"You want to expel the divine child from the celestial realm?"
“I am unwilling, but the Heavenly Realm has its own laws. If the Western Buddhist envoy comes to question me in a few days, I will inevitably face reprimand. In my opinion, given his current status and the current situation, he should not remain in the Heavenly Realm…”
Jun Tian pondered for a moment, then nodded. "I understand."
The demon and monster races were severely weakened in the battle at the Floating Pagoda. Demon Lord Huan Changming and Demon King Langxu both perished in the battle. The demon and monster realms were like a pile of loose sand, and the people of both races lived in constant fear and unease ever since the battle ended.
The battle at the Floating Pagoda was initiated by the demon and monster races, and ended in their defeat. The Heavenly Realm has ruled the mortal world for a long time, and they are unsure whether the deaths of the two kings will be enough to quell the Heavenly Realm's wrath.
And the day they feared soon arrived.
A-Fen sat on the high roof, her feet dangling in mid-air, occasionally kicking forward, her eyes fixed on the direction Lang Xu had left, without moving.
After Langxu left, she sat there, unmoved even when the fleeing demon generals brought news of Langxu's death.
Langxu promised her he would come back, and he definitely would. She didn't believe a word anyone else said.
Suddenly, the sky was covered by clouds, and the Heavenly Lord Juntian led his divine soldiers and immortal generals down from the clouds, surrounding the Demon Palace.
Mu Lingzi rushed out from inside, holding the young dragon by the hand. Seeing A Fen still sitting on the roof, she shouted, "A Fen, what are you still doing sitting there? People from the Heavenly Realm are here! You'd better come with me!"
A-Fen stubbornly refused to leave, saying, "I want to wait for Lang-Xu."
"Langxu is dead! You must escape from the Demon Realm with me!" Mu Lingzi flew onto the roof and tried to pull Afen away. "If you don't leave now, do you want to die here?!"
Young Dragon pulled Ah Fen up, "Sister Ah Fen, please come with us..."
A frost-covered blade struck the eaves from mid-air, instantly freezing the eaves and immobilizing the three of them on the eaves.
The Celestial Lord Juntian stood atop a cloud, issuing commands from above: "Those who flee will be punished for rebellion; kill them without mercy."
"yes!"
Mu Lingzi gritted her teeth and said, "Huan Juntian! Innocent people shouldn't be harmed. Don't push your luck!"
The young dragon lowered its head and breathed out flames, melting the ice beneath its feet. The eaves, unable to withstand the combined force of fire and ice, collapsed with a crash.
The young dragon transformed into human form and fled with Mu Lingzi and A Fen.
Juntian Divine Lord pursued on a cloud, wielding his sword to sever the young dragon's tail. The pain of losing its tail was excruciating, and the young dragon roared in agony as it looked up to the sky. Afen fell from its body and was caught by Juntian's men.
Young Dragon, enduring the pain, wanted to turn back and chase after A-Fen, but Mu Lingzi stopped him, saying, "Going to save her now would be suicide! Let's go first, and then we can discuss this further once we're in a safe place!"
"There will never be another place in these three realms where you can live in peace."
Juntian ordered his subordinates to pursue, "Those evil demons and heretics who harbor evil intentions and endanger the peace of my Heavenly Realm—behead them!"
The divine soldiers and immortal generals, like a densely woven net, relentlessly pursued and attacked the young dragon and the wood spirit.
Before long, the young dragon's body was covered in wounds and bloodstains. A man with a spear cut off its dragon horns, and the blood, laced with venom, gushed out, injuring the divine weapon in the process.
"My Lord, this dragon's blood is..."
Having just lost its tail and now its horns, this dragon is clearly at its last gasp.
Jun Tian glanced at the soldiers who were burned by the poisonous dragon's blood, and suddenly hurled the knife in his hand at the back of the young dragon. The young dragon's abdomen and back were pierced, and the splattered poisonous dragon blood was frozen into ice pillars, firmly embedded in the young dragon's abdomen and back.
The sword returned to the hands of the Heavenly Lord.
Using the blood of a poisonous dragon to suppress a poisonous dragon is such an extreme tactic that only those who have been injured by the blood of a poisonous dragon know about it.
"The Divine Lord is mighty!"
The young dragon, already wounded, could no longer maintain its flight, and its massive body, unable to bear the weight, fell from the sky.
Jun Tian could already guess how the dragon would die. It would crash heavily to the ground from a great height and turn into a pile of minced meat. At that time, even seeing its original form, one would probably not be able to tell what kind of thing it was.
Juntian descended from the clouds and stepped into the Demon Palace.
The remaining demon soldiers in the demon palace were suppressed, and the divine generals pressed their bodies down, making them kneel on both sides.
