Legend Management Bureau Chapter 346

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He Suoyi stared at the Heavenly Venerables gathered in the sky. Before he could utter a word, Lady Houtu and the Queen Mother of the West soared out from the direction of the Legend Management Bureau. The sheer presence of these Heavenly Venerables exuded an overwhelming aura that suppressed everyone below.

Following closely behind them, hundreds of Great Luo Golden Immortals and even more powerful Immortal Deities flew out from the Legend Management Bureau.

Leading the vanguard were Jade Emperor Zhang Jian and True Lord Erlang Yang Jian, followed by the Four Heavenly Kings, also known as the Four Demon Brothers, the Giant Spirit God, and a vast host of Heaven’s Immortal Beings.

They were matched by a terrifying assembly led by the Great Emperor of Eastern Mount Tai and the Great Emperor of Beiyin Fengdu, closely trailed by the Eight Great Underworld Messengers, the Kings of Hell of the Ten Courts, the Five Regional Ghost Emperors, and a legion of Underworld Immortals.

Watching wave after wave of Immortal Beings pour out from the Legend Management Bureau, He Suoyi whipped his head around and shot a vicious glare at Du Yu.

“Du Yu, what exactly did you do? Were all these people hiding inside the Legend Management Bureau?!” He Suoyi demanded, his brows knitting together in confusion. “No, wait, that’s impossible. They were clearly stationed at Kunlun Mountain! What the hell is going on here?!”

“Old He, you have been away from the Legend Management Bureau for far too long. You probably do not know, but there is a new Bureau Chief in town,” Du Yu said with a smirk.

“A new Bureau Chief? Who?”

Du Yu raised a finger and pointed up at the sky. “There. The Queen Mother of the West.”

Du Yu let out a heavy sigh. “Old He, it seems your dementia still has not improved. Let me ask you this. The Queen Mother of the West is the Bureau Chief, right? But she lives on Kunlun Mountain, which is incredibly far from the Underworld. How do you think she commutes to work every day?”

He Suoyi gasped, a sudden chill running down his spine.

“Are you saying… a teleportation array?!”

‘So that is how it was?!’

‘There is a teleportation array at the Peak of Kunlun that leads directly to the Legend Management Bureau?!’

He Suoyi froze for a moment before shaking his head in denial. “Impossible… Our informants in Kunlun never mentioned a teleportation array connecting straight to the Underworld!”

“You cannot really blame your informant for that. After all, only a handful of people know about this array, and its location is heavily concealed. Even if your spy had heaven-defying cultivation, they would never have been able to find it.”

He Suoyi stared at Du Yu for a long time before finally letting out a defeated sigh. “So that is how it is… We still ended up falling right into your trap. But there is one thing I still want to know. You clearly did not speak a word of this to anyone. How on earth did you coordinate with all these Immortal Beings to launch this attack?!”

“Ah… well, about that…” Du Yu scratched his head, feigning a look of difficulty. “Truth be told, I was not entirely sure it would work either. After all, this whole thing was just a massive gamble.”

He paused for a moment before continuing.

“Ever since I entered the legends of Gonggong and Nüwa, I had been wondering about something. I felt like I was being watched. Someone clearly knew my every move and was feeding that information to you dark monks so you could assassinate me. Even though I made a spontaneous decision right after arriving, choosing to abandon the legend entirely to search for Yinglong instead, you lot still managed to track me down. From that moment on, I knew for a fact that you were not tracking my movements through history. You had some way to monitor my exact whereabouts in real time.”

He Suoyi stared coldly at Du Yu, remaining dead silent.

“At first, I assumed you were working together with Saint,” Du Yu continued. “But then I saw that you were hunting Saint down as well. He was hunted until his soul was nearly scattered and his spirit dispersed. That was when I realized the person watching me was not Saint at all, but someone else entirely. If you think about who in this world operates so bizarrely and wants both Saint and me dead at the same time… there is only one candidate. It has to be Time.”

“That was when I started pondering another problem. Even if Saint accurately warned me about exactly when you would attack, I would not be able to mount an effective defense. Since my every move was under your surveillance, any attempt at a surprise attack or clever tactics would just be a joke.”

“So, I decided to take a massive gamble,” Du Yu said, bursting into laughter. “I never really thought about it before, but if I had not become an Operator, do you think I could have been reincarnated as a God of Gamblers?”

He Suoyi took a slow, deliberate step toward Du Yu. “Who exactly were you betting against? And what did you wager?”

Du Yu raised a finger and lightly tapped his own temple. “I made a bet with myself. And I wagered absolutely everything.”

“I do not understand,” He Suoyi muttered.

Du Yu fell silent for a moment, his gaze drifting toward the area nearby where the Legend Management Bureau used to stockpile its equipment. “Old He, there were quite a few reckless moves in this gamble of mine. If even a single link in the chain had failed to connect, I would be a dead man right now.”

He Suoyi kept his eyes narrowed, listening quietly as Du Yu explained.

“I truly did not mention this plan to anyone. I merely ran through it over and over again inside my own head. I quietly analyzed the entire battlefield in my mind, meticulously planning out what I needed to say to each person. I mapped out all the strategies and designed countless ways to kill every single one of you.”

As if suddenly realizing something, He Suoyi’s eyes widened in horror as he stared at Du Yu.

“You know how it works, Old He. As long as I constantly replay it in my mind, my thoughts become Saint’s memories. He would know everything I was planning, so I left the execution of the next steps entirely up to him. He needed to have Xiao Qi use Voice Transmission to contact the figures from my legends, notifying them of my plan one by one. Saint mentioned before that he only had a single piece of equipment at his disposal. I puzzled over that for the longest time. I could not figure out how he could travel to so many different legends to assassinate me if he only had one machine. But now it all makes sense… Because that single piece of equipment he possesses is the Legend Management Bureau itself!”

“And precisely because of that limitation, Saint’s tracking lens could only lock onto me, the protagonist. That made things a lot harder on my end. I had to run around over the past few days meeting as many people as possible. Simply put, I needed to make sure Saint’s lens captured all these different deities so that Xiao Qi would be able to establish a Voice Transmission link with them.”

“As for the Eight Directions Ghost Record, that part is even more amusing,” Du Yu said with a grin. “One day, it suddenly hit me: out of all the different timelines, there was probably never a version of Du Yu who chose to give up the Eight Directions Ghost Record. Which means, none of you actually knew what the process of abandoning it looked like. So… I had Master Shen create a fake Eight Directions Ghost Record, and then I used a small knife to scrape the names off it. I knew you would all assume it was the real deal. After all, I had already dismissed all the Immortal Beings. Making such a drastic move like destroying the record wouldn’t seem too out of character at that point, right? When you stack enough impossibilities together, people eventually start accepting them as truth. And that, in a nutshell, was my entire plan.”

He Suoyi swallowed hard. He slowly looked back up at the sky, which was completely swarming with Immortal Beings, a complicated swirl of emotions churning in his chest.