Jiang Shu didn’t fully trust his own words, choosing to directly enter the core of consciousness to view the most authentic memories! Hadn’t we agreed...
Xuan Chi’s consciousness was already frozen; even resentment couldn’t be stirred.
He was like a spectator, watching helplessly as those secrets deep in his Sea of Consciousness were reviewed and confirmed.
The terrain and topography of Starfall Abyss, the characteristic auras of a few of the strongest Demon Race geniuses, the weak points in the protection of the Array Hub, and even the characteristics of the fluctuation of the Ten Thousand Spirits Casting Venerable Array drawing demonic power...
These deeply hidden fragments of consciousness were exposed under the scrutiny of that Soul Power.
The verification speed was extremely fast, and moments later, that cold power ebbed away like a receding tide.
Xuan Chi was terrified to find that the areas of his Sea of Consciousness that the power had "flowed" through left invisible scars.
Those places, though memories were intact, had lost their sharpness and liveliness utilized for channeling Spirit and comprehending Heaven and Earth Laws.
It was as if a once galloping river had been suddenly dammed by boulders, silt accumulating, becoming sluggish and turbid.
His Dao Foundation, the root supporting his Cultivation Path, was completely destroyed.
From now on, although it appeared he was still in the Demon Monarch Realm, the damage had already ruined his foundation, and he would have no hope of reaching higher realms in this life!
Any mysterious insights would become exceedingly difficult to grasp, and the road to cultivation could be said to be completely severed!
"You... you lied to me!"
Xuan Chi finally regained partial control over his body, crying out hoarsely with incredulous anger and bottomless despair in his voice.
"You promised to spare me a path to life, yet you destroyed my Sea of Consciousness. My path is over!"
Jiang Shu withdrew his probing finger, as if merely brushing away a speck of dust.
He looked at Xuan Chi, collapsed to the ground, whose eyes were so venomous they seemed about to ignite, but his expression was utterly calm.
"I said I’d spare you a path to life."
Jiang Shu’s voice remained calm, as if stating an obvious fact.
"To let you crawl out from here, alive, and leave Panhai City."
"I kept my word; you’re not dead, are you?"
He bent over slightly, his cold gaze piercing into the depths of Xuan Chi’s venomous eyes.
"As for your Sea of Consciousness, that’s the price of your life."
"The Demon Race must pay interest for what they’ve done."
Despair completely engulfed Xuan Chi.
That pitiful fantasy was crushed to dust by cruel reality.
Jiang Shu no longer looked at him, turned around, and disappeared in a step through the dark entrance to the core region of the Teleportation Tower.
"Go back... even if to crawl back, just return; there’s still hope!"
Xuan Chi dared not raise his head, fearing to gamble whether Jiang Shu had truly left.
At this moment, he might not even be comparable to a Nirvana Realm cultivator.
Yet as long as he returned, the foundational losses suffered today might be restored in the future.
One of his Daos had already shattered.
All his Essence Blood was drained.
Xuan Chi took a deep breath, preparing to think of some way to slip away.
A beam of light suddenly cut in from outside.
Waves from three Daos erupted from this light.
In merely an instant, every pore of his body was pierced through, and his demonic power was forcibly locked.
Subsequently, a few cultivators whom he could easily slaughter in the past came briskly forward, grabbing Xuan Chi like a dead dog and hanging him above the gate of East City.
The thick demon power coagulated in the space, and a giant Water Mirror reflected Panhai City.
Xuan Ming stood silently, his silvery-white pupils coldly gazing at Xuan Chi hanging in the Water Mirror.
The massive phantom of the Kunpeng Demon Venerable gradually rotated in the indigo whirlpool, with a deep and distant voice echoing like the abyss.
"Didn’t expect that Supreme Mysterious Daoist Venerable left Xuan Chi with a life."
"Left him a life?"
Xuan Ming’s voice was like two blocks of ice grinding against each other.
"The path is ended; this hanging one is no different from a corpse now!"
"Jiang Taixuan is using Xuan Chi’s crippled body to strike violently at our Kunpeng Clan’s face!"
"As long as the setup succeeds."
The Kunpeng Demon Venerable’s voice wasn’t fazed in the slightest by the death of a Demon Monarch.
