Above the Auction House…
Riyue Changfeng walked out and stood on it, while his hands behind his back. His sleeves fluttered along with the wind.
‘It’s about to start! I wonder whether the Heavenly Emperor is capable of seeing through the Great Demon Venerate’s plot?’
‘It’s quite difficult! The current situation appears as though the abyss is launching its attack continuously at the heavenly realm but the heaven realm is actually besieged and suppressed.’
‘It’s obvious that the reasons why the Great Demon Concubine attacking infinite realms are to obstruct the Great Demon Venerate and to collect blood essence and souls by hunting down living things to refine Holy Blood Pill. Nevertheless, there are subordinates of the Great Demon Venerate in the Great Demon Concubine’s team. They have been laying out the sky-defying Boundary Breaking Formation in every world they conquered.’
‘Anyway, to sit in that position, the Heavenly Emperor must be absolutely extraordinary.’
‘Oh, it’s about to start! It’s gonna be a great show! And I wonder who’d be the winner?’
Riyue Changfeng sat cross-legged as two tea tables appeared before him. He prepared lots of immortal fruits, brewed a pot of tea before he filled a cup for himself and gestured towards the Tianyuan World.
…
On Chuyang Peak.
Jiang Ming who was brewing ‘milk tea’ with his Phoenix Junior Sister suddenly looked towards the direction of Tianyuan Sea.
“What’s it?” Phoenix Junior Sister whimpered hoarsely.
“That fella is inviting me to watch a great show!” Jiang Ming was huffing and puffing with pauses in between.
There were gentle and pleasant sounds, mixed with intermittent low murmurs. It was like insects chirping, like a long whistle.
It was the most pleasant music that was played at dawn.
But at that moment, a wailing sound was suddenly heard. It sounded like awe, like grief, and like the satisfaction after the ultimate sublimation, and finally converged into an awe symbol.
It was also at this moment that the aura of the Phoenix Junior Sister abruptly surged and behind her a pair of phoenix wings appeared. The wings were huge and its flames were raging.
The flame had transcended the Phoenix Fire. The blazing flame contained boundless life, and within the destruction laid a vast creation, intertwining life and death, lurking in the opening and the end.
“I actually had a breakthrough during the sublimation of my soul!” Phoenix Junior Sister shouted for joy.
“This explained that the original body had a breakthrough, perhaps earlier than expected. Hence, you managed to have a breakthrough under my nourishment!” Jiang Ming was ecstatic too, “That’s great!”
“Senior Brother, since I’ve got a breakthrough, shall we have another round to celebrate?”
Pat!
“Nah, go consolation your cultivation base!”
Jiang Ming slapped her and threw her into the immortal medicinal garden.
“You’re such a scumbag! Throw me away soon after you use me!” Phoenix Junior Sister said with grief.
The corner of Jiang Ming’s mouth had a jerk. But he sighed in his heart, ‘It’s still the Junior Sister herself who’s cute. All these clones are alluring women indeed’
Jiang Ming had a stretch and paced into midair of the courtyard.
“What’s happening?” Mountain Master Tianyuan immediately opened his eyes, paced in the midair and asked.
“The Great Demon Venerate was about to launch a guerilla attack against the Heaven Court.” As Jiang Ming said, he took out a stone tablet he got from Ao Jiu and handed over, “There’s a Holy Law on it. Please take care of the Tianyuan World while comprehending it.”
“Holy Law?” The Mountain Master Tianyuan looked at the stone tablet and probed it with his consciousness. In an instant, he sensed a surge of sword qi that would slash a soul, causing him to shudder as he was shocked. Then, he was ecstatic, “What a terrific Sword Smbodha!”
He made a pause as he recollected himself before he asked, “Brother, what do you mean by the guerilla attack of the Great Demon Venerate?”
“The abyss has been plotting for millions and millions of years, but it is not supposed to be launched at this time. It’s because of the stupid Great Demon Concubine who provided a golden opportunity for the Great Demon Venerate.” Jiang Ming explained, “You may take a look because the Heaven Court may be destroyedand new history would be made this time around.”
“Is the abyss that strong? It shouldn’t be right?” Mountain Master Tianyuan frowned, “It’s supposed to have only nine venerates and six of them are killed one after another. How can the abyss be strong enough to launch a guerilla attack against the Heaven Court? Even if the abyss may have some other unknown to the public, the number wouldn’t be high, would it? After all, it’s difficult for a venerate to hide themselves. Therefore, I’ve always thought that the abyss is merely venting their emotion with omittable fights.”
“You’ve been looking down upon him!” Jiang Ming didn’t explain further but said, “I’m going for an appointment at the Tianyuan Sea. So please take care of the Tianyuan World while I’m away to prevent some rascals and thieves from entering.”
In fact, he could control the entire Tianyuan World in a thought. But because he did not want others to know, he had to take some misleading actions.
After all, there were many spies from various realms even though the Tianyuan Realm remained closed.
Nevertheless, whoever came in was killed and all evidence was destroyed in a prevention of information leaking.
The Mountain Master Tian Yuan was confused as he was looking at the back of Jiang Ming, who was leaving.
‘How can brother Jiang find out about the Great Demon Venerate when he’s just arrived at this Infinite Realm Battlefield not long ago?’
‘It’s not surprising that the Great Demon Venerate is hiding something but how did he find out something that even I myself didn’t know?’
