The Emperor Reigns Them All

Chapter 517 I am in the Vast Territory

In the depths of the continuous mountains and forests, there was an inconspicuous cottage with a radius of 24 decimeters in size. It was simply furnished, accommodating some simple things, such as a bed, a table, some chairs and so on. It looked like a simple resting place set up by a hunter who often went into the mountains.

Master Wei and Yang Fengzhi, who were repelled from Blackstone Ridge, went through the mountains and came to the cottage with more than ten immortal cultivators. They did not go in but stood seven steps away from the cottage. Master Wei took the lead in making his obesiances toward the cottage. “I am Wei Yushi. I am asking for a meeting with the Venerable.”

After he said that, there was no response from the cottage, as if there was no one inside. However, Wei Yushi had no special expression on his face and he waited quietly.

A little later, the door opened. A white-clothed immortal child walked out. He said to Wei Yushi, Yang Fengzhi and the others, “The Venerable is allowing all of you to come in with me.”

Wei Yushi, Yang Fengzhi and the others breathed sighs of relief. Since the Venerable was still willing to meet them, it meant that he did not put too much blame on them. The two of them tidied their clothes and followed the immortal child into the cottage.

There was a simple bed and wooden chairs in the cottage, but half of the cottage was empty and no one was inside. Wei Yushi and Yang Fengzhi stood in the open space behind the immortal child. After a moment, a Transfer Formation lit up under their feet. A misty light rose and covered them.

Soon, everyone disappeared in the cottage, including the more than ten immortals.

When their vision was restored, Wei Yushi and the others were already on an island. The island was not small, half of which were mountains and half of which was flat land, covered with maple trees. It was neither autumn nor winter outside, but the maple leaves here were already scattered all over the ground and made a picturesque scenery.

Following the immortal child, Wei Yushi and Yang Fengzhi walked among the maple trees and then walked up the hill along the cobblestone path under their feet. They met many immortals along the way. Most of them gathered in the open space among the maple trees and practiced the formation and a few of them were chatting in the pavilion.

Seeing Wei Yushi and the others, the immortals did not pay much attention to them, as if they were not important. Wei Yushi, Yang Fengzhi and the others walked behind the immortal child and looked steadily ahead all the way. They wanted to look at the immortals, but they did not dare to. All the immortals, who were chatting there, had the cultivation in the Golden Immortal Realm!

At the top of the hill, there was a vast platform and some immortals sat in meditation there. Although there were not many of them, they were all masters in the Taiyi Real Immortal Realm. Light columns rose from them and they looked like they were practicing some kind of formation.

There was a dais on the north side of the platform and someone was teaching the formation there. Wei Yushi and Yang Fengzhi looked up and then they quickly averted their eyes. Those people were all in the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm! And they were not mere nobodies—in fact, every cultivator in the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm was well-known.

In front of the palace on the eastern side, an immortal with white hair and a youthful face was standing on the stone steps. He held a horsetail whisk in his arms, maintaining an immortal style. He was observing the practice of the formation. Apparently, he was also a master in the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm.

Wei Yushi and Yang Fengzhi followed the immortal child to the immortal. They bowed respectfully. “Greetings, Venerable Beihai!”

The Venerable Beihai glanced indifferently at Wei Yushi and Yang Fengzhi. With only one glance, he seemed to have seen what they had been through, including the battle situation at Blackstone Ridge. Under his gaze, Wei Yushi and Yang Fengzhi did not dare to make the slightest moves and they breathed carefully.

“I do not blame you for the failure at Blackstone Ridge. You did not expect that Li Ye would stir up trouble and was not on your guard against him, so naturally, you could not defeat him,” the Venerable Beihai said calmly. There was no joy or anger in his voice. “If you do not have anything important to do, you can go and rest. We are about to go into full force. Now is the time for us to store up energy.”

Wei Yushi and Yang Fengzhi looked at each other and had a strange feeling.

