Chaos Spiritual Root, Ink Lotus Offshoot

"True Lord."

Inside a temporary cave dwelling, Azure Serpent, Yellow Squirrel, White Wolf, and Black Bear Spirit, four great Void Refinement demons, stood together in dread.

The four great demons stood in order of height, fear written across every face. Their bodies trembled, without a trace of a great Void Refinement demon's dignity.

Across from them, Jiang Sheng knelt before a low table, bent over as he inscribed something.

Several days had passed since Jiang Sheng had let them out.

Yellow Squirrel, Azure Serpent, and the others had waited here all that time, not daring to make a move. Jiang Sheng had never looked up at them, as though he trusted them completely.

The temporary cave dwelling was neither tall nor spacious. Jiang Sheng had carved it out to suit himself, without considering the four great demons at all. They had spent the past few days hunched over, afraid one careless movement would destroy the place.

His brush traced hooked strokes, inscribing threads of mysterious Spiritual Resonance onto the talisman paper. It coated the paper with the true intent of destruction through the Three Calamities and imprinted a wisp of the Bixi Wind's true form.

Jiang Sheng set down his brush and examined the Three-Tribulation Mighty Wind Talisman. Satisfied, he nodded, tucked the finished talisman into his sleeve, and finally looked at the four great demons before him.

"Azure Serpent has told me everything you did."

"Given how you plundered the sacred lands' estates across the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds, being caught should mean a trip to the Demon-Slaying Platform. At the very least, you would be confined somewhere for five thousand years of honest labor."

"You have two choices. First, I send you back to the Three Realms Great Thousand World to serve your sentence. Second, you do