Chapter 243: The Existence Of Immortal Crossing Is Truly A Bug
“Wait!”
A surge of demonic power flew towards Feng Budu’s sword edge, deflecting it for a moment.
Spiritual power surged around Feng Budu’s fingertips, completely ensnaring Xuan Gui’s divine soul. Only then did she look up at the newcomer.
Four at the Tribulation Crossing stage, two in the late-stage Tribulation Crossing, and two in the early-stage Tribulation Crossing.
Six at the Mahayana stage, two in the late Mahayana stage, and four in the mid-stage Mahayana.
Feng Budu looked at one of them and said, “You’ve decided to show yourself?”
She had sensed these people’s auras long ago and had been waiting for them to make a move, wanting to see what these ungrateful wretches intended to do.
Feng He had once raided the Dragon Domain, bullied the Underworld, and insulted the Devil Realm, but she had never failed the Human Race or the Demon Race.
In fact, compared to the Human Race, Feng He had made a greater and more evident contribution to the Demon Race—she had quelled rebellions, reformed their system, and advanced their era, yet the Demon Race was bent on destroying her.
Especially the Imperial Family of the Demon Race, the Xuan Niao clan; without Feng He, they likely wouldn’t have been able to maintain their position.
Some in the Demon Race were even openly saying that whoever Feng He chose would be the next Demon Emperor, and that Xuan Tai Zu had just been lucky enough to be favored by Feng He.
Feng Budu sometimes truly couldn’t understand what the point was of this world that Feng He had gone to such lengths to protect.
The person was handsome and fair-featured, with a red mark at the corner of their eye, giving them a rather striking appearance.
This person was a demonic beast from the same era as Xuan Tai Zu and Maomao, named Rongrong. She was a nine-tailed fox, and like Maomao, a contracted spirit beast of Feng He, currently at the late-stage Tribulation Crossing cultivation.
At this moment, she said with a charming laugh, “Jiaojiao, calm down first. Don’t be so impulsive.”
Feng Budu’s expression was one of cold mockery, “You intend to protect him?”
Upon hearing Feng Budu misunderstand her intentions, Rongrong immediately raised her eyebrows and said indignantly, “This unfilial descendant dares to kill his own grandmother? Do you think I would protect him? He’s not worthy!”
Seeing this, Xuan Gui immediately opened his mouth to argue, “Ancestor Rongrong, I never intended to kill Feng He Du Xian! It was just… when I made my move, she kept calling herself my grandmother. I couldn’t stand to hear such things, and in my anger, I acted.”
This was precisely why he had always been reluctant to involve these old timers.
Because those old folks either had personally followed Feng He or had grown up listening to their elders praise her. Knowing he had acted against Feng He, they wouldn’t tolerate him.
Rongrong frowned and was about to stab Xuan Gui with her sword, but she managed to restrain herself upon touching the soul body beneath his eyes. She could only angrily plunge her sword into Xuan Gui’s corpse.
“Is my Master wrong? Let alone you calling her grandmother, you could call her your ancestor and it wouldn’t be an exaggeration. You’re clueless about the situation! You truly deserve to be ground to dust!”
Xuan Gui: No! I’m still alive, why are you desecrating my corpse?
Another ancient ancestor of the Demon Race standing beside Rongrong also said, “Do you really think we don’t know what your father has been doing all these years? Falsifying facts, slandering elders, lacking ambition, only knowing how to fight for power and profit. Do you believe this is what a World Lord should do?”
His name was Huihui, and he was also a contracted demonic beast of Feng He.
Therefore, on the matter of Xuan Gui, he held the same stance as Rongrong.
Huihui said to Feng Budu, “Jiaojiao, your Martial Uncle is not protecting this brat’s life, but the stability between the Demon Realm and the Devil Realm. If he dies by your hand, how will we account for ourselves to the entire Thirty-Six Heavens? You, the Demon Lord, came to the Demon Realm and killed our Demon Emperor. A war between the Demon Realm and the Devil Realm is inevitable. Do you truly wish to see all living beings suffer?”
