Chapter 245

The bright moon is in the sky, draping the mountains and seas in silver gauze, shining through the ages without decay. The night is thick, covering the world with a black curtain, hiding all evil in the gloom.

Clouds move across the horizon like galloping horses.

Brother Zuoqiu Hongting wore a wooden carved mask and a green Daoist robe, her waistline outlined, her temperament outstanding. She flashed to the top of the gatehouse on the inner city wall of the Southern City.

Behind her was the dozens-of-zhang-wide central axis avenue of the outer city, leading straight to the seaside of the Soldier Ancestor Marsh, where one could look out at the brightly lit Bright Moon Seven Stars Pavilion located on the sea.

She faced the inner city, and the towering Taoli Mountain, which went straight up to the nine heavens, sat eternally at the end of her vision.

Below the gatehouse, from the Attendant Hall of the inner city to the Soldier Ancestor Marsh of the outer city, the entire north-south Qiankun Avenue was filled with the sounds of killing, magic power light clashing, and blood staining more than ten miles.

Every inheritor formed their own battle circle.

What a Lantern Festival, a night stained red with blood.

The naked corpses hanging on the inner city gate had long since been cut down by Cangli and Li Ling, falling to the ground.

In the square at the city gate, in a copper tripod a zhang high, boiling water was still churning, and flesh and blood were being stewed into soup. The tragic scene in the tripod was enough to make countless human martial cultivators vomit at the sight.

"Swish!"

Luan Sheng Lin You appeared on the city wall, his appearance cold and handsome, his eyes bright to the point of being evil, his silver-white long hair swaying gently. He said softly: "I originally thought you would take the remnants of the Brother Zuoqiu Gate, the Jiuli clan, and the Zhu Gate to flee the city and save your lives, but I didn't expect you to still be unwilling to give up. You have caused even more people to die!"

Brother Zuoqiu Hongting was not affected by his words: "We are all duckweed in troubled times; where can we flee? If we don't fight today, tomorrow it will be the people of a clan, the people of a province who die."

"Your injuries are very heavy, and your combat power is greatly damaged. Your so-called fighting is just seeking death." Luan Sheng Lin You pointed out the essence of her weakness.

Brother Zuoqiu Hongting's eyes were unwavering: "If I seek death, what kind of price will you have to pay?"

Luan Sheng Lin You stopped at a position a hundred zhang away from the gatehouse, sitting on a crenel, looking toward the distant sea and the bright moon, saying lightly: "One hundred thousand lanterns have already been lit, like a sea of stars in the water, gorgeous and prosperous. In a while, the Immortal Turtle will carry the Dragon Palace, the venue will open, and the Lantern Festival will truly arrive. Unfortunately, this liveliness and joy only belong to the Far West Ash Region and our allies."

"Just like the Lingxiao Life Realm in the near future, a glorious and prosperous demon kingdom will be established. The territory will be far larger than the current twenty-eight provinces; the Ash Region and the parts of the provinces swallowed by the Nether Realm of the Dead a thousand years ago will all be included. At the founding ceremony, all allies will be rewarded according to their merits; demons, Ash Spirits, passing spirits, humans... it will surely be a celebration for all!"

Brother Zuoqiu Hongting said: "Unfortunately, the status of humans in the demon kingdom is too low; they are regarded as livestock and food, cooked at will. I'm afraid there aren't many human martial cultivators who would support the establishment of a demon kingdom."

"Awoo!"

A dragon roar resounded through the night.

Long Dian stepped on the Green Dragon battle-method intention, riding the mist up the city wall.

The twelve-thousand-jin bronze war spear in his hand struck the ground of the horse-path heavily, and over seven hundred scriptures flickered on the war spear.

The entire city wall shook violently.

"Young Master You, Tang Wanqiu was caught off guard by the demon martial cultivators of Yinshan, and the Snow Sword Tang Court has already been routed by us. Qi Jin took people to pursue and kill them; she will surely bring back all the Longevity Pill tickets, Dragon Seed tickets, and Dragon Bone tickets."

Long Dian was ranked among the Three Immortals and had the name of a banished immortal. His face was masculine and beautiful to the extreme, and the golden armor on his body set off his tall and straight figure to be incomparably robust. He added: "Brother Zuoqiu Hong's remaining combat power is probably less than seventy percent. How about leaving her to me?"

"That's fine! After tonight, the titles of East Dragon, West Pig, South Tiger, and North Sword will probably have to be changed." said Luan Sheng Lin You.

