Urban God of War: The Live-in Son-in-law-Chapter 669 - 664: Shocking Situation, The Mastermind Behind the Scenes!

In fact, Mu Tian had always known that his father was scheming a great matter, yet he did not know what it was, though he had asked before, his father never told him, always saying that the time wasn't right.

"Father, what is the thing you're scheming—surely you can tell me now?" Mu Tian turned his head to look at his father.

Although the man before him was his father, Mu Tian often felt he was a stranger; because even now, he could not figure out just what kind of person his own father truly was. But one thing he was certain of was that his father was a great man, even perhaps possessing grand strategies and bold insight.

Mu Rongtian's face still showed no expression, his gaze still fixed on the vast land ahead, his voice proud and solitary, "The time has still not come, knowing too much now might not be good for you."

Mu Tian pursed his lips in an I-knew-it-would-be-like-this expression, thought for a moment, and then asked, "Father, there's one thing I can't figure out."

"You may ask," Mu Rongtian spoke.

So, Mu Tian asked, "With my current cultivation strength, it should be no problem to defeat Ye Feng, but why do you always hold me back and not let me win against him, making me continuously suppress and hide my true cultivation? And after entering the Outer Battlefield, you even had me deliberately act like a carefree and lax person. Why is this?"

Having said this, Mu Tian suddenly thought of a key point and hurriedly asked again, "Could it be related to the scheme you've been plotting?"

After finishing, Mu Tian turned his head back to look at the cold and proud man, seemingly trying to discern something from his face.

In truth, Mu Tian had always been concealing his cultivation level; in fact, he had stepped into the ranks of the Great Power of the Yin-Yang Mirror half a year ago. At his age, possessing such cultivation could be said to be the most powerful talent, even surpassing Ye Feng.

But precisely because of his father's command, and moreover, a strict order, he couldn't help but deliberately lower his realm, and even performed modestly during the Martial Dao conference. Indeed, because of this, Mu Tian felt incredibly frustrated internally, so he simply adopted a careless demeanor, specifically targeting those with lower cultivation in the Outer Battlefield, knocking them out from behind and looting them completely.

Perhaps only by doing this could the frustrated Mu Tian feel a trace of stimulation and joy, but he despised this false front, and the more he despised it, the more tirelessly he indulged in it, so his infamous reputation quickly spread throughout the Outer Battlefield, eventually becoming notorious.

But Mu Tian did not care about these; in his bones, his pride made him disdain it all. In his view, these so-called geniuses were merely ants, and it was only that Ye Feng was slightly more powerful.

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As the saying goes, "The world laughs at me for being too frivolous, I laugh at the world for being blind," this pretty much reflected Mu Tian's current state of mind.

Mu Rongtian remained indifferent and proud, his tone almost devoid of any emotion, "You needn't ask so much now. When the net is finally drawn, you will understand."

Mu Tian didn't ask any more. He finally understood that as long as the time was not right, no matter what he asked, the proud man would not answer, so he had no choice but to keep silent.

Neither spoke again and silence once more took over the mountaintop. The land before them continued vast and boundless, with only the slightly rising valleys hinting at some signs of life.

Mu Tian quietly stared at the valley, a mocking smile involuntarily forming on his lips.

"Ye Feng, do you really think you're the only one who knows the secrets of the Heavenly Origin Secret Realm? Do you really think your luck is overwhelming? Little brother, you're still too young. If it weren't for my father's prohibition, I could have taken the Heavenly Origin Secret Realm long ago, and there would be no need to mention your turn, Ye Feng!" Mu Tian lamented to himself.

The calm of the mountaintop was suddenly disrupted by Mu Rongtian, who rarely asked, "Do you hate me?"

This question was both abrupt and odd; others might have found it baffling, but Mu Tian visibly trembled, knowing as a son what his father meant by it.

After giving it some thought, Mu Tian grinned and said, "I've had hatred, but that's in the past, I've let go."

Mu Rongtian appeared as if opening a floodgate of words, slowly saying, "Fifty years, a full fifty years I have not gone back, not that I'm heartless, not that I'm disloyal. That little village means something extraordinary to me; I love it more than anyone else."

Suddenly, Mu Tian asked, "So are you still resentful towards Old Man with Big Tobacco Pipe?"

At this, Mu Rongtian burst into laughter, as if he'd heard a particularly amusing joke, and after a long while said, "Just as you said before, I've harbored hatred, but all that has passed, and I've long since let it go. Between father and son, how can there be true hatred?"

It turned out that Mu Rongtian was actually the son of Old Long with Big Tobacco Pipe, and Mu Tian was Old Long's grandson!

Indeed, fifty years ago, Mu Rongtian had always been Old Long's pride, even the most dazzling presence in that small mountain village, his talent eclipsing everyone else's. The village elders praised him as the Chosen One of the millennium.

It was precisely because of this that Mu Rongtian, thinking of himself with great pride and arrogance, ventured alone into the Outer Battlefield to gain experience before he even turned sixteen. Furthermore, his pride led him to secretly pass through the Whirlpool Gate of Time and Space and enter the territory of the Alien Race in Alien Space-Time.

