Chapter 169: Stepping on Lotuses to Burn the Demon Army, Is the Red Lotus Demon Venerable Unbeatable in This Life?

Beyond the eastern sky, a sky full of flames burned without wind.

These flames were scarlet, so scarlet that they seemed as if they would burn the very Heaven and Earth and the world to nothingness.

Within these flames were mixed two or three parts of gold; that golden fire, mingled within the scarlet flames, unexpectedly bestowed a sense of nobility upon this fire that seemed capable of burning the Heaven and Earth and the human world.

And from within those flames, a human figure walked out with slow steps.

It is strange to say, but every time this figure took a step, golden lotus flowers accompanied his feet.

If one were to look only at those scarlet flames, it would be no exaggeration to call Gu Jiangming a great demon of Heaven and Earth.

Yet, when this scene of lotus flowers blooming with every step fell into the eyes of others, it unexpectedly brought a sense of sanctity to this great demon?

At this moment, Gu Jiangming truly resembled a strange existence that was both immortal and demonic.

Also, as Gu Jiangming opened his mouth to speak, the many great demons outside Niankong Villa, and even the Daoist Master of Longhu Mountain, as well as Liu Moxuan, Old Man Taicang, and others whose battle had slowed, all inevitably cast their gazes upon Gu Jiangming at this moment.

"Red Lotus Demon Venerable..."

On the battlefield, Old Man Taicang watched Gu Jiangming's appearance, his brows not only devoid of any joy but instead furrowed, as if he were extremely dissatisfied with Gu Jiangming's arrival? "Red Lotus Demon Venerable!"

The Daoist Master of Longhu Mountain, seeing that existence who seemed like a fusion of immortal and demon, and feeling the terrifying auras emanating from Gu Jiangming, frowned while carefully sizing up the Gu Jiangming before him.

"Red Lotus Demon Venerable!"

Those great demons in the Void, when they saw Gu Jiangming walking over while stepping on golden lotuses, had only intense joy in their eyes.

If Gu Jiangming had not appeared, even if these great demons took action, it could not be said that there were not a few among them who feared Gu Jiangming and thus exercised restraint.

But after Gu Jiangming appeared, all these great demons felt was joy, pure surprise! "You didn't hide well, and yet you actually dare to appear?"

"So what if your offspring were killed? Since you dare to appear, then stay here completely today!"

As Gu Jiangming walked out from the flames, the experts of the Human Race sighed, while the great demons of the Demon Race began to revel.

This world is truly baffling.

It was clearly the appearance of a Human Race expert, yet the reactions of the Human Race experts and those great demons seemed to be reversed? "If you had truly hidden in the shadows, we might have really been wary of you and let a few people escape."

"But you actually dared to appear?"

"How could you dare to appear!"

In the Void above Niankong Villa, the great demons no longer concealed their forms at this moment.

They stood high in the firmament, watching the figure walking toward Niankong Villa, their mouths constantly emitting wild laughter filled with infinite malice.

A great demon of the Enlightenment Realm of Heaven and Earth is basically capable of representing a Small World.

And at this time, the number of Enlightenment Realm great demons near Niankong Villa had reached a terrifying seventy-plus.

Before Gu Jiangming had appeared, these great demons might have still had fear in their hearts, but with Gu Jiangming's appearance, the last trace of fear in their hearts vanished.

No one believed, no one believed that Gu Jiangming could face seventy-plus Enlightenment Realm great demons.

Not even if the Supreme of the Qilin Clan or the Dragon Race were to reappear in the world!

Even if Gu Jiangming's strength was shocking, what was gathered here were seventy-plus great demons!

They gathered in one place, wantonly displaying their malice; that terrifying malice, at this moment, seemed to have transformed into the malice of Heaven and Earth itself! Auras locked onto Gu Jiangming one after another, and each Enlightenment great demon grinned and laughed wildly without restraint.

I do not know when it started, but the entire sky above Niankong Villa had already gathered a sky full of black clouds; as the black clouds pressed down on the city and the city seemed about to crumble, scarlet lightning gathered and brewed within them.

How much this scene resembled those high and mighty immortals and gods about to carry out a righteous judgment against a demonic outsider attempting to challenge the order!

"So you came after all!"

One hundred thousand miles away from Niankong Villa, Jiu Jiu watched that figure walking leisurely out of the flames, her eyes filled with complexity.

She had previously been thinking, thinking that Gu Jiangming's injuries had likely not yet recovered, and he was alone, so perhaps he would not appear at Niankong Villa at this time.

Yet Gu Jiangming still appeared; even if, even if seventy-plus Enlightenment great demons were blocking the way, Gu Jiangming still appeared! "Sure enough, no matter which era it is, you are still you!"

