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The ultimate move that Zi Chen had painstakingly planned for tens of thousands of years had been a dud, the people from the Celestial World were all stunned. For a few moments, the surrounding area was exceptionally quiet and even the demonic Qi that had been permeating the air seemed to have frozen in place.
The crowd had were unable to respond to what had happened.
Five minutes later…
Shen Ying looked at the tightly shut Demon World door in front of her, she raised her hand and knocked on it.
“Little Black, open the door!”
“I don’t want to!” A frightened voice voiced its objection from beyond the door.
“Just come out for a while, I have something to ask you.”
“No, I don’t want to come out from this door anymore.” Sniff, sniff, how scary!
Shen Ying: “What are you crying for? I won’t hit you!”
Little Black: “… Really?”
Shen Ying: “Yes.”
Little Black: “Really, really?”
Shen Ying: “Yes.”
Little Black: “Really really rea…”
Shen Ying: “If you say anything more, I’ll hit you right now.”
As her voice landed, the door creaked and finally opened. It was still the Demon King dressed in black with his pair of blood-red eyes. The surrounding demonic Qi became even more intense and as compared to his overbearing nature previously, he was now exceptionally obedient, tears welling up in his eyes, even his burly body was much shorter than just now.
“What are you kneeling on the ground for?” Shen Ying looked at the person on the floor and asked.
The Demon King shuddered and replied seriously, “Exalted Goddess, I feel that you look exceptionally majestic when I look at you while kneeling.”
Shen Ying: “…”
Everyone: “…”
What was this sudden urge to light a candle for Zi Chen?
Shen Ying’s mouth twitched and she threw Zi Chen, who she had casually dealt with on her way here at him, saying, “Explain, what’s going on here?”
The Demon King immediately tried to shirk off all relations with him by moving two steps to the side. He then replied, “Exalted Goddess, I’m really innocent! I don’t know anything, I only came because I heard someone summoning me. I didn’t know that the Celestial World was behind the door.” If he had known, he would never have opened the door.
“You mean…” Shen Ying’s voice became sullen, “There are many other doors like this one?”
The demon prince’s expression paled and cold sweat rushed down his face, “Per… per… perhaps… I think!” Oops, he had let the cat out of the bag!
Beside him, Yi Qing had also understood and his heart sank. Indeed, this door had looked identical to the one that had opened in the Invincible Sect, but this was the Emperor Ascension Stage and it was evident that they were not the same door. This meant that there was not just one door that led from the Celestial World to the Demon World.
“How many of these doors are there!” Yi Qing asked.
“This…”
The Demon King clenched his teeth and prepared to answer, but Zi Chen who had been lying on the ground suddenly responded with an expression of disbelief, “My king, what are you doing? You only need to give the order and the army of the Demon World will conquer the Three Realms. Why are you…”
“Shut up!” The Demon King sent a wave of suppression towards him and crushed him back on the ground, this little b*tch trying to accuse me! Where would the Demon World army come from, the 10 Skyfiends had already been defeated by them and were still lying in their Demon Palaces licking their wounds!
“Exalted Goddess, please listen to my explanation!” The Demon King was in tears and looked at Shen Ying weakly, saying, “All this was done by the previous Demon King! He wanted to conquer the Three Realms, so he had sent our people to conduct subterfuge within the Three Realms. It’s not just the Celestial World, the lower realm has them too. They are all Mission Demons, once the realm door is opened, they will be able to summon Demon Kings immediately. However, I … do not know exactly how many there are.” He frantically said everything he knew.
“You’re saying that there are more demons in the Celestial World?” Lonemoon was astonished.
“There should be … I think?” He nodded, then continued saying, “The lower realm is not a good place, so the previous Demon King had wanted to conquer the Celestial World. However, millions of years ago, the Celestial World and the Divine World were connected, so he could not find an opportunity to strike.”
Lonemoon thought about it carefully and understood the entire story. In the past, the demons had been afraid of the divine race, so they did not dare to lay their hands on the Celestial World. Afterwards, the Divine World and the Celestial World had a falling out, but left the Emperor Ascension Stage to seal off the door to the Demon World. The Demon King was unhappy with it, so he had sent these people to create chaos to try to open the world door. Zi Chen had been one of his men, but after so many years of preparation, the Demon King was already another person. Most importantly, he had run into Shen Ying. At that moment, he did not know whether to be happy for the Celestial World or to mourn for Zi Chen.
“Can you find these people?” Shen Ying asked.
“Yes, of course!” The Demon King immediately nodded his head like a little chicken. These were the Exalted Goddess’ orders, he needed to, absolutely had to, it was a definite must!
“That’s fine then, within three days, think of a way to get your men out of here.” Shen Ying waved her hand and continued saying, “In the future, manage your territory properly and don’t come out for a stroll with no good reason.”
“Yes Exalted Goddess, no problem Exalted Goddess!”
“Alright, you can go now.”
“Yes, Exalted Goddess!”
