The Curtain Falls

Autumn Mountain Cracks.

"Call out!"

Gu Jinlai, Zhou Yi, and Zhang Lihuo appeared at the same time.

Outside, Zhang Yukun, Si Tianyan, and the others who were guarding against the Demonic Spirit from rushing out breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the three of them.

"Supreme Elder!"

"Metropolitan!"

"Is everyone alright?"

Several people stepped forward and inquired with concern.

Gu Jinlai waved his hand to indicate that it was alright, but his gaze fell on the crack in the autumn mountain.

Zhang Yukun and the others immediately understood.

The rift in the Demon Realm has not yet closed; now is not the time for empty words and concern.

Only...

As time went by.

Although the rift in the Demon Realm remained open, not a single Demonic Spirit emerged from the other side.

Even those small Demonic Spirit that could easily pass through the cracks didn't exist.

This scene left Zhang Yukun, Si Tianyan, Guan Xingyun, and the others with somewhat strange expressions.

"Small Demon Realm rifts can only attract a few Demonic Spirit. Could it be... that the Demonic Spirit on the other side of the rift were all killed by the Supreme Elder and the others?"

Guan Xingyun muttered to himself.

"Unless this crack widens to a point where a catastrophic Demonic Spirit can easily pass through, these Demonic Spirit will not come."

Zhou Yi sighed with some emotion, "Demonic Spirit have intelligence. Although True Spirit may make them disregard everything, this disregard for everything is based on the premise that they can see hope. If they know that they are going to their deaths, no amount of temptation can overcome their instinct for fear of death."

"Is that so?"

Gu Jinlai have pondered this.

"Certainly."

Zhou Yi looked at Gu Jinlai, who, even now, still seemed not to have fully recovered. "The one you killed was... a Spirit Lord! A Spirit Lord-level Demonic Spirit! If other Demonic Spirit came... they wouldn't be throwing their lives away like this."

"Spirit Lord!?"

Zhang Yukun and the others were slightly taken aback.

Immediately afterwards, as if they had figured out the amount of information contained in these words, their pupils shrank dramatically. "Kill a Spirit Lord!?"

"Is it... the kind of spirit lord I know?"

Si Tianyan couldn't help but say.

"According to ancient records, Spirit Venerable-level Demonic Spirit are also known as Supreme-level Demonic Spirit or Venerable-level Demonic Spirit. In the Demonic Spirit system, they are equivalent to True Immortals on Earth in the cultivator system, possessing many titles and being top-tier beings. Each Spirit Venerable is like a True Immortal on Earth, belonging to the ruling class that surpasses ordinary Demonic Spirit..."

Guan Xingyun was also very emotional, and was describing something rapidly.

Zhang Lihuo glanced at the group of people. Although he had a similar attitude to them before, he had now calmed down. "You heard me right, it's the kind of Spirit Venerable you know."

Despite Zhang Lihuo's confirmation, Zhang Yukun still asked, "Spirit Lord... isn't it only the Creator who can kill him...?"

Zhang Lihuo did not answer this question, but instead turned his attention to the Gu Jinlai.

Not only him, but Zhou Yi also looked at him with a hint of longing in his eyes.

He pondered this from Gu Jinlai.

Green Lotus was his greatest secret, and he could not possibly tell anyone else.

But it seems unreasonable not to offer a reason for the current situation.

After a moment, he spoke, "It should be related to my personal path."

"Road?"

"Good."

Gu Jinlai nodded. "You all know the deeds of Immortal Zifeng. He transformed from a True Immortal to a Celestial Master and used his understanding of the Dao to deduce the Great Heavenly Lord realm. My situation is somewhat different from his. I am both a Dao of all living beings and a Dao of slaying demons."

"The Path of All Beings, the Path of Slaying Demons?"

Some of them were confused.

"My path, at its core, lies in maintaining order, punishing evil and promoting good, and eliminating demons and monsters. Therefore, when I maintain order and perform the deeds of punishing evil and promoting good, and eliminating demons and monsters, I can continuously strengthen my spiritual beliefs, thereby allowing me to unleash power far beyond myself."