They had suffered a heavy loss at Blackstone Ridge, but they did not expect that the Venerable Beihai would let them go so easily just by saying that Li Ye had stirred up trouble. In the battle that day, Wei Yushi figured out Li Ye’s identity, but Yang Fengzhi was not aware of it. Whether they knew it in advance or not, they were shocked at this moment.

Obviously, what the Venerable Beihai meant and the importance he attached to Li Ye were far beyond their expectations. But they did not dare to ask more questions because they knew that the Venerable Beihai, as the commander of the Immortal Court in the demon clan, knew more than they did and could not be wrong.

Wei Yushi could only ask what he should ask. “Venerable, when are we going to take action?”

The Venerable Beihai glanced at him. “Tomorrow.”

Wei Yushi immediately became excited.

This place was an independent space and also the immortal’s base camp in the demon clan. Even the immortals here would be involved in the action tomorrow, so it was conceivable that the preparations of the beast tide outside must have been completed. Tomorrow, all the fierce beasts would attack the territory of the demon clan from all sides.

Wei Yushi did not dare to ask any more questions and left with Yang Fengzhi.

After they left, an immortal in the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm flew over from the dais on the north of the platform and said to Venerable Beihai, “We have trained well. Although we have to take action in advance and hurriedly because of the failure of Blackstone Ridge, it does not matter.”

“The immortals in the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm will direct the formation and gather all the immortals’ powers, so even if the cultivators in the Pre-sage Realm come, they will not break through our formation easily. It will be easy to trap the several Demon Kings of the demon clan. If they dare to deal with the beast tide personally, they will be trapped. Then the beast tide will have the chance to sweep through the entire territory of the demon clan. Without the cultivators in the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm, the other cultivators of the demon clan will be of no use.”

“Venerable Nanmu, you can send them off now,” the Venerable Beihai said, “Venerable Dongxuan and Venerable Xiji will leave today as well.”

The Venerable Nanmu nodded. “If the battle goes well, wails will be heard everywhere in the territory of the demon clan and the demons will not go out to the human world in a thousand years. If the battle does not go well, how much time do we have to buy at least for the second group of Taoist soldiers to descend?”

The Venerable Beihai glanced at the Venerable Nanmu. “Forty days. As long as no cultivators of the demon clan go over to the human world during this time, the general trend in the human world will be determined after forty days—at least, there will be no more Prince An’s foundation.”

“Forty days.” The Venerable Nanmu smiled. Then he cupped his hands toward the Venerable Beihai. “Then I will leave first.”

The Venerable Beihai nodded.

After the Venerable Nanmu left, the Venerable Beihai still stood on the original spot and continued to look at the empty platform, lost in thought for a long time.

The immortal child tentatively said, “Venerable, it is said that the Monkey King has the strength of the Pre-sage Realm after he returned from taking the Buddhist scriptures. If he joins up with the other Demon Kings to deal with our formation, there will be trouble.”

The Venerable Beihai smiled and said, “Pre-sage Realm? It is not that easy.”

The immortal child asked in surprise, “Has he not reached that realm?”

The Venerable Beihai did not comment.

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There were seven sages in the demon clan, but the real demons knew that there were not seven but six mountains in the territory of the demon clan. The Monkey King was born and grew up in the human world. Actually, he rarely came to the territory of the demon clan. Even though he finished taking the Buddhist scriptures, he was accustomed to staying on Huaguo Mountain.

It was windy tonight. Under the starry night, the mountains were vast and deep and the trees rose and fell like waves.

On top of a steep peak, there was a protruding sharp stone that overlooked the forest 50 kilometers away. At this moment, a figure was sitting on the sharp stone. He cupped his chin with his ten fingers crossed and silently faced the desolate trees.

No one knew how long he had been sitting there, just like no one could completely understand the loneliness in his eyes.

