Luo Ji’s eyes remained calm, but inwardly she was deeply pessimistic. She very much wanted to tell her that the time left for the great world of the Tianchu Civilisation could not possibly be as long as thirty years.
Yet how could she bring herself to say such demoralising words?
In recent years, everyone had already suffered enough gloom and oppression.
Li Miaohan said, “Is there truly no other way? Becoming fire seeds may preserve our lives, but in future we will have to depend on others for shelter. Moreover, the civilisational treasures in our hands will surely attract the covetous eyes of countless greedy individuals. The future is too uncertain! No one in the world would allow the Tianchu Civilisation to rise again.”
Becoming fire seeds brought Li Miaohan not the slightest joy. Instead, she was filled with endless worry about the future.
The pressure upon her had grown even greater!
She knew that the pressure on her master could only be a hundredfold, a thousandfold greater than her own.
A strange light appeared in Princess Yinglian’s eyes. She said, “I heard Senior Sister say that Master has a close relationship with Lord Ruochen of the Ruochen Realm. Why do we not go to Xinghuan Heaven?”
Luo Ji’s gaze fixed upon Li Miaohan.
Li Miaohan quickly lowered her head. Then, pretending to be greatly annoyed, she said to Princess Yinglian, “The reason the Hanhai Civilisation and the Tianchu Civilisation have fallen to their current plight is all because of him, is it not?”
“For the sake of a demoness from the Divine Maidens’ Twelve Mansions, he has driven Master and the Tianchu Civilisation to desperation. Go and seek refuge with him? If he had even the slightest care for Master, he should already have come to the Tianchu Civilisation by now.”
“This heartless man. If I see him again, even if I cannot defeat him, I must curse him soundly to vent the malice in my heart.”
Princess Yinglian seemed intent on pushing Luo Ji to go to Xinghuan Heaven. She said, “This cannot be blamed on him! The starry battlefield is so dangerous, and the gods of the Heavenly Court regard him as an enemy. Even if he had heaven-piercing abilities, he could not reach the Tianchu Civilisation.”
Suddenly, Luo Ji’s divine eyes caught sight of two streaks of divine light rapidly approaching over the sea outside Heaven Lord Mountain. They stopped near the entrance to Heaven Lord Mountain and condensed into the figures of Lord Yue Tong and Luo Jinshu.
Lord Yue Tong was covered in countless wounds, blood pouring forth. Supporting Luo Jinshu, whose face was ashen with deathly qi, he cried out anxiously, “Luo Ji, quickly open the array. A great change has occurred in Dousui City. A god from the Hell Realm released the Three Evils Corpse Poison at the Fire Seed Assembly. Jinshu has been afflicted by it. We must borrow the power of the Dao Lake to suppress it. Hurry! Hurry… he cannot hold on much longer…”
Luo Ji’s expression changed. Her eyes filled with worry. She immediately opened a corner of Heaven Lord Mountain’s divine array and flew over on the wind.
She did not think too deeply about it. After all, under the concealment of the array, anyone who could precisely locate the entrance to Heaven Lord Mountain must be a god of the Tianchu Civilisation. It could not possibly be a god from the Hell Realm in disguise.
Lord Yue Tong brought Luo Jinshu flying into the array. Familiar with the paths, he avoided powerful destructive divine patterns and met with Luo Ji.
“Father…”
The moment Luo Ji’s hand touched Luo Jinshu, she immediately sensed something wrong and rapidly retreated backwards.
“Hehe, where are you going, fairy? Do you still remember Little Mushroom Demon from the Realm of Truth?”
Luo Jinshu, with dishevelled hair, suddenly radiated bright divine light. He transformed into an enchantingly beautiful woman with a smile on her lips. Like lightning, she struck out and seized Luo Ji’s wrist.
Who else could this woman be but Luo Yi?
After cultivating the Gui Zang, Luo Yi’s art of changing heaven and earth had reached a divine level of mastery. If Luo Ji were not so familiar with Luo Jinshu, she would never have detected the danger in that first instant.
