Long Qing stood on the hillside, gazing up at the huge eye in the sky, his face full of fear. Other people were also on the hillside, all of them were disciples of the Supreme Sect, and An Xin was among them.
Every person listening to the words of the Great Demon Emperor felt a chill down their spine, their hearts filled with fear.
They had never heard of the Jiuyuan World, and it was even the first time they had heard the name of the Great Heavenly Spirit Land.
“Within the Great Heavenly Spirit Land, there are many Heavenly Demons reincarnated. They may be your kin or your dear friends. If you want to survive, then kill all the reincarnated Heavenly Demons. The Heavenly Demons must do the same; kill off all the creatures of the Great Heavenly Spirit Land, and you will regain your freedom,” said the Great Demon Emperor, his voice ringing out, tone frosty, filled with a murderous intent.
Ye Lan and Zhen Qin frowned upon hearing this, and they instinctively looked around, fearing an attack by a Heavenly Demon.
Gu An speculated that the Great Demon Emperor was looking for Long Qing.
But why didn’t he directly wipe out all the beings that fell into the Jiuyuan World?
Soon, Gu An understood.
It was the protection of the Heavenly Dao!
As the voice of the Great Demon Emperor ceased, Gu An felt the presence of many Heavenly Demons. Those reincarnated began to awaken their Heavenly Demon Origin. As the Demonic Qi grew, the aura of the Heavenly Dao began to emerge from the bodies of the Great Heavenly Spirit Land creatures.
This so-called Heavenly Dao Aura was the same as the aura of the layer of light outside the Great Heavenly Spirit Land, which prevented beings below Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal from flying to Outer Heaven.
In fact, everything in the Great Heavenly Spirit Land was infused with Heavenly Dao Aura, including the other Great Heaven and Earth realms that Gu An glimpsed during his breakthrough.
The Heavenly Dao is omnipresent!
This is a force distinct from the Dao, and within it, implicitly lies the will of heaven, referring to the Heavenly Dao Rules!
The creatures from the Silent Destruction Domain are easily distinguishable because they don’t have the aura of the Heavenly Dao. Their presence is discomforting to beings born under the Heavenly Dao, and thus the two factions have been incompatible since ancient times.
The Great Demon Emperor was obviously studying the Way of Cause and Effect, fearful of slaughtering too many creatures of the Heavenly Dao and suffering a Karma Rebound.
Killing a few creatures of the Heavenly Dao, however, was no issue.
In the memories of Long Zhan and Lu Han, they had heard mentions of the Heavenly Dao, which for cultivators, was a vague and elusive legend.
Of course, if pushed to the brink, the Great Demon Emperor wouldn’t care so much. After all, he came from the Silent Destruction Domain and couldn’t possibly suffer a Karma Rebound so severe that his body and dao perished.
If the Heavenly Dao were so powerful, there wouldn’t be the existence of the Silent Destruction Domain.
The Great Demon Emperor stopped speaking, and the pair of eyes also vanished, plunging the entire world into silence.
Gu An noticed that Ji Xiaoyu, An Hao, Li Ya, Wu Jue, Xuan Tianyi, Jiang Qiong, Long Qing, An Xin, and other people had also been pulled into the Jiuyuan World. It seemed that the beings dragged into the Jiuyuan World, apart from the reincarnated Heavenly Demons, were almost all but ordinary; at least their fates were extraordinary.
He suddenly thought of a question: could the Great Demon Emperor’s action be related to the commotion of his breakthrough?
Very likely.
On reflection, if it were not for him, Long Qing would not have been born early. According to the man in black on Qingtian Peak, Long Qing needed to be nurtured for at least a few thousand years.
Gu An’s actions advanced many things by thousands of years.
“What should we do?” Zhen Qin looked at Ye Lan and asked, accustomed to Ye Lan taking the lead.
Ye Lan took a deep breath and said, “We’ll have to play it by ear. According to his words, we can unite with many people. This is not a matter of individual survival but a competition between two camps.”
