After leaving them, Dai ngfan brought Yang Miaozhen to a pavilion surrounded by water to watch the battle. Surrounded by smoke and fire, it was only a matter of ti before it swallowed the waterside pavilion.
She obviously did not care about this bit of smoke and fire. She was well aware that what truly decided their fates as master and disciple was the outco of that man’s battle! Indeed, Yang Miaozhen had already agreed to take her as her master.
When she watched Li Qingshan get blown away by the wind, her heart tensed up as well, but when she saw him kill his way back over to the Pavilion of Heavenly Tos with the wings of wind, she let out a sigh of relief again. However, all traces of him soon vanished.
The eastern gate of the Pavilion of Heavenly Tos had turned into a mirror-smooth surface of black water, except even the sunlight did not reflect off it as if it absorbed all the light.
Li Qingshan had vanished in there, with no more signs of him.
Dai ngfan’s heart gradually sank again. Her beautiful face flickered under the firelight. She had considered fleeing. The Spirit Reverend of Ocean Returnance was currently devoting himself to fending off Li Qingshan, so he probably could not spare any effort to deal with her.
But where would I flee to?
Li Qingshan and the Spirit Reverend of Ocean Returnance—one was a Demon God’s clone and the other was a powerful spirit immortal. Their clash was extrely intense, and they used their full strength right from the beginning. The outco would be decided in a split second too.
If Li Qingshan won, then there was no need for her to flee. If Li Qingshan lost, she would not be able to flee.
She definitely could not be forgiven for deserting the battle this ti. If the Desireless Heavenly Palace captured her, she would definitely pay a trip to the Hell realm before her soul was shattered so that she could experience all the tortures available.
When it really ca to that point, she was better off detonating her Yang Soul. However, she also happened to be the type who refused to die, so she would simply stomach all of the pain.
Sigh, I really would be better off dead than alive by then!
Dai ngfan happened to be worried and conflicted when a hand gently held her hand.
“Master, can he win?” Yang Miaozhen noticed how Dai ngfan’s complexion was horrible and knew this master of hers was extrely afraid of death, so she could not help but give her so comfort.
“What do you think?” Dai ngfan answered with a question.
“How would I know with my lowly cultivation? However…”
“However what?”
“I’ve never seen him lose!”
That made Dai ngfan think before smiling. She was just about to say sothing when she suddenly turned towards the Pavilion of Heavenly Tos again, murmuring, “The gate is open…”
Li Qingshan stepped through the gate. A while later, a column of white light burst out of the Pavilion of Heavenly Tos, piercing the sky such that it was visible from thousands of kilotres away!
“The formation has been destroyed!” Dai ngfan shuddered inside and clapped her hands together. “Sure enough, that kid is impressive!”
Li Qingshan had won. Her life had basically been preserved. There was no need for her to pay a trip to the Hell realm anymore.
Then she felt like she had misspoken. From now onwards, Li Qingshan was her protective talisman, so how could she still call him a brat? She turned to Yang Miaozhen and instructed her. “Don’t tell him this!”
Yang Miaozhen held back her smile. “Yes, master.”
…… 24062
Beyond the Nine Heavens, silver light sped through the sky as a skyhorse trod in the air.
A woman in silver armour currently pressed down on the hilt of her blade, standing valitantly on the top of the carriage. She was the forr first senior sister of the Myriad sect and a Divine General of the Six Ding now, Chao Tianjiao.
Wisps of clouds rose up from the skyhorse’s hooves as its silvery mane drifted in the air, but there were no reins. It did not require driving. Not only was it far more intelligent than most mortals, it had run this route plenty of tis already too.
This was a routine patrol organised by the Desireless Heavenly Palace, demonstrating the Desireless Heavenly Palace’s protection over the Human realm, but there was no practical significance to it.
Apart from dealing with invasions of demonfolk, the Human realm had always been at peace, nowhere near as chaotic as the Daemonic Beast realm or the Hungry Ghost realm. The Asura realm did fight on endlessly, but that was a special form of stability. As for the Heaven realm and Hell realm, that was under the administration of buddhism, which did not require the patrolling of a divine general from the heavenly palace.
