My Disciple Died Yet Again

by Srtyi

The Revered Master, Yu Yan, known as the number one in the cultivation world, waited for sixteen thousand years, and finally took in a disciple. He taught her carefully, and took care of her diligently. He watched her as she slowly grew stronger as she comprehended the laws, and just as she was about to soar into prominence… she died! Hence, he once again took in another disciple,

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Chapter 373: Evolved Heart Demon Tribulation

The final outcome of the huge battle in the sky was naturally a victory towards Shao Bai's side. All of the enemy bugs had all been captured and locked behind bars.

From that day on, time seemed to flow especially quickly. Using the reason of sending the wedding invitation cards, Shao Bai brought her around every corner of the world, and even to where the Dragon and Qilin races resided. She met many old friends, every single person that she had met ever since she transmigrated. Even though they clearly lived in different worlds, they seemed to have all gathered together here in an instant. Furthermore, the Three Realms were experiencing peace and harmony. Other than the occasional harassments from the Devil race, the life here was considerably calm.

Everything in the world was becoming perfect, as though there was no longer an endless stream of bugs to fix. There was thus no need for her to die and resurrect again. Master, Little Radish, everyone in Ancient Hill Sect, Little Sixth, Little Eighth, all of the people of the Phoenix race, even Little Tyrant, Ye Qingcang, the Little Qings of the dandelion race and Mushmush. All of them had appeared in their best state in this present life of hers. There was no need for her to fuss about anything, and she merely had to peacefully and calmly wait to be married to the person she loved.

Everything was really perfect. So perfect, it felt as if everything that happened in the past had never occurred. However… It was just too perfect.

"Let's go, little sister." Shao Bai reached out for her hand. "Your practitioner-pair ceremony is about to begin. Sovereign is waiting for you. Let second elder brother bring you over to the celebratory hall."

His smile was especially brilliant, and his entire body was emitting out a sunny glow which made people feel warm and fuzzy. It was as if as long as she reached out her hand, she would be able to hold onto the entire world. Zhu Yao however blanked while staring at his slender and long fingers.

"What is it? Are you afraid?" Shao Bai took a step forward and directly held onto her hand. "Don't be afraid. If he dares to bully you, then let your second elder brother know. Second elder brother will always stand by your side and protect you."

His words were sincere. Though they carried some intentions of teasing behind them, every single word of his was serious and true. It was as if she was looking at the second elder brother that came to fetch her from the bunch of large rocs. "Little sister, let me bring you home."

Shao Bai pulled her and was planning to walk her out, but Zhu Yao did not budge.

"Little sister?"

She raised her head and stared intensely at Shao Bai's familiar face, till a slight sense of anxiety that could not be easily detected flashed across his eyes. Only then did she slowly retract her hand.

"Little sister, what's wrong?" Shao Bai turned around and looked at her with the usual smile, though his eyes were a little anxious.

Zhu Yao took a deep breath. "Shao Bai, thank you! You will always be second elder brother."

He stiffened for a moment, and then immediately recovered his usual demeanour. "What kind of nonsense are you spouting? I'm naturally your second elder brother. It's your bid day today, if we don't head off now, we will miss the auspicious time." As he said that, he once again reached out his hand to pull her, but Zhu Yao dodged it this time.

"Second elder brother." Zhu Yao raised her head and looked deep into his eyes. "Actually, I've always… I've always wanted to tell you something." She paused for a moment, and then said with emphasis on every word. "Second elder brother, I'm sorry!"

"I'm sorry… I'm not a good little sister. I'm sorry… I didn't save you. I'm sorry… I wasn't able to find a better path for the God race. I'm sorry… It's my fault for making you turn towards the side of the Devils. Back then… when I activated the World Crossing Door, I initially wanted to save all of you. However, the outcome of the world crossing… did not seem to be as perfect as I thought it would."

"You…"

"I saw Little Eighth!" He… didn't have a good time. The others… don't seem to have a good time either!"

"Little sister…" The smile on his face had stiffened. He finally caught her hand, but his was faintly trembling a little. "You… What kind of nonsense are you spouting?"

"I'm not sure now. Was it right for me to have forcefully sent all of you into the Three Realms?" Zhu Yao took a deep breath and suppressed the sense of fatigue in the depths of her heart. "However… I didn't have any other choice back then. If I simply let all of you stay in that collapsed world, most likely, none of you will even have the chance to reincarnate. This is simply too unfair for all of you, who have always been suppressed by the Devil race! That's why… even if I was wrong, I don't regret my decision!"

"But… You're the only guilt that I have." A hint of pain surfaced in the depths of her heart. "Sometimes, I wondered if I've clearly told you all of the causes and effects, would things be different? That way, he wouldn't have turned towards the side of the Devils, and maybe… just like Little Eighth, I would have been able to meet him again in another world."

"… He won't." He replied solemnly.

Zhu Yao sighed. "That's right, he won't! Given his personality, most likely, he won't simply stand idly by and watch me die!"

"Little sister…" He stepped forward and grasped her hand tightly, his face was filled with anxiety. "Aren't things good right now? Is this really bad? Can't we stay like this forever?"

"Good!" She nodded heavily. Looking at him for a short moment, she then said. "But it's just too perfect, to the point where…" Everything is just too unrealistic.

His expression instantly paled.

In the beginning, Zhu Yao thought that this place was just an illusory realm. However, she had tried to use arts to break through it, but they were all ineffective. After that, she then thought that it was some sort of illusion art. However, everyone here was clearly behaving and acting the same way as they were in reality. Finally, she thought that this was her heart demon. However, the so-called heart demon would simply expose all of the perfect things in her heart, and then give her the final fatal blow. However, she had stayed here for so long, yet she didn't feel the slightest bit of evil intentions. Instead, things were so perfect that one could sink into it, as if this place was trying to keep her here through all means possible. More importantly, she clearly knew what her own heart demon was, and it was far from what she was seeing here. Not to mention, back then, Realmspirit had given her a heart demon barrier.

That was why everything was was unreasonable, except for…

"This place is indeed really great." Zhu Yao grasped back onto the person in front of her instead. "Unfortunately, everything here isn't real. I am no longer Little Seventh of the Phoenix clan, and you… are no longer my second elder brother Shao Bai. The past in the past, and it can never return. Don't you think so… Yue Ying?"

He was stunned, and then, the light in his eyes instantly extinguished, turning misty and dull. Something seemed to be slowly collapsing as tears flowed out just like that. The tears fell onto her arm, filled with the pain of heartburn. "Big sis… Yao."

Everything that happened here was not her heart demon, but Yue Ying's.

The scenery in the surroundings instantly began to distort and change. Ancient Hill Sect disappeared. The Parasol Tree began to collapse, as though it was returning to the day where the world of the God race was being destroyed. The heaven and earth was in chaos, and the place was filled with the cries of the three God races as one enormous figure after another fell from the sky.

A moment later, the ground turned into a barren wasteland. Corpses filled the place, piling up like a mountain. She once again looked at the entirely red bones. She finally figured out that those were actually the bones of a dead Phoenix.

"Yue Ying. You're Yue Ying." Zhu Yao looked at the person in front of her who had reverted back to Yue Ying's appearance. "You're not Shao Bai, and I'm not Little Seventh either. Do not be trapped in your past life again."

Yue Ying raised his head, tears were still flowing down his face. However, he suddenly laughed out, his laughter was filled with chilling intent. "Yue Ying? If I'm Yue Ying… Will big sis Yao forgive me? Even if I admit my wrongs, and no longer make big sis angry, will you… believe me again?"

"Then I don't want to be Yue Ying." He shook his head strongly, as if he had descended in some form of madness. "I don't want to be abandoned! I'm Shao Bai… I shall be big sis Yao's second elder brother, alright?"

"…" Zhu Yao was stunned. So this was his heart demon. Because of her… he even wanted to kill off his own existence?

"Big sis Yao." He tugged her sleeves a little anxiously. "Look at me, I won't be Yue Ying anymore. I'm Shao Bai… Yue Ying made you angry, Yue Ying had done many bad things. But… Shao Bai will never do it. In the future, I will never make you angry again, so don't ignore me anymore, alright?"

"Yue Ying…"

"I'm really changing now." His hand was shaking, as if he was grasping onto that final bit of hope. "I didn't kill Wang Xuzhi. I began to treat the people next to you well. I even protected Sesame when we crossed worlds. In the future… In the future, I will still continue to learn how to become a good person. The things that big sis Yao won't allow me to do, I won't do them… I… I won't even be Yue Ying, alright? In the future, I will be Shao Bai, is that fine?"

Zhu Yao's hear ached. Letting out a long sigh, she had no choice but to break apart his heart demon.

"However… You're still Yue Ying, not Shao Bai!"

The hint of light in the depths of his eyes finally extinguished entirely.

When she opened her eyes again, she saw a familiar white figure carrying an anxious look on his face. "Yu… Yao."

"Master?" Zhu Yao was a little startled. "What happened to me?"

"There was a heart demon tribulation within the floor-raising light. You sank into your heart demon, and it has been a month since then." Yu Yan explained.

"A month!" Zhu Yao was stunned. When she recalled about the matters concerning the heart demon, she hurriedly turned her head. "Where's Yue Ying?"

Yu Yan looked towards the right not far from her. When she turned to look, as expected, she saw Yue Ying whose eyes had already opened. However, he was unmoving, and eyes were staring upwards listlessly, as if he had lost a part of his soul.

Zhu Yao frowned. After hesitating for a moment, she could not help but walk over and sit next to him. Though she did not know how she had entered his heart demon, there were some things that shouldn't be dragged on.

"Yue Ying."

He did not have any reaction, and simply maintained the same posture.

"I can't lie to myself, and I can't lie to you. "… really can't forgive you." Zhu Yao sighed heavily. "Everything that you've done, I'm really, really angry about them. I really wish that I could give you two big slaps and no longer see you ever again."

"…" His hands that were by his sides slowly curled into balls.

"However… After calming down and thinking back about it, how can I not have the slightest bit of responsibility in everything that you've done?" She looked sternly at his face. "I treated you as my little brother, and I had used up all my power to teach you everything, but you were never able to learn them. Furthermore, you began to stray even further away. At the same time I despaired about you, how can I not be disappointed in myself? When a child isn't taught properly, it's not just because he or she is born stupid, but rather, there are some problems with the way education is brought to that child as well."

Yue Ying was stunned. He finally had some sort of reaction, as he slowly turned his head over.

Zhu Yao then stroked his head and continued. "But Yue Ying… When you're wrong, you're wrong. I admit that I didn't teach you well, but everything that you've done are indeed unforgivable. Even now, I still can't find myself to forgive you. Big sis is human, and big sis's heart is made of flesh as well. It can't take your constant beatings. When my disappointment for you turned into despair… I no longer had the courage to continue teaching you."

"So Yue Ying… Why don't you be the one who show me this time?" Zhu Yao retracted her hand, and said with a serious look. "You said that you already know your wrongs, and is changing your ways. You said that you no longer want to be Yue Ying of the past. I don't have the courage to believe you right now, so why don't you show it to me? Let me see just how you've changed. From today on, I will no longer avoid you, and I won't ignore your existence. However… You are no longer my little brother either. Let us begin right from the start as strangers. Let us witness just how great you have become. This courage of trust, give it to me."

"Big… sis… Yao." His eyes began to grow distant, and were being covered by mist little by little.

Zhu Yao took a deep breath, reached out a hand and said. "Hello, nice to meet you. I'm Zhu Yao."

Tears instantly flowed, pouring out like flood. He hurriedly stood up and stuffed his head into her embrace, crying out loud. It was as if he was letting out all of the grievances, joy, discomfort and guilt. He was gasping for air as he cried, and the same words were constantly being uttered.

"Big… sis… big… sis…"

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Chapter 374: Please Speak Politely

Zhu Yao glanced at the dim surroundings. The place that they were currently in was extremely desolate, and sinister winds blew. Various terrifying and strange noises could be heard. Sometimes, they sounded sharp, while sometimes, they sounded low, and one's skin would crawl just by hearing them. She thought that she had once again returned to the Netherworld.

There was a green barrier surrounding them, and occasionally, there would be hazy shadows bumping into it, emitting out sharp noises.

"Master, this place is… the lower third floor?" The style changed too quickly, didn't it?

"No." Yu Yan shook his head, and his expression sank. "Upper first floor."

"What?" Zhu Yao was stunned for a moment. "Didn't we just exit the lower second floor?" Why were they in the upper first floor now? There were exactly eight floors between them!

"I am uncertain of the cause either." He frowned. He took out the jade tablet they received from the Amway Hall back then, and the words "Upper First Floor" were indeed written on it. "When we crossed floors back then, all of us fell into our heart demon tribulations. Your master was the first to awaken. Most likely, people who pass the heart demon tribulations would be randomly sent to other floors."

So they could actually skip levels! Zhu Yao looked around and saw that there were other Deities as well. Some were lying on the ground unmoving, while there were some who had already woken up and were hesitatingly and uneasily looking at those shadows outside. Though, without a single exception, everyone had a layer of translucent barrier surrounding each one of them. The colours, however, were different. Some were red, some were green, and some were yellow. There were still a row of words above each of their heads – Unknown Deity (Level 10).

Level 10! The hell! All of them are high-leveled players.

"Master, they…" Just as Zhu Yao was about to speak up, she raised her head and was stunned. A row of words were floating above her master's head as well. Yu Yan (Level 10).

Why was she able to see his now!? Was being too levelled the reason why she couldn't see it back then?

She hurriedly turned to look at Yue Ying. A string of words was also written above his head. Yue Ying (Level ??)

"…" What's with those two question marks?

"Dongfang girly, you're awake!" A surprised voice sounded. Nangong Cheng ran over with heavy steps. Next to him was Zhonggu Lu who had already completely recovered his muscular features.

"Hi, Little Huang, Little Teal." Zhu Yao waved her hand and greeted.

"Little…" The corner of Nangong Cheng's lips twitched. As though he had accepted his fate, he sighed. "Nevermind, Little Huang it is then! Dongfang girly, you two have taken too long to fight off your heart demon tribulations. It's been an entire month. You two worried us to death."

"Hoho, sorry for the trouble." Zhu Yao smiled. She turned to look at Yue Ying who was obediently sitting at the side, and did not explain much about it either. "Oh right, where did the two of you go?"

Nangong Cheng's expression turned stern. He took few steps forward and hinted them to sit, before he spoke in a serious tone. "I went to listen in some information. This place is indeed the upper first floor, but it's different from the upper floors from legends."

"What's different?" Zhu Yao asked.

Nangong Cheng and his good homosexual friend Zhonggu Lu exchanged glances, their expressions turned heavy. After a moment, he said. "Everyone believed that the Lightning Divine Tower is split between the lower ten floors and upper ten floors. However, from the situation that I managed to gather, it's different in actuality. The upper floors do not have ten floors."

"There aren't ten floors? What do you mean?"

"People that enter the upper ten floors are not able to return to the lower floors, and they will lose the opportunity to exit the tower as well. This is something that you all are aware of, right?"

Zhu Yao nodded.

"Actually, no one knows about the situation in the upper ten floors. The people in the lower ten floors basically aren't able to find out. Everyone thought that the upper floors would be similar to the lower floors and be split to ten floors. However, in actual fact, there's only a single floor in the upper layer."

Zhu Yao and her master were both stunned. After a moment, Yu Yan said. "You're saying that the God Realm is above this floor?"

"That's right!" Nangong Cheng nodded. He pointed far towards the horizon in front of him. "Do you see that light?"

After looking closely in the horizon, there was indeed a glowing vertical line that shot straight upwards towards the sky. It was as if it was splitting the sky into two halves. Because it was so faraway, all they could see from here was a thin line.

"That's the passageway to the God Realm." He continued. "From here, it's about several hundred kilometers away. As long as we reach that place, we can head straight towards the God Realm."

"Several hundred kilometers." Zhu Yao's heart shook. They were going straight for the peak of the tower over here. "That's not far either." If they were to fly on their swords, they wouldn't even need an hour.

"It's not far!" Nangong Cheng's eyes opened wide, his face looked strange. As though he had thought of something, he turned to look at Yu Yan and said. "Didn't you tell her?"

Yu Yan shook his head. "Not yet."

"What do you mean?" What kind of secret are you guys keeping?

"Dongfang girly, haven't you tried sensing the divine energy in your body?"

"Sensing div… the hell!" Zhu Yao tried sensing, and then she began to feel uncomfortable all over. Her cultivation and divine energy were still present, but… she couldn't use them!

Nangong Cheng had a bitter look. "From here to where that Light of Guidance is, we aren't able to use any mystic arts in the area. That's why… we have no choice but to walk there."

"…" Are we going back to the stone age now? This entire floor is a mystic arts restricted zone!

No wait!

"If we can't use mystic arts, then what about these barriers?" She pointed at the green translucent barriers that were surrounding her and the rest of the people.

"Nascent Divided Pearls." Yu Yan took over. "When we came up, the Nascent Divided Pearls that we gathered before automatically opened up barriers. Every Nascent Divided Pearl can sustain the barrier for about half a day. If the barrier is destroyed…"

Before he could even finish, a scream suddenly sounded from the side. A Level 10 Deity not far away was currently rolling on the ground, covered in fresh blood. Surrounding him were a bunch of shadows, which constantly crashed into him. With every shadow slicing through, a piece of his meat would be torn off. Though he was resisting against them with all his might, he could not block the horde of shadows that could already cover the sky itself.

The blood on-site made it look like a very terrifying zombie film. A living Deity was dismembered right in front of them just like that. Zhu Yao could not help but take a step forward, but was stopped by Yu Yan. "It's too late!"

Yu Yan then pulled her over, covered her ears with his two hands, and sank her in his embrace. As expected, the noises from over there disappeared a short while later.

Zhu Yao felt that her heart was suffocating.

"Haah… This is already the third one." Nangong Cheng sighed. "The moment the barrier disappears, we will be attacked by the surrounding shadows. We don't even know what those shadows are. We can only hope that the barrier can block them."

"How many more Nascent Divided Pearls do we have?" Yu Yan asked.

When they were in the lower third floor back then, in order to prevent the scenario where they had to gather even more quest items, they intentionally gathered a little more.

"About a dozen." Nangong Cheng said. "When everyone fell into their own heart demons, we had used up more than half of them. The remaining ones can only sustain us for five more days or so. However, from this place to that Light of Guidance, ten days of travel is required."

"In other words, we will be attacked by those shadows if we simply sit here. However, the moment we get out, if we don't reach our destination within five days, we will be in danger?"

"Mn!" Nangong Cheng nodded with an anxious look. "I don't know we should approach this either, and thus wanted to discuss with you people about it."

Zhu Yao sank into silence for a moment. They were truly caught in a dilemma now. She turned to look at the person at the side who hadn't spoke all this while. "Yue Ying, what do you think?"

Yue Ying was startled, as though he never thought that Zhu Yao would ask for his opinion and was dumbfounded. Looking at the surrounding eyes that were sweeping towards him, he lowered his head a little anxiously. After a moment, he said. "Head… Heading out, will provide us the opportunity to live. Also, I have a feeling that… there must be a reason behind the appearances of these shadows. If we can figure it out, we might be fine after that."

"I have the same thoughts as well!" Nangong Cheng happily slapped his thighs and said. "Rather than waiting here for our deaths, why don't we take a gamble and head out? What do you guys think?"

"I don't have any objections!" Zhonggu Lu said nonchalantly.

Yu Yan nodded as well.

"Then let us be off! In order to save our Nascent Divided Pearls, it's best we move together." Zhu Yao immediately stood up. She turned around and glanced at the person who was still sitting on the ground. "Let's go, Yue Ying."

Stunned for a moment, he then hurriedly nodded his head and stood up. In those pair of deep eyes, a slightly different luster shone.

After speaking their minds, Zhu Yao felt that Yue Ying was slowly becoming different. The eyes he had when looking at others now carried a degree of sincerity. He was no longer someone with bottomless and incomprehensible thoughts, where she couldn't figure out what he was thinking like before. The reason why he had such deep obsession for her was most likely because of the influence of his memories of his past life as Shao Bai. When she picked him up for the first time back then, he must already possessed a few of his memory fragments, and thus wanted to stick to her no matter what. After that, when he became a Devil, most likely, he had completely remembered it all at that time. However, what struck him the most in his memories, was actually the matter where she forcefully sent him into the World Crossing Door. That was why he was so mindful that she would throw him aside.

And it was exactly because of this, that no matter how much she tried to reason with him, and no matter how much she spoke to him, he basically did not take them to heart at all. He, who turned into a Devil because of his obsession, had always lived in the memories of his past life.

Zhu Yao felt that the current Yue Ying was off to a great start. At the very least, he was willing to present his true self, and was sincerely willing to listen to her words. He was learning to become a good child, and not ignore everything in his surroundings. With how he was able to walk out on his own now, Zhu Yao felt that as long as he interact more with others, everything would be better. After all, be it shutting himself in or his obsession, the root of everything was his lack of interaction with others.

However, interaction seemed to be… a little difficult for Yue Ying.

"I say, Daoist Ximen…" Nangong Cheng said passionately. "You don't speak very often, so I never expected that your thoughts would be similar to mine! The more I look at you, the more intimate I feel! Oh right, so your real name is actually Yue Ying!"

"…" Yue Ying was expressionless.

"You guys are really too much, to even go to the extent of using fake names."

"The three of you are all from Lightning Divine Palace, right? Why do the two of them have 'Yu' as their Daoist title, while you're called Yue Ying?"

"Dongfang girly calls Daoist Beichen master. Looking at your age, you can't possibly be Daoist Beichen's grand disciple, right?"

"Eh? Daoist Yue, why are you walking so quickly? There's nothing much going on right now anyway, so why don't we chat about Dongfang girly?"

"Oh right! Are you married? Do you have a partner? Mingling with the two of them everyday must be really hard, right? I understand!"

"But don't you worry, there might be many Goddesses waiting for us in the God Realm, you know! We can't give up! You think so too, right?"

"I wonder what Daoist Yue's preference is? Let me tell you a secret. Even though my true form is a mammal, I like those with wings."

"Let me tell you this! Every winged female beast…"

Yue Ying's feet stopped abruptly. As though he had truly been annoyed by his questions, he sent him a cold glance and in an instant, killing intent filled the surroundings. "Scram!"

"…" Nangong Cheng was stunned. What happened to him now?

Zhu Yao had no choice but to smooth things over and nudge the person who was driven crazy by the questions. "Yue Ying, talk nicely."

Yue Ying's killing intent sizzled, and he immediately changed to another manner of speaking. "Shut up!"

"You can't be that fierce. Try again."

"How do you want to die?"

"… A little more politely."

"Please go and die!"

"… A little more tactful."

"You lowly beast, don't speak to me. Given my race's esteemed status and bloodline, I am not someone you can afford to speak to. If you dare to utter even a single word more, if you have two legs, I will break your two legs, and if you have four, I will break all four of them. Do you understand?"

Zhu Yao: "…"

Yu Yan: "…"

Little Teal: "…"

Nangong Cheng: "…" His heart suddenly began to ache painfully! Dongfang girly, are you certain you're not here to make things worse?

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Chapter 375: This Sure is Fate

Probably because Yue Ying had released the knot in his heart, student Nangong Huang recently seemed to especially like sticking with Yue Ying. Though, he would always be abused by Yue Ying's words and be shamed for his actions. Furthermore, whenever she wasn't looking, he would be quietly be beaten up.

Nangong Huang however still continued to press forward and seek abuse. If not because she wasn't aware how perverse the suppression of a God race's bloodline was, Zhu Yao would have thought that he was trying to make Yue Ying gay. Though Yue Ying looked like he was becoming more and more irritated, his expressions seemed to have grown livelier, harbouring more human-like characteristics. Seeing that the two of them were tearing each other through their words, Zhu Yao was not in the position to step in either. Because whenever she tried to interrupt, Nangong Huang's treatment would instead become even more intense. After a long while, she then grew lazy and no longer bothered them. Though, the true homosexual friend of student Nangong grew dissatisfied. Occasionally, he would send her resentful and complaining eyes.

Uh… Student Little Teal, why are you looking at me? This doesn't concern me at all, flips table! Yue Ying is the one who stepped in between the two of you, and even without him, with how one of you being a flower demon and him being a demonic beast, there's no future for you two with different races, alright?

Eh, why did she feel something was strange here?

"Have you truly decided to forgive him?" Her hand warmed, as long and slender fingers slowly interlocked with hers.

Turning her head around, Zhu Yao looked at her master and nodded. "Mn. After actually thinking about it, I too hold responsibility for Yue Ying turning out that way. When I picked him up back then, I didn't know he was Shao Bai. Also, given his identity back then, he would have gotten trouble with Celestial Indus Sect. I thought that by leaving him in Ancient Hill Sect, I would be giving him a home. Also, I believed that with Little Radish's sincere care, it was the best arrangement for him. I never expected that it instead drove him to becoming a Devil."

"Life is unpredictable." Yu Yan solemnly said. "You hold too many mysteries, and your methods have always been extremely dangerous. If you had decided to leave him by your side back then, he might have died long ago. How then could he have the chance to become a Devil?"

"But…"

"Yu Yao." He reached out to hold onto her waist and stroke her head. With a long sigh, he said. "You can't possibly do everything perfectly. In regards to the things that you do, I believe that even when it comes to your master… you wouldn't be willing to bring me along, right?"

Zhu Yao stiffened.

"You're afraid, aren't you?" Yu Yan continued. "You're not afraid of your constant deaths and resurrections, but you're afraid of any harm that comes our way. You're worried that we might… encounter misfortune, and then unable to resurrect like you, right?"

"Master…"

"Your master doesn't blame you." Yu Yan sighed, and then hugged her a little tighter. "You've already done really well. With the responsibility of saving lives resting on one's shoulders, who else would have the confidence of doing better? That's why even though I've always been furious at you acting on your own… I've never ever blamed you."

Zhu Yao was silent as she tightened her arms around the person in front of her. Breathing in the slightly cold air emitted from his body, she raised her head a moment later. With a slightly trembling voice, she said. "That's why, master. Nothing must ever happen to you. Nothing. Otherwise… I don't know what I will do?"

Yu Yan lowered his head and pecked her forehead. With a gentle voice, he said. "Mn, your master will accompany you always."

"Hey! That's enough from the both of you." Zhonggu Lu rolled his eyes with scorn. The two of them suddenly hugged each other while walking. Did they forget that was still a spectator here?

"The both of them are about to fight again. Are you sure you're not going to stop them?" He pointed at the two people in front.

Zhu Yao turned to look, and saw that Yue Ying's face had already turned as dark as the bottom of a pot. He was taking steps forward with a furious face. Student Nangong was currently hugging his thigh tightly. As he was dragged on the ground, he cried out. "Don't! Daoist Yue, why are you so violent? You must treat me a little gentler, ah… it hurts!"

Spectators: "…"

Just how the hell did he spout out such yaoi-like lines? Don't think because you're Nangong Huang, you can act so raunchy, hey! Yue Ying is still a child!

"Yue Ying, come back." Zhu Yao hurriedly waved him over, preventing him from being led astray.

Yue Ying's irritation instantly dissipated quite a bit as he obediently walked back. Before that, he did not forget to give Nangong Huang on the ground a kick, along with a chilling glare.

Nangong Huang did not feel hurt or displeased, clearly, he had already gotten used to it. Patting off the dirt on his clothes, he then began to pick up the morals that he dropped on the ground.

"And what happened to the two of you?" Zhu Yao pulled Yue Ying to the back and questioned him sternly.

Yue Ying's face was still dark as he desperately glared at Nangong Cheng at the side. His eyes were filled with: I will kill you, I will you kill you, I will kill you.

"Dongfang girly, this time it's not my fault." Nangong Cheng said with a bitter look. "Daoist Yue wanted to hold onto a Nascent Divided Pearl no matter what and head out alone to scout the way forward. This place is too dangerous, so I decided to stop him."

"What!?" Zhonggu Lu became anxious when he heard it as well, and he said with a furious look. "That's simply too preposterous. We have limited amount of Nascent Divided Pearls in the first place. We have only walked for two days, and we don't have a surplus of them to waste. Rejected!"

Yu Yan slightly frowned as well. Indeed! They were not lost right now either, so there was no need to waste Nascent Divided Pearls to head out for an investigation. Even if Yue Ying was irritated with Nangong Cheng's pestering, bringing such a request up was indeed too much.

In an instant, everyone faintly carried criticizing eyes.

Yue Ying did not refute and simply lowered his head. His expression was unclear, but he was tightly clenching his hands. The emotions that he had been beginning to gain in these few days, were slowly beginning to turn back into a deathly calm.

Zhu Yao's heart sank and immediately pulled up Yue Ying's hands. "Yue Ying, tell us. Just what happened earlier?"

Before he could speak, Zhonggu Lu furiously said. "Didn't Nangong say it earlier? He wanted to steal…"

"Shut up!" Zhu Yao glared at him. "I'm asking Yue Ying, not you. Why is a single puppy trying to interrupt?"

"Uh…" Why did he feel as though his knee was shot with an arrow?

"Yue Ying, tell me. What happened just now? What were you thinking?" Zhu Yao continued to ask.

