Chapter 522 Hitting Gods and Demons! (6200, Seeking Monthly Tickets~)

Qinglin Prefecture, Linmo Prefecture, Beiling City.

Zhu Zhao appeared, blocking the invasion of the divine and demonic thoughts, while all the officials of the city were mobilized to activate the city's protective formation.

The shadows that had been lurking in the city moved.

The slightly cool autumn wind of October blew through the wall of the Beiling Prefectural Governor's Mansion, and fallen leaves fluttered in the air.

A near-invisible and intangible phantom came with the wind, shuttling through the chaotic shadows cast by the falling leaves. It gently landed on the ground of the courtyard, merging with the shadows of the houses and trees. The whole process was silent.

Soon, the illusory shadow leaped through the shadows all the way, arriving at the most secret chamber in the Prefectural Governor's Mansion and entering the secret passage through the gap in the chamber door.

Silently, it broke through twelve magic arrays, the whole process being extremely skilled, as if it had been rehearsed and practiced long ago.

Before long, the shadow passed through all the defenses and arrived in front of the secret vault door, which flickered with a faint blue light, and began to spread like a spider web, eroding the locking formation within.

Ten percent, thirty percent, fifty percent…

"The process is going smoothly!"

Only then did the shadow breathe a sigh of relief.

"I thought I would have to wait a few more days for Wang Taishou (Prefect Wang) to go to the ley lines to investigate before I could find a chance. I didn't expect to be so lucky this time. Beiling encountered the descent of a divine demon, and the defenses are so empty!"

The shadow was not surprised that it could come here so smoothly. After all, with an inside agent providing information, other Heavenly Realm cultivators would not do much worse.

With the forces of the Beiling City Prefectural Governor fully mobilized, and with internal intelligence, most Heavenly Realm cultivators could quietly arrive here, at most a little slower than him.

Of course, the most important thing was the help provided by the divine demon.

Sensing the deep, eerie, and majestic aura from the Nine Netherworlds hidden within its body, the shadow's heart was filled with a sense of security.

If it weren't for this, it wouldn't have been afraid of the distant divine and demonic descent at all, but would have come here to continue its mission—in fact, it couldn't wait for the divine and demonic descent to break through the city's protective formation, making the entire Beiling City a mess, with all the officials and civilians suffering heavy casualties.

Anyway, it was a country established by the pseudo-emperor, and a group of ungrateful people who didn't care about their years of hard work and switched to the pseudo-emperor after tasting some benefits. It wouldn't be a pity if more people died!

"If it weren't for reliable information indicating that the jade slip recording the pseudo-emperor's mysterious plan had been sent to Beiling City, I'm afraid no one would have guessed that this emerging small city was also part of the plan."

"Completing this mission, the divine demon will definitely bestow rewards, and the superiors will definitely promote me to a higher rank!"

Thinking like this, the shadow's main body, Zhang Tongqi, a former general of the previous dynasty, worked even harder to crack the secret vault door.

The dark shadow had already eroded ninety percent of the faint blue light, and his heart was full of anticipation.

Zhang Daoqi already knew that he was ninety percent successful. The remaining task was to enter the secret vault, find the target, copy the information inside, and then the sky would be the limit!

Whether it was the reward promised by the Zhengyang Kingdom or the reward from the divine demon, even if it was only one-tenth of what they had promised, it would be enough for him to rise to the sky in one step!

"Perhaps, I can even break through to the 'Real Person' realm!"

General Wu Zong, Zhang Tongqi.

Former deputy commander of the Tongyou Army of the Zhengyang Seventeenth Main Army, in charge of 50,000 soldiers, a local hero who dominated the thirty-six cities along the coast of Nanze Prefecture, and had hopes of reaching the Land True Person realm, a prominent figure in the area.

Today's homeless dog, a 'Zhengyang Remnant'.

Ten years ago, the Zhengyang Kingdom, which had almost unified the entire continent and claimed to be able to confront the invincible Kun Monster army head-on, was beaten to the ground by the newly emerging army of the Wude Sect. Not only did it lose territory all the way, but its own army frequently defected and entire cities surrendered.

Although the Zhengyang Kingdom often said that this was because the Wude Sect launched a treacherous sneak attack while their main forces were resisting the Kun Monsters, which was despicable.

But everyone in the world knew that the Zhengyang Kingdom was a joke in the fight against the Kun Monsters. Especially when the Kun Monster army invaded, they basically did nothing except detonate two state ley lines and force the enemy to retreat two steps at the cost of damaging themselves, and they also allowed hundreds of millions of disaster victims to scatter and countless demons and ghosts to breed.

