Heavenly Being (Bonus Chapter for Alliance Leader 5hH)

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This Vermilion Bird Secret Realm is located far to the east of the Rift Valley. Cheng Cheng led her team through many detours before finally finding it. When the Vermilion Bird's soul was freed from its seal, this Vermilion Bird Secret Realm also formed the Unseen connection with the Kun Peng Demon City, as if a red line of fire was faintly connecting them.

This is the soul of Ancestor Saint, who was at the peak of the Formless Realm in life. Relying on its remains, it retains the Demon Power of the Qian Yuan Level, but it cannot be used in prolonged battles, otherwise it will easily weaken.

That's enough.

When faced with such a life-or-death situation, the Demon Race can be considered a race again. Ensuring the reproduction of the race is the top priority. In the past, they fought each other so fiercely that they were practically brain-dead. Does that matter?

Unfortunately, remnant souls are still remnant souls; they cannot leave the location of the remains and can only remain there, relying on the remains to form a unique secret realm. Moving the entire Vermilion Bird's remains back to the Demon City would be possible, but moving it back would be called contraction, while leaving it outside would be expansion.

Cheng Cheng chose to expand, not only preserving the Vermilion Bird Secret Realm, but also opening up all the other secret realms, large and small, strong and weak, throughout the entire Rift Valley.

As Cheng Cheng had predicted, once the other parts were unlocked, the entire rift valley could be interconnected, with power available for them to contact and use at any time, making it impossible for outsiders to invade.

This has always been their home, the place where they have lived for generations.

Even Heavenly Being won't do.

They weren't as strong as people thought, otherwise they wouldn't need to be so secretive.

Such a harvesting event is certainly not something that a super big shot would personally handle; otherwise, just breaking the restriction would have been noticed by the big shot, and they would have attacked immediately.

This shows that those in charge of this matter were only the disciples and followers of those people.

Qin Yi could also imagine that a truly powerful person wouldn't personally focus on harvesting resources; that's too low-level. Even if the resources here were incredibly valuable, at most they would subdue those remnant souls and then hand them over to someone else, saying, "You're in charge."

This person in charge is unlikely to surpass Qian Yuan. If he truly possesses the abilities of various regions within the Rift Valley, then there is indeed nothing to fear from him.

The downside is that this will attract the attention of the real bosses behind this person in charge, and it's anyone's guess what will happen. Hopefully, the bosses are still recovering from their injuries; perhaps a thousand-year seclusion would be normal for them... or maybe they're distracted by something more important.

If one or two powerful beings of the Formless Realm come, they can rely on the unique characteristics of the Rift Valley to repel them and secure a safe haven. But if Taiqing were to personally deal with the Rift Valley, forget about it.

Although Cheng Cheng appeared passionate and eloquent in front of her subordinates, she was actually worried about the worst-case scenario. She knew full well that there was a chance they would face the end of the world.

But she couldn't show this worry to anyone, and she couldn't rush it.

Because Qin Yi was starting to feel the strain, breaking one restriction would injure him, and if he were forced to break restrictions continuously, it would damage his very foundation... Perhaps Qin Yi was willing to do that, but Cheng Cheng couldn't bear to treat Qin Yi like a laborer; he was her husband!

"Let's call it a day for now. Go back and recover from your injuries. We still have a few months." Cheng Cheng helped Qin Yi up with some heartache, then turned to Ying Li and said, "This Little Vermilion Bird will be raised by Hawk Commander for now. This King will personally teach it after it transforms into human form."

Ying Li immediately bowed. "Yes."

Cheng Cheng hugged Qin Yi and was about to fly away.

Qin Yi suddenly said, "Wait."

Cheng Cheng paused for a moment. "What's wrong?"

Qin Yi turned to the remnant soul of the Vermilion Bird, which was preparing to retreat back into its skeletal form to rest, and asked, "Senior, what level were the Heavenly Being who came here in previous years?"

Zhuque said, "According to your human terminology, it is Qian Yuan."

It really is Qian Yuan.

"On the way back with Cheng Cheng, could you secretly protect us the whole way?"

Zhuque paused for a moment, Cheng Cheng also narrowed her eyes.

She knew what Qin Yi was thinking.