Yue Ying stiffened, the hands which were held by hers were trembling a little. After a moment, he slowly raised his head. However, he no longer carried that furious expression. His brows were slightly furrowed, his lips curved downwards, and even his tone changed. "Big sis…"

He lightly called out, as though he was being heavily wronged. She had never seen him like this, and for some reason, her heart began to melt.

"Take your time."

His expression only maintained for a second, and immediately after, it reverted back to his former blank look. Even his tone had reverted back to being monotonous. "I realized that I can sense the surrounding back figures, and they might not have any influence on me. Also, as we moved forward, the shadows had actually been decreasing. I feel that in two days at the very most, they will completely disappear. I just wanted to ascertain just how far we have to go in order to shake off those shadows, and so I wanted to first head out to investigate."

"You're saying that these shadows aren't found everywhere?" Zhonggu Lu was stunned. "Great! In that case, we can arrive at a safe place before our Nascent Divided Pearls run out."

"Daoist Yue, why didn't you say so earlier!" Nangong Cheng came squeezing in. "Since you can sense those shadows, we have some form of hope now."

Zhu Yao pulled Yue Ying back, and activated her debt-settling mode. "Who was the one that said he was being nonsensical and preposterous earlier?"

The Yellow and Teal group stiffened, and they carried embarrassed faces. "Haah. It's my fault, I'm sorry, Daoist Yue." Nangong Cheng was rather magnanimous, as he scratched his head and showed an apologetic look.

"I'm sorry." Zhonggu Lu immediately followed up. "I was too anxious earlier, and though… Haah, it's all Little Huang's fault for speaking nonsense!"

"Eh?" Nangong Cheng was shot twice consecutively. Why was he taking full responsibility for this now? Even for his good homosexual friend, he shouldn't shoot like that! Also, who's Little Huang?

Zhu Yao turned to glance at Yue Ying. Seeing that he was carrying his usual expression and cold eyes, looking as if he disliked jokes and conversations, Zhu Yao heaved a sigh of relief. The current Yue Ying was like a child who was overly sensitive. She was truly afraid that because of this matter, he would lose the courage to interact with others.

However the fact that these terrifying shadows had a limited activity range had ignited the confidence of the squad. Just as Nangong Cheng planned on restarting a discussion how they should move forward from here, a sharp scream suddenly interrupted him.

The noise came from nearby, and it belonged to a woman as well. In these silent and dark space, it was especially horrifying. A bad feeling suddenly surged within Zhu Yao. The scream came so suddenly, so it definitely was ominous. Just as they were planning to make a detour…

A stream of hurried sprinting noises could be heard from in front of them. In the next moment, a few dishevelled figures was running over to them. There were a total of four people, and they each was running, limping with a messy pace. They seemed to be composed of three men and one woman.

They initially had panicky and fatigued looks, but when they saw Zhu Yao's group, the instantly came charging over filled with excitement. They stopped outside their barrier and desperately knocked on it. "Save us, save us! I beg you all, save me!"

Only then did Zhu Yao have a good look of their faces. It sure was a coincidence. It was actually Mary Sue Mei Xue who fooled Nangong Cheng and Zhonggu Lu on the second floor. This sure was fate!

"It's you!" Nangong Cheng naturally recognized her as well, and angrily charged forward.

"You…" Mei Xue was stunned as well, and only then did she recognize Nangong Cheng. In an instant, her face was filled with a pleasant surprise. "Daoist Nangong, it's you! That's great! Those shadows are closing in, Daoist Nangong please open the barrier and save us."

Nangong Cheng coldly laughed. "You lot schemed us before, and we have yet to settle the score for that. Yet you still dare to show your face in front of us!"

Mei Xue was stunned as something flashed within her eyes. Immediately after, she recovered herself and tears instantly flowed out. There was no cooldown to her acting skills at all. "Daoist Nangong, could you possibly have a misunderstanding? I can explain! Did something happen after we split up? After we split up, we were really worried of you two as well, and we even returned to search for you two, but… but we simply couldn't find you. Mei Xue understands that we have let you two down, and in these few days, I have also found it hard to swallow down my food because of that incident. Now that we're in a crisis, if you don't let us in, we will immediately lose our lives here."

From the nonsense that she was spouting, most likely, she was still unaware that they had already figured out the secret behind the Extermination Formation. Nangong Cheng's face had already turned green from anger, as he turned back to look at the rest.

Zhu Yao shrugged. "This doesn't concern me. This is your issue, decide on your own."

After saying that, she pulled her master and Yue Ying. They then took a few steps back and turned around.

She looked as if she did not want to step in at all, but she could not help but speak with a suppressed voice. "Yue Ying, there's something I want to ask you."

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Chapter 376: Don't Pull Aggro Off Tanks

"Daoist Nangong, are you really willing to stand idly by and watch us die?" Mei Xue was still pleading with tears and cries. She had considerably good looks in the first place, and adding that her cries were accompanied with a degree of gentleness and frailness, a feeling of pity could not help but well up within people's hearts.

However, Nangong Cheng suffered some losses because of her before. This time, no matter how much sadder she was going to cry, not even the slightest hint of pity would well up within him. "Don't think I'm unaware that you've tempered with the Extermination Formation. Since we're alive right now, it proves that we've long known about the truth. There's no longer a need for you to act in front of us."

Mei Xue's expression stiffened, showing a terrible face that looked as if her secret had been exposed.

Nangong Cheng coldly snorted. No longer having the thought of caring about such lowly people, he called out to the rest to continue on their way. The surrounding sharp screams grew even louder, and ominous winds wildly blew. It was as if something terrifying was hurrying in their direction.

The faces in Mei Xue's group instantly turned miserably pale. She couldn't be bothered with anything else any longer and immediately block their path. "Daoist Nangong, it's all my fault back then! That's right! I made use of you people. But that's an idea that I came up with alone, and it's unrelated to the rest. You can watch me die, but please save my three companions." SHe pointed at the three men next to her. "As long as you're willing to let them into the barrier and have them stay inside till those crowd of shadows move away, Mei Xue is willing to die to pay for her sins."

When her words fell, the few men next to her were not the only ones that were stunned, even Zhu Yao herself could not believe her ears. This was illogical! Mary Sue had actually learnt how to sacrifice herself to save others!?

"Mei Xue, you can't! Even if we die, what regrets would we have?" One of the men in green robes refuted.

"That's right!" Man Number Two replied as well. "As long as we can be with you, so what if we die right now?"

"Even if we die, we have to die together." The other man immediately expressed his intentions as well.

Everything became sensational in an instant. Mei Xue however heavily shook her head, sprinkling the tears that had yet to dry. The scene could only be described as mournful. "No! I can't pull you all down. It's all my fault, so let me bear this burden alone! Daoist Nangong, please save them."

"…" Nangong Cheng was stunned, and grew a little hesitant in an instant, as though he never expected that Mei Xue would die for the sake of others.

"Mei Xue!" The three men was still planning to stop her, when suddenly, Mei Xue forcefully pushed them away. She then pulled out a long sword out of nowhere, and with determined eyes, she looked at Nangong Cheng. "Daoist Nangong, please keep to your words."

As she said that, she had already pushed her sword towards her neck. Just as the tip of the sword was about to reach her neck…

"Hey, hey, what are doing!?" The hell, he hadn't even agreed to it yet! Nangong Cheng was stunned, and out of reflex, he reached out his hand attempting to stop her action.

Zhu Yao's heart sank. "Wait, Nangong Huang!"

Unfortunately, she was a step too late. His hand had already reached out of the barrier, and the barrier opened up right at that moment. Almost at the same time, the plot changed drastically. The three people that Mei Xue pushed away restrained Nangong Cheng in an instant, while the sword that Mei Xue planned on stabbing her own neck with was now held against Nangong Cheng's neck. The barrier immediately disappeared.

The hell!

"Hahahaha…" Mei Xue who was still incomparably gentle and frail earlier, had already changed her expression. Her laughter was filled with extreme arrogance and impudicity. "I've never expected that such a stupid person like you would actually be tricked so easily. You lot deserve to die here."

"You venomous woman, let go of me." Nangong Cheng trembled in anger. However, this floor was a divine energy restricted zone in the first place, and with him being restrained by three people, he was basically unable to move at all.

"Let go of you? I finally managed to capture you, how could I possibly let go of you so easily?" Mei Xue kicked him, and then looked at the rest. "None of you move, otherwise, I will kill him right here and now!" The sword in her hand moved, instantly drawing out a slit of his blood.

"Nangong!" Zhonggu Lu trembled in fury. "What can you show by threatening others? If you have the guts, then fight me one-on-one."

Mei Xue coldly laughed and ignored him.

Zhu Yao frowned and took a step forward. "Mei Xue, just what are you trying to do?"

"What I'm trying to do? What else can I do in this upper floor?" Mei Xue coldly snorted, her face was filled with scorn. She sent a glance to the man at the side, and he immediately received her intentions. He began to search Nangong Cheng's body, and in a few short moments, he found a bag that was filled with Nascent Divided Pearls.

"He still has five of them."

Mei Xue then nodded satisfyingly. Right from the start, her goal was to steal their Nascent Divided Pearls. Her pleads earlier were all just an act.

As they held onto Nangong Cheng, the four of them retreated to a safe distance, and then she coldly laughed. "Then, I hope you all enjoy your final moments."

She suddenly moved away her sword and then ruthlessly stabbed Nangong Cheng in the back, piercing straight through his chest. Pulling her sword out, she then pushed him towards them. "Let's go!" They then turned around and fled towards the front.

"Nangong!" Zhonggu Lu hurriedly caught the injured Nangong Cheng.

Mei Xue and her gang had already disappeared without a trace, but that stab of hers was truly ruthless, as Nangong Cheng's chest was already completely dyed red. Such injuries wouldn't amount to anything if things were like before, but they were unable to use mystic arts here. Even with his divine physique, he wouldn't be able to hold on if his blood continued to flow like this.

Zhu Yao squatted down and cupped his wrist. As expected, his loss of blood was severe.

"Dongfang girly…" Nangong Cheng wished that he could smash his head into the wall right now. "It's all my fault! I got tricked by that bitch's scheme again! Even the Nascent Divided Pearls are…"

"Nevermind, what use is there to bring it up now?" Zhu Yao was a little irritated. Nangong Cheng's earlier action was all pure instinct, who would have thought that Mei Xue was here to steal their Nascent Divided Pearls in the first place? Her stupidity was to blame as well. Mei Xue was a ruthless character in the first place, how could she possibly plead to them? She should have realized it earlier.

Initially, Mei Xue had five men next to her, while there was now only three of them left. Clearly, something must have happened. For a woman who would even use her own people, what else wouldn't she do?

"Dongfang girly is right, this isn't the time to pursue responsibility." Zhonggu Lu was incredibly anxious as well. Seeing blood endlessly flowing out of his chest, even his hands were beginning to tremble. "Let's think of a way to stop your blood from flowing out for now! If things go on like this, you will be in trouble!"

"There isn't only one trouble right now!" Yu Yan suddenly spoke out coldly.

With a wave of his hand, his Life Artifact had already appeared in his hand. Raising his head, he looked to the near distance and solemnly said. "They're here!"

The moment his words fell, a wave of sharp screams rang deep into their ears, and they could not help but feel an immense chill in their hearts. The human-devouring shadows were here.

Zhu Yao immediately pulled out that red "patch" weapon as well. Fortunately, it was her Life Artifact, and was already considered a part of her body, so there was no need for the circulation of divine energy to pull it out. Though, the effects of the sword would be greatly limited, and it could no longer be considered as a divine artifact, but a normal weapon.

"But Nangong, he…" Zhonggu Lu grew even more flustered.

Zhu Yao clenched her fists, and then turned to look at the person behind her. "Yue Ying, can you help stop his blood from flowing out?"

Yue Ying did not hesitate and simply stepped forward. With a wave of his sleeves across Nangong Cheng, the blood from his chest immediately stopped flowing.

"This is…" Zhonggu Lu was completely dumbfounded, as he looked at Yue Ying with a face that seemed as if he was looking at a ghost. "You… Could it be that your mystic arts aren't sealed?"

"There's no time to explain, those shadows are coming." Zhu Yao turned towards the front. Holding onto the sword in her hand tightly, she stood next to her master.

Zhonggu Lu understood that this wasn't the time to ask questions. He stood up and made preparations for battle as well. Even Nangong Cheng took a deep breath and struggled to stand up on his feet.

A moment later.

Ding dong. Something fell in front of them, and then it rolled for a short while on the ground before shattering resoundingly. That was actually a completely used up Nascent Divided Pearl. Zhu Yao instantly understood why Mei Xue actually had the time to come up with such a long act even though they were clearly being chased by those shadows.

This Nascent Divided Pearl seemed to have been placed here by them preemptively, in order to block those shadows that were roaming everywhere and buy them time for their act. Zhu Yao and her group had most likely unknowingly walked into this barrier. This Nascent Divided Pearl could not last for long in the first place, and it had already reached its limit.

The instant the Nascent Divided Pearls shattered, immense number of shadows crazily pounced towards them. Piercing screams rang painfully in their ears. The place was filled with flying shadows, and occasionally, those shadows would flash their human faces that grew even more sinister and terrifying as more of them did. Even the shadows that flew past them carried a bone-piercing chill, as though they could injure them with frostbites.

Those shadows seemed to have specific goals in their minds. Some charged towards her master, some charged towards Nangong Cheng, some charged towards Zhonggu Lu, and even more of them charged towards Yue Ying, except her!

Zhu Yao was a little dumbfounded. Looking at the waves after waves of shadows, they split towards the people at the side and were completely avoiding her. Not a single one of them turned around and give her a glance. Not a single one!

Just what was going on? Did Realmspirit give her a cheat again? However, ever since she entered the tower, she wasn't given any sort of preferential treatment. Even her World Favourable Impression passive seemed to have been completely ineffective right from the beginning.

"Master…" She looked at the people next to her with strange eyes.

"Mn?" Yu Yan swung away the several shadows with his sword, and then turned to look at her.

Zhu Yao did not have time to explain when the next shadow took the opportunity to attack Yu Yan's back. "Master, watch out!" Zhu Yao immediately slashed at it and that shadow instantly dissipated, turning into a mass of black smoke. However, the smoke did not scatter off, and instead began to gather together once more. In just a few moments, it once again formed a complete figure, and a human face instantly surfaced. That was a face of an old man. He had a long beard and white hair, looking extremely kind. He even looked a little familiar.

In a blink of an eye, it turned into a sinister look, and with a sharp scream, it came pouncing towards her. Zhu Yao swung her sword and once again scattered it.

As expected, in less than ten minutes, that shadow once again changed back, and Zhu Yao seemed to have accidentally caught its attention. This shadow began to change its target and launch attacks at her.

Zhu Yao was not a physical practitioner. Her sword techniques were not as strong as her divine arts, and could only be considered average. However, it was more than enough to deal with a single one. However, if this went on, nothing would change. These things could reform themselves limitlessly and could not be killed at all. They had to find a plan.

Zhu Yao inspected her surroundings, but was shocked by the person behind her.

"Yue Ying!" He was actually staring blankly in the air while standing in the center of a large number of shadows!

Without even thinking, Zhu Yao charged over. With a few slashes, she cut away several shadows that were surrounding Yue Ying, instantly pulling a large number of aggro.

In an instant, large number of shadows came flying towards her.

Uh… She seemed to have become an off-tank.

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Chapter 377: The Truth Behind the Final Floor

Zhu Yao felt a large wave of cold winds charging towards her, and it was both quick and hurried. She hurriedly swung her sword to deflect them, slashing apart the gathering shadows. However, she was not able to dodge all of them either. After slashing apart the ones at the front, the ones at the back came charging forward as well. The first few swings were still fine, but slowly, her strength began to dwindle. After scattering a few shadows, an ominous wind came charging towards her back. She instinctively shifted to the side, but she was still a step too late. An aching pain spread from her arm as something had pierced into it. It was as if something was trying to slice off a piece of her flesh.

When she turned to look, she saw a shadow was biting deeply into her arm, and her hand was already drenched in fresh blood. That figure merely revealed half of its face, but his appearance could be vaguely seen, and Zhu Yao was stunned after seeing it.

"Big sis!" Yue Ying was startled, hurriedly walking over.

Zhu Yao gritted her teeth as she passed her sword to her other hand and scattered the shadow. However, the bite was so deep, her bones could already be seen. This bite could not be compared to any of the injuries she suffered in the past, but back then, she still had her cultivation no matter how severe her injuries were, so she would have still been able to hold on even if she was bitten. Presently, with how her divine energy was suppressed, this pain clearly hurt even more. She could barely feel her own hand now.

"Big sis!" Yue Ying was a little flustered, as he hurriedly helped stop her blood from flowing out. Something seemed to be burning with his eyes.

"Yu Yao." Yu Yan's face clearly looked a little anxious as well, but he was being surrounded by a large number of shadows and could not push his way through.

"I'm fine." Zhu Yao solemnly said. "Don't lose focus." This wasn't the time to be worried about such things.

Zhu Yao's right arm was injured, and at this moment, she couldn't even hold her sword properly. However, she had no choice but to stand up again. The hell, you're bullying me because I'm not a leftie, right?

But it really hurts! She was basically using her own flesh and body to block attacks.

Most likely because of the stimulation from her blood, those shadows grew even wilder. Their terrifying screams grew sharper, causing one's skin to crawl. They seemed to be waiting for something, as they circled around their surroundings. Then, they once again attacked her from her back.

Zhu Yao had no choice but to shift to the side and hold up her sword again. With this action of hers, her blood began to pour out once more. Just as she was about to be submerged by an overwhelming amount of shadows, Yue Ying suddenly grabbed onto her hand, and his eyes instantly turned crimson red.

"Scram!"

In an instant, a dark aura that was even thicker that the shadows' was emitted out from his body, instantly devouring those shadows. The shadows revealed flustered looks, and the situation instantly flipped around. The shadows that were still anxiously targeting them before were now fleeing in all directions.

In just a few seconds, the area suddenly quietened down.

There was no longer any shadows in the air, but they were replaced by a devillic aura that was even colder and more terrifying than those shadows. Yue Ying was enveloped within the devillic aura, and what remained was a pair of crimson-red eyes filled with anger. The light coming from his eyes were enough to send cold shivers down everyone's spines.

Zhu Yao instantly calmed down and grabbed him with her other hand, desperately ignoring the devillic aura that was making her tremble. With a solemn voice, she said. "Yue Ying, I'm fine now! Everyone is fine now."

Only then did the anger in his eyes slowly extinguish, reverting back to their former clarity. The surrounding devillic aura then slowly began to return into his body as well, till they completely disappear. He lowered his head and looked at her hand which was dripping with blood. "Big sis…"

"I'm fine." Zhu Yao smiled at him. "Thank you." She never expected that even though these shadows were fierce, they could not match against devillic aura. It was no wonder Yue Ying was unmoving earlier. It wasn't because he was in a daze, rather, the shadows must have realized the aura emitted from his body and did not dare to approach him.

"Devillic aura!" Zhonggu Lu looked over with a stunned expression. "Could… Could you actually be…"

Even Nangong Cheng's face changed as well.

Zhu Yao sighed. It seemed like they couldn't hide it any longer. "That's right, Yue Ying is of the Devil race. The shadows earlier were chased away by him as well. What are you two planning to do?"

Zhonggu Lu and Nangong Cheng were stunned for a moment.

"No wonder… No wonder he's the only one who can still use mystic arts." Zhonggu Lu muttered. They were unable to circulate divine energy, but devillic energy was not restricted.

Nangong Cheng looked at Zhu Yao, and finally let out a sigh. "So that's the case. Da… Daoist Yue, thank you very much. With that many shadows, I thought we were dead for sure!"

"Isn't your stupidity at fault here? Otherwise, why would we have encountered so much trouble?" Zhonggu Lu retorted.

"The hell, can you blame me for that? It's because that Mei Xue is too treacherous, alright?"

Zhonggu Lu immediately rolled his eyes.

It seemed like they were intentionally ignoring the fact that Yue Ying was a Devil. After all, everyone had come a long way together, and it would be best that a conflict wouldn't occur.

Zhu Yao heaved a sigh of relief, when a her right hand was suddenly held by someone. She could not help but let out a cold gasp. "Szz…"

"Don't move." A certain master glared at her unhappily, as he began to roll a white cloth around her injured arm.

"I'm fine, master. The blood has already stopped flowing. It will be fine in about an hour." After all, she still had a divine physique, such injuries would heal really quickly.

His eyes narrowed. "Mn?"

"Uh… Wrap it, wrap it then!" Wuuuu, master is angry at me again.

They did not stay around, instead, they took the opportunity when the shadows were scattered and hurriedly pressed forward towards their goal. Initially, they thought that they would at least encounter another two or three waves. Strangely however, they had rushed for two days straight, but not a single shadow came attacked them again.

Even if there were occasional misty shadows floating past, they completely ignored Zhu Yao's group and simply floated away after swaying about a few times. Zhu Yao thought that this was due to fear of Yue Ying's devillic energy, or there was simply too little shadows in their present surroundings. However, Yue Ying had clearly retracted his devillic energy and was not leaking out even the littlest bit. Furthermore, the sharp and terrifying screams in the air did not lessen that much either.

Zhu Yao's heart began to sink, as the guess she had continued to grow clearer. On the third day, they finally walked out of the sinister and terrifying territory, and they instantly saw the light in front of them. It was as if they had suddenly walked out of the darkness and into the light, as the sinister air was completely swept away, and what replaced it was a lush green forest.

"Great, we finally got out." Nangong Cheng said with joy. "We no longer have to be harrassed by those shadows. We're safe now."

"That might not be the case!" Zhu Yao clenched her fists, her worry grew heavier.

Nangong Cheng was stunned as he turned to look at her. "Dongfang girly, just relax. Look at this place, it's completely bright. Those shadows definitely won't come here. As long as we cross this forest, we will be able to reach the light that guides us to the realm of Gods. We are no longer in any sort of danger."

Zhu Yao turned to look at the darkness behind her, and then once again glanced at the greenery before them, frowning. "Do you guys know… what those shadows are?"

Nangong Cheng was startled. "What else can they be?"

"Sinister and ominous, undestroyable, being able to resurrect indefinitely, and carrying such immense hatred. With such characteristics, I can only think of a single thing."

Yu Yan frowned and coldly said. "Resentment!"

The group was stunned. Zhonggu Lu stepped forward. "How is that possible? Isn't resentment something that only exists in the Netherworld? Why would it appear in the Lightning Divine Tower? And on the final floor on the road to ascending into Gods nonetheless!"

"I've once visited the River of Forgetfulness in the Netherworld." To be exact, she met the River of Forgetfulness himself. "The River of Forgetfulness is the only thing that bridges the Three Realms, and it flows throughout every corner of the Three Realms, guiding those depressed souls back to the Netherworld and sending them to their reincarnations. Since the River of Forgetfulness can be found in all of the Three Thousand Worlds, then it can naturally be found in the Divine Realm as well."

Nangong Cheng grew even more confused. "What does these shadows have to do with the River of Forgetfulness?"

"All of the resentment of the Netherworld is being concealed in the depths of the River of Forgetfulness." Yu Yan continued with a solemn voice.

"You're saying, the River of Forgetfulness brought resentment into the Lightning Divine Tower?" Zhonggu Lu frowned. "However, even if those shadows are resentment, since we're already here, they wouldn't chase after us, right? Furthermore, after those resentment were chased away by Daoist Yue, they no longer appeared again. What does this have to do with the danger that you speak of?"

"Have neither of you felt anything strange about those shadows?"

The group exchanged glances, and even Yu Yan was confused as well.

"Master, I want to ask you something. In the Lower Realm, have you met someone that looks exactly the same as Sect Master Zi Mo?"

Yu Yan was stunned for a moment. As someone who was face-blind, Zi Mo's face was one of few that he remembered. After pondering deeply for a while, as though he had thought of something, he solemnly said. "There was a heretic practitioner who deeply specialized in the arts of transformation, and he was even capable of changing his aura. He once turned into Zi Mo's appearance and infiltrated my Ancient Hill Sect. He was then exposed by me."

"After that?"

"Naturally, he was killed."

"Did master personally do it?"

"Mn."

"As expected!" Zhu Yao sighed, and instantly a sense of powerlessness overwhelmed her.

"Dongfang girly, just what are you trying to get with those words of yours?" Nangong Cheng anxiously asked.

Zhu Yao turned to look at the four of them. "Did you all notice the appearances of the shadows formed by resentment?"

The group: "…"

"I saw them…" Zhu Yao solemnly said. "I saw a shadow that looked exactly the same as Zi Mo. That shadow was attacking my master. I even saw…" She turned to look at Yue Ying. "Xu Nuoyan! And he was attacking Yue Ying."

Her master and Yue Ying instantly widened their eyes. As though they had realized something, their faces instantly turned complicated.

"Just what do you mean?" Nangong Cheng was anxious. "And who is this Xu Nuoyan?"

"It doesn't matter who he is." Zhu Yao shook her head. "The important thing is, who they were killed by!"

Zhonggu Lu's expression changed. "You… You're saying, those resentment are formed by the people that we've once killed? And that is why they were desperately attacking us?"

"I wasn't certain in the beginning. However, have you all thought about why no other shadows attacked us again after those resentment were chased away by the devillic aura back then?" Zhu Yao analysed. "Because the other resentment aren't looking for us! They would only look for their creditors."

This was also why at the very beginning, those resentment only attacked the four of them and completely avoided her. Because she had never taken a single human life, so naturally, there did not exist any so-called resentment seeking her for revenge. After that, she took the initiative to attack them, and only then were they lured over.

"Why would the River of Forgetfulness simply send these resentment into the Lightning Divine Tower? Also, after being filled by resentment for so many years, why hasn't there been any signs of the Lightning Divine Tower collapsing?" Zhu Yao's expression grew heavier. "If my guess is correct, the final test of this Lightning Divine Tower is actually a tribulation, a tribulation of karma! From the many deeds that we'd planted back then, we will receive the corresponding karma. Most likely, from everything that a practitioner has done in the past, everything would be returned on this very floor."

"If that's the case… Do you guys still feel that the place before us is really safe?"

"…" Everyone's faces instantly paled.

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Chapter 378: The Fate of the Scheming Mary Sue

Among the people who could ascend and become Deities, which one of them would have clean hands? Especially in the case of such an environment where the strong would feast on the weak. Usually, the higher one stood, the more debts of blood he would hold, not to mention there were a Demonic Immortal and a Devil among them. Which one of them hadn't climbed up through a bloody slaughter?

"Dongfang girly, it might not be as bad as you say?" Nangong Cheng waved his hands without a mind and smiled. Just that that smile of his was clearly a little forced. "Look, we're already out of the territory. Even if those resentment originated from our killings back then, there shouldn't be anything else, right?"

"I don't know either. If this floor is truly a tribuluation of karma, then how could killings be the only deeds that we'd planted?" Zhu Yao shook her head. "In any case, being cautious isn't wrong. After all, the road to the Light of Guidance is still long!"

The group sternly nodded. Compared to the lax and joy earlier, they were now more vigilant and serious instead, as every single one of them pressed forward with a hundred and twenty percent focus.

Yue Ying was their main battle force. As of now, he was the only one remaining who had the human GPS function, and so he took the initiative to walk at the front. Zhu Yao and her master was following behind, and they were responsible of inspecting the surrounding situation. Nangong Cheng and Zhonggu Lu on the other hand were at the back.

After maintaining their current formation well, the group finally walked into the large green forest. The forest wasn't actually really dense. Compared to the forests in the Three Thousand Worlds that were filled with spiritual and divine energy, this place was clearly a little dull, as though there wasn't any sign of life. The ground was filled with broken branches and dead leaves. Even the leaves on the trees had withered, and were at the verge of falling off.

They did not walk for too long when Yue Ying suddenly stopped. With a frown, he looked forward.

"What is it?" Zhu Yao asked.

He pointed to the front. "There seems to be something in front?"

The hell, so quick!

Their hearts suddenly tensed up, and after hearing carefully, the sounds of battle could be heard. They had initially planned on making a detour, but that place was somewhere they had to pass through no matter what. In order to prevent any incidents, they could not help but be more cautious of their surroundings.

The closer they approached, the louder the battle noises became. They had just walked a few meters when a large green field appeared before their eyes. A flustered voice crying for help could be heard.

"Save me. Hurry… Hurry and save me. Hurry and save me!!"

This voice…

They then got a closer look. Yo, it sure is a small world. Isn't the three men and one woman over there Mei Xue and her gang? Zhu Yao wondered if it was retribution, as they had once again encountered trouble.

A flower with the combined height of two people appeared on the field of grass. It had body dyed in bloody red, and its six wide-spread petals were as large as bathtubs. At the very center of the flower was actually a large bloody mouth, and sharp teeth were grown all around it. There were even thorny vines baring their teeth and dancing about in the air, their looks were especially terrifying.

Mei Xue and another man was being bitten by that flower, and half of their bodies were already in its mouth. The other two men were currently grabbing onto their hands, wanting to pull them out with all their might. Mei Xue had a fatigued look, and was already crying out from fear. Her hair was dishevelled and even her face was crumpled up. She was really crying now, losing all of the beauty of a pear blossom in tears. She was howling like a pig that was about to be slaughtered.

