"Oh right, my peach tree! Damn it, I ate one peach before I had enough time. My heart aches so much now." Lin Qing was heartbroken.
"What? You actually ate the peach tree? Where are the peaches? Are there any peaches left?" The old man's eyes lit up.
Peaches of immortality, the legendary peaches of the Queen Mother of the West, one of which could grant one immortality. What was the purpose of her cultivation? Wasn't it to achieve immortality and eternal life?
"Peaches? I already said there's not a single one. Otherwise, why would I go and eat peaches from the peach tree?" Lin Qing looked at the old man with disdain.
"Will I still be able to enter the Heavenly Court? If there are no peaches of immortality, a peach tree will do. I'll go and gnaw on the bark, roots, and leaves!"
"You? I can't even chew a peach tree with these teeth. You'd be useless even if you lost all your teeth."
"I want to enter the Heavenly Court, but unfortunately the token that King Yama gave me is no longer useful." After saying that, Lin Qing opened his mouth and spat out the useless iron token.
The old man didn't believe it, so he took the iron plate and started to study it. He tried everything, including releasing spiritual power and divine sense, but nothing worked.
Seeing that he couldn't enter the Heavenly Court, the disappointed old man finally became enraged and slammed his fist into the ground.
"Bang!" The iron plate shattered into pieces upon hitting the ground.
"It's no use talking now, sigh! What a pity for those peach trees." Lin Qing felt sad when he thought about losing hundreds of millions of evolution points.
"Hey! I guess I'll just stay here and guard the Demon Extermination Palace! Oh right, hurry up and give me the orb of light, I almost forgot."
After Lin Qing resolved everything, he devoured a great many demons, which greatly reduced the number of ghosts.
Because there are no obstacles in the underworld, the ghost messengers come to the human world every day to catch ghosts, capture ghosts, and capture souls.
Because Lin Qing hadn't been seen for a month, all the demons had their magic sealed by the old man and locked in the Demon Extermination Palace's prison.
Fortunately, the Demon Extermination Bureau is now renowned throughout the Ming Dynasty. Although those who completed the missions did not receive any rewards for handing over the demons, thankfully there was no riot.
Race: Flood Dragon
Size: 300 meters
Luck: 2,123,570 points
Talents: Devouring, Cloud Swallowing and Mist Spraying, Illusion, Control, Super Regeneration, Water Control, Divine Sense, Dragon's Might.
Lifespan: ? ? ? years
Cultivation Technique: Divine Dragon Technique, Level 1 (60) (While in a spiritual energy world, the Divine Dragon Technique will automatically increase by one percent over ten years of cultivation.)
Spells: Summoning wind and rain, riding clouds and mist, moving mountains, fire (water) breath, size manipulation, invisibility, earth manipulation, healing spells, (two horns) control of lightning.
Storage space: 100 cubic meters
Evolution Points: 13354631000000 (Up to one million, you can choose to advance) (You cannot gain evolution points by consuming ordinary creatures)
Lin Qing gave the old man a lot of light orbs, which not only didn't decrease but actually increased, and he even gained more than 300,000 evolution points.
As for having 2 million luck points, it's because he swallowed up the blood rain earlier, which at the time covered almost half of the capital.
Lin Qing directly saved 200,000 humans, thus gaining 2 million luck points.
"System, advance! Transform into a dragon!" Lin Qing was outside the city, his heart filled with excitement. After so many years, he was finally about to transform into a dragon.
"Host, if you are to transform into a dragon, the Heavenly Dao of this world will send down a lightning tribulation until you are struck dead."
"??? What did you say?" Lin Qing's forehead was covered in question marks.
"Host, the Heavenly Dao of this world is degrading itself, and the world's level will become lower and lower. Right now, it can still support an existence like Liu Lan."
"If Liu Lan doesn't die in a hundred years, he will also be oppressed by the Heavenly Dao and die and his Dao will dissipate."
"That's how Yama, the King of Hell, was. Because of his own power, Heaven did not allow him to exist, and he is now dead."
"No way? Does that mean I have to wait until the next world to transform into a dragon?" Lin Qing mentally cursed the Heavenly Dao.
"No wonder the immortals, gods, and Buddhas have all disappeared. So this is the reason. Where did they all go?" Lin Qing asked.
"Please investigate on your own; this system has no further information to provide."
"Fine, I won't tell you then. I'll just ask the Book of the World!" Lin Qing abandoned his idea of transforming into a dragon and prepared to seek answers from the Book of the World.
Although the required luck value is exceptionally large, Lin Qing currently has 2.1 million luck value and is not afraid at all.
Lin Qing was also very eager to know where these immortals had gone. If they had gone to other planets, how had they broken through that layer of gale force?
Lin Qing flew back to the Demon Extermination Palace from outside the city and entered the room of the Book of the World.
Lin Qing directly probed into the Book of Worlds with his divine sense and then asked, "Where have all the immortals, gods, and Buddhas of this world gone?"
"No need to display it on the pages, just convey the information to me directly." Lin Qing did this to prevent the eunuch who was still recording the information from seeing it.
"Five hundred thousand Luck Points are required!" the Book of the World responded.
"Take it!" Lin Qing, carrying a huge sum of money, showed no fear whatsoever.
After having 500,000 luck points deducted, a piece of information flashed through Lin Qing's mind. After processing it for a moment, Lin Qing understood the reason.
It turns out that as more and more people in the world defy the will of Heaven, cultivate themselves to become immortals, and live forever, the Heavenly Dao becomes increasingly weak.
