Chapter 751: Besieging the Daughter Kingdom

The process of consecration was warm and comfortable, feeling immersed in warm water, with nothing to think about.

Xia Jianhe closed her eyes, then opened them again.

Then she saw Tang Luo withdraw his hand.

"All right."

"That fast?" Xia Jianhe asked instinctively.

So fast?

"... Just consecrating." Tang Luo said, "Your face is already healed."

Pulling out a mirror, Xia Jianhe looked at her already restored face through the not particularly clear bronze mirror, examining it closely.

Examining, examining...

"Where did you pull that mirror from?" A few minutes later, Tang Luo asked.

After such a fierce battle, how could you still pull out an intact mirror?

Is it Nuwa's special ability?

After looking for a few more minutes, Xia Jianhe nodded in satisfaction, put down the mirror, and her snake tail turned back into normal legs.

This change, like the skull face, was uncontrollable.

When she calmed down, the snake tail would disappear.

The appearance of the snake tail meant Xia Jianhe had exerted her full effort, comparable to Zhao Ling'er.

"Does everyone have to die?" Putting away the mirror, Xia Jianhe straightened up seriously.

"Not necessarily, it depends on the situation. If one can maintain self-awareness and is willing to continue living like this, there's no need for liberation. But such cases are rare." Tang Luo said.

Now the Daughter Kingdom can still be maintained, entirely relying on Xia Mei's fusion with the flat peach tree.

Being able to withstand one's own resentment on their own, Tang Luo would not force liberation.

Not letting it out to cause harm is enough.

"I understand." Xia Jianhe nodded, leapt up, and rushed into the blue lake above her head.

Then she flailed and swam upward.

Tang Luo couldn't bear to watch, so he directly threw her into the royal palace of the Daughter Kingdom's capital.

Next, he planned to liberate one by one the earth-bound spirits of the Daughter Kingdom.

Time passed bit by bit.

Tang Luo's liberation efforts brought him a portion of merit power.

"Time is about up, there are still missions to complete..."

Tang Luo intended to start completing this mission, while those five newcomers from Baotian were still locked in the prison.

During this time, Baotian and the others had been terrified; in the great prison, they could vaguely feel the outside chaos, and often heard various shrill cries coming from outside.

Like the end of the world.

Not long after, the jailers guarding them had dwindled to only one.

Only their gaze seemed off, occasionally revealing a ferocious expression.

Their heads seemed to turn into skulls at certain moments, flashing and gone.

The five people clearly felt the intense resentment emanating from the jailer.

Suddenly one day, the last jailer guarding them changed.

She turned into a skeletal body, with eerie ghostly fire swaying in her hollow eye sockets, seeking to devour people.

Before this skeleton could break through the bars and enter, it suddenly vanished again.

Baotian and the others stared at each other, what's going on?

Wait, could this be the zombie apocalypse in the xianxia world!

Damn it!

Baotian and his five companions were all fired up, constantly thinking about fighting zombies.

Never expecting they'd actually get this.

But the problem is, they wanted the kind that walks slowly, moves sluggishly, like the weak zombies of an eighty-year-old.

Not the skeletons of the xianxia world.

This skeleton's resentment soared to the heavens, almost suffocating, reminding one of horror movie ghosts.

Compared to the low-level skeleton soldiers in the magic western fantasy world, they're not even in the same league—who could withstand this!

Fortunately, after the skeleton disappeared, no one was watching them temporarily, with no Daughter Kingdom people appearing, nor any skeletons.

Baotian and his companions tried every means to self-rescue.

Unfortunately, this is a heavenly prison; the prison's sturdiness is not something ordinary people like them can escape from.

Two days later, the escape attempt ended in failure.

It wasn't that a few people just gave up then; their will to survive was still very strong.

They were just too tired and too hungry, really having no strength left.

These two days, with no one watching them, allowed them to mess around freely, but also meant they hadn't drunk a drop of water.

Just as Baotian and his companions thought they might probably suffocate, starve to death, or die of thirst.

The xianxia world's zombies—the Daughter Kingdom version of skeletons—appeared again.

Flickering ghostly fire, permeating resentment, faint yet piercing wails.

All of it spoke of their danger.

Based on the faintly heard shouts from earlier.

This thing isn't an ordinary skeleton, but a heavenly demon!

White Bone Heavenly Demon!

The true face of the Kingdom of Daughters.

This place's danger level is probably ten thousand times that of Raccoon City.

Bao Tian and the others all felt the same way.

This point, however, wasn't a problem at all.

With the cultivators' invasion, the Kingdom of Daughters fell into chaos, resentment erupted, and at least sixty percent of the Kingdom's people directly turned into white bone vengeful ghosts; those able to retain their reason numbered merely ten percent.

Moreover, if the fighting didn't cease and everything return to calm, as time passed, all the remaining people would also turn into white bone vengeful ghosts.

Under such circumstances, those able to keep their reason throughout were few and far between.

In the end, Xia Mei couldn't hold on, the balance broke, and the Kingdom of Daughters would very likely become a true dead land.

Equivalent to that ground-clearing nuclear bomb in Raccoon City.

A xianxia version of "Resident Evil" — it really can be described that way.

Just when Bao Tian and the others thought they were thoroughly done for, that skeleton set down enough food and water and left.

Bao Tian and the others were dumbfounded again — what situation was this?

Xianxia world zombies, and they even keep humans as livestock?

Continuing to keep Bao Tian and the others fed was, of course, Xia Jianjia's order.