"Hurry, hurry and pull me out… Save me, hurry and save me!" As she waved about her hands, she hissed with her exhausted voice, crying out to the two men outside. The lower half of her body was already flowing out blood from the flower's bite, and it was surging out even more than a woman's auntie.

The two men outside grabbed onto each one of her arms and were using all of their strength to pull her out of the flower's mouth. However, because they could not use their divine energy, they did not dare to go too close either. Furthermore, that flower was twice the size of an average person in the first place, so though they did not let go, their efforts were not very evident. She was already beginning to slowly slide into the flower's innards.

The man that was similarly in the flower's mouth saw that this wasn't going to work out. Letting go of his hands, he then dragged Mei Xue's waist in the opposite direction. "Mei Xue, save me after you've safely left!" With a strong lift, he immediately threw her out.

The power of three people were clearly effective. Seeing that she had escaped the flower's mouth, the man joyfully reached out his hand, wanting to seek help. However, that flower seemed to be unwilling to see its prey escaping just like that. Its large mouth once again widened, and it then pounced forward.

It was unknown if she had done it with intention, but the moment Mei Xue got out, she suddenly sent a kick to the back, instantly kicking the man that was seeking their help into the flower's innards. That gigantic flower retreated a few meters because of the rebound as well, though it seemed to have swallowed the man whole.

This scene happened so quickly. The man that dragged Mei Xue out did not even have the opportunity to be surprised when he disappeared into the gigantic flower's mouth. Mei Xue and the other two men on the other hand took this chance to escape the flower's active range. Their faces were miserably pale, and they looked as if they had been utterly frightened.

The two men who went to save them had terrible expressions, clearly, they saw the earlier scene with their very own eyes. However, under Mei Xue's cries, the two decided to ignore it and began to console her instead.

"Mei Xue, we're fine now, we're fine now? Don't be afraid."

"But big brother Ye Yu…"

"He died to save you, and he definitely did it out of his own free will as well."

"That's right, he won't blame you. He will definitely be able to pass away peacefully knowing that you're safe."

"He died for a purpose, and with that, he died with honour!"

The surrounding five spectators instantly carried darkened expressions, feeling as though they had swallowed crap.

"The hell. I'm sorry, I need to puke a little." Zhonggu Lu turned around and retched.

"I've never seen something so disgusting, and such a disgusting Deity practitioner." Nangong Cheng could not help but retort as well. "Dongfang girly, are all you Deities like this? Fortunately, I'm a Demonic Immortal."

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. "This is my first time seeing such an incredible Deity practitioner, alright?" Please apologize to all of the Deity practitioners in the world, hey!

"It's you people!" Mei Xue was stunned, a hint of fluster flashed across her face.

"We meet again." Nangong Cheng coldly snorted. "Is this what's known as retribution for one's actions? Mei Xue, it's time we settle our past debts."

The other two men's expression changed as well, as they wielded their weapons one after another and looked at their with alert expressions.

"If you want to harm Mei Xue, you should first ask the sword in my hand."

"Hmph, you group of losers still dare to spout such presumptuous words. Mei Xue, don't need to be afraid, we definitely won't allow them to touch you the slightest bit."

The two of them had determined looks as they firmly protected Mei Xue between them, who had a frail and fearful look on her face. However, the two of them understood that in term of numbers, they were basically not their match. They had no choice but to guard Mei Xue at the center and began to retreat.

Unfortunately, before Nangong Cheng could even make a move, with a sudden swoosh, two enormous vines suddenly pierced out from beneath the three's feet, reaching up to a height of two meters. The vines twirled at the top and then suddenly split open. Instantly, two blood-coloured man-eater flowers, that looked exactly the same as the one before, bloomed. They then pounced towards the three of them.

Just as the three of them were once again about to enter the flowers' mouth, Mei Xue who was standing in the center and was nearest to the flowers, suddenly screamed.

"Ah!~!!" She pushed out her two hands at the same time, successfully pushing the two into the incoming flowers' mouths, while she herself had rolled out of the range of the two flowers.

Before the two men could even react, while their pledge was still echoing in their ears, they were personally pushed into the gates of hell by their beloved. They did not even have the time to question her, as they disappeared within the enormous flowers with faces of utter disbelief and shock.

Zhu Yao wondered if they could still truly say that they died for a purpose, and hence died with honour!

Mei Xue did not even turn to look at the two of them. After crawling up, she instead ran towards the direction of Zhu Yao's group, as though she had discovered the danger of the grass plains and was trying to escape. Unfortunately, she was still too slow.

A few red vines charged out from the ground, instantly wrapping around Mei Xue's body and trapping her where she stood. The bloody red thorns on the vines stabbed directly into her flesh, punching several holes in her body.

Her face instantly paled, her eyes were filled with fear. She struggled wildly, wanting to crawl towards them. "Save me… Please, save me… Save me…"

Zhu Yao frowned and turned her head away. Yue Ying and Yu Yan did not have any reaction, while Zhonggu Lu simply rolled his eyes. Nangong Cheng even spat heavily in her direction.

If she hadn't schemed against them time and time again to steal their Nascent Divided Pearls, they might have pitied her a little. But now… even if there was something wrong with their brains, they wouldn't lend a helping hand, especially after seeing her unhesitantly pushing out even her own male companions. Calling her snake-hearted would even make snakes look bad!

Mei Xue did not struggle for too long. The vines wrapping around her body continued to increase, and fresh blood poured out from the holes in her body, which were then absorbed cleanly by those green vines. Mei Xue's initial world-class appearance began to age at an astonishing speed, and in just a few moments, she had already turned into a white-haired old lady. Her body was also drying up at a speed visible to the naked eyes. As though the nourishment from her body was being absorbed, the vines began to turn greener and were even glowing with a faint glistening light.

Red flower buds began to pop out from the vines, and they crawled across the entire vines. They watched as the buds grew even larger, to the size of a fist. With a slight twirl, blood-coloured flowers that looked like red gems instantly bloomed. However, those flowers were different from the man-eater flowers from before, and only had five petals. Yet they looked as if they were formed out of crystals.

"Lasting Flowers!" Zhonggu Lu suddenly widened his eyes, his face instantly changed. "The pollens of these flowers carry a dangerous poison. Breathing it in would damage one's primordial spirit and cause one to suffocate."

When Zhu Yao heard this, she immediately held her nose and mouth. The rest did the same as well.

As expected, the sharp flower petals let out a bright flash of red light, and after a few crisp crackling noises, they began to explode and instantly turned into red powder. The powder filled the entire sky, and then they sprinkled down onto the ground. Under the light from the sun, it was as if red stars were raining down.

Fifteen minutes later, those red powder finally sank into the grass field and disappeared without a trace. Mei Xue whose appearance could no longer be discerned had already been completely absorbed into the Lasting Flowers' vines. Suddenly, with a loud boom, the Lasting Flowers and the other gigantic red flowers began to sink back into the earth. Even the holes that they appeared from had disappeared without a trace.

The area in front of them turned into a flat and quiet field of grass, as if the earlier catastrophe had never happened.

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Chapter 379: Realizing an Incredible Secret

When it came to Mei Xue's retribution, Zhu Yao was still sighing at how things turned out in the beginning. Out of rationality, she still silently lit a row of candles for Mei Xue in her heart. However, immediately after, she could no longer rationalize her thoughts.

She suddenly recalled. Momma's egg! How are we going to pass this grass field!? In other words, they were going to encounter those strange flowers beneath the earth as well. Recalling that enormous flower which didn't even burp after swallowing one of them whole, she could not help but tremble. She wondered if it was too late for them to make a retreat?

"The strange flowers and plants underneath the earth are definitely not limited to just that breed earlier." Zhonggu Lu's expression was especially terrible to look at. "Also, I can sense that these flowers most likely possess sentience."

"Sentience." Zhu Yao was stunned. "You're saying those earlier were all flower spirits?"

Zhonggu Lu nodded, a hint of doubt surfaced on his expression once more. "I'm a Plant Immortal, so I can naturally sense them. However, those flower spirits are a little different from flower spirits that cultivate normally. They seemed to be even more… violent than the rest."

The rest were all stunned for a moment. Spirits that were formed by plants usually had gentler and warmer personalities. After all, plants were creatures that were the hardest to develop sentience with. Also, compared to human practitioners and demonic beasts, they needed an extremely long time to grow, and they were not able to even move in their preliminary stages. That was why they would not develop any impatience, let alone violence.

"Take that Lasting Flower for example. Formerly, it's a Resident Flower. Only after developing sentience would it mutate into a Lasting Flower." Zhonggu Lu explained. "Also, it's extremely hard for such flowers to grow, and so it's extremely rare for one to cultivate into a spirit."

Zhu Yao's heart sank. Suddenly, she thought of something. "Then what are those three man-eater flowers called? Do you know what effects they have on practitioners?"

Zhonggu Lu's expression changed, and he lamented in dissatisfaction. "You Deity practitioners are really… Why do you all first think of their effects when spiritual herbs are brought up?"

"Don't care about that right now, just tell me."

"The other breed must be the Heavenly Immortal Herb." Zhonggu Lu pouted, but he still answered. "Though, the Heavenly Immortal Herbs are usually spiritual herbs that would only grow up to a few inches tall. I wonder why they could become so big. As for what effects they have on practitioners, I don't know either. I've never eaten them anyway."

"Resident Flowers can be used to refine the Immortal Pellet." Yu Yan suddenly said. "This pellet can resurrect a dead person and allow his or her bones and flesh to regrow. As long as his soul does not dissipate, no matter how severe his injuries are, they can all be restored in just a single incense worth of time."

The hell, it's that overpowered?

"As for the Heavenly Immortal Herbs, it can be used to refine Realm Crossing Pellets. Taking one will enable a practitioner's cultivation to immediately improve by a large realm."

"A large realm!" Zhu Yao was stunned. "In other words, in the Lower Realm, if our initial cultivation is at the Nascent Soul stage, eating it will allow one to immediately become a Demigod? And if one is a Demigod, then he or she can immediately ascend?"

"It's the same in the Divine Realm as well." He added. "This is a divine herb in the first place."

Yu Yan frowned. "Though, the recipes for these two pellets have long disappeared. I've never heard of someone capable of refining it in the Divine Realm, let alone the Lower Realm."

Was this Mei Xue's cheat? She could refine Realm Crossing Pellets and immediately raise her level. This cheat was much more incredible than hers. It was no wonder her level was 1 while the others were all at level 2 when they first met in the second floor. Most likely, her cultivation had all come from eating pellets and medicine. Her foundation was not stable, and coincidentally, Lightning Divine Tower forbid dru- ah pui, forbid taking herbs?"

"Dongfang girly, have you thought of something?" Nangong Cheng took a step forward and said. "Share it with us so that we can come up with plans together."

Zhu Yao felt like crying. "I just thought that, if this floor is truly the tribulation of karma, then all of the plants here are most likely materialized by the pellets that we've eaten before."

"It… It can't be!" Nangong Cheng was a little anxious. Who wouldn't eat pellets or medicine all their path of cultivation? Even Zhonggu Lu, a Flower Deity, had swallowed high-ranking spiritual herbs in order to raise his cultivation as well. "Aren't spiritual herbs supposed to be sentienceless? Also, when we gather them, we've never met any resistance either."

"You already mentioned that they're spiritual herbs." Zhu Yao rolled her eyes. "That proves that they must contain spiritual and divine energies. Where do they come from? Do you think they would enter these herbs by themselves?"

"People with divine or spiritual energies in their bodies can be considered practitioners. Then, plants with divine or spiritual energies, can also be considered as sentient spirits. Though, the differences would simply lie in how long it has been since they blossom." The same logic applied to how demonic beasts would have higher level of intelligence as their ranks increased. "Also, all pellets and medicines possess their own pellet poison, and this applies to divine herbs as well. Theoretically speaking, the bodies of spiritual herbs contain the purest divine or spiritual energies, so they should be able to take in energy just like spirit stones. Then why would they contain poison? And where does the poison come from? Could the so-called pellet poison is actually the final retribution by those herbs that had just awoken their sentience but has no means to fight back?"

The group was instantly silent.

"Dongfang girly, from how you're putting it, I'm starting to feel anxious!" Nangong Cheng's face instantly drooped down. He glanced at the field of grass before them, and then silently took a step back.

"There's no need to worry." Yu Yan said with a calm look, as he stroked his disciple's head. "If this grass field is truly testing one's karma with spiritual herbs, then we master and disciple have never eaten a single medicinal pellet. I believe passing this stage wouldn't be hard."

"Oh right!" Zhu Yao said with a enlightened expression. "Then why are we being afraid!?"

"I've never eaten one either!" Yue Ying immediately raised his hand and expressed himself.

"Good job." Zhu Yao stroked his head.

Her beating little heart instantly calmed down. She felt rather domineering all of a sudden.

Nangong Cheng and Zhonggu Lu: "…"

We ate them before, hey! Where's the promised love between teammates? Don't speak as if you three are the only ones here, hey!

"Dongfang girly…" Nangong Cheng pitifully tugged Zhu Yao's sleeves, and his hand was instantly shoved away by Yue Ying with a scornful look. My big sis's sleeves is mine! "What about us? What should we do?"

Zhu Yao was stunned, and only then did she regain her senses. "Oh right! I forgot you guys were still here."

From Mei Xue's situation earlier, those spiritual herbs seemed to appear based on the amount of aggro accumulated. The more one ate, the more frequent they would appear. "Come, tell us what medicine and pellets you two have eaten. How many flowers have you all destroyed? Just how many youthful spiritual plants have you all harmed altogether?"

"Uh…" Why did he feel as if he was a greedy beast now? "Not… Not… Not that much?" What's with this sense of shame I'm feeling all of a sudden? "I'm a Demonic Immortal. You should be aware that demonic beasts don't know how to refine medicine at all in the Lower Realm. When we encounter spiritual herbs, I would usually swallow them whole."

"The hell, you actually swallow them alive!" Before Zhu Yao could even speak, Zhonggu Lu had already retorted. "You're so murderous and violent! You're actually a beast like that!"

"Tch, you sound as if you haven't swallowed one before." Nangong Cheng glared at his good homosexual buddy. "When you first materialized into a human form back then, didn't you destroy an entire mountain peak worth of spiritual herbs?"

"That was subjugation based on my beauty!" Zhonggu Lu praised himself as he stroked his cheeks with his muscular arms. "That was a battle concerning us Flower Deities, you don't understand!"

"That battle was a little too intense, don't you think? After all, you did swallow the flowers, their leaves, and even their roots. More importantly, you didn't distinguish them by gender, and took them all in. You're too much."

"We Flower Deities don't distinguish ourselves based on gender in the first place! We can be either a man or a woman!"

"May I ask just how are you a woman with that body of yours?" This daddy here has never seen such a muscular lady before, alright?

"You still dare to speak of it!? Your race allows you to choose a gender when taking up a human form in the first place. I already told you to become a female beastie, yet you chose to become male! Now that things turn out this way, you're blaming me for it!?" Who doesn't know how to argue and fight back, huh?

"Isn't it all because you said you can choose your gender when you're taking up a human form too? Otherwise, do you think things would have turned out this way?"

"You're clearly the one at fault!"

"It's you!"

"It's you!"

The group of three spectators: "…" They seemed to have found out something incredible.

The two's argument on heartlessness, shamelessness, and nonsense lasted for exactly two hours, and Zhu Yao lost interest after watching for fifteen minutes. With her master and Yue Ying, they inspected the strange grass field before them.

The matter of throwing aside Nangong Cheng and Zhonggu Lu had never crossed her mind. After all, this tribulation of karma was just a guess she made. Though theoretically speaking, their family… ah pui! She, her master and Yue Ying had never eaten any pellets, but that did not mean they had never harmed any flowers or herbs. At the very least, she had caused the deaths of many cactuses in the modern era. If this grass field even took that into consideration, they she would be stabbed to death!

So they still had to look at this from a long-term perspective. However, they walked around the sides a few times, but they did not discover any loopholes. They couldn't make a detour around either. She immediately squatted next to it and silently dug a hole in the grass field with the size of a face, wanting to find out just what was being hidden underneath. However, it was all but a fruitless effort, as there was nothing to be found. Could these mutated flowers and plants simply like to play tricks? Why not dig a tunnel through then?

"There must be something unique hidden in this grass field." Yu Yan squatted down and held up his disciple's hands which was still trying to dig even deeper. Then, he filled the hole back. "It seems it will only activate once we truly take a step into it."

"…" So you're saying tunnels are useless?

"Most likely, the things that appear after entering it, are different from person to person." Yu Yan continued.

"Different from person to person…" Zhu Yao was stunned. "You're saying there's a formation underneath."

"To be capable of enveloping such a large grass field, materialize so many strange plants and flowers, and not to mention targeting different people with different plants, I'm afraid it's not something formations are able to do."

"Then…"

"Laws." Yu Yan solemnly said. "Only the laws of the heaven and earth can see through a person's everything. And only laws can materialize those unreasonable creatures."

"Laws of the heaven and earth…" Zhu Yao suddenly thought of Realmspirit. These so-called laws are made by that bastard, aren't they? Why do I suddenly feel like I'm about to get trolled?

"In any case, we can only figure out the situation by entering it." Yu Yan reached out his hand and held hers, tightening his grip. "This might be a hard battle. Are you prepared?"

Zhu Yao nodded heavily. "Mn." Since they were already here, they had to reach the goal no matter what.

She took a deep breath and held tightly onto her master. Just as she was about to step into the grass field, she suddenly thought of something. She turned to look at the male and male (female and female) leads that were still acting out their drama, and the corner of her lips twitched. She then spoke to the person that had long been waiting next to her.

"Yue Ying, bring them over as well."

Yue Ying's eyes shone and happily raised his leg. With a kick, he sent the two people that were still in a heated argument into the field.

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Chapter 380: I Want to Eat Your Brains

Zhu Yao and gang had yet to reach the position where Mei Xue disappeared at, when the ground suddenly began to undergo a change. She instantly went on high alert. Her master had mentioned that the laws of the heaven and earth were present in this field, so she wondered just what was about to happen. The ground shook as if an earthquake was occurring, but the source of the quake was not beneath their feet, but the ground that was a hundred meters in front of them. There were things popping out of the ground one after another, and they continued to grow up to two meters in height. At the top, large yellow flowers began to bloom, and on their stems were four pieces of crisp green leaves. The leaves looked like little hands as they swayed about.

Eh? Why do I feel as though they look a little like sunflowers? They don't look as if they have killing instincts at all.

A moment later, the rows of sunflowers began to sway to the left and right, as though they were dancing. At the center of the flowers, pairs of cartoon-like eyes appeared, and they were blinking in their group's direction.

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. These rows of flowers are so far away, are we about to play Plants vs Zombies here?

Just as she was in doubt, the ground suddenly shook once more. Less than a meter away from those rows of sunflowers, a plant once again popped out. Its entire body was jade-green in colour, and four gigantic leaves grew out of its stem. At its very top however was a bottle cap-like cylindrical shape, and floating behind it was a strip of foolish hair.

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched, and two words flashed in her mind – Pea Shooter.

"Why haven't I seen these two divine herbs before!" Zhonggu Lu had a stunned look. "I wonder just what's going to happen next?"

"Hoho… They might start shooting peas at us."

"What?" Before Zhonggu Lu could ask further, that Pea Shooter aimed at them and shot out an enormous green ball, which charged straights towards them.

Zhu Yao: "…"

We're really playing Plants VS Zombies here, hey!? So those rows of sunflowers at the back are used to gather light? Since the plants are out, does that mean we're the zombies? Realmspirit, get out here! I guarantee I won't beat you to death!

"Hurry and dodge!" Zhu Yao shouted out, and everyone hurriedly scattered in all directions. With a swoosh, that enormous green pea smashed onto the ground, and then it exploded with a loud boom. In an instant, a large crater of about four meters deep appeared on the ground.

Zhu Yao felt uncomfortable all over now. That's not a pea, but a bomb, isn't it!? This mutation is simply too terrifying. As a zombie, I express my dissatisfaction!

"It's coming again!" Nangong Cheng shouted.

Suddenly, the ground shook a few times once more, and next to the Pea Shooter, four similar plants appeared one after another. Like the sunflowers behind, they lined up in a row and were even arranged rather neatly.

The moment the new Pea Shooters appeared, they immediately began a new wave of bomb attacks. Five peas shot out at the same time, erupting the earth. The five of them dodged with a great difficulty. Out of accident, Zhu Yao's feet slipped, and she had almost fell head-first into one of the craters.

Momma's egg! I feel like eating brains now.

Zhu Yao tightened her grip on her sword and shouted loudly. "First destroy the sunflowers that are gathering sunlight."

The four were stunned.

"Which are sunflowers?"

"What's gathering sunlight?"

The hell! I forgot they're all teammates with zero experience!

She thus corrected herself. "Those rows of yellow flowers at the back are giving the plants sunli… they are the formation cores providing divine energy to the plants. If we destroy the formation cores, there won't be anymore appearances of plants."

Everyone instantly understood, and they charged towards the sunflowers with determined looks. However, the number of Pea Shooters continued to grow, and they were already nearing the number of sunflowers behind them. Everyone dodged the smashing peas in whichever direction they could, and basically did not make much progress in their advance. Furthermore, in front of the Pea Shooters, other breeds began to appear as well.

That brownish oval-shaped creature with a suffering expression is a Wall-nut, isn't it!?

The ice-blue one that looks similar to the Pea Shooters, with a few more stupid hair on the back on its head, is a Snow Pea, right!?

And that one which is dyed entirely in purple with a wide-open mouth that's prepared to bite people at any moment, is a Chomper, right!?

Just how deeply in love are these plants towards the game!? They are cosplaying with all their hearts right now, hey!

"Dongfang girly." Nangong Cheng suddenly ran towards her while dodging three peas along the way. "I think…"

Before he could even finish, Zhu Yao was shocked. "Watch out for that Squash!" That's an ultimate weapon that can squash anything, hey!

That green round-shaped plant had already stood up, and at this critical moment, Nangong Cheng's good homosexual buddy Zhonggu Lu threw his meteor hammer towards him, smacking him out of the Squash's attack radius. The Squash missed, and simply created a hole as large as a water well when it landed.

"Aiya!" Nangong Cheng cried out. "My buttocks!"

Zhonggu Lu was ruthless with that throw. His meteor hammer was filled with sharp teeth, and not only did it pushed him away, it even stabbed deeply into a certain unspeakable part of his lower body. More importantly, it seemed like… it couldn't be pulled out.

Nangong Cheng cried out in pain. He turned back several times to pull out the impure meteor hammer, but he basically couldn't put any strength into it, and was unable to pull it out.

"Owww~~~~~ It hurts!"

The echo of his cry reverberated a thousand times, hitting all the notes in his vocal range…

Zhu Yao: "…"

Yu Yan: "…"

Yue Ying: "…"

Zhu Yao's face darkened as she silently turned her head away. She definitely did not know people who did such shameless play!

She really wanted to type out: If you're below 18 years of age, please watch with parental guidance… scratch that, they can't watch as well!

Nangong Cheng's sinful howl continued for half an incense worth of time, while he still dodged the peas that were coming from all directions. His soul-trembling voice had even shaken the plants on the other side. Finally, student Zhonggu Lu directly put in some strength to pull the chains of his meteor hammer, pulling it out on Nangong Cheng's behalf. That's right, the meteor hammer was connected by chains. Don't ask her why it took Zhonggu Lu half an incense worth of time to be reminded of that fact, she wanted to know as well!

When Nangong Cheng dragged his feet towards a distance of about five meters away from her, his lower body was already joyfully bleeding out a bucket full of uncles.

"Yue Ying." Stop the blood.

Who would have thought that Yue Ying would reject her request for the first time. "His wound is over there. I won't stop it."

"Uh…" She had no choice but to pat on his shoulders. "Ahem! Little Huang, don't be sad. Such days will come once every month, just get used to it!" Mn, the amount is rather huge. Should I recommend him to use sanitary pads?

"Oh right, what did you want to say earlier?" Serious matters, serious matters! They're still pushing the tower and clearing the instance!

As Nangong Cheng leapt about to dodge the peas and spread off his uncles, he loudly replied. "We can't go on like this. Those strange plants will only increase. Brother Zhonggu Lu and I shall act as diversions to attract those plants' attention. You three take the opportunity to charge in and destroy the formation cores."

Zhu Yao pondered for a moment. Indeed! According to the game mechanics, the longer the gameplay, the harder it would become for the zombies. They had to take the initiative to charge in and eat their brains.

"Alright!" She nodded heavily. "The two of you, be careful. Stay further away from those green Squash and purple man-eating flowers. Also, if a red plant appears, run as fast as you can." She was really afraid that a Strawberry Bomb or a Habenero would appear.

"Mn!" Nangong Cheng nodded. Then, he turned towards his good homosexual buddy Zhonggu Lu and ran over. The two of them exchanged glances, and then used their present strongest killing move at the same time – throwing their weapons!

Zhonggu Lu was using his meteor hammer. After spinning it twice, he threw it like a boomerang. Nangong Cheng's weapon on the other hand was a violent spiked mace, and likewise, he threw it out. Two heavy class weapons flew towards the center, sweeping open a path and successfully striking the Pea Shooter at the very center.

With a crackling noise, that plant which was even taller than an average human was split into half, falling onto the ground. The ground which it was growing on once again shook, as it sank down as though it was being reclaimed.

"Master, Yue Ying!" Zhu Yao shouted as she directly charged towards the breach in the center. Using the strength she gained from experiencing the high school examinations, she sprinted wildly for over a hundred meters. Yue Ying and Yu Yan followed after as well. Clearly, the men's PE scores were much better, and they were in front of Zhu Yao in just a few moments. With one hand grabbing onto each of theirs, they began to push forward.

The other Pea Shooters noticed what was happening on that side as well. With a few poofing sounds, a few peas came flying in their direction. The weapons that Nangong Cheng and Zhonggu Lu threw were coincidentally making a turn back, dutifully protecting them. They first acted like boomerangs and struck down the peas that were pursuing them, causing them to explode in mid-air.

Because the two of them were large targets, they could attract the Pea Shooters' firepower better. That was why the two good homosexual buddies moved together.

Zhu Yao and her group on the other hand successfully infiltrated through the breach as well. However, the breach once again shook. It seemed like the replacement Pea Shooter was about to arrive.

"Hurry and destroy those sunflowers!" Zhu Yao said. Yue Ying and Yu Yan were already taking the two sides and hacking at the blinking sunflowers. Just as she had expected, those sunflowers did not have any combat power at all. With just a light swing, her master was able to slice down one of them.

Zhu Yao also ran towards the sunflower in the center, and with her sword raised, she forcefully swung it down. That sunflower however was different from the rest, as it suddenly bent down towards her. With its two gigantic leaves spread open, they reached out towards her. The moment she approached, the leaves actually gently wrapped around her, making a hugging action.

A clear and crisp sound rang in her ears. "Chi…"

Zhu Yao was stunned, but she could no longer stop the swing of her sword. The red blade directly slid through the sunflower's stem, cutting it off. She raised her head in shock, only to see that sunflower blink at her one last time, before falling onto the ground. The two leaves that wrapped around her also slid down her arms as well. Those leaves were initially barbed, but some reason, they were suddenly retracted and she was not injured the slightest bit.

Her heart was in sudden turmoil. She once again looked at that sunflower. It was already beginning to turn yellow, yet it still desperately stretched out a half-yellow leaf. The leaf wrapped around her ankle, and it let out a crackling sound.

"Lo… rd."

In the next moment, that sunflower had already been returned to the ground. Zhu Yao was stunned. Just what was going on? This sunflower did not look like it was trying to harm her at all. Yet the Pea Shooters on the other side were shooting those cannon shells so vigorously.

"Yu Yao!" Yu Yan charged over from the side, hugging his stupid disciple and then rolled onto the ground.

A loud explosion could be heard behind them, as a pea bomb exploded at the place where she was standing just earlier.

Yu Yan held her up. "Do not be distracted."

"Mn."

Zhu Yao nodded. This was not the time to think about such matters. Let's first eat their "brains" and end this game!

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Chapter 381: Second Battle – Cob Cannon

Though there were many rows of sunflowers, with the three people's speedy harvest, in less than fifteen minutes, almost all of the sunflowers were brought down. After the sunflowers were reclaimed by the grass field, there were no signs of them growing back. The moment the final one fell onto the ground, the Pea Shooters that were attacking so wildly suddenly stiffened. As though the pause button had been clicked, they no longer shot out their peas.

The Chompers, Squash and the rest that were swaying about had also stopped moving as well. A few dozen seconds later, while making loud rumbling noises, they suddenly began to sink back into the ground. In just a short few minutes, they could no longer see a single figure of those strange plants above the field. Even the craters that were created from the explosions had all disappeared without a trace, restoring its previous plain and flat surface.

"We won!" Nangong Cheng and Zhonggu Lu happily ran over, they faces were filled with the light of joy. "Dongfang girly, those strange flowers have retreated. Does that mean we've cleared this stage?"

