Chapter 198

Lin Zhenren knew Guo Jue was the direct disciple of the Awakened; he was the first to turn back to the main hall: 'Demon King, this child hasn't offended you, has he?'

Several other Dao sect Golden Core cultivators also came back: 'Senior, let's talk nicely.'

'Demon King, Bi Luo forcibly formed a contract with my junior martial brother; many people can attest to this,' Guo Ye said, looking at Wen Xin and Qin Zhuo in the team.

These two are also from prestigious families and have a sense of responsibility; they immediately stepped forward to confirm.

The ninth-stage great demon didn't even glance at these people: 'Bi Luo? A name taken by a little monk?'

'No, it's Jiang Yu; she has a pure-blooded dragon turtle by her side,' the little snake Bi Luo did not dare to hide.

All the cultivators were astonished, especially those who had seen Jiang Tu, and they muttered.

Lin Zhenren frowned; underground, Jiang Tu also frowned; the entire monitoring spell formation left only an image, no sound: 'What did this snake say?'

'Should we think of a way to get out now?'

As it said, it flew to the stone gate and pushed it; then with two click-clicks, the gate opened.

'Does... its switch work as it pleases?' Jiang Tu clung to the door, checking inside for any artifact spirit or soul.

As expected, there was none; one could only say it was very miraculous.

'Come, by sticking close to the floor tiles we can probably hear what they're saying,' Jiang Yu said, gazing more than a few times at the incense burner atop the great demon.

If she remembers correctly, the last time Jiang Bai could suddenly leave this place was also because the incense burner changed.

And Jia Wen Lan's goal is also the incense burner; it seems this object is the key to controlling this mountain peak, even the cave realm.

And the ninth-stage great demon also noticed her gaze, moved the incense burner, and a pillar in the hall silently split open a door: 'You've been watching me for a while; why not come out and meet me?'

And underground, Jiang Yu and Jiang Tu saw a crack simultaneously appear on a wall; beyond the opening was a flight of stone steps.

Fortunately, they sensed no divine sense descending from anyone, so they checked Jiang Bai's spell formation and went up the steps.

'Jiang Yu!' Wan Xiyue stared fixedly at the pillar; as soon as she saw her come out, she swiftly flashed forward to meet her.

Many people's gazes, however, were focused on her shoulder's black tortoise—no, it was the legendary dragon turtle's body.

'What are you looking at me for?' Jiang Tu instantly sent a voice transmission to his familiar senior sister Gu, learned that the little snake had leaked its details, and turned his head to glare at the instigator.

Jiang Yu smiled at her and a few fellow sect members, while also noticing the pillar behind her closing; it was due to the great demon on the beam controlling the incense burner.

She said to the concerned Lin Zhenren: 'Elder, I'm fine; shall I detoxify you today?'

'Jiang Yu, where is my senior brother?' Lu Xin also squeezed over.

Jiang Yu: 'He soaked in the rear mountain's spiritual spring and is now in closed-door cultivation to advance.'

'That's good.' Lu Xin just breathed a sigh of relief when a female cultivator beside him said, 'Junior Dao friend, where is Junior Brother Jiang in closed-door cultivation? We'll go guard the dharma.'

Lu Xin also didn't expect to meet here: 'This is my sect's Junior Sister Xiao.'

'Am I too easy to talk to, huh?' the ninth-stage great demon chuckled endlessly; a flash of spiritual light on its body, and the people in the hall were flung out the door.

But Jiang Yu and Guo Jue were left here; the latter fell to the ground, coughing repeatedly, having been choked by spiritual energy, his face flushed red.

And the great door closed once again, cutting off everyone's view.

'Jiang Yu?' Wan Xiyue pounded the door; she regretted not having timely grabbed Jiang Yu's hand just now.

'Senior sister, I'm fine.' Jiang Yu was indeed fine, because the ninth-stage great demon only asked her, 'Why did you give my little child a name?'

'Just for convenience of address; if the Demon King doesn't like it, you can change it.'

'You came looking for me, not just for a name, right?' Jiang Yu also glanced at the incense burner on its head.

The great demon nodded: 'Not bad; I see you're quite familiar with the people of the spiritual realm; tell me what's going on.'