“Even if sothing happens down there, you can’t see it from up here!”
Chao Tianjiao peered down as hard as she could. Those mountain ranges that towered into the clouds and extended for thousands of kilotres were only wrinkles in the earth now. The broad and mighty rivers that ran for tens of thousand kilotres were only thin, curved lines. If she had not beco a Human Immortal and developed astonishingly-sharp eyesight, she basically would not be able to distinguish them at all.
The only sight worthy of ntion were the changing clouds. Because the flow of ti was faster in the Human realm, the clouds changed at an extrely rapid pace too. Whenever she ca out patrolling, she would often be able to witness the growth and death of a storm.
When she saw that for the first ti, she had basically been left shocked beyond words. She realised countless things and her ntal cultivation progressed even further.
But after seeing it for all those tis, they were rely clouds now.
Life in the heavens was much more boring than she imagined. The daemon star of misfortune, Yinghuo, had clearly erged. The crisis of the world was already imminent, yet there was nothing for her to do despite being a divine general of the heavenly palace, which was truly strange.
“If I had known earlier, I would have just presided over Black Cloud city instead! Even if all the demonfolk have retreated, I can still bully that kid Li Qingshan! Speaking of which, it’s been a very long ti since I’ve shown him so ‘love’!” Chao Tianjiao chuckled.
Right as she was thinking about paying a visit to the Human realm the next ti she had a break, she suddenly saw a beam of white light rise up from the ocean and rush into the sky.
Now that was not common. She beca serious and gazed over, only to see a wisp of black smoke billowing at the bottom of the white beam, as well as so flickering firelight.
“That… seems to be… Myriad city!?”
……
Fifteen hundred kilotres south of Myriad city was a volcanic island, but unlike the Xuanming dwelling, this was an active volcano. It currently rolled with black smoke as lava surged at the crater.
A man with a simple and dignified appearance sat within the lava. He was the forr first senior brother of the Myriad sect, Li Liehuo.
After the battle of Black Cloud city, he entered secluded cultivation for good, hoping to undergo the sixth heavenly tribulation and make the step that separated immortals from mortals.
During the morning, he also received the Spirit Reverend of Ocean Returnance’s order to gather, but he did not answer the call and head to Myriad city.
He had benefitted quite a lot from the battle of Black Cloud city. He had already erged from secluded cultivation several months ago, becoming a Human Immortal. He could no longer be regarded as a direct disciple of the Myriad sect now. He was currently recovering his strength and consolidating his cultivation, so he naturally refused to answer the call.
However, the Myriad sect was his origins, so he could not help but be sowhat attached to it.
I wonder what’s happened to the Myriad sect. The spirit reverend would never gather the disciples so spontaneously. Don’t tell demonfolk have assaulted Black Cloud city again?
Li Liehuo constantly thought about it and felt slightly uneasy. At this mont, he suddenly sensed a pulse of spiritual qi. It was not particularly intense, but it left him tense for so reason.
He imdiately rushed out of the volcano, taking to the air. He gazed northwards in the air, only to see a thin, white line in the spacious and distant horizon between the sea and sky.
……
At the sa ti, who knew how many cultivators in the Human realm gazed in the direction of the Myriad sect.
Le Tian was amongst them. As a direct disciple of the Myriad sect, he had also received the Spirit Reverend of Ocean Returnance’s order to gather.
However, he did not gather in Myriad city, nor did he remain in his dwelling. Instead, he arrived fifty kilotres away from the city and lay in hiding, waiting to see what would happen.
A very ill on lood over the city with an aura of death everywhere. If he rushed in there blindly, it would probably be certain doom. At the sa ti, he had also vaguely guessed the origins of this ill on.
In the past, he had suffered a trendous defeat against Ox-headed A’pang in his gamble on the Road to the Yellow Springs, yet he had sohow survived. Ever since then, he saw a wisp of hope.
Le Tian’s unconcerned smile faded away.
He said to the three-legged golden toad under his feet, “My dark horse has won again! Now, it’s our turn to take a wager!” Then he smiled wryly. “It’s basically like he’s on a roll, winning several dozen high-stakes gambles consecutively! He leaves both excited and frantic!”
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