Deng Yin did not quite believe Shi Feiyang could catch the Nine Sons Mother Thunder Pearl barehanded.
He knew the Nine-Li Divine Lord's abilities inside out. Since becoming his follower, the man had also cultivated portions of the Blood God Scripture, filling the gaps in the demonic arts he had inherited from his father-in-law, Old Demon Fu Guaba. He had improved the Nine Sons Mother Thunder Pearl as well. Even Deng Yin, with his intimate knowledge of demonic methods, could not collect it barehanded, though it could no longer harm him.
After a moment's thought, he ordered Chishi Divine Monarch, the Nine-Li Divine Lord, Red Lotus Old Demon, and Chan Master Xiaoyue to gather all the Blood Gods and prepare for battle, while he went back to find the two princesses.
Meanwhile, Shi Feiyang returned Emei Mountain to its original location and settled it in place. Qi Shouming opened the cave entrance and invited him inside.
First, Qi Shouming solemnly thanked Shi Feiyang for traveling such a vast distance to lend them righteous aid.
Had Shi Feiyang not come, the Three Immortals and Two Elders, Li Yingqiong, Zhou Qingyun, and the others would still have escaped, but only those few top-tier heavenly immortals would have survived from the entire Emei Sect. Every other disciple and descendant, along with Emei Mountain itself, would have been buried in the Blood Lake.
They were all on the verge of ascending. With the dharma decline age fast approaching, there was no time to train new successors, and the Emei Sect's Daoist lineage would have been severed completely.
Strictly speaking, barely a hundred years had passed since the Emei Sect opened its immortal mansion. The thousand-odd years before that, encompassing the efforts of three generations, had all been a period of accumulation; there had not