This angered Heaven, but it couldn't simply wipe out those people, so it began to demote them.
The so-called "demotion" means that the Heavenly Dao lowers its own level, just like playing a game where the top level is 100.
The Heavenly Dao lowered the top level to 90, and those who reached level 100 could only gradually weaken and be slowly eroded by the Heavenly Dao.
Then the cultivation of the deceased cultivator will dissipate into the world and be reabsorbed by the Heavenly Dao.
Just like Yama, who couldn't bear to leave the underworld, he didn't leave and thus grew weaker and weaker, slowly being eroded by the Heavenly Dao.
The immortals and gods also discovered this early on, and when the Heavenly Dao first lowered its standards, they began to think of ways to leave this world.
Led by the Jade Emperor, powerful figures from all sides joined forces to open a passage through the fierce winds.
They then successfully escaped this world, and later joined forces again to establish a spatial passage that successfully connected to another spacetime.
Then the whole group rushed over to seize the territory, and the Book of the World doesn't know what happened next.
When Lin Qing learned of this result, he could only describe it with one word: "amazing," but Heaven's Way was even more amazing.
Chapter 129 World Demon Ranking (Revised)
Time flies, and three years have passed.
On this day, Lin Qing was idly lying on the roof of the Demon Extermination Palace, basking in the sun.
"Ding! Main quest completed. Please check it yourself."
"Huh?" Lin Qing was stunned for a moment, then immediately opened her eyes.
"Three years have passed, and the mission is finally complete." Lin Qing was on the verge of tears.
Lin Qing felt himself slowly growing and getting stronger, so he immediately opened the attribute panel to check.
Race: Flood Dragon
Size: 400 meters
Luck: 1,633,570 points
Talents: Devouring, Cloud Swallowing and Mist Spraying, Illusion, Control, Super Regeneration, Water Control, Divine Sense, Dragon's Might.
Lifespan: ? ? ? years
Cultivation Technique: Divine Dragon Technique, Second Level (11) (While in a spiritual energy world, the Divine Dragon Technique will automatically increase by one percent over ten years of cultivation.)
Spells: Summoning wind and rain, riding clouds and mist, moving mountains, fire (water) breath, size manipulation, invisibility, earth manipulation, healing spells, (two horns) control of lightning.
Storage space: 100 cubic meters
Evolution Points: 48754631000000 (Up to one million, you can choose to advance) (You cannot gain evolution points by consuming ordinary creatures)
Main Quest: Establish order within the court's jurisdiction. The quest is considered complete only if over 90% of incidents involving demons and ghosts harming people are reduced. (Completed)
Side Quest: Eliminate the Tree Spirit Granny who is wreaking havoc on humanity. (Completed)
Over the past few years, I've accumulated 3.8 million evolution points, plus a reward of 1 million, and just a few days ago I gave the old man a light orb converted from 500,000 evolution points.
Lin Qing suddenly realized that he might have suffered a huge loss, and he also noticed that there were fewer and fewer demons these days.
However, Lin Qing still didn't go to the old man to get it back. Now that the domestic mission was completed, it was time to start the world mission.
Once you've collected a wave of evolution points, you can move on to the next world.
Having made up his mind, Lin Qing went directly to the Imperial Study, where Emperor Zhu Zhanji was concentrating on reviewing memorials.
Zhu Zhanji heard the noise, looked up and saw that it was Lin Qing. He immediately dropped the memorial in his hand and ran to Lin Qing's side.
"What brings the Dragon King to my study today?" Zhu Zhanji asked with a smile.
"I see that the Ming Dynasty is becoming increasingly powerful, and the demons within its borders have been suppressed to the point of almost disappearing."
"However, the whole world is still under attack from demons, and I want you to post the imperial edict."
"Open the World Demon Ranking, and let our Great Ming Kingdom's exorcists and cultivators hunt demons in countries all over the world," Lin Qing said majestically.
Without hesitation, Zhu Zhanji immediately replied, "Excellent! Excellent! I wholeheartedly agree with this decision. In this way, the prestige of our Great Ming Dynasty will spread throughout the world."
If the Ming Dynasty truly spread throughout the world, then he would be remembered for eternity, his achievements surpassing even those of his great-grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Zhanji was incredibly excited.
The next day, inside the Yue Lai Inn in the capital, ninety percent of the people sitting in the lobby were exorcists and cultivators.
"Brother Zou, all the demons in the entire Ming Dynasty have gone into hiding. There are fewer and fewer missions now, and we're about to lose our jobs," Xu Sha said with a hint of dejection.
"Yes, as soon as a mission is announced, it's basically snatched up by those big shots, and we can only sit here doing nothing."
"Brother Zou has it the best, becoming a ghost messenger in the mortal world so early," Tang Qiang said enviously.
"It's all luck, just luck," Zou Gai said with a smile.
"That's true, I can't even get any missions now, so I can only work for the underworld."
"Hey? Brother Zou, look, why are there so many people gathered over there at the imperial edict?" Xu Sha said, pointing out the window.
They were seated on the second floor by the window, where they could see the imperial edict outside at a glance.
"We've finished eating, let's go take a look, maybe there's something good." Zou Gai tossed a wad of silver and got up to leave.
Upon seeing this, Xu Sha and Tang Qiang immediately followed. Before they could even see the imperial edict clearly, they heard a large group of people exclaiming in surprise.
"Wow! That's wonderful, Your Majesty is truly wise."