Chapter 1040: Capture Xereth-Qi Lai Qian Chaoying, Ju Tan, and the other spirit races went on alert as soon as Qi Lai appeared before them. All of them swiftly protected Zhe Wuming as soon as the old man touched the void walls. "Interesting! I never expected to find a cultivator with the void element on this weak planet." Qi Lai then looked at Zhe Wuming, who was standing at the very back and protected by the natural races. "How about you join me, kid? Your void element is extremely rare even in the Paradise Realm, and I will help you become truly strong if you are willing to join me." Zhe Wuming had always been considered the strongest cultivator in the Three Mortal Realms because of his void element, but he felt afraid for the first time in the presence of Qi Lai. "I am not interested in joining anyone." "What a shame." Zhe Wuming spurted blood from his mouth as soon as Qi Lai destroyed his void walls. "Your void walls may be strong to protect you from other cultivators in these Three Mortal Realms, but they are useless before me. Since you are unwilling to join me, I will take you with me by force, and these ants will not be able to protect you from me." Qi Lai released his aura to suppress Zhe Wuming and all the members of the natural races, forcing them to lie prone on the ground without being able to move a single finger. Qi Lai gave an evil smirk as he approached them, but his aura suddenly disappeared by itself, allowing Zhe Wuming and the others to breathe normally. Before he could react, Tian Kui had appeared behind him and grabbed his shoulder. "Ha ha ha." Tian Kui laughed at Qi Lai’s fearful expression. "Do you think you are the only cultivator from the Paradise Realm on this planet, brat? They may be ants in your eyes, but you are still an ant in the presence of the mighty me, even though your cultivation has reached the 3-Sun Celestial Emperor." "Who... who are you, Senior?" Qi Lai asked in a trembling and afraid tone. "An ant is not worthy to know the mighty me." In an instant, Tian Kui vanished from their view, transporting Qi Lai to a different realm at the request of Zhang Xiaolong [3]. No one, including Xereth and Cao Ren, was aware of that. Ju Tan and the others hurriedly got up from the ground and wiped their sweat. "A cultivator from the Paradise Realm is indeed terrifying! Luckily, that senior was on my master’s side; otherwise, we would all die today." "Even though we’ve reached the peak of mortals’ cultivation, the gap between us and them is too great." Ren Shuo said this as his body trembled. Qian Chaoying and the others also felt extreme fear because of Qi Lai and Tian Kui’s presence earlier. "The battle has begun! Get ready to kill anyone who tries to invade our forest!" . . . Shangguan Yan, Yuan Hao, and the people from the Shangguan Clan froze as soon as Xereth appeared above their residence. ’Mother, is he the demon that Zhang Fei told us about before?’ Yuan Hao asked as he tightly held his spear. ’His name is Xereth, and he is truly powerful.’ Shangguan Yan nodded at him, but she did not look the least bit anxious because Zhang Xiaolong [3] had prepared everything to protect them. "Ice bone physique." Shangguan Yan stiffened as soon as Xereth mentioned that. "Moreover, you are a domain master, so I will capture you and turn you into a demon like me." Xereth intended to destroy the barrier protecting the Shangguan Clan, but a sword suddenly shot towards him, forcing him to summon his black scythe to deflect it. He immediately recognized the demon extermination sword. "Hahaha! I didn’t expect to find you here, you little bastard! Come out now and face me." "Heh." The demon extermination sword instantly returned to Zhang Xiaolong [3], who had just appeared in front of Xereth. "Honestly, I still want to fight you, but we won’t do it here, and we will do it somewhere else." "Do you think you can escape from me again?" Xereth immediately flew toward him, but Zhang Xiaolong [3] casually opened the gate. The demon immediately gave up his intention to absorb him, but he suddenly lost control of his body. ’What’s going on? Why isn’t my body listening to my commands?’ "Are you surprised?" Xereth looked back at Helian Xun’er and the other three. "A demon from the Paradise Realm like you does not belong on this planet, so we will take you away from here, and you will accept your punishment for all your actions in the Three Mortal Realms." ’Shit!’ Wan Jiang immediately grabbed Xereth’s shoulder and led him into the gate, followed by Helian Xun’er, Sima Yun, and Hua Mei’er. After Zhang Xiaolong [3] closed the gate, Shangguan Yan, Yuan Hao, and their clan members exhaled with relief. "Yuyan, they are enough to protect the eastern forest, so I want you to stay here to help Yan’er and the others." Jia Yuyan suddenly appeared on the scene. "Are you going to catch up with Tian Kui now?" "Yes." Zhang Xiaolong [3] opened another gate and disappeared into it. Jia Yuyan then landed beside Shangguan Yan and teased her. "Are you ready to fight, Yan’er?" "Shut up!" Shangguan Yan glared at Jia Yuyan, particularly because her son and clan members laughed at her for being called that by Zhang Xiaolong [3], despite the fact that she was hundreds of thousands of years older than him. "Those ancestors have made their move, and my ancestor will directly confront Cai Feihong and Sima Huiqing." Jia Yuyan nodded at her. "We don’t need to interfere in their fight, and we will focus on killing the members of their three clans who intend to attack this clan." . . . "Where are they? Why didn’t they join us?" Cao Yunbai asked as Cao Ren flew beside him, prompting him to explain everything, causing him to frown. Cao Yunbai wanted to look for the two, but Ju Xing suddenly appeared in front of them with a large iron mace, forcing them to stop flying and prepare to fight him. "Hahaha." Ju Xing laughed at their reaction and pointed his iron mace at them. "Cao Yunbai! I came here to settle accounts with you! Back then, you managed to defeat me thanks to Gu Changsheng’s help, but no one can help you now!" "Heh!" Cao Ren snorted. "You may be strong, but you underestimate me, foolish giant! Let’s attack him together, ancestor! We must kill today, and no one will protect the natural races after he dies." Cao Yunbai nodded at him, and the two immediately moved to attack Ju Xing. The people who were not far from their location hurriedly fled as far as possible, especially since the strength of the three was too overwhelming for them. . . . Meanwhile, Shangguan Lizhi stood calmly opposite Sima Huiqing and Cao Feihong, despite facing two female cultivators of equal strength. "Long time no see, Feihong and Huiqing." "Heh!" Cao Feihong snorted and wanted to attack Shangguan Lizhi, but Sima Huiqing hurriedly grabbed her hand and stopped her. "What are you doing? She’s alone, so we don’t need to be afraid of her." Sima Huiqing let out a soft sigh. "I told you not to act recklessly against her, but you’re too hot-headed. Look at her! Do you think she’s afraid of us with her expression that calm? "Hmm?" Cao Feihong narrowed her eyes at Shangguan Lizhi. "No matter what! We will attack her together, and she won’t be able to fight both of us at once!" Cai Feihong slapped her hand and attacked Shangguan Lizhi directly, making Sima Huiqing sigh before joining her to fight the female divine beast. "Honestly, I didn’t want to use this, but I will use it today, especially since my opponents are the two of you." Shangguan Lizhi activated her domain, trapping both women within it. In an instant, another her appeared before the two women, making their numbers even. ’Shit!’ Cao Feihong and Sima Huiqing cursed in their hearts. Despite this, the two of them immediately attacked the two Shangguan Lizhi. Within seconds, the four women were already engaged in a fierce fight, but Shangguan Yan and her clone had a slight upper hand over Cao Feihong and Sima Huiqing. . . . Elsewhere, Bao Yundong and Gu Changsheng were already standing in the air, facing Tian Junfeng, Tian Jingxuan, and Leng Hua in front of them. "Hahaha!" Bao Yundong laughed at them. "Do you really think your descendant and Leng Hua can help you against us, Tian Junfeng?" "As always, you are too confident, Bao Yundong." Tian Junfeng turned to the two men beside him. "I will deal with that guy, and you guys can deal with Gu Changsheng. However, you must be careful of his Gu insect, lest you two fall under his control." "Yes, Ancestor." Before he followed Tian Junfeng, who had already moved to attack Bao Yundong, Tian Jingxuan first ordered Tian Jiantang to lead their clan members to kill the people from the Cao and Bao clans who were moving towards their clan. "Let’s go!" Leng Hua also ordered his son and daughter to attack the enemy before following behind Tian Jingxuan, but he did not focus on Gu Changsheng. Instead, he focused more on observing the movements of the patriarch of the Tian Clan. After all, Zhang Xiaolong [3] had already told him that the Gu ancestor was one of his slaves, so they were both on the same side. . . . Meanwhile, Lin Zuxin led a group from the Lin Clan to attack members of the Sima Clan, who were under the leadership of Sima Yunfeng. Chi Yuexin and her Chi Clan have also been busy attacking people from the Sima Clan under the leadership of their clan elders. The Shangguan clan was similarly engaged in battle, but they faced their enemies with relative ease, particularly due to the presence of Shangguan Yan and Jia Yuyan. The situation in the Leng Clan was not much different; Leng Xueyan and her brother led their clan members to kill all the enemies who attacked their clan, making the atmosphere in the main city become noisy because of their fight. Unlike the major clans, the situation in the Yuan, Ren, Nalan, and Beihuang clans was relatively calmer because the leaders of their three enemy clans did not attack them directly, and they only faced their subordinates, led by one or two elders. The situation in the northern, western, eastern, and southern regions was still calm without any fighting at all. After all, the distance between the four regions was quite far from the main city, and their enemies needed some time to arrive at their territories. . . . Bam "Guah!" Xereth groaned in pain after Wan Jiang threw him into a deep, dark hole. "Who the fuck are you? How dare you interfere in my business! My master Taotie