Thirty-five years had passed since Li Changshou left the Palace of the Holy Mother with the Golden Peng.

At the Xuandu City beyond the heavens.

“Tsk.”

Grand Master Xuandu frowned as he watched the Outer Demons continuously gathering in the misty gray spiritual energy before him, feeling somewhat irritated.

Did they think he didn’t have a morning temper?

This was going too far!

In recent decades, it had escalated from launching an offensive every few years initially, to once every few months ten years ago, and now several times a month!

Had the Outer Demons reached their breeding season, necessitating the use of Xuandu City to eliminate their excess numbers?

Grand Master Xuandu was utterly perplexed. He had guarded Xuandu City since ancient times and had never encountered such a situation before.

In the past, during leisure time, he could roam around and sightsee. After growing tired of the Three Thousand Worlds, he could even venture into the Chaos Sea for a swim.

But in recent decades…

Thinking back, it was over thirty years ago when he received news that his little junior brother’s original sect, the Degree Immortals Sect, had been schemed against by Maitreya, the First Senior Brother of the Western Teaching. Junior Seasonal had died in battle, hundreds of disciples were killed or wounded, and his little junior brother finally lost his composure for once, going to destroy their Western Teaching’s mountain gate.

As for Maitreya of the Western Teaching, the Grand Master was quite familiar with him. Maitreya had become a disciple before the two Western Teaching Saints achieved their sainthood.

He was a disciple of the Ancient Saints of the Great Wilderness.

In ancient times, Maitreya had caused trouble during the Ancient Immortal War, but his character wasn’t impressive. During the Second Ancient Immortal War, he secretly controlled several Demon Race experts and blamed it on the Human Race.

At that time, the Human Race was weak, already struggling to survive between the Ancient and Demon races. Grand Master Xuandu had no choice but to intervene, chasing and fighting Maitreya for over a decade, making him completely settle down afterward, not daring to cause any more trouble.

After many eons had passed, unexpectedly, Maitreya emerged again and started targeting his little junior brother.

Was he trying to take out his ancient grudges on his little junior brother?

Well…

Hadn’t he kicked an iron plate and brought trouble upon himself?

Provoking him, the Grand Master, would at most result in physical transcendence, ending everything with one slap.

But provoking his junior brother wasn’t just about transcendence!

His junior brother would surely cover his face crying out “Oh no, I can’t win!” and “This, this is too cruel!” and “I’m no match for you, but I must uphold justice on behalf of the Heavenly Dao!” while pinning down the opponent, force-feeding them shrimp and pork heart before transcendence…

In terms of dirty tactics, the Grand Master had rarely seen anyone who could outdo his junior brother!

This was meant as a compliment.

When he heard this news thirty-some years ago, the Grand Master wanted to go back and see if little Changshou needed his help.

Jokes aside, Maitreya’s cultivation was quite formidable, truly an ancient powerhouse.

But just then these Outer Demons started causing trouble, beginning to accelerate their attacks on Xuandu City, seemingly desperate to enter the Great Wilderness world, making it impossible for Grand Master Xuandu to slack off work.

In recent years, he couldn’t even sleep properly!

Xuandu City was at the edge of heaven and earth, isolated from the news. The Grand Master had no time to leave this place, and the Heavenly Dao was obscured by the great calamity, making it completely impossible to know what had happened afterward.

It wasn’t until more than ten years ago, when the battle at Xuandu City became intense, that Teacher airdropped the Taiji Diagram, allowing the Grand Master to understand that his little junior brother had carried out some small revenge against Maitreya over these years.

According to Old Boss Diagram, it seemed he had splashed some dirt on Maitreya; as for how exactly it was splashed, the Grand Master didn’t ask.

As long as his junior brother was fine, early retirement was still hopeful.

Today, standing on the city walls of Xuandu City that were full of traces of years past;

The Grand Master watched those streams of black qi mixed in the chaos energy, with the Taiji Diagram rotating steadily behind him.

Throughout the city ruins, numerous Dao soldiers were rushing to produce spare formation bases, to be replaced at any time during the great battle later.

Xuandu City didn’t lack precious materials or spirit stones, and the Dao soldiers were just products of divine abilities, knowing neither fatigue nor death, only relentlessly completing their missions.

The Grand Master couldn’t help but sigh lightly:

“It seems these fellows won’t let this poor Daoist rest peacefully for a while unless they’re taught a lesson.”

The Taiji Diagram transmitted some spiritual awareness: “Want to change the formation?”

