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After a full half-day, the pills were ready. Tang Changsheng distributed them among his disciples and had them take them.
He suddenly smiled. Through the Three Realms Mirror, he had seen a place countless miles away. Immortal Venerable Ningbi of the Azure Sea True Void Palace, one of the ten Taiyi experts, had come to blows with a Demon Sage.
Both were masters of Taiyi Rank. Their battle seemed to split the heavens and shatter the earth. Countless mountains and rivers collapsed, and untold living beings and demons were caught in the devastation.
But powerful as Immortal Venerable Ningbi was, he had sent only a doppelganger.
Before long, he was no match for the Demon Sage. As Immortal Venerable Ningbi retreated, Demon Kings and Demon Generals joined the pursuit, surrounding and attacking him all the way.
"A mighty dragon cannot crush the snake in its own lair," Tang Changsheng sighed softly. He stopped watching. Immortal Venerable Ningbi would probably be the first of the ten Taiyi experts to fall.
Even as he lamented Immortal Venerable Ningbi's fate, trouble came knocking at his own door.
Several hundred ragged lesser demons crowded around a Great Demon, making a racket as they approached. They looked like officials on an outing in the Human Realm, though there was something distinctly monkey-in-a-cap about them.
The demons marched straight to the door of Tang Changsheng's thatched hut and bellowed, "Hey, Daoist! Your disciples dared kill our kind! Hand them over at once!"
The shout reached the hut. Every disciple panicked.
Tang Changsheng said lightly, "What manner of demons are you, making such a racket at my door?"
The demons flew