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Chapter 196: Chapter 193: The New Alliance
Fang Yumian’s words indeed made sense.
To cultivate enough Demon God Warriors, he must have a sufficient supply of Demon Blood Essence.
After all, many people are still at the entry-level of the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method and are far from being self-sufficient.
Moreover, there was no possibility of peaceful coexistence between humans and demons, and he was very firm about this.
Therefore, he weighed the matter for a moment and directly agreed, "You are right, I agree."
This straightforwardness slightly stunned Fang Yumian, but she soon felt that it was as expected.
A win-win cooperation, Gu Jinlai had no reason to refuse.
"If I really set my sights on Blue State, I could simply wait for Mu State’s demons to move north, either to overthrow the Cold Moon Sect or to enter the fray after both are mutually weakened...but, I don’t want to do that."
Gu Jinlai, looking at the seemingly strategic Fang Yumian with a smile, said calmly: "There is another rift in the Demon Realm in Mu State, and we don’t even know the specific level of that rift. The only thing we know is that over time, more and more Demon Spirits will burst out of the rift, transforming into demons and forming a great force, just like the Gold State Incident a hundred years ago. Time has never been on our side."
Hearing Gu Jinlai mention the Gold State Incident, Fang Yumian’s expression gradually became solemn.
Gold State is a Great State located between Sun State and Central State.
A hundred years ago, demons in Gold State gained momentum and swept through half the state at an extremely fast pace.
At that time, the Heavenly Immortal Palace was already powerful and poised to act, tying up a large amount of manpower and resources from the Daqian Royal Family.
To deal with the opponent, the Daqian Royal Family harbored the ambition of using one enemy to swallow another, deliberately driving the demons of Gold State to harm Sun State.
Back then, the royal narrative was that there was an agreement between the Gold State demons and the Heavenly Immortal Palace, and the royal members were misled by the Tianji Palace for a while and failed to see through the collusion between the demons and the Heavenly Immortal Palace.
In the end...
The tug-of-war lasted over a decade.
They passively watched the demons of Gold State grow stronger.
Over those years, the Heavenly Immortal Palace also blamed the royal family for condoning the destruction in Gold State, causing millions of people to become homeless and intensifying the panic among the states while simultaneously alienating the people from the royal family.
This situation lasted until a Demon Emperor emerged in Gold State.
At that point, the Daqian Royal Family could no longer sit idly by; they invested manpower and resources tens of times more than they had a decade ago to quell the chaos of the demons in Gold State.
But by then, under the influence of the Heavenly Immortal Palace, the surrounding states had developed a distrust of the Daqian Royal Family. Seizing this opportunity, Emperor Tianji rose to power, cutting short the fate of the Daqian Royal Family under the banner of human supremacy and the extermination of demons, aiming to rebuild the lands.
Next came the grand war that everyone is familiar with.
Although the Heavenly Immortal Palace failed in this war and was branded as the Heavenly Demon Hall by the royal family, the royal family itself also suffered greatly, losing the strength to calm the increasingly severe chaos among the demons, eventually ordering each state to recruit soldiers to defend the country and fight the demons.
The world then entered a state of division, with the Ten Great Demon Sects, the Six Great Immortal Sects, and each state governing themselves.
When Gu Jinlai mentioned the Gold State Incident, it was clear he was implying that if their alliance still harbored individual schemes, once Mu State grew strong, their fate would likely be the same as that of Tianji Palace and the Daqian Royal Family—the destruction of the Cold Moon Sect and chaos in Star State.
For a moment, Fang Yumian nodded earnestly, "I understand. Our cooperation must focus on slaughtering the demons and even sealing the rift in the Demon Realm of Mu State as our highest priority."
"I hope so."
Gu Jinlai uttered, "I have agreed to the alliance. How exactly to employ our forces, Gu Chaoyang will discuss the details with you later."
Fang Yumian nodded.
After discussing more details, Fang Yumian bid her farewell and left.
Once she had left, Lu Zhanfeng came forward, somewhat puzzled, "Venerable Elder, are we really going to intervene in the conflict between the Cold Moon Sect of Blue State and the demons of Mu State? Mu State... has a Demon King, and after more than a decade of proliferation, there are many more demons than in the Yunqi Mountain Range. Once these demons surge forth, even a top sect like the Cold Moon Sect will be unable to withstand it..."
"That’s why we cannot simply stand by,"
Gu Jinlai said, "Otherwise, once these demons annihilate the Cold Moon Sect and grow stronger, their next targets will be Star State or Dragon Sparrow Manor. After they destroy Star State or Dragon Sparrow Manor, they will continue to press towards Purgatory Sect..."
He had seen through the Qi Observation Skill of the Qiantian Purple Qi Technique recently that the purple pillar belonging to the Daqian Royal Family in the north was already faltering, and no one knew how long they could hold out.
And the Daqian Royal Family...
Are sealing the two largest rifts in the Demon Realm.
"The situation now is like oil heating over fire, possibly leading to an unprecedented explosion that could destroy everything in the next moment. When that moment comes, no one can stay safe,"
Gu Jinlai spoke gravely.
He thought of Tianyuan Dao. 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓅𝓊𝓫.𝒸ℴ𝓶
Had the completely destroyed Tianyuan Dao once looked like this?
Lu Zhanfeng opened his mouth.
He wanted to say that when the sky falls there are tall ones to hold it up, and that they should seize this situation to obtain as many resources and as much power as possible.
But he did not voice these thoughts in the end.
After all, seeing Gu Jinlai’s determined demeanor, it was clear he would not be swayed by a few words.
However...
He wondered if the Cold Moon Sect would appreciate this righteousness.
