Chapter 3078: Five Great Heavenly Demons

"Interesting, this talent is quite useful." He Lingchuan recalled his own ability derived from the Fate Godhead — Causal Threads. He could glimpse the effect from the cause, or trace the cause from the effect, thereby seeing through an opponent's divine abilities; it had a similar effect to this Qu Lai God's talent.

"He was originally one of the Lingxu Saint Venerable's confidants, usually not participating in dangerous operations, but because this talent could be of great use in the invasion of the Chixiao Golden Palace operation, he was temporarily transferred to Yingze Heaven."

"Confidant?" He Lingchuan grasped the key point. "Did he spill anything?"

The Heavenly Demons they had captured in the past all had only a partial understanding of the Lingxu Saint Venerable's Gods' Plan. Since they had finally caught a confidant of the Lingxu Saint Venerable, surely he would know a bit more inside information?

"The Battle of Qilong Cave and the invasion of the Chixiao Golden Palace were both planned by the same person." General Hong said, "Duanmu Heng of the Heavenly Palace. Ducheng's Lord valued him highly, and the Lingxu Saint Venerable also gave him two chances, but he failed both times, so he was executed on the spot in the Chixiao Golden Palace by Yingze Heaven, beaten into a sky-full of blood mist."

She shrugged: "What a pity, I originally wanted to tie him up and hand him to you for personal disposal."

The Battle of Qilong Cave was too tragic, even the Nine Netherworlds fought to the death on the battlefield; the Battle of the Chixiao Golden Palace even nearly severely injured Cang Yan. The two major campaigns planned by Duanmu Heng had very vicious angles of attack. General Hong also considered him a talent.

Pity, he was scheming against the God of Fate, so his luck really wasn't very good.

He Lingchuan didn't mind at all: "No matter, this is just the ending he deserved."

Acting as a tiger's accomplice, the accomplice ghost always faces the risk of being eaten by its master. If Duanmu Heng were smart enough, this was an ending he should have foreseen long ago.

"Still remember the Bishatian God Talisman we discovered in Ducheng of the E'ling Kingdom?" General Hong cut to the main topic. "He also gave up the names of several Great Heavenly Demons. I feel this fellow has substance; you should join me in interrogating him."

He Lingchuan agreed without a second word: "Let's go."

He trusted General Hong's judgment; if General Hong deemed it necessary, then it was certainly necessary.

The mirror surface of the Haoyuan Golden Mirror turned, and the Qu Lai God entered the mirror.

He was bound hand and foot with a chain, bruised and battered, head drooping in dejection, who knew what he had just experienced.

General Hong said: "Say it again, for which Great Heavenly Demons did the Lingxu Saint Venerable build ground altars?"

The Qu Lai God had already suffered earlier, so this time he answered honestly: "Bishatian, Duoluo Tian, Nie Wen Tian..."

He gave the names of five Great Heavenly Demons.

He Lingchuan asked: "Where are the locations of these altars?"

"I don't know."

"Then how do you know the mortal world has altars for these five Great Heavenly Demons?"

"Because the god talismans for these five Great Heavenly Demons were all engraved by me, I engraved several copies for each, for unforeseen needs. But after they were finished, where these god talismans would be sent, I don't know." The Qu Lai God confessed, "The Lingxu Saint Venerable never reveals his plan in full. We participants know at most one or two links."

Participants of a certain link only know the details of that one link, and know nothing of the rest. This maximizes the secrecy of the Lingxu Saint Venerable's secrets.

He Lingchuan had seen Bishatian's altar, and knew this god talisman would ultimately be buried underground at the center of the altar's talisman array. He asked the Qu Lai God again: "Then what is the function of this god talisman?"

"A beacon." The Qu Lai God replied, "The Great Heavenly Demons are about to descend to the mortal world; this is a special marker prepared for them, guiding them to land at specific locations."

"Marking them?"

This sounded strange, but:

"Right, right."

General Hong added a question: "Is it marking them directly, or marking the ground altars to lead them down?"

"This..." The Qu Lai God was confused. "Is there a difference? In short, it guides the Great Heavenly Demons to descend to the designated altars."

It was He Lingchuan's turn to question.

"Then the Great Heavenly Demons descending to the mortal world at that time, are there only five in total?"

"This I don't know."

"Do other Great Heavenly Demons descending to the mortal world not need these god talismans as guidance?"

The Qu Lai God shook his head: "I don't know."

"Have you ever engraved the Lingxu Saint Venerable's god talisman?"

"No."

"What about Naluo Tian's?"

"Also, also no."

It seems Naluo Tian wasn't lying; so far, he has shown no sign of defecting to the Lingxu Saint Venerable or descending to the mortal world.

He Lingchuan and General Hong exchanged a glance.

This matter was indeed a bit strange. Leaving aside other Great Heavenly Demons, the Lingxu Saint Venerable's true body would certainly descend. Would he not need god talismans and altars when he descends?

"Was the task of engraving god talismans also assigned by the Lingxu Saint Venerable to other Heavenly Demons? Besides you."

The Qu Lai God answered: "Don't know. The Saint Venerable instructed me twice, this matter is strictly confidential, absolutely not allowed to be disclosed to a third person."

Assuming not. Then the question arises: why do some Great Heavenly Demons need god talismans and altars to descend to the mortal world, while others don't? What is the difference between them?

General Hong suddenly said: "These five Great Heavenly Demons were originally not Lingxu Gods, right?"

"Yes, they all only recently joined the Lingxu Gods."

He Lingchuan's eyes flashed. He had already received intelligence earlier that besides massacring the Heavenly Realm, the Lingxu Gods were also aggressively recruiting great powers from various camps to join them. Coupled with the temptation of the Gods' Descent Plan, even the Shali Heaven had two Great Heavenly Demons switch sides and defect to the Lingxu camp.

Over these past twenty-plus years, the Lingxu camp's Great Heavenly Demons suffered heavy losses; the Lingxu Saint Venerable pulling other Great Heavenly Demons from the Heavenly Realm into his camp could effectively replenish the Lingxu camp's top combat strength.

The Qu Lai God continued: "Also, Duoluo Tian only ascended to Great Heavenly God twenty-plus years ago, and only joined our camp a month ago."

Not only does the mortal world have newly ascended True Immortals or experts at the True Immortal level, the Heavenly Realm likewise has Heavenly Demons ascending to Great Heavenly Demons.

Chaos and turmoil bring forth many heroes.

"Twenty-plus years ago?"

"Right, that was when you started the Dragon God War, the entire Shanjin Plain turned into a flesh-and-blood grinder, supplying massive amounts of nightmare qi to the Heavenly Realm. Duoluo Tian ascended to Great Heavenly God at that time. We speculate he has many Punishment Dragon Pillars in his possession."

"..." He Lingchuan was speechless.

The Dragon God War he single-handedly started objectively caused the entire Shanjin Plain to be awash with blood and flesh, countless families destroyed. It also caused him himself to accumulate towering blood karma, and the dense karmic debt that ultimately took his life was also accumulated at that time.

Now another item must be added: objectively, he also caused the Heavenly Realm to produce a new Great Heavenly Demon.

General Hong glanced at him, then continued questioning the Qu Lai God: "The Lingxu Saint Venerable is secretly refining a divine artifact inside the Eternal Ancient Volcano, said to have borrowed a small fragment of the Tianluo Star. Do you know?"