The wind was particularly strong at the peak and blew the long cloak behind him like a drifting cloud, setting off the loneliness of his figure.

Suddenly, a star-like light flashed in the valley below the peak, covering a radius of a thousand feet. The forest seemed to become a lake where the stars were reflected, hazy and dreamlike.

The light was not dazzling or strong. If a person was a little farther away, or if he flew in the air, he would not see it.

But the lonely pair of eyes on the peak could see it clearly.

In his sight, the lake, ten thousand feet below, grew brighter and brighter. Straight lines appeared between the light spots, outlining a complete formation. When the formation was completed, water-like patterns rippled in the middle of the illusory lake. That was an unusual movement of the space.

More than two hundred immortals in snow-white robes quietly rose from the formation, like gods in the river.

Pairs of bloody eyes lit up silently in the nearby forest. They were so dense that it was hard to see. That was the ten thousand fierce beasts lurking in the nearby forest. At this moment, they stood up in succession and looked at the formation, as if they had been summoned.

Some fierce beasts bared their teeth, twitched their mouths and let out low whimpers. Their drool was dripping from their mouths. Their eyes appeared fierce. They looked extremely scary. The desolate forest was filled with unspeakable danger at this moment, as if the world would turn upside down at the next moment.

The lonely figure on the peak finally stood up slowly on the sharp stone. He was not tall, not even as tall as an ordinary person. However, what he stepped on was a ten thousand feet high peak, so he looked arrogant.

He put his hand in his ear and pulled out a long stick that was bathed in golden flames, like pulling out the tail of a snake.

At that moment, the desolate peak was no longer dark. The dark golden light of the flames was like the sun. The weathered rocks could be seen clearly and even the smallest smote of dust could be also seen.

He raised the long stick vertically and wielded it at the lake filled with starlight in a seemingly casual manner!

Streams of Spiritual Qi blew upward along the long stick.

The wild wind sprang up.

Sand and stones were sent flying and the wind whistled through the night.

There was a distance of ten thousand feet from the peak of the mountain to the bottom of the valley.

The long stick was burning with dark golden flames. Its end was held in the figure’s hand and its front headed down the cliff like a flood. Its diameter suddenly swelled to several thousand feet. Along the way, it rolled through countless cliff stones that had been turned into powder, went amidst circles of explosive clouds and arrived at the valley in an instant with a gust of wind.

The ten-thousand-foot cliff was set alight. The mountains with a radius of 50 kilometers lit up. Even the dark clouds in the sky became fiery red.

The color of the sky and the earth changed.

Everything was muted.

As the more than two hundred immortals under the cliff, who had not come out of the Transfer Formation totally, noticed the tremendous movement above their heads, all of them looked up in astonishment at the wild wind. They just saw something falling in front of them like a meteor.

“Bang!”

The long stick covering the radius of several thousand feet hit the ground suddenly and stirred up roaring waves of Spiritual Qi. Before the surrounding branches and leaves could fall, they were all turned into dust and were drowned in the dark golden flood that swept through heaven and earth.

For a moment, the earth trembled, the mountains swayed and the clouds rose.

One end of the long stick was held by a hand at the peak and the other end was at the foot of the mountain, sinking into the ground.

In the depth of the continuous mountains under the starry sky, the steep peaks froze time like a miracle.

It was because of the burning long stick which was ten thousand feet long.

A little later, the dark golden light dissipated and the long stick was withdrawn from the cliff. The barren mountain returned to tranquility.

The lonely and silent figure once again sat down on the sharp stone on the peak. His ten fingers cupped his chin and he looked silently ahead. The starry sky was the same, the mountains were the same and so too was he, as if nothing had happened.

Under the cliff, there was no lake filled with starlight, no immortals and no fierce beasts.

Only an empty, low ground was surrounded by mountains, with a radius of more than ten thousand feet. There was nothing in it.

He was the Monkey King. He was in the vast territory of the demon clan.