"Hah… kill me?"
Feng Baiyu, the Supreme Patriarch of Yuhua Sect, gave a soft laugh. "With just the three of you? Even together, you'd find it difficult. What, do you expect me to stand still and let you try? With two Demon Gods and a Demon Lord joining hands, I'll admit I need to give you three some respect—but killing me? Pure delusion."
He spoke lightly, calmly—because he truly feared nothing.
At his level, a true ancient giant, a sovereign of the Longevity Realm, no one could stop him from leaving whenever he wished.
"Hehe… Feng Baiyu, three thousand years later and you're still the same arrogant man."
The Nine Yin Demon God smiled sweetly, but her brows hid lethal intent.
"I've heard you change gender every sixty years," Feng Baiyu replied casually. "Sometimes a handsome man, sometimes a peerless beauty. Then you descend into the mortal world to seek threads of desire and refine that Reversal of the Seven Emotions technique of yours. So, this cycle… who did you find? Surely not the Demon Lord here? He's long since cultivated all emotions out of himself."
"Of course not."
Nine Yin flicked her delicate fingers, jade-like and deadly. "Seeking desire, naturally I must choose mortals. Cultivators are useless for that. But your disciple killed my child—the Seven-Leaf Demon Lord born three centuries ago when I was male. He was about to form his Golden Core, a prodigy of the Heavenly Demon race. His death is a loss I will not accept. So yes, Feng Baiyu—I'm here for revenge."
"Ah, my disciple killed your son? Then coming to Yuhua Sect is fair." Feng Baiyu nodded, then turned toward the Demon Lord. "And you, Xing Wuchen? What's your reason? Don't tell me that 'immortal and demon are natural enemies' nonsense."
The name slipped naturally from Feng Baiyu's lips—Xing Wuchen, the true name of the Demon Lord.
Dressed in black robes, long dark-purple hair drifting like a mist, Xing Wuchen smiled faintly. His eyes were whirlpools that tried to swallow the soul.
"A reason? Huang Quan Diagram is reason enough. Huang Quan Sect was once the strongest demonic sect, but after the Yellow Spring Emperor died, it shattered. Its elders turned on each other. But with the Diagram, one could gather them again—forge a power capable of rivaling Taiyi Sect. Is that not a temptation great enough?"
"Reuniting the demonic path requires true power," Feng Baiyu replied. "You don't honestly think having the Diagram alone will make those stubborn elders obey you, do you?"
Xing Wuchen's voice chilled.
"Let's not pretend. Many of Huang Quan's divine arts require Forgetting Emotions Water to achieve perfection. The Yellow Spring Emperor monopolized an entire river of it and refined it into the Diagram. Whoever has the Diagram controls access to that water. Think those elders won't come begging? Even if they won't obey, they'd trade treasures and techniques for a single drop. That alone is enough."
"Indeed. And Forgetting Emotions Water is the bane of our Heavenly Demon race," Nine Yang Demon God added. "If it touches us, even Demon Kings cannot use the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Art—they can only be refined helplessly. Such a thing cannot fall into anyone's hands. Feng Baiyu, we only want your disciple to hand over Huang Quan Diagram. Kill the Seven-Leaf Demon Lord, and the matter ends. Today, the three of us will succeed. You may escape, but your disciples cannot. And why did we choose the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion for this battle? Because we've already set up a Ninefold Shifting Heaven Array! We'll drag you into the mansion's inner void—let's see if you can get out alive!"
"Ah… the Ninefold Shifting Heaven Array."
Feng Baiyu's expression grew cold, but then he sneered. "Then try it. Move!"
A burst of pure, translucent energy erupted from him—splitting into three divine forms.
The first: a towering barbarian giant wielding a stone axe veined with serpentine patterns. With a single swing, the entire void trembled—clean air rising, turbid sinking.
The second: a celestial woman with a five-colored stone in hand, clothed in a robe woven from starlight.
The third: a chubby black-and-white sphere with little wings—strange, comical, yet unmistakably divine.
Once these three manifested, the entire pocket dimension of the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion shook violently, as though it might collapse at any moment.
The axe-wielding giant roared and charged Nine Yang Demon God.
The five-colored woman flew at Nine Yin.
The black-white sphere barreled toward the Demon Lord Xing Wuchen—and his expression instantly twisted with fear.
"The True Void Primordial Spirits! Feng Baiyu, you would burn a thousand years of cultivation to manifest them? Fine—Heavenly Demon Handprint!"
In a storm of shadow, he struck out 9,999 jet-black palm prints, each containing force equal to a million galloping warhorses.
Any one of them would obliterate Fang Han instantly—but Fang Han felt no shame.
These were beings of the Longevity Realm—monsters that shook the heavens. He was still far from that level.
The divine sphere clashed with the barrage. Explosions rippled through space, but the sphere remained completely unharmed.
Meanwhile, Nine Yin and Nine Yang had their protective auras shattered by the barbarian and the starlight woman, forcing them to burn their lifeforce to defend themselves.
At that moment, Feng Baiyu cracked his whip—the War God Whip—across the void.
CRACK!
A rift tore open.
"You three think you can stop me? Clear Snow, Jialan—protect Fang Han. Activate your formation. Stay behind me. We're leaving—let's see who dares stop us."
He led the group toward the newly opened spatial passage.
But—
"Oh? Leaving so soon?"
A childish girl's voice rang out from the far end of the tunnel.
A vast web of silken threads—countless overlapping strands of divine silkworm silk—spread across the exit, sealing it completely.
At its center sat a little girl with twin buns tied with red ribbons—like a living silkworm doll. She raised a tiny hand and beckoned.
A terrifying force surged toward Fang Han, trying to pull him in.
"Lady Heavenly Silkworm!"
Feng Baiyu shouted the name.
Another Longevity-realm monster.
The leader of the Heavenly Silkworm Sect—
Lady Heavenly Silkworm herself.
And she had come for the Diagram.