Chapter 811: Life-Threatening Assistance

"You're weaker or stronger now?"

Sun Wukong looked at Ao Yulie and said.

"This is called specialization." Ao Yulie chuckled.

The extraterritorial demons around were all wiped out by him and Zhu Bajie working together, though it's a pity they couldn't restore a clear sky to heaven and earth, merely tearing a hole in the war fog.

This hole will soon "heal" again.

"Wukong, check if there are any extraterritorial demons nearby." Tang Luo said.

Sun Wukong nodded, scanning the surroundings: "None on the ground. Those worms have burrowed underground, lying dormant, numbering about fifty thousand, though some are scattered."

Rock worms plus subterranean worms, over ten thousand in number, scattered underground in the capital of Tianyu State and surrounding areas.

The underground tunnels and nests were dug like a labyrinth; entering them, one would lose direction not long after.

However, Tang Luo and company have Sun Wukong's Fiery Eyes and Golden Gaze, plus Xiaotian's dog nose.

Dual navigation, double insurance—absolutely no chance of getting lost, and they can single out these scattered extraterritorial demons one by one.

"Scattered?" Tang Luo nodded. "Bajie, go help them."

"Yes, Master." Zhu Bajie jumped down from the dragon's back.

Descending with a mighty aura from heaven, he arrived before those few artifact wielders.

Those few artifact wielders jumped in fright, then realized: just now, it was surely this Heavenly Artifact Venerable before them who saved them.

They all bowed, calling out "Venerable."

They didn't even know Zhu Bajie, but at this moment, in the war fog zone, all artifact wielders are natural comrades-in-arms.

Internal strife among artifact wielders isn't nonexistent, nor can it be absent.

But now they're suppressed to the lowest point; further internal drain letting extraterritorial demons keep invading would leave them without lives later.

What would they fight with then?

Wanting to be a traitor to humanity isn't impossible, but the problem is, extraterritorial demons have so far shown no side capable of "communication."

They are merely slaughter weapons; the hands holding the weapons, the controllers behind them, have never shown themselves.

"Let's go, to the palace."

Zhu Bajie had no idle talk, leading the few artifact wielders to the abandoned, uninhabited palace.

In two or three moves, he opened the sealed treasure vault's door, took out the artifacts, and tossed them to those few artifact wielders, driving them away directly.

The whole process took no more than five minutes; those few artifact wielders didn't even know Zhu Bajie's name before they left Tianyu State's capital in a daze.

A mission with extremely high mortality, completed with zero casualties, just like that.

Those few artifact wielders left with new ownerless artifacts and some precious resources.

"Wasn't it said the Tianyu Treasury holds two eight-star artifacts, one nine-star artifact, and one Heavenly Mandate Artifact?"

After distancing themselves, suddenly an artifact wielder slapped his hand and said.

Though they grabbed over a dozen artifacts, the highest was only seven-star, with a few six-star artifacts mixed in that have special functions.

Tianyu State, though once a strong power, its royal treasury in the capital holds just this little—utterly mismatched with its strength.

"What are you thinking? Are those things we can even take?" the artifact wielder beside them snapped.

Don't forget how they came out.

If not for that Heavenly Artifact Venerable's intervention, they'd now either be boneless corpses if lucky, or raw material for subterranean worms if unlucky.

Maybe even a few of their faces would appear among those worms' faces.

Those powerful artifacts the artifact wielders spoke of? Indeed, they fell into Zhu Bajie's hands.

At first, Zhu Bajie had no such thought—artifact users, take what you want.

The raw material for artifact crafting was the original crystal stone; despite some changes, plus "processing and remodeling," the weakening suppression effect near them has already vanished.

But for cultivators, it's not exactly a good thing either.

Zhu Bajie didn't take these artifacts to heart.

This time, after opening the door, he casually picked up an artifact to look at, and suddenly discovered this eight-star artifact was actually equipment.

Then he took all the eight-star, nine-star, and Heavenly Mandate Artifacts in hand; Zhu Bajie thus confirmed that ownerless artifacts of eight-star and above are all equipment.

So he wouldn't waste them—he collected them all.

Moreover, Zhu Bajie also had another idea.

After the passage of time, the artifacts "born" from the crystal stone are no longer like the crystal stone itself; perhaps these stronger artifacts could be refined into the Xuan Change, forming a restraining effect against cultivators?

Xuan Change is Zhu Bajie's "Three Thousand Ways to Take Your Life."

The actual refining difficulty isn't high; Xuan Change isn't some extremely exquisite treasure with many marvelous uses.

When initially refined, after Zhu Bajie and Tang Luo discussed it, they went straight down the road of being hard and fierce, rushing all the way.

This is also why Xuan Change can continuously be added to and refined further.

Change a regular treasure—once refined, it's refined; modifying it is harder than refining a brand-new treasure from scratch.

Xuan Change has no such concern.

Zhu Bajie even doesn't need to consider weight issues.

Now, the Xuan Change in Tang Luo's hand—though it still looks like that black short staff—actually weighs more than the Golden Cudgel.

Bump it against the Golden Cudgel, and who dies is still unknown.

One is a later-stage processing, the other is naturally perfect.

Because of Xuan Change's special nature, its "growth path" can almost be said to be infinitely extendable.

No end in sight.

Seeing good things, Zhu Bajie naturally wants to drag them over; he also wants to see what future Xuan Change will become under his rough refining method.

This also cannot be separated from Tang Luo's contribution.

His use of the Xuan Bian was also a form of refinement.