Long Dian appeared very indifferent: "The top experts of the Five Seas Realm change every few years; I have never taken such titles to heart. The decades-long battle of the Dao Seed Realm, gathering the top experts of the Five Seas Realm from the past ten generations, that is the game of the strongest in the human world, which can be called entering the hall and ascending to the room. As for those long-lived ones who are no longer fighting in the human world, that is another world."

"With the Dragon Bone, Dragon Seed, and Longevity Pill, you and I will surely be able to flatten the peaks of human martial cultivators within a few years."

Luan Sheng Lin You cast his gaze toward the chaotic battlefield below the city wall, his figure flashing and transforming into a beautiful silver arc of light, heading toward the Bright Moon Seven Stars Pavilion, preparing to clear out Ge Xiantong and Brother Zuoqiu Hong's backup plans first.

In Brother Zuoqiu Hongting's calm eyes, a look of shock finally emerged, and she stepped on the flower rain of "Peaches and Plums All Over the World," chasing after him like a floating shadow.

"Brother Zuoqiu Hong, your opponent is me!"

The golden armor on Long Dian's body was as brilliant as a scorching sun, his magic power thick and domineering, his speed increasing violently, colliding fiercely with the flower rain in the sky and intercepting Brother Zuoqiu Hongting.

On the sea.

The Bright Moon Seven Stars Pavilion was hung with bright lanterns, and on both sides of the stairs stood figures dressed in white, carrying long swords on their backs.

They were Five Seas Realm martial cultivators cultivated by Qianli Mountain.

Both "Immortal Forest" and "Heavenly Pavilion" were industries under Qianli Mountain.

Qianli Mountain was named for only recruiting talents selected from a thousand.

They were businessmen who didn't want to participate in the struggle for the world and didn't want to offend anyone.

Helping the Brother Zuoqiu Gate hide the Hidden Gate martial cultivators was because they felt that Brother Zuoqiu Hong might be a hidden dragon and wanted to invest in advance. Now it seemed that Luan Sheng Lin You was more suitable for investment.

On the seaside, only three miles away from the Bright Moon Seven Stars Pavilion, Ge Xiantong was trapped in an array constructed by the Ash Region, fighting alone against five passing-spirit powerhouses from the Nether Realm of the Dead.

They all had beast heads, wore blood clothes, and had been born with spiritual wisdom; they were undead prodigies from a certain domain of the Nether Realm world.

On the edge of this Ash Region, thousands of spirit tablets were erected, with ghost shadows everywhere, controlled by Ming Niansheng.

And the twenty-eight Great Thought Masters of the Disaster Fire Realm who presided over the array were drawn by Luan Sheng Lin You from various forces under his banner, specifically prepared as a tough dish for Ge Xiantong. The person presiding over the array was the third-ranked of the Eastern Region's First Grade, Tantai Jing from Huaiyi Island.

One of the three island pirate thieves of the Eastern Region, "Huaiyi Island," had already submitted to the Dragon Gate and was included under Luan Sheng Lin You's command.

The direct lineage forces that originally belonged to Luan Sheng Lin You, the experts of the Western Region's Quanrong and Querong whom he had high hopes for, had been almost completely killed by the imperial court and the Brother Zuoqiu Gate, which was why he was forced to enable the people of the Eastern Yi.

It was already the final moment, and everyone had exhausted their trump cards and backup plans.

Many forces that had previously remained neutral or had no intention of participating in the struggle for the world also participated one after another in the form of helping with fists.

Because Luan Sheng Lin You's victory seemed to have already become a confirmed signal.

The forces behind him were too huge and must have been plotting for a long time. If there was also the support of the Du'e Temple, the establishment of a demon kingdom might truly be the trend of the times. Who wouldn't want to submit a letter of intent in advance?

On Taoli Mountain, the older generation of powerhouses from the major forces realized that things were not looking good as Luan Sheng Lin You's trump cards and backup plans were gradually revealed.

Some rushed back to the Northern Region, some rushed back to the Eastern Region and Western Region...

Everyone felt that the demon disaster sweeping the world was very likely to have broken out at the same time.

Now they only hoped that the Du'e Temple would not stand on the side of the forces behind Luan Sheng Lin You, so that the human cultivators of the Lingxiao Life Realm would still have the power to resist.

In the Triple Heaven.

The clan elders of the Brother Zuoqiu Gate looked at the Changqing Temple dumbfounded, then looked at the insect swarm running on the inner city wall, all of them completely bewildered.

"How is the Changqing Temple connected to the underground? What's going on with that Bagua well? You Daoist lineage hide very deeply!"

