Chapter 349: The Expounding Teaching and Jiejiao Make Their Moves
Before long, Soaring Serpent left the Heavenly Court after conveying Nuwa's wishes to Ao Yue.
Once Soaring Serpent had left, Ao Yue breathed a sigh of relief. Nuwa had intervened. That was just as well; otherwise, he really would not have known what to do with Lu Ya.
After a moment's thought, he ordered a divine general to carry his decree to the Northern Lands: Lu Ya was to be confined to the Demon Emperor Palace for a thousand years as punishment.
This punishment was lighter than Shennong's, but a Saint had asked him to leave a gap in the net. Obeying her wishes hardly counted as favoritism. After all, beneath the Heavenly Dao, the Saints were the true masters of the Primordial World. As for his position as Heavenly Sovereign... heh, everyone understood.
Returning to the matter at hand, after Lu Ya returned to the Demon Emperor Palace and received the decree delivered by Ao Yue's divine general, he hesitated for a while. In the end, following Bai Ze's advice, he accepted it and agreed to remain confined to the palace for a thousand years.
For the time being, the matter ended there.
Of course, no one knew whether the Human Race would later seek to settle accounts with the Demon Race. Ao Yue did not want to meddle, either, so long as they stopped dragging the innocent into it.
Twelve years later, by the reckoning of the earth below.
Accompanied by Xuandu, Shennong arrived at the Undying Volcano to undergo punishment by heavenly flame. Thanks to the lotus derived from the Twelfth-Grade Merit Golden Lotus that Zhunti had given him, he suffered no serious injuries.
Afterward, Shennong set out on his journey to taste the hundred herbs