Chapter 147: Tian Yuan, Return My Son

Outside the Thirty-Three Heavens, Demon Master Kunpeng watched the figures descending one after another, a look of joy deep within his eyes.

Even though they had clearly found Hongyun in the Eastern Land, the strange nature of Fire Cloud Cave had allowed the other party to escape, and Demon Emperor Di Jun had also hurried back to the Demon Court.

Kunpeng had originally harbored some resentment in his heart; he did not know exactly what had happened, only that Hongyun, who was merely at the early stage of Quasi-Saint, had escaped from Di Jun's hands.

Who would have thought that after Di Jun made a trip to the Sun Palace, he would immediately dispatch a large number of the Demon Race to search for Hongyun's trail in the Eastern Land.

That the will of Fire Cloud Cave could make the two Demon Emperors so anxious surprised Kunpeng, but he felt more joy than anything else.

Judging by the current situation, the Demon Emperors cared even more about Hongyun than he did, which was a good thing.

He figured it wouldn't take long before they found Hongyun, and he would be able to obtain the Hongmeng Purple Qi.

Nowadays, the Demon Court was in its prime, and the Ancestral Witch had retreated back to the Pangu Temple; except for the area around Mount Buzhou, the world was entirely under the control of the Demon Race, so finding Hongyun was only a matter of time.

Watching those figures descending one by one, Kunpeng did not linger and likewise fell toward the Primordial World.

An anomaly had occurred at Fire Cloud Cave, and Hongyun had gained good fortune within the space on Mount Buzhou; this matter must not be delayed any longer.

At the summit of Mount Buzhou, Tian Yuan sat quietly by the cliff, his gaze fixed on the horizon with a strange expression.

Within his line of sight, demon clouds were emerging one after another above the Thirty-Three Heavens, heading toward the Primordial World.

They scattered in all directions, each quickly disappearing into various parts of the East.

"What is the Demon Court doing?" Tian Yuan muttered to himself, having no impulse to descend the mountain.

The Great Demons descending into the Eastern Land were not weak, but their numbers were few, and he had no spare time to go around catching them.

If it were the Wu Clan, that would be one thing, but these Demon Race members purified the Earth Vein too slowly; it was not worth his time.

After merely glancing at them, Tian Yuan paid them no more mind.

Even if he wanted to harvest them, he would have to wait for a period of time until their numbers increased.

He was already at the late stage of Hunyuan Golden Immortal; once the main vein of the Wu Clan was cleared, he would reach the Peak Primordial Golden Immortal stage, just one step away from Proving the Dao to Hunyuan.

To reach the Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal stage, a Hunyuan Golden Immortal needed to merge their body with the Law and forge a Law Body.

The most urgent task now was to cultivate one Law to its extreme; he needed to start preparing to prove the Dao.

The Buzhou Mountain Consciousness Space manifested many Laws, and because of the feedback from Mount Buzhou, he had also mastered quite a few.

Of course, among the many Laws, the ones he had cultivated most deeply, besides the Earth Law inherent to his nature, were the Law of Force he had obtained at the very beginning.

Because of Mount Buzhou, his foundation was no longer what it once was.

He could easily cultivate any kind of Law, but the fastest remained the Earth Law.

This was not only because of his stone-man body, but also because of the Earth Ancestral Source, the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil.

Tian Yuan temporarily planned to use the Earth Law to prove the Dao to Hunyuan first, and once he achieved the status of Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal, he would then cultivate other Laws.

After breaking through to the Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal stage, he imagined the speed of cultivating other Laws would become much faster.

Watching those disappearing figures, Tian Yuan guessed it might have something to do with the ten Little Golden Crows, but he also felt it was somewhat strange.

The ten Crown Princes of the Demon Court were Di Jun's own flesh and blood; there was no need for ordinary Demon Race members to search for them, and it wouldn't be this calm either.