Tang Luo didn't say anything, but she wasn't stupid either; she clearly realized these people had some connection to Tang Luo, so naturally she wouldn't let them die.

Thus, under the care of "xianxia world zombies," Bao Tian and the others muddled through for over half a month.

They even changed cells twice to better ones.

Bao Tian had barely slimmed down from mining, but now he'd successfully rebounded — not only that, he'd gained over ten jin.

This vexed him greatly.

How did I get fat? Clearly I experienced extreme danger in the xianxia version of Resident Evil, a nine-deaths-one-life mission.

Thinking that when I went back, my appearance would change drastically — from a rich landlord into a rich and handsome landlord.

Result: all gone.

Before Bao Tian could sigh for long, the five men — fattened up, now with strength, though their bodies reeked — discovered a key the jailer had carelessly dropped.

What was there to say? Run!

High in the sky, Tang Luo watched Bao Tian and the others sneaking off in a completely unprofessional escape: "Time to wrap up..."

Bao Tian and the others being able to run naturally came from Tang Luo's hint.

It didn't even consume an action count, no need to worry about being sent away by Yueyu, successfully completing the mission was basically no problem.

Even if Xia Jianjia didn't understand Tang Luo's hint, or some mishap occurred midway.

As long as the people didn't all die, this mission at least wouldn't fail — at worst it just wouldn't be completed.

A mission bringing newbies could barely count as the Gods and Demons' mercy.

At this moment, outside the Kingdom of Daughters, on the sea surface, in the sky, a large number of cultivators appeared.

They completely enveloped the Kingdom of Daughters, surrounding it watertight.

At first, the cultivators guarding outside thought that group of cultivators who had entered were obtaining all kinds of "immortal opportunities" in the Heavenly Demon Holy Land.

But as time passed, the situation became more and more wrong.

Why hasn't a single cultivator come out?

The Heavenly Demon Holy Land isn't a place you can only enter but not exit — there are five entrances in total; even if the largest and most complete one is tightly guarded by the Heavenly Demon, making it hard to leave.

The remaining few aren't that hard to escape from.

Furthermore, quite a few high-cultivation experts entered.

Even if their goal was the Flat Peaches, after experiencing battle they'd need to find a chance to come out and recuperate.

Anyway, there's still a period of time before the Heavenly Demon Holy Land disappears again.

Something changed inside?

So another portion of cultivators entered the Heavenly Demon Holy Land, intending to investigate; then they didn't come out either.

The originally fairly familiar Heavenly Demon Holy Land instantly became unfamiliar, like a giant maw swallowing everything that entered.

Withdraw?

That definitely won't work — rogue cultivators watch and wait, while sect disciples rush back to report the Heavenly Demon Holy Land's anomaly to their sects.

Cultivators from the major sects mobilize one after another, surrounding the Heavenly Demon Holy Land watertight.

And at this time, under normal circumstances, several of the Heavenly Demon Holy Land's "great gates" should have already closed on their own.

Meaning the time until the Heavenly Demon Holy Land conceals itself is already very near.

But now, all the vortex gates are still there — things have changed!

The Heavenly Demon Holy Land has changed!

A few high-cultivation cultivators entered once more.

A whole day and night passed without the slightest movement transmitted out.

Casting a shadow over the hearts of many cultivators.

Then, Diaoaoke appeared — yes, the Eastern Sea Diaoaoke appeared again outside the Heavenly Demon Holy Land.

After he fled, he'd made plans to no longer meddle in the Heavenly Demon Holy Land's affairs.

To forget everything, forget that white-haired demon monk.

Result: someone came knocking; with Diaoaoke's explosive temper, he snapped on the spot.

Because it wasn't one person looking for him, but a group — a whole group of sect elders and envoys.

Major sects like the Solitary Moon Sect, Beast Control Gate, and Luoli Sect occupied more than half.

Ordinary sect elders and envoys don't even have the right to speak.

Thus, the Angling Ao Guest was simply asked to leave.

Outside the Daughter's Kingdom, the Angling Ao Guest flew in midair, his expression stern: "I've already said this many times along the way! Now I'll say it once more! As of now, the Demonic Holy Land is no longer an unclaimed territory for us to take as we please; it now belongs to a high Buddhist monk."

"As for how the cultivators within the Holy Land are faring, I truly don't know."

"From the beginning, that high monk has 'reminded' us of this, and surely no one wants the current stalemate."

"Perhaps we could sit down and have a proper talk."

His voice was extremely loud, carrying far into the distance, even penetrating into the Demonic Holy Land itself.

To Tang Luo, I'm showing that I truly am not still coveting the Demonic Holy Land.

I was forced to come here; even so, I haven't sold you out. Grievances have heads, debts have collectors—if you want to convert someone, go find them.

Although, judging by strength comparison, if the cultivators outside the Demonic Holy Land are numerous and highly cultivated,

then there would be no one in the world capable of stopping them.

But the problem is, that monk is too strange.

He is not merely a person; he exchanges glances with the Demonic Queen, and there is also the entire Demonic Holy Land's demonic forces.

Both sides are colossal beings the Angling Ao Guest cannot afford to provoke; he can only think from the heart, wondering whether, after this, he should seek to join a sect.

Being a carefree rogue cultivator is carefree, but at critical moments, having no backing behind him is somewhat troublesome.

Not at any time can one become one's own reliance.

The Angling Ao Guest's cultivation has not yet reached that level.

That requires being invincible under heaven, or invincible enough to single-handedly annihilate two or three major sects.

Perhaps, reaching the cultivation of that white-haired demon monk would suffice.