Rift Demon City.
Both of Cheng Cheng's bodies were in seclusion.
Ever since Qin Yi had conquered the rift years ago, Cheng Cheng had spent most of her time in closed-door cultivation. With her dual bodies, her human form handled much of Demon City's administration, including the later ties with the Land of Chaos.
Her demon form could cultivate without pause.
Her battle with the Old Daoist Nun last time, along with the period when Qin Yi had set up the Veil of Time Illusion Space and lingered in Demon City, counted as rare moments of relaxation for Cheng Cheng.
Beyond Qin Yi's sight, Cheng Cheng cultivated more diligently than anyone. When there was nothing else to do, even her human form would be cultivating bitterly. Thus, Qin Yi had passed through Demon City several times without seeing Cheng Cheng.
Because the sense of urgency in her heart surpassed everyone else's.
Rift Demon City was bound to become the front line against the Heavenly Beings.
The Heavenly Beings might try to divide the human cultivators and win most of them over, but they would certainly understand that Rift Demon City could not be subdued through things like "the Dao" or "resource inducements."
Between them lay blood debts carved to the bone. Even Cheng Cheng's father, the former Demon King, had been captured by them, skinned, and refined into pills. Countless others had suffered the same fate.
Could such hatred be negotiated away?
As for the souls of the ancient Ancestor Saints, some had died by Liusu's hand, while others had died by Yao Guang's. The Immortal-God Calamity had originally been a struggle for supremacy—or rather, a battle to seize the gate—so there had been little personal hatred involved. Any resentment afterward had naturally been directed at the final victor. Liusu