Ziwei Star Alliance, Tianqiang Realm, at the foot of Taixuan Mountain.
When the incident happened in Qingyun Realm, Shen Mingjing had already returned to the demon clan's rear position. He sat cross-legged on a large bluestone by the river, took out his fishing rod and fishing gear, and fished leisurely.
The Fire Kirin lay beside him, looking at Shen Mingjing with confusion.
Shen Mingjing fiddled with the fishing hook and knew what Huo Qilin was going to ask without even turning his head.
"You want to ask, since I knew that Jiang Yuebai, Shen Huaixi and the others would become powerful enemies in the future, why didn't I set up an ambush and kill them directly, right?"
Fire Kirin lowered his eyes, this is what he meant.
Shen Mingjing put the bait on, raised the rod and swung the hook, "My lord, you still don't understand. Humans are not like demons and monsters. Humans have emotions, all kinds of emotions, so the teachers of the human race always leave many ways to save their beloved descendants."
"Jiang Yuebai and Lu Nanzhi are both training with Immortal Lord Chongming. He must have given them a life-saving secret technique. Tell me, am I courting death if I go there myself? Sending people over there will be useless, as they can't be killed at all. Why would I sacrifice my men in vain?"
Sacrifice in vain
The Fire Kirin sneered, and two streams of fireworks blew out of his nose. He thought to himself, aren’t there enough demons who were sacrificed in vain by Shen Mingjing
He was the one who planned the century-old evil plan of the Demon-Jian Array. At that time, Shen Mingjing had just come out of the Demon Realm, disguised as a human, but his cultivation level was only the early stage of the Golden Core.
He didn't tell anyone, even the demons themselves thought that the formation was developed by humans, and many of the demons' sneak attacks had been defeated by the Demon-Detecting Formation.
Only Fire Kirin knew that the formation was created by Shen Mingjing, who took advantage of the human race's greed and love of seeking credit and had the human race's own formation sect deliver it to the Star Alliance.
The reason why Shen Mingjing likes the Tianqiang Realm and is willing to sacrifice so many true demons in the God Transformation Stage to take over the Tianqiang Realm is because when he left the Demon Realm that year, the adventure that was enough to change his life happened here.
With his intelligence and talent, he solved the puzzle left by the great master of formations, Taoist Taixuan, and obtained all of Taoist Taixuan's inheritance. That's why the Taixuan Stele he made that year was so real because the real thing was in his hands.
Over the past hundred years, Shen Mingjing has devoted himself to the study of formations and has become a master of formations far beyond ordinary people.
Although he did not feel any gratitude, he still followed the human race's practice. After the demons took over the Tianqiang Realm, he asked the demon lord for the Taixuan Mountains as his private territory and rebuilt the Xuandao Sect here.
However, apart from him, there is no one else in the Xuan Dao Sect, let alone any other demons.
This time was the same as the time in the Tianqiang Realm. Shen Mingjing also notified the Demon Lord at the last moment before the action, using the Demon-Appraising Array to destroy all the teleportation arrays on the Taiwei Star Alliance front line.
Shen Mingjing knew that he did not have the ability to confuse the vision of the Qingyun Realm through sleight of hand. It was impossible for him to wipe out all the elites of the upper realm and destroy the human race's luck for a hundred years under the eyes of so many Mahayana masters.
At this time, it is feared that the human front line and the entire Taiwei Star Alliance have been lost and taken over by the demons.
The periods when the Qingyun Conference was held in the past were all truce periods between the human and demon races, because the demons also have their own traditions.
Every three hundred years, a 'Life Ceremony' is held in the Demon Realm. All demons below the level of God Transformation must leave offspring in the Demon Realm to continue the demon race's life and ensure that the demon army has an endless supply. This has been an unshakable tradition of the demon race for a hundred thousand years.
Of course, the reproduction of demons is different from that of humans. Low-level demons have no gender and do not need to be pregnant for ten months. All demons can use special methods to split their own core demonic energy to produce offspring, dozens, hundreds or even thousands at a time.
They only care about giving birth, and whether they can survive depends on their offspring themselves, which will devour their companions and everything around them that can be devoured, turning it into their own use and strengthening themselves.
The demons had no so-called morals. Even if they were from the same mother, they would devour each other without mercy after landing. Their breeders would only take care of the strongest one who survived.
Shen Mingjing interrupted the Life-giving Ceremony and launched a general attack on the human race at this time. Not only did the human race not expect this, even the demons themselves did not expect it.
Fortunately, Shen Mingjing still managed to convince the Demon Lord to interrupt and postpone the half-period Life Ceremony to prevent the human spies among the demons from discovering clues in advance and tipping off the demons.
During this period, many demons went to the battlefield with big bellies and carrying their babies.
When Huo Qilin thought of that scene, he couldn't help laughing until he was breathing fire.
Once the situation stabilizes, the demons can continue to expand from the Taiwei Star Alliance to the Ziwei Star Alliance and even the Tianshi Star Alliance.
Compared with this result, the nearly one million demon soldiers who died in the past hundred years because of the Demon-Appraising Formation are not worth mentioning.
Shen Mingjing's initiative to expose the Demon-Appraising Array had a more far-reaching purpose.
"Such a leisurely life, why must we go to war?"
Shen Mingjing sighed, the fishing line suddenly tightened, and the fish was hooked!
The Fire Qilin snorted and shook his head, then lowered his head and closed his eyes to practice.
Shen Mingjing caught a big fish with one rod, laughed happily, then took off the hook and released the fish.
"Sometimes, enemies can also be helpful. They must be very curious about who brought Tai Sui into the Observatory. I just hope they can catch him quickly. I don't want to follow in the footsteps of the Ice Demon Saint."
