Jinyao, Do You Lack a Father's Love?

It took Bai Qiuran three or four days to basically wipe out the surrounding Demon Race.

The three Demon Venerable he killed commanded not only the Demon Race near the Azure Nether Sword Sect, but the Demon Race throughout the entire Guzhou.

With the three brothers dead, the Demon Race in the entire Guzhou lost control and began to fight each other wildly. In order to prevent ordinary people from suffering, Bai Qiuran had to expand the scope of the cleanup to the entire Shangxuan Kingdom.

Fortunately, these Demon Race were all gathered near the Shangxuan Kingdom. After Bai Qiuran swept away the swarming Demon Tide in the vicinity, there were basically no Demon Race left in Guzhou.

He also took a look at the Shangxuan Kingdom. Just as Huangfu Feng had said before, in order to control the Human Race, the Demon Race had basically slaughtered the original royal family and then installed a Puppet to take the throne.

Tang Ruowei's family was no exception. When Bai Qiuran went there, he heard that her younger brother, sister-in-law and other relatives had all been killed by the Demon Race. The one sitting on the Shangxuan Emperor was a Puppet that had been modified by the Demon Race.

There was no way around it; the dead cannot be brought back to life. Even if Bai Qiuran himself was the Ghost Emperor, he could not break the ironclad rule he had set for himself.

Rather, it is precisely because he is the Ghost Emperor that he must set an example.

Therefore, Bai Qiuran had no choice but to kill the demon and then searched all over the Shangxuan Kingdom, hoping to find a descendant of the Shangxuan Kingdom's royal family.

As the Imperial Heaven goes, perseverance pays off. Bai Qiuran finally found a descendant of the royal family who had been taken away by royal guards to escape and live in seclusion in a valley on the Borderlands Shangxuan Kingdom. It was said that she was Tang Ruowei's niece.

He taught the young girl the best Qi cultivation techniques, then took her to the capital of the Shangxuan Kingdom and reinstated her as Empress.

The little girl is very sensible. Faced with the current extremely difficult national situation, she neither cries nor makes a fuss. Instead, she tries her best to seize the opportunity to learn from Bai Qiuran and improve herself.

When facing the people, she never flaunted her status or position, but instead approached them and mingled with the masses, gaining immense prestige in a short period of time.

The only drawback is that she also inherited the "incurable disease" of the Shangxuan Imperial Clan. At the age when she should be developing, the young girl's chest is still flat. It can only be said that the nobility of the Shangxuan Imperial Clan is reflected in the fact that every royal woman has her own private Airport.

However, compared to her aunt Tang Ruowei, this girl's condition is slightly milder. Although Bai Qiuran calculated that this girl would barely reach an A grade at best, it's better to have something than nothing.

Dealing with these miscellaneous matters took up a lot of Bai Qiuran's time. Finally, Bai Qiuran found some Chief of active resistance organizations from the common people and selected several talented people to become her assistant ministers before leaving Shangxuan.

By this time, he had already spent about two or three months.

After dealing with things here, Bai Qiuran hurriedly returned to the Heavenly Demon Sect of Northern Abyss. He thought he would see the Heavenly Demon Sect in ruins after a fierce battle, but when he Heavenly Demon Sect, he found that the people had even turned off the Mountain Protection Array.

If it weren't for the Cultivators from various sects who were busy with their own affairs on the mountain without any sense of urgency, Bai Qiuran would have almost thought that the Heavenly Demon Sect had fallen.

Bai Qiuran landed on the mountaintop, walked around the mountain path, and then found Li Jinyao on the edge of the cliff.

The girl was instructing some surviving disciples in Saber Technique within the Heavenly Demon Sect, but after observing for a while, Bai Qiuran noticed something strange.

Among these disciples were actually newbies in the Qi Refining Stage, just like him. When he came here before, he didn't see any Qi Refining Stage disciples left on this mountain.

The only explanation is that these disciples were all recently recruited by the Heavenly Demon Sect.

Li Jinyao was clearly distracted. As she paced back and forth with her hands behind her back, her eyes kept wandering, otherwise she wouldn't have noticed Bai Qiuran standing silently to the side.

Upon seeing the White Hair man, the girl immediately forgot her duties as Elder of the Heavenly Demon Sect and ran towards him while waving.

"Senior Bai, you're back!"

"Um."

Bai Qiuran nodded, then looked at the group of disciples and asked, "Miss Li, what are you doing? Has the post-disaster reconstruction work begun yet?"

"I've already told you, don't call me Miss Li anymore."

Li Jinyao pouted and said, "Isn't it better to just call me Jinyao?"

Bai Qiuran and realized that given the age difference between him and Li Jinyao, it didn't seem like a problem to call her Jinyao directly, just like the affectionate way an elder addresses a younger person as he and Tang Ruowei addressed each other.

However, Li Jinyao has been fixated on this lately; could it be a regret from her childhood?

Asking questions was a virtue Bai Qiuran had always upheld, so he asked, "Miss Li... no, Jinyao, of course I can call you that, but... don't you seem to lack fatherly love?"

Upon hearing this, Li Jinyao's eyes widened. She opened her mouth, then helplessly lowered her arms.

"Now I understand why Sister Xiangxue, as a member of the Demon Sect, has such a high level of mental cultivation..."

She waved her hand and said, "It's not that I lack fatherly love, Senior Bai, I just simply want you to call me that."

"Oh."

Bai Qiuran scratched his head.

"What's the point?"

"It means something to me!"

Li Jinyao raised her voice and continued, "Alright, alright, let's not talk about that. What did you just ask, Senior Bai?"

"I'm asking you, these Qi Refining Stage disciples, shouldn't they all be newly recruited?"

Bai Qiuran pointed to the group of disciples diligently practicing the Heavenly Demon Sect's introductory Saber Technique and asked, "Does the Heavenly Demon Sect now have the resources and the inclination to recruit new disciples?"

"Yes, that's available now."

Li Jinyao nodded and said, "Senior Bai, you probably don't know yet, but people from the Immortal Realm have arrived. They are currently purging the Demon Race that remain in the Ten Lands of Jiuzhou."

"Oh?"

Bai Qiuran hurriedly asked, "Did they say which kind of deity they were?"

"Hmm... I remember that guy said something like that, cough cough."

Li Jinyao cleared her throat, then deliberately lowered her voice, mimicking a serious tone, and said, "I am Yang Immortal Venerable under the Eastern Immortal Realm Azure Emperor of the Eastern Azure Emperor Realm. From this moment forward, affairs concerning the Demon Race will be taken over by the Eastern Immortal Realm and Immortal Realm subordinate Immortal Imperial Army..."

Did he tell you not to get involved?

"Of course they were. They were incredibly arrogant. Luckily, the old man you stayed with managed to talk them out, and only then did they agree to let us follow their army to clean up the mess."

Li Jinyao was somewhat indignant.

"I reckon they never intended to care about the lives of Commoners Mortals in the first place."

"I see."

Bai Qiuran asked, "And what about Xiangxue?"

"Sister Xiangxue led a group from the Hehuan Sect along, including Master Gong Banque in Immortal City Jade Tower. It seems that Yang Immortal Venerable is preparing to attack Yunzhou, and they are going to reclaim the sect's lost territory."

Li Jinyao replied.