Volume 1, Chapter 462 – Taking Action

High overhead, the blazing sun hung in the sky, and a gigantic peak rose straight from the earth, touching the heavens above and looking down over the land below.

The summit of the great peak was covered in gleaming white snow. Amid the layered sheets of ice, a crimson flower bloomed, drawing in vast quantities of the essence of heaven and earth like a leaping divine flame.

“Extreme yin giving birth to yang. What a truly world-shocking immortal herb.”

Tushan Yuqi sounded a little surprised. On her shoulder crouched a strange beast the size of a palm, pale gold all over and shaped like a snow leopard.

This strange beast had an extremely keen sense for heavenly treasures and earthly wonders. Relying on it, Tushan Yuqi had already harvested six immortal herbs in just a few short days.

Not far away, Qinglan stood with her arms folded, her expression indifferent. Beside her stood only a single demon grandmaster.

Tushan Yuqi’s harvest left even the demon grandmaster at Qinglan’s side feeling tempted.

He was already nearing a breakthrough bottleneck and was at the very stage of accumulating foundations in preparation for crossing tribulation. These immortal herbs would be of tremendous help to him.

But because of Qinglan’s presence, it was simply inconvenient for him to act alone.

After uprooting the immortal herb before her together with the entire sheet of ice around its roots, Tushan Yuqi walked over to Qinglan and looked toward the demon grandmaster beside her.

“Now that the human race has begun interfering, if anything goes wrong, Emperor Lord Huang Ze’s mausoleum may suffer damage. Senior, why not first go search for the location of the mausoleum, lest something unexpected happen?”

The grandmaster hesitated. He looked at the two Heaven Demons beside Tushan Yuqi, then unconsciously glanced at Qinglan, already tempted.

“If Lord Lan stays with me, and we proceed carefully, we should not encounter any danger regardless.”

Hearing this, the grandmaster came to a decision and immediately asked Qinglan what she thought.

Qinglan had no objections.

As the grandmaster’s aura gradually receded into the distance, the smile on Tushan Yuqi’s face slowly faded as she looked at Qinglan.

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“The Demon Emperor’s true form has nothing whatsoever to do with the green lotus.”

Tushan Yuqi lowered her eyes. A natural, rippling charm spilled from the upward tilt of her eyes, stirring the soul.

“I only want to know your true identity. The Feather Emperor has stayed aloof from worldly affairs for countless years. Why did he suddenly make an exception for you?”

“A few years ago, a human Emperor Weapon appeared in our demon domain. A single strand of sword qi slew countless great demons. My aunt, my mother, and my younger sister were all among them. After that, a Lan Clan appeared in that region.”

“At the time, I was in seclusion and knew nothing about it. After coming out, I asked a Demon Emperor of my clan to investigate the whole matter, but every time the trail led to the Lan Clan, the Feather Emperor stepped in to obstruct it.”

Tushan Yuqi spoke faster and faster, her eyes fixed firmly on Qinglan, trying to find some trace of a clue in her expression.

The ancestral land of the Lan Clan was located exactly where the human Emperor Weapon had appeared. To say there was no connection at all was truly difficult to believe.

To her disappointment, Qinglan’s face remained as still as an ancient well, like a piece of cold iron, utterly without joy, anger, sorrow, or desire.

“Oh.”

That single bland word came from Qinglan’s lips, cutting off Tushan Yuqi’s thoughts and almost making her lose the ability to speak.

“Does Lord Lan truly have nothing to tell me?”

Tushan Yuqi’s tone had grown somewhat unsteady. The two Heaven Demons at her side slowly moved closer to Qinglan.

“No.”

Tushan Yuqi’s words stirred not the slightest ripple in Qinglan’s heart. Emotions had never been something that could truly be shared. It was Wuxu who had struck down those demons. What did that have to do with her?

Bzzz—

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Tushan Yuqi was just about to speak again when a piercing blast that seemed able to split metal and crack stone suddenly exploded through the air, and a blinding blood-red light filled her vision.