The Demon Monarch may be a mainstay, but before the true grand picture of the Demon Race, it meant nothing.
Even Demon Venerable could be sacrificed.
Only those at the top could truly benefit from it!
"Hmm..."
Xuan Ming raised his head, silvery-white eyes burning with ice flames.
"Because of the setup, I naturally left no imprint in Xuan Chi’s mind. But according to the intelligence of the Demon Race on Jiang Shu, he is resolute and thorough in action. He must have interrogated and conducted a Soul Search first."
"If this is the case, then our setup must have succeeded."
"Starfall Abyss as an Array Hub node and training place was deliberately leaked to those seeds of Demon Dawn."
"What Xuan Chi knows is only this much."
"If Jiang Shu is greedy, he will certainly fall into the trap."
Xuan Ming’s voice was low, looking again at Xuan Chi in the void.
Xuan Chi was of the same lineage as him, blood relations closer than several Demon Monarchs in the clan.
Unfortunately, for the greater good.
"His mission in Panhai City has completely failed, his value exhausted, Jiang Shu is unlikely to spare his life."
"His appearance is just Jiang Shu’s bait for us, and now Xuan Chi should already be dead."
He closed his eyes, sensing Xuan Chi’s life force within the Water Mirror, like a candle flickering in the wind, hanging over the city gate, merely waiting to see if any Demon Race would come to rescue Xuan Chi.
If not, what’s waiting for Xuan Chi is just a dead end.
As for going?
Even for him, in front of Jiang Shu, he had suffered a loss once before.
More importantly, Jiang Shu could openly and publicly display himself in Panhai City.
Behind him, perhaps the Supreme Sect Leader of the True Martial Sect was sitting.
With the strength of the Taiwu Daoist Venerable...
Even if the Kunpeng Ancestor went... fear, Jiang Shu could not be killed.
The image in the Water Mirror shifted, the hefty main gate of Panhai City thunderously opened, lifting a lockdown that had lasted several days, and the oppressive atmosphere within the city seemed to ease slightly.
The Kunpeng Demon Venerable paused for several breaths, a deep laughter of indiscernible meaning emanated from the vortex, lacking any warmth, instead rendering the hall’s thick, bloody smell more stagnant.
"Very well, he has learned about Starfall Abyss, then let him wait for him there."
"He has slain many of our Kunpeng Lineage’s talents, and this time, his blood shall compensate."
"Awaken the ’Abyss Master’ ahead of time, and draw the required nourishment from the sacrifices besieging him."
"Hmm."
Xuan Ming nodded but soon continued:
"Ancestor, do not forget Jiang Shu’s comprehension of the Space Dao, especially mysterious and eerie."
After all, he had crossed paths with Jiang Shu, aware of the terrifying extent of his understanding of the Space Dao.
Note that even at the Early Stage of Demon Venerable, in controlling the Space Dao, he couldn’t compare to Jiang Shu.
The Kunpeng, after all, are the favored of the Space Dao.
"The comprehension of the Space Dao?"
The Kunpeng Demon Venerable’s voice carried absolute control.
"Starfall Abyss is a place where chaotic stars fall, inherently a chaotic space quagmire, coupled with the personally inscribed Thousand Flow Locking Array; he, a mere human, could not escape."
"Release the information to Demon Dawn, tell them Jiang Shu might enter Starfall Abyss. The opportunity to entrap Jiang Shu is right before them, and Jiang Shu’s head is enough to immortalize them in the palace history."
"In the future, surely a being above Demon Venerable."
"Remember, find an excuse to bring out the Kunpeng Clan’s talents in advance."
"As you command."
...
Chaotic Demon Sea.
Human Clan front line, True Martial Sect command center.
A series of large islands, connected together.
The Great Array interlinked, purifying the demon energy here bit by bit into Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi.
The central large island, shrouded in cloud qi.
Rays of light flew out from within.
In the ancient and heavily solemn hall, the Purple Extreme Daoist Venerable’s fingers unconsciously tapped on the jade table covered with maps.
Jiang Shu stood before the table, calmly reporting the aftermath of Panhai City and the intelligence obtained from Xuan Chi.
Chapter 1251: 666: Secrets of the Great Array! The Demon Race’s Plot!
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