Chapter 85 Doesn't Senior Brother hate me? (27) "Since that's the case..."

Soon, the day of the Four Seas Demon Lord's wedding arrived.

All the demons arrived, and all the races came to offer their congratulations. The entire Four Seas Celestial Palace was newly decorated, and everyone was immersed in a festive atmosphere of vibrant red and purple.

Fu Li was dressed in a phoenix-embroidered robe, her face radiant with a jade-like glow despite the lack of makeup. A bright red mole between her brows was strikingly beautiful, like a red agate inlaid there.

Zhongli Qianye, dressed in a black dragon-patterned wedding robe, stood beside him on the stage. The demon lord, who usually kept a low profile and never showed his emotions, was now beaming with joy.

Holding the Demon Queen's hand, under the watchful eyes of all the demons, the two bowed to heaven and earth, exchanged vows, and engraved their names on the Three Lives Stone. After the ceremony, music resounded, white sparrows danced, and cries of congratulations echoed through the heavens.

The ceremony was so grand that everyone knew that the Four Seas Immortal Palace had gained a new master.

After the marriage ceremony, Fu Li's life did not change much.

Perhaps because of their official status, he became increasingly clingy after they became partners. He spent most of his time in the Dragon Crystal Palace with Fu Li, except when he was handling official business. He also started calling her "Baby" and "Li'er," which made Fu Li's lips twitch involuntarily.

All of this gave Fu Li the illusion that Zhongli Qianye had been tamed and would surely grant her every request in the future.

So, one afternoon after waking up from a nap, Fu Li casually suggested that since they had already become Daoist partners, she should help him completely cure the remaining poison of the Wusheng Pill.

Then she saw the man who had always pampered and doted on her suddenly transform from a languid and contented man to one with dark red eyes.

"Give you the antidote? And then watch you run away with your senior brother?! Yue Fuli, let me tell you, this won't do!"

Fu Li was caught off guard by his sudden outburst of rage and failed to understand the hidden feelings in those deep, seemingly cold snake eyes. Then, his robes were torn open and he was forced to take what he wanted.

Afterwards, Fu Li regretted her haste.

After that, Zhongli Qianye began to occasionally go crazy, or when he was annoyed with Xiao Yue, he would lash out at Fu Li with red eyes. When he annoyed Fu Li and she didn't want to talk to him, he would rush over to apologize and coax her gently. Sometimes he would deliberately bring up the fact that Fu Li had almost become a couple with Chongjing Pavilion in bed, but in the end, he would only make himself furious and could only sulk in bed to save face.

It's strange, all these things are clearly related to Zhongli Qianye, yet he's become jealous. It's as if all the romantic entanglements are Fu Li's fault.

From these subtle clues, Fu Li gradually understood that Zhongli Qianye wasn't just a love-struck fool. A demon lord who had lived for hundreds of years, how could he not see through the true nature of people's hearts? He probably knew in his heart how much of Fu Li's sincerity could be genuine, and that his feigned compliance was merely a result of being constrained by circumstances. But Fu Li herself had already fallen for him.

Zhongli Qianye was unwilling to let go, so the only thing he could do was let himself sink into depravity, keeping the person by his side while repeatedly establishing their status through extreme methods.

Normally, when he saw Xiao Yue, he was always gruff and never gave her a pleasant look. It was unbelievable that the dignified master of the Four Seas Immortal Palace would stoop so low as to be jealous of a demonic guard by the Empress's side.

As for Xiao Yue, she remained silent. She did not fall for Zhongli Qianye's scheme of deliberately making noise while he was having sex with Fu Li, nor did she try to drive him out of the Dragon Crystal Palace with any insidious means. From beginning to end, she stayed by Fu Li's side like a qualified shadow guard.

But no one knows what he was really thinking.

Two years passed peacefully, and Zhongli Qianye's jealousy whenever he saw Xiao Yue was finally alleviated.

Fu Li has temporarily abandoned the idea of ​​obtaining the antidote for the Lifeless Pill. He knows that doing so would only provoke Zhongli Qianye. Meanwhile, the day when the male protagonist emerges from seclusion as a half-immortal to seek revenge is drawing ever closer.

