Chapter 891 The Destructive Power of a Resentful Husband
Zhu Chuideng looked embarrassed.
Jing Zhui's expression was hidden under the mask and could not be seen.
Lu Qi straightened his back proudly. The boss was worthy of being the boss. Even when he was down and out and wandered around the ghost world, he was able to turn enemies into friends and form an alliance with the Ghost Lord.
There is no need to ask how the boss did it, the only thing he did was the charm of the devil.
Zhu Chuideng then took a serious look at the ten true fairyland puppets in front of him.
It was not a big deal to take a closer look. Zhu Chuideng was also as surprised as Jing Zhui.
"The Burning Sky Demon Lord? The Disaster Demon?"
The advantage of living long enough is that you can meet many people. Zhu Chuideng found two former acquaintances among the puppets.
Jing asked, "Do you know them?"
Zhu Chuideng replied, "Not really. They visited me once when they came to the Ghost Realm to buy resources."
Zhu Chuideng originally wanted to ask Jing Zhui in return, these ten people were all demons, Jing Zhui should know better.
But thinking about the nature of the demons, the strong either submit to me or become my opponents, and the demons' friends are often outsiders. So I swallowed my doubts.
Jing Zhui looked at Zhu Chuideng and asked him about the urgent situation. Zhu Chuideng explained the information he knew in a few words.
"One day, the Burning Sky Demon Lord came to me for help..."
Zhu Chuideng remembered very clearly that the reason why the Demon Lord Fentian visited him was because his life was coming to an end, and he asked if he could practice the ghost way to prolong his life.
But destroying one's own thousand-year-old path and cultivating another one is nothing but a foolish dream. After being dissuaded by Zhu Chuideng, the Demon Lord Fentian gradually stopped mentioning this matter and just came to the Ghost Realm as usual to buy black ore.
Decades passed in a flash, and one day, the Burning Sky Demon Lord came to visit Zhu Chuideng again, this time to say goodbye.
"The Burning Sky Demon Lord said he met a mysterious person who could solve his lifespan problem."
Speaking of the mysterious man, Zhu Chuideng and Jing Zhui's eyes fell on the Demon Lord at the same time. The Demon Lord chuckled and seemed to be listening to Zhu Chuideng's story with great interest. He did not order the puppet to attack immediately, but listened curiously.
Jing Zhui's curiosity was aroused. This mysterious man solved the problem that he had been unable to solve until now.
In ancient times, spiritual energy was abundant, and powerful monks could live for tens of thousands of years, slowly waiting for the opportunity to ascend. In the modern world, spiritual energy is exhausted, and even those in the true immortal realm at the top of the food chain can only live for 5,000 years. If they cannot successfully ascend before then, they will perish.
After thousands of years of hard work, the end result was just like that of ordinary people turning into a handful of yellow earth. The arrogant monk was unwilling to accept such a tragic ending.
This is also the reason why the Burning Sky Demon Lords are desperately looking for ways to prolong their lifespans.
Jing asked, "How did you solve it?"
Zhu Chuideng shook his head.
"The Burning Sky Demon Lord only told me that the mysterious person told him the location of a paradise beyond the world."
"It's called 'Fragrant Wonderland'."
"In the Fragrance Wonderland, time stops. He can sleep there and ponder in his dreams until he figures out how to break through the bottleneck, or wake up when the world welcomes the revival of spiritual energy."
Lu Qi commented, "This sounds like a lie. Why is he so kind? He knows a great place, but instead of hiding it, he advertises it to the world. Isn't he afraid that with Burning Sky Demon Lord's cultivation, he will steal his treasured land?"
Zhu Chuideng said nothing, obviously he also felt it was very strange.
He had asked a similar question to Lu Qi at that time, and the Burning Heaven Demon Lord only said that the other party was a respectable hermit and that there were still many good people in the world.
Zhu Chuideng found it very strange that a demon could say "there are still more good people in the world". He asked a few more questions. It turned out that Lord Fentian had probably signed a contract with a mysterious person and had to keep secret the information about the fairyland. He couldn't say it openly, so Zhu Chuideng gave up and didn't ask any more questions.
The Burning Sky Demon Lord disappeared from sight.
After that, Zhu Chuideng never heard from him again.
Five hundred years later, another demon of disaster said something similar to "mysterious man" and "fragrant wonderland" when communicating with Zhu Chuideng. Not long after, this demon of disaster also disappeared.
After Zhu Chuideng finished telling about what he had seen and heard, a mysterious smile appeared on the face of the Demon Lord.
He cried thief, and insisted on asking, "Master Ghost Master, now that you have met two old friends today, do you have any new conclusions?"
Zhu Chuideng said: "The mysterious person they mentioned must be you."
Demon Lord: “Oh?”
Zhu Chuideng: "You lured people into your so-called Fragrance Wonderland by offering to extend their lifespans, and turned them into puppets."
He asked, "What is your purpose?"
The Demon Lord smiled: "Master Ghost Lord, don't you think these strong men are very useful killing machines?"
The Demon Lord grinned grimly and said, "There are too many people in the world. When I destroy the world, I will need some handy tools to harvest them."
He said this crazily and paranoidly. If Ye Xiaoman were here, she would be shocked by the murderous intent and would lean back to gasp. Unfortunately, the people he was facing were Zhu Chuideng and Jing Zhui.
Zhu Chuideng simply asked calmly, "What is your goal in destroying the world?"
Demon Lord: "I just told the Demon God that I want to rebuild a beautiful world."
Zhu Chuideng: "Why?"
Demon Lord: "Because I hate this world?"
Zhu Chuideng: "There's always a motive. Jing Zhui wants to revive his spiritual energy, and what about you?"
Zhu Chuideng asked the core question, but the Demon Lord just laughed and didn't answer.
Jing Zhui thought of something and asked Zhu Chuideng, "When did the Burning Sky Demon Lord come to find you?"
Zhu Chuideng: "One thousand five hundred years ago."
Lu Qi suddenly slapped his head and hurriedly interrupted the conversation between the two.
"Your Majesty, I remember now! In the history of my Lu family, there have been several missing ancestors."
"He didn't have a cultivation level as high as the True Immortal Realm, he was only at the Mahayana stage. One day he said he was going to find a fairyland that could prolong his life. It was called something like the Fragrant Fairyland. Then he disappeared overnight and never returned home."
"And Tu Liudao, one or two of her ancestors disappeared in her family."
Jing Zhui and Zhu Chuideng looked at each other. The more they discussed, the more bizarre the situation became. It seemed that someone was specifically waiting for high-level cultivators to encounter bottlenecks and then came out to recruit them.
Also, because when monks die, they will specifically find an unknown place to wait for death, so even if many monks are missing, the world will just think that they have died of old age and will not think much about it.
Jing Zhui immediately asked Lu Qi to search for intelligence: "When was the first disappearance related to 'Fragrant Wonderland'?"
Lu Qi immediately understood the implication of Jing Zhui's words. As mentioned before, there are only a few strong people in each era who can be included in the history books. Those who can turn a strong person into a puppet must also be strong.
As long as we locate the first missing case and gather all the strong people of the same era for analysis, we can catch the real culprit.
Speaking of which, this isn't Lu Qi's first time following up on a missing person case.
He specifically helps Jing Zhui manage intelligence. When the demons were conquering the six realms, they were short of manpower. He once drew up a list of all the living masters, some of whom were missing persons. He sent people to look for them, but they couldn't find them. The list accidentally became a database, and he didn't expect to use it today.
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