Chapter 76 Demons and Evils Plague All Directions; Heng Qichun Firmly Believes She Is His Daoist Companion…
After a moment of stunned silence, Lou Yan felt that the demonic aura was getting weaker and weaker.
He frowned and looked back again. He saw that the broken pearl behind him was enveloped by a faint spiritual energy. The crack was getting smaller and smaller, and it disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The damaged gestational pearl gradually closed up!
Not only that, even Wang Sheng, who was struggling on the ground, gradually mustered up a bit of strength, supported himself on the ground and stood up, looking around blankly with a pale face.
It doesn't look like it's in life-threatening condition.
Meng Yuan, still being dragged by Lou Yan to stand on the other side of the barrier, was indeed stunned for a moment upon seeing this. Her hand, which was supporting her lower abdomen, tightened even more, and she murmured, "What's going on..."
Lou Yan heard this sound, and at the same time, he also heard the commotion of the people outside the barrier.
"What's going on?!"
"Who, who did this?"
"This is a ghost..."
He observed the increasingly panicked reactions of the clan leader and the others, tilted his head with an air of seriousness, and although there was still confusion in his eyes, he turned his head and withdrew the spiritual power from his fingertips.
Then he dusted off his sleeves and quietly landed back on the ground.
He wanted to see who was capable of doing this.
He could even repair a broken gestation pearl, so this person who refused to show himself must be highly skilled, either a god or a ghost.
Thinking of this, Lou Yan couldn't help but chuckle softly. His master was still sleeping at home; could it be—
"With the entire Nine Provinces on the verge of collapse, you still have time to sit here and watch the show?" A lazy, effeminate voice suddenly came from behind. Lou Yan shuddered and looked up sharply in the direction of the voice.
The man sat on a branch of a lush female tree, holding the newly restored pregnancy pearl in his palm with one hand. He wore a white robe, and his loose black hair was like silk.
Through the fluttering snowflakes, Lou Yan could clearly see that thin, gloomy face.
That's it!
Before he could react, the man had already landed lightly in front of Lou Yan with his hands behind his back and his toes barely touching the ground.
He bowed and smiled, a hint of coldness in his eyes, and called out to Lou Yan in as provocative a tone as possible: "Little spirit pet~"
Lou Yan clenched his fingers, gritted his teeth, but did not refute the title. Then, with his neck stiff, he asked the visitor, "Emperor Yi is busy with countless affairs of state. What are you doing here if you have nothing better to do?"
—The magpie knows the wind.
"Speaking so bluntly." Emperor Yi chuckled, but gave the little wolf face and answered directly, "The Qishan Maiden Tree bears a pearl, and now it has suddenly formed a demon fetus. Such a rare thing, can't I come and take a look?"
Lou Yan met those smiling yet unsettling eyes and suddenly remembered that the underworld not only governs the afterlife but also the reincarnation of the dead.
Even though Mount Nüqi stands outside the Nine Provinces, the secret formation of pearls on the mountain and the bestowal of children by the mother of nine sons could not escape the eyes of the Yi Emperor.
etc!
What did he just say?
This is... a demonic fetus?!
Lou Yan's pupils dilated, and he quickly went through the cause and effect.
No wonder this female tree suddenly produced three strange offspring; they were demonic offspring...
Without time to think further, he turned his head and asked the Yi Emperor fiercely, "Since it is a demonic fetus, why did you try to repair it? Wouldn't it have been better to let it break?"
As soon as he spoke, he noticed the slightly resentful gazes from Wang Sheng and Meng Yuan beside him. Lou Yan swallowed awkwardly and silently added, "Could it be that you're afraid they'll die?"
He laughed as soon as he asked the question.
Others might not know who Emperor Yi was, but he knew it all too well.
Based solely on his interactions with him in his previous life, Lou Yan knew that he was someone who would never care about the lives of mortals; he would rather have more people die in the human world so that he could increase the population of his underworld.
