Chapter 894: Things Are Not Looking Good

"I hate!"

"I hate…!"

"Think of me, Tian Jinpeng, the Divine Emperor of Heavenly Fire! I spent my life diligently, earning immortal martial merits for humanity—yet this is how I end!"

"I hate…!"

"Why is the Dao so unjust…?"

Chi ……

From He Pingsheng's body, a flame shot out and instantly consumed the soul of Tian Jinpeng, the Divine Emperor of Heavenly Fire.

With his soul destroyed, his physical form vanished forever.

Puteng ……

Immediately after, the elderly cultivator at the third layer of Soul Transformation fell to his knees in terror.

It overturned all cognition!

It was simply too shocking to comprehend.

A Level-Two Body Integration cultivator instantly obliterated a Level-Ten Body Integration cultivator.

What kind of combat power is this?

Are all the prodigies of the Spirit Realm this powerful?

So terrifying!

"Get up," He Pingsheng said, glancing coldly at the Soul Transformation cultivator. "My grudge with Tian Jinpeng has nothing to do with you."

"I do not kill the innocent."

He Pingsheng moved his body and mounted a towering qilin, riding away on the wind.

The Fifth-Rank formation of the Xilin Sect was as useless as air.

…

"This is Tian Jinpeng's ring!" He Pingsheng handed the ring to his Water Clone. "The contents inside are decent—take them all."

"I hope your cultivation proceeds smoothly."

He Pingsheng had inspected the ring's contents—no Emperor Weapon, no top-tier items.

But overall, it was a substantial fortune; the ordinary cultivation supplies within were extremely abundant.

After stowing the Spatial Golden Banner, He Pingsheng raised his hand again and casually tore open the void before departing.

Meanwhile, his Water Clone headed in another direction.

After a moment of dizziness, He Pingsheng stepped out of the vortex.

Before him stood a towering city!

A familiar sensation washed over him.

He Pingsheng smiled, then stepped forward into the city gate.

On the wall behind the city gate, numerous wanted posters were pasted.

One of them was for 【He Pingsheng】, but the portrait depicted Wang Dun.

"After all these years, they still haven't taken down this wanted poster?" He Pingsheng's lips twitched involuntarily: Women… they hold grudges so well.

He Pingsheng lifted his foot and leapt across countless voids in a single step.

The next instant, he stood before a palace at the heart of Dalundicheng.

The palace was layered and boundless in grandeur.

Yet the glazed tiles atop its roof were not gold, but a sickly green.

Seeing that color, He Pingsheng felt an unease rise from deep within.

"Please enter…" A Dalun Peacock bowed respectfully at the gate, then opened the gates of the Imperial Palace.

He Pingsheng recognized this peacock—her name was Zi Qing.

Zi Qing was a disciple of the Dalun Mingwang.

She had once protected He Pingsheng for a time.

Moreover, she had aided him in confronting the Divine Emperor of Heavenly Fire in the Heavenly Fire Nation.

Now, this woman still remained at Level-Twelve Body Integration, having yet to break into Mahayana Emperor Realm.

"Long time no see!" He Pingsheng smiled. "Zi Qing Immortal, your grace remains undiminished!"

"Hmph…" Zi Qing rolled her eyes. "He Pingsheng… you're really something—you've actually taken my master!"

"I heard that after the Stone Platform Gathering, you fled to the Lei Huang Continent?"

As she led He Pingsheng through the vast green palace, Zi Qing interrogated him like a judge.

He Pingsheng replied: "Yes, I hid on the Lei Huang Continent for a hundred years. Now that I've advanced to Body Integration, I finally have some means of self-preservation!"

"So I thought I'd come back and take a look."

"Then congratulations!" Zi Qing smiled, her eyes narrowing into slits. "My master gave birth to your child…"

"Hahaha… Surprised, right?"

"Huh?" He Pingsheng scratched his head, a delighted expression spreading across his face. "She really gave birth?"

"Boy or girl?"

Before leaving, the Dalun Mingwang had dragged him into multiple rounds of breeding; after the final one, she'd even claimed a reincarnator had entered her womb!

Zi Qing grinned. "Are you asking about the first or the second?"

He Pingsheng's heart lurched: "There's a second?"

"Of course!" Zi Qing said. "The first is a girl; the second is a boy."

He Pingsheng fell silent.

Two?

Damn it…

When I left, she hadn't given birth yet!

When I returned, she gave birth to two?

This damn…

He Pingsheng took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the flicker of anger rising within him, looking up at the sky.

Beneath the sky, the emerald domes of the layered imperial palace only deepened his fury.

Forget it.

Better to keep my head down.

The Dalun Mingwang… she couldn't possibly be such a woman.

After all, she's at the peak of Mahayana Emperor Realm, one step away from ascension—what's the point of this?

"I…" He Pingsheng took two deep breaths, breaking the silence. "Zi Qing Immortal, I entrusted the Dalun Mingwang to care for my children and wife—Su Zhen, He Tianya, and Zhou Qingmei. Are they all well?"

"Do they still live in the Dalun Imperial Palace?"

"They're all fine," Zi Qing said. "The Phoenix Clan has not harassed your servants or family."

"After His Majesty brought them to the Dalun Imperial Palace, they refused to live here and left."

"Su Zhen and He Tianya are still within Dalundicheng."

"In the northern part of the city, there is a palace where they reside."

"As for Zhou Qingmei, she left. I don't know where she went, but I suspect she returned to your Gu Song Mountain."

He Pingsheng stopped walking.

At this moment, he no longer wished to meet the Dalun Mingwang.

Shouldn't he go see Tianya and Su Zhen first?

Why must he seek out the Dalun Mingwang?

"Uh… Zi Qing," He Pingsheng looked up. "Don't tell Mingwang I've returned. I'll go see the children in the north first—I'll come back in a few days."

The palace's dome was green enough to unsettle the soul.

"Huh?" Zi Qing hesitated. "That's not good—you've already arrived!"

Wengweng ……

At that moment, a streak of light shot through the void and slammed into He Pingsheng's back.

The voice of the Dalun Mingwang echoed across space: "What are you dawdling for?"

"Get over here right now!"

Uh…

He Pingsheng rubbed his forehead. "Fine, fine, let's go…"

Didn't expect to be found out.

Then let's go.

Half a stick of incense later, He Pingsheng followed Zi Qing to the entrance of a vast palace.

Above the palace hung a plaque of blue-gold stone, inscribed in gold characters: Mingwang Palace!

Good—this palace was different.

At least its roof was golden, not green.

Finally, a normal palace!

"Master… He Senior has arrived!" Zi Qing bowed slightly toward the palace.

He Pingsheng rubbed his head: I… He Senior?

Aren't we all the same cultivation realm?

"Hmm!" came the solemn, flat voice of Dalundimingwang: "Let him in!"