Therefore, when the balance of power reversed a year ago and the Wude Sect's new army completely defeated the Zhengyang Kingdom's forces in a magnificent manner, the defeated Zhengyang Kingdom's high command could only take the last batch of elites and leave the Central Continent, retreating to the Southern Continent to eke out a living.

The Southern Continent had experienced a divine and demonic war in the hundreds of thousands of years of the ancient era. After that battle, the Southern Continent sank, nearly half of the Eastern Continent was shattered, and even the Central Continent had its northwest sky tilted and its southeast ground subsided. The mortal realm suffered incalculable casualties—it was also after that battle that the divine demons, who had also suffered heavy damage, gradually stopped descending into the world in person at will, but instead turned to descending their thoughts.

On the few remaining shattered lands of the Southern Continent, there were not many intelligent lives. Although there were indeed indigenous human countries, they were all natives who worshiped divine demons, and they didn't even have their own cultivation methods, only the simplest witchcraft techniques.

Having fallen to such an uncivilized place, the remaining forces of the Zhengyang Kingdom were naturally unwilling. They wanted to counterattack day and night, wiping out the new country's pseudo-emperor and his Wude Sect.

As for why the Zhengyang remnants, who had been beaten like homeless dogs, still had the courage to counterattack.

That was naturally because they had the support of 'divine demons' behind them.

"Success!"

At this moment, Zhang Tongqi had opened the secret vault door without triggering any alarms.

As the faint blue door slowly opened, the spider web-like spreading shadow immediately turned into a stream of light, rolled into the secret vault, and then condensed into a general-shaped figure wearing armor with a look of ecstasy.

Inside the Beiling City's secret vault, dazzling spiritual light was sealed in the formation, shimmering with a gentle luster.

More than seventy percent of the items placed on the secret vault shelves were all kinds of rare spiritual iron and divine gold that had been refined many times, including even materials such as 'Naxu Divine Iron' and 'Xiantian Gang Gold', a small piece of which was worth a fortune.

Whether it was for forging magical treasures and flying swords, or as core component materials for large spiritual machines, these spiritual iron and divine gold were extremely useful and irreplaceable. Just a small piece could effectively improve the material of a magical treasure.

This was a treasury that even a Land True Person would be tempted by—if one didn't come here in person, no one would have thought that a mere Beiling City would have such wealth.

Although Zhang Tongqi was extremely tempted by this, he didn't dare to be distracted and take things randomly. Instead, he carefully searched the other thirty percent of various immortal pills, secret medicines, inheritance jade slips, various classics, and other spiritual materials.

If it were just a mission from the Zhengyang Kingdom, he would definitely not be so serious.

But this matter was directly ordered by the [Nine Netherworlds] demon god, how could he dare to waste time?

As a Zhengyang remnant who had hidden his name and was lurking inside the new country of the Central Continent, Zhang Tongqi was very clear that the main reason why his Zhengyang Kingdom's remaining forces had not been completely wiped out by the new country was because of the divine demons' secret support and protection.

"In the past, the divine demons were at odds and could not easily descend to take action, so they supported us Zhengyang Kingdom to fight against the Kun Monsters, avoiding the rampant spread of evil and triggering the 'Great Ominous', causing the Central Continent to repeat the mistakes of the Southern Continent and the Eastern Continent, being completely destroyed."

"But since the new country's Wude Sect has risen up, driving out the Kun Monsters, they won't care too much about who rules the Tianyuan Mortal Realm. They even want to change their trend and turn to support the Wude Sect."

"However, now, that new country's pseudo-emperor has unified the Central Continent, but he seems unwilling to be controlled, attracting the attention of the divine demons... This is a good thing and a bad thing. It means that the pseudo-emperor has the possibility of becoming a new divine demon, and it also means that the other side may take the initiative to eliminate him first."

Although Zhang Tongqi called him a pseudo-emperor, he was very clear in his heart that the new country's monarch, Ming Zhengde, was truly an unparalleled genius. If he had the opportunity, he would definitely become a god or a demon. The Zhengyang Kingdom being defeated by him was truly the will of heaven.

It was just that this person was too arrogant, and even when facing divine demons, he was unwilling to kneel—but this person actually managed to maintain the new country's relatively independent status by maneuvering between the divine demons.

He even had the spare strength to carry out some mysterious plans in secret... This plan was unknown even to the divine demons.

And he, Zhang Tongqi, had received the order from one of the Nine Netherworld demon gods, belonging to this generation's 'Desire Realm Demon Lord', the demon god Daluotu, who was in charge of darkness, to investigate what this Wude Sacred Emperor wanted to do.