Jiang Yu spoke without hesitation, laying out everything she knew: '... I only know this much.'

'The one called Wen Lan is the side that's trying to seize the cave realm?' This great demon, before the cave realm suffered calamity ten thousand years ago, had once been poisoned by a cultivator of the spiritual realm.

And it slept for ten thousand years; upon waking, the cave realm was completely changed.

Just before arriving, it trapped the two cultivators who were dueling in a dead zone, making it impossible to tell who was friend or foe.

'Probably, you can go to the ghost realm to find someone to confirm; that Nascent Soul ghost cultivator might be a teammate of Qian Zhenren.' Jiang Yu's knowledge is limited, and she can't sort out the origins, nor does she want to mistakenly become cannon fodder.

But there's one thing she wants to ask: 'Senior Demon King, will the falling of the Great Luo Cave Realm into our lower realm affect cultivators' attainment of Divinity and Ascension?'

The ninth-stage Demon King pondered for a moment: 'The cave realm needs to operate; it will naturally unconsciously absorb the spiritual energy of your realm.'

But it hasn't reached the point of affecting one realm's Divinity and Ascension; probably the Ascension Pool has a problem, causing the two realms to be isolated, thus producing these anomalies.

Jiang Tu felt no killing intent or malice from the great demon, and set down his burden to ask: 'But within the same realm, the Dongzhou Continent and Dragon Emperor Island can attain Divinity, while only the Tianyuan Continent has stopped; why is that?'

'Influencing a realm is a gradual process; how could it change all at once.' The ninth-stage great demon looked at its still-confused little snake and shook its head, saying:

'The name Bi Luo is fine, but you need to break the contract with the monk and instead form a contract with this Jiang Yu.'

'Otherwise, staying too long in the Buddhist gate will damage your demonic nature.'

'Alright, but I'm not supposed to manage the cave realm, right? Why go to the Buddhist gate?' The little snake Bi Luo didn't care with whom to form a contract.

The great demon glanced at it, not knowing whether this junior was truly stupid or pretending: 'The spiritual realm is unstable, and the cave realm is also withering.'

'Going down to the lower realm to train can allow safe growth.'

'The poor monk is naturally willing to break the contract, but I don't know if Dao friend Jiang is willing to accept?' Guo Jue secretly sent a voice transmission to Jiang Yu.

And Jiang Yu was asking Jiang Tu's opinion, because it truly might be unable to temporarily go to the spiritual realm.

Jiang Tu considered for a long time, somewhat unwilling: 'Are you willing?'

'Unwilling, I'm a bit afraid of snakes.' Jiang Yu spoke the truth; it's innate, there's nothing to be done.

Jiang Tu secretly rejoiced: 'Then I'll tell the Demon King.'

'No, I'll say it.' Jiang Yu immediately told the great demon: 'Demon King, I and Jiang Tu welcome Bi Luo as a guest; staying however long is fine.'

'But forming a contract, please be cautious; after all, I have a bad temper and have grown up alongside Jiang Tu.'

'You haven't even formed a contract yet, and you're already showing favoritism.'

'Ancestors, change the person! Actually Guo Jue isn't bad either; he can't bully me.' Bi Luo thought about the cultivators it had met, feeling that Guo Jue wasn't kind.

The ninth-stage great demon said in a deep voice: 'Is my word so ineffective?'

Bi Luo is a fence-sitter: "I listen to the Old Ancestor."

"Demon King, a melon twisted by force is not sweet. Aren't you afraid that in the future I will be unfavorable to Bi Luo?"

"Or, what if one day it is unwilling and becomes hostile to us?" Jiang Yu didn't want to force herself and Jiang Tu, and she also thought that Bi Luo's nature was too wild; being influenced by Buddhist scriptures wasn't bad.

"With Bi Luo around, we will surely often quarrel and fight with magic."

"People often say, three women make a drama; Bi Luo and I are both female." Jiang Tu added fuel to the fire.

Guojue understood: "Amitabha Buddha, Bi Luo can slowly look for companions; the poor monk is willing to provide temporary lodging."

"Hmph, ungrateful! Does the Nine-step Great Demon care about face? It turned the incense burner on its head and threw all the disobedient ones before it into the dead land."