Lieque True Monarch Que Tianmen had never imagined he could be this unlucky—after retiring, he still ran into something this major.
True Monarchs did not truly retire in the strict sense. So-called retirement simply meant that, after serving the Group for five hundred years, they could return to their Grotto-Heaven to study supernatural abilities and techniques. Thereafter, aside from taking a shift every century to pilot a Taixu Sky Ship and guard the Net Dao, they could live a peaceful life of secluded cultivation.
By then, so long as no matter concerning humanity's survival arose, those who had spent so long grinding themselves down in fierce competition could truly lay down their burdens, rest well, and walk farther upon the path of the Great Dao.
But Que Tianmen was different. He truly was close to the end of his lifespan.
Having guarded the front lines for many years and fought against the Kun Demon and Demons, the True Monarch had also sustained an incurable Dao Injury. He had only a final dozen or so years left to live—perhaps not even ten. His retirement truly meant returning home to spend his remaining days, granting himself a measure of dignity as he quietly awaited Termination.
Yet on the tenth day after Lieque True Monarch's retirement, after he had returned to his Grotto-Heaven to report on his duties and had not even warmed the seat in his newly assigned cave residence, he received an order from his superiors.
The Demon Kingdom had invaded.
Something that concerned humanity's survival—something grave enough to drag even a withered skeleton from its grave and make it burn anew—had truly happened.
[To die in a Devil Calamity is also a cultivator's honor.]
Lieque did not complain. There was even a trace of exhilaration in his heart.
Fighting for