Thinking of those ten Little Golden Crows, Tian Yuan involuntarily raised his head to look at the firmament.

Whether there was anything strange about the ten Crown Princes suddenly intruding into the Primordial World, Tian Yuan did not know, but they had already stirred the Sun Star Will within the Buzhou Mountain Consciousness Space, yet the two Demon Emperors had shown no reaction.

According to Tian Yuan's speculation, the two had long since communicated with the Heavenly Dao Will and could not have failed to notice.

Muttering a few words, Tian Yuan couldn't be bothered to think about it; in any case, once they had entered the Buzhou Mountain Consciousness Space, it was absolutely impossible for them to come out again.

Even if Di Jun and Taiyi came to attack, he would have no fear at all.

Glancing in a certain direction of the Eastern Land, Tian Yuan whispered: "I hope Nuwa becomes a Saint soon!"

If things followed the original trajectory, as long as Nuwa became a Humanity Saint, the Great Calamity could be completely ended.

However, the matter of becoming a Saint could happen in a moment of sudden enlightenment, or it could take hundreds of thousands of years with no results; being in a hurry was of no use.

Withdrawing his gaze, Tian Yuan began to calm his mind and meditate.

No sooner had he entered meditation than a rich, earthy-yellow Law overflowed from the Mount Buzhou beneath him, quickly wrapping around him.

Relying on Mount Buzhou, no one in the Primordial World cultivated faster than him.

In a valley in the Eastern Land, Taiyi looked at his surroundings with a livid face.

Di Jun waited on the side, his expression also looking very ugly: "Damn it, that Fire Cloud Cave has escaped again!"

After learning that Fire Cloud Cave was related to Humanity Luck, Eastern Emperor Taiyi had also stopped refining the Chaos Bell.

They had not only dispatched a large number of the Demon Race to search, but also used the Demon Court's luck to drive the River Chart and Luo Shu to deduce its location, and they had indeed found the position of Fire Cloud Cave.

It was just that every time they approached, the Fire Cloud Cave would slip into the void, masking itself with the Humanity Will, and disappear without a trace in an instant.

Demon Master Kunpeng, standing behind the two, did not speak, his expression equally ugly. With the full strength of the entire Demon Court searching, they had indeed found Hongyun quickly, but to his surprise, even with the two Demon Emperors joining forces, they were unable to hold onto the other party.

This was already the third time they had found Fire Cloud Cave, yet they hadn't even caught a glimpse of Hongyun.

Only the wisps of red glow overflowing from the void proved that they had not found the wrong place.

The changes in Fire Cloud Cave were beyond Di Jun's expectations and also exceeded Kunpeng's imagination.

A cave dwelling that would automatically flee upon sensing danger—he had cultivated for so many years and had never seen such a bizarre thing.

Many immortal mountains and blessed lands in the Primordial World were formed by heaven and earth, and Fire Cloud Cave was the same; it was not opened up by human hands, so how could it be carried around?

At this moment, Kunpeng vaguely understood why the two Demon Emperors had such a huge reaction.

"Hongmeng Purple Qi, it must be because of the Hongmeng Purple Qi that Hongyun obtained such heaven-defying good fortune." Kunpeng thought to himself involuntarily, his heart instantly filled with even more anger, followed by a deep sense of worry.

He was worried that Hongyun had already simply comprehended the Hongmeng Purple Qi.

But seeing the clearly displeased expressions of the two Demon Emperors, Kunpeng found it inconvenient to say anything.

Over these past few thousand years, the Demon Court had mobilized many Great Demons and Demon Saints, and the Demon Race members lingering in the Eastern Land had not stopped either, which was why they had been able to find Hongyun several times.

He had also seen the efforts of the two Demon Emperors, but the Fire Cloud Cave was simply too strange.

Di Jun and Taiyi looked at each other, contemplating whether to continue consuming luck for deductions, when they saw a figure rushing over from the sky in the distance; it was none other than Fairy Xihe from the Lunar Star.

