Chapter 289

But that era when the Demon Court flourished and dominated the Primordial Heavenly Realm had passed after all.

The current Heavenly Realm was already ruled by the Heavenly Court.

The Friend Jiutou Insect noticed that Bai Ze's gaze lingered on the horizon for a long time.

That gaze crossed the North Sea, crossed the vast clouds, as if looking at some extremely distant place.

Su Chen did not disturb him and stood quietly to the side.

A moment later, Bai Ze withdrew his gaze.

"Let's go."

The three drove clouds and left the spot.

Bai Ze urged the auspicious clouds, and the speed was far from what Su Chen and the Friend Jiutou Insect could compare to.

The clouds flew backward rapidly under their feet, and the deep blue seawater of the North Sea flew backward rapidly.

The whole way was silent.

The Friend Jiutou Insect stood behind the two, feeling as if his heart was being scratched by a hundred claws.

Where is Senior Bai Ze going?

Is he going to Flower Fruit Mountain with Su Chen?

What is he going to do?

And what exactly was said in that jade slip?

Why did Senior Bai Ze not leave the island for tens of thousands of years, but was willing to follow a human after reading a jade slip?

The doubts in his heart grew more and more.

He secretly glanced at Su Chen and Bai Ze in front of him, and several times he almost couldn't hold back and wanted to ask the doubts in his heart.

But every time, the Friend Jiutou Insect restrained himself; he took a deep breath and told himself to be calm.

"Don't ask what you shouldn't know; asking is a mistake."

But his gaze still couldn't help but drift toward the two of them.

After flying for about a quarter of an hour, the three arrived at the border between Western Niuhe Zhou and Southern Chanbuzhou.

Bai Ze stopped the cloud and looked at the Friend Jiutou Insect.

"Friend Jiutou, you go back to Bi Bo Tan; just keep everything as it was."

The Friend Jiutou Insect had long expected this moment; he used a secret technique to disguise his Tai Yi Jin Xian cultivation back to the Heavenly Immortal realm.

"Senior, take care." The Friend Jiutou Insect bowed and saluted, then turned to Su Chen and cupped his hands.

Su Chen nodded: "After Fellow Daoist Friend Jiutou goes back, just keep the affairs of Bi Bo Tan as they were; there is no need to change anything because of today's events."

"Friend Jiutou understands." The Friend Jiutou Insect replied.

He used a flying technique and drove the cloud toward the direction of Bi Bo Tan in Western Niuhe Zhou.

After flying not far, the Friend Jiutou Insect couldn't help but look back.

He saw that the two figures of Su Chen and Bai Ze had already left and were heading toward the direction of Dongsheng Shenzhou.

"Sigh..."

The Friend Jiutou Insect on the cloud couldn't help but sigh; having too many doubts in his heart was too uncomfortable.

But in front of Bai Ze, he didn't dare to ask.

The Friend Jiutou Insect shook his head, urged the cloud, and his figure disappeared into the sea of clouds.

Su Chen and Bai Ze, who had parted ways with the Friend Jiutou Insect, headed straight for Dongsheng Shenzhou.

With Bai Ze's Semi-Sage cultivation, he urged the auspicious clouds under their feet.

Su Chen was carried by Bai Ze, his whole body wrapped in a gentle force, following Bai Ze's auspicious clouds forward.

The flying speed was comparable to Su Chen's full-strength escape technique.

Su Chen secretly clicked his tongue; this was the speed of a Semi-Sage.

If he were to travel alone, it would take at least half a day from the North Sea to Flower Fruit Mountain.

And with Bai Ze urging the auspicious clouds, he was afraid it wouldn't even take an hour.

Sure enough, in less than an hour, the many islands of Dongsheng Shenzhou on the shores of the East Sea had already come into view.

The next moment, the outline of Flower Fruit Mountain appeared under the sea of clouds.

Bai Ze slowed down and swept his gaze over Flower Fruit Mountain.

"This place is worthy of being the ancestral vein of Dongsheng Shenzhou; it has the power of heaven and earth's creation." He commented.

Su Chen smiled and guided Bai Ze to land the cloud on Flower Fruit Mountain.

Before landing, Su Chen noticed that the aura around Bai Ze had changed again.

Standing in front of Su Chen now was an old man wearing a plain white robe with a white beard and hair.

