The Divine Way is about to begin
The sky suddenly darkened, and a few snowflakes began to fall. In the blink of an eye, a heavy snowfall blanketed the Bi'an Gorge in silver.
The demon generals who followed were frozen into ice.
The demon's body was gradually covered in frost.
He unleashed his magic towards Qiongfang, but it was dissolved by the dense snow.
Qiongfang's body seemed to have a huge hole in it, and his spiritual power was released, causing his body to gradually become ethereal.
Snow covered the demon god's shoulders, but he paid no attention and said:
"Last time, you used half your people to create the seal, trapping me for four hundred years. Now you're sacrificing your life to repair the seal. How many more years can you trap me?"
Qiongfang sat cross-legged on the spot. Yuzhu could not see his expression, but she saw a flash of white light as his right hand touched the ground.
As snow fell heavily, he sighed softly, "I'll just do what I'm supposed to do; the rest is up to them."
As soon as she finished speaking, Qiongfang vanished into nothingness, disappearing into the heavy snow.
Only a few dozen ice sculptures remain here.
After an unknown amount of time, the snow continued to fall, but the ice on the demon god's body shattered. He took a deep look outside the canyon and then flew into the depths of the canyon.
call--
Yu Zhu pulled herself out of the flashback, exhaled sharply, and just then the snow stopped. She put away her umbrella and stretched her body.
Qiongfang used the Mirage Array to repair the seal and create this icy and snowy land. There should still be those frozen demon general ice sculptures here.
Yu Zhu poked her toes at the snow. Could she be buried underneath? Could the magic crystal be under the snow as well?
Yu Zhu probed her magic into the snow. She had just used spiritual power, and now she needed to use magic to balance the power within her meridians.
Sure enough, there was something under the snow somewhere. Yu Zhu summoned Qing Shuang and began to dig through the snow.
Not long after digging, about half an arm's length deep, Qing Shuang encountered a piece of hard fabric.
Yu Zhu's spirits lifted, and she quickened her pace until she met a dark, bluish-green face.
Her hand holding the sword trembled slightly. She quickly dug through all the snow, revealing dozens of corpses buried beneath it—the demon generals who had been sealed away with the demon god years ago.
They weren't like ice sculptures, frozen translucent, revealing the bluish-purple blood vessels beneath their skin, stiffly piled together haphazardly.
They're dead? They shouldn't be dead. Qiongfang's ice sculpture only sealed them up; it wouldn't be fatal.
Upon closer inspection, Yu Zhu noticed that each of them had a gaunt face and sunken eyes, as if... their cultivation had been drained.
It was a demon god who absorbed their cultivation.
Thinking of this, Yu Zhu couldn't help but bend over and gag, tears welling up in her eyes. She walked away from the burial site.
After calming down for a while, Yuzhu used the memories that flashed through her mind to locate the place where Qiongfang had fallen.
As she planted the green frost in the snow, Yuzhu sensed that someone was walking towards her from afar.
What brings you here?
Yu Zhu looked at Jing Xu in front of her, her tone tinged with helplessness.
"Why didn't you tell me when you went into the gorge, Senior Sister?"
"I just decided to come in and try my luck on a whim. I didn't plan to go too deep into it. I can do it alone."
Jingxu remained noncommittal. "What brings you into the gorge, Senior Sister?"
"Elder Muqiu said that back then, Master wanted to use the magic crystal to kill the Demon God, but the magic crystal was tampered with by the demons. I suspect that it might not have been the demons who did it."
Yu Zhu clicked her tongue. "I originally thought that the reason for not killing the demon god was because we couldn't defeat him, but I never imagined there was another reason: that we didn't want to kill him."
"Did Senior Sister find the magic crystal?"
"Not yet, we're just about to dig." Yu Zhu pointed to the ground. "I looked back and saw that Master buried the magic crystal underground."
"Senior sister, let me dig."
Jingxu quickly removed the snow, revealing the color of the earth.
