Overseer hidden in Shangqing Palace, setting a trap for you, waiting for you to walk right into it."