In the past two years, he had tried sending people to investigate the interior of Dragon's Gate Mountain. However, for ordinary demon cultivators, the defenses of Dragon's Gate Mountain were impregnable, making it impossible to infiltrate. Somehow, the sect had also discovered the secret passage through which he and Zhongli Qianye had come, and set up a barrier to block their way.

Therefore, Fu Li was unsure whether the male protagonist had survived or not.

However, judging from the system's leisurely tone every day, he roughly guessed that the plot had not changed.

Since that's how it is, Fu Li is too lazy to struggle anymore. Every day, she gets up from her cot, which can fit five or six people, and practices her martial arts when she's bored, or wanders around the island a few times. When necessary, she fulfills Zhongli Qianye's needs, teasing this man who demands everything from her except for freedom.

In addition, he searched through ancient books and tried every means to find out if there was a way to turn those who had fallen into demonic possession back into humans, but unfortunately he found nothing.

Xiao Yue saw through his thoughts and comforted him, "Junior brother, it's alright. It's good that I can stay in Dragon Crystal Palace and accompany you with my current identity."

Then he lowered his voice and whispered in Fu Li's ear, "Don't worry, I will definitely find a way to cure the poison in your body, and then we will leave together..."

Every time she heard him say such things, Fu Li couldn't help but look at him with a slightly pitying gaze, thinking to herself---the male lead might come to kill me tomorrow, and I might die soon, so whether I leave or not really makes no difference.

As Fu Li's bedmate, Zhongli Qianye was most sensitive to his increasingly depressed mood. He assumed that something was wrong with his life in the Dragon Crystal Palace and tried his best to cheer him up.

Since their marriage, rare treasures, spiritual herbs, and elixirs from all over the Five Continents have been sent to the Western Continent with an almost reckless abandon. Rumors circulate among the demon race that the Demon Lords of the Four Seas would even offer up their own dragon pearls to win a smile from the beauty. Such devotion to a mere alchemy vessel is truly lamentable.

The reason Fu Li sighed so often was because he knew his days were numbered. He would soon be unable to enjoy this life of endless luxury, with its fine silks, gold, and jewels. He also didn't know what identity he would be given in the next world.

Five years later. Dragon Gate Mountain, a place of miasma and desolation.

The night was deep, the dew heavy, and the air chilly. Halfway up the mountain, almost all the important figures of the sect had gathered, anxiously and nervously gazing at the tribulation clouds that were constantly gathering and swirling in the dark sky.

Because the tribulation was deliberately chosen to take place at night to avoid alerting outsiders, the tribulation clouds, resembling rolling ocean waves, completely obscured the sky. They were barely noticeable in the darkness unless carefully observed. Even so, the lights of the town below the mountain appeared dim and lifeless. Not a single star could be seen in the entire sky, as if shrouded in a lightless barrier.

No one had ever seen such a tribulation-crossing posture before, and no one could say for sure what kind of powerful being was undergoing it, or whether it was a tribulation of lightning or a tribulation of ascending to heaven.

The elders and elite disciples who stood halfway up the mountain also felt uncertain.

Li Weiyan looked up at the low-hanging, rolling clouds in the sky, and asked in a clear voice with hidden worry, "Sect Leader, Elders, will Senior Brother succeed this time?"

Sect Leader Xiao Qinghe, gazing at the ever-growing, seemingly boundless black clouds, murmured, "No one knows for sure. Perhaps no one alive in the cultivation world has ever seen it. Regardless, we must believe in Jingge. If they succeed, he will become the number one person in the world. If they fail, we will be there to protect him..."

But Zhu Mingying frowned upon hearing this: "Can outsiders really interfere at this level?"

"This is the tribulation lightning of a demigod!"

The center of the clouds kept rotating inward, eventually forming a huge vortex that almost covered the entire Longque Mountain area.

In the oppressive atmosphere, a white light appeared at the center of the vortex. The first bolt of tribulation lightning struck, slender like a stream of water, its color a pure, chilling white, emanating a terrifying pressure that made everyone present, including the highly skilled elders, tremble.

