My Hair Can Create a Demon Country-Chapter 419 - 405: Deadly Impasse

"The other party has established a self-operating Celestial Dao program; this artifact operates the entire set of rules by itself?" They listened to Primordial Longevity Celestial Venerable’s words, and their hearts shivered.

They know about rule artifacts.

For example, the ancient ship of time is the supreme artifact created by Vortex Country back in the day.

But this is merely an artifact composed of two conceptual rules, yet it is so terrifying. And what does the other party possess?

It’s nearly four layers of the universe, with 35% of the quantity of rules.

The rule artifact held by the other party is far stronger than the ancient ship of time. It is already considered a massive war machine at the cosmic level, one person has hijacked a fundamental third of the universe’s power.

It’s like a terrifying cosmic mountain, an ancient figure that spans across epochs, towering before them, making their hearts jump with fear.

"It seems the other party only holds one-third, we hold more, but I’m afraid just the quantity is enough to crush us." Primordial Longevity Celestial Venerable smiled bitterly, "Because he is one person, we are a group."

They have two-thirds.

But they are not gathered together.

They are a group of Celestial Venerables with personal agendas, a collective with dispersed power, scattered like sand, untrusting of each other, making it very difficult to deal with the opponent.

And the opponent is just one person!

When power isn’t concentrated, they’re simply not a match.

"According to the course of history, we Celestial Venerables are bound to have internal conflicts, killing each other, with numbers dwindling, rules concentrating more and more, eventually gathering in the hands of a few to open new heavens."

"By theory, the last one standing through mutual slaughter would likely be the lurking Venerable of Life and Death, he would be the ultimate winner, unfortunately, we’ve discovered his scheme ahead of time."

"Previously, he didn’t interfere with us, likely wanting to wait quietly until the end of the universe’s great momentum, then plundering everything to avoid other variables."

"But what’s the point of discovering him? He holds one-third of the rules, it would be like killing chickens for him to start killing us!"

Primordial Longevity Celestial Venerable said coldly, "And if we want to defeat the opponent, there’s only one possibility! That is, us Celestial Venerables must unconditionally trust each other."

"Trust, such a clichéd word, yet it’s an eternal topic."

"We must cut off our rules, fall down to become mortals, hand over all the Rule Nascent Souls in our bodies to one person, use two-thirds of the universe’s rules to create an artifact to counter the opponent, then gather all the rules to completely open new heavens... But after winning, will the opponent keep their promise to return them to us? Return them to a powerless group of mortals?"

"That’s impossible."

Primordial Longevity Celestial Venerable glanced at Jiaxia and said, "Concentrate rules into who? Venerable of Creation? Our leader? Impossible! He is a terrifying figure hidden deeply, from prehistoric times! I don’t trust him! Even you, Summer Celestial Venerable, can’t fully trust him, right?"

Fu Qingjun touched his nose.

Actually, giving them to me would be of no use, I don’t have the power to bear it, I’d be blown up alive.

"Then give them to me, Primordial Longevity Celestial Venerable?"

Primordial Longevity Celestial Venerable laughed, "I solemnly promise, after defeating the other party, I will return the rules to you, and we will share the opponent’s outcomes together. Do you trust me?"

"Ridiculous."

Nether Celestial Venerable sneered, "How could your faces be trusted? Handing over the Celestial Venerable seats to you one after another, wouldn’t that be fulfilling your biggest dream of hundreds of billions of years?"

"That means handing over the rules to the most esteemed, most trustworthy Summer Celestial Venerable present?"

Primordial Longevity Celestial Venerable sneered, his voice showing no emotion, "Regardless of how much hatred you hold against us, taking our rules away and promising to return them to our decayed selves as a continued heartache? Will you really return them to us... Giving you the rules would also fulfill your greatest dream of overthrowing us for hundreds of billions of years?"

Elemental Celestial Venerable turned his head and said softly, "Even you, Nether Celestial Venerable, are in the same camp, do you dare to unconditionally trust Summer Celestial Venerable? Give your rules to the other party and believe they will return them to you?"

Nether Celestial Venerable opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but nothing came out.

Handing all one’s rules to the opponent is essentially handing them one’s life.

Trust fails the test most often.

Even for close friend Summer Celestial Venerable, fighting against the decayed comrades known for hundreds of billions of years, at this moment he still struggles with fully trusting the opponent.

Because he has seen too many entities walk the path to decay, knowing the temptation of such power.

When a person controls all the universe’s power, unbalanced, able to do whatever he wishes, he guarantees he won’t decay, preserving his original intentions?

Were any Celestial Venerables not like this back in the day?

He can’t guarantee Summer Celestial Venerable won’t be the next.

Even if he seizes all the present Celestial Venerables’ rules to become the most terrifying Celestial Venerable, able to easily decide life and death for others, can he still preserve his original intentions?

He dares not to think!

Even Nether Celestial Venerable feels fear.

At this moment, even Nether Celestial Venerable is caught in hesitation.

In fact, Fu Qingjun feels the same, if his own creation rules were given to others, he would become mortal; that kind of powerlessness is utterly unbearable.

All his efforts wasted, believing it would be returned later? Not likely.

"Indeed, this is an unsolvable proposition. The opponent has strong power to easily kill us, yet we cannot fully trust one person." Primordial Longevity Celestial Venerable laughed, "And even if we truly found a trustworthy Celestial Venerable to delegate, gathering 65% of the universe’s power together, can we indeed crush the 35% in victory?"

Power crushing is certain.

But if the opponent wants to escape, trying to kill them would be... incredibly difficult!

Even though there’s a time rule to ’return to the past,’ the best at pursuing, doesn’t the opponent have countermeasure rules?

Bearing in mind, all the opponent’s rules are unknown.

"That is to say, we have no hope of winning."

Elemental Celestial Venerable voiced a terrifying inference, stating, "We can’t unite, giving the rules to one person before the terrifying power, that concentrated force would likely instantly decay and become the next Venerable of Life and Death, planning to live until the next epoch, eternally immortal... I’m not optimistic about human nature, even if they don’t decay, they might still be unable to defeat the opponent; this is a... dead end!"

Primordial Longevity Celestial Venerable spoke with ease, stepping forward, suddenly sharp-eyed, emanating golden bright light, asking his most solemn question:

"Creation, you come from a distant ancient time, everything beforehand has been calculated step by step to reach today. Do you possibly have another solution? I only wish to ask: do you have any objection to my inference?"

"Do you have a next astonishing method, like before, to reverse the situation and resolve this inevitable predicament?"