Perhaps Fang Yumian was thinking as she left that this Heavenly Monarch Gu was easy to deceive, having achieved their goal with little cost.
Shaking his head, Lu Zhanfeng spoke no more.
Gu Jinlai offered no further explanation either.
He left the guest hall and walked towards the inner courtyard,
Dividing his attention as he probed the sentient beings in his spiritual world.
In the past month, he had killed three groups of criminals with grave sins in various cities of Star State, gaining fifty-four streams of Starlight.
This number was even higher than the total he had accumulated on his journey from Lingxiao City to the Capital of Starlight City.
Of course, it’s said he traveled from Lingxiao City to the Capital, but in reality, apart from the initial ambush by the nine experts of Dragon Sparrow Manor and the subsequent battle in Star Curtain City, he barely had a chance to engage personally.
fifty-four streams of Starlight, he intermittently threw thirty streams into the Eternal Furnace.
As expected, this Golden Technique showed no signs of reaching Perfection.
Power was increased by a large margin.
However, this cultivation technique wasn’t merely a body refinement method. Instead, it was an amalgamation of the Heavenly Master skill and the body refining method.
Within the Heavenly Master skill, the accumulation of spiritual sense was akin to the continual effort of water grinding stone.
Though his growth rate of spiritual sense surpassed every Heavenly Master he met, it was still just a drop in the bucket compared to the power increase of the Eternal Furnace.
Now, it was almost as if he possessed the complete technology of nuclear weapons, yet he didn’t even have the power plant needed to drive those centrifuges, let alone produce the nuclear weapons themselves.
"Increasing the Eternal Furnace further wouldn’t make much sense. My own spiritual sense is too weak. Qingguang merely raises my realm, understanding, and proficiency, but it doesn’t directly grant me the corresponding cultivation of the technique..."
Gu Jinlai pondered in his heart.
Qing Lian still adhered to the law of conservation of energy.
He turned his gaze once more toward the various spheres of light surrounding the figurine of consciousness.
After a moment of contemplation, he set his sights on the sphere of light for "Qiantian Purple Qi Technique."
"This technique... akin to the Path of God Cultivation, I did not intend to delve too deeply, but... if I don’t thoroughly comprehend the mysteries of momentum, even if I acquire a body comparable to a Demon Demon King, I still couldn’t contend against the Devas..."
Carrying these thoughts, he made his way to the cultivation room in the inner court.
Then...
He directly hurled ten beams of Qingguang into it.
The cultivation of Qi Observation Skill greatly depends on talent and has always been a hurdle where the difficult do not master, and those who master find it not difficult.
Gu Jinlai wasn’t sure about his own talent, yet with ten beams of Qingguang entering, the Qiantian Purple Qi Technique underwent significant changes in his mind.
The surrounding lucky Qi became clearer.
He could even predict the rules of the rise and fall of numerous forces’ Qi, all major trends of the world at a glance.
Qiantian Purple Qi Technique: Entry-level → Small Achievement.
Gu Jinlai, eyes closed, truly felt as if he could perceive the important affairs of the world without stepping outside, a sense of strategizing behind closed doors.
"I’m not truly aiming to be like those rulers, observing the world’s Qi to know the affairs of the world."
What he desired was a clearer telepathy with all beings, transforming this telepathy into his own power.
To achieve this level, the Small Achievement stage of Qiantian Purple Qi Technique was clearly not enough.
Looking at the remaining fourteen beams of Qingguang, Gu Jinlai did not hesitate and hurled another ten into it.
"Buzz, buzz!"
Under the washing of Qingguang, his telepathy with the surrounding Qi, especially his own, became clearer.
So clear that he could even sense the joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure of any local being’s faith.
But...
That was it.
"No Mahayana?"
Gu Jinlai glanced over.
He roughly estimated that to cultivate this technique to Mahayana, it likely required an additional twenty beams of Qingguang.
The difficulty was comparable to raising the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method from Mahayana to Perfection.
"Understanding momentum is indeed not easy; no wonder few choose this path."
Gu Jinlai looked momentarily, then withdrew his gaze.
...
Yellow Sky Sect and Cold Moon Sect had both given up the cities they occupied in Star State.
While Netherworld Sect was unwilling to just retreat, it still reduced its defenses.
A large number of troops gathered in Feisha City.
As for the remaining two cities, though still under their control, the ones responsible for managing the situation had switched from Refining God Elders to Hugging Pill Dharma Protectors, hardly different from having given up.
Seeing this, Gu Jinlai was decisive, directly ordering Gu Chifeng to move troops toward Feisha City.
To fight Netherworld Sect or not was beside the point; the necessary stance had to be taken.
Just as Gu Jinlai was overseeing the whole situation from the State Lord Mansion in Starlight City, in the direction of Lingxiao City...
Or rather from the direction of Qiushan Mountain, the Thousand-mile Light and Shadow Mirror lit up.
Only then did he vaguely remember, before receiving the news that two Venerable Daoist and seven Divinity Transformation Cultivators from Dragon Sparrow Manor were attacking, he seemed to be receiving a massive amount of data from Blue Star.
But that data was tremendously large, and judging by the trends, it seemed it would take about ten days to transmit, so much so that after arriving at the State Lord Mansion later, he forgot about it.
"Gu Junxiu? Has the data from Qiushan been fully transmitted?"
Gu Jinlai asked.
"It was completed twenty days ago. I sent a message to you, Patriarch, at that time, but... you seemed to have not responded..."
"Twenty days ago..."
At that time, he indeed had been overwhelmed with numerous affairs.
However, now that the data had come through...
"I’m heading back to Lingxiao City!"
Gu Jinlai made a decisive decision.
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