Suddenly, one of the men, with long, dark hair reaching his waist and slender features, spoke up: "We have to leave here. Jingge can only face this alone."

This person is none other than the peak master of Xiaoyao Peak, and also the master of Chongjing Pavilion, the Xiaoyao Zhenren who emerged from seclusion a few years ago.

His cultivation level was the highest here. Since he had said so, everyone stopped talking and quickened their pace to walk down the mountain.

Once they reached a relatively safe place, the second lightning bolt, which had been brewing, struck straight down. This time, however, it was clear that after the lightning pierced through the air, a figure flying in mid-air blocked the lightning, its entire body tempered and emitting a silvery-white glow, like the bright moon in the sky.

"It's Senior Brother!" Li Weiyan exclaimed.

Immediately afterwards, one after another, pure white lightning bolts struck down from the center of the vortex cloud, continuously hitting the figure in mid-air.

Most of the spiritual energy was absorbed by the body, with the remainder scattering like fireworks. In an instant, sand and stones flew across the ground, and a fierce wind and rain raged. Many ancient trees, hundreds or even thousands of years old, were uprooted by the gale and swept into the air, colliding with boulders several meters tall. Combined with the abyss-like vortex of tribulation clouds in the sky, it was a scene of apocalypse.

Only by working together could everyone create a protective barrier to avoid being affected.

Normally, there are 32 lightning bolts during the Nascent Soul stage, 64 during the Refinement stage, and 81 during the Deity Transformation stage. However, there are a total of 108 lightning bolts falling from the tribulation clouds!

After the final lightning bolt, as thick as an entire mountain peak, struck, the Thousand Miasma Cliff seemed to collapse and the earth cracked, turning the entire mountaintop into a huge crater.

Dust filled the air, turning the sky and earth a hazy yellow.

Because of the sand and dust obscuring the view, it is not yet possible to see what the situation is like.

Suddenly, a silvery-white light slowly appeared in the dust-filled sky. At first, it was as serene and calm as a full moon, but then the light became so bright and dazzling that it blocked out the sun and people could not look directly at it.

When I opened my eyes again, I could see a figure radiating a cool, clear light floating in mid-air.

He did something seemingly random, but as he looked up, a sword aura carrying a vast white light shot straight into the clouds, instantly dispersing the city-like storm clouds that had gathered in the sky. The previously obscured Milky Way shone brilliantly, its light spilling across the earth; a single sword strike cleansed the heavens and earth.

Then, with a casual wave of his hand, the landscape of Dragon's Gate Mountain instantly returned to normal. The destruction that had just occurred seemed to be nothing more than an illusion.

Before anyone could react, the figure appeared, stepping through the air. A fair and handsome face was clearly visible, with a pair of golden, sun-like eyes that shone with a cool, aloof light. A serene, pale glow enveloped his entire being, giving him an unapproachable, sacred aura; even the cloud pattern on his collar emitted a faint, radiant glow.

His features were as sharp and sculpted as if carved by a knife, and his temperament was extraordinary and otherworldly, inspiring awe in those who looked at him and making them dare not harbor any disloyal thoughts.

She was just like a celestial being descended from heaven.

White boots landed, and although the faces were familiar, both Li Weiyan and Zhu Mingying suddenly felt a sense of unfamiliarity.

Li Weiyan said softly, "Senior Brother... Congratulations on your near-immortal ascension."

Chongjingge glanced at him with indifferent eyes, but did not speak.

It wasn't until the Elder in charge of the seal spoke first: "Jingge, you have survived the tribulation and become the only half-immortal in the cultivation world. I have already sent out the invitation, and soon this news will spread throughout the five continents. All cultivation sects will honor you as Immortal Venerable. What do you plan to do next?"

Under everyone's gaze, the immortal slowly raised his eyes, his gaze seemingly piercing through mountains to gaze into the distance, or perhaps looking at someone. Only then could one see that his golden pupils held a cold, lonely radiance.

His voice was cold as he said, "If that's the case, the first thing to do is to punish the demon cultivators and flatten the Western Continent."

Author's note: I've been revising this for far too long. It's over an hour late, please bear with me.