Chapter 499

Xue Yuan gave a faint smile, did not answer, and instead asked a question,

"Master Fahai, if Bu Yuanting and Bu Jingyun are taken back by you, what will happen to them?"

"How will the God deal with them?"

"This…"

Fahai was stunned for a moment. The truth of the God of Immortality, he knew, the Divine Generals knew, and the God Mother also knew.

Only the Divine Consort Xue Yuan did not know.

All along, the God of Immortality had, intentionally or not, kept her confined within an ivory tower.

The cruel side of the God-Searching Palace had never been allowed to reach her ears.

Hearing the meaning behind Xue Yuan's words now, could it be that she already knew?

"Actually, even if you don't say it, I have already figured it out."

Xue Yuan glanced at Bu Jingyun, broke into a bright smile, then looked toward Fahai and continued,

"The God's body has already rotted; the substitute he has been cultivating can no longer satisfy his needs."

"Upon hearing the Heavenly Dao Golden List expose Bu Yuanting, he sent you to capture Bu Yuanting."

"The purpose was nothing more than to continue his dream of immortality."

"Now that you've discovered Bu Jingyun and found him more suitable for the God, you want to take him back."

"All of this—have I said it correctly?"

Although Xue Yuan had not explained exactly how the so-called God used promotion to achieve immortality,

the three of them—Bu Yuanting included—could all hear the bone-chilling horror behind her words.

So this was what the most outstanding members of their own Bu Divine Clan amounted to?

Using the clansmen of the Bu Divine Clan to fulfill his own selfish desire for immortality.

Could such a being even be called a God?

"Correct!"

Fahai chanted a Buddhist invocation, then finally nodded in confirmation,

"Divine Consort, you should understand!"

"Even if you stop this old monk from acting and taking Bu Yuanting and Bu Jingyun away,"

"you cannot stop their fate!"

"If the God himself acts, it will no longer be such a simple matter!"

"It will be a nightmare—a nightmare of utter devastation!"

As if remembering something, Fahai's face shifted from shock to fear, then to anger, before finally settling into helplessness.

"I know I can stop you, but I cannot stop the God Mother or Senior Brother the Divine General."

"And even less can I stop the God."

Xue Yuan's expression also darkened; she too knew the temperament of the God of Immortality.

Moreover, this concerned a matter of his very life.

"Since the Divine Consort understands, then please step aside!"

Fahai, thinking he had finally persuaded Xue Yuan, immediately said joyfully.

Xue Yuan, helpless, turned her head to glance at Bu Yuanting and his son,

"The will of the God cannot be defied. I'm sorry!"

"It's fine! Divine Consort… may I call you that?"

"The fact that you could speak up for us father and son is already more than enough gratitude for Bu Yuanting."

Bu Yuanting replied boldly and generously.

"Since the 'God' of our Bu Divine Clan wishes to see us father and son, then let us go and meet him."

The word "God" was spoken by Bu Yuanting with utter contempt.

Through the exchange between Xue Yuan and Fahai, he had already vaguely guessed the God of Immortality's plan.

"Good! This is for the best! No need for mass suffering. Amitabha."

Fahai was overjoyed. With a flicker of his body, he flashed forward, preparing to take the two of them away.

"Wait…"

Guichen, who had remained silent all this while, suddenly called out to stop them.

"Hmm?"

Bu Yuanting looked at Guichen with a face full of puzzlement, and Fahai was equally bewildered.

Bu Yuanting, ranked twenty-eighth on the Heavenly Dao Golden List, a cultivator of the Supreme Mythical Realm, had sensibly chosen not to resist.

How could Guichen, a mere Earthly Immortal Realm cultivator, possibly think to stop them?

"Altar Master Guichen, don't act rashly. Please pass a message to the Grand Dragon Head for me—Bu Jingyun will go and return swiftly."

Seeing Guichen step in to block them, Bu Jingyun was startled and hurriedly spoke at length.

"Haha! Brother Bu, you'll have to say those words to the Grand Dragon Head yourself."

Guichen laughed confidently, looked at Fahai, and said coldly,

"Old monk, do you know that Bu Jingyun is a man of my Qinglong Society?"

"I know!"

Fahai nodded carelessly; he cared only about the mission from the God of Immortality.

"Then do you know the price of taking away a man of the Qinglong Society?"

Guichen's tone gradually turned cold, and his hand had already slipped into his robe.

"So what if it's the Qinglong Society? Can you take them away from this old monk's hands?"

Fahai said calmly.

This entire realm of heaven and earth was entirely within Fahai's control.

Let alone the fact that Guichen was only at the Earthly Immortal Realm—even a supreme Mythical Realm cultivator couldn't do it.

No matter how formidable the Qinglong Society was, could it be more terrifying than a god, or the Soul-Searching Palace?

"Who dares to look down on the Qinglong Society like this?"

Just at this moment, another person suddenly appeared.

With his arrival, the vital energy of heaven and earth—which had been restrained by Fahai all along—actually dispersed.

No longer under Fahai's control.

"Who are you?"

Old Fahai, who had remained unruffled all along, panicked at this moment.

The fact that this person could break his control over this realm of heaven and earth meant that this person's cultivation was above his own.

"Didn't you just say you were acting under the mandate of a god?"

"What a coincidence—when I was in Dongying, people also kept calling me the 'Great Demon God'!"

So this person turned out to be the "Great Demon God" Xiao Jingtian, who had returned from Dongying!

Witnessing Ximen Wudi's world-shocking sword strike from beyond the heavens, the Boss and the Great Demon God no longer had any intention of stirring up a calamity for the ages.

They actually came up with the idea of throwing in with the Qinglong Society and submitting to the great Dragon Head Ximen Wudi.

And then, by borrowing the power of the invincible great Dragon Head, they could punish their old man Xiao Sanxiao a little.

This time, Xiao Jingtian had come here precisely while tracking the Dragon Head Token.

He happened to see the perfect timing when Fahai was showing off his holiness in front of people, forcefully suppressing Guichen and Bu Jingyun of the Qinglong Society.

It was exactly like being sleepy and having someone hand you a pillow.

"And you dare to call yourself a 'god'?"

Fahai could sense that the Great Demon God Xiao Jingtian's strength was inferior to the Immortal God.

However, it was also not beneath his own.

"If you won't accept it, then let's have a fight!"

Xiao Jingtian wanted to join the Qinglong Society, so in front of the Qinglong Society's people,

having an exhibition match with this great monk—wasn't that the best method?

Having said that, he didn't wait for Fahai's agreement and directly attacked.

What Xiao Jingtian cultivated were two flawed divine arts, named "Hun Tian Si Jue" and "Wan Dao Sen Luo."

"Wan Dao Sen Luo" focused primarily on spiritual force; once deployed, it could continuously attack the enemy's fragile psychological defenses.