"I don't know either!" Zhu Yao was stunned as she looked at the boundless grass field in front of her. For some reason, she felt that things weren't that simple. Earlier, they had just destroyed the sunflowers, so theoretically speaking, there were no reasons for the Pea Shooter to disappear as well!

"The Light of Guidance isn't far off." Zhonggu Lu pointed at the path in front of them. From where they were, they were about five kilometers away from the golden pillar of light. "I think we should hurry over! If we stay here for too long, those strange flowers might resurrect."

Zhu Yao nodded. Indeed, they had to hurry over. Thus, she no longer hesitated and walked forward. However, after just walking a few steps, the ground began to shake tremendously, and it was more intense than before. Even Zhu Yao could barely stabilize herself. A hundred meters in front of them, dirt and mud flew as something enormous slowly rose.

The five of them gripped their weapons tightly as they stared in front of them. The thing from the ground first showed a hint of yellow. As its height increases, it then revealed a green body. Compared to the plants before, it was clearly much taller. It continued to rise, and rise…

Two meters… Three meters… Four meters… Finally, after reaching a height of three storeys, it revealed its entire body.

"Corn?" Zhu Yao was stunned.

"Such a huge corn cob!" Nangong Huang said.

"Can corn cobs grow so big?" Zhonggu Lu asked.

Immediately after, the corn cob suddenly straightened itself. In the next moment, the place where the five of them stood shone greatly, as a white circle of light that looked like a formation appeared on the ground. At the center, there was even a cross that looked like a target marker.

This is…

"Cob! Cannon!" Zhu Yao grabbed onto the people next to her with each hand and ran out of the glowing circle. "Run!"

She unleashed the strength she had from all the milk she had drunk in her lifetime and desperately ran out. With a swoosh, that enormous corn cob had already flown into the air, and was smashing down in the direction of that circle of light.

A loud boom could be heard as an enormous force assaulted from behind. She was pushed all the way forward by the shockwave of the explosion, and the ground beneath her feet began to crumble inch by inch. She used all of her strength to prevent herself from falling, and continued her mad sprint, barely escaping the Cob Cannon's attack range. Her bones were already beginning to rattle, and before she could even catch her breath, a white object came smashing at her the moment she turned her head around. She was basically unable to dodge in time, and her chest began to hurt. It was as if she was smashed by a enormous bolder. She immediately spat out a mouthful of blood, yet she could smell a charred scent with her nose.

When she took a look, the thing that smashed onto her body was actually an enormous popcorn.

Zhu Yao once again spat out some old blood. Next time I'm watching a movie, I'm never going to eat popcorn again.

"Yu Yao." Yu Yan was startled. He pushed away the popcorn from her body, held up his disciple and then cupped her wrist.

Yue Ying was frightened as well, and even his face had turned pale. He hurriedly squatted down and stopped her from bleeding.

"Don't care about me!" Zhu Yao pulled her hand back. "Hurry! That Cob Cannon requires some time to fire off another corn cob, take this opportunity to destroy it! Hurry!"

"You…"

"I'm fine, hurry!" Zhu Yao pointed at the Cob Cannon that merely had its leaves left. "We must not allow it to fire off a second corn cob."

Yu Yan frowned. He then gripped onto his sword tightly and ran over with Yue Ying. The Cob Cannon was now in its weakened state and was basically unable to attack at all. However, it was simply too big, and Yu Yan could only strike its stem a slash at a time.

Zhu Yao turned to look at the two homosexual buddies Nangong Huang and Zhonggu Lu. Their injuries were not light as well, as they sat on the ground unmoving. Next to them were a few popcorns that they barely managed to push off from their bodies. Beneath her feet, soft rumbling sounds could be heard. A large crater of about ten meters wide appeared from where the corn cob struck, and it was now beginning to be restored. Suddenly, the grass at the sides found an opportunity to use their automatic restorative abilities, and were beginning to cover up the empty spaces.

It was as if ghosts or gods were being involved in this. Zhu Yao really wanted to know what's underneath this surface. She took a deep breath, stood up, and then looked into a hole that yet to be completely restored. However, she suddenly held her breath, and she stood rooted to the ground.

"Dongfang girly, what's wrong?" Nangong Cheng saw her strange behaviour and struggled to his feet as well. He walked over to her side, but he widened his eyes immediately after. "This… This is…"

Black. Entirely black. Beneath the surface was actually a layer of boundless black substance. The substance was tumbling and bubbling, as if water was flowing out of a water tap.

"Resentment!" She never expected that resentment was buried underneath the entire surface. As she had thought, the plants were materialized from resentment.

Nangong Cheng unconsciously took a step back, his face instantly darkened. "What should we do?" If they were formed by resentment, then those plants could not be killed at all.

Before Zhu Yao could even answer, rumbling noises from the earth once again rang. Several meters away from the Cob Cannon, following after a few popping sounds, four plants popped out. Wearing yellow petals, they continued to grow.

The hell! The sunlight-gathering sunflowers again!

Nangong Cheng had an anxious look as well. The Cob Cannon had yet to be removed, but the sunflowers had once again appeared. Yet, they couldn't move at all either. If Yu Yan and Yue Ying were to ignore the sunflowers, Pea Shooters would most likely fill the land again. If they were to let go of the Cob Cannon, once it were to completely regain its strength, they wouldn't be able to endure its next corn cob either. Unwilling to admit defeat, he gritted his teeth as he walked wobbly towards a sunflower. However, after taking just two steps, he fell onto the ground again, puking out a mouthful of blood.

"Dongfang… girly…" What do we do?

The ground had already begun to shake, and Zhu Yao fell onto the ground from the tremors. We're going to die, we're going to die, we're going to die. From the strength of this tremor, the one drilling out from the ground definitely isn't a Pea Shooter, but the next Cob Cannon!

Do they really have to play it this way? Why did the weapons suddenly upgrade, hey!?

Zhu Yao took a deep breath. Calm down, calm down! There must be other ways. Sunflower, sunflower, sunflo…

The hell! She suddenly recalled that these plants require sunlight!

"Yue Ying!" She used all of her strength to shout towards where the Cob Cannon was. "Hurry and use your devillic energy to cover the sun! Do not let the sunflowers absorb sunlight!"

Yue Ying was stunned for a moment, and then he immediately began to release a dark aura to the surroundings. Large masses of dark devillic energy emitted out from his body and rose into the air. Like clouds, they began to cover up a large half of the sky with layers upon layers. The area suddenly dimmed, as if time had instantly turned from high noon to sunset. The surroundings had already begun to turn darker.

As expected, in the next moment, the sunflowers that were still swaying about earlier lowered their heads after another, as though they liveliness had been seeped out. The intense tremors had instantly stopped as well.

The two zombies Yu Yan and Yue Ying finally destroyed the Cob Cannon. They then turned around and sprinted towards the row of sunflowers behind. They then continued their harvesting act.

Zhu Yao heaved a sigh of relief, and even her legs were beginning to give way.

"Dongfang girly, you sure know a lot." Nangong Cheng pulled her up and even held onto Zhonggu Lu next to him. The three of them then limped towards Yu Yan's and Yue Ying's direction. "You're actually able to see that those sunflowers need sunlight."

"Hoho… I simply played a lot of games, that's all." As a professional game designer, she had especially spent some time to research on these games. "Furthermore, sunflowers are plants that direly need sunlight in the first place. As long as it's night, we will be fine since there's no sunlight to absorb. Unless there's the appearance of…"

"Mushrooms?"

"That's right! Sun-shrooms… What?" Nearby in front of them, a row of yellow mushrooms suddenly popped out.

There's really sun-shrooms here, hey! Have we cut straight into night mode now!? Do you have to be this professional!? The ground shook once more. Clearly, the Sun-shrooms had already begun to generate sunlight.

"Pull them out directly!" The Sun-shrooms were closest to the three of them. Zhu Yao had no choice but to suppress the pain from her injuries, grit her teeth and run over. She hugged onto one of the bucket-sized yellow mushroom and pulled with all the might she gained from drinking milk. However, it wasn't effective at all? The Sun-shroom did not even budge.

Instead, it blinked at her in a cutesy way, and then suddenly dove into her embrace, emitting out a crisp sound. "Chi?"

Zhu Yao was stunned. It's this sound again. Just what did it mean?

"Dongfang girly, these mushrooms are rooted too firmly, I can't move it!" Nangong Cheng was also looking at her with a regretful expression. "I even tried moving it with my weapon, but it doesn't even budge. What do we do?"

Yellow heads was already beginning to pop out from the surface. After a closer look, there were actually five of them.

Yu Yan and Yue Ying had already chopped off all the sunflowers and were rushing over. Zhu Yao lowered her head and looked at the blinking and unmoving Sun-shroom. Gritting her teeth, she shouted to Yue Ying. "Yue Ying, retract your devillic energy and release the sunlight."

Yue Ying stopped his feet. With a wave of his hand, the devillic energy in the sky scattered, and the boundless sunlight scattered down. Coincidentally, it first shone right down at the Sun-shrooms.

She heard a weak cry from the mushroom in her embrace. "Chi…" Its pair of crystal-bright eyes began to slowly close, as if it was about to fall asleep. The tremor instantly stopped as well.

The mushrooms then began to sink down into the earth. The one which Zhu Yao was hugging suddenly shone with a bright golden light right before it sank, and a mass of yellow light flew towards her, entering her chest.

Zhu Yao instantly felt a warmth in her chest, and this heat instantly spread to all four of her limbs.

She stroked her chest in slight confusion. Her injuries… were healed!

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Chapter 382: The Sunflower Welcoming Group

That Sun-shroom healed my injuries? Why? Zhu Yao was a little confused as she instinctively sensed the conditions of her body, and realized that there wasn't any anomaly. Theoretically speaking, the Sun-shrooms were formed by resentment, so even if she carried the World Favourable Impression ability, as resentment was something without sentience, it should not harbour any favourable impression of her. Also, what was the light that flew into her body? It definitely wasn't resentment, otherwise it wouldn't have healed her injuries but shot a hole through her.

"Dongfang girly, are you fine?" Nangong Cheng looked at her worriedly.

Zhu Yao shook her head.

Yue Ying and Yu Yan walked over as well. They had initially wanted to check her pulse, but realized that not only weren't there any injuries on her body, even the bloodstains had disappeared.

There weren't any plants on the grass field now. Even the Cob Cannons that were exposing their yellow tips earlier had all returned to the earth.

"Do you feel any anomaly?" Yu Yan looked at his stupid disciple and could not help but feel worried, checking her pulse once more.

"I don't know what's going on as well." Zhu Yao shrugged as she explained her situation earlier.

Yu Yan frowned as he tightened his grip on the hand he was holding. "Do you have any plans?"

"I believe the plants here must be separated by regions. The further we go, the bigger the difficulty." Zhu Yao solemnly said. "We can't use mystic arts right now, and Little Yellow and Little Teal are both injured as well. Most likely, it will be really hard for them to reach the Light of Guidance."

"It's all our fault." Nangong Cheng said with a self-reprimanding look. "We've dragged you guys down. Why don't you three continue on while fellow daoist Zhonggu Lu and I recuperate here. After we're done, we will catch up with you three."

"Little Yellow is right." Zhonggu Lu nodded and said. "Only the three of you have hopes of becoming Gods. In our current situation…"

"What nonsense are you spouting?" Zhu Yao did not like to listen to such things. "Who said we're going to throw you two aside? We were together since the first floor. If we really have to split up, this isn't the right time either."

"But…" Nangong Cheng frowned and turned to look in front of them. "We won't know what will appear before us. Our injuries are too severe, and we will simply be burdens."

"Even if you're burdens, we're carrying you two on our own will." Zhu Yao squatted down and solemnly said. "Don't worry, we won't throw you two aside. Even if I have to carry you two, I will carry you two over to that side."

Nangong Cheng was stunned. He exchanged glances with Zhonggu Lu, and then suddenly leaked out a laugh. "Dongfang girly, you're a really… really different Deity practitioner." Putting aside Deity practitioners who were usually heartless, even among Demonic Immortals, they would have been thrown aside in such situations, let alone in this top floor where dangers could be found everywhere. Everyone said that the Heavenly Dao was heartless, and ever since they began on this path, they had already gotten used to slaughter and betrayal. With how long they had lived, the concept of this so-called friendship had already turned faint. Never did he think that in such a situation, that there would actually be someone who would say that she would carry them over if she had to.

"Just recuperate your injuries here for now. After your injuries are better, we will set off." Zhu Yao patted on Nangong Huang's shoulder and said. "If my guess is correct, there shouldn't be any danger nearby now. But…" She raised her head and looked about two hundred meters away. "If we cross the sunflowers' boundary from earlier, I'm afraid another wave of new plants will appear."

Yu Yan frowned and held onto her hand. "You've already made your decision."

He said affirmatively, and not in a questioning manner.

Zhu Yao chuckled. "Master, I have an idea. I want to step out of that sunflowers' boundary alone and take a look."

"Nonsense!" Yu Yan's expression turned cold. "That place is definitely even more dangerous. How are you going to deal with it alone?"

"Master… I have a feeling that these plants don't really wish to harm me." She stroked her healed chest.

His frown grew deeper. "If that's the case, why were you injured before?" Though he knew that his disciple's body was abnormal, from the situation earlier, the Cob Cannon and Pea Shooters did not have any intentions of avoiding her in their attacks in the least.

"Uh…" He made a lot of sense. "Actually, I'm talking about those sunflowers and mushrooms. Master, you saw it yourself, right? Those two plants gather sunlight… Uh, I mean, they're formation cores. They are the keys behind the appearances of all the other plants, that's why they are intentionally planted in such faraway positions. However, I feel that those plants are friendly to me. They must be different from the rest of the plants. Even if they're formed by resentment, they're definitely mixed with something else. I might… be able to speak to them."

Yu Yan was still frowning. Clearly, he could not agree to her risking her life.

"We have no other way now, and we can't possibly sit here and await death." Most importantly was that "chi" noise. She felt that this was a little strange. In the past, Wood Spirit was the only one who would call out in such a way. However, the Wood Spirit was in the faraway Desolate Land and it had long gained a human form. How could she possibly appear here?

Nangong Cheng and Zhonggu Lu spent an entire two days to recuperate, and their bodies were finally in acceptable conditions. Though her master had already agreed to Zhu Yao taking the lead and let her enter the next region alone, he still stood guard at the boundary, so that he could provide aid the moment things were to go awry.

Zhu Yao took a deep breath before finally walking out of the place where the sunflowers last appeared. She had only walked a few steps when the earth began to shake once more. The others behind her instantly tensed up, instinctively gripping onto the swords in their hands.

A moment later, with a poof sound, a sunflower appeared as expected. However, it was not a hundred meters away, but had instead appeared right next to Zhu Yao. Its large petals spread open, and it looked at her while blinking its eyes.

It seemed to be stunned for a moment. Suddenly, it let out what seemed to be a joyful sound. "Chi!"

Zhu Yao stiffened and then waved her hand at it. "Hi~"

"Chi?" The sunflower let out a confused sound, as though it did not understand her words.

Zhu Yao had no choice but to change into the language of Chis, and let out the sound she learnt from it. "Chi chi?"

That sunflower instantly replied with incomparable joy. "Chi chi chi."

Uh…

"Chi chi chi chi?" There's nothing wrong with this reply right?

Thus, the conversation between a human and a sunflower began to develop in a strange direction.

"Chi chi chi chi chi."

"Chi chi chi chi chi chi."

"Chi chi chi chi chi chi chi."

"Chi chi chi chi chi chi chi chi."

Wait! What am I doing?

Why are we comparing who has more "Chi"s, hey?

"Incredible!" The unknowing spectator Nangong Cheng had a revering look. "Dongfang girly isn't actually able to understand the sunflower's words!"

Spectators: "…" I really want to break off relations from him!

"Haah! Umm…" Zhu Yao instantly found back her own mother tongue. Though she said she wanted to chat with the sunflowers about life, she actually didn't know where she should begin, hey? "I say, Sunsun!"

"Chi!" The sunflower straightened up like a pole, looking as if it was listening seriously.

"Umm… Just what are you? Also, do you know me?"

"Chi…" It tilted its head, letting out a long sound. Suddenly, it stretched out an enormous leave and wrapped around her wrist. It then let out a crisp voice. "Lord!"

'Lord' again?

"What do you mean by 'lord'? Why are you calling me that?"

The sunflower began to sway left and right. As if it was shouting out a slogan, it called out. "Lord, lord… Sunlight, sunlight… Lord, lord…" With every movement it made, it would shout out once.

As though spring had appeared after the rain, even more sunflowers began to pop out form the ground. They lined up on her left and right, as though they were a welcoming group. Then, they began to sway as well.

At that moment, the entire grass field was filled with their echoes. "Lord, sunlight…" The same voice, their neat movements, and their uniform slogan made them look as if they were conducting a parade.

Zhu Yao was a little confused. It seemed like she had just received an incredible welcome.

The number of sunflowers continued to grow, and they were even spreading all the way forward, opening up a path all the way to the region where the Light of Guidance was. She suddenly felt as if she was making a friendly visit to the kingdom of sunflowers. Now this is a true green VIP passageway! So should she walk? Should she walk? Or should she walk?

The group of four spectators at the back were stunned as well. What's with this friendly and harmonious scene?

"Dongfang girly…" Nangong Cheng shouted out. "This… Just what is this?"

"I don't know either." Zhu Yao shook her head. "The intelligence of these sunflowers isn't high. Most likely, most of them are just moving on instinct. I'm not sure if I can speak through to them either. Master…" Zhu Yao looked at Yu Yan. "You've never eaten a single medicinal pellet, so their hatred for you should be the least. Why don't you try walking over?"

Yu Yan nodded. He glanced at the surroundings before stepping out of the boundary. Almost at the same time, the sunflowers that were still happily welcoming her earlier, instantly quietened down. They turned to look at Yu Yan one after another.

Zhu Yao's heart tensed. However, in the next moment, those sunflowers once again turned around and continued to sway and chant out, "Lord… Sunlight." Yu Yan safely arrived next to Zhu Yao.

As she had thought, these plants would only react to people who had eaten too many medicinal pellets.

Yue Ying was up next. Different from Yu Yan who was ignored, when Yue Ying walked over, all of the sunflowers seemed to have leaned backwards in disgust. Zhu Yao guessed that the devillic aura emitting from his body was making them avoid him out of instinct.

Nangong Cheng and Little Teal remained. Zhu Yao could not help but push her focus up to a hundred and twenty percent. Yu Yan and Yue Ying were different. These plants were formed by the resentment of plants and flowers. The sunflowers ignored the two of them was because they had never eaten a single pellet, so they did harbour any hatred for the two in the first place. As for Nangong Cheng and Little Teal however…

"Nangong Huang, you take the lead." Zhu Yao solemnly said. "Be careful…"

Nangong Cheng naturally realized the situation as well. These plants most likely were targeting the two of them the entire time. In an instant, the guilt in his heart grew deeper. If the two of them weren't here, most likely, the three of them had already arrived at their destination. The moment he thought of this, he could no longer bear to cross over with his raised foot.

"Dongfang girly, why don't… you three leave first." If one can pass through, then he should head on first.

"The hell!" Zhu Yao felt like cussing out now. "What kind of nonsense are you spouting now? You're being wishy-washy here. Are you still a man?"

"… I'm a male beast!" He's not a human in the first place.

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Chapter 383: Friendly Visit to the Sunflower Country

"The hell!" Zhu Yao rolled her eyes. "Don't play coy in front of me right now, alright? We've already made it all the way here, and it's already too late to split up. You best thicken your skin and rush over to the Light of Guidance in a single breath. You're thinking of staying here with Zhonggu Lu and live in your romantic world? No way! There's no future for the both of you!"

Zhonggu Lu: "…" Why am I still dragged in when I'm so far away!?

Nangong Cheng's eyes reddened. Momma's egg. Dongfang girly, in such an emotional time, can you speak in a better way? We're clean and pure! He turned to look at Yu Yan and Yue Ying, and then sighed. It seemed like they really weren't going to leave them behind.

After taking a deep breath, Nangong Cheng gritted his teeth and then walked into the new region. Almost at the same time his foot landed on the ground, the ground reacted with a loud rumble, as if something was about to burst out.

Zhu Yao betted a cucumber that that definitely wasn't a sunflower, but some sort of weapon of mass destruction. The sunflowers that were still harmonious like little suns suddenly stopped shouting out their slogan, and looked towards Nangong Cheng altogether. Though they were still blinking, Zhu Yao could see the lustre of vengeance in their eyes.

Oh no! It seems like it's going to turn into Plants VS Zombies again! What to do, what to do? These plants are about to go into berserk mode!

Out of anxiety, Zhu Yao grabbed onto the flower head of one of the sunflowers on the side. "Calm down, calm down my fellow friend! Give me some face!"

Suddenly, the tremors really stopped…

Uhh… It seems my face is really important!

The yellow and brilliant flower in her hands blinked its eyes extremely slowly. In the next moment, the entire flower was dyed with a strange hint of red.

Is it embarrassed?

Please! You're just a flower, hey! The hell! Why is its stem red as well? Do you have to be this humanized?

Eh! Wait a minute!

She recalled that plants seemed to be pollinate from the flowers to give birth to the next generation. Then the flowers were their… unspeakable parts.

"…" She suddenly felt uncomfortable all over.

Her eyes blurred for a moment, as the sunflowers nearest to her suddenly bent their stems over. Every one of them was leaning their flower heads closer, their little eyes constantly blinking in joy. It was as if they were saying: Touch me… touch me…

She wanted some peace and quiet.

Even more sunflowers began to lean their flower heads closer. Zhu Yao had to pass this stage through developing friendship ties with the sunflowers, otherwise, she was really afraid that they would go berserk if she rejected. However, she couldn't lay her hands on their huge flower heads, so she had no choice but to take a step back and silently pull one of their leaves. She shook them as if she was shaking hands, which can be considered as her greetings to them, but even that's the case…

Why are all your faces still red, hey? Aren't you all sunflowers? Then face the sun like you're supposed to, hey! Why are you all lowering your heads in embarrassment? And the one over there that's using your leaves to cover your face! I've not done anything to you at all!!

Zhu Yao suddenly felt as if she had fallen into a sexual predator concentration camp of pure teenage girls, while she seemed to be the uke. She immediately hugged onto her master next to her to suppress her shock. Phew, fortunately, I still have my master.

Zhonggu Lu walked over as well. In the beginning, there wasn't any reaction from the grass field. However, as he moved closer to Nangong Cheng, the ground could no longer stay silent. No matter how Zhu Yao tried to form relationships with the sunflowers, they couldn't be suppressed. Half a Cob Cannon had already popped out of the ground nearby.

Zhu Yao's heart tensed. Could it be that hatred was additive? She immediately had the two of them stand further away from each other. As expected, the tremors of the ground finally stopped. Zhu Yao silently glanced at the two of them. See! This is why I say there's no future for you two!

It seemed like the situation had calmed down. Zhu Yao began to bring everyone forward. There was a distance of about three meters between each one of them, while there was at least a ten-meter distance between Nangong Cheng and Zhonggu Lu. Zhu Yao was walking at the very front. As she walked, she did not forget to shake the hands of the sunflowers on her left and right.

The sunflowers were rather well-behaved. The moment they saw her passing by, they would extend their leaves by themselves. After the shake, they would hurriedly use their leaves to shyly cover their flower heads, looking as if they were both excited and embarrassed.

As Zhu Yao continued to shake hands, she began to feel like a country representative who was visiting an ally nation.

Hi citizens of Sunflower Country, I am a representative of the Human Country. Hello fellow comrades, it must have been tough for you comrades.

Just like that, they progressed forward smoothly without any obstructions. Probably because her 'friendly visit' was truly effective, after using the power of her reputation, weapons of mass destruction no longer appeared in this wide grass field.

Mn, she loved peace! However… Her hands were about to break from all the hand-shaking, hey. Though shaking hands was not a hard work, one couldn't possibly shake hands for four hours straight! Yet, she did not dare to stop. She was afraid that the sunflowers would flip sides the moment she do.

The further they walked, the number of sunflower appearances grew. Initially, there were only two rows – one on her left and one on her right. Further back, the number of rows grew to three, four and five rows. When she finally reacted, other than the path they especially let off on the grass field, the place was filled with sunflowers.

There was too much sunlight stored, but because they had already made a compromise with the zombies, there were too many unused space, so they decided to just plant sunflowers… was that it?

Wait a minute, sunlight!

The plants here were formed by resentment initially. Resentment was inclined to darkness, while sunlight was inclined to light. The resentment underneath required the sunflowers to absorb sunlight in order to produce various weapons that could harm them. However, light and darkness could not complement. Light was supposed to be similar to spiritual energy and divine energy, the purest form of energy in this world. Though sunlight could not be used to eliminate resentment, it should at the very least suppress resentment. That was most likely why darkness filled the place where she first woke up. Also, no matter the shadows formed by resentment or these plants, they could not be seen as the resentment that she witnessed in the Netherworld. Back then, she had become a Demigod, but she was still unable to do anything to resentment. It seemed like the yang energy of this world had been suppressing these resentment.

In the beginning, she treated everything as something similar to the brainless Gomoku and Sudoku settings, a real-life upgraded version of Plants VS Zombies. That was why she did not think about it too deeply. However, this was after all the final stage to becoming a God, so it couldn't just be a mere game. Furthermore, the sunflowers were such a fatal weakness. Adding the non-complementing nature of yin and yang, why were the sunflowers able to summon the other breeds by absorbing sunlight? It couldn't just be due to the settings of the game. Then the reason could only be…

Zhu Yao's heart sank. She suddenly recalled her master's words… Natural Law! Was the non-complementary of yin and yang the law here? Because of the law's limitations, the resentment here could only take form when the sunflowers take in sunlight. However, sunlight could suppress resentment. The sunflowers were so friendly to her because they had sunlight in them?

She was very familiar with the Wood Spirit, and because she had once placed it in her divine sense, it could be understood why these sunflowers, which were also plants, to be intimate with her as well. Furthermore she had also gone through Yi Ling's instance where she turned into a tree demon. Back then, she could hear the voice of plants and trees, and those trees were strangely friendly with her as well. Not to mention, the lower the cultivation of the spirits and demons, the better their relationships. When it came to Nangong Cheng and Zhonggu Lu who had already cultivated into Deities, especially with those demonic beasts and spirits in the Lightning Divine Tower, this form of intimacy no longer existed. They could only be treated as regular people or friends.

It was the same back when she ventured into Demonic Immortals' continent. The red and yellow Demonic Immortals she encountered in the beginning still threw her into jail as they should, even though they had a favourable impression of her. They were completely different from the demonic beasts that acted cute and wanted to protect her with all their hearts in the Lower Realm. When it came to why those demonic beasts treated her well, rather than attributing it to the World Favourable Impression ability, it was rather due to… instinct! It was a form of subliminal suggestion that could not be resisted, where they would unconsciously treat her well.

This instinctive suggestion thus allowed these sunflowers, which had taken in sunlight and had suppressed the resentment in them, to regain the slightest bit of sentience to express their kindness towards her. Could this be why these sunflowers liked her so much?

However… Why did they call her 'lord'? She just couldn't understand this point.

The distance from the Light of Guidance was already shrinking, and Zhu Yao's hands were already turning numb from the handshaking. She could barely feel them now, let alone raise them up. Her master who was closest to her could still grab onto her hands to help move them in the beginning, relieving some of the numbness. However, this action would always result to the rejection of the plants. Every single time when she was not paying attention, they would either push her master away, or intentionally use their leaves to block him. It was as if they were a disapproved couple, and had to cross several "Sunflower Mountains" in order to meet. Later on, even Yu Yan had lost all strength as well. At the very end, she didn't have to take the initiative at all, as every step she took after that, the sunflowers on her left and right would automatically stretch out their leaves to wrap around her hands, treating that as handshakes.

Her heart was tired!

Momma's egg! Who wants to try shaking hands for three days and nights straight!?

In the beginning, it was still fine. However, the number of sunflowers continued to grow. Looking afar, other than the path that intentionally left empty, the place was filled with sparkling golden sunflowers, and the view was simply blinding to her eyes.

Yet, only the two rows of sunflowers next to her would get to shake her hands. Those which couldn't, could only blink their eyes and look at her with resentful expressions.

Hey hey hey… Don't turn sour now! You're all sunflowers, so even if you didn't get to shake my hands, don't change to something else now! Also, the one over there that's lying on the ground. You're planted too far away. Even if you lying on the ground, you won't get to grab my hand. Don't waste any more efforts already!

The passion of the "Sunflower Country" citizens had really made her from the "Human Country" speechless! Let's give it our all to dedicate to the friendship between the countries of Sunflowers and Humans! I will shake, I will shake, I will shake, shake, shake…

Zhu Yao's repeated actions were however extremely meaningful and sincere, as they actually had a smooth journey, and the Light of Guidance was soon right before their eyes. Of course, there were slight mishaps in-between, but it was largely due to a problem of distance. The distance between Zhonggu Lu and Nangong Huang before was very delicate. Being too far would be bad, as her favourable impression would be rendered ineffective and cause the plants to initiate attacks. If they were too close, the two's hatred would be added upon each other, and the plants would attack indiscriminately as well.