Over the past few months, news about the Heavenly Demons had already spread within the Supreme Sect, and many legends of Heavenly Demons circulated. They knew that the Heavenly Demons came from beyond the heavens and because of this, they were very wary of them, not overly confident.
Ye Lan continued, “I sense the presence of some of our fellow sect members. Let’s meet up with the people of the Supreme Sect first.”
Zhen Qin nodded, and Gu An had no objection. He wanted to see how Ye Lan and the others would perform in the face of such a catastrophe.
The three of them began to descend the hill.
Gu An’s Divine Thought swept the area; there were quite a few Heavenly Demons, numbering over a million. Although they were not as numerous as the creatures of the Great Heavenly Spirit Land, the Heavenly Demons’ Cultivation Levels were higher.
A fierce battle would follow soon.
Gu An would make his move when the Great Heavenly Spirit Land side was on the brink of collapse.
To him, the Great Emperor of Calamity wasn’t that strong.
Both well-studied in the Way of Cause and Effect, Gu An’s causal power was a step ahead of the Great Emperor of Calamity.
The Jiuyuan World was formed by the forces of causality, and for Gu An to break it was hardly a difficult task.
“Master, who would have thought that the three of us would have the chance to adventure together?”
Zhen Qin suddenly turned her head to look at Gu An, saying with a grin, no longer as tense as before.
Ye Lan couldn’t help but look towards Gu An as well, though her eyes held more worry.
In her mind, Gu An was protected by Sword Venerable Fudao, but whether Sword Venerable Fudao could find the Jiuyuan World was not certain, hence, she worried that she wouldn’t be able to protect Gu An.
She would rather die alone than let Gu An die before her.
Intuition told her that the Heavenly Demon was absolutely terrifying; she had to go into battle prepared to die, without a trace of carelessness.
“Rest assured, I am very strong, I won’t hold you back,” Gu An said seriously, taking out the Fate Determining Pen.
Zhen Qin couldn’t help but tease, “Being in the Nascent Soul Realm is indeed impressive.”
“Got wings and now looking down on your Master’s cultivation level?”
“Dare not, dare not.”
The master and disciple began to banter.
Gu An’s Divine Thought had already spread out, watching over Ji Xiaoyu, An Hao, and others, to prevent them from encountering an unbeatable foe.
30 minutes later, Gu An and the others from the Supreme Sect gathered, deciding to look for disciples from their own sect.
The Jiuyuan World was large, but not as incomparably vast as the Great Heavenly Spirit Land, so An Xin and the others were not far from them.
The disciples of the Supreme Sect pulled into the Jiuyuan World numbered only a few dozen—either with extraordinary fates or geniuses.
Long Qing’s body contained the Path of Returning Primordial Spirit strengthened by Gu An, and thus he did not awaken to become a Heavenly Demon.
Facing the imminent battle with the Heavenly Demon, Long Qing was excited; he had long wanted to take on the world, but his Master had not allowed it.
During flight, a thunderous roar came from afar, startling the disciples of the Supreme Sect into immediately accelerating away from the battle.
Gu An stood behind Ye Lan, sharing a sword with her, when he spotted a familiar face engaged in the distant battle.
Li Ya!
The kid was directly using the power of Divine Exotic City to suppress the Heavenly Demon, drawing in more of them for a siege.
Gu An began to watch the battle, wanting to see how much Li Ya had improved.
Time rushed by quickly.
An hour later, the Supreme Sect’s side finally met up; the forces of causality hadn’t scattered their position.
“Master!”
An Xin, seeing Gu An, immediately showed a joyously surprised expression. She swiftly flew by Gu An’s side, her anxious look swept away, replaced with excitement.
Long Qing too flew over, chattering nonstop in excitement, he couldn’t wait to fight the Heavenly Demon.
Ye Lan started negotiating with other disciples of the Supreme Sect.
Zhen Qin looked at An Xin and Long Qing, her expression odd, why weren’t these two scared at all?
It was one thing for Long Qing to be fearless, the young and rash type, but why was An Xin, that girl, getting all excited too?