The Demon King let out a sigh of relief and picked himself up speedily while picking up Zi Chen who had already fainted. With a whoosh, he had snuck into the door and disappeared.
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Three days later.
The Demon King was actually quite efficient. He had taken out a Skyfiend token, it was a Dharma artifact for summoning demons. One day after he had used it, there were people reporting at the door to the Demon World one after the other.
Within these people, there were insignificant immortals, immortals who were famous throughout the Celestial World and one of them was even the emperor of a country. Although they were not Skyfiends, they all had means to disguise their demon identity. The Immortal Emperors were shocked to see all these people and a cold sweat ran down their spine. If it was not for Shen Ying, perhaps the Celestial World would really fall into the hands of the Demon World not long after.
These people were all brought back by Little Black into the Demon World and the crisis was averted. Zi Chen had also been brought back into the Demon World, but by the look on the Demon King’s face, he would probably not have a good end.
The only person who had not been dealt with was Hui Ling. The things that she had done were not unforgivable, but they were definitely not minor either. The entire incident had not been because of her and she had been influenced by Xin Han, but she had deceived her elders and robbed them of their Divine Artifacts.
Putting the others aside, the person with the most right to deal with her, also the person who had been tricked the hardest was Chen Ge. Thus, the other Immortal Emperors left it up to him to decide.
“Strip her of her immortal bones and her cultivation, then send her to the lower realm.” Chen Ge’s expression did not change as he announced Hui Ling’s punishment.
While Chen Ge’s punishment might have seemed lenient, to Hui Ling, it was the most severe punishment she could receive. For someone who had already become immortal, who would want to reincarnate and be reborn as a mortal. Moreover, an immortal whose immortal bones had been removed could not cultivate again. A mortal’s lifespan would not last longer than 100 years, to Hui Ling, who was previously an immortal, it was probably a fate worse than death.
It seemed like her previous actions had left Chen Ge’s heart frozen. He no longer indulged her actions.
“Emperor Lonemoon, what do you think about this punishment?” Chen Ge turned his head and looked at the red radish beside him.
“It’s none of my business!” Lonemoon glared at him, the temper he had been keeping in for days finally erupting. He then said, “Put the matter aside. Didn’t you say that if we hurried and found our bodies, we could go back? Why am I still a radish?”
“…”
“Uh…” Chen Ge’s mouth twitched, then said in a sullen voice, “Emperor, our bodies are all severely injured. If our primordial spirits go back into our bodies all of a sudden, our injuries might become worse. We need to consider it seriously, we can’t rush it!”
“Alright! Even if we need to wait for our bodies to recuperate before we can go back, then…” He took a deep breath and looked at the entire room of radishes and howled, “Why are you all still here?!” The fight was already over, shouldn’t they be going back? What were they leeching on the Invincible Sect for? The water for watering them didn’t come free!
The radishes all stiffened.
“Father Niu, it isn’t really appropriate for them to bounce back like this!” Shen Ying interrupted. They were Immortal Emperors after all and had reputations to protect.
“You shut up!” Lonemoon’s gaze immediately turned to her and he shouted, “If it wasn’t for you, would our bodies end up this beaten up! Would we need to bounce around like radishes all day?”
Shen Ying did a double take and replied, “Wasn’t it you who asked me to hurry up that day.”
“I was asking you to beat up the b*stard Xin Han! Who asked you to lash at us with your belt.”
“I did that to save all of you!” Sure, blame me for your weak bodies!
“Save us, my foot! Is that saving?” When they came back and inspected their bodies, they realized that because of her lashing at them with her belt, out of their nine bodies, eight had their meridians destroyed and immortal bones damaged. The only one who was better off was Xuan Tong, but that was because she was alone. Initially, Xin Han had not controlled her body to attack them, she had only suffered excessive blood loss from the array sacrifice. So, she had returned to her fox body while the rest were radishes.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t suppress his anger!
“Also, move that d*mn watering pot away from my head, stop watering me. Are you color-blind! I already told you I’m not a radish!”
Shen Ying: “…”
Yi Qing: “…”
The various Emperors:”…”
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Their bodies had been injured and they could not return to their bodies temporarily, so they were all worried. Moreover, because six of the eight radishes were Celestial Emperors, those who had lower cultivation than them would be injured if they tried to heal their bodies. The only person who could do it was Little Biao, but it would take forever to heal them one by one, so he eventually thought of a more efficient method.
“Since all the Immortal Emperors’ primordial spirits are in immortal herbs, the immortal herbs are of the wood element, so why not let their actual bodies be surrounded by the same aura too?” Biao Ting continued seriously, “Moreover, the earth and wood elements are complementary to each other, they can use this method to induct the elements into their bodies for self-healing. The back mountain has immortal soil and can aid in…”
“Speak human language!” Shen Ying interrupted him.
“Oh, it means that we just need to bury their bodies in the back mountain, perhaps they will grow back just like radishes.”