Before she had even arrived, her panicked voice reached them: "Demon Emperor brothers, it's bad!"

Di Jun softened his expression slightly and asked with a frown, "What is the matter that you are so flustered?"

Xihe did not know of the irritation in Di Jun's heart and hurriedly shouted, "Crown Prince, the ten Crown Princes are missing!"

Having not seen them for some time, she had intended to head to the Sun Star to check on the cultivation progress of the several Crown Princes.

Who would have known that upon arriving at the Fusang Tree, the figures of the Little Golden Crows were nowhere to be seen; how could this not make her anxious?

Although the Demon Court is at its zenith, it is currently in the midst of the Great Calamity. The ten Little Golden Crows only have the cultivation of Golden Immortals, so it is hard to guarantee that no accidents will occur.

After failing to find the ten Little Golden Crows, she immediately came to find Di Jun.

With the matter concerning his ten children, Di Jun frowned, and Taiyi, who was beside him, also looked over with focused attention.

A figure flew over from behind Xihe and said in a panic, "Lord Demon Emperor, your subordinate deserves to die for failing to watch over the ten Crown Princes."

Di Jun ignored the Demon Saint Yingzhao before him and calmed his mind to sense them slightly.

"They are fine; I imagine they snuck out of the Sun—" Before he could finish his sentence, Di Jun's expression froze.

In his sensing of the Great Sun Golden Flame, the ten Little Golden Crows were unharmed, but Di Jun could not feel their fluctuations.

Taiyi, who was beside him, had already vanished toward the direction of the East Sea, and Di Jun immediately followed closely behind; that was the last place where the aura of the ten Little Golden Crows had disappeared.

Seeing this, Xihe in the scene hurriedly followed, and the remaining Demons also quickly followed behind.

Above the firmament of the East Sea, Taiyi reached out with his large hand to grasp the void, and wisps of Sun True Fire emerged, subsequently outlining a scene.

Di Jun swept his gaze across it, and his expression instantly became incomparably ugly as he gritted his teeth and shouted, "Tian Yuan, that detestable Stone Man of Buzhou Mountain!"

Kunpeng and the others who arrived later also saw the scene that flashed and vanished in the air, and they all stood stunned in place.

Tian Yuan, that Stone Man of Buzhou Mountain, had captured the Crown Princes of the Demon Court.

Over these years, Tian Yuan had captured many of the Witch and Demon Clans, and now even the Crown Princes of the Demon Court had fallen victim to his hands.

Kunpeng could not imagine how furious the Demon Emperor would be, given how much he valued the ten Crown Princes.

When the crowd came back to their senses, the figures of Di Jun and Taiyi were no longer in the air.

A flash of helplessness crossed Kunpeng's eyes, and he turned to flee toward the direction of Mount Buzhou.

With the Crown Princes of the Demon Court captured, Di Jun and Taiyi would certainly not let the matter rest, and the affair regarding Hongyun would likely be put aside.

He was not the Demon Emperor of the Demon Court, nor did he possess a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure like the River Chart, so he naturally could not find the location of Fire Cloud Cave.

However, by borrowing the matter of the Demon Court's Crown Princes, he might be able to probe the specific strength of the Stone Man and perhaps have a chance to explore Mount Buzhou.

Kunpeng was also very curious about that space on Mount Buzhou.

Because the many changes in Hongyun all occurred after entering the space on Mount Buzhou.

Xihe and the others also did not hesitate in the slightest, and one by one, they quickly sped toward Mount Buzhou.

The ten Little Golden Crows were the future successors of the Demon Court and could not be compared to those ordinary Great Demons.

"Clang!"

Tian Yuan, who was in quiet meditation, was awakened by a heaven-shaking bell toll.

Immediately following, a booming shout exploded in the void ahead: "Tian Yuan, return my sons!"

(End of this chapter)