The gap in cultivation was too vast, and she had been caught completely off guard. Before Luo Ji could activate Heaven Lord Mountain’s divine array, dense spatial rule divine patterns scattered from Luo Yi’s fingertips, condensing into a spatial cage that fixed her in place.
Immediately afterwards, seven gods of the Rakshasa clan emerged one after another from Luo Yi’s divine realm world.
Thick evil sha qi instantly enveloped the entire Heaven Lord Mountain.
Luo Ji remained very calm. She locked eyes with the smiling Luo Yi for a long while before shifting her gaze to Lord Yue Tong. She said, “Why?”
Without Lord Yue Tong’s betrayal, she would never have fallen for the trap so easily.
Lord Yue Tong walked to the side of the spatial cage and persuaded her, “Luo Ji, have you not yet seen it? The Tianchu Civilisation has long been abandoned by the heavens of the Heavenly Court. They sit high above and have never treated us as living beings of flesh and blood. They merely want us to fill the ranks with our lives, buying time for the so-called second starry defence line. Since the heavens are unrighteous, do not blame us for being unloyal.”
“Princess Luo Yi is willing to accept the surrender of the Tianchu Civilisation. She has already selected an excellent location in the star domain of the Tianluo Divine Kingdom. When the time comes, our entire great world can migrate there.”
Luo Ji said, “Luo Yi devours people. She will only view us as food. Even if now, to disintegrate the starry defence line and to put on a show for the various ancient civilisations, she treats us well, in future she will still reveal her true nature. You actually believe her words?”
Luo Yi was tall and imposing, originally possessing the bearing of an empress. Yet now she revealed a playful smile, her jade-like teeth gleaming. She said, “This princess will tell you the truth! He simply does not want to die, so he wishes to find another way to live. Moreover, this princess promised him that once the matter is accomplished, you will be his! How could he not sell his life for me? You do not even know how attractive you are.”
Lord Yue Tong had not expected Luo Yi to speak these words outright. Displeasure appeared on his face. He said, “Princess Luo Yi, let us attend to the proper business first! The array of this Heaven Lord Mountain is extremely powerful. Even when urged by the array spirit, it poses a great threat.”
“Very well, proper business first.”
Luo Yi turned gracefully. Her pair of eyes turned a strange crimson red as she met Lord Yue Tong’s gaze.
She was exceedingly beautiful.
Just these eyes alone could captivate the soul, as if the heavens had poured all their effort into painting them with a divine brush.
Combined with the Soul-Capturing Demonic Pupils she cultivated, at such close distance and with Lord Yue Tong completely unprepared, he instantly fell into the demonic world within her pupils.
The surrounding heaven and earth seemed to turn completely crimson in an instant.
Lord Yue Tong was, after all, an upper god. Realising something was amiss, he immediately released his divine realm world, urging rule divine patterns. An ancient supreme sacred spear struck towards the crimson void.
But Luo Yi acted faster. Her slender, soft jade fingers reached out across the air.
At the tips of her fingers, space seemed to soften, ripples appearing.
From her glistening red lips, she uttered, “Take!”
In the next instant, something bizarre occurred. Lord Yue Tong’s divine source was directly taken across the air and held in her palm.
Relying solely on spatial power, it would of course be impossible to take an upper god’s divine source across the air, even if that upper god had just been soul-captured and offered no resistance.
Yet when the Dao of Space combined with the Gui Zang, countless terrifying and bizarre techniques could be derived.
“You…”
Lord Yue Tong was both shocked and devastated. He let out a hoarse, prolonged howl, “Demoness of the Rakshasa clan, your words truly cannot be believed even one… This lord will perish together with you.”
Luo Yi did not even glance at him. With a single finger, she sent him flying. Then, smiling brightly, she turned back to Luo Ji and said, “Little sister Luo Ji, see how your elder sister has avenged you? How could elder sister bear to give you to such a disgusting fellow?”
Luo Ji stood within the spatial cage, her eyes staring fixedly behind Luo Yi. There, the scene was utterly miserable, a field of blood red. Lord Yue Tong had been dismembered and devoured by the seven Rakshasa gods.