“…”
The radishes all fell silent, no matter what method it was, they could only try it. So, they all hugged their own bodies and buried them in the back mountain. Perhaps it was the trauma of the Emperor Ascension Stage, they planted themselves tidily into a circle, just like their positions when they were trapped.
Regardless, Little Biao’s method was indeed effective. Their bodies had started to regain the flow of their meridians under the regulation of the immortal vein and the earth aura, repairing their bodies automatically. Thus, in order to increase the speed of recuperation, they all took out multiple immortal veins and planted them in the ground. For a moment, the Immortal Qi in the Invincible Sect had even exceeded that of the Heavens beyond Heaven. Under the nourishment of so many immortal veins, their bodies started to recover visibly. Moreover, the immortal herbs that would take tens of thousands of years to mature had done so in a couple of hours, causing the disciples to harvest them until their hands were weak.
As he saw this, Lonemoon rescinded the thought of having the few of them pay for accommodation.
The few of them were buried in the back mountain for half a month and their bodies had almost recovered. As they were about to fully recover in one fell swoop, a piece of unexpected news spread from the Heavens beyond Heaven.
“What? Hui Ling escaped?” Lonemoon was stunned.
Chen Ge’s expression became grim. He was not in fit shape to go out now, so Biao Ting was the one who had escorted her and she was temporarily locked up in the immortal prison. Normally, her punishment was also settled by transmission amulets, so nobody had expected her to be able to escape from the Immortal Rainbow Palace’s immortal prison.
“With her cultivation, it’s impossible for her to break through the array formation. Who helped her?”
“It was… it was…” The sound in the transmission amulet got softer and replied with a trace of hesitation, “Emperor, it was Lu Ming.”
“What!” Chen Ge was shocked and had an expression of disbelief. Half of his radish face was red with anger. He knew that Lu Ming was on good terms with Hui Ling, but he did not expect that he would defy him because of that. “This d*mn disciple!”
He had only taken in two disciples, but he had not expected each to be worse than the other. Even the other radishes in their holes shot him pitying glances.
Chen Ge took a deep breath to suppress his boiling anger and said in a grim voice, “Where have they escaped to?”
“They did… didn’t escape!” The voice in the transmission amulet became even weaker.
“What do you mean?”
The voice stopped for a moment, then hesitantly replied, “Lu Ming said that Emperor was harmed by the wicked people in the Invincible Sect and is now nowhere to be found. The person who gave the order to detain Junior Sister Hui Ling must not be you, so he has contacted all the country emperors to … to take revenge for you.”
Chen Ge: “…”
Lonemoon: “…”
All the radishes: “…”
Yo, they did not expect Hui Ling to have such sleek moves, she was way more intellectual than when she was completely in love.
She understood best where Chen Ge was and what had happened to them. Now, she was using revenge as an excuse to take advantage of Chen Ge’s injury to rebel and kill him off, then replace him?
She probably knew that she could not escape heavy punishment and decided to go for an all or nothing.
The crowd thought about it and immediately understood, but their gazes towards Chen Ge became full of pity. They were all rejoicing internally that they did not take in disciples out of boredom.
However… to ally with the country emperors to attack the Invincible Sect? Were they out of their minds? Although Chen Ge was a radish now, Lan Hua, Biao Ting, Yi Qing and the rest were not to be trifled with. Moreover, there was still Shen Ying.
The radishes were all about to discuss Chen Ge’s disciples’ intelligence, but Yu Hong hurriedly ran over and said, panting, “Elder Lonemoon, there are many unfamiliar immortals that have appeared at the foot of the mountain, shouting about wanting to take revenge for the Immortal Emperors.”
“I know, it’s the country emperors men, right.” Lonemoon nodded and continued, “You inform Little Biao…”
“No!” Before he could finish, Yu Hong shook her head and said, “They’re from the Phoenix Heaven.”
“What?” Blackbird nearly jumped out from his hole in shock, “Why would my people be here? Little Hong, are you sure you saw correctly?”
“I’m sure!” Yu Hong declared certainly, “They are all demon immortals, claiming to be here to take revenge for you. I told them you were fine, but they wouldn’t listen.”
“…” Blackbird had an expression of confusion. He wasn’t even dead, what revenge were they talking about! Oh my, oh my, these bumbling idiots.
Suddenly, with a giant crash, a transparent force field appeared above the Invincible Sect, surrounding the entire Sect.
That was… the Protective Mountain Array!
There was someone who was forcefully attacking them!
Blackbird felt himself freeze up. Holy shit! Those idiots really dared to come up!
The few of them had not recovered from the shock before they saw droves of immortals flying in the air, covering half the sky. They were not just from the East’s Phoenix Heaven, even the West’s Cloud Pool, the North’s Cloud Sea and the South’s Chang Nuo were all…
Apart from Biao Ting’s Qing Ze Continent, the immortals from the other continents had all gathered and had coordinated to surround the entire Invincible Sect.
The radishes who had just gathered to watch a show all had grim expressions now.
Going to die, going to die, going to die, oh my god, we’re going to die!
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