“Old Boss Diagram, please protect this place,” the Grand Master stepped forward, “Being disturbed by these ugly things has made me a bit angry, I’ll go vent some fire.”

After speaking, the Grand Master stepped forward, and black and white qi suddenly surged from behind him!

In the flashing light, two Daoists materialized with faces identical to his, wearing black and white robes respectively.

One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones – Youth Reduced Version!

The Grand Master snorted lightly, his main body and two incarnations simultaneously raised their right hands, and three streams of light flew out from Xuandu City, transforming into three rusty spears, swords, and bows, which were simultaneously grasped by the three figures.

One step out, three steps out!

Three streams of light rushed into the Chaos Sea, sword slashing void, spear commanding dragons, bowstring continuously vibrating, instantly turning that black ocean upside down…

After months of battle, the demon army was defeated.

The Grand Master looked at the trembling black shadow curled up before him, revealing a faint smile at the corners of his mouth.

Caught a big fish.

It had been a long time since he had stretched his limbs so freely…

After fighting in the ancient battles, as the First Senior Brother of the Dao Sect, he rarely had chances to take action, most times just showing up to make a statement was enough.

The experts among the Outer Demons were indeed somewhat troublesome, many without physical forms, requiring some secret methods to fight, which prolonged the battle time considerably.

The Grand Master raised his hand to cover his mouth and yawned, and that black shadow seemed to find an opening, transforming into a black light, shooting towards the Grand Master’s brow!

The Grand Master casually grabbed the black light in his palm, and those eyes that were originally slightly lazy suddenly burst forth with sharp divine light, staring intently at the black shadow confined in his palm.

Greenlight surged in the Grand Master’s eyes, and the latter’s whole body ‘bristled’, letting out piercing screams that could shatter the divine soul of ordinary Golden Immortals.

The Outer Demon’s demon heart instantly lost its defense!

The Grand Master searched the other’s demon heart, his face full of disgust, as if he were exploring the structure of a sewage ditch.

But soon, the Grand Master’s eyes lit up, casually crushing the black light in his hand, then flipping his hand to grab again, using the Yin-Yang Taiji Great Dao to endow the current living being with dao principles and definition, grabbing a piece of colorful fragment in his hand.

This fragment was equivalent to the remnant soul of an Outer Demon, only it had been made easier to understand by the Grand Master’s divine ability techniques.

The Grand Master glanced in the direction where his two incarnations had chased, silently withdrew the incarnations, took a step forward, returned to the city walls of Xuandu City, and sat behind the Taiji Diagram.

During the previous battle, the Outer Demons had taken the opportunity to attack Xuandu City, but the ‘experts’ were all detained and defeated by Grand Master Xuandu, and the offensive was steadily blocked by the Taiji Diagram.

Such a charge could greatly reduce the pressure on various formations of Xuandu City, allowing the Dao soldiers to better deal with the next wave of battle…

Old Boss Diagram’s spiritual awareness transmitted to the Grand Master’s heart: “What is this?”

“An interesting memory,” the Grand Master smiled while playing with the fragment in his hand, pondering slightly, his right hand formed a seal, his finger pointing at this fragment.

The fragment exploded with a ping, and dots of stardust projected a somewhat blurry picture.

In a dark but dao-principle-ordered corner of the Chaos Sea, near an indescribable, indescribable, but giving people the feeling of extremely ugly bloated Demon Lord, floated countless Outer Demons.

Streams of black qi continuously floated out from this bloated Demon Lord’s body, these black qi rapidly transforming into new Outer Demons…

The Grand Master was slightly surprised: “The Demon Lord Venerable has recovered their vitality?”

“Still that ancient one?”

“Should be, one of the few Primordial Divine Demons that survived the Creation Tribulation.”

The Grand Master clicked his tongue in amazement, then formed another seal, and suddenly ‘squeak’, ‘croak’, and ‘buzz’ sounds resonated in the picture.

The Grand Master was bewildered, but the Old Boss Diagram could analyze these voices, projecting spiritual awareness into the Grand Master’s heart, making the Grand Master’s eyes gradually widen.

“Kill Taibai, destroy Venus!”

“Kill Taibai, destroy Venus!”

“The Saint cannot be slandered, must make Venus Star Lord pay the price!”

“When have we Outer Demons ever been bullied like this? Kill Taibai!”

“If you destroy our paradise, we must pierce your spine! Destroy Venus!”

“This?”

The Grand Master was dumbfounded, “What did Changshou do? How did he pull hatred to the Outer Demons?”

