"Thunder tribulation, no, it's thunder punishment, you trash. Didn't I tell you not to undergo thunder tribulation outside? You're all trash."
The Demon Lord, having enjoyed a hearty meal in the secret realm, was now happily asleep, digesting the power.
Unexpectedly, he had only been in a deep sleep for a short while when he felt as if he was being watched by something. He wanted to wake up, but it felt like he was being held down by an invisible hand.
He struggled for a long time before finally waking up from the control of those large hands.
Upon waking up, I noticed pressure coming from above. I initially thought it was just a normal lightning tribulation, but it turned out to be a lightning punishment.
He then quickly took control of the body, read the host's memories, and finally figured out what was going on, and confirmed that Xiaotiandao had discovered him.
Even the lightning punishment above his head was something Little Heavenly Dao wanted to use to destroy him.
Having figured out the whole story, the Demon Lord's eyes hardened, and he scanned Wen Jianxi with his divine sense, trying to contact the spirit on her body, but he received no reply for a long time.
Instantly, the Demon Lord had a bad feeling.
However, the heavenly lightning did not give him much time to consider, and the fifth lightning strike came down with tremendous power.
Compared to the previous lightning strikes, which were mainly aimed at the Loose Cultivator Alliance, this lightning strike, as thick as an arm, was aimed directly at Wen Jianxi, who had lost all protection.
Upon seeing this, the Demon Lord's pupils dilated sharply. Almost without thinking, he rushed over to protect Wen Jianxi, enduring the lightning punishment himself.
The fierce lightning strikes hit the Demon Lord, causing him to cough up a lot of black blood, and the black mist on his body visibly thinned out.
The Demon Lord's actions not only stunned Fang Ruiyi, but also the rest of the onlookers.
Xuanming Zhenjun's eyes widened to the extreme as he stared intently at the scene before him, his entire face filled with disbelief and horror.
Previously, he had thought that Wen Jianxi might have been deceived, or that she had been used by the Loose Cultivator Alliance.
Seeing this scene, Xuanming Zhenjun could no longer go against his conscience and try to exonerate Wen Jianxi.
After a long while, Xuanming Zhenjun glanced at Wen Jianxi, who was still looking relieved, with a complicated expression, and finally sent a message back to the sect: Keep an eye on Wen Hong's family.
Along with those words, he also received the scene he had just recorded with the recording stone.
Perhaps it was influenced by the previous elder, or perhaps evidence was needed.
In short, when Xuanming Zhenjun saw the disciples dressed in the robes of the Tianyan Sect openly mingling with the people of the Loose Cultivator Alliance, he subconsciously activated the recording stone.
From the initial lightning punishment to the Demon Lord's selfless act of protecting Wen Jianxi at the first moment, everything was recorded.
Because the communication jade tablet couldn't transmit too much information, he only sent back the scene of the Demon Lord subconsciously protecting Wen Jianxi. He would naturally show the rest to everyone after he returned to the sect.
But this scene alone is enough to prove that Wen Jianxi has indeed colluded with the demons again.
Whether Wen Hong, as her father, knew about it or not is a matter for the sect's stewards to investigate.
After doing all this, Xuanming Zhenjun turned his gaze back to Wen Jianxi and the Demon Lord.
Perhaps because he was mentally prepared, his expression was much more normal this time. However, the way he looked at Wen Jianxi and the Demon Lord was clearly filled with disgust and revulsion, as if he were looking at something filthy.
There were countless such gazes on the scene, and they were not particularly striking. Therefore, neither Wen Jianxi nor the Demon Lord, who had already finished his meditation, glanced in their direction.
Shushu, however, looked at Xuanming Zhenjun's hair with sympathy several times before turning her gaze back to the bewildered Wen Jianxi.
Yes, it is confusion.
Because Wen Jianxi was now openly and blatantly thanking the Demon Lord in public, thanking her for saving her life.
Such an explosive plot left even Shushu, who already knew about her collusion with the demons, completely bewildered, utterly baffled by Wen Jianxi's stroke of genius.
Isn't she afraid of the impact this will have on the Tianyan Sect, the Wen family, and Sect Master Wen?
Shushu didn't understand, but he was greatly shocked.
Wen Jianxi naturally saw Shushu's expression. After all, as the one who had caused her to end up in this situation, Wen Jianxi couldn't possibly not notice.
Looking at Shushu's bewildered face, Wen Jianxi miraculously understood her confusion at that moment, and then scoffed at her.
She's barely able to protect herself now, so who cares about the Tianyan Sect or the Wen family? All she wants now is to survive, and rely on the Demon Lord to stay alive.
The fact that the Demon Lord risked his life to protect him in such a dangerous situation shows that there must be something about him that he wants.
Given that the entire righteous path would not tolerate her, why didn't she just choose to pledge allegiance to the most powerful enemy? Perhaps then she could still have a glimmer of hope.
All I can say is that, at this critical moment of life and death, Wen Jianxi did have a tiny bit of her head.
Unfortunately, there weren't many. What she didn't know was that the Demon Lord in front of her, like the artifact spirit, was the work of the immortal behind the scenes.
All this is so that I can absorb all the fortune of the Rainy Continent as soon as possible and cultivate this body to ascend to immortality.
It was precisely because Xiaotiandao knew this that he dared to openly and legitimately let the lightning strike Wen Jianxi.
Because it knew that the Demon Lord would absolutely not dare to, and could not, allow Wen Jianxi to suffer lightning punishment under his nose; otherwise, if that immortal found out, he would definitely die a terrible death.
There was no other way; Little Heavenly Dao's abilities were currently limited, and it was willing but unable to deal with the great demon lord, the Demon Lord. A direct strike might be dodged, so it could only resort to this kind of scheming.
In fact, if the Demon Lord hadn't sacrificed himself, the Little Heavenly Dao would have controlled the lightning punishment to change direction and prevent it from striking Wen Jianxi.
After all, Xiao Tiandao only wanted to reveal all this to the world, not that he really wanted to be buried with her and drag the Yulin Continent down with him.
Fortunately, for some reason, the immortal didn't tell her about the fact that his fate was tied to Wen Jianxi, otherwise she would have been even more constrained.
Thinking that he hadn't yet found the other backup plans left by the immortal, Xiao Tiandao decided to make good use of this opportunity to lure out all those demons and monsters.
So, it silently sent a message to Lu Li and Hu Heng.
Immediately afterwards, the tribulation clouds in the sky surged again, seemingly gathering power for an even more violent attack.
Upon seeing this, the Demon Lord was terrified, thinking that Heaven intended to kill him in one blow. He disregarded everything else and let out a strange cry towards the sky.
The next moment, Huiqing Zhenjun of Tiancan Temple suddenly attacked the powerful figures of the other sects, and the originally solid defense line was torn open.
The Demon Lord seized the opportunity and fled with Fang Ruiyi and Wen Jianxi.
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