"Found it!"

At this moment, after searching rapidly for a few seconds, Zhang Tongqi finally found his target with the help of his Heavenly Realm level divine sense!

It was an unremarkable jade slip, which would be impossible to distinguish from other jade slips without the information from the mole. Except for a subtle, almost imperceptible seal from inside the palace, it was almost identical to other command jade slips from inside the palace.

"Good!"

Stretching out his hand with ecstasy, a dark and profound light emerged in Zhang Tongqi's palm—the power of the Heavenly Demon Seed originating from the demon god, enough to seal any counter-spells that might exist in the jade slip, and also to shield tracking, strengthening his 'Wu Zong' (No Trace) divine ability, allowing him to come and go silently under the shroud of darkness and shadows, unimpeded by any formation seals.

"Traitor!"

But at this moment, he heard a low roar suppressing rage: "Where do you think you're going!"

Accompanied by the rumbling vibrations of the earth element spiritual energy, Wang Haitan, the Prefect of Beiling City, wearing the official robe of the new country, had arrived.

As the master of the Prefect's Mansion, none of the formations along the way had hindered him for a moment. Arriving at the secret vault at the fastest speed, he saw at a glance the shadow demon general who had already taken the jade slip into his arms, and his pupils suddenly shrank: "It's you, General Wu Zong Zhang Tongqi!"

As one of the most well-known non-Real Person level remnants of the Zhengyang Kingdom, Zhang Tongqi, with his powerful stealth, teleportation, and hiding divine ability 'Xingyou Wu Zong' (Traveling in Darkness Without a Trace), had carried out several devastating destructive actions inside the new country, whether it was sabotaging mine production or releasing poisonous plagues in farmland, all of which were extremely evil acts affecting millions of people in several cities, and were listed among the top of the wanted list.

Faced with this notorious and powerful enemy, Wang Haitan didn't dare to be negligent. Although he was currently in the secret vault, he couldn't use large-scale Daoist techniques to attack.

But as a powerhouse of the Wude Hou Tu (Thick Earth) Sect, he was not only skilled in the earth-shattering mountain-shaking techniques.

True skill can be seen in the smallest details!

"Leave it for me!"

Buzz—as the middle-aged man with a square face made a solemn move, he stretched out his right palm, and golden-brown divine patterns flickered at the palms of his five fingers, and the invisible primordial magnetism suddenly became disordered.

Wang Haitan pressed down with his palm towards Zhang Tongqi from a distance, and the vast spiritual power resonated with the formation. All the residents and cultivators in the entire Beiling City felt as if their bodies had become lighter.

Boom!

An extremely heavy aura descended, and Zhang Tongqi, who was planning to withdraw and escape, felt his body instantly become extremely heavy, as if he were trapped in a quagmire. He seemed to see a majestic and vast giant divine mountain standing at the top of the sky above the distant sea of clouds, exuding endless majesty.

And in the next instant, this heavenly mountain that seemed to be able to suppress all demons and evil began to slowly fall, and pressed towards him with unstoppable force!

【Wude Hou Tu · Five Finger Mountain】

"Great Earth Primordial Magnetic Divine Power?!"

Sensing his current situation, Zhang Tongqi, who knew the difficulty of this divine power, suddenly changed his expression slightly.

The five great divine powers of the Wude Sect—Great Earth Primordial Magnetism, Taibai Divine Body, Net World Karma Fire, Qinglin Undying, and Immeasurable Heavy Water.

This Great Earth Primordial Magnetic divine power runs through everything. Although its initial power is extremely small, if it is accomplished, even if one escapes into the Spirit Realm, one will be pulled out and suppressed. Moreover, after setting up a formation, one can freely mobilize the weight of everything in the area where the formation is located for one's own use, either adding it to the enemy to prevent him from escaping, or directly suppressing and crushing the opponent. It can be said to be a top-notch suppression method in the world.

If it were normal, encountering such a move, even the Wu Zong General, who was best at escaping and hiding, would find it extremely tricky, and would probably need to entangle with the opponent for several hours to escape.

But now, he did not only have his own power.

"I have things to do today, so I won't play with you!"

The invisible primordial magnetic divine mountain, carrying the weight of the entire Beiling City and its millions of residents, pressed down towards Zhang Tongqi, but the general-shaped figure composed of shadows gave a cold laugh.

His whole body's spiritual power flowed, and deep in his soul, a point of deep and dark powerful divine power exploded within the Heavenly Demon Seed, instantly transforming him into an ethereal shadow.