The smile on Shen Mingjing's lips gradually turned cold. He swung the rod again and accurately hooked the fish he had just released.
Qingyun Realm.
Immortal Lord Fatian personally took care of the aftermath, and the pillar of heaven in the Qingyun Realm was repaired. The overall casualties were not severe, at least from a large base point of view, the casualties were less than 10%.
But everyone is trapped in the ring mountain outside Qingyun Realm and is not allowed to leave for the time being.
Even the sects and families that left early were investigated by the elite members of the Immortal Alliance.
The Qingyun Realm can only be reopened after all the investigation results are out.
At this time, people were in a panic. No one knew that the Taiwei Star Alliance front line had been lost, and they were all immersed in the panic that had just happened.
In the bases where fellow disciples had died, there were always intermittent cries of pain being heard.
Jiang Yuebai was very glad that she followed her intuition and let the people from Tianyan Sect leave early.
Although many members of the Zhuge family also left, a young disciple who was participating in the competition at the Jindan stage still died in the Tai Sui rain, killed by the loss of control of the Yanjia he was carrying.
Zhuge Ziying, who was left behind to take care of the Zhuge family disciples, felt grief-stricken and guilty. He knelt beside the young disciple and remained silent.
Yun Shang and Kong Jingyan were both fine, but they were still in shock and stayed in the Tianyan Sect's original residence to meditate.
Zhao Fuyi brought Jiang Yuebai and the other three, as well as the three demons, back to the Tianyan Sect’s headquarters, set up a large formation around them, and guarded the surroundings.
Before they had rested for long, someone from the Star Alliance came and asked Lu Ling and Shui Lian to go to the Taibai Realm Observatory together, as the Immortal Lord Fatian wanted to see them.
At this moment, Huo Suizi was still in the form of a wheat seedling. Jiang Yuebai placed her in a special flowerpot and asked Xie Jingshan to hold her, but she did not follow.
After Jiang Yuebai and Lu Nanzhi were concerned about Yun Shang and Kong Jingyan's conditions, they walked out of the tent and saw Shen Huaixi and Xie Jingshan, who was holding a flower pot, sitting cross-legged under a tree. Shen Huaixi looked worried.
The two men walked over and sat cross-legged opposite Shen Huaixi. Jiang Yuebai also wanted to have a good chat with Shen Huaixi about the whole incident and its subsequent impact.
"Can't you just put the flowerpot down? It's poking my face!"
As soon as Jiang Yuebai sat down, the tips of the wheat seedlings in the flowerpot in Xie Jingshan's arms poked Jiang Yuebai's face. The wheat awns were fiery and hot!
"Didn't you ask me to hold you?" Xie Jingshan was more reasonable than Jiang Yuebai.
Jiang Yuebai was too lazy to speak. He snatched the flowerpot and put it behind him. He ignored Xie Jingshan, set up a soundproof barrier, and began to review the whole thing with Shen Huaixi.
After the final discussion, Jiang Yuebai broke out in a cold sweat.
Shen Huaixi whispered, "I still thought too little about this matter. I'm afraid that Qingyun Club is not the real target of the person behind the scenes. There must be a major change on the front line, and after this incident, the unity and trust among the human race will collapse."
Lu Nanzhi also frowned, and Xie Jingshan didn't react for a moment and asked, "Why?"
Shen Huaixi sighed and explained, "The most crucial point in this incident in Qingyun Realm is who brought Tai Sui into the Star Observation Tower. At this time, the Star Observation Tower is filled with almost all cultivators above the Refining Void level in the upper realm, and every one of them is a suspect."
"Can't the Mahayana Immortal Lord go and check it out?" Xie Jingshan asked again.
Lu Nanzhi asked, "Are all Mahayana Immortal Lords necessarily good people?"
As soon as these words came out, Xie Jingshan shuddered suddenly and his entire scalp went numb.
Only then did he understand the horror of this matter. Before, the human race was able to unite as one because the Mahayana Immortals who led the human race worked together. But now, if the Mahayana Immortals were to become suspicious of each other, the consequences would be disastrous.
Moreover, if a Mahayana Immortal King wants to investigate the cultivators below, it is very easy, but if a Mahayana wants to investigate another Mahayana, it is probably not something that can be done just because he wants to.
“But, but the Mahayana Immortal Lords are all Mahayana Immortal Lords of the human race. They should not harm the human race for the sake of the demons, right? They have known each other for tens of thousands of years, and they should know each other’s character.” Xie Jingshan said.
Several people were silent for a while, and they all hoped so. As long as the Mahayana Immortal Lord was fine, it was only a matter of time before the spies and traitors below were caught.
Shen Huaixi added, "There is also the Demon Appraisal Formation. It is equivalent to the person behind the scenes deliberately exposing it. When everyone realizes that the Demon Appraisal Formation cannot detect demons, they will definitely doubt and think about how many demons have infiltrated in the past hundred years? How can they continue to reuse the people around them?"
"The person behind this is truly terrifying. He sees through people's hearts and human nature clearly. He knows that once the seeds of doubt are planted, they will take root and sprout, and it will be difficult to remove them. Moreover, there are always people in the human race who listen to one side and believe in one side for their own benefit. It will be difficult to rebuild the trust and unity among the human race!"
The four of them fell silent, with only the rustling sound of leaves in the wind echoing in the mountains.
The storm is coming and the wind is blowing in the building!
This wind from the Qingyun Realm has already spread to all parts of the upper realm...
I haven't owed any debt recently, and I haven't finished my family affairs yet, so I haven't updated any more. See you tomorrow~
(End of this chapter)