Embers still lingered inside the hall.
Jiang Yuechu withdrew her gaze from where the old crone had vanished.
The two or three Demon Emperors lucky enough to survive had long since been scared out of their wits, collapsing into puddles of mud. Not a trace of their earlier arrogance remained.
Jiang Yuechu could not be bothered with them.
Turning her hand over, she clasped the jade slip in her palm, found a reasonably intact stone platform in a corner of the hall, and sat down cross-legged.
There was no rush to deal with anything else.
She summoned her panel.
Her gaze moved down to the Dao Cultivation field.
[Current Dao Cultivation: 24,116,210 years]
Even Jiang Yuechu, who had weathered countless storms, could not help the slight upward curl of her lips at that string of numbers.
She had just carried out a massacre.
Of Azure Parasol Mountain's fourteen Demon Emperors, eleven had died.
The two flood dragons, Mountain Mover and Sea Overturner, along with the old monkey Mangshan, had each possessed profound Dao Cultivation approaching a million years. The others had been somewhat weaker, but even the smallest mosquito had meat on it-in total, she had gained another 7.8 million years.
Added to her previous reserves,
that brought her straight up to twenty-four million.
[Heavenly Demon Martial Training] was devouring her Dao Cultivation to develop the Chess-Condensing Method, while she kept bringing in more on the other end... she was earning as she spent, at least.
Unfortunately, the speed of the development was downright frightening.
With a million years consumed every day, even the deepest coffers could not withstand such extravagance.
She had to hurry.
With that thought,
Jiang Yuechu gathered her attention and returned her gaze to the jade slip in her palm.
She extended her spiritual