Gu Jinlai said in a deep voice, "Just like a true immortal on land who comprehends his own 'Dao' and thus breaks free from constraints, interferes with the outside world, and turns the impossible into the possible."

"Punish evil and promote good, slay demons and eliminate monsters..."

Hearing what Gu Jinlai had said, Zhang Lihuo seemed to understand something. "No wonder you, Supreme Elder, hold trials for some of the most heinous criminals almost every now and then..."

"Good."

Gu Jinlai nodded. "Although in principle I no longer need to handle such matters personally, each trial is a process of introspection and seeking the truth."

Although Zhou Yi, Zhang Yukun, Si Tianyan, Guan Xingyun, and others felt that the Dao of a True Immortal on Earth and the eruption of the True Spirit of a Heavenly Monarch could not be confused,...

With the example of the True Immortal Zifeng before us, we can learn a valuable lesson.

Furthermore...

The power of the Dao is indeed mysterious and unpredictable.

The very nature of this power is to turn the impossible into the possible.

This is also why a true immortal on land can far surpass a saint, and even the creators do not underestimate them.

Especially those immortals who have attained their own Dao and achieved the true immortal Dao fruit, the soul secrets of the creators cannot shake their will and mind. Only by relying on forbidden beasts, divine weapons and other such things can immortals be suppressed.

Therefore, the several heavenly rulers quickly accepted this view from Gu Jinlai.

"The mystery of the Tao is truly astonishing."

Zhang Lihuo was the first to sigh.

The others nodded in agreement.

Especially the Book of Changes...

Zhang Lihuo and the others were ultimately born in the Qian Tian Realm and did not understand what the words "Spirit Venerable" truly meant. However, he deeply understood the terrifying nature of this kind of spiritual being.

Currently, Gu Jinlai that a Heavenly Emperor could actually kill a Spirit Venerable...

This gave him a real glimmer of hope.

Compared to the Xuan Bird fighter jet and the Cheng Ying mech, it is a more dazzling hope.

The Xuan Bird fighter jet and the Cheng Ying mecha can only ensure that celestial masters and cultivators have an advantage when fighting against Demonic Beasts, but the essence of Demonic Beasts is Demonic Spirit.

No matter how many Shadow Mechs you have, they won't be of any use against the Demonic Spirit.

However, throughout Gu Jinlai, before achieving the status of a creator, or even before reaching perfection in the path of the Heavenly Lord and becoming a Great Heavenly Lord, it has been possible to obliterate a Spirit Venerable...

This achievement is more significant than his annihilation of three Demonic Beasts emperors while piloting the Cheng Ying mech.

At this moment, he felt a deep sense of regret, realizing that following Hongye to Qiantian might be the best decision he had made in all these years.

"Everyone, let's quickly adjust the performance of the Cheng Ying mech. Although the Demonic Beasts are retreating towards Muzhou, if I cannot pilot the Cheng Ying mech back to the battlefield at the last moment, this great battle may not be a complete success, and we will still face harassment from the Three Thousand Great Swamps in the future."

This Gu Jinlai.

Everyone nodded solemnly.

The Cheng Ying mech must be repaired as soon as possible, and the Ancient Palace Master must be sent to the battlefield to prove the power of the Cheng Ying mech to the Three Thousand Great Swamps and even to the world.

With its intact Cheng Ying mech, and its terrifying feat of annihilating three Demonic Beasts Emperors and twelve Demonic Beasts Kings in a single strike, the Three Thousand Great Swamps would be deterred from making any rash moves for a long time to come.

Before the Autumn Mountain Rift opened, Gu Jinlai, Zhang Lihuo, Zhou Yi, and others had already done all the work.

The repaired and modified Cheng Ying mecha was completed in just three days.

Three days later, escorted by the Xuan Bird fighter jet piloted by Zhang Lihuo and Zhou Yi, Gu Jinlai took off into the sky, like a golden light streaking across the void, and roared straight towards Nanmuzhou.

