Chapter 2600: Gengyue Returns to the Palace

How could he not be nervous thinking about this?

At that moment, the trees not far away rustled, drawing the attention of many guards. Over a dozen bows were immediately aimed there.

But what emerged from behind the bushes were several strangely shaped little demons.

Night demons.

Seeing the commotion at Yanxia Bay, the night demons were terrified and hastily raised their hands.

The leading unit shouted: "What are you doing?"

"We're coming back to… to report!" The night demons, with arrows pointed at them, felt their scalps go numb and stammered, "We just came back from Baishan City, and we need to report to Yingkou Town to hand in our task."

These few night demons had been working hard in Baishan City; who knew what had happened at Yanxia Bay? They came as required to hand in the embryo sacs, never expecting to encounter this scene.

"Lingyun Palace is closed today; no one may enter or leave!"

The guards and night demons originally belonged to different systems, rarely interacted, and now it was even less likely they would show understanding.

"Ah?" The night demons, upon hearing this, were dazed: "Then what should we do with the things we need to hand in?"

"If left too long, they'll spoil!" Their bags had poor insulation, and the embryo sacs would go bad by morning.

If this situation truly occurred, the night demons dared not imagine what fate awaited them.

"If we can't hand them in on time, we'll be punished!"

Seeing the little demons chattering incessantly, Zhao Tongling, who didn't have that much patience, pointed at the night demons, and behind him, dozens of soldiers simultaneously raised their bows, aiming at the night demons.

"Get lost or die."

These four concise words silenced the chattering night demons, who sullenly closed their mouths, turned, and fled back into the forest.

This little incident did not relax Zhao Tongling's tense nerves.

Just a few breaths later, his personal guard pointed to the sky in the northeast direction: "My lord, look!"

Zhao Tongling looked up and then ordered the army to prepare:

In the sky, a rainbow light flew toward this place, faster than a shooting star.

But once he clearly saw the appearance of the one coming, Zhao Tongling secretly let out a sigh of relief:

The arrival was the celestial being Gengyue, a celestial of great power and high recognition beside the Hulu Celestial Venerable.

Aside from anything else, merely saying that he held the Liuli Sea travel insignia shows he is deeply trusted by Hulu Tian.

Such insignia, there are only eight in the entire Lingyun Palace.

When the other party landed, he hurried forward to pay respects: "Celestial Gengyue!"

Celestial Gengyue did not even glance at him properly, merely saying coldly: "Has the enemy not come to attack?"

"No."

"No suspicious signs or figures?"

The celestial's attitude toward human attendants has always been like this; Zhao Tongling lowered his waist and back even more: "Just now I drove away a few night demons."

At this moment, the army split apart, and another person walked over: "How come only you came back? Where are they?"

This person had bluish skin, with two rows of gills growing near the chin by the ears; at first glance, his appearance marked him as a Shark person, but this sentence was spoken in the celestial demon language.

This is the celestial demon Yuhe, who, like the celestial demon Gengyue, descended to the human world via an incarnation.

In his left hand, he held a staff, atop which was embedded an eyeball the size of an orange, still rolling around.

When Gengyue looked over, that eyeball was also staring at him, but showed no reaction.

This is also a demon eye, capable of seeing through most illusions, disguises, and invisibility. Yuhe stands guard here to prevent enemies from sneaking in.

After all, Lingyun Palace has already calculated that the enemy excels at disguise.

"Still in battle, I came back first to report the news." Gengyue replied in a sentence, then turned and headed toward the Lingyun Palace entrance.

Zhao Tongling and the guards dared not stop him; instead, they rushed to salute him, then respectfully withdrew a few steps.

Yuhe quickly took a few steps and walked shoulder to shoulder with Gengyue: "I will go with you."

Gengyue's cultivation status is higher than his; logically, he should fall half a step behind. But Yuhe currently bears a mission, so Gengyue glanced at him, said nothing, and took two steps in three jumps onto the stone beach.

Not expressing opposition is because this was the arrangement made by the Hulu Celestial before departure:

Yuhe guards the gate of Yanxia Bay; anyone returning who wishes to enter or exit YunTai must be accompanied by him.

Clearly, just letting YunTai operate and discriminate on its own, Hulu Tian also feels uneasy and needs an extra pair of eyes watching.

This also indirectly shows that whether the Hulu Tian incarnation personally sits in charge of YunTai makes a big difference.

The next second, Gengyue turned his eye and had already entered Yingkou Town.

This town is actually a buffer zone between Lingyun Palace and the real world, used to stockpile military personnel and supplies; it is usually very busy, after all, eighty percent of the personnel serving Lingyun Palace live here—slaves not counted.

But now, Yingkou Town's logistics are basically stagnant, personnel are no longer busy, only military patrols come and go.

Seeing the celestial, they all respectfully saluted.

Gengyue ignored them, maintained his usual aloofness, did not look sideways, and walked toward Yun Bridge.

The people of Yingkou Town rarely having nothing to do is because Lingyun Palace is sealed off both internally and externally; they cannot enter the Baiwan Mountain small world, nor return to the real world—internal and external communication has been cut off.

Beside him, Yuhe took the initiative to ask: "Who exactly is the enemy?"

Gengyue walked at lightning speed: "Ling Mountain, Tan Yang Zhenjun leading the team."

Yuhe was startled: "Tan Yang Zhenjun has come!"

This is a very famous great immortal of Ling Mountain, whose strength surpasses that of the Wuyu Immortal Maiden. Upon hearing this, Yuhe felt his heart sink; this battle will not be easy to fight.

"Not bad, Ling Mountain's immortals have also come over twenty, fully prepared, very difficult to fight."

Yuhe couldn't help but ask: "How did the surveillance we placed on Segment Yun Cloud get cut off?"

"Small world. We pursued them, and they moved the battlefield into a small world."

Before Yuhe could ask further, Gengyue spoke first: "Where is Wang Mao Shi?"

"He is in Lian Valley, currently receiving an audience from the Holy Venerable."

In the blink of an eye, Geng Yue stepped onto the stone bridge and entered the cloud mass.

The Cloud Terrace remained as it had been—quiet and empty. But as soon as Geng Yue stepped inside, a puff of white mist rose from the ground, stretching before him into a colossal white serpent.

The serpent's body bore pure black markings, while its eyes gleamed like red rubies.

Geng Yue stood motionless, locking eyes with the cloud serpent.

He knew this was also a manifestation of the Cloud Terrace, likely used to test visitors and distinguish friend from foe.

The cloud serpent flicked out its forked tongue, hissing twice, nearly brushing Geng Yue's face.

It was probing his scent while detecting any anomalies in the air.

Hmm, no anomalies. This is indeed Geng Yue's divine sense.

The cloud serpent retreated back into the ground, and Yu Hui's divine sense arrived: "Come on, my lord the Holy Sovereign is also awaiting the frontline battle report."

He was about to open the cloud gate to Lian Valley when Geng Yue's divine sense shook his head: "Lord Hélu Tianzun instructed me to hurry back to Liuli Sea to attend to a matter."

Yu Hui's divine sense startled: "What matter could be more important than an audience with the Holy Sovereign?"

He invoked the Spirit Void Holy Sovereign to pressure him, but Geng Yue's divine sense snorted: "On the return journey, I've already reported to the Holy Sovereign! This trip is expressly to return to Liuli Sea. Spies from Ling Mountain had previously infiltrated Liuli Sea and may have left behind some hidden dangers; Lord Hélu Tianzun ordered me to rush there immediately to investigate! Can your talisman seal take you to Liuli Sea?"