And the spiritual power under this shadow burst forth, turning him into an invisible stream of light in an instant, rushing towards the surface.

Shadow, of course, has no weight and cannot be captured by the Primordial Magnetic divine power—unless this Great Earth Primordial Magnetic divine power is cultivated to the highest realm that even divine demons cannot reach, which is the so-called 'Gui Xu' (Returning Ruins) realm, can this invisible shadow be directly captured.

"Damn it!"

But obviously, Wang Haitan was far from reaching this point. After losing his target, the Prefect of Beiling immediately knew that something was wrong. He fully withdrew his divine power, and his own power collided with himself.

For a time, the power backlashed, and the middle-aged man's face suddenly turned pale, and then he spat out a mouthful of golden-brown blood, obviously suffering some internal injuries.

At this moment, the shadow flickered.

"Hahaha, with the power of mortals, you also want to contend with divine demons?!"

Borrowing the power of the divine demon to transform into a true dark shadow, easily shaking off the suppression of that tricky Primordial Magnetic divine power, Zhang Tongqi's heart was truly incomparably happy—his speed was extremely fast at this time. As long as there was a shadow within his field of vision, he could directly shuttle and jump into it, and then immediately make another jump.

If it were at night, his speed could even reach an astonishing hundreds of miles in an instant!

This was a speed that ordinary Land True Persons could not achieve on the ground!

But, just as Zhang Tongqi escaped from the ground and was about to leave Beiling City on the wind, carrying the mysterious jade slip back to his base for a report.

He suddenly noticed that there was not a trace of shadow within several miles around him, or even within the entire Beiling City, within his entire field of vision.

Azure-gold spiritual light spread out vast and mighty, illuminating all directions.

"Ah ah ah ah!"

The majestic and solemn spiritual light surged, forcing the formless and ghostly shadow like ink to transform into its original shadow humanoid form. At this moment, Zhang Tongqi felt as if his whole body was being pierced by the scorching swords transformed by the azure-gold spiritual light, and unscrupulously stirring, tearing apart the essence of his Wu Zong Dharma body while causing extreme pain!

Just as the Primordial Magnetic divine power was helpless against shadows, the fragile shadow belonging to the dark night would naturally dissipate in the face of the Great Sun spiritual light illuminating the world.

"Who is it?! How did he know to release the spiritual light in advance, sealing my escape route?!"

At this moment, amidst this endless pain, Zhang Tongqi saw a young man's figure.

Under the illumination of the morning light in the high sky, this young man's face was peaceful. His long hair was tied up, and his face was as flawless as a god, but the most striking thing was that pair of azure-purple spiritual eyes that seemed to be able to see through the past and the future.

"This power of yours is very interesting—this isn't your power, is it? I sensed it. It's a very high-level Tongyou (Spirit Communication) divine power evolution, which can form a Divine Immortal level divine power."

Staring at Zhang Tongqi, who was forced to transform into his original shadow humanoid form in front of him, Su Zhou stood in the air with his hands behind his back, his whole body releasing spiritual light like a great sun, covering the entire Beiling City.

He stretched out his hand, peacefully condensing a Lan Zhong (Azure Seed) giant hand, and grabbed towards the shadow humanoid, which was still erupting with its power and escaping towards the distance despite being in great pain—and the Lan Zhong hand also emitted light, not leaving the other party any room to escape.

Rumble!

The might of the heavens tilted, like Mount Tai pressing down.

In the vast spiritual light, thunder exploded out of thin air, knocking down the humanoid figure who was trying to escape from mid-air again, and a huge hand pressed down, which was a more terrifying suppression than the previous Hou Tu Five Finger Mountain divine power.

And the young man's leisurely voice sounded, even drowning out the thunder: "Is it the power of a divine demon?"

"Don't run, let me see."

"Too much!"

Hearing the words of the young man in front of him, who was obviously at the Land True Person realm, and the divine light hand pressing down on his head, Zhang Tongqi's heart was filled with shock, anger, and endless fear.

He knew very well how many crimes he had committed in the territory of the new country. If he was caught, he would definitely face a cruel and relentless retaliation that was worse than death!

But even so, Zhang Tongqi did not lack trump cards!

As long as he fully erupted the trace of the Heavenly Demon Seed hidden in his body, he could completely push his divine power to the level of a Land True Person, or even close to that of a divine demon, in an instant!

Although it was only for a moment, it would be enough for him to escape any shackles—this was also the grace bestowed by the demon god in order to allow him to complete his mission successfully!