‘What else does the abyss have that allows it to attack the Heaven Court? Can it be that the abyss is cooperating with the Lord Buddha and others? It shouldn’t be. After all, they can trust the Heaven Court better than the abyss because they are the beneficiaries of the Heaven Court.’
‘The support of Brother Jiang…’
He shook his head to stop dwelling further on his thoughts.
The Mountain Master Tianyuan then dispersed his consciousness, covering all parts of Tianyuan World. Strangely, he could probe into all areas except a few areas of Chuyang Peak.
…
Jiang Ming was pacing in the air above the sea and landed on the opposite side of Riyue Changfeng. Then, he directly sat down, took up the cup of tea which Riyue Changfeng had just poured for him, and had a sip. “You know to enjoy life indeed. I’m afraid that this tea is of the top grade spiritual root, right?”
“Bingo!” Riyue Changfeng smiled, “This is the Misty Nine Heavens Tea, which I got from a great chiliocosm. Then I used my contribution points in exchange for this tea.”
“Is it up for a trade?” Jiang Ming laughed as he asked.
Riyue Changfeng startled for a moment before he quickly shook his head, “This is one of a few hobbies I have, don’t think about it!”
“It’s just a tea tree, isn’t it?” Jiang Ming said, “It’s 15 days before the auction, are you not anxious?”
“With you as my most important customer, why should I? It’s better that I watch this great show. Of course, the auction is going on as planned. Anyway, Brother Jiang, have you seen through this imminent disaster?”
“It’s just about the Great Demon Venerate utilizing the Great Demon Concubine in misleading the world while having his plan laid to the point that it has now formed a great momentum against the Heaven Court. Am I correct?”
“Yes!” Riyue Changfeng was astounded, “I can find out because I’ve got a pair of unique divine eyes and a unique item which can map out the world. Moreover, because I don’t believe that the Great Demon Venerate is stupid, I particularly paid attention to find out. On the other hand, you can actually learn about the entire situation by just living in the mountains. I’m really admiring your greatness, Brother Jiang.”
Jiang Ming laughed without explanation. Instead he said, “Brother Riyue, who do you think would win this fight?”
“I’m still not siding with the abyss.”
“Why?”
“How can a Heavenly Emperor, who overrules the heavens, be defeated easily?”
“It’s reasonable indeed. Let’s just see how it turns out then!”
The two continued enjoying their tea.
As Riyue Changfeng pointed his finger, a mirror that was rapidly enlarging and was suspended in his front left. Numerous red dots appeared on it and they were enlarging at great speed. Each dot turned out to be a little world.
“These nine middle chiliocosms and 81 small chiliocosms are selected as the points of thesky-defying Boundary Breaking Formation. Each point will absorb the world’s origin to activate the formation, and when the formation has been fully activated, all the worlds will explode to give an ultimate blow.” Riyue Changfeng exclaimed, “Such an effort is indeed shocking because the ultimate blow may not be withstandable even by the Saint Lord. The single blow would badly beat up the Saint Body, if severe it may lead to death.”
“So many worlds that they are sacrificing?” Jiang Ming was shocked.
The Human Path Record did not give such detailed information. It only stated that the Great Demon Venerate was setting up formation points in many worlds to attack the Heaven Court. Hence, he did not think that many worlds would be sacrificed!
This was so amazing that even he admired the Great Demon Venerate’s deeds.
“Yes, that’s for sure!” Riyue Changfeng nodded.
“Can he survive the backfire of destroying so many worlds?” Jiang Ming frowned.
“You know only part of the story.” Riyue Changfeng smiled as he explained, “This war is akin to the abyss spending all its resources. They have mobilized as many demon soldiers, and experts they can, and fight with their abyss as the carrier. Hence, they fight for the sake oftheir luck, their standpoint and their rules. Even though the backfire is terrific as even Saint Lords may not survive through it. However, because they have the abyss as the carrier and the after effects are dispersed on millions and millions of demon soldiers, numerous Devil Generals, Devil Lords, Devil Kings, Devil Emperors and even the Demon Venerates. Correspondingly, the after effects have been greatly reduced. But…”
He made a pause and solemnly continued, “If the abyss were to fail, they would lose their luck in an instant. Under the after effects, at least more than half of the living things in the abyss would die. And the abyss won’t be rising anymore. Therefore, the Great Demon Venerate is gambling, taking the future of the abyss, himself and the millions and millions of demons in the abyss as security.”
“If he were to win, he would be able to rule over the universe, or at least a world.”
“If he were to fail, not only he can’t sanctify Dao, he would face difficulties to survive.”
“Hence, this is unrestrained gambling!”
Riyue Changfeng explained very clearly.
“Does luck really exist?” Jiang Ming lifted up his head as he asked.
“It’s so mysterious, even I myself aren’t sure about it yet!” Riyue Changfeng replied, “For example, it’s the degree of you being loved by heaven and earth. If you are hated by heaven and earth as well as the great Dao, you’d suffer from qi deviation and die by just drinking water; if you are loved, you’ll be blessed in everything you do.”
“This example is…” Jiang Ming shook his head as he laughed, and did not dwell on it any further.
At this moment, many red dots in the mirror had light pillars shot out simultaneously.
“It’s started!” Riyue Changfeng could not help but rose to his feet.
“It’s started!” Jiang Ming said solemnly.
Once the abyss started to launch its attack against heaven, it was a catastrophe to all.