She felt not the slightest pity for Lord Yue Tong. Yet fear rose in her heart as she looked at Luo Yi standing before her, as if gazing upon a venomous serpent.
Luo Yi held the divine source and offered it forward. With an innocent smile, she said, “Come, little sister, accept the divine source. As long as you agree to lead the Tianchu Civilisation and follow elder sister to the Rakshasa clan, elder sister will not take a single thing from the Tianchu Civilisation.”
Luo Ji did not accept the divine source. She said, “I suddenly somewhat understand why she felt it necessary to make Zhang Ruochen draw a clear line with you. A Rakshasa is a Rakshasa. You can never change your true nature. You hide too deeply. You appear simple, but in reality you are sinister and ruthless.”
Luo Yi withdrew the divine source. She said, “Little sister has misunderstood elder sister! Did Lord Yue Tong not deserve death? Elder sister admits to using a little trickery, but this was all for your sake, for the Tianchu Civilisation, and also for my Dust brother. Dust brother has also come to the Tianchu Civilisation. You should understand how great a peril he braved. You should also understand for whom he came.”
Hearing the news that Zhang Ruochen had come to the Tianchu Civilisation, a long-awaited joy arose in Luo Ji’s heart.
All the previous and present oppression seemed to dissipate. Inwardly, she thought, “In the end, he has not forgotten the words he spoke. He has come!”
Luo Yi suddenly recalled something. She said, “The ‘she’ you mentioned just now, who does that refer to?”
“It refers to me.”
An extremely pleasing voice came from the void.
Luo Yi was astonished to discover that the ground beneath her feet had turned into a white origin divine sea. Luo Ji, who had been trapped in the spatial cage, had vanished.
Within the origin divine sea, pure white flowers grew one after another.
Their fragrance filled the heavens, their petals crystalline as jade.
Ji Fanhan held the Heavenly Dao Flute. Standing amid the sea of flowers, her robes fluttering, she gazed at Luo Yi from afar. She said, “Since you have come today, do not leave!”
Luo Yi looked Ji Fanhan up and down. A heavy smile reappeared on her pretty face. She said, “The Tianchu Civilisation could not possibly send its fire seeds to the Qianrui Realm, could it? If so, that would truly astonish this princess!”
“I have come here only to discuss the Dao with Luo Ji,” Ji Fanhan said.
“I think it is to form an alliance, is it not? To deal with me? You knew that Dust brother would certainly come to the Tianchu Civilisation, did you not?”
Suddenly, Luo Yi smiled charmingly, “Not bad, truly not bad. Elder sister, you are indeed worthy of being the Immortal of a Hundred Flowers. Your aura is sweet, your bodily fragrance intoxicating. No wonder you could captivate my Dust brother.”
“Elder sister, do you know that not only does Dust brother like flowers, I like them even more, especially you, the most beautiful flower in the world. You are the Nether Ancient Illumination Divine Lotus, of boundless benefit to cultivators’ practice. Why not also come with little sister to the Tianluo Divine Kingdom? The Rakshasa clan will surely treat you as an honoured guest.”
Ji Fanhan said, “I know you cultivated for several thousand years under the sundial, and your cultivation has reached the upper god level. But with merely this level of cultivation, facing the current situation, how can you still manage to smile?”
Luo Ji was already urging the array.
Luo Yi appeared utterly unconcerned. She said, “Elder sister has lived from the Nether Ancient era to now. Your mental strength is profound and immeasurable. The origin mysteries you command make little sister envious. However… little sister has another elder sister. She should be extremely interested in you.”
“Sizzle! Sizzle!”
Crimson divine mist appeared beside Luo Yi. From her divine realm world, a graceful and alluring figure slowly emerged. The origin radiance emanating from her body was as bright as that of Ji Fanhan.
…
Alright, it’s the start of the month, so I’ll also ask for monthly tickets!
I feel that I too have the qualification to ask for monthly tickets. It’s time for me to be a bit arrogant!