That was why there accidents would always happen on the way. Occasionally, one or two Pea Shooters would appear, constantly shooting peas at them. Whenever this happened, Zhu Yao had no choice but to increase her pace in saluting the army and leave the attack range of the Pea Shooters. However, she did not initiate any attacks, in order to prevent them from pulling even more hatred.

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Chapter 384: Undefeatable Enemy

Four days later, though there were a few surprises, the group safely crossed "Sunflower Country". Zhu Yao could finally see the Light of Guidance before her eyes. Compared to the Light of Guidance in the Divine Realm, there were barely any differences compared to this pillar of light. However for some reason, even though it clearly looked golden from afar, it was actually pure white when seeing it from such a near distance.

Furthermore, the ground surface about twenty to thirty meters away from the pillar of light was actually completely white. She unconsciously looked at the ground, and realized that it wasn't tiled with white jade, but rather, it was just empty, as if even dust and dirt could not stain it. The surface was sacred and elegant, as though it was the purest object in the world. Just by looking at it, her heart would feel at ease.

Is this… the Light of Guidance for ascending to Godhood?

Zhu Yao finally shook the leaf of the final sunflower. She raised her head to look at the pillar of pure white light, and then once again looked at the receding greenery on the ground. They finally arrived at their destination. However, for some reason, she was not the least bit excited. Instead, an uncertain feeling rose in her heart.

She hesitated for a long while and did not proceed forward, until Zhonggu Lu and Nangong Cheng behind her came rushing over.

"So this is the Light of Guidance!" Nangong Cheng had a surprised look on his face. He stared a little blankly at the light as he walked in, and then he unconsciously stretched out his hand, as if he was trying to touch something. "I've never… seen such a pure colour."

Zhonggu Lu had a similar expression as well.

The strange feeling in the depths of her heart grew even heavier, and for some reason, she felt a little anxious. Feeling uneasy, she turned around to look at the path they came from. The long field of sunflowers suddenly began to return to the earth, starting from the very far end. Like falling headlong down onto the ground, they disappeared without a trace.

When the sunflower that she last shook hands with saw her turning back, it tilted its large flower head and responded with a joyful look. "Chi!"

As it called out, it once again stretched out its leaf, wanting to shake hands with her once more. Zhu Yao wanted to respond out of instinct, but suddenly, she realized that the leaf it stretched out was beginning to disappear, as if it was being devoured by something. Its green leaf turned pale white inch by inch, and then it fragmented and disappeared. When Zhu Yao regained her senses, half of the leaf was already gone. What remained was a neat slice, as if it was cut off by something.

"Chi!" The sunflower cried out in shock, and then it shrank back into the ground, as if it was terrified by something.

The sunflowers… can't enter this region?

Before she could figure everything out, she suddenly heard a thud. Yue Ying was raising his fists and hitting something in the air. "Big sis… I can't get in!"

When she turned around to look, Yue Ying seemed to be blocked out by a transparent barrier and could not take another step forward.

"How's that possible?" Zhonggu Lu turned around and carefully looked at the surroundings as well. Then, he walked back and forth a few times. "There isn't any formation or barrier here though?"

Zhu Yao's heart clenched, and she walked back and forth to inspect the area as well. There indeed wasn't any trace of mystic arts. "Just why is this so?"

"It's because I'm a Devil." Yue Ying lowered his head slightly with a depressed look. With a self-mocking tone, he muttered. "I never had the qualifications to become a God in the first place."

Zhu Yao's heart clenched, and everyone else turned silent as well.

"There must be another way." Zhu Yao stroked his head. "Don't worry, I said that I won't throw anyone aside."

Yue Ying finally raised his head, and his eyes seemed to glisten. After a moment, he carefully asked. "If… If you become a God, will you still come back?"

"Of course." She said matter-of-factly. "I'm only here to clear the tower, and not to become a God…"

After speaking halfway through, she was stunned for a moment. Wait a minute, clearing the tower!?

Something instantly flashed in her mind, but she was unable to grasp it in an instant. Just as she was pondering about this, a green vine suddenly shot out from the ground, appearing right before them. Like a hemp rope, it split into two and came charging forward with their sharp tips.

"Big sis!" Startled, Yue Ying instinctively pulled Zhu Yao and they rolled onto the ground, dodging the vines. One of the vines instantly split into two once more and swept over towards Zhu Yao and Yue Ying. The vines however were instantly burnt into ash by the devillic energy which Yue Ying materialized. The vine on the other side had directly struck Zhonggu Lu, sending him flying several meters. He then fell into the midst of the sunflowers that had yet to completely disappear.

"Zhonggu Lu!" Zhu Yao cried out. She wasn't in the grass field right now!

Almost at the same time he fell onto the ground, five Cob Cannons immediately appeared from the grass field. Five overlapping cross-hairs instantly appeared beneath Zhonggu Lu's feet.

"Hurry and run!" Zhu Yao shouted out with all her strength and wanted to charge over to save him. However, she was already too late. Five enormous corn cobs had already been shot out. Even when Zhonggu Lu desperately ran out, he was still struck by the combined force of five corn cobs.

Five explosions rang out, and the place was instantly filled dust and white popcorns. Zhonggu Lu was already lying on the ground with a body covered entirely in blood. His legs were already a mesh of flesh and blood, while a large hole had already been pierced through his chest. Not the slightest bit of his human figure could be discerned.

"Hahahahaha…" A sinister and crazed laughter rang out several meters away. At its source was a person enveloped by thick tree barks. Her body was dyed entirely in blood-red, and streams of dark-red blood would occasionally drip out of the tree trunk. The face at the core of the tree could no longer be seen as human, as what remained was a pair of terrifying black holes. However, everyone present could recognize her at first glance.

"Mei Xue!" The hell, why is she still alive?

"Brother Zhonggu Lu!" Nangong Cheng's eyes reddened and immediately wanted to charge out to save him. Zhu Yao desperately held him back. "What are you doing? Release me!"

"Calm down."

"Calm down my ass!" He was instantly enraged. He immediately raised his hand against her, wanting to beat her hand off. "I'm going to save him!"

Zhu Yao instantly stepped on his feet and lectured him while he was still tasting the pain. "Those plants harbour immense hatred for you in the first place, if you head out now, isn't he just going to die even quicker? If you want to die, don't motherf*king drag us in!"

Nangong Cheng was startled, and then he immediately calmed down. If he were to head over, there was a chance that another five Cob Cannons would appear.

"Master, Yue Ying!" Zhu Yao shot a glance to the two of them, and then she and Yu Yan hurriedly ran towards Zhonggu Lu's direction. Yue Ying immediately responded by releasing his devillic energy to cover the sunlight in the sky as well.

As expected, all of the sunflowers lowered their heads in the next moment, while the loading speed of the five Cob Cannons slowed down as well. Zhu Yao, along with her master, took this opportunity to carry out the disfigured Zhonggu Lu to the sides of the boundary.

"Yue Ying, hurry…" The moment they placed Zhonggu Lu down, Zhu Yao had Yue Ying immediately stop his bleeding. He was the only one here who could save him now.

Mei Xue on the other side had already gone insane. The pair of black holes was constantly leaking out blood, but she still glared at them with all her might. It was as if the hatred within those eyes wanted to swallow them whole. Her laughter continued to grow even sinister. "Hahaha… Even I'm in such a deplorable state, what makes you all qualified to become Gods? Die! All of you must die!!"

"I'm going to kill you!" Nangong Cheng charged towards Mei Xue with his weapon raised. However, before he could even approach her, three enormous red man-eating flowers appeared in her surroundings. They were completely different from the ones they saw before, though they looked exactly the same as the few men who were swallowed along with Mei Xue.

"This…" He was stunned for a moment. Mei Xue could control these plants?

"Nangong Huang, return!" Zhu Yao shouted at him. She turned to look at Mei Xue and her expression sank. "She… is about to be completely swallowed by resentment. In essence, she's already not much different from those flowers outside. The her now, most likely doesn't even know who she is anymore."

Nangong Cheng clenched his hands tightly, suppressing his intent of exacting revenge no matter what. He then turned to look back at his good friend on the ground, his eyes were instantly filled with incomparable pain.

"Kill, kill you all!" Mei Xue on the other side was crazily motioning her hands, yet there wasn't the slightest bit of anxiety in her eyes. Several vines stretched out around her, flailing around meaninglessly as she strangely laughed out. "Hahahaha… I'm favoured by the Heavenly Dao, how could I possibly lose? I've never lost before! Right! I will never lose! It's all your fault! It's all because of all of you… All because you obstructed me despite the recklessness of it all! Those who obstructs me… shall die! Hahaha…"

She laughed crazily for a moment, and then she suddenly saw the pure white Light of Guidance. Her wilted face began to stretch open inch by inch, as if she was pulling a smile. She then stretched out a wilted branch. "Light of Guidance… I can become a God now… I can finally become a God…"

She suddenly began to move recklessly towards the Light of Guidance. However, she had already completely turned into a plant. With these movements of hers, her body began to crack even more. However, it was as if she was not feeling those cracks in her body as she desperately crawled over. The tree barks and leaves on her body immediately disappeared the moment they came into contact with the white surface. She desperately crawled over, as though she was severing out a layer of skin out of her plant body, leaving behind a long trail of blood. However, she did not stop. It was as if too much madness was entangled inside that pair of black hole-like eyes.

A moment later, she was severed out of her initial plant body. She was swallowed for too long, and her body had long been meshed together with resentment. Her bones and skin were severed off, and not even a moment later, what remained on the ground was a cracked skeleton.

Yet, she continued to crawl. Slowly, towards the Light of Guidance. In the next moment, even that skeleton could persist no longer and crumble apart. Right at that moment, her body actually began to condense, and even her former features could be seen on her face.

Zhu Yao turned to look at the crumbled skeleton, especially the pair of black holes in the skull. She then looked at Mei Xue who was already a step away from the Light of Guidance, and sighed. Just how strong was her desire to become God? To the point where she couldn't even sense her own death and had to crawl in even with just a soul?

Mei Xue had made her way right before the Light of Guidance. With crazed joy in her eyes, she immediately crawled up and unhesitantly walked in. Zhu Yao thought that nothing would happen, but with a flash of bright, white light, what remained of Mei Xue's soul began to slowly rise within the ascending light. Joy filled her face, but that smile merely lasted for an instant. As she ascended even higher, the emotions on her face instead grew dimmer. Forget about happiness, not even a shred of hatred could be seen from the eyes she was looking at them with.

Zhu Yao's heart skipped a beat, as though she had realized something.

Could it be…

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Chapter 385: Ascend to Godhood, or Fall into Devilhood?

"Brother Zhonggu Lu." Nangong Cheng's voice was solemn. Looking at Zhonggu Lu whose aura was growing weaker by the second, his hands tightly clenched.

Zhu Yao's heart tensed up as well. Though Zhonggu Lu had avoided the core of the Cob Cannons' attack and was not struck directly, the combined force of five explosions held incredible power in them. It was already a miracle that Zhonggu Lu was holding onto his last breath.

However, his Dantian had already shattered and his primordial spirit had already scattered. There were even traces of his soul leaving his body. His injuries were incredibly severe, and even if everyone expended their divine energy, they wouldn't be able to save him, let alone in a situation where they could not use any divine energy at all.

"Yue Ying…" Zhu Yao looked at the expressionless Yue Ying. Though after looking closely, his brows were actually a little creased. "Can you save him?" He was the only one who they could rely on right now.

Yue Ying raised his head and looked at her. Then, he once again looked at the gasping, disfigured Zhonggu Lu who merely had his upper body left. After a moment, he solemnly said. "There's only a single way."

"What is it?" Nangong Cheng immediately looked at him, his eyes instantly shone as he agitatedly reach out to pull Yue Ying's hand. "Daoist Yue, you have a way to save him? Is that true?"

Frowning, Yue Ying immediately dodged. After throwing Nangong Cheng a glare, he then continued to look at Zhu Yao and said. "Flower Deities have frail bodies in the first place. Now that his primordial spirit has scattered and his inner core is destroyed, his soul will leave his body in less than fifteen minutes. Unless…"

"Unless?" Zhu Yao pushed for his answer.

A hint of hesitation flashed across his face as he showed a slightly uneasy look. After a moment, he gritted his teeth as if he had made a decision, and said. "Unless he falls into Devilhood like me."

"Fall into Devilhood!" Everyone was stunned, and even Nangong Cheng had a shocked look on his face. Almost out of reflex, he said. "No way! He's a Deity… How can he possibly…"

"Then I can't help him either." Yue Ying immediately stood up and stood behind Zhu Yao once more, looking as if he had washed his hands off this matter.

Nangong Cheng looked at Zhonggu Lu who was holding onto his last breath as he clenched his fists even tighter. That's right. If he were to fall into Devilhood, Zhonggu Lu could indeed recover immediately with the aid of devillic energy. However, Devils were often associated with slaughter, heartlessness and evil. In the first place, conducting evil acts was in nature of Devils, and they were the common enemies of the Three Realms. No matter if it's demons or humans, they did not harbour any favourable impressions towards Devils. Though not many had actually seen once, it was a sense of disgust that seemed to have been ingrained in their blood, something they were born with.

Though Yue Ying was a Devil, and that they had indeed saw him unleash devillic energy as well, he had always been helping them throughout this journey. That was why they basically did not treat him as an unscrupulous, evil Devil from the depths of their hearts. However, the moment he heard that his good friend had to fall into Devilhood, he finally realized the difference between he and Yue Ying. Falling to Devilhood! Then Zhonggu Lu would be standing on his opposing side. Furthermore, devillic energy was the darkest form of energy in the world, he could not imagine if Zhonggu Lu would remain the same after falling into Devilhood.

"There's not much time left." Yue Ying reminded. Zhonggu Lu's aura continued to grow a lot weaker.

Nangong Cheng's hands were already beginning to bleed from the clenching, and his heart was in an utter mess. "Maybe… Maybe he can be like Mei Xue…"

His eyes instantly shone and he said with an excited look. "Right, that's right! He can ascend into Godhood, just like Mei Xue earlier. Even though she only had her soul remaining, she was able to pass through the Light of Guidance. Brother Zhonggu Lu will definitely be able to as well. I shall bring him over now." As he said that, he immediately lowered his body and carried Zhonggu Lu up.

"Wait a minute!" Zhu Yao took a step to the side and blocked him.

"Dongfang girly!" Nangong Cheng grew anxious and solemnly said. "If you have anything to discuss, we can talk about it after Brother Zhonggu Lu become a God."

"If I'm you, I won't do such a thing. It's best that we don't get close to this Light of Guidance." Zhu Yao raised her head and looked at the pillar of light. "Ascending to Godhood… might not be a good thing."

"What do you mean?" Not just Nangong Cheng, everyone else looked towards Zhu Yao as well. Wasn't their goal here to ascend to Godhood?

"Yu Yao…" Yu Yan took a step forward and looked at his own disciple. "Did you discover something?"

Zhu Yao was silent for a moment, then, she solemnly said. "I think… we might not be able to enter the Realm of Gods from here. Rather, I suspect that… the Realm of Gods… might not exist in this world."

Nangong Cheng was stunned. "Dongfang girly, what are you talking about? Isn't this the Light of Guidance towards the Realm of Gods?"

"This is a Light of Guidance alright. But who can be sure that it will guide Deities to the Realm of Gods?"

"I wish to ask you guys a question." Zhu Yao pointed at their surroundings. "Just what in the world is this Realm of Gods? And what do Gods look like? Has anyone seen one? Deities carry the same lifespan as the heaven and earth, and which one of them hadn't lived several tens of thousands of years before entering this tower? However, even after so many years, why haven't anyone seen these so-called Gods? Everything regarding Gods had been merely legends of their origin."

"This is one of the laws of the Heavenly Dao." Nangong Cheng guessed. "It's just like how people of the Divine Realm are unable to easily head down to the Lower Realm. Most likely, there's no access from the Realm of Gods to the Divine Realm?"

"Even if that's the case, the Lightning Divine Tower has existed for so many years, and this Light of Guidance has always been here and has never been closed. Is there really not a single curious God who wanted to come back down here for a look?"

"The laws of the Heavenly Dao cannot be broken so easily." Nangong Cheng said.

"You're saying Gods are not able to override the Heavenly Dao? And they are still given restrictions?"

"Y… Yes."

"Fine, if that's the case…" Zhu Yao looked at the group seriously. "Then why do we still wish to ascend to Godhood?"

"We are Deities. We possess eternal life and boundless mystic powers. Other than the Heavenly Dao, is there anything else a Deity can't do? If the Realm of Gods is still a place governed by the Heavenly Dao, then what difference is there between the Realm of Gods and the Divine Realm?" Zhu Yao continued her analysis. "I've always had this doubt. If we become Deities in order to obtain eternal life, then why do we strive to become Gods? Why do all Gods treat entering the Lightning Divine Tower as an honour? Why do all Deities wish to become Gods? What's the meaning in becoming Gods? Have you all thought about it?"

For a moment, the three of them were stunned, Yu Yan as well had a confused expression.

"Nangong Huang, tell me. Why did you enter the tower?"

"Back then, I did it to…" Halfway through his answer, he paused, and suddenly, cold sweat trickled down his body. At that moment, he realized that he really did not have any reason to become a God. It was as if ascending to Godhood was an instinct engraved in him. After obtaining a high cultivation, he naturally wanted to become a God. Not just him, this was the same for the rest of the people in the Divine Realm as well. No one had truly thought about the reason behind it. Why was this so?

If becoming Deities was for eternal life, then what's the purpose in becoming Gods? Could increasing one's cultivation simply be the reason? However, ever since they entered the tower, there wasn't any significant improvement to their cultivation. Especially when they arrived in this final floor, all of their divine energy could not be used at all, let alone their cultivation. Legends mentioned that in the Realm of Gods lived people that could wield the laws of the Heavenly Dao, and that they could control fate. However, even after such a long time, not a single person had seen a true God. If they could really wield the Heavenly Dao, why hadn't a single one of them returned?

After thinking about it carefully, cold sweat began to drip down the three's bodies.

Zhu Yao was a little shocked as well. She merely had a faint guess before, but the more she thought about it, the more afraid she became. It was as if this so-called Lightning Divine Tower, and this so-called 'ascension to Godhood', were part of an incredibly large fraud. It was as if this setting had been implanted in all of the Deities. As long as their cultivation were to reach a certain point, they would enter this tower.

Recalling the countless stages and difficult tests to get here, they could all lose their lives at the moment of carelessness. Everyone knew that they could become Gods by passing these tests, but no one knew about the actual benefits of becoming a God were. Deities had limitless lifespan in the first place, so what if they couldn't become Gods? Even the God races did not seem like they could manage the Divine Realm, so why would everyone come here to seek death for no reason?

It seemed as if there had always been a hidden hand pushing everyone forward, a hand called the "Heavenly Dao".

For some reason, after Zhu Yao's speech, the fiery will to ascend into Godhood in the depths of Nangong Cheng's heart was suddenly extinguished. However…

"What do we do about Zhonggu Lu?"

"Nangong Huang…" Zhu Yao solemnly said. "No matter if it's becoming a Devil or a God, I won't reject your decision. I just want you to think carefully before making that decision. No one exactly knows what the Realm of Gods is like, but when it comes to Devils…" She turned to look at Yue Ying. "At the very least, you've witnessed one for yourself."

Nangong Cheng lowered his head and looked at his good friend in his arms. Zhonggu Lu's breath could no longer be heard. Gritting his teeth, he raised his head. As he looked at the Light of Guidance that was as white as snow, he said in a soft voice. "Dongfang girly, I know you said that for our own good. However, our goal here is to ascend into Godhood, and no matter what lies behind, the both of us wish to try stepping in." He took a deep breath. "Since this is what the Heavenly Dao dictates, then I don't wish to deny it."

The hell! Zhu Yao really wanted to cuss out now! Just how was this any different from choosing death?

"You saw Mei Xue's expression earlier yourself." Zhu Yao took a step forward. "She clearly did not look like she had become a God. No one knows just what's the purpose and consequence of entering this Light of Guidance. Even whether it truly brings one to the Realm of Gods, is something no one knows. Are you truly going to take this risk?"

"Dongfang girly…" Nangong Cheng turned around and looked at her. The clown-like look he usually carried had completely disappeared, and it was replaced with incomparable seriousness. Though, his eyes carried a hint of guilt. "If I was alone, I would have definitely trusted you, without a shred of hesitation. I also believe in Daoist Yue Ying, that it would be nothing much even if one turns into a Devil. However brother Zhonggu Lu… I know his personality very well. He is a Flower Deity birthed from the spiritual energy of nature. He has a simple personality, but isn't tough enough. If he falls into Devilhood, he definitely won't turn out like Yue Ying who has kept his sanity. He might not even be able to recognise me, and he might even do something irreparable. If that's the case… Why not follow the will of the Heavenly Dao?"

"…" Zhu Yao turned silent. Indeed. Falling into Devilhood meant igniting all of the evil intentions in the depths of one's heart, and expanding them boundlessly. Because Yue Ying was born a God race, he was able to suppressed the instincts of a Devil and was willing to change. However, this did not mean that Zhonggu Lu could do the same.

Nangong Cheng did not explain any further as he slowly walked towards the Light of Guidance with Zhonggu Lu in his arms.

"Nangong Huang…" Zhu Yao still wanted to try dissuading him.

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Chapter 386: Lightning Divine Tower Ceases to Exist

In the end, Zhu Yao failed to stop Nangong Cheng. She could only watch as he slowly walked into the white light. With every step he took, Zhonggu Lu's body would fade. Finally, his body disappeared, and a complete Zhonggu Lu appeared next to Nangong Huang. Presently, they were already enveloped by white light, as they arrived inside the Light of Guidance.

Nangong Cheng joyfully turned to look at him, but Zhonggu Lu's eyes were but an empty void.

He seemed to be stunned for a moment, but right after, the light in his eyes disappeared. Like Mei Xue, the two of them slowly rose with expressionless faces. Zhu Yao could not help but run a few steps forward, but they had already disappeared within the pillar of light.

"Big sis!" Suddenly, Yue Ying's anxious voice sounded from behind her.

Zhu Yao turned to look. The person next to her slipped past her, and was moving towards the white light. At that moment, she could hardly breathe as she pulled onto that person. "Master!"

Yu Yan however ignored her and continued forward, his eyes were looking straight at the Light of Guidance before him. Zhu Yao forcefully pulled him back. "Master, wait a minute! What's wrong with you?"

His feet paused, and only then did he turn to look at her. Though, his expression shook for a moment, and what rose from it was a completely foreign furious expression. "Let go!" He immediately stretched out his other hand and swept hers off.

She simply felt a sting in her heart, as a feeling of anxiety which she had never felt before surged. She immediately blocked his path. "Master?"

"Move!" His voice instantly turned cold.

Zhu Yao was shocked, her eyes greatly widened. Her master had never before been this furious with her, even when his anger was at its peak. Why now? Could the Light of Guidance be the reason? She immediately reached out her hands to block his vision. "Master, what happened to you? Don't scare me. You can't head over there right now. That light…"

Before she could even finish, she was fiercely pushed away by Yu Yan. The ferocity of the force behind the push was not the least bit forgiving. She instantly fell down due to her moment of unpreparedness.

"Master!"

He still did not reply as he moved directly towards the Light of Guidance. His eyes grew even more focused, as if he was being summoned by something.

"Don't go over there, master!"

"Yu Yan, you best stop right there!"

However, it was useless. No matter how she called out to him, he seemed to have suddenly changed into an entirely different person, as he constantly moved towards the Light of Guidance.

It's the light! It's that Light of Guidance!

She hurriedly crawled up and tried several times to pull his arm or to block his path. However, every single time, she was pushed away. The furious look he carried even sent chills down her spine.

Just as he was about to enter the Light of Guidance, the void expressions of Nangong Cheng and Mei Xue instantly appeared in her mind. It was as if everything in the world had already disappeared, their eyes were so hollow and devoid of emotions. Zhu Yao felt as if her heart had been stabbed by a knife. No! Master definitely can't end up that way! Definitely not! Her instincts were telling her that the Realm of Gods was not a good place.

Zhu Yao immediately pounced towards him, and used all of the strength in her body to hug his waist. "Master, wake up! Don't go over there! Look at me. I'm Yu Yao, I'm Yu Wang…" Don't be bewitched by that light.

His feet finally stopped. The eyes which had been staring intently at the light finally landed on her face.

"Master…"

Bang!

A palm strike without a shred of hesitation instantly landed on her back. A heart-wrenching pain immediately spread throughout her body, and at that moment, she felt as if her organs were splitting apart from the shockwave. She puked out a mouthful of blood, and the person before her dressed in a snow-white robe was instantly dyed blood-red.

"Mo..ve!" His face was expressionless, as if he was not able to see the blood on his robe. His tone felt as if it could freeze the blood in her entire body.

He had no intentions of stopping and continued to move forward. Zhu Yao hugged onto his waist tightly, not letting up a single bit. He once again raised his right palm and struck her hands. She could even hear the sounds of her bones shattering.

"Move!"

Thus, one palm strike connected with another…

"Big sis!" Yue Ying madly struck the invisible barrier, wanting to charge in. However, no matter how much devillic energy he materialized, they would all dissipate within the white light before approaching them. He could only desperately knock against the invisible obstruction between them. "Big… sis… Hurry and come out! Stop getting in his way, big sis…"

Zhu Yao had never been in this much pain, a pain that burned through both her heart and body. However, no matter how she shouted, there was nothing else other than fury towards her in his master's eyes. No! It wasn't towards her, but the action of stopping him. There was no one else in his eyes.

Just what was this light? Why was even her master unable to resist it?

"Master…" Wake up. Don't leave me alone.

Yu Yan still raised his hand with an expressionless face and forcefully pushed, instantly sweeping her away. Zhu Yao had long received severe injuries, and unable to stand stably any longer, she fell onto the ground. Yu Yan had already taken this time to walked forward.

"Master… Yu Yan!"

He still did not hear her words.

"You best stop right there!" She crawled a few steps forward.

He still did not stop, and just as he was about to step into the Light of Guidance, Zhu Yao felt as if her heart was about to stop beating as an immense fear surged within her. It was as if someone was digging out her heart. "Realmspirit! If you motherf*king dare let my master walk in, this old lady here will destroy my own soul right now, and I will never ever forgive you!"

Ting!

A familiar sound rang.

In an instant, everything stopped. It was as if the entire world had paused. The shuffling of the wind disappeared, the mystical melody of the Light of Guidance stopped, and even Yue Ying who was still knocking onto the barrier earlier had stopped shouting, his face still maintaining his former expression. Her master stopped moving forward as well. Suddenly, golden symbols appeared from empty air one after another, circling around Yu Yan's body. Those symbols were not were neither the runic symbols of talismans nor formations, but rather, they were like horizontal '8's. They were 'infinity' symbols!

Those symbols were constantly circling around him, slowly and unhurriedly. Zhu Yao felt a familiar feeling from them, a feeling similar to the Light of Guidance.

Zhu Yao gritted her teeth, took a deep breath, and then slowly crawled up. With wobbly legs, she walked over a step at a time. After looking at the circle of 'infinity' symbols for a short while, she directly reached out to grab them. The circle of symbols felt alive, as it began to wiggle about in her hand.

Ting!

The notification bell once again rang, and a notification window instantly popped out. However, there wasn't a choice to be made on it this time, but merely a row of blinding red words.

Warning: Law restriction is being released!!! Please pay serious attention when operating it!!!

Zhu Yao slightly raised her head and looked at the person before her. His eyes were completely cold.

In an instant, she no longer hesitated and squeezed her hand. With a crisp ring of the notification bell, the circle of 'infinity' symbols shattered resoundingly.

Zhu Yao immediately threw out a forceful palm strike, sending her master out of the white space and returning him to the grass field. The initially paused world was restored at this moment as well.

Yu Yan was stunned for a moment. In that pair of eyes that was emotionlessly cold, a hint of light flashed past. He turned to look at Zhu Yao. "Yu Yao…"

"Don't come over here!" Zhu Yao loudly stopped him. Yet another mass of blood tumbled within her, and then she puked out a mouthful of blood.

Yu Yan's feet stopped as he looked at her body that was dyed in blood. "Yu Yao, you…"

"Master… I'm fine. Don't come over here." If he were to come over once more, she could not guarantee that Realmspirit would intervene again.

"…" Yu Yan stopped his feet, though he was clenching his fists hard as they trembled slightly. Even he did not know why he harmed her. Ever since he entered that white space, he was no longer himself, as though his thoughts were no longer in his control. "Yu… Yao…"

"I know…" Zhu Yao smiled. "There's no need for explanations between the two of us." I've always believed you, just like how you've always believed me.

She turned to look at the person next to him, whose eyes were already red. "Yue Ying, be obedient and help look after my master… Don't let me come in again. You too!"

"…" Yue Ying tightly clenched his fists, and after a moment, he nodded.

"Yu Yao!" Yu Yan had an anxious look. "What are you trying to do? Hurry and come out of there. Not just the Light of Guidance, there's a problem even with this surrounding white domain!"

"Don't worry." Zhu Yao waved her hand and said. "Nothing will happen to me. I'm just going to see an old friend."

"Though before that…" With a twist of her hand, she held onto that red 'patch' sword and took a step forward, her gaze fixated on the Light of Guidance. "I must first complete a small quest."