Boom!

The entire mountaintop suddenly exploded apart. A black war halberd pierced through the void and cleaved the whole giant peak in two.

The two Heaven Demons beside Tushan Yuqi tried to defend themselves in their haste, but they could not withstand even the vast divine power spilling from the blade of the halberd. In an instant, they were sent flying, shooting thousands of miles across the void, their lives or deaths unknown.

Tushan Yuqi was flung into the air. Before she could react, a terrifying force beyond anything she could bear came crashing down onto her chest.

Boom!

Like a falling meteor, she streaked across the sky and slammed into the ground. The earth split apart, black fissures spreading for hundreds of miles.

“Hand over the immortal herbs.”

The icy blade of the halberd pressed against her neck, clearing her muddled thoughts slightly.

“I…”

Crack—

The foot planted on her chest suddenly pressed down harder. The crisp sound of breaking bones cut off her words.

In her blurred vision, Tushan Yuqi could only barely make out the figure of a person with blood-colored wings on their back, along with an intensely blazing Divine Phoenix aura.

“Hand over the immortal herbs.”

The exact same words sounded again. Not daring to think, Tushan Yuqi immediately took out three immortal herbs.

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“There are more.”

The force on her chest increased once more. Her shattered bones were nearly piercing into her heart, and the blade at her neck had already sunk into her flesh.

Only after taking out more than ten immortal herbs in succession, nearly emptying all her reserves, did the coldness at her neck suddenly vanish.

With difficulty, Tushan Yuqi struggled into a sitting position. Looking at the devastation all around her, she said nothing.

The little beast that resembled a snow leopard appeared on her shoulder, licking the wound at the side of her neck.

The hem of a skirt slowly came to a stop before her. Qinglan stood there with her hands behind her back, not a speck of dust on her.

“Wuu…”

Tears rolled uncontrollably from Tushan Yuqi’s eyes. Her delicate face was smeared into a mess as she broke down sobbing, tears sliding past her lips with nothing but bitterness in them.

This was the first time she had come so close to death. That overwhelming, suffocating pressure had almost instantly shattered her defenses, causing her already unstable emotions to collapse at once.

Qinglan lowered her head and quietly looked at her. In the next instant, the figures of several demon grandmasters appeared at her side.

“I am only the lord of the Lan Clan. Nothing more.”

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The one who had struck from atop the giant peak was naturally Shi Lan.

If Tushan Yuqi had not sent that demon grandmaster away, then with the golden body of Shi Lan’s spirit soul unable to move freely, it would not have been so easy for her to succeed.

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From the moment Qinglan and Tushan Yuqi met, Shi Lan had been steadily drawing closer to them.

Although she had the Qiongluo Realm at her back, no one would ever mind having too many immortal herbs.

Without long stretches of time to nurture them, even with an entire great world behind her, immortal herbs were still an extremely precious consumable to her, something that simply could not be replenished in the short term.

In truth, compared to the immortal herbs, what interested Shi Lan more was the treasure-seeking strange beast on Tushan Yuqi’s shoulder, but everything had happened too hurriedly, and she had not been left enough time to search for it.

As for what Tushan Yuqi had said, Shi Lan was not particularly moved.

The conflict between the two races had built up over a long time. With Wuxu, the Sword Emperor’s Emperor Weapon, returning to the mortal world, it was only natural for it to be unsealed and drink demon blood.

If the positions were reversed, and a demon Emperor Weapon appeared in the Vast Land of Shenzhou, it would likewise bring about a bloody calamity.

In the midst of such strife, Tushan Yuqi was hardly the only one to have lost friends and family.

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The conflict between the human race and the demon race was becoming more and more intense. Experts of the Heaven-Man Realm and Heaven Demons had already begun to fall.

A clash on this scale inevitably drew in the native creatures of this world.

This great world was Huang Ze’s mausoleum, and these creatures could also be said to be Huang Ze’s tomb guardians.

Toward outsiders, whether human or demon, their attitude remained the same.

Exterminate them all.