The guard hesitated for a moment. "In reply to the Immortal, this lowly one is of humble rank. I must report to the Domain Lord and await his decision."
"Go. You have the time it takes an incense stick to burn."
Qin He nodded and waved him off. After speaking, he added, "Once that incense stick burns out, either your Domain Lord invites me in, or I fight my way in."
Hearing the first half, the guard immediately heaved a huge sigh of relief.
Within Domain Gate Palace, the name Great Immortal Green Ox had long become something everyone feared to speak of. He had already been classified among the "Demonic Beings."
Even gods sent down from the upper realm had died by his hand.
Most crucially, no definite news had come from the Divine Realm since then. More likely than not, they had tacitly permitted the existence of this "Demonic Being."
Such a terrifying Demonic Being had come knocking while he was on duty. The fright alone was enough to scare him to death.
Fortunately, he had not made things difficult for him.
But that was only the first half. The moment he heard the second half, the guard's legs went weak as though he were about to shit himself and desperately searching for a latrine. With a whoosh, he ran as fast as he could, only hating that he had not been born with two more legs.
The time it takes an incense stick to burn!
With reports needing to pass through layer after layer before reaching the Domain Lord, there might not be enough time.
This Demonic Being was going in no matter what—either he would be invited in, or he would fight his way in.
In the former case, he would neither earn merit nor incur