Chapter 676: Respective Preparations

Ascending into the True Immortal Realm is the wish of all cultivators; although they all knew about the True Immortal Realm, not a single person wanted to give up this opportunity!

Especially Zhuanlun Wang; everything he had done before was for the sake of going to the True Immortal Realm. Now that matters in the Underworld had finally been resolved with a good outcome, there was nothing left that would weigh on his mind!

"Zhang has long promised the senior that after the trip to the Underworld concludes, I will accompany the senior to the True Immortal Realm. Even if it means braving a mountain of blades or a sea of flames, I will charge through it!"

Zhang Nuo was the first to state his position, and the rest of the crowd nodded one after another!

"Good! Since that is the case, you all return to your respective realms first. After you have finished handling the matters at hand, go to the Inner Sea of the Demon Thunder Sea to find this deity! This deity will only give you a hundred years. Those who have not arrived once a hundred years have passed will be considered to have given up automatically!"

Seeing that the Great Accomplishment Stage cultivators from several realms all agreed to return to the True Immortal Realm with him, the expression of Jialouluo brightened slightly! This return to the True Immortal Realm would certainly involve a fierce battle; the True Immortals of the Anti-Immortal Faction would absolutely not release the sealed members of the Shunxian Faction so easily.

In this way, having one more person was equivalent to having one more share of strength. Among these people, Jialouluo most hoped that Zhang Nuo would stand on the same side as him! Through several contacts with him, Jialouluo felt that Zhang Nuo possessed an unfathomable potential; one could even say that if he entered the True Immortal Realm, he would play a role in turning the tide.

However, these words were only what Jialouluo thought in his own heart! But even if he did not say them out loud, after experiencing the battle with the Chaos Insect King, the others also understood the gap between them and Zhang Nuo, especially since he had merged into one with the Insect King's indestructible physical body, which made the others envious to death!

The group discussed some other matters, then rose one after another and broke through the boundary to leave the Underworld. Just as Zhang Nuo and the few cultivators from the Immortal Domain were about to leave, Yanluo Tianzi called Zhang Nuo to a halt!

"Does Fellow Daoist Yanluo have any other matters?"

"Actually, it is not a major matter. Take this!"

On his face, which was as black as the bottom of a pot, a faint smile appeared, and Yanluo Tianzi handed a scroll to Zhang Nuo!

Suspiciously taking the scroll, Zhang Nuo opened it casually. Upon seeing the portrait of a person inside the scroll, Zhang Nuo was startled, because the person in the scroll looked too much like himself, only in terms of bearing, he appeared somewhat more imposing!

"Is this a portrait of the Heavenly Condemnation Underworld King?"

"Correct! In the current Underworld, this is the only complete image of the Heavenly Condemnation Underworld King left! I give it to you! Perhaps you are its true owner!"

Yanluo Tianzi said with a hint of melancholy, his gaze unable to help but linger on Zhang Nuo for a few moments; the more he looked, the more he felt that Zhang Nuo and the Heavenly Condemnation Underworld King were extremely alike!

While seeing the figure in the portrait, a strange feeling also welled up in Zhang Nuo's heart; perhaps there really was some predestination in the dark! He and the Heavenly Condemnation Underworld King were truly too similar! Various memories from before kept recurring! Zhang Nuo laughed, laughing so unrestrainedly!

In an instant, the aura on his body rose abruptly, and without looking back, he flew into the high sky and broke through the air with Jiufang Yi and the others! Standing on the ground, Yanluo Tianzi gazed at the back of the departing Zhang Nuo, unable to recover for a long time!

"Yanluo, do you say that all of this was truly intended by the Heavenly Condemnation Underworld King?"

Suddenly hearing a voice from behind, Yanluo Tianzi turned his head back; it turned out that at some unknown time, Zhuanlun Wang had arrived before him!

"The divine abilities of the Heavenly Condemnation Underworld King were enough to compare with a True Immortal back then, but his temperament was too arrogant! Otherwise, he would not have been besieged by several Great Accomplishment Stage cultivators! Perhaps he wanted to change his own fate! Perhaps all of this is just a coincidence; the truth of the matter is only known to the Underworld King himself!"

"Regardless, the matter of the Chaos Insect King can be considered resolved. Next, do we need to select the new Ten Kings of the Underworld?"

Gazing at the pitch-black sky, Zhuanlun Wang said with deep meaning.

Hearing this, Yanluo Tianzi nodded slightly. Zhuanlun Wang was right; they, the only Great Accomplishment Stage cultivators of the Underworld, were about to follow Jialouluo to the True Immortal Realm, and the affairs within the Underworld must be handed over to others to manage. Selecting the new Ten Kings of the Underworld was imperative!

As soon as Zhang Nuo and Jiufang Yi and the others flew out of Fengdu Cheng, they saw the Other Shore Flowers blooming all over outside the city! Previously, because of the matter of the Chaos Insect King, they had not noticed this only colored plant of the Underworld at all when entering the city!

His expression paused slightly, and Zhang Nuo's escape speed slowed down! Legend has it that the Other Shore Flower has flowers and leaves on the same root, but they never see each other! This is like a person's past life and future life; although they have a connection, they cannot understand each other!

His heart beat violently a few times, and Zhang Nuo recalled the portrait of the Heavenly Condemnation Underworld King on the scroll, a faint smile appearing at the corner of his mouth!

