Chapter 636 - 359: Do You Believe Me?

’The Immortal Platform is so powerful. Is there anything it can’t do?’

Yang An was still shaken. If Life Crane had wanted to kill him, he would have been dead moments ago.

But since Life Crane had given him the true Golden Sun and merely summoned his main body, this only further proved that he had no intention of killing him, but rather had other purposes.

As for what those purposes were, Yang An couldn’t be sure at the moment.

"From this moment on, you are an External Affairs Elder of the Golden Thread Pavilion. I will give you three months at most. Once you successfully fuse with the Forbidden Artifact and advance to the Insect Dao, you will join the war against the Great Virtue Temple. Any objections?"

Life Crane spoke in a low voice, his tone once again stern.

’An External Affairs Elder?’

Yang An considered this. He knew a little about the hierarchy of the Golden Thread Pavilion. ’At the very top is the Pavilion Master. Below him are the Internal Affairs Elders, like Elder Zhuan Yu. And below them... the External Affairs Elders, who are responsible for coordinating matters between the states and also serve as the superiors to the State Lords. It isn’t an upper-echelon position, but it’s at the very top of the middle ranks. My own Cultivation Level, not counting my actual combat strength, is still at the Zombie God realm, which fits right into the typical range for an External Affairs Elder.’

Yang An knew perfectly well that Life Crane had no intention of letting him leave. Given that, making him participate in the war against the Great Virtue Temple made perfect sense.

But Life Crane didn’t seem to want to restrict him too much, just tossing him a position and telling him to join the war. This was something Yang An hadn’t expected.

However, given the power Life Crane had just displayed, it would be extremely difficult for Yang An to escape even if he wanted to.

"I obey!"

Yang An accepted readily. It was better than losing his life, and as long as he could fuse with the complete Golden Sun and break through to the Insect Dao, anything would be possible in the future.

It was as if the great mountain from his past was once again hanging over his head. But as long as it hadn’t come crashing down, he still had a chance to make a comeback.

"Remain here and focus on your breakthrough. Don’t waste time. After you’ve broken through, I will come for you myself."

After Life Crane left him with those words, He Tou added with a cackle:

"My dear disciple, let there be no second time. Don’t be a fool. You and I, master and disciple, will work hand-in-hand. The responsibility for saving the world will rest on your shoulders one day. You’d better not disappoint my expectations."

Soon, Life Crane and He Tou vanished as if they had never been there, leaving not a single trace or aura behind. Yang An was left standing alone, speechless and lost in a daze for a long while.

’It’s a warning. He Tou couldn’t have made it any clearer. He’s telling me not to get any funny ideas, to just do as I’m told. As long as I obey, I’ll still be Life Crane’s ’good disciple’.’

Yang An took a deep breath. He could finally confirm that Life Crane was still the same Life Crane, and He Tou was still the same He Tou. But the minds of those two old schemers were becoming more and more inscrutable to him, much like how he couldn’t fathom the gap between the Zombie God realm and the Immortal Platform.

He now had only one question on his mind: why would Life Crane want to save the world? It was completely at odds with the character of the old schemer he thought he knew.

Of all the people he had encountered, every single one wanted to escape this world.

The Workshop Master, Huan, even the great powers of the Four Domains—all of them were the same, without exception.

No one wanted to save this collapsing world. That included him—he had no desire to save it, either. All he wanted was to get away.

But now, Life Crane had appeared, doing the exact opposite. There was no way Yang An would believe the old schemer’s goal was really to save the world.

Yet, if it wasn’t to save the world, it was hard to fathom his true purpose.

With Life Crane’s return, there were too few clues for Yang An to make any sense of it. For now, he could only put it aside.

He looked up at the hole in the cave ceiling, pierced by the pillar of flame. Bright daylight streamed in, shining just past him. With a casual flick of his hand, Yang An used his Mana to move the surrounding rock, quickly sealing the opening.

"So, you little bastard, now that the old monster is back, what are you gonna do?"

It was Bow Lady’s voice, ringing in Yang An’s ears. When Life Crane had been there earlier, she hadn’t dared to reveal even the slightest hint of her presence.

Yang An fell silent for a moment, then, to Bow Lady’s surprise, a smile spread across his face.

He took out the Golden Sun Fragment he had just received, holding it in his palm to study it. His previous gloom seemed to vanish completely.

"What if I told you I already knew he would be waiting for me here? Would you believe me?"

"What?! You knew all along?" Bow Lady exclaimed, utterly caught off guard by Yang An’s words.

"Remember back in Nirvana City, after I found the Summoning Method, I took a trip to the Deep World of the Xian Origin Land?"

"In the real world, I was able to sense the missing piece of the Golden Sun, right here in the Golden Thread Pavilion. But in the Xian Origin Land, no matter how deep I went, I couldn’t sense anything at all. From that moment, I began to consider this possibility."

Yang An explained slowly. Of course, this entire conversation was taking place directly in his mind with Bow Lady, undetectable by any outsiders.

Indeed, based on his prior encounter with Huan and his experiences in the Deep World of the Xian Origin Land, Yang An had long suspected that Boundary Repairer He—in other words, Life Crane—might still exist, that he hadn’t truly been killed back then.

Keeping that possibility in mind, it was telling that he couldn’t sense the missing piece of the Golden Sun in the Deep World of the Xian Origin Land, yet he could sense it in reality.