"But, can you really break through?"

Jiu Jiu clenched her fists tightly; if Gu Jiangming had not appeared, Jiu Jiu would not have bothered to care about the life or death of those two wild women in Niankong Villa.

But with Gu Jiangming's appearance, Jiu Jiu's heart was no longer calm.

She wanted to stand by Gu Jiangming's side, stand by Gu Jiangming's side and face the sky full of malice with him! "Is the Human Race stupid, or wise?"

"That Daoist Master of Longhu Mountain of the Human Race actually planned quite well, using you, the Red Lotus Demon Venerable, to deter these old demons; these old fellows might not even have half their number willing to make a move."

"But why did you have to appear?"

"Now that you have appeared, doesn't it mean, doesn't it mean that the Human Race's final deterrent is also gone?"

In the Dragon Palace, the old Dragon King watched Gu Jiangming's figure, his brows furrowing tighter and tighter; regarding the Human Race, the old Dragon King truly could not understand them now.

He felt the Human Race was stupid, stupid enough to bury their own excellent situation.

Yet he also felt the Human Race was wise; clearly facing so many great demons, the Human Race's Daoist Master of Longhu Mountain still planted a thorn in the hearts of those great demons.

But with Gu Jiangming's appearance, the old Dragon King felt again that the Human Race seemed just as stupid as before.

This back-and-forth perception made the old Dragon King suddenly feel that he could no longer understand the Human Race?

"Why wouldn't I dare to appear?"

"Could it be, just because you have many people?"

And that figure walking out of the flames, his footsteps seemed to carry an incredible magic.

Clearly, his steps were just normal walking, but Gu Jiangming, who had been a thousand miles away just a moment ago, had actually arrived outside Niankong Villa within a few breaths of time.

The most terrifying thing was the scarlet flame spreading for a hundred miles around this Red Lotus Demon Venerable.

It was unknown whether this Red Lotus Demon Venerable was doing it on purpose or specifically, but the Demon Race army that had originally gathered near Niankong Villa, as Gu Jiangming walked over step by step, turned into a pile of ashes without even being able to let out half a wail.

Clearly, clearly hundreds of thousands of the Demon Race had died and fallen as that figure walked over. Yet, whether it was the Demon Race standing high in the firmament or any existence watching Niankong Villa, at this moment, none of them placed their attention on those demons.

It was as if, as if those demons, those hundreds of thousands of demons, were equivalent to grass and mustard in the eyes of this group of people? "His strength..."

"Has he already taken that step?"

"Without the Supreme Bone, without anything else, has he himself already reached the level of a Supreme of every race?"

In the territory of the Qilin Clan, a Qilin exuding a terrifying aura stared fixedly at Gu Jiangming standing in the sea of fire.

The moment Gu Jiangming appeared, he already had two or three parts of a guess in his heart. As he followed Gu Jiangming's path and witnessed the scene of flames incinerating everything, this Qilin was thoroughly certain—certain that Gu Jiangming had reached the level of a Supreme of all races! "It is a Supreme!"

"Without a Supreme Bone, without the favor of Heaven and Earth, Red Lotus Demon Venerable, you have actually managed to reach this step!"

"With such strength, you indeed have the qualifications to look down upon us."

"But, we have over seventy Heaven and Earth Enlightenment here!"

Above Niankong Villa, those great demons who were originally laughing wantonly now restrained their recklessness one by one.

Heaven and Earth Enlightenment are strong, extremely strong.

But Heaven and Earth Enlightenment does not mean they cannot be killed.

In the end, Heaven and Earth Enlightenment can only borrow the power of Heaven and Earth, yet for any life, the power of Heaven and Earth they can borrow is limited.

Even an existence at the Enlightened Realm, when facing the siege of an army covering the mountains and plains, still has the possibility of being injured or even falling.

This is also the reason why, when Gu Jiangming previously lifted the siege of Niankong Villa, Gu Jiangming was still injured and was picked up by Jiu Jiu.

After all, Heaven and Earth are infinite, but human power is limited.

Yet Gu Jiangming merely walked forward step by step, turning the many Demon Race armies the Demon Race had painstakingly prepared into ashes.

This point alone made these great demons understand—understand that there was already a chasm between Gu Jiangming's strength and their own!

An existence capable of ignoring the quantitative change brought by numbers, regardless of which race they belong to, is enough to be called a Supreme.

Even if it is not the Supreme of their own race, facing such an existence, these Enlightened great demons no longer had the qualifications to mock.

Mockery...