However, after his return, Mu Rongtian's temperament drastically changed. He viewed the people of Earth as complacent and stagnant, seeing the Great Wall of Heaven that spanned across the sky horizon as a burdensome barrier. He even proposed to open the Great Wall of Heaven directly, allowing the Alien Race from Alien Territory to come through, to induce what he called the "catfish effect."

Of course, this was met with strong opposition from the village chief, Old Long, and the Clan Elders in the village even suspected at one point that this most illustrious Chosen One was being controlled by the Alien Race. The confrontation between the two parties was so intense that it could not be easily resolved. In the end, the proud and powerful Mu Rongtian left in a huff, and this departure lasted for fifty years.

From that time on, Mu Rongtian became a taboo in the village, a subject no one would discuss, so that later on, those like Sausage Sister and Long Nannan naturally knew nothing of that past.

Mu Rongtian still stood tall amidst this vast expanse of Heaven and Earth, his expression not the slightest bit desolate, still as arrogant and self-confident as ever. He said leisurely, "That old man, after all, is old and self-satisfied. Had he listened to my suggestion back then, the Human Realm would not be as lifelessly quiet as it is now!"

Mu Tian was naturally aware of this past, even though his father had never fully elaborated on it to him. By piecing together Mu Rongtian's sporadic laments over the years, he had grasped the general idea.

"Father, there's one thing I still don't quite understand," Mu Tian pondered and then spoke up.

"Speak," Mu Rongtian stopped his chattering and also slightly calmed his slightly agitated emotions.

At his level, emotional fluctuations were rarely experienced. It was precisely because this matter had always been a hurdle in his heart, even an insurmountable one, that his emotions were stirred.

Mu Tian then asked, "Father, as you said, if Old Long had listened to you back then and had opened the Great Wall of Heaven, allowing those Alien Races from Alien Space-Time to come in, wouldn't the powerful and brutal nature of the Alien Race, combined with the weakness of the Human Realm, have spelled disaster for the Human Race?"

Mu Rongtian laughed with a scoff, "Disaster is only temporary. Without great pain, where is the drive to advance? To squat is to leap better, to step back is to charge forward more effectively. To sacrifice a part of the Human Race as a price for propelling the entire Human Realm to continuously progress, what's wrong with that!"

This was Mu Rongtian's viewpoint and belief, and it belonged to his own vision and stature.

Mu Tian could not refute it; in fact, deep in his bones, he seemed to agree, feeling that it was better to open up rather than remain self-satisfied as they were.

Of course, if Ye Feng were present at this moment, he would certainly object. Once the Alien Race entered, a disaster would be inevitable. Do you know how great this disaster would be?

The so-called "sacrifice of a part of the Human Race as a price"—how many will that sacrifice entail? One third, or half? As the saying goes, if it doesn't concern one personally, one can afford to stand by and comment idly. The sacrifices are not your own, so naturally, you can speak such indifferent words!

Furthermore, once the Alien Race invades the Human Realm en masse, given the current Cultivation Rank of the Human Race, there's simply no ability to resist. In the end, they would surely face subjugation and oppression, and this oppression could last for thousands of years. Moreover, if a cruel and ambitious leader of the Alien Race emerges, continually suppressing and controlling the Cultivation Strength and numbers of the Human Realm's powerful beings, the Human Race would never have a day to turn the tables, forever reduced to slaves of the Alien Race.

These things, perhaps, Mu Rongtian had not considered. It must be said that although his vision was vast and his stature great, it was a bit hollow.

Although Ye Feng's vision, stature, and Cultivation Strength might not compare to Mu Rongtian's, the qualities Ye Feng possessed, such as his character and the heart that considers the overall well-being of the Human Race, were things that Mu Rongtian lacked. Sometimes, these can be the most important.

Mu Tian seemed to sense that his father was somewhat out of the ordinary today and couldn't help but express, "Father, you've said more today than you have in the past month combined."

Mu Rongtian seemed to realize this too, shook his head, and sighed unusually, "When the opportunity arises, it seems I must take you to see the Great Wall of Heaven. After all, no matter what, that old man is ultimately your grandfather and also my father."

At those words, Mu Tian's face involuntarily changed, and he asked, "Father, what do you mean by that? Could it be that the Old Man with Big Tobacco Pipe might fall in the upcoming great war?"

"It's not a possibility, but a necessity!" Mu Rongtian's gaunt face with sharp contours regained its cold pride as he enunciated each word, "If he does not die, the decades-long plan will not be able to be smoothly concluded. As long as he is alive, success is not possible. Therefore, he can only die!"

At this point, Mu Rongtian turned his head to look at his son and said leisurely, "By now you should understand, why the Alien Race knew how to break the Great Wall of Heaven, why they suddenly came to the Human Realm ahead of time?"

Mu Tian was suddenly stunned, standing still and looking at his father. He suddenly felt that his father's eyes gazing at him were very deep, like an abyss. This man was terrifying. He was relieved that this man was his father; otherwise, he would probably want to flee at once.

It was not until then that Mu Tian understood that everything behind the scenes was orchestrated and facilitated by his own father, even including everything that Ye Feng now possessed, everything that was firmly under his father's control, such as the Heavenly Origin Secret Realm, which could not escape his father's far-reaching schemes and layouts.

And everything that Mu Rongtian did, even if it meant using decades to set up such a situation, how significant was this setup? And to what extent?

No one knew. Even Mu Tian at that moment was utterly clueless and at a loss!