The Taiji Diagram remained quite calm, asking: “The Demon Lord Venerable seems to be a female being?”

Black lines hung all over the Grand Master’s forehead, his whole person not feeling too well.

Half an hour later, a specially made jade talisman wrapped in yin-yang qi flew into the vortex in the center of Xuandu City, returning to the Great Wilderness world, crossing the Three Thousand Worlds, and shooting towards the Heaven Palace.

“What has Junior Brother been doing all these years?”

Meanwhile, at the edge of the Three Thousand Worlds, in a certain Great Thousand World.

A blue-haired big dog tied with immortal rope turned its head to look at the tens of thousands of heaven soldiers and generals behind it, feeling the pressure from the Heaven Emperor’s Demon Eliminating Sword in the arms of the Golden Winged Great Peng closest to it, couldn’t help but sigh softly.

Thirty-five years, it had been thirty-five years!

Looking towards the Netherworld, no word from the master!

Whether Star-Lord was the strongest righteous deity of the Heaven Palace, Hearing couldn’t know, but he must be the most ruthless one.

Roaming outside like this, helping the Heaven Palace eliminate large numbers of Outer Demons lurking at the edge of the Three Thousand Worlds, it had passively accepted its identity as a ‘Heaven Palace Treasure Beast’!

The hardships of beast life were evident.

As for those Outer Demons’ schemes spanning multiple eons…

What did it matter to Hearing?

If those Primordial Divine Demons controlling things from behind had the ability, let them come to the Great Wilderness world for revenge – the Heavenly Dao would teach them how to be proper beings with Purple Lightning in an instant!

Thinking this way, mixing with the Heaven Palace wasn’t so bad after all.

Hearing wanted to boost its spirits with this thought, but couldn’t help sighing softly again. It opened its eyes and transmitted the abnormalities it had heard to the Golden Winged Great Peng.

The Golden Peng’s eyes flashed with divine light, and his figure instantly vanished.

In just a moment, blood light flashed, and the divine sword displayed its might.

Streams of black qi were quickly purified as the Golden Winged Great Peng maintained human form, extending two golden wings from his back, his figure projecting throughout this Great Thousand World.

“By Heaven’s Command, with the Emperor’s permission, holding Venus Star Lord’s decree!

Today we eliminate the Outer Demons lurking in this area, protecting all beings of heaven and earth! If any cultivator discovers Outer Demons, kill them and collect their demon qi, and you may claim rewards at the Heaven Palace!”

The world fell silent, and the Golden Winged Great Peng’s figure flashed as he began leading his army to leave this place, entering the second wave of inspection mode.

Outer Demons were very cunning; one inspection was far from enough.

The Golden Peng took out his teacher’s “Thirty-Six Techniques of Demon Elimination” from his chest, his eyes full of admiration.

Lying on the throne and tied with a dog chain, Hearing’s peripheral vision caught sight of the jade slip in Golden Peng’s hand, and it instinctively began trembling all over.

…

Recently, this leisurely immortal life…

At Venus Palace’s Small Jade Peak, Li Changshou stretched lazily in the rocking chair in front of the dan chamber, yawning as his immortal consciousness flowed out like water.

The card room had gained new guests in the recent decade, and Dragon Lucky, this senior disciple, had also gained access to Small Jade Peak.

This was also because Dragon Lucky was Ling’e’s best friend in the Heaven Palace, and Li Changshou, worried that Ling’e might feel depressed during cultivation, intentionally let Dragon Lucky accompany Ling’e for entertainment.

Speaking of Dragon Lucky, there was something that left Li Changshou quite speechless.

Dragon Lucky’s Golden Immortal Tribulation…

Li Changshou had never seen such a biased Lord Dao Ancestor!

Think about when he, as a disciple-grandson, underwent tribulation – not only was nothing spared, but he was also struck randomly by heavenly punishment, with thunder, wind, fire, and water all present, the heavenly punishment aimed at seriously injuring him!

Since then, whenever any of his friends and family underwent tribulation, there would always be tribulation thunder transforming into heavenly punishment, coming to secretly strike him a few times…

But what was the scene when little Dragon Lucky underwent tribulation?

That day, Dragon Lucky suddenly said: “Teacher, this disciple seems about to undergo tribulation, there’s a voice in the void telling this disciple to prepare.”

Li Changshou immediately determined this was the Heavenly Dao’s reminder to Dragon Lucky, also considered the Heavenly Dao giving the Jade Emperor some face.