Huihui knew that Feng Budu had previously cultivated the Path of All Living Beings.
Although she had not attained enlightenment and instead walked the Path of Slaughter, she had always been dedicated to her citizens in the Devil Realm over the years, which was why he was trying to persuade her from this angle.
Rongrong said, “I can guarantee that even if he lives, he won’t hold the position of Demon Emperor for more than three years.”
Huihui continued, “As for your presence in the Demon Realm, we can pretend not to have seen it. We can even say that Xie Yanning of the Sword Sect was the one who killed our Fifth Prince first. The reason we’ve escalated things to this extent today, and the Demon Emperor is so severely injured, is because of the combined efforts of Chunxi Immortal Maiden and Xie Yanning.”
His words implied he was choosing to oppose the Human Race and contend with the Devil Race.
Huihui was in a high position and not someone lacking discernment. Currently, among the five races, the Dragon Domain Dragon Clan aside for now, no one would dare to provoke him. The Devil Race and the Ghost Race had a formidable power in the form of a Tribulation Crossing Immortal. The Demon Race had been growing weaker in recent years, so they could only challenge the Human Race, whose strength was uneven.
Most importantly, they had always been on good terms with the Human Race. Given the Human Race’s timid nature, they likely wouldn’t break ties with them over this matter and would probably just accept their misfortune and offer some compensation.
After saying this, they waited for Feng Budu’s decision.
After all, Feng Budu was a Tribulation Crossing Immortal, and they had never clashed with one before. They did not know the true extent of a Tribulation Crossing Immortal’s strength.
However, Rongrong and Huihui had fought against Feng Budu when she was at the Tribulation Crossing stage and knew that the two of them alone were no match for her. Therefore, at this moment, despite the humiliation the Demon Race had suffered, they could only endure.
The existence of Tribulation Crossing Immortals was truly a bug.
For some unknown reason, the Heavenly Dao insisted that one must gain its approval to achieve complete Ascension. This resulted in Tribulation Crossing Immortals, who had endured one hundred and eight heavenly thunders or even more, not Ascending but remaining in the world, thus creating a new level after Tribulation Crossing.
They had the power to Ascend but did not, so they came to trouble the mortals.
The one from the Underworld was fine; she slept all day. But the one from the Devil Realm was always fighting and killing. In the past ten thousand years, countless people had died by her hand. God knows how much she loved to kill.
Frankly, Feng Budu did not want to fight them.
After all, when Ming Zhaoshuang summoned her, she was still busy fighting and killing in the Dragon Domain. Those nuisances in the Dragon Domain were far more troublesome than these dogs in the Demon Realm. She felt that dealing with these dogs in the Demon Realm was a pure waste of demonic power.
However, she also did not want to let Xuan Gui off. In her eyes, Xuan Gui was already a dead man beyond any doubt.
So, she looked at Ming Zhaoshuang and asked, “What do you think?”
Feng Budu was waiting for Ming Zhaoshuang’s choice.
Because Feng Budu knew that even if she personally killed Xuan Gui, the old demons of the Demon Race would not place the blame on her. Instead, as they had stated, they would attribute the matter to the Human Race.
The Nether Demons rose to prominence, the Human Race declined, and the Demon Race was the weakest of the five races. Therefore, the Demon Race dared not confront the Devil Race.
But Feng Budu knew that Xie Yanning was Ming Zhaoshuang’s friend, a close companion willing to draw his sword against his own Master for her. Therefore, she wanted to see Ming Zhaoshuang’s intentions.
If Ming Zhaoshuang was unwilling, then it wouldn’t be impossible for her to draw her sword against these wastes.
Ming Zhaoshuang spoke, “Why must everything be blamed on A Ning killing the Fifth Prince of the Demon Realm? He was the one who killed Si Fang first, and then Jiu Zhou. A Ning was merely avenging them both. When you speak like this, you make no mention of what the Fifth Prince did previously, as if A Ning attacked the Fifth Prince out of nowhere.”
“Now this incident has become your excuse, bullying the weak and fearing the strong, filled with greed. It’s sickening.”