She then walked into the light. With her two hands holding onto the hilt of the sword, she then stabbed it downwards on the base of the Light of Guidance with all her might, where that enormous 'infinity' symbol was.

In an instant, the pillar of light that shot through the skies disappeared, as if it had never appeared before.

Zhu Yao turned to look at the two people next to the grass field, and waved her hand. "Wait for me at home for dinner!"

Suddenly, crackling noises could be heard as the entire white domain began to crack open. Crack lines spread in all directions. Even the grass field next to it and the sky looked as they were about to shatter apart as lines of cracks appeared.

The heaven and earth shook. As if layer after layer of the sky and earth surface were being peeled apart, they began to collapse bit by bit. These cracks had spread throughout the entire Lightning Divine Tower. Even the scenery before their eyes was beginning to distort and change. Some sort of formless energy was presently pulling Yu Yan and Yue Ying out. Similar to a collapsed Secret Realm, people were being forcefully ejected.

"Yu Yao!" Yu Yan wanted to call out to his stupid disciple, but at where the pillar of light once was, his disciple's figure was no longer there. What remained was an entirely red sword.

In the next instant, he had already appeared inside the Lightning Divine Palace. Before his eyes was the Lightning Divine Tower that could reach the high skies. However, the body of the white tower was collapsing, as large cracks began to tear apart, along with that immensely huge 'bug' word.

Occasionally, rays of light would shoot out from the tower, and many foreign figures instantly appeared in the Lightning Divine Palace.

Everyone was ejected from the tower! And from that moment on, Lightning Divine Tower… ceased to exist in the Divine Realm.

There's nothing here? The crimson sun shone upon the great land, bringing to light the dry scars that filled the ground. The surroundings were barren, and looking afar, it was entirely flat. There was no wind, no water, no greenery, and not even the slightest bit of sand. Other than the countless shuffling expressionless human figures. They looked like they were dreamwalking, as they walked about with neither a goal nor the slightest bit of sentience. Their eyes were completely hollow.

"This is the Realm of Gods?"

A long while later…

"Mn."

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Chapter 387: Become a CEO

Countless human figures brushed past her, yet not one of them stopped for a single moment as they continued to walk without a goal. Zhu Yao could not help but feel a chill in her heart. Though she had already mentally prepared herself when she destroyed the Light of Guidance, telling herself that the Realm of Gods was not a good place, it was still an astonishing sight when actually seeing it first-hand. This place was even worse than the Netherworld. Though the Netherworld was filled with ghastly air, at the very least, it wouldn't be as barren and cold as this place. Furthermore, though there were many human figures around, it was terrifyingly quiet. It was like a soundless movie, and one without any subtitles at that.

A familiar human figure walked past her. Zhu Yao's heart sank as she instinctively pulled onto him. "Nangong Cheng."

He turned around, but his two eyes were hollow. He seemed like he was looking at her, but there clearly wasn't any reflection in his pupils. And, Zhonggu Lu wasn't next to him.

Even though he cared about his homosexual buddy so much, he basically wasn't by his side right now.

Zhu Yao's hand shook for a moment, and she unconsciously released him. Nangong Cheng however simply changed a direction and continued walking forward. He did not reply, neither did he get angry, nor was there the slightest display of emotions. He was like a precise instrument walking on a predefined path, with neither sadness nor joy in him.

She suddenly recalled his final smile when he walked into the Light of Guidance. It was clearly filled with hope and expectations, as if he was obtaining a new lease of life. But now…

"What happened to him?" Zhu Yao fiercely turned around.

"He has lost all awareness of himself." Realmspirit materialized into a look similar to hers, and then took a step forward to stand next to her. "The light above the Lightning Divine Tower is the first strand of light that scattered throughout the Three Realms at the very beginning of the creation of this world. It is also the purest light in this world… the Light of Purification."

"Purification!" Zhu Yao was stunned. "Purify what?"

Realmspirit turned around and looked at her seriously. With a gentle voice, he said. "Resentment, obsession, love, joy, sadness, desire, fear, and everything else…"

She suddenly widened her eyes. "Their… seven emotions and six desires were purified!?"

Realmspirit nodded.

Zhu Yao took a step back and then looked at the human figures before her once more. No wonder… It's no wonder these people looked as if they're puppets.

"Why create a Realm of Gods such as this?" Zhu Yao's chest felt heavy, as if something was pressing against it, preventing her from breathing properly. "Is there a need for this? Could this really be cultivation's final stop? Is this the truth behind the Heavenly Dao?"

"Yaoyao…" He sighed. The scenery before her eyes instantly changed, and she arrived at place filled with flowers, a place that was as beautiful as the realm of fairies. "This is their own choice. Becoming Deities or Gods, they had chosen this path on their own."

"But aren't you the one guiding them onto this path?" Zhu Yao solemnly said. "Realmspirit, you're the spirit of the Three Realms. The Three Realms are you, and you are this entire world. Aren't all of the living beings in this world your children? Is it your wish to see their final resting place to be a barren land like that Realm of Gods?"

"It's naturally isn't my wish to see that!" Realmspirit turned to look at her, as he pulled up the corners of his lips and smiled. "That's why… I found you. My friend."

"Yaoyao… I'm the spirit of the Three Realms, so naturally, I cherish this world." He frowned. "However, all of the living beings in this world are the same. No matter if they're humans, plants or demons, as long as they are able to gain sentience, they will be harassed by their seven emotions and six desires. As long as they have desires, they will never be satisfied. After becoming Deities, they will want to become Gods, and after becoming Gods, they will most likely wish to cultivate even further to become something else…" He sighed. "Though I am the spirit of the Three Realms, what I can do is however very limited. Luck, spiritual energy, and even the Heavenly Dao can all be changed according to my will. I've always wanted to change and save this world, but no matter what I changed, there will always be new problems surfacing."

"New problems?"

He sighed. "Do you still remember those bugs?"

Zhu Yao was startled for a moment, and then she nodded, puzzled. Why did you suddenly bring that up?

"Actually, from the very start, they were not actually loopholes that could destroy the world. Rather, they were patches I made to save this world."

"What!?" You're motherf*king kidding me? Those Mary Sues and Gary Stus are patches!?

"I know you won't believe me, but that's the truth." He waved his hand, and in an instant, two screens appeared in mid-air. What were being displayed were the bugs that she had fixed, though the two screens had different words labelled above them. On the left it was written 'Predicted Outcome', while on the right was 'Actual Outcome'.

"Take Xiao Yi for example." Realmspirit pointed, and the screens immediately displayed the scenes of the first bug she fixed. "He was born poor and frail, and he grew up from the very bottom. He understood the pain of practitioners of the lowest level the most, that was why I bestowed him immense luck. I hoped that, with this level of understanding, he could stop slaughters and prevent the birth of resentment. That way, it would reduce the burden of the Netherworld. However, I never expected that…" What were shown in the two screens were completely different. On the left, Xiao Yi was a great saviour, saving the injured and aiding the poor everywhere he went. Upholding justice, he walked on the path of a saint. On the other "Actual Outcome" side, it was the scenario that she received back then. He gathered the five spirits and ascended to the Higher Realm, resulting in the collapse of the world. "He directly destroyed a world, and the resentment that would have been accumulated was estimated to be several million times more."

"Uh…" This patch was indeed a little upsetting.

"Then there's Mu Meiyan." Realmspirit continued. "Her rebirth was initially to suppress the resurrection of the Devil. As long as her soul is undying, then the Devil will never be able to completely resurrect. The world will thus avoid a tribulation."

"Yi Ling as well. Her existence was initially to have the Devil, that taken over Lin Qi's soul, develop feelings. As long as Lin Qi develops feelings for her, then he would be able to suppress the Devil's nature within his body."

"Let alone Yi Ling, whose existence is a patch itself."

"And then…"

"Stop!" Zhu Yao did a stop gesture, and then scratched her head a little irritatedly. "In other words, these bugs were actually all made by you?"

"Mn." He nodded innocently.

"…" The hell! So she wasn't here to save the world, but to help cover up his ass.

"Yaoyao, you must believe me. I really had no other choice but to call you here." He said with an expression that looked as if he was about to cry. "I've looked for many people, but no matter if they're humans or beasts, or even a living being that had awakened its sentience, they would all become the bugs of their respective worlds. The more powerful they were, the more they were possess, and the more severe the consequences would become. There had never been a person like you who stood fast to your beliefs."

"Enough. There's no need to let me wear a tophat. Just tell me your ultimate goal." Zhu Yao waved her hands.

Realmspirit paused for a moment. Clenching his fists, he looked at her seriously in the eyes, and finally said with a heavy tone. "I want you to redraft the procedures of the Three Realms, rewrite the Heavenly Dao, and change everything in its entirety. I want you to become the manager of this Three Realms."

The corner of Zhu Yao's lips twitched. With widened eyes, she sized him up from top to bottom, and then reached out to touch his forehead. "You're not having a fever, right?" Though she's a main game planner and could be considered as a small supervisor, she had never been a CEO.

"Yaoyao…" He immediately pulled down her hand, and he had a stern expression which she had never seen before. "You're the only one who can stop the Three Realms from walking to its destruction."

"Don't make it sound so certain, hey." Zhu Yao grew a little anxious. "I'm someone who only knows how to make games, and I really haven't done anything like this before." What's going to happen if I make a mistake?

"I believe you!"

"I don't even have confidence myself, just where is your confidence coming from?"

"You can do it." He revealed a brilliant smile. "Actually, ever since you came, this world has been changing in a good direction. You've already been to all of the Three Realms, so you should already have sufficient knowledge of this world. It's fine as long as you speak out your thoughts."

This is… He's making me handover my post-experience reflection on my tour around the Three Realms?

Zhu Yao was silent for a moment, and then she slowly started. "Actually, I've already said the things that's needed to be said. You've already understood the problems of this world, right?" She raised her head and looked at him. "When you closed all the Ascension Heavenly Doors of the various worlds, wasn't that recognition for what I said about people who conducted countless slaughters basically not being worthy of becoming Deities?"

"Realmspirit, you mentioned that you once dispatched many people to fix bugs, but all of them would turn into new loopholes in the end. Because they lost their beliefs on their journey, they then began to walk on the most extreme route. Then why didn't you request everyone to hold fast to their beliefs right from the beginning?" She patted on his shoulders. "Actually, I just don't get this practice of the strong eating the weak of this world. Because if we look at it from another perspective, slaughters enlarge people's greed and desires. The hearts of people do not amount to just that. As they say, 'man at birth is fundamentally good in nature', kindness actually exists in the depths of everyone's hearts. However, after they lost their beliefs, they abandoned this kindness. Yet, the Heavenly Dao has never cared about this point. That's why those who can ascend, ascends, and those who can become Deities, become Deities."

She took a step forward and looked straight into Realmspirit's eyes. "Realmspirit, have you ever thought that maybe, they didn't lose their beliefs on their journeys? Rather, right from the beginning, the Heavenly Dao that you designed, has never requested them to maintain their beliefs?"

"…" He was stunned.

"Realmspirit, actually, all of the living beings in this world are the same. They are all born the same way, and there's nothing different about them at all. It's merely there experiences that influence their choices. If the world tells them that there's no need to stick true to their beliefs, then they will throw them away without a shred of hesitation. If the world tells them that it's the most important thing, then they will hold onto them forever." Zhu Yao smiled. "You said that I'm the only person in this world who can save them, but that's not right. I'm actually the same with everyone else. The only difference is that I lived in another plane, and my world tells me that slaughter, stealing, and scheming are all wrong. Such acts will be met with prosecution. My conscience tells me that they're acts of utmost evil and cannot be forgiven. That's why even if I die, I will never do such things."

"Realmspirit, what this world lacks isn't someone who can hold fast to their beliefs, but a power that can guide everyone to holding fast to their beliefs."

"Or should I put it this way? There hasn't been anything in the world that clearly tells everyone that they have to hold fast to their beliefs."

Realmspirit was silent for a long while, before he slowly began to reveal a smile. Even though they had the same face right now, his smile looked as if the sun had finally come out of the clouds, brilliantly… blinding.

Uh… Why do I feel like I've lost? Can you change to another face?

"I understand what you mean now."

T/N: Realmspirit is currently borrowing Zhu Yao's appearance, but I will be referring Realmspirit as 'he'.

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Chapter 388: Realmspirit's Plans

Zhu Yao did not know how long she had spent talking to Realmspirit. She merely told him all the things that she thought to be unreasonable, which she had seen and heard of. She could not guarantee that whatever she had said were true, but she simply felt that the world shouldn't just center around strong people, but also benevolent people. There was nothing wrong with the initial Heavenly Dao that guided living beings to the top. After all, without conflict, there wouldn't be improvements. If people did not have progressive mindsets, then the Three Realms will forever be stuck living in a prehistoric society. But during progression, people should not abandon their beliefs. As they say, 'when one drinks water, one must not forget its source'. No matter how powerful a Deity one is, he or she was still once a human.

"Realmspirit, there's still something that I don't understand." Zhu Yao looked at Realmspirit and said. "If my guess is correct, that is the final bug, right? I understand why you wish to severe the seven emotions and six desires of those who become Gods." If Gods truly had the power to fight against the Heavenly Dao, then 'Gods' would truly be too dangerous. Furthermore, according to the principle of the strong eating the weak, among these people who had climbed to the very top, which one of them wasn't someone who would use all possible means to obtain his or her objective? With just the slightest birth of evil intentions, the Three Realms would be faced with countless tribulations beyond redemption.

"But… If you do not wish for them to become Gods right from the start, then why come up with the Lightning Divine Tower? By doing so, you're giving the Deities the opportunity to become Gods, and you're guiding them to cultivate into Gods." Her master's irregular behaviour earlier was because of the Heavenly Dao's control, wasn't it? The seal of 'infinity' symbols that she broke was actually a law of the Heavenly Dao. All of the Deities revered the Lightning Divine Tower so much, and even desperately wanted to enter it to become Gods. They would unhesitantly throw away their opportunities to hold onto their eternal life. Other than suggestions made by the Heavenly Dao, she really couldn't think of any other reason behind such behaviour.

Realmspirit sighed. "Yaoyao, have you ever thought that actually, the Realm of Gods might have never existed in this world in the first place?"

"What? Never existed!?" Zhu Yao was shocked. "Then the place I just saw was…" There was that barren place. She wasn't blind after all.

"That place is simply a temporary dimension, that was opened to accommodate the people that had been unexpectedly purified of their seven emotions and six desires. Realmspirit seriously said. "Yaoyao, I told you before. I'm the spirit of the Three Realms. Three realms, not four."

Zhu Yao was stunned. Divine Realm, Human Realm, and Netherworld. From what he said, there was truly only three realms. If the Realm of Gods was included…

"Just what are you trying to say? Speak clearly, hey." Why was he making her even more confused now?

"Yaoyao, within the Three Realms, what do you think is the main cause that would result in the immediate collapse of the Three Realms?" Realmspirit posed a serious question.

Zhu Yao pondered for a moment, and she then suddenly widened her eyes. "It's resentment!"

"Mn." Realmspirit nodded. "Resentment is birthed from living beings, yet they cannot die along with living beings. It is undying, indestructible, and filled with malice. If it enters any one world, it can result in the collapse of that world. Before you helped me with finding a method to eliminate resentment, even the River of Forgetfulness had to suppress it beneath the river. If we wanted to exterminate resentment then, there's only a single way…"

"Light of Purification!" Zhu Yao continued.

Realmspirit nodded. "The Light of Purification is the first strand of sunlight at the beginning of the world's creation. It is the purest thing in the world and can purify everything in this world, including the seven emotions and six desires. That's why I designed the Lightning Divine Tower and led the River of Forgetfulness into it. It's all in order to purify the ever-expanding resentment kept under the River of Forgetfulness and prevent it from entering the Three Realms. However, I am after all an existence formed by the will of the Three Realms. Since the Lightning Divine Tower is designed by me, the tower naturally contains the aura of the Heavenly Dao. Furthermore, all of the practitioners in the world cultivate in order to reach the Heavenly Dao. That's why…"

"The people of the world then believed that the Lightning Divine Tower that you designed is actually the passageway to raising their level. That's why they entered the tower to seek a beating?"

He nodded.

The hell. In the end, it was all because those Deities were courting death on their own.

"Those souls who have their consciousness purified have no other places to return to, and because of the Light of Purification, they are unable to return to Netherworld through the River of Forgetfulness to reincarnate. That was why I opened up an accommodation, which is the Realm of Gods you saw back there. As long as they regain even the slightest bit of sentience, they will be able to follow along the River of Forgetfulness and reincarnate."

"…" What's drawing water with a sieve? This is! So there wasn't a Realm of Gods to begin with. A God's final resting place was simply reincarnation all over again.

"Then what's with the previous Realm of Gods?" She suddenly remembered about the God races. Those races which were met with such a tragic end.

Realmspirit was silent for a moment, and then solemnly said. "They are survivors from the former world."

"Former world?"

"Yaoyao, this plane of ours has once met with destruction, and not just once…"

"What?" What did he mean by 'not just once'? Wasn't the great war between Gods and Devils the only one? That was why the Human Realm was split into the Three Thousand Worlds.

"Ever since the world's creation, this plane had always been in a cycle of rejuvenation and destruction." Realmspirit frowned, as if he had recalled something saddening. "Every ending was the same. Living beings would fight against each other, and then resentment would be birthed, which finally led to world collapses, and then its rejuvenation. This plane had been restructured in many, many different ways, and many different races had once existed in it. However, all of their endings were met with destruction, again and again, never-ending. Finally, this plane is no longer able to bear many more rejuvenations of such scale, and I appeared."

He took a deep breath, and then continued. "Because it does not wish such an ending to repeat, the world materialized a spirit and wanted to stop this entirety. However, I realized that even if I gain sentience, I was unable to walk out of this cycle. That world with the God races was the first world I experienced after I awakened. However, it was still destroyed. After the rejuvenation, I had the world split into Three Thousand Worlds, all in order to reduce the casualties to the very minimum. I believed that even if one collapses, I can still save it in time. However, resentment continued to accumulate, and I can already foresee the final ending. That's why I sought help in another plane."

"Wait a minute…" Zhu Yao was a little confused. "You mentioned that resentment causes world collapses, but back in the time where God races existed, there wasn't any resentment though?"

"Resentment is just a term used in this world." Realmspirit said. "In the previous world, it didn't use the same terminology."

Zhu Yao was stunned for a moment, and then her heart sank. "Devillic energy!"

"Mn."

"The hell!" Zhu Yao's head ached. In the end, devillic energy and resentment were one and the same? The only difference between them was that one of them was birthed in the former world, while the other was birthed in this world.

"Devillic energy was also the most fundamental reason behind that world's collapse."

"That's not right…" Zhu Yao frowned. "If devillic energy is just a remnant from the former world, then what's with those people who fall into Devilhood? Putting aside Yue Ying, what about Fa Yu? He clearly was a resident of this world, so was he still able to become a Devil?"

"Yaoyao, resentment is birthed from the feelings of unwillingness and hatred during a person's death. However, what if someone is able to give birth to this form of hatred before his death?"

"You're saying resentment comes after death, but one will fall into Devilhood when experiencing it before death?"

Realmspirit nodded. "Though, falling into Devilhood is better than giving birth to resentment. Because at the moment of death, what disperses is just devillic energy, and it will not give birth to resentment."

"But a Devil might cause even more innocent deaths, so the amount of resentment birthed would be much larger, right?"

"Indeed! Especially after the change in the Heavenly Dao, if future practitioners need to hold onto their beliefs, then there will definitely be people who lose their beliefs as well. I'm afraid that there will simply be even more people who fall into Devilhood, so there's a need for someone to constrain them."

Constrain? Zhu Yao was startled. "You're saying Yue Ying!?"

"Mn."

"Why him? He's still a child. Furthermore, he doesn't have any relations with the other Devils…" Halfway through, she suddenly stopped. With widened eyes, she continued. "He's of the God race."

Realmspirit nodded. "His existence is necessary. He's neither a God nor a Devil. He's a Devil God."

"Devils are initially people who walk on another extreme path that's out of the Heavenly Dao's domain. They are the darkest side of living beings, a race that abandons their humanity." Realmspirit sighed and said. "Without the restraints of the Heavenly Dao, they might turn into an existence similar to 'resentment'. That's why only a Devil can restrain a Devil, and Yue Ying is the only Devil God in the world. He is the only one who can control the Devils."

"But a Devil God is still a Devil." Zhu Yao rolled her eyes. "And from what you're saying, the Devil race is a race that ignores the laws of the Heavenly Dao and walks on an extreme path, then a Devil God would be the same, right? How are you so certain that a Devil God will listen to the words of the Heavenly Dao?"

Realmspirit smiled, and looked at her seriously. "Isn't he already following the will of the Heavenly Dao?"

Zhu Yao was stunned, and then she immediately had an answer. "Me?"

He revealed an even cheaper smile.

"The hell, why am I being pulled into this again? I just wish to see him become a good child…" Uh, now that she thought about it, she was really the only one who could restrain Yue Ying's devillic nature. Even in front of her, other than that one time where he attempted to kill little wimp, he did not lose his sanity like other Devils and become slaughter machine.

Zhu Yao swept a glance at Realmspirit, and then stared at him intensely. "This can't possibly be your plan right from the start when you sent me to the God races, right?"

Realmspirit stiffened, and then let out a silly laugh. "Aiyaya, young maiden, don't be that way. I just wanted you to show your face around, I never expected that you would really be able to do it. You're awesome!"

"Scram!" Zhu Yao threw a kick at him. "Hurry and speak. What other things were your schemes?"

"Young maiden…" He showed a crying face. "How can you call them schemes? Aren't they just friendly support between friends? I simply foretold the endings a little."

Zhu Yao grabbed onto his cheeks and strongly pulled them to the sides. "Stop changing the topic. Hurry and talk!"

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts… Young maiden, this is your face, you know. How can you do such a thing?"

"Tch, I'm not the one hurting anyway."

"…" She made so much sense he actually had nothing to refute with.

"Hurry and talk!"

"Alright, only one." He weakly stretched out a finger. "It's related to the aftermath."

"Aftermath?" Zhu Yao released her hands.

"Yaoyao, just as you've said. There has already been changes to the Heavenly Dao. Only those who doesn't lose their beliefs will be able to open the Door of Ascension, but… " He rubbed his cheeks. "What are we going to do about those people who are still in the Divine Realm?"

"…" Indeed. The Divine Realm now was filled with Deities who slaughtered their way up here.

"Lightning Divine Tower has been destroyed now, and the Light of Purification has been withdrawn. These Deities can no longer cultivate into Gods, so will they truly stay in the Divine Realm peacefully?"

"…" Naturally, they wouldn't.

"I can't throw them all into the reincarnation wheel for reconstruction, so I can only provide constraints."

Constraints again!

Zhu Yao paused for a moment. As though she had thought of something, she immediately exploded. "Greedy beast, what else are you trying to do to my master?"

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Chapter 389: A Very Mysterious Plane Management Office

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts…" Realmspirit pulled onto her hands, wanting to have her let go of his cheeks. "Calm down, calm down… I just want him to manage the Divine Realm and constrain the Deities, while leading them to adapt to the new Heavenly Dao. Merely that."

Startled, Zhu Yao loosened her grip. "You want my master to manage the Divine Realm?"

"Mn, mn, mn…" He nodded.

"No way!" Zhu Yao frowned. "Master's cultivation is indeed incredible, but you should know what sort of place the Divine Realm is. Even if we put aside those Deities that were ejected from the Lightning Divine Tower, among those outside, which one of them would be willing to listen? It would've been possible when Lightning Divine Palace was still the manager of the Lightning Divine Tower, but now that the tower is gone, if those Deities were to come together… Furthermore, there's only a couple of us in the Lightning Divine Palace." If every one of them were to simply spit water at us, we can still die, alright? Let alone manage the entire Divine Realm.

"Yaoyao…" Realmspirit once again patted on her hands, hinting her to let go.

Zhu Yao rolled her eyes before releasing her hands.

"Other people might not be able to, but Yu Yan can definitely do it." As he rubbed his face, he took in some cold air and said. "Though the current Divine Realm isn't ideal, all of the Deities are still under the Heavenly Dao."

"Tch, you sound as if my master isn't under…" Zhu Yao was stunned for a moment, and then she suddenly widened her eyes. "The hell, you did that on purpose, didn't you?" Indeed, the people of the Divine Realm were under the control of the Heavenly Dao, but there was one person who wasn't, and that's her master. Because the Heavenly Dao's control on him had just disappeared, and she was the one who personally shattered it – the circle of 'infinity' symbols that was swirling around him.

Back then, her hands were itchy because she wanted her master to be free of the Heavenly Dao's control and prevent him from walking into the Light of Purification.

Back then, to while away time, Yu Jin released the Disciplinary Order and declared that the Lightning Divine Palace was a place that enacted punishments in the Divine Realm. In the end, Realmspirit really began to treat Lightning Divine Palace as Divine Realm's management office.

Thinking about it, it was a rather tragic story. Among the two people next to her, one was going to become the future manager of the Devils, while the other one was immediately about to take up the position of chairman of the Divine Realm. So she was sent here to this world to help Realmspirit pick out talents? What was she? A HR manager?

"Realmspirit, you can't possibly have counted me in as well, right?" Zhu Yao looked at him with narrow eyes. I don't wish to work for you any longer.

"Hohohoho… How can that be!" Realmspirit chuckled. Why did she feel she was about to be trolled? "Oh right, Yaoyao. Your mission this time has been completed. It's time to receive your mission reward!"

Zhu Yao was dumbfounded. "You're talking about the Plane Movement Permits!?"

"That's right. You can freely choose to travel between two planes limitlessly, you know?"

"Wasn't that something you made up to trick me? Weren't you the one who controlled my movement between the planes?"

"Of course not!" Realmspirit said with a serious face. "Though I'm the spirit of the Three Realms, I'm only limited to this plane. Other planes have their own managers, and I have no authority to enter them. In order to cross between two worlds, I naturally have to obtain permission from the plane manager from your side."

"Manager?" Why did she think of a president of a country or a chairman of some sort? There couldn't really be a management office or an agency like that, right?

"Yaoyao, the world you live in is actually really vast as well, and it's not smaller than the Three Thousand Worlds. The things you understand on earth are just a small part of it. Though, when I sought help back then, your manager recommended you to me. It seems like it has been proven that he's right."

"You know the manager of our world?"

"But of course!" He said with pride. "Isn't this just for the sake of developing friendly ties between planes?"

Friendly ties, your sister! Are you trying to build harmony between planes? Then what am I? A representative sent for a friendly visit to your plane?

"Stop with the bullcrap. Where's the permits?" She immediately stretched out her hand. "Hurry and give them to me!"

"Uh…" Realmspirit's expression stiffened. "Yaoyao, actually, if you're coming from that world, I will definitely welcome you with open arms, and I won't even need a permit from you. The difficult part starts when we have to send you to your plane from here. That's when the permit is needed. That's why when you're going back and forth from here to your plane, there's actually no need for a permit. The permit is actually issued by your plane to the citizens of my side. I don't have the authority to hand new permits."

"Speak human." What do you mean?

"In other words, I can't make this permit. You have to look for your world's manager."

"The hell!" Zhu Yao raised her hand and slapped the back of his head. "If you can't make it, why the hell did you spout so much nonsense?"

He pitifully rubbed his head. "I can't make it, but I can bring you to the manager of your plane to make it!"

Zhu Yao's hand stopped. "How are we going to get there?"

"Don't worry, I've already set the route." He raised his hand with an excited look, and instantly, the two screens merged into one. Then, it slowly enlarged itself, and the numbers 1 and 0 constantly flashed within the combined screen. They looked especially familiar. Were they similar to binary codes?

"What is this?"

"This is a mystic treasure that your plane manager gifted me." He said with an expression of reverence. "It can analyze the routes of all matters that happen in the Three Realms in advance, and find the loopholes almost instantaneously. It even has various other features. Do you still remember the conversation windows that you often see? They were all displayed by this mystic treasure. The cheats that you carry are all sent by it as well."

The hell. So those stupid conversation windows and the cheats that were filled with potential retorts to be made, were all made by this object. Why did she feel like she had entered a game world? This object was clearly a high-tech, intelligent piece of equipment, wasn't it!? Just what kind of person was the manager of her plane? Why did she feel like he was becoming even more incredible?

"Done!" Realmspirit excitedly said. "The route towards the management office has been constructed."

Zhu Yao raised her head to take a look, and her face instantly darkened as the corners of her lips twitched.

Why the hell did it turn into a door? And a pick one at that, hey? Do you think this is Doraemon's Anywhere Door?

"Oh right, we have to stick an address on it!" Realmspirit pulled out a pen and a piece of post-it note out of nowhere. In a flash, he wrote a row of words on it, and with a raise of his hand, he stuck it onto the door with a slam.

Destination: Plane Management Office.

Zhu Yao: "…" Let me think where I should start retorting from!

It really was the Anywhere Door, hey! One could navigate through just by sticking a paper on it. As the manager of a plane, was it really fine for it to be this easy?