Following Yu Zhu's instructions, Jing Xu kept digging until he was completely submerged in the pit, but he still couldn't find any stones.
Not yet?
Yu Zhu frowned, leaped into the pit, placed her palm on the pit wall, and released her magic to explore.
A few breaths later, the magic power probed the area within a mile radius, but found no response.
Yu Zhu pressed against the pit wall, deep in thought, "Could it have been taken away by the demon god?"
Jingxu held Yuzhu's hand and wiped the dirt off his palm. "Perhaps."
The two jumped out of the pit, and Yuzhu asked Jingxu to fill the excavated soil back in.
Just as they finished filling it in, the two heard a rumbling sound coming from deep within the canyon.
Yu Zhu looked at Jing Xu, who was already very familiar with that look, and immediately said, "I'll go with my senior sister."
Yu Zhu leaped toward the source of the sound, with Jing Xu following closely behind.
Deep within the canyon stood a palace, and in front of it, Mu Qiu and his companions were locked in combat with a group of men in black.
Only when they got closer could they see that it wasn't a man in black at all, but a lump of mud mixed with thick ink, shaped like a human, with a human torso and limbs—a demon created by a demon god.
Seeing a demon about to ambush Mu Qiu, Yu Zhu leaped forward and kicked it, beheading it.
With Yu Zhu and Jing Xu joining the fray, the battle quickly came to an end.
"Elder, what's going on?" Yu Zhu asked.
Mu Qiu shook his head, "I don't know either. As soon as we got close, these monsters launched an attack."
Jingxu: "Could it be that they are being controlled by a demon god?"
The palace gates burst open, and another group of demons surged out, heading towards the crowd.
Suddenly, the monster stopped moving, as if it were stuck in place.
"You all must leave immediately!" A male voice came from inside the palace.
The monster's movements returned to normal, and in the blink of an eye, it was in front of everyone.
Jingxu slashed down a demon and said, "Senior Sister, let's leave first!"
"Elder?"
"Withdraw!" Mu Qiu ordered.
The group retreated to the middle of the canyon, finally escaping the monsters' pursuit.
Mu Qiu's expression was serious. "It seems that something really happened to the Demon God. He could have just taken action directly instead of manipulating the demons while telling us to leave."
Yu Zhu and Jing Xu exchanged a glance and simultaneously thought of Shao Zai Huan's visit to Manyie Valley and his successful entry into the Lingguang Ruins.
Yu Zhu told Mu Qiu about this and asserted, "His soul has encountered a problem."
"I will inform the sect leader and return to the camp first."
As soon as they left the canyon, before even entering the camp, they heard a commotion coming from the camp next to Yingtian Sect.
“That’s… Baili’s camp. What are they doing?” Mu Qiu asked.
Upon entering the camp, Mu Qiu asked the same question.
The gatekeeper disciple wore an indescribable expression. "Clan Chief Baili has fallen."
"What!?" Yu Zhu and Mu Qiu exclaimed in unison.
Yu Zhu's mouth dropped open. "He..."
The word "dead" was swallowed back under Mu Qiu's gaze.
Back at Muqiu's tent.
She said, "A-Zhu, do you have some doubts about Chief Baili?"
Yu Zhu nodded. "Yes, Elder, you should have heard about the Immortal Peak Pavilion testing Jing Xu's soul. This matter was leaked from the Baili Clan."
And then there's the magic crystal. Back then... I participated in retrieving the magic crystal. Although it did fall into the hands of the demons, they found it before us and must have intended to use it. My master taking it was an accident for them; they wouldn't have tampered with it beforehand.
Mu Qiu listened and fell into thought. "Your speculation is indeed correct, but it's best not to reveal it to others without solid evidence. Even though Chief Baili has often been in seclusion for the past two hundred years, his prestige is still very high."
Yu Zhu nodded.
The clan chief of the Baili clan was named Baili Changsheng. After the divine punishment ended, he was the one who came forward to negotiate with the demon god, stabilize the demon god, and make the demon god wait for the divine path to restart.
