Chapter 1879

Seeing He Lingchuan and the others approach, it flicked its tongue and instinctively dodged a little.

The Battle of the Inverted Sea had already settled into dust, and He Lingchuan found it pleasing to the eye no matter how he looked at it.

Dong Rui opened his mouth and exhaled a puff of white vapor, only able to rub his arms as he performed a double act with him: "Even Miao Zhantian is dead—how should we deal with this thing?"

The True Person of Jieshui was so shocked by this news that he didn't even stick out his tongue, crying out in disbelief: "Really or fake?"

He Lingchuan pulled a golden balance from his bosom and swayed it before it: "What do you think?"

This is also one of Miao Zhantian's important magical artifacts, often used in conjunction with the Eye of Truth, but it was never brought into the sea of consciousness and has been left with Bai Ziqi.

Then it came into He Lingchuan's hands.

The True Person of Jieshui clearly recognized this balance, his big eyes blinking uselessly for a long time.

Zhu Xiuer chuckled from the side, her voice cold and sinister: "Give it to me. I still have old scores to settle with it!"

The spider demon sisters are hard to tell apart by appearance alone, but once it spoke, the True Person of Jieshui took it for Zhu Erniang.

The two sides had old grudges before—Zhu Erniang had once been injured by it—yet now she could strut proudly before it. The True Person of Jieshui immediately begged for mercy: "I'm not from the Heavenly Palace! I was peacefully in closed-door cultivation in my own cave dwelling, and I didn't want to come here! But Zhao You Shen got hold of the oath I once swore, and forced me to come to the Inverted Sea!"

Dong Rui wondered: "Can they still force you to come in and deal with the Thousand Illusions?"

"It's true!" The giant lizard's facial expression was not rich, looking stiff, but his voice was urgent: "Before I became an immortal, I received the care of the Ling Urn Immortal, and I swore an oath with the sharp scale under my jaw to repay him. Who knew Zhao You Shen would get hold of the Ling Urn Immortal's body, and along with it, my oath-scale, and then come to threaten me!"

Everyone recalled that when it patrolled the mines with Zhao You Shen, it had indeed shown two parts of reluctance.

"After all, it's also a demon immortal—killing it for refining and taking its flesh would be somewhat wasteful." He Lingchuan immediately said: "Then you also swear an oath-scale, and from now on follow me."

"……" The True Person of Jieshui rolled his eyes, wanting to say: "On what grounds?"

"It's also a demon immortal in size, and before it could even beat Zhu Erniang away—why should it lower its status to serve this little thing?"

It could accept subduing the Thousand Illusions, or even any elder of the Phantom Sect—but this little cultivator……

He Lingchuan seemed to hear its inner thoughts, and immediately continued: "Miao Zhantian finally died at my hands. I'll count down five numbers—if you don't agree, you'll go keep Miao Zhantian company."

"Ah?" What? It couldn't have misheard, could it?

"Five, three……"

The True Person of Jieshui glared: "Where's the four? Did you eat it?"

He Lingchuan smiled at it and continued the countdown: "Two……"

"Wait, what did you say your identity is again?"

"My surname is He, and the Heavenly Palace calls me He Xiaoyao."

"It's you!" The True Person of Jieshui exclaimed in surprise: "You're He Xiaoyao! The cloud envoys of the Demonic Heaven and the Heavenly Palace are always mentioning your name!"

This name—it has heard it so many times, always thinking: just a mere cultivator, hasn't even touched the threshold of an immortal, how formidable could he be? Bai Wei had told it about He Xiaoyao's past deeds, and apart from burning down the Heavenly Palace, there didn't seem to be much else remarkable.

But if this He surname truly killed Miao Zhantian with his own hands…… tsk tsk tsk.

"One!"

Zhu Xiuer had already walked up to the fire giant lizard, its sharp claw tips like steel spikes, about to stab it in the forehead.

"Stop! Stop!" The True Person of Jieshui softened: "If you're He Xiaoyao, then fine—I agree!"

The wise adapt to the times—it certainly didn't want to be sucked dry by the spider queen in this icy cellar and turned into a desiccated corpse!

Then it fiercely swore a poisonous oath, and then peeled off a piece of scale from under its jaw to give to He Lingchuan.

This is the letter of allegiance.

In fact, the True Person of Jieshui also had keen eyesight—when the few people walked in earlier, the underground spider queen was clearly a demon immortal in cultivation, yet the one walking in the middle was He Lingchuan, and this status immediately stood out.

Thus Zhu Xiuer personally pulled it out of the ice prison, then handed it two large pieces of black crystal. Ling Guang hopped over and delivered a few healing pills to it.

Zhu Xiuer asked around and found out that this fellow had set up his cave dwelling in the active volcano in the northern part of the Shining Gold Plains, just like Ji Ju—always relying on the true fire of the earth's core to barely survive, spending most of his time in hibernation. But recently, the spiritual qi of heaven and earth began to revive, so he woke from his long slumber, and most of the time he's still dry-steaming by the lava pool, occasionally coming up to the surface to breathe a little fresh air.

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I don't know which damned bird demon leaked the news of its emergence from seclusion, but the Demonic Heaven discovered it here and came knocking with the oath-scale to extort it.

Seeing it still listless, Zhu Xiuer displeased: "If you surrender, you must surrender properly—what kind of attitude is this?"

"Miao Zhantian is dead, and the Demonic Heaven must be furious beyond reason." The True Person of Jieshui resentfully said: "And the Ling Xu Holy Venerable is an existence even stronger than Miao Zhantian—yet in the Inverted Sea, he lost the skin of a true immortal. How could he not take revenge? Staying by your side is truly too dangerous."

Zhu Xiuer retorted: "Was it safe staying by Miao Zhantian's side?"

"……" The True Person of Jieshui worriedly raised his claw to scratch his chin: "Who knew it would capsize in a sigh? Alas, I shouldn't have come out of seclusion!"

Miao Zhantian died in battle—this extremely low-probability event happened to it! If only it had known earlier, it wouldn't have stuck its head out, but continued to hide in its happy little den—how comfortable and warm that would have been.

Zhu Xiuer coolly said: "My younger sister originally also hid in the demon swamp marsh, thinking she could live peacefully and without contention, but later she was still forced to hide east and west, and Bei Jia still chased her to the ends of the earth. Hehe, the great upheaval of heaven and earth has already arrived—what use is hiding? If you don't go looking for trouble, trouble will come looking for you—better to take the initiative!"

So it came out proactively to fight.

"Yeah, trouble comes looking for me…… huh, wait a minute, your sister?" The True Person of Jieshui wondered: "Which one is your sister? Could it be……?"

The two demons chatted to themselves, Dong Rui listened while munching on melon seeds, and He Lingchuan went to see Elder Shituo.

This blue ox has already had deep conversations with Elder Liu, and has figured out seven or eight tenths of what happened in the lower realms.

Of course, the past grievances between the Thousand Illusions and He Lingchuan, Elder Liu passed over without mention.

Since the Phantom Sect is to be placed under He Lingchuan's command, these grudges are better left unknown to the stubborn blue ox demon.

Elder Shituo usually just follows Ma Shuwen's lead in Xiao Wen City, and has no objection to his dying wish—on the contrary, he's rather pleased, for hearing He Lingchuan say that going out means frequent battles.

"I want to go too!"

Elder Liu introduced: it was originally a world-harming ox demon, having injured countless people and demons, later subdued by the True Person of the Thousand Illusions and taken into the sect. Over the years, the Spirit Mountain has sent personnel to wage war in the world, and Elder Shituo has gone at least seven or eight times.

A typical representative of proactive engagement with the world.