The Eighteenth Breath (Wishing Friends a Happy Spring Festival)

The gates of the Void Heaven Palace were extremely tall and magnificent, so much so that even Zhang Xuezhou was somewhat surprised.

But upon entering the Void Heaven Palace, Zhang Xuezhou saw houses of Gaogao scattered about, with wisps of mist and darkness occasionally appearing, obscuring the entire palace and revealing only its most rudimentary parts.

Staying in such a place for a long time would inevitably be very boring, and if you add the threat of being spied on by hostile powerful cultivators, such days would become unbearable.

Zhang Xuezhou wriggled his tail and kept moving forward until darkness appeared before him, at which point he stopped wriggling.

"Um!"

Zhang Xuezhou didn't say much, but instead grunted in acknowledgment to the gods.

The gods looked at each other awkwardly, and then two gods stepped forward with their weapons raised, thrusting them into the darkness.

As if something had been unveiled, a jade disc ten feet high appeared, and a trembling aura immediately rushed towards them. The two divine lords instantly prostrated themselves, while the other divine lords quickly lowered their heads.

Like a demon-revealing Demon-Revealing Mirror, the jade disc began to transform into a mirror surface, and the image of a giant red python quickly appeared.

"Are you a subspecies?"

A shockwave of mental energy surged through him, and Zhang Xuezhou felt instantly locked onto, as if a giant snake could devour him whole in an instant.

"I think I've seen you before... you... it's you!"

Zhang Xuezhou hadn't even shown any mental fluctuations yet, but he felt as if everything the other party had seen through him.

As if a sense of powerlessness overwhelmed him in the face of Hongjun, Zhang Xuezhou felt that he could not make any false responses when communicating with the other party, and that his words would inevitably be discerned as true or false.

He had previously escaped being killed by Hongjun thanks to the mark of Zhu Jiuyin, and the current situation made Zhang Xuezhou's scalp tingle as well.

"You must have sacrificed yourself to some emperor, and then used the seventy-two earthly branches I left behind to gain access to the Void Heaven Palace. Your actions are barely acceptable. Which emperor's offspring are you?"

The red python in the mirror slowly exhaled, its spiritual energy constantly fluctuating, guiding its image to emerge from the mirror.

The fact that the sound could reach this point means that the other party has a high probability of launching a psychological attack to kill Zhang Xuezhou.

"You possess the Power of Favor, so it seems you are a subspecies of the White Emperor. Where is he?"

Before Zhang Xuezhou could answer, the red python statue staring at him already had a guess.

The red python seemed to be talking to itself, or perhaps it was deducing and calculating based on a map. Zhang Xuezhou felt as if he had become the medium of the red python's Technique Method, with the other party constantly extracting information from him.

If he cannot conceal his aura, everything about him could be deduced by the other party.

"Bai was tamed by Donghua using his Soul-Upsetting Beast Control Technique and is currently imprisoned within Zhu Jiuyin's dragon body, unable to escape!"

It wasn't until the red python questioned him for the third time that Zhang Xuezhou emerged from his state of shock and began to report and respond freely.

"Subdue? What a harsh word! How absurd! Who is Donghua?"

The red python's calm scrutiny turned into rage. Its form remained unchanged, but countless mirror-like flames ignited on its body.

"Donghua has now become the Emperor of Heavenly Court, ranking first in the Three Realms!"

"What?"

When Zhang Xuezhou reported the truth again, Hong Mang's calm tone turned surprised.

"Kill him!"

The request was made in a low voice.

As if issuing an imperial edict, the red python swiftly provided a solution in its anger.

"This is not only necessary to rescue the White Emperor, but also to prevent the fruits of the Three Realms from being taken by the aliens," the Red Python said.

"I... can't beat them!"

Under the watchful gaze of the Red Python, Zhang Xuezhou found it almost impossible to resist. However, he was clearly no match for Donghua at the moment. Not to mention killing Donghua, he was currently on guard against being killed by Donghua. Many of his abilities were related to survival, so he could only grit his teeth and respond.

"How strong is Donghua?" Red Python asked.

"He must have the strength of someone who's almost reached the next dimension!"

"What?"

For the second time, the red python showed surprise, and its massive body began to take on a half-human, half-snake form.

The image of a woman in red armor, with a majestic and angry look, appeared, immediately overlapping with the image of Houtu that Dong Zhongshu had observed. This confirmed Zhang Xuezhou's suspicion that the new emperor had once been drawn to her by the demon -Demon-Revealing Mirror, and that Zhang Xuezhou himself had been infused with a Demon Power by her.

"Those Non-Self our kind will surely have different thoughts," the woman said solemnly. "The Great Wilderness does not need a second Hongjun, and we must never allow Donghua to ascend to a higher dimension!"

"I can't beat him," Zhang Xuezhou replied.

"I will lend you a hand," the woman said. "As long as we disperse the power of his ascended and condensed Principle, the origin will not choose him a second time!"

"Yes!"

Zhang Xuezhou gave a brief reply.

Just as he thought the woman was about to transfer her Demon Power to him from afar, or bestow some kind of magical power, he heard muffled groans coming from all around.

In a mere instant, Duoduo flames appeared on the bodies of the twelve divine lords beside him, and then turned to ashes with a muffled groan.

"I have summoned back the Twelve Divine Lords and the Four Kings Guard. The Void Heaven Palace will follow you back to the Three Realms. If you encounter Donghua, release this item, and he will surely suffer a great setback, forever losing his chance to ascend to godhood!"

The woman gave instructions in the mirror, and in the dim light, sixteen blurry humanoid snake god figures appeared around her.

After the woman exhaled several breaths, Zhang Xuezhou saw that the twelve Divine Lords who had been beside him earlier had appeared beside her.

"I don't know how to use the Void Heaven Palace; 'Bai' didn't teach me how to use these!"

Seeing that the woman's image in the mirror was also blurry, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but exclaim.

A look of astonishment crossed the woman's face. She pointed her finger, and her reflection froze in the mirror for a few seconds before shattering and transforming back into the tall jade disc that had stood there before.

"It's over!"

Zhang Xuezhou thought that people in high positions of power should be very composed, but the woman's behavior seemed somewhat rash.

"Does she assume I know how to use the Void Palace, or that it's just a common thing that any normal person should know how to use?"

A rash personality makes it difficult to hold a high position. If the problem isn't with the other party, it must lie with Zhang Xuezhou.

He touched the jade disc, but the woman did not reappear on it, and he did not find any mechanism.

"How do I get back in? How am I supposed to carry such a huge palace? How can I travel through the void with this thing and get back into the Reincarnation Stone?"

Various thoughts flashed through Zhang Xuezhou's mind, making it difficult for Zhang Xuezhou to understand.

He repeatedly explored the jade disc and tried to use his Law Power and Demon Power, but Zhang Xuezhou couldn't detect any control method.

"Hiss!"

Zhang Xuezhou only looked up abruptly when he heard a strange sound.

Inside the palace, a man with a human body and a snake's tail walked along, swaying his tail and occasionally letting out a hissing sound.

"Who are you?"

Zhang Xuezhou stirred his spirit and shouted.

He personally heard the woman summon back the twelve divine lords and the four royal guards, indicating that there should be no other beings in the Void Heaven Palace.

As he looked at the man, he felt that the man's face was somewhat blurry, as if he had seen him before but was gradually forgetting what he looked like. Suddenly, he snapped back to reality.