Although the Demon God ultimately lacked the patience and decided to pave the way with slaughter, Baili Changsheng also played a significant role in sealing him away by the various immortal sects.
"Elder, after Master's death, you entered the gorge and took away his Wind and Snow Sword, but you didn't find the Magic Crystal?"
Mu Qiu paused for a moment, then said, "No. At that time, the wind and snow in the canyon were biting. When we went back in, there was nothing left, except for my senior brother's broken sword."
Yu Zhu: "How did Chief Baili know that the magic crystal had been tampered with?"
"Actually, the Immortal Sect did not reach a consensus on killing the god at the beginning. It was Senior Brother Qiongfang's own decision later. Only the Sect Master and I knew about it. But when Senior Brother fought with the Demon God, the Demon Crystal fell and was witnessed by the Immortal Sect. It was Clan Chief Baili who made the deduction."
Yu Zhu: "What is Chief Baili's view on the matter of killing the god?"
Mu Qiu was slightly taken aback. "I really don't know. He hasn't made any explicit statement, but the Guiyi Sect and a few other sects have reacted quite strongly."
At this moment, a disciple came to request an audience.
He entered excitedly and said directly, "Elder, before Chief Baili perished, he received a divine decree that the divine path will be restarted soon!"
Everything happened so suddenly.
By the time she finally had time to sort out what had happened recently, Yu Zhu had already checked into the Shen Du Inn.
This time, Jingxu was unable to book the best inn. Countless cultivators poured into the capital, and some were still on their way. The reopening of the divine path was something the cultivation world had been eagerly anticipating for seven hundred years. In comparison, the fall of Baili Changsheng did not cause much of a stir.
The vendors on the street were shouting at the top of their lungs, as if they wanted to shout out the excitement in their hearts.
Yu Zhu was awakened by this noise. She had rushed into the room last night and forgot to turn on the soundproofing array.
After hearing the news yesterday, before they even returned to their tents, Yu Zhu and Jing Xu received a notice from the sect to immediately go to the capital to await orders.
"Senior sister."
"Enter--"
Jingxu brought in breakfast.
"Now all the sects are arriving in the capital one after another, and it's very lively outside."
"The Baili clan has come too?"
"The Baili clan has not arrived yet."
Yu Zhu sighed, feeling increasingly uneasy. Baili Changsheng was actually dead!
"Jingxu, do you think Baili Changsheng is really dead? Or did he use his death to cover up that he was the mastermind behind the Immortal Peak Pavilion?"
"Senior sister has confirmed that he is the mastermind?"
Yu Zhu stirred the porridge in her bowl. "That's probably it."
"What is his reason for doing this? To increase his power? Chief Baili has cultivated for seven hundred years. If the divine path is opened, he will surely be able to ascend."
Yu Zhu sighed and looked up at the sky, "Who knows? But I think he's not dead. He still knows how to use tricks like escaping with a cicada's shell, feinting to the east while attacking the west, and fishing in troubled waters."
Jing Xu chuckled, "No matter what, with the reopening of the Divine Path, people from all sides will gather in the Divine Capital. Then, those who need to know will know."
"I hope so." Yu Zhu suddenly turned to stare at Jing Xu. "There must be a lot of turmoil in the capital during this time. Do you want to return to your sect?"
Jing Xu's faint smile vanished instantly. "I want to be with my senior sister."
The air suddenly turned cold.
“Okay,” Yu Zhu agreed, then muttered, “I was just asking, it’s not like I absolutely have to make you go back.”
"I know you're worried about me, but I want to stay with you. You don't seem too willing," Jingxu said softly.
"No, I'd love to be with you."
Being with Jingxu meant she had someone to eat, drink, and chat with, and he even paid for it. Why wouldn't she want that?
Jing Xu smiled and said, "Senior Brother Changyou arrived in the capital a while ago. Should Senior Sister go find him?"
What is he doing in Shendu?
"It seems to be about Zhao Xun."
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