"Your Majesty..." General Cailuan was startled and hurriedly said, "Qiongqiong may possess some strength, but she is still a woman. If she is banished to the Soaring Dragon Mountain Range, I fear she will be in danger. I beg Your Majesty for mercy—please spare Qiongqiong lightly..."
"Damn it!" Empress Dongmian flew into a rage. "I have already made my decision, yet you dare defy me? Could it be that you too wish to be banished to the lower realm?"
"This servant dares not..." General Cailuan did not dare say more. Lowering her head, she accepted the order and left, directing the female generals of Pixiang Hall to escort Qiongqiong away. Riding the rosy clouds, they flew out beyond the mountains stretching thousands of miles like brocade...
"Xiaohua, Xiaohua..." Seated upon her golden throne, Empress Dongmian revealed a mysterious smile and thought to herself, Let me see what surprises you can bring me!
Naturally, Xiao Hua could not possibly know that Princess Xinxin had been imprisoned within the Heavenly Punishment Prisoner Crystal on the Cangxian Continent. Still less could he know that, in order to save her own daughter, Empress Dongmian was exhausting every scheme to plot against him. At this moment, he was flying toward the Chidi River alongside Xu Zhi and Fairy Xingyue. These three Daoist sect cultivators could now be considered the supreme cultivators of the Daoist sects across the Three Great Continents. Yet none of them employed any extraordinary divine abilities; they merely propelled themselves through the high skies of the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons. They were not flying particularly fast, but neither were they slow. As the scenery below continuously shifted and the celestial phenomena changed, Xiao Hua naturally would not let pass this opportunity to seek instruction from the two immortals. Whether it