"Yaoyao!" Realmspirit pulled onto Zhu Yao, his face was filled with never-before-seen seriousness. "The Management Office is right behind this door. My abilities can only be applied on this plane, and I am unable to intervene in your world's matters. You can only rely on yourself to obtain the permit."

Hey, why did you suddenly turn so serious? You're making me anxious too, hey.

"Just what kind of person is my world's manager?"

Realmspirit was silent for a short while, but his expression continued to sink. He looked at Zhu Yao tremblingly, and after a long while, he said. "I can only say… he's a very… stern person."

Stern! In other words, he wasn't a good person to speak with. Then would she still be able to make the permit?

Why don't I… first present a gift?

No matter what, she definitely had to obtain the Plane Movement Permit. She did not want to be seperated from her master for all eternity. Zhu Yao took a deep breath, prepared herself mentally for a long while, and then finally held onto the door handle. She turned it strongly, and the door creaked.

A ray of white light instantly enveloped her, and the scenery before her changed, revealing a room.

Along with the warm decorations, the place was furnished a complete set of tables, chairs, coffee table, shoe rack, sofa and television. There was even a man dressed in an apron with his hands holding onto a mop, and was mopping the floor seriously. He took steps back as he mopped, and when he reached the entrance, he even coldly shouted. "Raise your feet."

"Ou!" Zhu Yao instinctively took a step back and stood on the entrance mat.

She silently stood there for several minutes, looking blankly at the foreign-looking man as he mopped the floor twice. He even cleaned the tables, wiped the mirrors, dried the clothes, and even made breakfast.

Zhu Yao then thought that something must had been wrong with the way she opened the door. Why don't she try going back to open it again?

How could the Plane Management Office be such a homely place!? Furthermore, it even had a two rooms and a living room.

Eh, wait a minute! Why does this place looks so familiar?

Why were the two cups on the table so similar to the pair she bought from a street stall? Also, the floral cloth on the coffee table, the sofa that was filled with scratches, and even pot of chlorophytum placed next to the television was so similar to the one her best friend Guoguo was growing.

"Time to eat!" The man placed down the bowls and chopsticks, and then shouted out loud. Compared to the tone he used when he told her to raise her feet, it was basically filled with gentleness.

When his voice fell, the door on the left creaked open. Walking out of it was a girl dressed in a panda pyjamas.

"Guoguo!" Zhu Yao widened her eyes.

The girl turned her head around and was stunned for a moment. "Yaoyao, when did you arrive? Why didn't you give me a call? Have you eaten breakfast yet?"

"No…"

"Then come over." She said as she pointed at the table.

"Ou." Zhu Yao changed her shoes, washed her hands, and settled down on reflex.

Wait a minute! Something's off?

"The hell!" Zhu Yao suddenly leapt up from shock. She pointed at the foreign-looking man who was sitting on the other side and nibbling on a bun. "Who is he?"

Her good friend Feng Guoguo calmly glanced at her, and then said. "A passerby… who likes to court death?"

"You casually brought a passerby into your house to clean and make food for you?" And what's this about liking to court death? That's right. This place was the home of her good friend Guoguo in the modern era. It was the place where she settled down in after moving out.

"I didn't bring him back here!" Guoguo still had that stiffened expression on her face. "He followed me here."

"Guoguo, are you alright?" Zhu Yao held her forehead. "He followed you here and you let him stay? What if he's a bad person? No, I'm going to call the police."

She picked up the cellphone that Guoguo placed on the table. Just as she was about to call 110, the cellphone suddenly made crackling noises as sparks flew out. The screen instantly turned black.

"It's the fourth one now." Guoguo suddenly said.

"…" What's with that 'fortunately, you're rich' expression on your face? The cellphone isn't the point here, hey!

With nibbling buns as his main profession, and sneaking glances at Guoguo as his sub, the man who had been silent the entire time suddenly raised his head and glanced at Zhu Yao. His eyes were as cold as ice. Zhu Yao unconsciously began to tremble. She looked at the wrecked phone in her hand and instantly understood.

"You're… the Plane Manager."

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Chapter 390: The Manager of Guoguo's Home

The man did not reply, acting as if he could not hear her. He simply picked up a small soup dumpling with his chopsticks and carefully placed it in Guoguo's bowl. After seeing Guoguo eat it, the smile he carried was as if his entire being had bloomed.

Hey, your character setting has collapsed!

"What is a Plane Manager?" Though Guoguo grew curious and asked.

Zhu Yao hesitated for a moment, and then pulled Guoguo, who was still grasping onto a bun, into the room. With a click, she locked the door. "Guoguo, I have something very serious to tell you. That person outside, he might not… be a regular person."

"I know!" Zhu Yao said with a calm look.

"Hah?"

"He was still a fish when he first came here. Today…" Guoguo thought of the breakfast on the table. After hesitating for a moment, she said. "He's a 'Mister Snail', right?"

The hell is a Mister Snail? And the first time these two met, the man didn't appear in his human form either? Guoguo, just how thick are your nerves to actually stay this calm, hey!? This man definitely has some ulterior motives!

"Guoguo!" She grabbed onto her shoulders and shook her. "Just what is going on? How long have you known him? What has he done to you? Tell me everything!" My only good friend is about to be taken away by an unknown and dangerous creature!

"Stop… Stop shaking already. I will tell you… Actually, it's three months ago." Guoguo sighed and said. "When I came back from my vacation, didn't I tell you about it?"

"Three months ago…" Zhu Yao dug into her memories. It should be the time when she returned from her transmigration, as Guoguo did indeed just return from her vacation back then. Back then, she seemed to have suddenly asked her a very strange question. (Chapter 262) "Mermaid!?"

She remembered now. Guoguo seemed to have suddenly asked her if mermaids actually existed in this world. Back then, she wondered if Guoguo had crossed over to another world as well and had seen a sharkman? After that, she had to head out because of her master's incident, so she had forgotten about this matter.

"Could it be… you really saw one back then?"

"That's right. When I was on my vacation back then, I saw him dragging his huge fishtail, and was this close to dying dry next to the road."

"So… you saved him?"

Guoguo turned to look at her, and calmly said. "I didn't?"

"Hah?" Zhu Yao felt her jaw had dropped. "You… didn't save him?"

"That's right!"

"Why?"

"After seeing an unknown creature collapse by the road, if I don't run away, what else should I do? Stay behind and have lunch?"

Uh… She makes a lot of sense. That's a human's normal reaction.

"Then… After that?"

"After that, I came home?"

"…" Why don't you act according to the usual script? "Then why is he here?"

"On the night you moved out, he suddenly appeared in the bathtub. His fishtail disappeared as well." Guoguo raised the little soup dumpling that was still clasped between her chopsticks, and with an 'ahm', she swallowed it down.

"A man suddenly appeared inside your house's bathtub. Don't you think it's strange?" Where's your common sense? Where are your nerves?

"It's indeed rather strange." Guoguo nodded and said with a puzzled look. "If he's a fish and the place he was lying on did not have any water, why was he still able to run over to my house for water before being dried to death?"

"…" Was that the main point here, hey?

"Yaoyao, don't worry. Compared to you, I have my own measures."

"…" Why do I feel like I'm being looked down upon?

Guoguo immediately pulled her to the bed and settled her down. "Why don't we talk about what's happening to you instead?"

Zhu Yao turned to look at her. After hesitating for a moment, she still gritted her teeth and told her everything about how she was transmigrated to a cultivation world.

"That's the story. Realmspirit told me that this place is where the Plane Management Office is, but that guy was the first person I saw the moment I got here. So he definitely isn't normal."

Guoguo looked at with a strange expression for a moment. "So what you're saying is that you found a part-time job in another plane, brought back a man while doing it, and even solved your problem of being a leftover woman. The reason why you came back today is to obtain a visa for your boyfriend?"

"Uh… You can put it that way." Her explanation was well-covered.

Guoguo's expression turned even weirder. As though she was about to say something, there was a knock on the door at that moment.

"Guoguo, do you want to drink a cup of milk?"

It's that man's voice.

Zhu Yao was stunned for a moment. A mighty plane manager suddenly appeared here to wash clothes and make food for her best friend. She wondered just what was his motive? For a moment, she grew a little anxious. No, I must think of something…

"Guoguo, what are you doing?"

Before she could even clear up everything in her mind, Guoguo had already pulled open the door. The diligent housekeeper was standing outside with a cup of warm milk in his hand. He was currently looking at Guoguo with sparkling eyes. "Milk…"

Guoguo took it and proudly drank it all in one gulp. Then, she immediately went straight into the main point. "Yaoyao told me that you're a Plane Manager?"

"…" If you're asking so directly, it would be strange if he replies truthfully, right?

"That's right!" The man nodded.

The hell! He really went and answered her, hey! Do you have to be that direct!?

"Can you grant a plane visa?"

"Yes!"

"Then grant Yaoyao a few. It's really difficult for her to find a man at her age. They can't break up just because they're in different places."

"Alright."

Zhu Yao: "…" Uh, was a long-distance relationship the problem here? It's two Plane Movement Permits, you know? If it's solved so easily, I don't feel any sense of achievement!

The man pulled out a pen and a book out of nowhere, and then wrote down a few things. As he wrote, he even raised his head. "How many?"

"Uh…" Zhu Yao weakly stretched out two fingers. "Two."

Guoguo suddenly widened her eyes as she swept them across Zhu Yao.

"One for my husband, and the other for my little brother!" Zhu Yao hurriedly explained. Withdraw that 'you're sitting on a fence' expression of yours, hey!

"Name?"

"Yu Yan, Yue Ying."

"Gender?"

"Male."

"Occupation…"

"Uh… Temporarily unemployed."

"Inch sized passport photographs."

"…" Why is there even a need for photographs as well? Flips table! Realmspirit didn't tell me that!

"Genetic information of soul fragments are fine as well."

"Uh… I don't have them!" Who the hell will carry someone else's genes and soul fragments, hey!?

That man raised his head and coldly glared at her. With a smack, he closed the book in his hand. "Incomplete information, review on hold."

"…" Don't! The hell you mean by 'review on hold', hey!? Just how hard do you think it takes me to cross over to another world, hey? Zhu Yao looked at her best friend next to her with a pitiful expression.

Guoguo received her SOS signal, and immediately asked. "Are photographs really necessary?"

That man's face instantly bloomed with the warmth of spring, as he looked at Guoguo shyly. "Not… Not really."

Then why the hell did you put my review on hold, hey!?

"Then Yaoyao doesn't have to hand them over for her two applicants then."

The man immediately nodded. "Alright!" He replied ever so readily.

Zhu Yao: "…" So, he was intentionally making things difficult for her?

The man tore out the two pages that he had just finished writing on, but instead of passing them to her, he presented them to Guoguo. "Done."

Guoguo then passed them to Zhu Yao.

Written on lined papers were one large word: Movement! On each of the papers' right corners, Yu Yan's and Yue Ying's names were written on them.

"This…" It's done just like that? Isn't this too simple? What happened to the promised luxurious movement permit issued by authorities? At the very least, provide me with guidelines on how to use them?

"Effective immediately." As if he had guessed what she was thinking about, the man explained, though he was looking at her with a scornful look. "A guide must be present during a plane transfer. The permit holders can only come over when you return."

In other words, her master and Yue Ying could only cross over with her at the same time. That was fine.

"The permits must be activated in two hours through verification. Otherwise, they will be invalid." The man said, still with the ice-cold tone.

"Activate? How to activate them?"Could it be that her master still needed to send a verification SMS?

The man frowned, and his expression grew even more scornful. "They will automatically activate once they make contact with their targets."

In other words, she just had to hand the permits to her master and Yue Ying. Fortunately, she still had two hours.

"Guoguo…" Seeing how this person listened to Guoguo's requests, it seemed like he was treating her sincerely? Otherwise, flowers wouldn't bloom the moment he land his eyes on her. However, as her only good friend, she still had to instruct her on some matters. After all, this person had an incredible identity.

Before she could even speak, the man suddenly interrupted. "They will be invalid if they're not activated."

"Isn't there still two hours?"

"One hour."

"Hah?" Zhu Yao was startled.

The man's expression turned colder, and continued to correct his own words. "Half an hour."

"The hell, you can't actually be chasing me out, right?"

"Twenty minutes…"

"Hey, hey, hey. Do you have to be that fickle?"

"Ten minutes."

"Five minutes."

"You're ruthless, alright!" Zhu Yao turned and headed for the door. "Guoguo, I will come back and look for you once the permits are activated."

Only then did the man's expression look better as he followed Yaoyao to the door.

Zhu Yao opened the door directly, only to see the familiar staircase. She then turned to look at that dangerous manager. "How am I supposed to return?"

The man did not reply and instead walked hurriedly over. She did not know what he did, but when he closed and opened the door again, the view outside had already been replaced by a white portal.

The hell, it turned into an Anywhere Door again!

Just as Zhu Yao was about to enter, an idea suddenly flashed in her mind. As though she had just understood something, she turned back to look at the person whose face was filled with the words "hurry and scram". She suddenly recalled Realmspirit's words, that the reason why he chose her was because someone recommended her. Then…

"You can't possibly the person who recommended me to Realmspirit, right?"

The man's reply was… kicking her directly into the portal.

The hell! It really was him! She had always been a normal person without any incredible powers or identity. She had never stepped on any dog poop, nor was there any mysterious birthmark on her body that represented her identity or anything? Even if she were to participate in a lottery, she wouldn't win at all. So why was she chosen to transmigrate to another world?

In the end, it was all to have her move away and use that opportunity to get close to Guoguo. It had to be known that Guoguo was a girl that was even more shut-in than her.

As a Plane Manager, do you think you're a man by playing these kinds of tricks? Just you wait! This old lady will return and expose your true face of a lowly person in front of Guoguo!

Szz… Aiyo, my buttocks!

His kick was really ruthless!

"Young maiden, you're back so quickly?" Realmspirit sprinted over with an excited look. He glanced at the two papers in her hand. "You really obtained them, you're so incredible. As expected of the woman I chose."

Zhu Yao just wanted to say, "Hoho…"

"Eh!?" He was stunned for a moment, and then she said ecstatically. "Your Plane Manager actually gave you a Plane Imprint as well."

"What imprint?"

"It's the authority to freely move between two planes. Initially, movement between two planes require a thousand years cooldown. With this imprint, then there's no such restriction."

"Where is it?" She glanced at the permits in her hand. I don't see any imprints?

"Over here."

Realmspirit waved his hand excitedly, and Zhu Yao simply felt a golden light flash behind her. Slowly, what rose was a… shoe print with the number 42 on it.

The hell!

Mister Snail: There's this Chinese folklore called 'The Snail Girl'. A man brought back home a snail one day when he saw it by the road. In order to repay the debt of saving her, she turned into a girl and began caring for his house. So 'Mister Snail' is like a genderbent version of the story.

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Chapter 391: Realmspirit's Return

After she returned to Realmspirit's side, the two pieces of paper she brought back turned strings of characters and flew off to the distance. They had automatically gone to find Yu Yan and Yue Ying to activate the permits. That so-called Plane Imprint had directly entered her divine sense, openly floating at its very core.

A shoe print of size 42 was floating in her primordial spirit, Zhu Yao simply felt uncomfortable all over. This feeling of being stepped on by someone at every moment was simply heartstopping. Because of this point, she was never going to accept that lowly person being together with Guoguo. Even she had to tear the two of them apart, she was going to object to their relationship to the very end!

Hmph! She was a serious person like that.

"Yaoyao, even though it looks a little… It's still an imprint." Realmspirit patted on her shoulder, and suddenly suggested. "If you really dislike it, why don't I… modify it for you?"

Zhu Yao turned around. "Modify?" How are you going to modify it?

Realmspirit chuckled. With a wave of his hand, a light breeze swept past. A new mass of light appeared in Zhu Yao's primordial spirit, and the light slowly gathered and stretched. Then…

It turned into another shoe print.

Realmspirit had a satisfied look. "Now it's better!"

"Better, your sister!" Flips table! One shoe print is already troubling enough, why the hell did you want to make it a pair? "Do you believe me when I say I'm going to slice you to death?"

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts…" Realmspirit breathed in cold air as he screamed. "Don't hit my face… Aiyoyoyoyo…"

"Hurry and remove that shoe print." Momma's egg. Earlier I was stepped on, and now I was stepped on a second time. Also, one of them is size 43, while the other is size 42? Even if the new one is colorful and has more patterns, please pay attention when you're stepping on someone, alright?

"This is something very useful, the Three Realms Imprint…" Realmspirit said innocently.

"Three Realms Imprint? What's that?" Zhu Yao loosened her grip. She suddenly had a bad feeling. She calmed her heart down and then looked at the new shoe print. She saw the curvy lines around the center of the imprint form three letters – CEO!

"The hell's with this CEO? You best explain to me!" The hell, stop giving me weird things!

"Calm down, calm down!" Realmspirit looked at her with a pair of sparkling eyes. "This is the ultimate reward pack! Three Realms Imprint! With this, my powers are for you to use, and your friendship level with the Three Realms is instantly maxed out. Your journey to the Three Realms will be worriless and painless! It's an essential product for travelling between planes, you know?"

"Why does it sound rather unreliable?" Zhu Yao rolled her eyes. "Say it again in human language!"

"In other words, you can freely move about in the Three Realms with this."

"Really?" There's something that good? "Are you certain there's no side effects?"

"Hohoho, why would there be?"

"If there isn't, why are you standing so far away from me?" Zhu Yao glanced at the distance between them. They were suddenly three meters apart.

"Uh…" Just as Realmspirit was planning to take another step back, he stiffened. After a while, he said. "Well, there is that really small side effect…"

"Speak!"

"When it comes to the matters of the Three Realms in the future, there's a need for you to temporarily manage them in my place." His smile grew even more sly. "In other words, you're the manager of this plane now! How awesome is that!"

So she had been forcefully signed into doing a labour contract. Awesome, your sister! Who told you I want to become a manager now?

"Take back the imprint. Immediately. Now!"

"This imprint can't be withdrawn. At the very least, before I awaken again."

Zhu Yao was stunned for a moment. "Awaken? What do you mean?"

Realmspirit smiled with a satisfied look on his face, as his body began to turn transparent bit by bit.

"Hey, hey, hey… What's happening to you?" Her heart sank as she grabbed onto his hand. "Why are you turning transparent all of a sudden!"

"It's fine…" She said without a mind. "This is normal."

"How is this normal? You're about to disappear! Don't scare me, hey." Though he was a little detestable, she never thought that he would disappear. "At the very most, I won't have you remove the shoe print for now. I will become a manager and help you with stamping papers."

"Yaoyao…" Realmspirit held onto her hands. "I came into this world as a spirit and gained sentience because of this plane's crisis. Now that you have helped me construct a brand new Heavenly Dao, I naturally have no need to continue existing."

"What do you mean by 'no need'? You best not die!"

"Don't worry. I'm the Three Realms. As long as the Three Realms exist, how can I possibly die?" Realmspirit said without a mind. "Now that order has been restored, there's no longer a need for a spirit of the realms. I will just be returning to the main body of the Three Realms."

How's that any different from dying?

Zhu Yao clenched her fists. "It's all because… I changed the Heavenly Dao?"

"Yaoyao… It's fine. I will always be here." Realmspirit smiled. "The Three Realms in their entirety are all me. I was incredibly sick in the past, and you helped me find the cure. Right now, I am just returning to my healthy state."

Zhu Yao was silent for a moment. "Is there a need for you to disappear?"

"I am the manifestation of the old Heavenly Dao. Only after my return can the new order truly begin." His body grew even more transparent, and only a faint image of his body was left. "That's why, I'm requesting this of you. Before the awakening of the new Realmspirit, please help me safeguard this world, alright?"

Zhu Yao could not express the feelings in her heart in words, though something bitter was surging within her. "Are these like your final words?"

"You can put it that way!" He smiled. "This is my final request, alright?"

Zhu Yao took a step forward and hugged him. She was only able to suppress the emotions in her heart after taking a deep breath. "Realmspirit, thank you."

He was dumbfounded for a moment. Right after, he revealed a brilliant smile that was as warm as the sun of dawn.

How could Zhu Yao not understand the true purpose behind her managing the Three Realms? He was the spirit of the Three Realms, and the moment he were to disappear, no one would possess the ability to move across planes. In order words, she might not be able to return to her former world, let alone bringing her master over. After all, without a guide, the permits would be useless. That was why he entrusted the entire Three Realms to her and have her become their manager. That way, she would have the ability to cross planes.

"Yaoyao…"

"Mn?"

"Are we still friends?"

"Of course. We've always been."

"Great."

Zhu Yao continued to embrace him like that, until his figure grew fainter and finally turn into tiny spheres of light, disappearing before her eyes. She stood still for a few moments before regaining her senses. Her heart suddenly felt a little empty. She could sense that Realmspirit had truly disappeared this time.

No, disappearance wasn't it. He had returned to his main body – every single plant, tree, and everything in the Three Realms. Just as he had said, he was everywhere.

However… He could no longer bicker or chat with her.

Speaking of which, there were times where Realmspirit's actions had made her feel disgusted, but in the end, all of them were excusable. Just as he had said, the Three Realms were walking on a path of ruin, and he had simply sought help from her as a friend.

Now that she thought about it, she had known him in the modern era for five years. There were clearly countless opportunities for him to have her transmigrate over, but he didn't. Rather, he only transferred her after obtaining her permission. Though there were some cover-ups, she could understand the reasons behind them now. If Realmspirit had told her of his identity right from the start, she most likely wouldn't have seen this world clearly. She would simply be an outsider giving a few suggestions. She wouldn't have been able to experience it with her own body and see things with her own eyes. Even if she had the opportunity to walk across the Three Realms, she would have simply done it in the perspective of a player.

That way, the opinions she give would most likely be limited, and there wouldn't have been a guarantee that this world's Heavenly Dao would be completely fixed. Furthermore, Realmspirit only had one chance. He was the spirit of the Three Realms, the materialization of the Heavenly Dao. If the Heavenly Dao had to be reconstructed, then he would definitely disappear.

Realmspirit made a very huge gamble by taking her in. He betted himself and the lives of all the living beings in the entire plane on her. Even if he couldn't see the results now, he still betted everything without turning back.

How could she possibly dare to fail such huge trust that was placed on her? That's why… seeing that they were friends, she had no choice but to continue working for him.

Zhu Yao took a deep breath and carefully sensed the Three Realms Imprint in her primordial spirit. Everything in the Three Realms was displayed before her, and at that moment, she felt like she could control everything. This was different from pure power. Rather, it was like a form of will. Everything could be controlled at her whim. It's as if she was looking at… a game's main engine. All of the living beings here were like player accounts, while she had entered the game's back-end control system. She could alter any of the data and even change the game's modes.

Zhu Yao had a simple glance before immediately withdrawing from it. This authority was too huge, and she had to take her time to study it. She was truly a little worried that she would end up collapsing the game entirely if she changed something.

This was something that Realmspirit did not dare to casually change back then, so naturally she wouldn't make huge changes either. Back then, Realmspirit simply called out the Light of Purification to exterminate resentment, but it ended up birthing side effects such as the rumours of the Realm of Gods being in the Lightning Divine Tower. This led to Deities being washed away of their seven emotions and six desires, along with their qualifications of entering the reincarnation wheel. As a newcomer, there needn't to be said. Furthermore, the new Heavenly Dao had already been formed, so this was not the time to make changes either.

She just had to safeguard it properly, and if she were to be in a good mood, she would just have to fix a few of the remaining bugs. However, just how would she find out what were bugs?

Ting!

Suddenly, a familiar notification bell could be heard. The size 43 shoe print in her primordial spirit suddenly shot out a blue ray of light. A conversation window instantly appeared before her. This time, the choices and words on it were a lot more than before, and after looking at it properly, she found out that it was actually a long form. Written on it with large and bolded font was: System's New User Registration Form.

Below it were a dozen rows of cumbersome fields that required her account name, password, name, etcetera.

Zhu Yao: "…"

Is this a census?

Wait a minute!

She recalled that Realmspirit once mentioned the system was gifted to him by the manager of her plane. A certain unknown creature living in Guoguo's apartment suddenly flashed in her mind. The hell! This thing is actually made by him.

No, this can't do! I'm definitely going to head back and launch a complaint.

Zhu Yao resentfully filled up the form. At that moment, the screen flashed, and a few windows appeared before her eyes. All of the windows were different, though the same string of white words was written on them: Suspicious case of a bug! Not a threat as of now.

It seemed like it was an smart system of some sort that could predict and monitor the loopholes of the Three Realms.

She then sent a will and the screen disappeared, returning into her primordial spirit. With this, she no longer had to worry about finding bugs.

Taking a deep breath, she suddenly felt her shoulders being a little heavy. Realmspirit had handed the Three Realms to her. She could not guarantee that she could do her job well, but she did not want to let down the trust he had that made him bet everything on her. Clenching her fists, she accepted this role of CEO!

Until… the new Realmspirit awakens.

Wait a minute! Remove that horizontal line for now!

She just recalled something…

Realmspirit seemed to have mentioned that she was born as a spirit because the Three Realms were on the verge of collapse. Then, for the new Realmspirit to be born, wouldn't it only happen when…

The hell, why do I feel as though I have been tricked again!?

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Chapter 392: Divine Realm Management Plan

The Lightning Divine Tower had fallen. All of the Deities within had been sent out, and for a period of time, the Divine Realm had fallen into a state of chaos. No one know what happened, but all of them had a faint feeling that from then on, no one could become Gods.

To Deities, this shock was undoubtedly immense. Ascending to Godhood was the life goal of all Deities. Now that the opportunity was gone just like that, which one of them wouldn't feel depressed? This was especially so for those who had entered the tower early and had struggled to climb to the ninth floor of the tower. They merely had to climb one more floor to attain Godhood, but the tower suddenly collapsed just like that and even ejected every single one of them.

Yet no one had the ability to build it up again. These Deities were utterly dispirited and devastated! With nowhere to vent their frustration, they could only aim their fury at the people of Lightning Divine Palace.

In the past, no one in the Divine Realm dared to offend the Lightning Divine Palace. Other than the facts that the disciples of Lightning Divine Palace had incredible cultivation and possessed lightning-type arts that boasted the most powerful offensive power, the most important reason was that they managed the Lightning Divine Tower.

Now, the tower was gone and tons of old ancestors had made their way out. Every single one possessed over-the-top cultivation and could casually suppress ten High Deities. Furthermore, since the reason behind the collapse of the Lightning Divine Tower was unclear, the main suspect would naturally be the people that managed the Lightning Divine Tower. Thus, every single one of them pointed their spears at Lightning Divine Palace.

No matter if they're disciples of Demonic Immortals, disciples of divine sects, or even Wandering Deities, everyone believed that Lightning Divine Tower should provide them an explanation. Altogether, they came right to their doorsteps.

Actually, rather than seeking them out for an explanation, which one of them didn't harbour intentions of taking this opportunity to suppress Lightning Divine Palace? After all, everyone knew that the reputation behind Lightning Divine Palace was built upon real skills and abilities. Though they had now lost the backing known as the Lightning Divine Tower, based on the aptitudes of the disciples of the sect alone, they would be able to regain their composure in due time. If they were to miss this opportunity to make a move on the Lightning Divine Palace, they were afraid that they would still have to be suppressed in the future. After all, among these people who had entered the tower, who would be willing to stand beneath others?

Ever since the beginning of the Divine Realm, this was the first time the three factions had come together. With boiling rage, they were here together to have Lightning Divine Palace pay their debts, surrounding the sect in its entirety. They had even directly destroyed the lightning formations outside.

However, they did not expect that the disciples of Lightning Divine Palace that came to meet their challenge actually numbered more than ten people as well. Furthermore, every single one of them had incredible cultivation. Even the lowest among them had the cultivation of a High Deity. Other than the present Floor Master who was taking the lead, the rest possessed powers at the third floor and above. The person next to the Floor Master even possessed power at the tenth floor.

That was cultivation that only those who could enter the highest floor of Lightning Divine Tower could achieve! The crowd of Deities were utterly astonished. Yet, they couldn't not feel sorry for him either. After all, he had already climbed to the highest floor, yet he wasn't able to become God either. Just how unfortunate was he!? He was definitely the most pitiful person in the tower, second to none!

A shred of caution rose in the hearts of the Deities, though they did not feel fear. Though power of a tenth floor achiever was incredible, he was only a single man. There were dozens on Deities who had reached the ninth floor on their side. Furthermore, the difference in power between floors in the tower was not as huge as a difference in a large cultivation realm. The more people there were, the less impossible it was to go against someone of a higher level. At the very most, they would have to spend a little more time. This battle was definitely a stable win for the side of the crowd of Deities. Lightning Divine Palace was going to disappear from the face of this world at this moment.

The crowd of Deities was filled with confidence, and Lightning Divine Palace sternly awaited their move.

Yu Jin could not help but feel a little worried as well. This was surely the biggest threat to Lightning Divine Palace yet, and even the joy from reuniting with his master could not suppress the heaviness in his heart. Lightning Divine Palace was going to meet its downfall on that day, unless a miracle were to occur.

And then… a miracle really occurred!