"The secret of the Changqing Temple must have been told to him by Hongting."

"Forget about the Changqing Temple; the situation is already collapsing. I only hope that the kid surnamed Li can arrive in time to turn the situation around. The birth of seven monarch-level larvae, summoning an insect swarm, is a stroke of luck invited by heaven."

Brother Zuoqiu Ling glared at the Hidden Lord, his magic power transmitting: "I can be sure that Hongting doesn't know the secret of the Changqing Temple either. What is the background of that kid?"

The Hidden Lord was both happy and worried.

What he was happy about was that at this extremely dangerous moment, Li Youyi's cultivation had advanced again, he had beheaded two inheritor-level experts in succession, and he had summoned an insect swarm, which would surely reignite hope in the decadent and desperate battlefield.

If Li Youyi really turned the situation around tonight, then it wouldn't be something the imperial court and the Lei Xiao Sect could move just because they wanted to. At least on the surface, they would have to worry about the influence.

Given the current crisis in the Lingxiao Life Realm, he figured they didn't have that energy either.

As for what he was worried about, there was plenty!

Could he really turn the situation around?

As for the secret of the Changqing Temple...

The Hidden Lord guessed that it must be related to the wife of the leader, that grandmother of the Jiuli clan.

The Hidden Lord said: "A thousand years ago, the transcendent ancestor of the Daoist lineage of the Brother Zuoqiu Gate married into the Jiuli clan. It is very normal for the Jiuli clan to know what you don't know."

The Nine Heavens of Taoli Mountain were located in the void above the Solution Character Talisman.

The transcendent ones gathered, none of them resembling human martial cultivators, like immortals and gods discussing the Dao.

The royal carriage of the Second Palace Master of the Lingxiao Palace was as huge as a palace, golden and brilliant, like a heavenly palace, floating above the sea of clouds, with scriptures like stars in the sky accompanying it all around.

Her voice drifted out: "It's truly wonderful. For ten years, everyone has been fighting until the world is turned upside down, completely forgetting the danger from the outside world. A single Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival has finally awakened the rebels of the world. Are your rebel armies still fighting? Are you still continuing to crusade?"

"If the Great Palace Master doesn't issue a decree of self-reproach and doesn't cancel the Small Field Order, for the sake of the common people of the world, we will continue to fight, fight through Lingxiao City, and fight to the outside of the Lingxiao Palace, asking her face-to-face if she knows she is wrong or not." A Northern Region transcendent sat cross-legged in the sea of clouds, the scene around him encompassing ten thousand things, forming a small world of his own.

The voice from the royal carriage said: "What qualifications do you have to crusade against the Great Palace Master? The twenty-eight provinces of Lingxiao are carried on the shoulders of the Great Palace Master, not you. It is not your turn to speak the words 'common people of the world'."

"The disaster, the danger, and the terror of the Great Palace Master are actually above the demon clan. As long as she is still alive, everyone will always be in fear. As long as she is still alive, the number of human forces defecting to the demon clan will only increase, and the righteous army will never give up on flattening Lingxiao City; there is absolutely no possibility of easing." Another transcendent's voice sounded in the void.

Inside the royal carriage: "Stir it up, stir it up, you just stir it up until the Lingxiao Life Realm turns into a demon kingdom. When that time comes, we will all die together!"

An old man in a Confucian robe with a refined face sat under an ancient peach tree as thick as a millstone with the Du'e Temple immortal master.

His eyes were slightly sharp: "It seems the Du'e Temple is actually more inclined toward the demon clan? Holding the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival and leading the old guys to Qiuzhouzhou City—isn't that more convenient for the Far West Ash Region to accomplish its goals?"

The Du'e Temple immortal master smiled bitterly: "I am human, so of course I hope the Du'e Temple supports the Brother Zuoqiu Gate. But the rules of the Du'e Temple are greater than anyone's will. Let me ask you, even without the drill of the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, would the Far West Ash Region not have made a move when the Brother Zuoqiu Gate was fighting for the world? Would the Nether Realm of the Dead not have taken advantage of the void to enter?"

"All the variables in the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival and all the secret forces will still play out as they should in the struggle for the world."

"Now that there is a preview in advance, haven't you also had precautions in advance? Therefore, it is very fair."

"I think the Du'e Temple just feels that choosing the Far West Ash Region can pacify the turmoil in the Lingxiao Life Realm faster. Hmph!" The Confucian-robed old man looked at the battle situation in Qiuzhouzhou City below like looking at a battlefield sand table, sneering: "What if we happen to win?"

(End of chapter)