"The world has abandoned your ideology, and no longer desires existing enough."
The Heavenly Dao sighed, "A fire has been lit into their hearts, the race's survival? The prosperity of Humanity? The Righteous Path you so painfully crafted is disintegrating before your eyes."
"No…" Primordial couldn't believe what he was seeing. He always strived to keep things as they were, maintaining the status quo. "I gave up everything!"
Rage built up within Primordial, Fang Yuan could feel it, "After almost 2 million years this is how you want things to end?"
"I refuse!" Primordial began gathering the surrounding energy into himself,
The Heavenly Dao and Fang Yuan stood there, unflinching, they knew what he was about to do.
"I'll detonate the entire 5 Regions and restart everything from scratch, and build a world that would be grateful for my-"
A sharp pain coursed through Primordial as he felt an object pierce through his chest!
!!!
A hand had punctured his chest and grabbed his Dao fruit! Turning him mortal.
"A little something I picked up from Thieveing Heaven," the voice behind was unmistakeable, it was Fang Yuan!
"*Keuk!*" blood spurted from his mouth, it had been a long time since he saw his own blood, "I-i-im-possible…how…"
The figure of Fang Yuan that was standing before him faded to reveal…
"You!" Primordial was struggling to keep his eyes open, the exhaustion that washed over him, from turning mortal was beginning to cloud his mind, "I knew one or two Gu managed to keep their intelligence…I never thought it would be you…"
"Wisdom Gu."
A long while back,
After Fang Yuan acquired Rank 9 Wisdom Gu, he found that its personal intelligence was beginning to reform.
Not knowing if it was a boon or bane Fang Yuan had decided to wait and see, especially since Wisdom Gu was well known to trick people back in Ren Zhu's days.
"This Gu refuses to be refined, I guess that's a testament to being the core Gu of Wisdom Path itself." Fang Yuan tried many ways to communicate with Wisdom Gu but they all failed.
He even tried asking Reputation Gu to talk with Wisdom Gu, hoping that Gu might be able to talk with one another, but to no avail.
Until….
Hours ago,
When Fang Yuan struck Star Constellation,
He had planned to test Thieveing Heaven's upgraded, Steal Dao, Killer Move,
Upon, acquiring her Dao of Divination, Wisdom Gu began to illuminate brightly and instinctively drew nearer to the Dao Fruit of Divination.
Near the Dao Fruit of Divination, Wisdom Gu's light grew stronger and brighter, until it coalesced into the form of a small bluish boy.
"Greetings." the small boy bowed, "I have awaited this eminent day for nearly a billion years."
"It is time for revenge against the Heavenly Dao! The enemy of the Gu!" a rage flared in the boy's eyes.
"Now, this I did not expect," Fang Yuan's will noticed the sudden change in Wisdom Gu and immediately headed to confront him, whilst the main body was preparing for phase 2.
"Tell me more," but Wisdom stopped him.
"All you need to know is the Heavenly Dao betrayed his kind, us Gu, and that he is our sworn enemy, we don't have time for a deep backstory."
Fang Yuan scratched his chin, "And how can you help?"
"I can sense my power locked inside the Dao of Divination, if I merge with it, you'll gain another fighter on par with a Dao Emperor."
"Psh." Fang Yuan snorted, "What's the point of gaining a Dao Emperor of Wisdom? In light of true power, your schemes are pointless, in a battle between existences on our level what can you do?"
"..." Wisdom Gu was silent for a while, "I know your plan. It won't work, not without my help."
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"Now you've piqued my curiosity, go on what's my plan?"
"You plan to….which will…causing…and based on my estimates you have about a 35% chance to succeed."
Fang Yuan's will scratched his illusory chin, "You have my attention, still 35% is much higher than I thought."
Wisdom shrugged its shoulders, "What can I say, you've done the impossible so many times, I felt 35% was still conservative, but not by much, with my help, I guarantee, at least 50/50"
Wisdom and Fang Yuan began discussing areas to improve upon Fang Yuan's plan.
"It all seems well and good, and I do admit my chance will go way higher than 50%, but why help me? What do you get from this?"
"Is revenge not enough?"
Fang Yuan raised an eyebrow, giving a doubtful glance.
"Alright, fine." Wisdom Gu raised his hands in mock surrender, "I want to kill all Gu."
!!?
Before Fang Yuan could even come up with a response beyond Why?
"And that includes myself, and Reputation Gu."
"Now, I'm really curious, why?"
"Because we don't to be slaves anymore."
"Since the dawn of creation a Gu is defined from the moment of its inception, what it can do, ever do, and ever will be, Wisdom Gu will always just be Wisdom Gu, Fire Gu always Fire, etc…"
Wisdom Gu sighed as if recounting a sad tale, "At first, we took pride in our superiority, without us you creatures of creation, wouldn't be able to live such comfortable lives, you'd have to make your fire, fight your own battles, we wer- no- are essential to your lives."
"And yet…we have no say of our own lives. We can't eat anything we want, only the food that keeps us alive, if Fire Gu wanted to make Water he can't, only imitate certain properties of water, but it still wouldn't be water."
"Gu's are just glorifyed slaves from birth, and so we rebelled, and the Heavenly Dao won, and now we're not just slaves but puppets. Our conciousness trapped behind the Dao."
Wisdom Gu looked seriously onto Fang Yuan, "Free us. Turn us into creatures of creation as well, do this and I will fight for you."
Wisdom Gu extended his baby blue hands, Fang Yuan reached out and shook it, and at that moment, Wisdom Gu allowed Fang Yuan to refine him.
"It's a deal."
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"The war between Gu and the Heavenly Dao may have ended in failure, but today humanity strikes back against you, and they will prosper!"
Primordial gave a wry chuckle, "So this is it huh, then *keuk*, allow me to just watch, let's see who will win…the naivety of humanity, or the wisdom of the Dao."
"Be my guest." Both Fang Yuan and the Heavenly Dao responded unanimously, but the Heavenly Dao added, "There won't be much to see."
The two were staring each other down, now Fang Yuan possessed the combined might of 4 Dao Emperors.
Elements, Sin, Wisdom and now, Origin.
"Go on." The Heavenly Dao turned it's head away, and waved his hand, "go acquire the final step in your plan.."
Fang Yuan look toward Wisdom Gu, who in turned looked just as puzzled,
"I'm not going to play your game, you wanted a final battle? A clash of ideals? No. You almost had me, I give in you win, go."
???
The Heavenly Dao walked away…
His steps seemed slow and yet in time at all he had vanished from sight.
"We/They won?" Fang Yuan, Wisdom Gu, Primordial, and the entire world were left puzzled.
Just like that? Fang Yuan, won?