"What do I care whether they live or die?" Sure enough, the Yi Emperor smiled contemptuously. "Wasn't I doing this for you?"
Lou Yan: "?"
Emperor Yi then asked him, "If you can just stand by and watch these two mortals die, can you also just stand by and watch your master die?"
Lou Yan suddenly raised an eyebrow, and his expression immediately changed.
This was the layer he hadn't thought of earlier.
The pregnancy on the tree involves three lives. Regardless of whether it is a demonic fetus or not, no one should die in vain. In the past, Lou Yan would never have thought this way. Perhaps it is because he has been by Heng Qichun's side for a long time that he has gradually developed some feelings of the preciousness of all living beings.
As for Heng Qichun...
Putting aside old grudges, Heng Qichun now firmly believes that he is her Daoist partner, and he must always protect her.
After Emperor Yi started speaking, none of the mountain people present dared to utter a word.
His ghostly aura was so overwhelming that ordinary mortals dared not approach him. In a short while, countless people retreated and hid under the heavy snowfall, finding nowhere to hide.
Lou Yan looked around, his sharp gaze lingering for a moment on the faces that were either panicked or terrified, before suddenly letting out a sneer.
"Since ancient times, the realms of gods and the underworld have been irreconcilable enemies. I'm afraid you'd be even happier if my master died." Lou Yan crossed his arms again and looked at the Yi Emperor, his wolfish mouth immediately launching into a tirade, "What kind of hypocritical nonsense are you spouting?"
Lou Yan's words were harsh, but Emperor Yi was not angry.
He merely glanced at Lou Yan indifferently, still maintaining an air of indifference. Apart from his bloodless pale face, he looked no different from a living person.
"I didn't expect you to be so stupid." Lou Yan heard him say, "Then do you know what kind of demon produced this gestation pearl? Why is it growing on a female tree, and why does it arouse your master's reaction?"
"Do you know that this demon increases its cultivation by devouring the flesh and blood of infants? The demonic fetus within the gestation pearl has already taken shape. Once it is devoured by the demon, it will help it fall into demonic possession prematurely?"
Several questions were thrown at Lou Yan, whose face turned pale and who couldn't answer a single word.
The wind howled in my ears, mixed with the sound of falling snow, and the cold snow froze the blood in my head.
It chilled one to the bone in an instant.
Lou Yan carefully analyzed the questions that Emperor Yi had just posed, and keenly realized just how terrifying this demonic creature capable of bearing infants truly was.
He finally realized, in a daze, that the words the Yi Emperor had spoken to him today, "The entire land of China is in peril," were not an exaggeration.
Yes, he once ruled the Nine Netherworld Realm, how could he not know?!
Qin Jing's shattered sword caused turmoil throughout the Nine Provinces, and the demon race went out of control, wreaking havoc in all directions—no wonder his message to the Eighteen Realms was delayed in receiving a reply.
They were probably intercepted by evil spirits on their way!
During the stalemate, the clan chief, who had finally calmed down a bit, spoke softly, "Who exactly is this young master, and why does he also want to interfere in the affairs of our Nüqi Mountain?"
The stone stirred up a thousand waves. The mountain people who had been frightened by the barbarian emperor had recovered and started arguing before the emperor could answer.
"Exactly! How dare they say that the Nine-Child Mother bestowed her child as a demonic fetus? Doesn't that mean the Nine-Child Mother is a demon?"
"If you have the guts, come with us to the Temple of the Nine Sons to pay homage to the Mother of the Nine Sons!"
"Why go to the Temple of the Nine Sons?" Emperor Yi said indifferently, a cold smile still playing on his lips. He slightly raised his chin at the crowd. "Turn around."
Lou Yan looked over in response.
Suddenly, a hurricane swept up from behind the crowd, and snowflakes flew straight at people's heads and faces, followed by a sharp bird cry.
I came through the snow from the direction of Jiuzimiao.
