Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor-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.

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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?

"If I agree to this proposition, how will we exchange information? And please don't say nonsense like wait until you've already taken a step into the Transcendent Path to start our exchange."

Tian Xuan's lips twitched. "We will choose a designated timeline to communicate. However, you must wait until I remove some of the shackles on myself first."

"That's fair."

"So, you agree?"

"Yes, but I have a condition."

"By all means."

"I won't directly give you the technique," Wang Wei uttered before raising his hand to stop Tian Xuan from getting excited. "I'll refine an artifact with the same effect, and you can have the technique after you've exchanged enough information that equals its overall value."

Tian Xuan groaned as he remembered this vampire would not suffer a loss under any circumstances. "That's fine by me, but we must design a system to determine the technique's value."

"Of course."

"Is that it?" Tian Xuan asked.

"One more thing, but it's not a condition, but more of a question."

Tian Xuan motioned for him to continue.

"Why do I smell desperation in your actions? The way you move is not like I, who truly wants freedom because that is my obsession. No, it's more like you're running from something — no, trying to prevent something."

Tian Xuan remained quiet for a solid thirty seconds before replying. "I'm trying to save her."

"What do you mean?"

"My teacher, and maybe even Grand Dao, has already noticed my hesitation," Tian Xuan sighed deeply. "According to calculations, their next training plan is to manipulate you into killing her. Once that is done, my hatred will be cemented, and I will accept my fate no matter what — just for the chance to avenge her."

"Aren't you —"

"Please don't say some stupid and arrogant thing about not being manipulated," Tian Xuan cut him off. "Grand Dao's intelligence is above you; it has more information and knowledge than you, and you're an ant compared to it regarding power. You can't stop it if it genuinely wants to manipulate you into something. "Don't forget you still have two Fate Nexus attached to you, and those are the detectable ones."

"Fair point," Wang Wei nodded. He might be on par with Grand Dao in the future, but his current self was as insignificant as a bug on the street. His "victories" over Grand Dao so far have only been because it's a program that primarily acts within the confound of specific rules and limitations.

Even his future-self playing chess with Grand Dao using the Chaos Universe as a board may not be helpful. After all, chess is a two-player game, meaning each person will take turns making a move. If Grand Dao is determined to make such a move, future Wang Wei may not be able to stop it. In fact, the latter might not even try since it appeared he wanted to accelerate his past self's growth through adversity.

"I can sympathize with doing everything for the love of your life," Wang Wei sighed.

"Do we have a deal?"

"Yes, but let me see the contract first to check if nothing is wrong."

"No problem."

The two then started their work, beginning with checking and signing the contract, organizing a system for the value of information, and a system for exchanging said information through timeline traveling.

Tian Xuan had a gentle smile hidden on the corner of his mouth after everything was done.

"I'll give you two pieces of information at no cost," Tian Xuan said. "You probably know this already, but be careful of the Heavenly Book Paragon. If I guess correctly, he is the true enemy Grand Dao has prepared to eliminate you."

"Do you have information about him?"

Tian Xuan shook his head. "I felt danger whenever I asked the teacher too many questions about him."

"I see."

"The second information is that there is a recruiting token for the Impermanence Society in the Pure Inferno Chaos World. You might want to take it."

"Impermanence Society?"

"A group of crazy scholars dedicated to studying and uncovering all kinds of secrets and mysteries of the Chaos Universe," Tian Xuan explained. "You've met Madman Chu, right?"

"Yeah."

"He's one of their members."

"I see."