If they were to mock Gu Jiangming, would they not be mocking themselves, mocking their own tens of thousands of years of cultivation, and mocking the Great Dao they had pursued for a lifetime yet never managed to enter?

Unless there was another Supreme present, these Enlightened great demons would have to lower their heads when facing Gu Jiangming.

They were not lowering their heads because of Gu Jiangming, but because of that realm; what they respected was not Gu Jiangming, but only the strength and realm of a Supreme!

"Numbers have no meaning."

"You gathered at Niankong Villa, isn't it for this very realm?"

"If numbers had meaning in this realm, then why would you crave this realm?"

Gu Jiangming stood outside Niankong Villa, his gaze seeing Liu Moran, seeing Wang Qinghe, seeing Gu Nianmo, and also seeing his son, Gu Shengxi, who was still in swaddling clothes.

His gaze lingered on them one by one, then withdrew one by one; in the end, Gu Jiangming's gaze fell back upon this group of Enlightened great demons before him.

Aside from the questioning voice when he first appeared, Gu Jiangming had never once displayed his killing intent.

But when Gu Jiangming's gaze truly fixed upon them, these Enlightened great demons gathered near Niankong Villa all felt as if they were being stared at by some indescribable, terrifying existence.

They themselves could hardly remember how many years it had been since they felt this kind of hair-raising sensation, but at this moment, Gu Jiangming undoubtedly gave them this long-lost feeling of terror!

"Facing a Supreme, do numbers have no meaning?"

"But why can I not believe it?"

"Although I do not know what method you used to break the threshold and become a realm like the Supremes of old."

"But since I have come, if I do not strike, if I cannot see just how strong this so-called Supreme is, I will not be reconciled!"

Gu Jiangming's gaze was terrifying, yet the great demons who dared to gather near Niankong Villa were not truly without a single one who dared to show their head. A great demon at the near-perfection stage of Heaven and Earth Enlightenment stood out, staring fixedly at Gu Jiangming before him, speaking thus.

Heaven and Earth Enlightenment, the enlightenment of Heaven and Earth, has no distinction of high or low.

But as long as it is a realm, there is a distinction of high and low.

Heaven and Earth Enlightenment can roughly be divided into ordinary Heaven and Earth Enlightenment, perfect Heaven and Earth Enlightenment, and the Supreme-level Heaven and Earth Enlightenment like Gu Jiangming now, who has already stepped half a foot out of the Heaven and Earth Enlightenment realm.

A Supreme is still Heaven and Earth Enlightenment; the Supremes of old were so, and Gu Jiangming is also so.

The difference is that the Supremes of old relied on the favor of Heaven and Earth and the luck of their race to step into the Supreme realm, while Gu Jiangming, after four thousand bureaus, forcibly broke the blockade Heaven and Earth placed upon living beings!

Gu Jiangming when playing chess against the Old Man Taicang was merely barely Heaven and Earth Enlightenment.

Gu Jiangming when lifting the siege of Niankong Villa had strength roughly equivalent to ordinary Heaven and Earth Enlightenment; he would be injured, and facing the siege of an army, there was also the possibility of death.

But after Gu Jiangming passed down the Dharma, when he fought those nine man-eating great demons, Gu Jiangming's strength had already reached the pinnacle of Heaven and Earth Enlightenment.

This is also the reason why those Demon Races were willing to let the Human Race go; this kind of perfect Heaven and Earth Enlightenment is already the strongest level in the world, and without a bone-deep conflict of interest, these great demons were unwilling to become enemies with such an existence.

However, this Red Lotus Demon Venerable, Gu Jiangming, had broken their understanding time and time again.

They could ignore ordinary Heaven and Earth Enlightenment; Heaven and Earth Enlightenment in the world are few if you say they are few, and many if you say they are many, and with the ten thousand races slaughtering each other, there are at least several hundred ordinary Heaven and Earth Enlightenment.

Adding one or losing one, these great demons truly would not care too much.

But they never expected that, in what felt like just a moment of distraction, Red Lotus Demon Venerable had finished a path that ordinary Heaven and Earth Enlightenment might not finish in ten thousand years.

And when they saw Gu Jiangming again, Gu Jiangming's strength had already reached a realm they could look up to but never reach! "To seek the Supreme Bone, isn't it for this very realm?"

"Although facing a Supreme, leaving without a fight is not a shame, but with a Supreme standing before me, the realm I have craved for a lifetime, I still cannot help but want to try!"

"Everyone, who else wants to test the mettle of this new Supreme?"

"Having only seen in ancient books that a Supreme is invincible, today, we may have the good fortune to verify whether a so-called Supreme is truly invincible!"

(End of this chapter)