The Heavenly Lord's gaze swept over them one by one, and the demon soldiers were so frightened by his fierce and imposing aura that they kowtowed and begged for mercy, "Please forgive me, Heavenly Lord!"
The Heavenly Lord's eyes were as cold as ice as he said in a flat voice, "Kill them all."
Tian Shu stayed by Lu Pianpian's bedside day and night. Seeing Lu Pianpian's head full of white hair and the obvious demonic pattern between her eyebrows, he cried until his eyes were red and swollen.
The flowers, trees, insects, fish, birds, and beasts around their house all lived thanks to Lu Pianpian's divine power.
Lu Pianpian has lost her divine status, and the power within her body has turned from divine to demonic. The creatures around her have also been affected. Some flowers and plants have withered due to the pollution of the demonic power, and some spirit beasts have absorbed the demonic power and turned into demonic beasts, becoming irritable. The entire forest is filled with a demonic aura that makes people feel scared.
As Lu Pianpian's attendant, Tian Shu was also affected, but unlike these birds and beasts, he possessed a human body and intelligence. Whenever the demonic energy emanating from Lu Pianpian threatened to affect him, he desperately forced it out, maintaining his celestial attendant status.
He dared not touch Lu Pianpian's body again; the demonic aura emanating from Lu Pianpian was too strong, and if he were to come into contact with it, he would be assimilated.
But he was unwilling to leave Lu Pianpian, so he could only stay by her bedside, sobbing and shedding tears.
In the past, when the divine prince was injured, the gate was always filled with divine soldiers and immortal generals who came to visit him. But now, the divine prince has been unconscious for several days, and apart from the howling demonic beasts, no one has come to the gate.
Tian Shu was heartbroken and felt even more sorry for the Divine Child. "Divine Child, you must wake up! No matter what others do, Tian Shu will stay by your side and wait for you to wake up!"
The Heavenly Book was saying this to encourage himself. His spiritual power wasn't high, and he knew that if he stayed with the Divine Child any longer, he would eventually be assimilated into a demon. He didn't know if he could still maintain his current clarity and protect the Divine Child then.
The thought of this made him even more heartbroken, and tears streamed down his face. A cold hand wiped away his tears, saying, "Don't cry."
The place where the Heavenly Book was touched was instantly infected by a demonic aura. He cried out in pain. Lu Pianpian, who had just woken up, was stunned for a moment, and then immediately withdrew the demonic aura back into her body.
Tian Shu covered his swollen eyes and looked at Lu Pianpian, "Waaah... Divine Child, I didn't mean to..."
Lu Pianpian shook her head. "Tian Shu, you can't stay with me anymore."
"Divine Child, don't you want me anymore?" Tian Shu boldly tried to approach Lu Pianpian, but Lu Pianpian dodged him. He sat down on the ground and cried even harder. "I am your Tian Shu, your fairy child. If I don't stay with you, who else can I stay with!"
"Being with me will turn you into a demon. You are a heavenly book, a divine book that knows all things and understands destiny. You cannot fall into demonic ways with me."
"I don't care about any of that! All I know is that you picked me up and spent time helping me grow into human form! Without you, I am nothing, even if I were..." Tian Shu sniffed, "even if I were a fallen demon, I wouldn't be afraid! As long as I can be with you!"
Lu Pianpian stepped off the bed barefoot. Tianshu, thinking he was moved by her words, quickly wiped away the tears on her face. "Pianpian, the Heavenly Realm cannot tolerate you... I will stay with you. I am not afraid of falling into demonic possession, nor am I afraid of being harmed by demonic energy..."
The Heavenly Book is not afraid, but Lu Pianpian does not want to implicate it.
The door opened silently, and Lu Pianpian walked out, saying, "From this day forward, you are no longer my fairy attendant."
Chapter 66
After Juntian Shenjun stationed his troops in the Demon Realm, he began a large-scale extermination of the Demon Lord's former subordinates. Some of the former powerful demons, having heard rumors of this, led their followers to abandon their weapons and surrender to Juntian Shenjun in hopes of survival.
However, the Heavenly Lord did not accept any of their former followers. Instead, he killed the great demons who surrendered on the spot. He was truly ruthless and hated evil.
His ruthless methods quickly spread throughout the Demon Realm, causing widespread panic among the demons. With their territory taken over by the Heavenly Lord, they knew they would never have peace again. As a result, many demons fled to other realms to protect themselves, and the entire Demon Realm was now gripped by the terror of the Heavenly Lord.
Lu Pianpian had become deeply possessed by demonic possession, her entire body covered in demonic energy.
He could no longer stay in the Heavenly Realm, nor could he go to the mortal realm. The only place where he could find refuge was the Demon Realm.