His face was kind, his waist and back slightly bent, and he even walked with a bit of a stagger.

If Su Chen hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have associated this old man with the ten great Demon Saints of the ancient Demon Court.

The two walked in Flower Fruit Mountain.

It was early morning, the thin mist in the mountains had not yet dissipated, the monkey troop was playing and jumping in the forest, and occasionally small mountain-patrolling demons passed by carrying weapons.

A patrolling monkey demon saw Su Chen and ran over to greet him.

"Greetings, Staff Officer!"

"Hmm." Su Chen nodded.

The monkey demon's gaze swept to Bai Ze, looked him up and down, and felt puzzled.

Why did the Staff Officer bring back an old man?

"Could this be a relative of the Staff Officer among the humans?"

The patrolling monkey demon couldn't help but guess.

Su Chen and Bai Ze arrived at the Water Curtain Cave.

Lady Tie Shan happened to be in the cave and saw Su Chen and Bai Ze enter.

"Staff Officer, this is..." Lady Tie Shan asked.

"An elder who will live in Flower Fruit Mountain from now on." Su Chen said: "Just right, you go and arrange a residence for the Senior."

"Yes, Staff Officer." Upon hearing this, Lady Tie Shan didn't ask much and went to prepare a cave dwelling for Bai Ze to live in.

After Lady Tie Shan left, Su Chen took Bai Ze to the cave dwelling he had opened up alone on Flower Fruit Mountain.

For the sake of quiet, Su Chen had specially found a place in Flower Fruit Mountain to cultivate.

The cave dwelling was not large, but it was arranged quite elegantly.

"Senior, I will trouble you to cultivate in this Flower Fruit Mountain from now on." Su Chen invited Bai Ze to sit down: "With you here to hold the fort, I feel much more at ease."

Bai Ze sat down and looked toward the direction of the Water Curtain Cave on Flower Fruit Mountain.

"The Demon Alliance leader Sun Wukong you mentioned is now in that Water Curtain Cave, refining the origin of the Six-Eared Macaque?"

"Yes." Su Chen replied.

Bai Ze nodded slightly, and light flickered slightly in his white pupils.

"Interesting." He suddenly said softly: "He was actually able to break free from the entanglement of fate; you must have played a significant role in this."

"Senior is too kind." Su Chen smiled: "I just did some things within my power."

"Within your power?" Bai Ze laughed: "The fate trajectory of the Four Monkeys of the World, even if I exhausted my power of deduction, I could only glimpse one or two things. You, a Tai Yi Jin Xian, were able to twist his fate; this cannot be summarized by the words 'within your power'."

Su Chen did not explain, but instead said: "Since Senior can see that Sun Wukong's fate has been changed, you must have already calculated that great tribulation."

Upon hearing this, Bai Ze's expression froze slightly.

Su Chen continued: "Otherwise, Senior would not have let the Friend Jiutou Insect lurk in Bi Bo Tan in advance, waiting for that opportunity to obtain Heavenly Dao merit in the great tribulation."

He said it very plainly, but these words carried a completely different weight in Bai Ze's ears.

The light in Bai Ze's all-white pupils froze.

He stared at Su Chen for a long time.

Honestly, from meeting until now, Su Chen had already given him too many surprises.

Seeing through the Friend Jiutou Insect's identity, knowing the whereabouts of the Solar True Fire origin—Bai Ze could explain these things as "the fated person in the Demon Emperor's prophecy."

But the matter of the quantity tribulation was different.

With his Semi-Sage cultivation, plus his own innate divine ability to see through all things, he had deduced for tens of thousands of years before he could glimpse the signs of the quantity tribulation from the clues of the heaven and earth's operation.

It took another few thousand years to calculate a bit of opportunity from that blurred heavenly secret, and then arrange the layout of Bi Bo Tan for the Friend Jiutou Insect.

But Su Chen, a Tai Yi Jin Xian, why would he know these things?

But on second thought, the heavenly secret on this person in front of him was completely obscured, and even he couldn't calculate a single bit.

Such a person could not be measured by common sense in the first place.

Otherwise, His Majesty the Demon Emperor would not have chosen him.

Bai Ze helped Su Chen find a reason to persuade himself of his surprise at Su Chen.