As the thought followed his heart, the shadow humanoid immediately activated the Heavenly Demon Seed originating from the demon god in his body with all his strength, preparing to erupt with all his strength as the demon god had said in the past.

But, he did not sense a response.

"Why?!"

Inner despair.

Just as Zhang Tongqi was cold all over and extremely afraid that he would be caught by the young man and face an unknown future.

【Interesting.】

A thought from the endless depths arose in his heart: 【I just wanted to see what this new country monarch had planned, but I didn't expect to encounter an unexpected surprise.】

【Mortal, offer everything you have.】

And Zhang Tongqi, who was originally extremely panicked, instantly became calm. The command in the Heavenly Demon Seed seemed to be the supreme everything.

He respectfully replied: "Yes, I offer everything I have."

As the voice fell, the trace of the Heavenly Demon Seed belonging to the demon god, which was lurking in Zhang Tongqi's heart, suddenly activated at this moment, completely devouring the soul of the former Zhengyang Wu Zong General from the inside out.

Then, the demonic thought of the dark heavenly demon Daluotu descended into the world!

Buzz!

The spiritual energy trembled—with the shadow humanoid, which was about to be suppressed by the Lan Zhong giant hand, as the origin, a terrifying aura permeated, and the formless shadow, like ink dripping into water, began to fall out of thin air from the void, directly turning half of the sky above Beiling City into a dark night where one could not see one's fingers!

The original vast azure-gold spiritual light could not even penetrate this darkness, and even the spiritual light around this shadow began to dim, and the shadow humanoid mixed into this ink, completely hiding, and could no longer be found.

Beiling City was once again shrouded in darkness.

"God, divine demon descent?!"

At this moment, Wang Haitan, who had just escaped from the ground and was preparing to track Zhang Tongqi, widened his eyes after seeing this scene, and his square face was full of astonishment: "No, it's divine demon possession!"

——In the Tianyuan Mortal Realm, all beings suffer.

In this world, the sky has no spiritual energy, the earth devours lifespan, and the endless ley line power repels divine demons. If they descend at will, they will only lose their original spirits and grind their own realms.

Legend has it that if divine demons stay in the world for a long time, ominous omens will invade, and calamities will descend, which is extremely terrifying.

But even so, divine demons can 'descend their thoughts', or even 'possess' the world!

The death warning, like a tsunami, began to sound in Wang Haitan's heart—divine demon possession may be limited by the person being possessed and unable to exert the divine demon's power, but it possesses all the divine demon's experience and skills.

Not to mention him, an ordinary cultivator who is not considered strong even among the Heavenly Realm, even Land True Persons are extremely dangerous!

At this moment, in the dark and ghostly shadow that permeated the sky above Beiling City, there were two deep dark spots that seemed to absorb even one's gaze, like eyes. As the divine thoughts flashed, a majestic and eerie voice was transmitted to the young man not far away.

【You are the descendant of that Phoenix Blood, aren't you? Interesting, such a brilliant spiritual light, it really looks like a phoenix.】

【I am the Dark Heaven…】

He spoke eloquently, as if he wanted to communicate.

"Too much nonsense."

But, accompanied by an impatient voice, the young man's robe moved without wind, flapping loudly.

He stretched out his right palm again, and lightning patterns flickered, and the Lan Zhong giant hand, which was originally just releasing spiritual light, suddenly transformed into a positive and negative interlaced spiral wind, respectively carrying Yin and Yang spiritual energy.

Yin and Yang intertwined, and thunder was born.

——Thunderstorm Void!

In an instant, the palm that Su Zhou had originally struck at Zhang Tongqi did not have any delay at all. After it transformed into a thunderous giant palm, it continued to press down, and even the force was several times greater!

The young man had actually held back quite a bit before—that palm, which looked like it had the might of the heavens and was enough to suppress everything, was actually holding back... no, it was holding back the sea, to avoid accidentally crushing the opponent to death!

【You?! You actually dare to attack a divine demon?!】

Lightning flashed, and the darkness collapsed, just as even the night would be illuminated by lightning for a moment, like daytime.

The body of the divine demon descent, hidden deep in the shadows, was immediately found.

The thunder palm pressed down.

In shock and anger, Daluotu did not seem to expect that there would actually be mortals in this world who dared to take the initiative to attack divine demons.

And at this moment, the possessed demon god heard such a sentence.

"I'm hitting the divine demons!"

Today, the computer suddenly went black and swallowed the manuscript, so I had to rewrite it. Otherwise, it would have been w words...

Although it's only six thousand, I'm still asking for a monthly ticket!