He thoroughly suppressed and fused the parts that had not fully integrated, and also destroyed some subpar impurities.

The weight of the Xuan Bian fluctuated up and down, its fluctuations increasing.

Rather than a diagonal line going straight up.

"Master, I brought back some good stuff. How about refining them into your Xuan Bian?" Zhu Bajie brought back a Life Artifact.

"Sure." Tang Luo nodded.

Regarding reinforcing and strengthening the Xuan Bian, he never turned away anyone who came.

Those qualified to be refined into the Xuan Bian are Nine-Star and Heavenly Destiny Artifacts.

As for Eight-Star ones, forget it; put them away first, they can be sold to other Gods and Demons Walkers.

Various miraculous pills and medicines and such, Tang Luo and the others also did not deliberately stop using them.

Anyway, they would not form "medicine resistance" effects like "drug barriers."

When needed, it counts as being prepared; Zhu Bajie, Ao Yulie, and the others also don't never get injured.

There was no need to use the Merit Jade Lotus to heal every time they got injured.

Now even Tang Luo rarely used the Merit Jade Lotus to heal injuries.

Tang Luo did plan to heal Sun Wukong's injuries, but was refused by Sun Wukong.

He said his condition didn't count as being injured, and this "breaking and then establishing" was beneficial for the future, so he could keep it and undergo self-recovery.

"Have those people all left?" Tang Luo asked.

Zhu Bajie nodded. Not that they went very far, but it was about the same; they were already outside the range of effect.

When having Zhu Bajie go down to help chase people away.

Zhu Bajie knew what Master wanted to do.

"That's good then."

Speaking, Tang Luo raised his hand and slapped downward.

A giant palm shadow descended from the sky, enveloping the entire Tianyu Kingdom capital and a surrounding ring of area.

Completely covering the Outer Heavenly Demons' nest here within it.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, the earth dragons rolled, the ground shook violently.

Those Life Artifact holders didn't even have the qualification to stand steady; one by one they fell to the ground, rolling around like ground gourds, even "jumping up and falling down."

When everything quieted down, the few Life Artifact holders saw each other's horrified gazes and dazed expressions.

Just now, was that a palm descending from the sky?

These people, not to say all, at least the vast majority were well-informed people; they had seen or even conversed with one or two Heavenly Artifact Venerables.

From having seen, seen — no, it should be said they had heard of such a terrifying thing.

A single palm descended from the sky, covering the entire Tianyu Kingdom capital, turning it into a giant palm-shaped deep pit.

Powerful Life Artifact holders, known as those who can move mountains and fill seas.

But to be precise, the mountains here are not mountain ranges, they are peaks; the seas are not oceans, they are lakes.

And it is something only the most powerful Life Artifact holders can achieve.

Reaching the "Divine Level" passed down in ancient records.

Even so, these supreme experts could not do what the few Life Artifact holders present witnessed.

Unable to resist walking to the edge of the huge pit, looking down at their feet, the few Life Artifact holders couldn't help but feel a bit dizzy.

Not a few meters, or ten-odd meters deep; the depth of the huge pit directly exceeded a hundred meters.

For Five-Star, Six-Star Life Artifact holders, this height isn't considered very high; with proper handling, a fall wouldn't necessarily mean death, just, the moment they associated it with this freshly appeared deep pit.

The few of them felt their legs go a bit weak.

A Life Artifact holder gripped his Natal Life Artifact and slashed a sword at the cliff edge beneath his feet.

Leaving a mark on it less than five centimeters deep and no more than one meter long.

"... It can already be used as auxiliary material for refining Life Artifacts." That Life Artifact holder said.

His sword could tear through Earth-Burrowing Worms and leave a hideous wound on Rock Worms.

But now...

This isn't a big pit, it's a "mine pit"!

These "ores" are even harder than Earth-Burrowing Worms and Rock Worms.

This was inevitable; Tang Luo's slap down wasn't relying on force transmission to shock those Outer Heavenly Demons to death.

But simply through soil and rock continuously squeezing, becoming incomparably solid, hard-pressing those Outer Heavenly Demons to death.

Naturally, it had to be a bit harder than them.

In the center of the big pit, that is, the palm's position, the Tianyu Kingdom capital thoroughly ceased to exist, not even ruins could be discerned.

"Let's go."

In the sky, Tang Luo patted Ao Yulie's head.

Ao Yulie's body shuddered violently.

Master, you just finished slapping, don't wave your hand casually; if you don't hold back, my little heart and little dragon body can't take it.

Zhu Bajie and Sun Wukong expressed calmness toward Tang Luo's operation.

Go deep into the underground nest and kill off those hiding Outer Heavenly Demons one by one?

That was never in everyone's consideration from the start; just one slap down, slap them all to death and be done with it.

"Master, you finally aren't purely fist-to-flesh anymore." Sun Wukong said.

To be honest, he had initially been a bit suspicious that the divine abilities and spells Tang Luo displayed in that world were Tang Luo's own imagination.

"Before, this Master had no choice; now, this Master is a support." Tang Luo said with a smile.

"What?" Sun Wukong froze.

"Don't believe it? You haven't experienced it before." Tang Luo waved a hand. "Dharma is boundless — healing, flight, swift wind, invisibility, iron armor. How about it? Do you feel strengthened, ready to be sent off?"

Sun Wukong sensed Tang Luo's various strengthening support abilities, and further associated them with that utterly demonic Glazed Flame.

Fine, you really are a support.

Just a fatal support.