He entered through the entrance to the Demon Realm, only to find the crowd flowing in the opposite direction. A bird demon, carrying a bird's nest in its beak, flew hurriedly and bumped into Lu Pianpian's shoulder, causing the nest to fall to the ground. He flew over again, looked at the nest twice, and finally, with a heavy heart, abandoned it, flying to the exit and joining the long queue to escape the Demon Realm.
Lu Pianpian patted the feathers off her shoulder, picked up the bird's nest from the ground, and handed it to the bird demon, saying, "Your nest."
The bird demon shook his head. "Bringing it along is too cumbersome. The nest can be rebuilt, but if I don't leave the Demon Realm today, my life might be in danger."
After he finished speaking, he carefully examined Lu Pianpian, and was so frightened by the demonic aura emanating from him that he took a few steps back. "I think you... take care of yourself!"
The owner didn't want it anymore. Lu Pianpian held the nest in her hand and thought for a moment. Finally, she used her spiritual power to send the bird's nest back to the tree.
He continued walking down a forest, having already decided to find a secluded place, free from demons, immortals, and all living beings.
What happens after we find it?
He hadn't thought about it; he just didn't want to see anyone right now. He wanted to be alone, even if it made him look like a deserter fleeing in disarray.
Lu Pianpian found a thicket of thorns, so thick that it blocked out the sun, with no sign of any living creatures.
He flew over the thorn forest, cleaved a clearing with his sword, found some trees and whittled them into strips, and spent half a day building a simple wooden hut in the thorn forest.
Lu Pianpian entered the wooden house. There were no furnishings inside, but it provided shelter from the wind and rain.
He gazed at the dimly lit wooden house and lit a ball of fire that floated in mid-air.
The next moment, Huan Changming's figure emerged from the fire.
"Lu Pianpian, why won't you even give me a chance to explain?" Huan Changming was covered in blood, with the Buddha-slaying pestle still stuck in his chest. He asked Lu Pianpian in a mournful tone, "Have you always wanted to kill me? To grind me to dust and make me vanish into nothingness?"
Lu Pianpian's expression was indifferent, but his ten fingers were clenched into fists under his sleeves. He answered, "Yes."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Buddha-slaying pestle pierced even deeper into Huan Changming's heart, and blood splattered onto Lu Pianpian's face.
"Pianpian, how cruel you are!" Huan Changming's eyes were bloodshot. "Even if others have a thousand faults, you always give them a chance to repent. You even have compassion for ants, so why are you so ruthless towards me?"
Is it a resolute decision?
This was simply Huan Changming's own fault, and he deserved what he got.
Lu Pianpian said, "You are reaping what you sowed."
"If I am reaping what I sowed, then why did you fall into demonic ways?"
Blood and tears streamed from Huan Changming's eyes, his face contorted into a grotesque grimace, like a vengeful ghost crawling out of the abyss of the underworld to claim the life of his killer. "Others only think you became a demon because your hands are stained with my blood, but ask yourself, what exactly caused you to become a demon?"
Lu Pianpian choked up, a hint of turmoil appearing in her usually calm eyes, "I..."
His words abruptly stopped as Huan Changming gripped his shoulders with his blood-stained hands, grinning maliciously, "If you can't say it, I'll tell you!"
"Because you have developed a demon in your heart, because of my death, Huan Changming! Your heart is not as heartless as you say! You have fallen into demonic possession for my sake!"
"Shut up!"
Lu Pianpian grabbed the ball of fire and extinguished it, but Huan Changming's voice lingered.
"You killed me with such ruthlessness, did you ever imagine this day would come? You claim to have no feelings for me whatsoever, but your heart doesn't think so. You say things against your conscience, do things against your conscience, your heart and your thoughts and actions are completely contradictory!"
"Lu Pianpian, how long are you going to keep deceiving yourself?"
"I don't!"
The butterfly pattern between Lu Pianpian's eyebrows glowed with a red light that appeared and disappeared intermittently. He knew it was his inner demons causing trouble. He could have forcibly suppressed it, but the sweat on his forehead showed that he was being led astray by his inner demons and was deeply trapped in them.
"I killed you... I have no regrets. Huan Changming, I have long been heartless towards you, so how could I have fallen into demonic possession because of you? Stop bothering me! You should have died long ago!"
"Heartless? If you were truly heartless, you should be as still as water, sitting high and mighty in your divine position. Why would you hide in this desolate place like a pathetic wretch?"
"Shut up!" Lu Pianpian summoned her sword and slashed at the void, her swordplay chaotic and her movements hurried. "You're already dead! Get out of here! Get out of here!"
But as he said, Huan Changming had long since died, and everything he heard and saw was an illusion.