The Shadow Left by the Gu Clan, the Divine Court's Moment of Crisis

The assembled Demon Race mighty figures gradually fell into thought.

They did not want to offend the Gu Clan, but even less did they want to see Gu Xuanjin grow to maturity.

The Gu Clan had held sway for so many years. Enough was enough!

If another Gu Xuanjin emerged to dominate the entire era,

how were they supposed to have any fun?

Besides, they were only responsible for holding off the Gu Clan's ancestors for a while.

They would not need to risk their lives.

That should not completely offend the Gu Clan.

Even if the Gu Clan sought revenge afterward, it would be locked in a fight to the death with the Myriad Demon Divine Court.

This seemed like a very good deal!

As each of them weighed the matter,

Demon Lord Evil Sha Kunpeng's expression suddenly changed.

He rose with a cold laugh.

"You're still here discussing how to deal with the Gu Clan.

But I bet you never imagined the Gu Clan had already come knocking at your door!"

Hundreds of thousands of Gu Clan members had crossed a spatial wormhole and descended on the Heavenly Demon Dao Domain in a vast procession.

That location

was Evil Sha Kunpeng's territory.

That was why he had received word of the Gu Clan's arrival at once.

Among those he could sense alone, there were at least ten peerless mighty figures who were Peak Great Emperors.

With such a show of force,

just how many supreme experts at the Half-Step Void Immortal Realm were hidden in the shadows?

Evil Sha Kunpeng did not know.

But as an ancient being who had witnessed the days when the Gu Clan ruled over the world,

he knew that the Gu Clan would never lack supreme experts at the Half-Step Void Immortal Realm.

In this Demon Lord's view,

let alone the Myriad Demon Divine Court,

even all the forces in the Heavenly Demon Dao Domain bound together would not be enough to fight the Gu Clan.

So he decisively chose to look after himself

and take no part in something no different from throwing his life away.

"Forgive me, but I won't be joining you."

The Demon Lord let out a long cry,

then revealed his demon form,

turning into the shadow of a savage Kunpeng that blotted out the sky and sun, with monstrous Evil Sha surging around him.

The next second,

he abruptly shot out of the Myriad Demon Divine Court and returned to his Abyssal Vast Sea.

Seeing the Vast Sea Demon Lord leave so decisively, the Heavenly Fox Demon Venerable and Dragon King Lixu...

the Heavenly Fox Demon Venerable and the Dragon King Lixu could not help feeling their hearts sink.

After weighing the matter for a moment, the two likewise chose not to involve themselves in the Myriad Demon Divine Court's affairs.

Although they had not lived through the terrifying years when the Gu Clan dominated the Xuanhuan Great World,

their respective forces had passed down records of those years.

From just a few scattered words in those records,

they could sense the Gu Clan's unparalleled might and supreme glory back then.

They did not know why the Gu Clan had become so low-key and secretive after the Desolate Ancient Era,

but that did nothing to diminish its might and glory.

Now that the Gu Clan had taken the initiative,

it was clearly prepared to wipe out the Myriad Demon Divine Court completely.

As for having them clash head-on with a force as mysterious and powerful as the Gu Clan,

they had not lived long enough yet!

The Heavenly Fox Demon Venerable said calmly,

"Your Majesty, Demon Emperor,

as things stand,

what you need to consider isn't how to get rid of Gu Xuanjin,

but how to survive this calamity that threatens to wipe out your clan!"

Knowing that the Myriad Demon Divine Court would most likely be erased from the Heavenly Demon Dao Domain by the Gu Clan,

the Dragon King Lixu no longer feared the Myriad Demon Divine Court either.

He said with a sinister grin,

"If Your Majesty can't make it through this crisis,

it would actually be a good thing for our Heavenly Demon Dao Domain.

After all, there are too many monks and too little porridge. With one fewer mouth to feed, the rest of us can at least eat our fill!"

As his words fell,

the two Demon Race mighty figures and the experts they had brought with them all revealed their enormous demon bodies.

In an instant, they vanished from the Myriad Demon Divine Court.

Inside the vast divine hall,

Demon Emperor Lu Jue's expression was incomparably dark.

Once this matter was over,

he would personally lead troops against Crimson Billow Lake and make that Dragon King Lixu pay a painful price!

