They might actually have some way to survive without breathing, but they couldn't possibly guard this place around the clock. Perhaps they had drifted far away, or perhaps they had found some way to return to the Ancient God Realm. In any case, the horde of demon gods and strange immortals coming down to run wild and cause trouble, as Qingcheng Ruoxue had said, never appeared.
"I never violated the blood contract. You saw it yourself—I tried very hard to intercept them earlier, but unfortunately, the other side had prepared in advance, and the passage was already open. The mission failed, so how could the contract continue to exist? The contract only required me to do my utmost to intercept them; it never said I would be punished if I failed to stop them, did it?" I frowned as I spoke to Qingcheng Ruoxue.
"You!" Qingcheng Ruoxue knitted her brows, thoroughly vexed that I was playing these little tricks. Yet the blood contract could no longer restrain me, which meant I hadn't violated it. Even so, she still said, "If you hadn't hesitated and had broken the formation earlier, how could things have turned out this way?"
"Even if I had broken the formation then, do you think the passage's switch wouldn't have been activated? During the Battle of the Six Divine Heavens, you possessed the Sacred Hall, yet you still opened the passage. This thing is the activation switch itself—it can open, and it can also close itself. What I'm saying isn't wrong, is it? Since no evil immortals have come down, that's already because I've increased your Dao fortune. If you feel wronged, at most, I'll help you stop them from going up now. Of course, I can't guarantee who will get up and who won't." I frowned