A few hours later, the Cheng Ying mech traversed tens of thousands of miles from Lingxiao City to the battlefield of Nanmuzhou, descending from the sky and annihilating a king-level demonic bird that was circling in the void gathering intelligence with overwhelming force.

Upon seeing the mech that resembled a guardian deity of the south, the morale of all the soldiers from Lingxiao Palace soared to an unprecedented peak. Everyone cheered and vented their joy and fervor.

According to post-battle statistics, after this battle, cultivators who were initially somewhat resistant to becoming Celestial Masters joined the ranks of Celestial Masters one after another.

Within the territory of Lingxiao Palace, a situation has completely formed in which three major systems coexist: demon god warriors, cultivators, and celestial masters.

With the reappearance of the Cheng Ying mech less than twenty days later, the Demonic Beasts King, who had some illusions and was unwilling to leave, dared not linger on the border of Nanmu Prefecture any longer and fled back to the Three Thousand Great Swamps as quickly as possible.

The war Spirit Artifact piloted by the three Heavenly Lords Gu Jinlai, Zhang Lihuo, and Zhou Yi, along with a group of Celestial Person and True Lord including Gu Jinlai, Lu Zhanxian, Fang Linghai, Leng Ningshuang, and Youquan True Lord, also led their troops in pursuit. In more than ten days, they not only drove hundreds of thousands of Demonic Beasts out of Nanmu Prefecture, but also chased them into the Three Thousand Great Swamps for over a hundred miles.

The pursuit only ended when the surrounding environment gradually turned into a swamp, threatening to affect the demon god's guards' combat effectiveness.

In the Gu Jinlai ten days or so, three more Demonic Beasts king-level souls have been killed by the sword.

As for those great Demonic Beasts, they didn't even have the right to make him draw his sword.

Thanks to this glorious victory, a large number of Demonic Beasts corpses were continuously transported into Muzhou, and the amount of Demonic Beasts Essence Blood obtained in this great battle was so large that it was enough to train 100,000 demon god guards!

This figure will inevitably elevate the military strength south of Tianhe to an unprecedented peak.

On the way back from Namcha Barwa.

Gu Jinlai had already stored the Cheng Ying mecha in the Qiankun Ring, and while maintaining his normal state, he sat on the mechanical Tyrannosaurus Beast and slowly headed towards Dongmuzhou.

Surrounding him were Heavenly Lord Zhou Yi, Primordial Spirit True Lord Liu Jingtao and Cheng Lixue, as well as Demon God's personal guards Gu Luochen and Gu Qingmei.

"The Battle of Muzhou lasted for four months, and even the Three Thousand Great Swamps were drawn into it in the later stages. Now, we have finally recovered all four Muzhou in the east, west, south and north."

Liu Jingtao, who was standing to the side, said with some emotion.

In this great battle, all the palaces under the jurisdiction of Lingxiao Palace mobilized their entire forces.

In places like the Purgatory Hall, Lu Zhanxian, Zhang Liefeng, and Liu Jingtao have all been on the battlefield.

It's simply that sometimes someone's Primordial Spirit is overexerted or they suffer trauma, so they have to go back to recuperate.

"This great battle not only reclaimed the four major states of Mu, but also severely damaged the Demonic Beasts of the Three Thousand Great Swamps. The fall of the three-headed Demonic Beasts king not only made the Three Thousand Great Swamps hesitant to act rashly for a period of time, but also made those forces north of the Milky Way realize the power of our Lingxiao Palace. This power is probably unmatched by the Great Qian Dynasty, the Sanqing Palace, and the True Immortal Palace."

Cheng Lixue echoed.

Gu Luochen and Gu Qingmei nodded in deep agreement.

Among them, Gu Luochen even cautiously inquired, "Ancestor, Muzhou has been repaired, and Tiannan is completely stable. So, what is our next goal...?"

As he spoke, his gaze turned northward.