There haven't been a few months at all...

If the other party is truly Qian Yuan, then it's impossible that he wouldn't sense that his restriction has been broken; he would come now!

When the seal was broken, no one interfered because the other party was too far away in the sky to act in time. When speaking with Suzaku, no one interfered because the other party was not confident in making a move in front of Suzaku after the seal was broken.

On the way back, if a Qian Yuan were to launch a sneak attack, and if no precautions were taken, they would be killed without a burial place.

The Vermilion Bird slowly said, "Human, you are very clever. But the power I retain is only at the Qian Yuan level, which is about the same as the newcomer's. I may not be able to protect you. You should know that the other party will definitely realize that you broke the restriction and will kill you immediately. You are just a mere Teng Yun; you will be dead if you are grazed."

Qin Yi said decisively, "You don't need to protect me, just beat him up."

The demons stared blankly at Qin Yi, truly unsure of their own feelings.

Cheng Cheng's words echoed in everyone's minds, "Qin Yi is not someone you know."

There's no other choice; you can't just not go back.

Cheng Cheng is not in the Demon City and cannot communicate with the power of Kunpeng. So what other way is there besides relying on the protection of the Vermilion Bird and taking a risk?

Cheng Cheng go back first? What if the other side kills Cheng Cheng?

They're still the same.

Cheng Cheng wasn't the kind of woman who would cry and say, "I won't let you take any risks." She knew this was the only solution, so she said nothing and silently carried Qin Yi away.

If she could react in time, Qin Yi might not necessarily have to take the hit. She was already prepared.

Ye Ling watched helplessly as her master and brother flew away. She longed to go with them, but lacked the courage. She stood there trembling, wanting to follow, yet too afraid to do so.

All her courage came from her master and brother, but when they were both in dire straits, she lost all her own courage.

The Vermilion Bird's soul looked at the trembling Ye Ling with a strange expression, and suddenly said, "No wonder he is that Chenghuang's husband, not yours."

"?" Ye Ling jumped up without even replying, and chased after Cheng Cheng like a bolt of lightning.

In the void, it seemed as if a pair of eyes were indifferently watching Cheng Cheng, who was carrying Qin Yi as they flew.

Unexpectedly, Chenghuang, which was originally just kept to grow and be used to extract its heart for alchemy, has developed so rapidly.

Unifying the Demon City and transcending all phenomena. This was accomplished in a mere two years, catching them off guard. They had originally planned to maintain the division of the Demon City, but they couldn't even get a chance to intervene.

After all, they weren't watching this place all the time; they had plenty of other things to do. They didn't know how long Chengcheng had been in seclusion, and her actions Cheng Cheng that they hadn't had time to react.

That's fine, it's not without its benefits that this Chenghuang has risen to prominence. If it can grow to the Demon Emperor Realm, it will indeed be a very good mount... We can talk about that later.

Unexpectedly, she was able to unravel the secret of the Rift Valley so quickly.

This is a major event; their covert control over the Rift Valley has been nullified.

It's not just a problem of one difficult-to-control Chenghuang, it's that all the pigs in the sty are about to run away!

Conventional reasoning suggests that the Demon City, lacking a significant amount of inherited knowledge, might not even be able to crack the nearby Soaring Serpent Secret Realm. If they were blocked there, they would be even less likely to detour to more powerful regions—where would they get the courage?

This will take a long time, allowing the demons to explore and decipher it step by step. By then, Chenghuang should have already been refined into a pill, just like her dead father. The demons, still oblivious, will have to start all over again from the bottom up...

This is how it should be; it's been going on for many years. Even if this Chenghuang grows unexpectedly, it's not impossible to resolve it immediately and return things to their original state.

Unexpectedly, a human arrived... and a learned one at that, who helped the demons solve many mysteries and brought forward the Demon City's development process, which should have taken a long time, to this point.

This is going to be a real problem. If the higher-ups find out that the Rift Valley under their jurisdiction is out of control, they'll be in serious trouble...

However, it's not unsolvable...

Once this human is eliminated, the expansion of the Demon City will come to an end. That Chenghuang can probably still be raised... maybe it can even be used as a mount...

In the void, an invisible Soul Arrow shot towards Qin Yi's Sea of Souls.