Chapter 2971

"Me?" He Lingchuan chuckled, "What does it have to do with me? I can't even reach the celestial realm with my hand."

He couldn't get past the celestial realm either.

"Jialou Heaven, Bai Zhan Heaven, Tongming True Monarch, and nearly a hundred celestial demons—all fell at your hands. If we also count Miao Zhantian, who fell twenty years ago in the Inverted Sea, and today's fallen Pojian Heaven and Yanshan Heaven, the loss of major deities in the Lingxu Assembly has been severe. Originally, they all held quotas in the lower realm, but you killed them like this, and the quotas became vacant." Naluo Tian said slowly, "So, the Lingxu Holy Venerable has found Shali Heaven, intending to—" The Red General interjected:

"Come to your Shali Heaven to restock?"

Her words were unpleasant, and Naluo Tian let out a long breath: "They say it's a vacant position awaiting someone."

"Are the deities of Shali Heaven tempted?" The Lingxu Assembly now lacks major deities, badly, so they need strong ones; Shali Heaven happens to have them. You say, isn't that a coincidence?

Naluo Tian grunted: "Who wouldn't be tempted to smoothly descend to the lower realm alongside the Lingxu Holy Venerable? In just a few days, our two major deities were pulled over by the Lingxu Holy Venerable, and another eighty deities came with them. How ironic—originally they fought to the death, now they've completely let go of past grudges." Pojian Heaven and Yanshan Heaven also fell today, so the Lingxu Assembly's quotas have eased a bit.

He Lingchuan laughed: "The composition of Shali Heaven's populace is complex; originally, many deities were wavering. We used to stay in Shali Heaven merely because we couldn't squeeze into the Lingxu Assembly. Now heavenly pies have fallen from the sky—of course there's no need to hesitate."

Naluo Tian remained silent.

That was tacit agreement.

Originally, major deities like Miao Zhantian and Jialou Heaven held high status, great power, and deep seniority within the Lingxu Assembly, occupying the best resources.

The celestial realm's supplies aren't as abundant as in the human world. We took more, so other proper deities and deities in the Lingxu Assembly naturally got less. Now these major deities are falling one after another; their legacies and shares in the Lingxu Assembly have suddenly become vacant. With resources suddenly increasing, the Lingxu Holy Venerable can now use these rich baits to lure proper deities and deities from Shali Heaven and other forces to join him, to fill the Lingxu Assembly's strength gaps.

Naluo Tian could see through it, yet could not change it:

"But we also have to bring along letters of allegiance. So these past days, I and my subordinates have been in great danger. When you came looking for me just now, I was battling Guangli Heaven."

"Your head is becoming more and more valuable." If a deity from Shali Heaven defects to the Lingxu Assembly and can bring Naluo Tian's head as a gift, their future status in the Lingxu Assembly will surely be secure.

Simply put, now the Lingxu Holy Venerable is using great profits to lure, desperately stirring up internal strife in Shali Heaven.

Naluo Tian chuckled: "There are also those who cherish old friendships. The Lingxu Holy Venerable wants to use traitors to deal with me—it's not that easy." He still has some influence; otherwise, how could he have received news of Pojian Heaven and Yanshan Heaven's fall so quickly?

The Red General suddenly asked Chi: "The Lingxu Holy Venerable so favors those who let go of past grudges—shouldn't the first one he tries to win over be you? Why don't you agree?" Naluo Tian's cultivation and ability, even placed within the Lingxu Assembly, could rank among the top; the Lingxu Holy Venerable has most likely tried to win him over.

Naluo Tian laughed inexplicably: "I don't think highly of Chi."

"Chi has been scheming for three thousand years, just to seize the lower realm quota in Chi's hands—major deities have to fight tooth and nail for it." The Red General chuckled, "How come when it comes to you, it's just a light 'I don't think highly of it'?"

Naluo Tian sneered: "You ask why the Lingxu Holy Venerable insists on pushing the Divine Descent Plan?"

He Lingchuan tilted his head: "Isn't it said that the celestial realm's world core vitality has been extinguished, no longer suitable for living beings?"

This is the widely spread story in both realms, the root cause of celestial demons invading the human world.

"Actually, the celestial realm's heart core is indeed no longer active, but deities aren't necessarily unable to survive." The Red General continued, "Especially in the past nearly two thousand years, the celestial demons' environment has actually been much better than the human world's."

Her words are highly credible, for she possesses many memories of Mitian.

Celestial demons used the Tianluo Star to seize human nightmare qi and transfer it to the celestial realm—this loss is that gain, so the celestial realm's environment naturally improved.

The more miserable the human world, the better the celestial realm.

The so-called "celestial realm困顿" is nothing but an outdated stereotype from long ago.

"In other words, before the appearance of the Dragon Punishment Pillar, the celestial realm's environment was actually quite good?" He Lingchuan pondered a bit, "And the celestial demons still wholeheartedly want to descend to the lower realm, because..."

"They still want more." The Red General said lightly, "Gods and humans alike are never satisfied with what they currently have. Moreover, not every deity lives smoothly or is content with their current state."

The Lingxu Assembly's days are better than Shali Heaven's.

Major deities' days are better than ordinary deities'.

Every deity feels there seems to be something lacking.

"But over the past twenty-plus years, the fates of gods and demons have completely reversed. The celestial and human realms have switched positions; celestial gods and demons are dying more and more, causing the Tianluo Star to absorb insufficient nightmare qi, while instead the human world frequently erupts with Emperor's Flow Glop. If this continues, the celestial realm will soon repeat the human world's past three thousand years of downfall, becoming a place of exhausted nightmare qi, at which point large numbers of gods and demons will spontaneously fall."

Just like how, over the past three thousand years, immortals have nearly vanished from the world.

"Worse still, the celestial realm can no longer produce spirit qi on its own like the human world can; once all nightmare qi is absorbed by the Tianluo Star and taken to the human world..."

That seeing the bottom is seeing the bottom—there's no way to make it rise again.

He Lingchuan nodded.

So before, deities descending to the lower realm was a vision; now it's a pressing necessity.

"As for the Lingxu Holy Venerable personally, this matter is unavoidable." Naluo Tian continued, "Back when we lost the Ancient War and returned to the celestial realm, public morale was low, internal chaos rampant, big and small powers began slaughtering each other."

Once chaos truly begins, it's very hard to reverse. "Thus the Lingxu Holy Venerable started stirring up the celestial realm, saying Chi had formulated a truly usable plan to bring all deities back to the human world."

Chi exhaled a breath, the smoke almost dissipating: "Because Chi's personal prestige is extremely high, believing in Chi, deities flocked to the Lingxu Assembly. The Lingxu Holy Venerable also never stopped promising the deities, saying he would certainly let Chi's people have their wishes fulfilled."

"Over these two thousand years, to maintain his own position and the Lingxu Assembly's rule, the Lingxu Holy Venerable's promises to the deities have grown more and more, heavier and heavier!" Naluo Tian shook his head, "As far as I know, the Lingxu Holy Venerable has even planned how the post-descent power divisions will be divided."

"Is that so?" Originally, celestial demons had already divided the meat before descending to the lower realm? He Lingchuan wondered, "Who got the Jinjin Plains?" "Most of it went to Miao Zhantian. Guangli Heaven, Tongming True Monarch, and Yanshan Heaven also each got a share."

Ha! "No wonder Miao Zhantian cares so much about the Jinjin Plains."

Originally, Miao Zhantian had already regarded the Jinjin Plains as his own pocket.