Dragon Lucky then flew to the Jade Pool, arriving at the pre-selected tribulation location, and tribulation clouds quickly gathered in the sky.

Dragon Lucky made a Daoist salute toward the sky and said loudly:

“Heaven Palace’s Dragon Lucky thanks the Lord Heavenly Dao for taking time from his busy schedule to strike.”

And then…

“Mm.”

The tribulation clouds in the sky directly hummed in response!

The tribulation clouds manifested scenes of the Nine Heavenly Palaces, accompanied by auspicious clouds all around, with immortal music already playing in advance from afar!

St… Stable pass?!

Dragon Lucky waited for a while, and first, there was a thunder sound in the sky, then a powerful pink heavenly lightning struck down, passing by Dragon Lucky’s forehead and landing on her shoulder.

Dragon Lucky’s figure swayed from the strike, and the tribulation fate above instantly stopped rotating, quietly waiting for a while.

Yes, waited for a while.

This ‘while’ was very spiritual!

Later on, Li Changshou almost couldn’t help but criticize.

He had never seen the subsequent four thunderbolts of tribulation with intervals exceeding two hours each!

Was the tribulation so afraid of hurting the Jade Emperor’s beloved daughter that it feared the Jade Emperor would have opinions about the Heavenly Dao?

After Dragon Lucky passed the tribulation, she tidied her disheveled hair, and immediately hundreds of Jade Pool fairies rushed over, each carrying peaches of immortality and holding wonderful medicine pills, fearing they would be too late… Dragon Lucky’s injuries had already recovered.

Li Changshou: …

Fine, the Heaven Palace was her home.

Lord Dao’s Ancestor had interfered with this great tribulation, seriously going easy on his ‘granddaughter’.

This was also because Dragon Lucky didn’t have a righteous deity position, otherwise, she might not only have been exempted from tribulation but might have just been symbolically struck a few times, with the tribulation force directly reconstructing Dragon Lucky’s dao body.

Collecting his thoughts, Li Changshou made himself stop thinking about these things. Dragon Lucky successfully becoming a Golden Immortal was also a good thing.

Ling’e’s tribulation couldn’t follow this example; still needed to make full preparations, as he didn’t have such solid relationships with the Jade Emperor and Lord Dao Ancestor.

Looking at the card room, playing with Dragon Lucky and Ling’e, there was also a petite figure –

Bear Lingli.

Having undergone Ancient God blood tempering and completely mastered transformation methods, Bear Lingli’s body proportions had finally returned to normal.

Now transformed to human size, she was like a young girl in her prime years, with two short ponytails, carrying two large copper hammers on her back, wearing the unchanging Lord Lao brand treasure armor, quite eye-catching when going out.

Li Changshou had already begun arranging for Bear Lingli to become a Heaven General later, guarding the Heaven Gate, and helping the Heaven Palace get through the awkward period of lacking high-level experts.

When Bear Lingli was at human size, she could only exert fifty percent of her strength; to unleash full power, she still needed to return to her original size…

His immortal consciousness continued to flow.

Outside Venus Palace, heaven soldiers and generals patrolled and guarded, each with solemn expressions, carrying a hint of pride on their faces.

In the original Water God Manor, Spirit Zhenzhu Boy was playing jump rope with Jade Rabbit, these good brothers’ friendship growing increasingly solid, their brotherly affection moving heaven and earth.

In the neighboring room, You Qin Xuanya, who had rarely returned to the manor for quiet cultivation, was in closed-door enlightenment. Now she appeared increasingly otherworldly and ethereal, with additional several degrees of pure and noble feeling.

Heaven Palace’s Female War God, her fair name spread across the Three Realms, had already achieved advertising effects far beyond expectations.

However, because recently in the Five Continents, there were mysterious experts always causing trouble for the Heaven Palace, Li Changshou, being cautious, had the heaven soldiers and generals under You Qin Xuanya temporarily not go out.

Who was this person who didn’t dare to show their face and only dared to hide and cause trouble for the Heaven Palace?

It was naturally Maitreya.

Maitreya must have been quite wronged these thirty-some years, even frustrated one could say.

After Li Changshou returned from the Holy Mother Palace, he took the memorial drafted by White Marsh and refined by himself several times, went to the Lingxiao Treasure Palace, and in front of the Heaven Palace’s immortals and deities, presented his petition.

At that time, the Jade Emperor’s expression was full of expectation, hoping that with Li Changshou’s memorial, he would find something to do.

But after Li Changshou’s passionate speech, the corners of the Jade Emperor’s mouth twitched several times.