Yu Jin did not know what happened. He watched as the crowd of Deities charge forward with their surging killing intent as the huge war began. The moment he raised his sword, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a ray of light flash across his eyes. It instantly entered Yu Yan's forehead, and he couldn't even get a good look at it due to its sheer speed. A never-before-seen symbol suddenly floated out of Yu Yan's forehead.

Yu Yan was startled as well, as he touched his forehead in an understanding manner.

"Little Yanyan…" Just as he was about to ask, the crowd of Deities before them were already launching their attacks.

The situation after that was a complete reversal…

In just a single instant, Yu Yan released an incomparable might from his body. Terrifying pressure enveloped everyone present, and everyone felt as if the entire sky could collapse on them at any moment. It was so powerful, they did not even dare to think of resisting it.

Like drop dumplings, the crowd of Deities all fell down from the sky. Loud booms followed as every single one of their bodies sank thirty percent into the earth. They couldn't move at all. And this included… the people of Lightning Divine Palace.

The hell! Yu Jin felt like cussing out. Little Yanyan, this old man is on your side!

Possibly because he received his retort, the pressure on the people of Lightning Divine Palace disappeared the moment before they were about to sink into the earth.

Yu Yan was the only one remaining in the sky. Like usual, he simply stood there expressionlessly, though a golden halo seemed to be faintly shining behind his head. It sprinkled his entire body with lustrous light, as though he was a God of the Nine Heavens of legends.

God!?

Could it be that someone of Lightning Divine Palace have attained Godhood, and have yet to ascend to the Realm of Gods?

In an instant, the hearts of the crowd of Deities crumbled. Facing such terrifying and heavenly pressure, why in the ass would they still fight!? He had hundreds of methods to kill them if he wanted to.

However, this was not the end. The entire Lightning Divine Palace suddenly shook immensely. At the ruins of the collapsed Lightning Divine Tower, white light suddenly shone. The white shattered rubbles began to fly up and gather together.

Yu Jin who had just returned to the skies was stunned. This… Could it be that the Lightning Divine Tower is able to reconstruct itself automatically?

The rubbles continued to pile up, but they did not form the structure of a tower, but instead gathered to form a platform, and the center of the platform was actually empty. White light glittered at the center like a well of light, and if one were to look at it from above, he or she could see the shadow of the Three Thousand Worlds. Furthermore, strings of white runic symbols were flashing all around.

An enormous white stone monument was erected on the right of the platform, and several red lights flashed across it. Three huge words then appeared on it – Divine Punishment Platform!

Yu Jin was stunned.

To think it was actually divine punishment! First it was the tower of ascending to Godhood, and now it was a platform for punishing Deities. This change was a little too big.

"Little Yanyan, this…" Just what is going on over here? Give me an explanation, yo.

"I don't know." Yu Yan shook his head. He simply felt like he had received a foreign power all of a sudden, and it seemed like it could overpower countless Deities. As for the Divine Punishment Platform that suddenly appeared, he was completely oblivious.

Yu Yan frowned, and only then did he turn to look at the "dumplings" on the ground.

"Scram!"

An incredibly simple command, yet overpowering like thunder, entered the ears of every single one of the "dumplings", causing their hearts to tremble.

Yu Jin was dumbfounded. Just how long had it been since he entered the tower? When did Little Yanyan possess such incredible cultivation? Why wasn't he aware of it?

"Little Yanyan, you… Eh? Where are you going?" Before Yu Jin could finish, he saw Yu Yan flying towards Lightning Divine Palace.

Yu Yan did not stop, and simply replied as he flew. "My disciple is returning soon. I'm going to make dinner!"

People of Lightning Divine Palace: "…"

The crusade against Lightning Divine Palace led by countless Deities ended in failure. The various sects and clans had no choice but to hide their tails and behave themselves for a while, afraid that Lightning Divine Palace would slaughter their way in because of a moment of irritation. Though several ancestors had returned to the various sects from the Lightning Divine Tower and pulled up their strength by a huge margin, they could not hold a candle against an opponent who possessed overpowering strength akin to that of a God's! With the terrifying power he possessed, he merely had to release his pressure, and he would be able to strike fear on them to the point they wouldn't dare to raise their heads. Not to mention, the people that went to find fault with Lightning Divine Palace were the people that returned from Lightning Divine Tower!

Though that person had let them go back then, everyone could not help but stay tensed, fearfully waiting for him to settle the score after fall. However, this wait continued on for several months, and yet, not a single movement could be seen from Lightning Divine Palace. It was as if he had completely forgotten about this incident.

From the initial worry, anxiety, and helplessness, they were finally able to calmly accept the outcome. Most likely, he basically did not take this matter to heart at all. With that person's strength, he might really not have taken these people of the Divine Realm seriously. Mn. Though it was a little depressing just from thinking about it, at the very least, the crisis of the various sects and clans had been averted.

Thus, everyone's tension began to loosen, and they calmly continued with their lives. They were now busy dealing with their internal affairs. Before, everyone had a common target, and so they could band together to fight with the Boss Monster. Now that the Boss Monster leveled up, the hidden troubles within the various sects appeared.

There was a considerable number of Deities who came out of Lightning Divine Tower back then. Every single one of them had a place to return to in name, after all, they just had to return to their own sects. However, it must be known that these people weren't all kind. Them coming out together, did not mean they had entered together. These people who could enter the Lightning Divine Tower back then, were all renown figures to begin with. Every single one of them was someone who had gotten used to giving orders. Now, here came the problem. Who should listen to who? Since they were in the same sect, there should be a hierarchy, right? Though they could use their strength to determine their positions, these people were not harmonious within the tower. Either too much time had passed and they did not recognize anyone, or they had harboured grudges in the tower. Without a common target like the Lightning Divine Palace, internal conflicts instantly erupted.

Almost every single sect and clan faced the same problem, while the Demonic Immortal Continent was faring a little better instead. After all, they were tied by bloodlines. Other than the pressure from the difference in strength, they merely had to conduct a few battles. They couldn't possibly lead to a huge fuss at all.

Deities were however different. Be they strategies at day or schemes at night, every single one of them displayed their divine abilities. For a short while, the entire Deity Continent was covered in smoke as a huge war erupted. No one was willing to submit to the other. Just as a huge chaotic battle was about to ensue in the Divine Realm…

Suddenly, a voice transmission resounded through the skies.

"Ahem… Hey! Can you all hear me?"

This voice felt as if it had come from breaking through space, and it was clearly a female voice. It wasn't loud, but for some reason, it was clearly transmitted to every corner of the Divine Realm. For a moment, all the restless Deities were stunned, as they dumbfoundedly listened to the voice transmission that seemed to be coming from everywhere around them.

"Hello, friends of the Divine Realm! I'm calling from the broadcast station of Lightning Divine Palace! I'm now announcing an emergency notice. In order to create the perfect Divine Realm, build a harmonious society, and maintain the stable development of the Three Realms, the 'Lightning Divine Palace High Level Deity Court' shall officially be established today. The court is the highest legal institution of the Divine Realm, and has the authority to act on everything that happens in the Divine Realm. The court verdicts will be fair, justified, and open to public. Its goal will be to exterminate all evil in the Divine Realm. I shall now recite the first rule of the first section of the first paragraph of the Divine Realm Laws. From this day forth, as long as one is a citizen of the Divine Realm, irregardless of your sect or race, one is forbidden from all slaughtering activities. One who commits killings, will be meted with the highest form of punishment. He or she will be charged on the 'Divine Punishment Platform', stripped off their divine physique and celestial bones, and be banished to the mortal realm for reincarnation. This emperor… ah pui! Sincerely and respectfully, Lightning Divine Palace Advertisement Department. Day , month , year *."

Deities: "…" The heck?

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Chapter 393: The Final Finale

The heavenly voice came too suddenly, and it was even a female voice. The crowd of Deities and their little companions were all dumbfounded. After staring blankly in the air for a short while, they then regained their senses. The moment they digested the information, the entire Divine Realm instantly exploded.

The hell was a high level court? What's this authority to mete out punishments? And where was this Divine Punishment Platform? When did Lightning Divine Palace start managing such things? Not to mention not a single discussion was made about this at all? Were they trying to take over the Divine Realm?

And what's with this forbidding of all slaughtering activities? Though on the surface, the number of people killed for no reason in the Divine Realm was few, among those who could ascend and become Deities, who hadn't stained their hands in blood? Furthermore, in secret, putting aside taking others' lives, the number of measures they had taken to scatter souls and stop people from reincarnating were countless. Killing people and taking their treasures happened everywhere. With just a single announcement made by Lightning Divine Palace, they think it was possible to prohibit them from happening?

However, after experiencing the battle with Lightning Divine Palace back then, everyone knew that Lightning Divine Palace had birthed someone whose cultivation was comparable to a God's. With this experience still fresh, for a moment, the Deities maintained a doubtful attitude. After all, cultivating was tough. If they were truly going to be banished to the mortal realm with their cultivation crippled, they couldn't guarantee that they could make it back.

With thoughts of better being safe than sorry, the various Deities abided to the law for a period of time. The various sects in the continent had all commanded their disciples to restrain themselves, and even the Scattered Fif Hall that was formed by Wandering Deities issued several warnings. The internal conflicts within the sects were now kept rather low-key. Though there were several verbal conflicts, there hadn't been a case where they actually truly made a move against each other.

The Divine Realm calmed down for a period of time, but this peace did not last for long.

As time passed, Lightning Divine Palace did not make anymore movements. Three months later, some people could no longer contain their urges, and there were traces of conflicts sprouting.

Another three months passed, yet there still wasn't any movement made by the Lightning Divine Palace. The Deities felt at ease now, so they went and did anything they wanted. They had completely thrown the strange heavenly voice they heard on that day out of their heads, believing that this was all an elaborate display made by Lightning Divine Palace to exaggerate their authority. How could controlling the entire Divine Realm be an easy feat? Furthermore, who would know if someone committed murder? Unless Lightning Divine Palace could follow behind every single person every single day and watch their every move?

However, just when everyone felt at ease and began to continue on their quest to level up, fight monsters, kill Deities and rob treasures, a new heavenly voice resounded across the skies once more.

"Disciple of Advent Cloud Hall, Zhao Xiangyan, disciple of Thisthower Mountain, Wei Junxiang, disciples of Fluorescent Wind Clan, Ji Bo and Qian Ning, disciple of Soaring Enlightenment Palace, Chai Yunliang, and Wandering Deity Dongfang Xi. These six abovementioned people robbed the belongings of their victims and led to the deaths of the victims. They are convicted of murder, and shall receive their punishments at the Divine Punishment Platform of Lightning Divine Palace at noon tomorrow."

These words were straight to the point, and there was not the least bit intention to give any further explanation. The Deities were only stunned for a short moment, and they immediately exploded right after. Putting aside those that came from the prestigious Deity Sects, among the names listed, there were two of them who came out of Lightning Divine Tower. Among the various Deity Sects, their names were widely known. Even if they were to make mistakes, they should be dealt with within their own sects. What right did Lightning Divine Palace have to convict others? Furthermore, they even had to have their celestial bones removed and be banished to the mortal realm. How could they allow that to happen?

No, they could not agree to it at all.

The various sects clamoured exasperatedly, and they were not going to hand over the convicts at all costs. There were even voices declaring another massive attack on Lightning Divine Palace. However, the clamour did not last for long. When the various sects investigated, they realized the six people had all disappeared.

Everyone was dumbfounded, and only then did they recall that the heavenly voice did not request them to hand over the convicts at all. They made the move on their own. What shocked the people even more, was the fact that some of them had seen the six people right before the heavenly voice rang. However, after the declaration made by the heavenly voice, they disappeared. What did this prove? This proved that Lightning Divine Palace could mysteriously bring away six people at different locations in an instant, and without anyone noticing either. Such capabilities were simply out of the Deities' imagination.

The various sects began to feel a little afraid at that moment, and the thoughts of launching another attack on Lightning Divine Palace died down. Just like that, they made a ruckus for an entire day, and on noon of the second day, everyone headed towards Lightning Divine Palace while carrying different sentiments.

It wasn't for trouble this time. Rather, they wanted to see just how big this trouble was. Naturally, there were many who harboured intentions of taking this opportunity to snatch whoever they could. There were after all two people among them who were High Deities that had entered Lightning Divine Tower, how could the Deity Sects bear to let them go? After all, even if the heavenly voice said that the six people had committed murder, evidence of their acts were still needed. Lightning Divine Palace wouldn't possibly throw just anyone up onto the Divine Punishment Platform, right? The various Deity Sects had been in the Divine Realm for so many years, and each one of them had their own countermeasures. As long as they did not admit to their crimes, Lightning Divine Palace couldn't possibly do anything to them either.

Lightning Divine Palace was rather generous this time, as there was not the slightest bit of obstruction, and had even openly brought down their barrier, allowing Deities to enter and exit freely. However, the moment the crowd arrived at the so-called Divine Punishment Platform, all of them were dumbfounded. The rebuttals that they had spent an entire day preparing, had all been swallowed back into their bellies.

It's not because from witnessing the rumoured Divine Punishment Platform, but it was rather due to that white stone wall erected on the platform. It stood on the right of the platform, and six groups of videos were being played on loop on it. The main characters of the videos were the six people on the stage who had been binded like a dumpling with mystic arts. The videos that were being broadcasted were scenes of the six people murdering their victims and stealing their treasures.

The Deity Sects that were initially filled with confidence of getting back their disciples, instantly broke down. They silently looked for a corner to stand on, and acted like spectators among the crowd.

Other than the six convicts on the Divine Punishment Platform, a dozen other people were present as well. Other than a pink-robed woman at the back, the others were all people of Lightning Divine Palace that stood against them during the assault back then. Standing next to the woman was the person with immeasurable cultivation, who rained "dumplings" down onto the ground with just his power alone.

Strangely however, he was not the one in-charge, and the person standing at the center was instead the former Floor Master Yu Jin. Yu Jin did not seem to be in a good mood, as his expression was filled with bitterness. He was completely ignoring the increasing number of spectators, let alone giving them a warm welcome.

He raised his head and looked at the time. Right after, he solemnly said. "The time has come." Then, with a wave of his sleeves, he straightforwardly pushed the six convicts to the center of the Divine Punishment Platform.

The six of them did not even have time to let out a scream when they disappeared without a trace. The auras of the six convicts had instantly been severed.

The Deities felt really conflicted.

"Why are you all still here?" Yu Jin's tone was extremely venomous, as he swept a cold glance at the crowd. "Do you all wish to stay behind for lunch?"

The faces of the crowd stiffened. Those who rode on swords rode on swords, and those who rode on clouds rode on clouds, as every single one of them hurriedly left. The questions and suspicions that they had prepared for an entire day ended up stuck in their throats. Everything the heavenly voice had declared was true! Lightning Divine Palace really had a Divine Punishment Platform! Just by entering it, one would be sent into the recycling center. Furthermore, the heavenly might emitted from the platform could even leave the past Lighting Divine Tower to dust. It had to be known that heavenly might would only appear in places that were heavily influenced by the Heavenly Dao, and since the Divine Punishment Platform possessed heavenly might, it proved that it was birthed from the Heavenly Dao. Since Lightning Divine Palace did not seek the opinions of the various sects and pulled out such a stunt, they must have comprehended bits of the heavenly path from it.

The Deities could go against the Lightning Divine Palace, but who had the ability to retaliate against the Heavenly Dao? Thus… The Divine Realm's second Lightning Divine Palace retaliation operation was once again declared a failure. From then on, the Deities understood that the prohibition was not a joke, and the number of deaths in the Divine Realm had a beeline drop. From that moment forth, the Divine Realm began to develop in a harmonious and beautiful direction.

Other than single person.

"Why me? Why is it still me? Why is it me again?" Yu Jin felt uncomfortable all over. The old ancestors of other sects were busy fighting to gain authority, but why was Lightning Divine Palace the exact opposite? "Why is Lightning Divine Palace still being managed by me? Even if we rank our aptitudes from top to bottom, or from bottom to top, I wouldn't even get a turn, right?" With a face filled with bitterness, he tugged onto the person next to him who had the highest seniority around here. "Old ancestor, you have already returned from the tower, and since we are all your disciples and grand disciples, this Floor Master position should be returned to you, right?"

The old ancestor stroked his beard with a smile, and then patted on his shoulders. "I say, Little Jin! Though I'm the oldest here, my cultivation isn't the highest. Furthermore, are you willing to see me continue working at my age?"

I'm willing!

"Also, it can be said to be fate that the Divine Punishment Platform appeared in our Lightning Divine Palace." He said with a stern expression. "Furthermore, didn't Little Yan and Little Yao explain to us? The heavenly path that they sensed was the reorganization of Divine Realm's order. We Lightning Divine Palace are duty-bound to see it through."

"What does whatever they sensed have to do with me?" Why am I executing everything? I want to cry so much.

Zhu Yao immediately turned around. "You're our mighty and wise Floor Master, aren't you? Who should we pass this important duty of protecting the Divine Realm to if not you?"

"Now that the tower is gone, why do I still have to a Floor Master?"

"Uh…" He made a lot of sense. "Why don't we change the tile to… Platform Master?"

His expression turned darker. You're the main character, your entire family is made of main characters!

"No, that can't do. In any case, I'm done with being a Floor Master. Little Yanyan, the divine imprint is on your forehead, and you have the highest cultivation as well. No matter what, you should be the one taking this responsibility." He switched targets and looked at Yu Yan, determined to not carry this burden. I want to escape, I want freedom, I want to live unrestrained.

"No, that can't do!"

"Why?"

Yu Yan glanced at him, and coldly said. "Because you can't beat me."

"…" He was shot in the chest!

The hell, I really hate this type of people that goes according to facts.

"Then why not little little grand-disciple…"

"No, that can't do!"

"Why?"

"Because you can't beat my master."

"…" The hell! This two husband and wife are bullying me!

"Master, let's leave now! Otherwise, we won't make it in time. They are about to close." Zhu Yao pulled her master, and then turned and walked off.

"Mn."Yu Yan nodded and held her hand in return.

Yu Jin was startled. "Wait a minute! Where are you two going?"

"Civil Affairs Bureau."

Civil Affairs Bureau? What kind of Secret Realm is that?

Before he could even ask, the two had already completely disappeared.

Altering the Heavenly Dao was similar to changing the main engine of a game. Everything had to be changed. The Lightning Divine Tower had disappeared from the face of the Divine Realm, but there was now a Divine Punishment Platform that maintained order. However, the changes in the mortal realm could not be seen with the naked eyes.

Because of the closure of the Heavenly Doors, there was no longer anyone in the Three Realms who could breakthrough the Demigod stage and ascend. However, they slowly began to realize that after the Foundation stage, with every breakthrough, they had to face a heart-discovering trial. The content of the heart-discovering trial differed across people, and it usually came along with the lightning tribulations. There was only a single meaning behind this trial – do not forget your initial beliefs.

Other than that, with every improvement of a huge realm, the practitioners would also face a tribulation of karma, and they would all be absorbed into a karmic illusory realm. Those who conducted evil acts would receive the consequences of their actions in the illusory realms, and they would never be able to escape from the illusory realms. Instead, people with pure will and intentions who be able to clear the trial easily.

Furthermore, this trial was comparable to a heart demon, and could not be intervened in any way. Those who passed the trail would naturally grow further, while those who failed would easily lose their cultivation completely, with the worst case scenario being loss of life and entering the reincarnation wheel once more.

Cultivation reached an incredibly high level of difficulty for a short period of time. Practitioners labelled these two trials as the 'cultivation of the heart', and only by growing their state of mind together with their cultivation could they step into a higher cultivation realm.

Zhu Yao suddenly understood why Realmspirit decided to close all of the Heavenly Doors. If practitioners could hold fast to their beliefs and were unafraid of karma, then why would they be incapable of comprehending the path of ascension? The Heavenly Doors were indeed closed, but as long as one comprehended the path of ascension, then he could open the Door of Ascension himself. However, one would have to face more difficulties and spend even more time to study it, that's all. This was especially so for the practitioners who were living in the era where the Heavenly Dao had just been updated.

However, time was something the current Three Realms had.

Modern era.

Two years later.

"Master, add two more dishes!" Zhu Yao put down her phone, turned to the kitchen and shouted. "Guoguo is coming over later for dinner."

"Mn." The person in the kitchen nodded.

Zhu Yao looked around. "Where's Yue Ying? He was still here earlier."

"Went out to buy soy sauce." Yu Yan casually replied.

Zhu Yao was a little shocked that he took the initiative to buy soy sauce. He was making improvement. Back then when she first brought Yue Ying over to this world, probably because the environment was too foreign, he followed her around like her little tail like how he did when he was young. He was completely different from her master who had incredible curiosity and wanted to dismantle everything he saw.

However, two years had passed, and Yue Ying was much better now, and he could even go out on his own. She had all along known about Yue Ying's problem, and had even though of many solutions as well, but she was not a professional. There were, however, professionals in her world!

Back then when she decided to make a movement permit for him, she had considered this point. That's why, when they arrived on this side, she brought him to a psychologist several times. She had even crammed tons of knowledge regarding psychology into her mind, before she was able to slowly alter Yue Ying's extremely stubborn personality.

Though he still did not like to talk to others, at the very least, he was not entirely rejecting everything outside of his world. He was becoming more of an actual little brother. Even the empress of her family liked Yue Ying a lot, treating him like her own son. Though when it came to Zhu Yao, the empress gave her many cold shoulders, as though she was the one who was picked up from the streets instead.

Yue Ying's and Yu Yan's identification problem was solved by the manager on this side. With Guoguo's divine aid, he agreed without a single blink of his eyes. This proved how important it was to have a good homosexual buddy.

The matters over at the cultivation world were more or less solved. With Lightning Divine Palace being the legal authority of Divine Realm, the number of deaths had a beeline drop, and cases of murder and looting rarely appeared now. The number of opportunities for her master to make an appearance had decreased as well, and he had basically become the mascot-like existence in the Divine Realm. He would only show his face every once in a while when a stubborn convict were to appear. The number of fights in the Divine Realm reduced dramatically. Though there was no guarantee that these people who had gotten used to killing had truly changed for the better, at the very least, they were now behaving more like actual Deities.

Compared to her master, Yue Ying was walking on the path of an idol. Just as Realmspirit had warned, with the changes in the Heavenly Dao, when there was extreme kindness, there would be appearances of extreme evil as well. As the final boss monster of all Devils, Yue Ying had never appeared before a Devil, instead, he used the inheritance of devillic energy to directly imprint the existence of a Devil God in their minds. He thus became an existence to revere to, while at the same time he prevented the Devils from rebelling. It was similar to the bloodline inheritance of demonic beasts.

As for Zhu Yao, she was still running around the frontlines fixing bugs, and they were even bugs that Realmspirit had left behind back then. When she first started, dying from overwork was a legitimate concern of hers, and only recently did things finally calm down. It had been a long time since the system that checked for loopholes rang.

"Yaoyao." A knocking sound could be heard from outside the door.

"That quick?" She had just dropped the call, right? Zhu Yao immediately opened the door. "Guoguo, you…"

Before she could even finish, Guoguo had already walked in and pulled her into the house as well. Her brows were furrowed, looking a little angry.

"Yaoyao, I'm going to live here for a few days. I won't be going back for a while."

"Ah?" Zhu Yao was stunned. What's this now? "Does that person in your house know about this?" It had to be known that the manager in her house was not someone to be messed with.

"Don't bring him up already. I want some peace and quiet in your home for two days. I don't want to see him."

"You guys got into a fight?"

Guoguo glanced at her. "You think the two of us would even get into a fight?"

"Uh…" Indeed. The person in her house was a typical wife's slave, and the type that was completely without any morals as well. The eyes that he had for Guoguo looked as if he would kneel down and lick her feet at any moment. "Then why?"

Guoguo picked up a cup of water from the coffee table and gulped it down. Zhu Yao casually filled it up for her once more, and then poured one for herself.

"He brought back a person." Guoguo said with a strange expression.

Zhu Yao's heart sank. "Male or female?"

She pondered for a moment, and after awhile, she said. "Female…"

"The hell, he's cheating now?" Zhu Yao suddenly stood up. This old lady shall castrate him!

"No." Guoguo's expression turned even weirder. "He said… she was his child."

"Ch… He was married in the past?"

"No." Guoguo said with a stern expression. "What he meant was, that was 'our' child."

Zhu Yao was stunned for a moment, and could not help but reach out to touch Guoguo's belly. "You… When did you give birth?" Why wasn't she aware of it? Yesterday, they still went to shop on the streets, and she actually did not see anything amiss at all.

Guoguo instantly slapped away her hand. "I've yet to give birth."

"Then where did that child come from… Wait a minute!? Yet?" Zhu Yao suddenly widened her eyes. "You can't be trying to tell me… that she's your child from the future, right?"

"Mn." She nodded. "I don't know where he learnt the term 'shotgun marriage', but ever since then, he thinks that I will marry him once we have a child. Then…"

The hell! Such things are actually possible!? Guoguo was in the staying unmarried faction, and Zhu Yao knew of this point.

In order to chase after a wife, that person sure is putting out all the stops! Zhu Yao had to drink down a cup of water to calm her nerves.

However, when she thought about his identity, controlling time and seeing their future daughter might not be impossible after all.

"You don't believe that she's your child?"

"I do!" She nodded.

"Then why do you need to hide over at my place?"

The corner of her lips twitched. She turned around and carried out a round object from her bag, and then carefully presented it to Zhu Yao. "The main point here is… my child looks like this!"

Puuf…

Zhu Yao spat out a mouthful of warm water. "Kuh kuh… You… You gave birth to a ball!"

"No!" Guoguo shook her head, and explained with a stern face. "I wasn't the one who gave birth to her, he gave birth to her."

"…" Nani!? He was the one who gave birth!? He!? May I ask if it's that 'he' without an 's' in front?

Oh my god! Is this still the Earth that I've lived all my life in? I'm waiting online, I need an answer, quick!

Zhu Yao felt like her mind was in a mess, and Yue Ying came back with a bottle of soy sauce in his hand at this moment. "Big sis…"

The moment his voice fell, the round ball that Guoguo was hugging suddenly flashed brightly white. It began to inflate at a speed visible to the naked eyes, and in a blink of an eye, it grew from the size of a rubber ball to that of a basketball. Pong! It bounced and then fell onto the ground.

"Baby!" Guoguo was frightened, and hurriedly held out her hands to grab it.

At the same time, Guoguo's man appeared inside the house in a flash. Just as he was about to grab the ball, it did a turn and rolled towards Yue Ying. Pa. It bumped into his foot and stopped. Immediately after, crackling sounds could be heard. The ball actually split open! A white and tender little hand suddenly reached out and firmly tugged onto the corner of Yue Ying's pants.

A small little head popped out from the ball's interior, and she shouted crisply at Yue Ying. "Papa!"

Everyone present: "…" All of them turned to look at Guoguo.

Guoguo looked at the person next to her with narrow eyes. "What are you looking at? Aren't you the one who gave birth to the child?"

Manager: "…"

Zhu Yao: "…"

Yue Ying: "…"

Yu Yan: "Where's the soy sauce?"

Why did it feel as if a storm was brewing…

(Story End)

T/N: And… we're done! Hope you guys have enjoyed the story as much as I do! Though we don't get to see what happened to the rest of Zhu Yao's merry friends, I think that the story has wrapped up really nicely, compared to many other Xianxia or Xuanhuan novels that I've read. Well anyway, I will leave more of what I want to say in the afterword!

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Afterword

Hi everyone! It's been a long time since I started the series. According to my old blog, the first chapter of My Disciple Died Yet Again was posted on October 19, 2015. So it's been close to 3 years since I began. Though there has been many hiatuses here and there, I am glad that there are still many of you who managed to stick around for the entire journey. I really thank you all from the bottom of my heart! Strangely, I was most active while I was still in the army, and instead of an actual laptop or keyboard, I was typing away on this portable bluetooth microsoft keyboard while connected to Google Drive through my phone. This tells you how bored I was in there. Ohohoho.

Disciple isn't the first series that I started on, but it's the first series that I completed. There are definitely several issues that I could have addressed if I paid more attention, such as term consistency. I don't exactly have a full-blown glossary, because I'm lazy to make one. Huhu. Some of you have also sent me PMs wanting to edit for me in the past, but I declined, largely because I really wanted to try finishing something alone, and also I'm almost doing this for free, so I would feel bad if you edit for me and not get anything.

But yes, completing this translation project wouldn't have been possible without the help I received from my fellow friends over at the translators' discord, and also my real-life friends who supported me! I would like to especially give thanks to Solistia for adopting me into her web hosting server! There hasn't been a single downtime (I think?) ever since I moved over!

I would like to also extend my thanks to all the donors who donated to me! They really helped out a lot in funding my coffee breaks! I will be updating the donor page soon with all your names, so please let me know if you want to stay anonymous or anything!

Lastly, I would like to thank all of you readers out there that stayed with me throughout this journey! Really! Every single one of you has been really supportive and friendly, and it's not an exaggeration to say that you guys are the reason why I continue to translate. I really appreciate all of you for pointing out the mistakes in the comments whenever you see them too! Though I try to make sure my grammar and everything is flawless, I would still make some mistakes every now and then. So really, thank you all!

Well, with that, this concludes my afterword for the series. Hope to see you all in the next series I do(?)~