Cloud Peak Mountain was originally the location of the Cloud Top Immortal Palace’s mountain gate.

At some point in history, the Cloud Top Immortal Palace was reduced to ruins, and Cloud Peak Mountain was sealed off as a result.

The Divine Power Fruit, which ripens every thirty-three years, is actually the last vestige of the Cloud Top Immortal Palace’s foundation. Every thirty-three years, it nurtures this little bit of foundation to support Cloud Peak Mountain’s opening and to find a successor for the Cloud Top Immortal Palace.

In other words, while the Divine Power Fruit is indeed a rare treasure, Cloud Peak Mountain doesn’t exist solely for its sake. It mainly uses the Divine Power Fruit as a source of power to support the activation of various arrangements within Cloud Peak Mountain.

For example, the Guest-Welcoming Pavilion on the south side of the mountain, the Water Pool on the north side, and even the Cloud Beasts on the mountain… Therefore, once the Divine Power Fruit is plucked, Cloud Peak Mountain’s time will quickly come to an end because its power will have been exhausted.

Jiang Wang already knew this when he obtained the authority over Cloud Peak Mountain.

What he didn’t know was why the Cloud Top Immortal Palace was reduced to ruins. In the Guest-Welcoming Boy’s words, it was a cataclysm, but he didn’t clearly explain what that cataclysm was before dissipating.

He also didn’t know how to revive the Cloud Top Immortal Palace. He truly possessed the Cloud Top Immortal Palace, but he also truly gained nothing except for a ruin.

He suppressed Cloud Roaming Old Man and Dou Mian using the Cloud Peak Mountain’s original source of power. This power cannot be restored on its own; it diminishes with each use. To put it figuratively, if Cloud Peak Mountain is a furnace, the Divine Power Fruit is the firewood that is grown and chopped every thirty-three years, while the original source of power is the soot in the furnace itself. It won’t increase until Jiang Wang finds new coal.

Therefore, in Cloud Peak Mountain’s operating system, once the Divine Power Fruit firewood is removed, the Cloud Peak Mountain furnace will stop running. This is to preserve the original source of power, ensuring that Cloud Peak Mountain’s inheritance can continue until a successor appears.

The reason why Jiang Wang used Cloud Peak Mountain’s original source of power at any cost to suppress Cloud Roaming Old Man and Dou Mian was to create the impression that he had everything under control. He directly crushed them with overwhelming force, making them realize the disparity and give up resisting. But in reality, with Cloud Peak Mountain’s remaining power, he might not even be able to directly kill them anymore.

The fact that Cloud Roaming Old Man could still move his neck under his jealous rage and madness was proof of this. It’s just that he was so consumed by jealousy that he might not have even noticed it himself.

The communication with the Guest-Welcoming Boy was completed in the Five Viscera Sea, and not much time had passed.

At the top of Cloud Peak Mountain, Cloud Roaming Old Man was still howling mournfully, filled with resentment, hating Heaven’s injustice and the world’s unkindness.

After learning that he had no control over his successive reincarnations and that he had returned empty-handed in each life, Jiang Wang seemed to be able to understand some of his resentment.

Of course, he has always been able to understand others, but he has also always had his own principles.

But now, Cloud Roaming Old Man’s past life, the Guest-Welcoming Boy of the Cloud Top Immortal Palace, made a request to let him die convinced, without taking his unwillingness to the next life…

Jiang Wang had already planned to refuse. Compassion is compassion, but facing a ruthless person like Cloud Roaming Old Man, who sacrificed eighty years of his lifespan in exchange for battle prowess, wanting to kill him completely and still thinking of convincing him is simply excessive arrogance and making a joke of himself. But the Guest-Welcoming Boy also said that this Cloud Roaming Old Man is related to the opportunity for the revival of the Cloud Top Immortal Palace…

He really has no clue about the revival of the Cloud Top Immortal Palace. He entered a mountain of treasures in vain but doesn’t know where the treasure is.

Is this opportunity worth gambling on?

After thinking for a while, Jiang Wang looked at Cloud Roaming Old Man: “I don’t know how I obtained the Cloud Top Immortal Palace. But after thinking about it…”

He glanced at Ye Qingyu.

“It should be related to Pavilion Master Ye’s arrangements.”