Looking at the representatives of the four forces still seated in the hall,

he slowly concealed his anger.

"The fact that you are still sitting here

means you should have agreed to what I said earlier.

In that case, begin your preparations.

The Gu Clan should arrive at my Myriad Demon Divine Court within half an hour."

The World-Chaos Demon Ape, Demon King of Chaotic Heaven Cave on Divine Firmament Mountain,

rose to his feet, his massive, burly frame like a mountain.

His cold, indifferent gaze fixed on Lu Jue.

"Demon Emperor,

we will naturally have our demon ancestors hold off those Gu Clan ancestors for you.

I hope you won't disappoint us when the time comes."

Demon Emperor Lu Jue snorted coldly.

"As long as those old things don't interfere,

I am a supreme mighty figure, a Peak Great Emperor.

Could it be that I can't deal with a greenhorn who's only just appeared in the world?"

The Ghost-Pupil Demon King of Five Rampancies Temple, dressed as a Daoist priest, swept a cold glance over everyone present.

"Enough, let's not waste time.

We'll contact the Half-Step Void Immortal Realm ancestors of our clans right away.

Demon Emperor, you'd better hurry and arrange for experts and troops to come here too.

There's a tough battle ahead.

If you, our main force, fail to pull your weight,

then you can't blame us for acting according to the situation."

They had only agreed to hold off those Gu Clan ancestors.

They had not said they would risk their lives fighting the Gu Clan.

If things went wrong, they would naturally choose to play it safe.

The Demon Venerable Wumian of the Abyssless Cave Ruins and the Desolate Heaven Demon King of Ten-Thousand-Li Cloud and Mist Ridge

also nodded slightly at those words.

Then each contacted their own ancestor.

Demon Emperor Lu Jue also knew that these people were fine when things were going their way.

If the battle turned against them, it would be good enough if they did not throw stones at him while he was down a well.

So he did not place his hopes of holding off the Gu Clan in this group.

After activating the protective barrier that had been passed down for countless years,

he ordered the Divine Court's great generals under his command to deploy their troops and set up formations.

He himself then went to the Myriad Demon Divine Court's forbidden ground.

It was a graveyard.

The former demon emperors of the Myriad Demon Divine Court were buried there.

Before endless ages had passed,

in the era when the Myriad Demon Divine Court rose to power,

a demon ancestor at the Half-Step Void Immortal Realm had fallen into slumber here.

Standing before a stone stele without a single word on it,

Lu Jue wore a conflicted expression.

He had not expected that, after so many years had passed,

the Myriad Demon Divine Court under his leadership would have reached a moment of life and death.

He had no choice but to awaken this old demon ancestor.

But Lu Jue did not think he was wrong.

If he could remain indifferent even after his own son was killed,

could he still be called a living being of flesh and blood?

The next moment,

boundless, vast laws of the imperial Dao rippled outward.

The barrier before the stone stele was instantly annihilated.

Lu Jue reached out with one hand.

He drew an utterly decayed coffin out from the countless layers of the void.

The coffin slowly shattered,

revealing an aged face with withered flesh, gaunt as a sheet.

Lu Jue concealed nothing.

He recounted every detail of the trouble the Myriad Demon Divine Court now faced

to the old demon ancestor.

The old man opened his gray-white, lifeless eyes.

He looked at Lu Jue for a long while, then let out a long, faint sigh.

"In the end, it has come to this.

Back then,

Lord Demon Emperor asked the Supreme Purity Palace to divine what the future held for our Myriad Demon Divine Court.

At the time, the Supreme Purity Palace said that our Myriad Demon Divine Court,

after Lord Demon Emperor's ascension,

would provoke the Gu Clan and bring a calamity of extermination upon itself.

Lord Demon Emperor therefore laid down an ancestral rule,

forbidding our Myriad Demon Divine Court from provoking anyone from the Gu Clan.

I just didn't expect things to unfold as the Supreme Purity Palace had divined after all."

Seeing a trace of self-reproach flash in Lu Jue's eyes, the old man shook his head slightly.

"Now that things have come to this, there's no need to dwell on who was right or wrong.

Call your father, the previous Demon Emperor, out of seclusion as well.

The Gu Clan is coming in full force.

Even if we stake our lives on a fight, we may not have a glimmer of hope. Let us do all we can and leave the rest to fate."