will definitely kill you all!" "Hahaha! Why don’t you try summoning that evil mythical beast?" Xereth frowned in response to Wan Jiang’s challenge, and he immediately took out his device, but it couldn’t work. "Have you realized now? This is not an ordinary tower, and powerful cultivators from our realm deliberately created it to lock up criminals like you. Even if you managed to contact Taotie, he would never dare attack this tower, especially since one of the creators of this tower was the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Emperor." "You—" Xereth immediately exploded his aura as Wan Jiang closed the hole from above. He tried to fly upwards to escape, but his expression changed as he couldn’t get close to the exit because the distance between them remained the same, even though he continued flying upwards. "Damn it! What kind of formation is this? Why does the exit keep moving away from me?" Xereth decided to stop flying and land at the bottom of the hole, but he immediately summoned his black scythe and tried to break the walls around him. Clang... Clang... No matter how hard Xereth attacked those walls, all his attacks left no mark on them. "Shit! I should have known that those people had prepared a trap for us from the start! I was too confident because that old man was much stronger than me!" . . . "What exactly does Zhang Fei want to do to Qi Lai, Master? Why did he ask Tian Kui to take that old man away?" Sima Yun asked. "That kid always does unexpected things, so I can’t guess his plan for Qi Lai. Since he said he would hand that old man over to me, we just have to wait for now." Wan Jiang then sat down in his usual place and activated the Qi screen in front of him, but the scene that appeared surprised him and his three disciples. "He taught them to create their own domains." "Zhang Fei is making me more and more curious, Master." Helian Xun’er spoke as she smiled faintly. "Even in our realm, not everyone can create their domains, but he can come up with an easy method to help them create their domains. Hun Di and Lin Jingxia are the foremost among them, and I believe their domains will have extraordinary effects." Wan Jiang nodded in agreement with her. "Perhaps Zhang Fei and his people will become a new force in our realm in the future, and their abilities will open everyone’s eyes that people without talent can become stronger by trying much harder than others." "Yes." Helian Xun’er nodded slightly. "If Zhang Fei’s force joins Sect Master Luo, I believe they will become a terrifying force in the future. Moreover, he still has connections with some other cultivators in our realm, and I believe that he will persuade them to join his group." "Tch! You two always praise Zhang Fei to the skies!" Hua Mei’er spoke with an irritated look. "His talent is indeed extraordinary, but his cultivation is still at the Divine Transcend Realm. Moreover, no one knows the future, and he might die before he can reach our level!" None of them responded to Hua Mei’er, and they were more focused on watching the people on the fourth floor trying to create their domain. . . . Zhang Xiaolong [3] was already standing in front of Qi Lai, who was still under Tian Kui’s pressure. "Who are you two really? Why are you guys meddling in my affairs?" "Didn’t you come to that realm to capture Jia Yuyan?" Qi Lai frowned at Zhang Xiaolong [3], who immediately took out the Yin-Yang Absorber Shackles and chained him. "She is my wife, so I have to act, right?" Qi Lai was stunned by Zhang Xiaolong [3]’s confession, especially since his cultivation was too low compared to him and Jia Yuyan. However, his expression changed as the shackles began to absorb his Qi, and the absorption gradually accelerated. Zhang Xiaolong [3] touched the tub at the end of the shackles, but he couldn’t absorb the Qi inside, especially since Qi Lai’s Qi was the Celestial Qi. Tian Kui directly spoke to him. "You already have the method to absorb the Celestial Qi, right? Before you can absorb his celestial Qi, you have to learn the method first." "All right." Zhang Xiaolong [3] himself had neglected the method ever since Feng Yao gave it to him due to the lack of Celestial Qi in the Three Mortal Realms. He immediately sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and studied the method. Qi Lai looked at Tian Kui. "Who exactly are you, Senior? Why would a powerful cultivator like you be willing to help this weakling?" "Hahaha." Tian Kui laughed at Qi Lai. "You don’t know this kid, so you consider him to be a weakling. He is indeed weak now, but I have full confidence in his abilities, and he will defeat all the cultivators in the Paradise Realm in the future. At that time, he will stand at the top, and people will bow down to him. For now, you just need to wait patiently, and this kid will use you as a guinea pig to absorb the Celestial Qi." "Hmm?" Qi Lai turned his gaze to Zhang Xiaolong [3] again, but he felt irritated by his powerlessness, and the shackles also continued to absorb his Qi. ’Damn it! I was confident I could capture that fairy, but instead I met a monster in that damn realm! Moreover, this monster sides with this weakling!’ - To Be Continued –