Now that he thinks about it, this trip to Cloud Peak Mountain, their opponents were very powerful, but he and Ye Qingyu quite smoothly took all the advantages. Considering Ye Lingxiao’s various abnormalities beforehand, Jiang Wang absolutely doesn’t believe that there was no arrangement by Ye Lingxiao.

The only thing that Jiang Wang couldn’t figure out was why Ye Qingyu didn’t obtain the Cloud Top Immortal Palace in the end, but he did. Ye Lingxiao doesn’t seem like the type to be so kind to him, and there’s no reason to not leave the benefits to his own daughter, right?

But not understanding is one thing; it doesn’t prevent Jiang Wang from making this analysis, using Ye Lingxiao as a tiger’s skin to suppress Cloud Roaming Old Man’s unwillingness.

He looked down at Cloud Roaming Old Man, filled with the ease of a victor: “Why do you think that your efforts, your plans, should be able to surpass a current Real Person?”

While saying these words, Jiang Wang was actually secretly reminding himself. Cloud Roaming Old Man’s efforts of who knows how many lifetimes all ended in failure. In front of the current Real Person Ye Lingxiao, all his efforts were insignificant. Ye Qingyu easily obtained the Cloud Script Divine Power, and Ye Lingxiao’s arrangements were seamless yet natural.

And Zhuang Gao Xian is also a current Real Person, and he achieved Cave Truth even earlier than Ye Lingxiao.

If he remembers correctly, when the turmoil in Maple Forest City had just occurred, the White Bone Path’s Ouyang Lie was stirring up trouble in the Cloud Kingdom, attracting attention. At that time, Ye Lingxiao had not yet achieved Cave Truth. And it was precisely in the Maple Forest City incident that Zhuang Gao Xian fully recovered from his injuries and broke through in one fell swoop.

For Zhuang Gao Xian, he needs to make the most complete preparations and must not be self-righteous.

“So what?”

Cloud Roaming Old Man sacrificed eighty years of his lifespan. A young man in his early twenties has aged to the point where half of his body is in the grave.

Facing Jiang Wang’s words, he was not convinced.

Beneath his withered eyelids were a pair of resentful eyes filled with bloodshot.

“You people don’t need to work hard, don’t need to struggle, don’t need to put in effort. Just having a good father, being born into a good family, allows you to easily have everything?”

Jiang Wang didn’t explain to him that he also came from humble beginnings, that he had no background, and that he had reached this point step by step. He didn’t want to say those things, so he simply asked, “So you’re saying… you’re not convinced?”

“Of course I’m not convinced!” Cloud Roaming Old Man roared, “What trash are you young masters and young ladies? If you were born into the same circumstances as me, you wouldn’t even be alive now! Why should I be convinced? You’re relying on Cloud Peak Mountain’s restrictions to stand here and talk to me! Why should I be convinced?”

His voice and appearance were completely that of an old man, but his words were filled with the unwillingness of a young man. The accumulated destiny of who knows how many lifetimes exacerbated his resentment.

“Then I’ll give you a chance.” Jiang Wang drew his sword and actively released Cloud Peak Mountain’s power suppression: “Fight me alone, determine victory or defeat, life or death, and make you completely convinced! I’ll also let you know if, as you said, everyone else is trash and only you have worked hard, struggled, and risked your life!”

Saying it’s a fair fight, but it’s actually not fair.

Because Cloud Roaming Old Man’s connection with the Starlight Sacred Building has been severed, and he can’t establish a connection for the time being, almost half of his Outer Building Realm abilities have been rendered useless. Moreover, he first fought with Dou Mian, exhausting Dou Mian’s Golden Battle Body, and then he was crushed by Cloud Peak Mountain’s power, so his momentum is far from what it was before.

Of course, if it were truly a peak state Third Realm Outer Building cultivator, Jiang Wang might not have made this decision.

He is willing to grant fairness when his abilities allow it. Rather than easily seeking death for the sake of others’ so-called fairness.

Cloud Roaming Old Man himself understands that this is already the best condition.

In a situation where he is fish on the chopping block and the other party is the knife, how can he ask for more fairness when the other party is willing to release the suppression and fight him alone?

Therefore, he immediately jumped up from the ground: “Come! Invincible Lone One! If you can kill me, I won’t hold a grudge!”