Lou Yan raised his hand to shield his eyes, squinting through the snow-covered mountain, and sure enough, he spotted a fast-moving black dot in the vast expanse of snow.
That is...
The piercing bird calls grew closer and closer, almost piercing one's eardrums, and causing a throbbing pain in the forehead.
Lou Yan saw the bird's wings clearly and his expression changed immediately. Before he could warn them, the mountain people who were crowding in front, not afraid of trouble, rushed back and fell to the ground.
Their terrified cries, mingled with the long calls of birds, were like the last cry of a dying mountain.
"Yes, it's a demon!"
"That bird is a demon..."
"It must be that demon that ate the Nine-Child Mother and then transformed into her appearance to harm people!"
Just as the bird demon was about to scorch an old man's head with its hard beak, Lou Yan decisively unleashed a golden burst of spiritual energy through the barrier.
He looked up and met the bird demon's expression, which was full of hatred and resentment.
That's... the Guhuoniao!
The Chronicles of the Nine Provinces records that in ancient times, the Heavenly Emperor lost a woman who was born without children, so she often stole other people's young children to eat.
She shed her feathers to become a woman, and grew feathers to become a bird. She dared not see the sun, and mostly roamed at night, which is why she was feared by the world.
Lou Yan never expected that he would encounter a monster from ancient legends so easily.
No wonder the Yi Emperor went to great lengths to repair the gestation pearl.
The fetus inside the pearl has already taken shape. If it is devoured by a demon like the Guhuoniao to enhance its cultivation, the human realm will likely descend into even greater chaos.
The golden light condensing at Lou Yan's fingertips grew stronger and stronger, and correspondingly, the barrier he had set up was also expanding.
The pale golden barrier gradually spread across the entire mountain range, encompassing Wang Sheng, the old doctor, and even the clan leader and his ilk.
The mountain people who had previously bullied Lou Yan and the Yi Emperor had long been defeated by the incessant chirping of birds. Everyone's eardrums were bleeding, and they struggled to crawl into the barrier set up by Lou Yan while completely deaf.
Lou Yan let them do as they pleased.
He formed a hand seal with his fingertips, his playful expression vanishing completely. Standing behind the barrier, he coldly demanded, "Guhuoniao."
"If you dare to fly another foot forward, I will make sure you never return."
The sharp bird cries stopped for a moment. The large bird demon flapped its black wings and stood outside the barrier, silently scrutinizing Lou Yan.
Those eyes revealed even more disdain.
A sharp screech.
"So what?" Lou Yan heard it say, "These few pearls are about to mature. As long as I absorb the demonic power inside, I can break through the last restriction of the demon race."
"Once I transform into a demon, the Nine Netherworld will be entirely under my control. What can a mere Nüqi Mountain do to me?"
Just as I expected.
Before Qin Jing appeared, a demon was a demon and a monster was a monster. There were very few people in the world like Lou Yan who possessed both the identities of demon and monster.
However, Qin Jing, who had absorbed enough ghost energy, appeared at the Four Symbols Mountain. The ghost energy he carried was divided and eaten by the demons in the mountain. Even though the Eighteen Realms had tried their best to capture him, some demons still escaped into the human world when the Four Symbols Mountain was lost. Unable to cultivate the Dao, they turned to the demonic path and used any means necessary to enter the demonic path.
This is the calamity that Heng Qichun and Nanyushan had worried about: "evil spirits wreaking havoc in all directions."
“You’ve formed a demonic embryo, committed countless killings, and resorted to any means to become a demon,” Lou Yan said. “You’ve already gone astray and become a demon. I advise you to stop now.”
"Hahahaha!" The Guhuoniao let out a long cry, the deafening sound still transforming into a rather threatening statement in Lou Yan's ears.
"If you're so capable, then break these pregnant pearls and watch these mountain people and your Daoist partner die! If you're not, then—"
The Guhuoniao's cry abruptly stopped, and Lou Yan grinned at him, already reaching out to pinch the gestational pearl closest to him.
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