"You could think of it that way, but the realm of Void Immortal, in my opinion, is more like a ticket," Bai Yue nodded and replied to Ye Ling.
"A ticket?" Ye Ling raised an eyebrow slightly.
"Mmm," Bai Yue nodded. "Good and Evil are planning something significant that no one knows about. Previously, I believed their ultimate goal was to cultivate an Emperor Ancestor to resist the Great Calamity. However, after interacting with Evil for a while, I realized that Evil doesn't care at all who becomes the Emperor Ancestor. He only wants us to stir things up and become the focus of the Void."
"And after becoming a Void Immortal, one can advance to the peak of the Void, and then... perhaps enter the place where Good and Evil went."
Ye Ling: "Ever since I started as a Monitor, I've heard countless times about the Great Calamity. It seems each of you greatly fears its arrival, and 'Brain' has been constantly calling me the source of the Great Calamity, as if I were the culprit."
Zui smiled and said, "Actually, you can blame me for this. I once insisted on merging the Void and its dark side, which brought about many disasters. Later, every so often, a mysterious power would conduct a great cleansing between the Void and its dark side, causing more than nine-tenths of the beings in the dark side to perish, and all ordered worlds in the Void to decline. This is the truth of the Great Calamity."
At this moment, Chu Yun asked Zui, "I saw you in the Chaos of Stars. Is the destruction of the Chaos of Stars related to you?"
"You are the ruler of the Chaos of Stars, aren't you? I do have some impression of you," Zui smiled at Chu Yun. "Although the destruction of the Chaos of Stars is somewhat related to me, strictly speaking, its fundamental cause is the power of the Great Calamity."
Chu Yun frowned, "What do you mean 'somewhat related'?"
Zui didn't seem to care about Chu Yun's cooling gaze and smiled, "At that time, my mind was already influenced by the Negative Tree, and I had become an agent of the Great Calamity... Although I was alive then, I couldn't control my body... Under the influence of that power, I did many crazy things."
"Although I don't mind you coming to seek revenge, and I am willing to bear those responsibilities, I won't surrender. If you want to kill me, you must be prepared to be killed by me."
"However, even if you kill me, I still won't die. I am now an agent of the Great Calamity. Whenever the Great Calamity descends, I will be resurrected and bring disaster to the Void and its dark side."
Ye Ling: "So, your coming here to contend for Void Immortal today is to escape the fate of being controlled by the Great Calamity?"
Zui shrugged, "That's only part of it. After so many cycles of reincarnation, I no longer care about the Void or its dark side. I am now pursuing a more noble goal."
Zui stopped speaking at this point.
Ye Ling didn't press Zui further and instead looked at Bai Yue, "And you? The reason you want to become a Void Immortal?"
"It's very simple, for my family."
"Bai Lan?" Ye Ling raised an eyebrow slightly.
Bai Yue nodded slightly, "Yes, on the day the Great Calamity descends, the Void will be cleansed again, and Lan'er will not be spared. I want to become a Void Immortal to personally stop the Great Calamity from descending... I don't trust anyone else, so I will spare no expense to achieve this goal."
"Your goal... is truly simple and clear," Ye Ling looked at Bai Yue with some surprise. He hadn't expected that the reason for the seemingly deep-scheming Bai Yue to compete for the Emperor Ancestor title was so straightforward.
Bai Yue looked at Ye Ling and said, "You've been asking us questions all along. So, Ye Ling, why are you so determined to walk the path of the Emperor Ancestor?"
"I've given you many chances to back down, considering you are Lan'er's master... I would have protected you from both the Great Calamity and the tribulations from other worlds."
"You could have avoided all this and stayed peacefully in the Primordial Chaos with my daughter. But you didn't heed my warning and have come this far. Can I hear your reasons?"
"How should I put it?"
Ye Ling pondered for a moment, then replied, "At first, I couldn't understand what an Emperor Ancestor was. I only thought it was a title for a master who could independently establish a cultivation system. Later, I realized that an Emperor Ancestor was not that simple."
"From beginning to end, I've been pushed along by others, and there have been many reasons driving me forward... the safety of those around me... the calamity of Earth... the calamity of the Three Thousand Universes... the calamity of the Primordial Chaos... the calamity of the Void..."
"Then, I was ambushed and killed by Zun. At that time, my goal changed again... I just wanted to become strong, so strong that no one could threaten me. In this way, all calamities would be easily resolved."
"And now, my goal is very simple and pure... that is to survive."
"To survive?"
Bai Yue raised an eyebrow slightly, clearly surprised by Ye Ling's answer.
He had considered many reasons for Ye Ling to be here, but he hadn't expected Ye Ling's reason to be so pure.
"Haha... As expected of my reincarnated self, your answer suits my taste!" Zui laughed heartily, then looked at Chu Yun, "What about you, little girl? This place is not for just anyone. Since you've already entered, if you don't have the corresponding resolve, you won't be able to survive."
Facing Zui's question, Chu Yun chuckled, "I should have been dead long ago. I once fought to protect the Chaos of Stars, but the Chaos of Stars is gone, and I've lost the goal I was striving for."
"Now, my motivation comes from Ye Ling. By his side, I witness his growth... Since Ye Ling now wants to survive, my goal is naturally to ensure his survival."
"Hahaha! Interesting little girl... I almost won't bear to lay a hand on you later."
The four people chatted and laughed in this annihilated space, as if they were old friends who hadn't seen each other for many years. There was no hint of tension between them.
After the four had chatted for a while in the annihilated space, the Hidden Ruins outside had already been swallowed by the annihilated space, and the annihilated space was still expanding, showing a tendency to engulf the Void and its dark side.
Boom!!!
Suddenly, the annihilated space vibrated violently, and then an aura that Ye Ling was extremely familiar with swept in from outside the annihilated space.
"This is..."
Ye Ling looked in the direction from which the aura swept, and saw a man in white standing in the dark side of the Void, blocking the expansion of the annihilated space with one hand.
"Zun?"
Upon seeing the man in white, Ye Ling immediately recognized him as Zun, who had tried to kill him in the Star Devouring Abyss!
Zui looked at Zun outside the annihilated space, and a subtle smile reappeared on his lips, "Haha... it's really getting livelier here... That ungrateful dog from back then, wants to take my life again!"