How did it suddenly turn to denouncing the ancient Demon Teacher Kun Peng’s crimes?

However, the Jade Emperor quite agreed with this matter, immediately ordering that Demon Teacher Kun Peng be wanted throughout the Three Realms, posting thirty-six major crimes of Demon Teacher Kun Peng.

By the way, he also approved Li Changshou’s second memorial, directly requisitioning Hearing, having the Golden Winged Great Peng wield the Demon Eliminating Sword, to go to the edge of the Three Thousand Worlds to eliminate Outer Demons.

The Jade Emperor’s gaze at that time was asking “Just this?”

Li Changshou smiled awkwardly and lowered his head, shouting that the Jade Emperor was wise.

The overt arrangements were indeed just these, but the subsequent developments were far from this simple.

Because the Heaven Palace suddenly denounced Kun Peng’s crimes, many of which were secrets known only to ancient powerhouses, it started a great ‘conviction’ of Kun Peng throughout the Three Realms.

Some ancient and primordial unsolved cases began to show traces of Kun Peng.

Old and new pots kept crashing onto Kun Peng’s back.

As long as Kun Peng was mentioned, there was no worry about lacking topics during chatting and boasting…

When this great discussion among immortals and deities reached its peak, someone appropriately raised a doubt:

“Why did the Heaven Palace specifically bring up Kun Peng during the great tribulation and convict Kun Peng who supposedly escaped to the Chaos Sea? Could it be that Kun Peng has returned?”

The Great Wilderness’s wind direction began to change suddenly, immortals of the Three Realms were all speculating whether Kun Peng had secretly lurked back to the Three Thousand Worlds.

For a time, various rumors and hearsay arose.

Before the heat of this matter could subside again, several half-true messages spread throughout heaven and earth.

The true messages, such as:

“Why could the Western Teaching have so many high-level demon race experts join them? That was because in ancient times, before the demon court’s destruction, Demon Teacher Kun Peng abducted the demon soul imprints of many demon court experts and made a deal with the Western Teaching.”

And the false messages, such as:

“That Kun Peng knew he had done too many bad things and would be hunted by the Venerable Sages, what escaped into the Chaos Sea was just a fake body, his divine soul used the Demon Heart Transfer Great Method, moving to another being, and judging from the circumstances at that time, it was likely the Western Teaching’s First Senior Brother Maitreya.”

In just a few months, these messages spread tumultuously throughout the Three Realms.

The Western Teaching explained multiple times, but with poor effect, their voice buried in waves of public opinion.

And the Heaven Palace, at the appropriate time and occasion, sent a proclamation to the Western Teaching.

The content of the proclamation was actually very mild, just saying, please have Maitreya go to the Heaven Palace to ‘cooperate with the Heaven Palace’s investigation of this matter’, and the Heaven Palace would give Maitreya a ‘clean slate’.

How could Maitreya dare to go?

From beginning to end, Maitreya hadn’t even shown his face, only hiding in the dark.

It was precisely this avoidance that gradually confirmed the rumors.

This wasn’t even the end; in various towns of the Central Divine Continent, some operas began to appear, singing about Demon Teacher Kun Peng’s life, and would always mention Maitreya at the end.

In just a few years, the matter of Maitreya being Kun Peng’s second divine soul had become an open secret in the Great Wilderness.

The Western Teaching’s prestige fell again and again, Maitreya’s whereabouts were completely unknown, and the Western Teaching’s two saints had never expressed any stance from beginning to end…

‘Public opinion war is a double-edged sword, this thing can’t be used too much.’

Li Changshou withdrew his wandering thoughts, stretched lazily, and took out a newly improved paper dao person from his sleeve, letting this paper dao person transform into the appearance of the old immortal Venus Star-Lord, riding clouds and floating out of Small Jade Peak.

The main body is hidden in the sleeve, Tower Lord roaming freely.

Out of the Heaven Gate, returning to the East Sea, Li Changshou pretended to visit the East Sea Dragon Palace to discuss the assessment matters of various river gods, lake gods, and well gods, but his main body used teleportation techniques, floating to the Three Immortal Islands.

One couldn’t always let the woman take the initiative in dating.

On the way, he pondered several matters at hand in his mind.

The Central Divine Continent’s chaotic war was about to arise, the Three Thousand Worlds were fighting more and more chaotically, already uncontrollable…

‘Oh right, Yang Jian’s Three-Point Double-Edge Spear, Lord Lao has sent Little Gold and Little Silver to deliver it, should it be arranged now?’