The past life has already become the past; no matter who one was in the past life, no matter how imposing, it has all become fleeting clouds! One must live in the present; no one knows what the future life will be like, and this self in this life is unique! Even if one were to be reincarnated and live again, that would be another person!

There are still many things in this life that he needs to handle; rather than searching for the self of the past life and considering the self of the future life, it is better to spend time and energy to make this self in this life live more brilliantly!

Thinking of this, the escape light on Zhang Nuo's body flashed fiercely, and he caught up with Jiufang Yi and the others in front! After flying forward for a distance, a few tree demons appeared below!

Seeing these tree demons extending their green branches from the top of their heads for a long distance, they were binding a lonely soul, and then faint green light was emitted from the bodies of the tree demons, continuously transmitting into the body of the lonely soul! At the same time, a wisp of turbid Qi was separated from the body of the lonely soul!

"Human Emperor, it seems that the tree demons you and Fairy Ai created are still quite useful. Following this, within a hundred years, the Underworld will be able to purify most of the lonely souls, thereby thoroughly resolving the heart-trouble of the Underworld!"

Zhang Nuo did not explain too much, just smiled faintly! Ai Yuchen was even more charming and beautiful, so stunning that it was indescribable!

After the group flew for several months, they stopped in front of a void! Jiufang Yi struck directly, and a spatial passage was broken open in front of him! Then the figures of the crowd flashed, and they all submerged into it!

In Wushuang Saint Emperor City, pedestrians on the streets were like a tide. Although no one had forgotten the scene of Qin Guang Wang slaughtering the city back then, the Holy City, which had become prosperous again, did not seem to worry that the cultivators of the Underworld would make a comeback! Because they all believed that after Jiufang Yi and the others entered the Underworld, they would definitely handle all matters properly!

On the morning of this day, the sky seemed exceptionally clear, and the azure color made people feel great! Su Haizhen stood blankly on a small building in the Human Emperor Palace, her beautiful eyes carrying a few wisps of faint sorrow. It had been several decades since Zhang Nuo went to the Underworld, but until now, there had been no news at all! She did not know how things were going over there?

Just as she was in a daze, suddenly in the sky above the Human Emperor Palace, the void bulged from the inside out, and then a loud booming sound was transmitted!

Seeing this scene, Su Haizhen was so frightened that her pretty face changed greatly! This was very similar to the appearance when Qin Guang Wang came to attack the Holy City back then! Could it be that Zhang Nuo and the others failed, and the Underworld was attacking the Immortal Domain again?

As the escape light on her body rose, Su Haizhen rushed into mid-air. At the same time, others in the Human Emperor Palace also discovered this point and arrived in mid-air one after another!

Chunyangzi's expression was gloomy! The scene of the city being slaughtered back then still left a deep impression in his mind! The bloody massacre was something he would not forget even in his dreams!

Ye Yuemiao also looked at the high sky with a worried face; if it were truly the Underworld cultivators coming, then Zhang Nuo would be in great danger! Her pair of jade hands clenched into fists, and cold sweat seeped out of her palms!

Boom!

An explosive sound broke the tranquility in the Holy City, and then the void cracked open. A person flashed out from inside quickly, wearing a plain-colored robe, with a 'Human Emperor' character the size of a fist embroidered on the chest! Who else could it be but Zhang Nuo?

At the moment of seeing Zhang Nuo appear, the entire Holy City boiled over! The two women, Su Haizhen and Ye Yuemiao, had tears in the corners of their eyes and rushed up directly!

Looking at the two beloved partners he had thought of day and night, Zhang Nuo wore a smile on his face and gently embraced them into his arms!

"It is truly great that you could return! You had us worried to death!"

Gently leaning on Zhang Nuo's chest, Ye Yuemiao said, somewhat unable to speak for sobbing!

"No need to worry this time! Am I not standing before you safe and sound?"

Reaching out to stroke her long hair, Zhang Nuo said comfortingly.

"You went for so long and didn't even send back any information to us!"

A small, tender fist pounded on Zhang Nuo's body a few times, and Su Haizhen said with some feigned anger, though she was smiling with tears on her face!

The three of them lingered in the high sky for a long time, only then discovering that the cultivators in the Holy City were all looking up at them! Immediately, the two women's faces turned slightly red, and only then did they slowly return to the Human Emperor Palace!

As soon as they landed, Chunyangzi and the others surrounded Zhang Nuo, inquiring incessantly about the trip to the Underworld! After Zhang Nuo explained a few sentences simply, he returned to the Human Emperor Hall!

Not seen for decades, the Human Emperor Palace was still the same as before, not changed at all, only with some new faces. In order to strengthen their power, Liu Qingshan and the others continuously absorbed cultivators to join the Human Emperor Realm lineage.

Zhang Nuo sat on the main seat, his gaze sweeping over the crowd below. Although it was only a short span of a few decades, it felt as if he had been away for many years!

"To have the scale of today in the Human Emperor Realm, I really must thank you all!"

This sentence was indeed from the bottom of Zhang Nuo's heart. Don't look at how fast his cultivation level improved; when it came to the path of management, he was a layman. If it hadn't been for the help of Ai Yuchen before, and then Liu Qingshan and the others taking over, who knew what kind of ruin the Human Emperor Realm would have fallen into?