Chapter 1123: Chapter 1121: The Eastern Emperor Refines Ah Li 2
Dream Dao Attainment, Opening Scheme Against Cultivators
Dream-Making Expert
“Not good!”
“Yuyao, quick, save her!”
Gushe had sharp eyes and spotted Ali, held in the grasp of the Supreme Eastern Emperor’s avatar. She was immediately alarmed and shouted at once.
Yuyao did not mind Gushe’s lack of manners.
She had likewise realized the danger Ali had encountered.
So without a shred of hesitation, she urged the Dusk Mother Goddess to act.
In the next instant.
The Dusk Mother Goddess suddenly raised her palm and pressed down.
The firmament collapsed, the starry sky roared.
A terrifying impact resounded through the entire Cosmos, visible shockwaves sweeping across the universe.
Dang!
A heaven-shaking toll of a bell.
Everyone, including Yuyao and even the Dusk Mother Goddess, felt their souls freeze in an instant, momentarily dazed.
“It’s the Eastern Emperor Bell!”
“Damn it. The Supreme Eastern Emperor didn’t just leave behind an avatar. He also left behind his Supreme Emperor Weapon, the Eastern Emperor Bell!”
Gushe let out a sharp, ringing cry.
Only then did she realize that the Supreme Eastern Emperor had shown no martial virtue at all, leaving behind two kinds of fallback measures.
Both the Supreme Avatar and the Supreme Emperor Weapon had been left behind.
Fuck, was he done living?
“The legendary Eastern Emperor Bell?”
Yuyao’s gaze sharpened. She glanced at the Eastern Emperor Palace, now sheltered by the Eastern Emperor Bell.
Within the Eastern Emperor Palace, the figures of the Supreme Eastern Emperor’s avatar and Ali were already gone.
Only raging, sky-shrouding flames remained.
Under the desperate spewing of one True Spirit Divine Beast after another, each wielding the laws of flame, the entire pill furnace and the Eastern Emperor Palace alike were engulfed.
What on earth is he trying to do?
Gao Tianyou was shocked.
Before coming, he had speculated about the possible sinister purpose of the Supreme Eastern Emperor’s avatar after capturing Ali.
He had also prepared himself to fight the Supreme Eastern Emperor’s avatar.
But he never imagined that when they arrived.
This Supreme Avatar of the Supreme Eastern Emperor simply would not engage them at all.
Instead, it exposed its hidden card, cast out the Eastern Emperor Bell, and ordered the Eastern Emperor Bell to fight on its own.
Then the Supreme Eastern Emperor’s avatar vanished with Ali into the pill furnace swallowed by raging flames.
Could it be that he intended to refine himself and Ali together?
The moment this thought rose, Gao Tianyou’s heart shook, and he hurriedly looked toward Yuyao.
Yuyao had already raised her hand again and spoke.
“You two, guard your minds. Dusk Mother Goddess, blast it apart for me!”
Before the words had fully left her mouth.
The Dusk Mother Goddess had already placed both Gushe and Gao Tianyou from her palm onto her shoulder.
Then she raised her arms, bright as the moon.
Towering between heaven and earth, she became a supreme deity overlooking a planet from the starry sky.
Eighty, eighty!
One punch after another.
The Dusk Mother Goddess’s fists were like iron hammers, launching a storm of attacks against the Eastern Emperor Bell that hung across the Void, scattering golden brilliance.
After ninety-nine and eighty-one punches.
The Eastern Emperor Bell suddenly let out a mournful cry, its light dimming, faint cracks appearing on its surface.
Then it abruptly soared into the air.
Transforming into a streak of golden light, it fled beyond the Eastern Emperor Great Cosmos.
Yuyao instinctively moved to command the Dusk Mother Goddess to capture and suppress the fleeing Eastern Emperor Bell.
But in the next instant.
Dang dang dang!
Ninety-nine and eighty-one consecutive bell tolls finally arrived, late but resounding through the entire Eastern Emperor Great Cosmos.
One toll after another.
Each toll possessed the mighty power to freeze souls and still the Cosmos.
Even Yuyao and the Dusk Mother Goddess could not block it.
Only when the bell tolls finally faded.
Did that terrifying, heart-palpitating sensation of frozen stillness finally disappear.
“Quick, catch that Eastern Emperor Bell.”
“Don’t let it get away.”
Gushe blurted out, shouting. Yet she received no response from Yuyao.
Yuyao’s lovely brows were tightly knit. In the end, she could only sigh softly.
With a face full of listless disinterest, she led Gushe and Gao Tianyou toward the Eastern Emperor Palace.
The Eastern Emperor Palace, once submerged in raging flames, had already turned cold.
The flames had long since dispersed at some unknown time.
One after another, the Divine Beast True Spirits, their flesh dried and withered, leaving only ghastly white bones, still maintained the posture of spewing fire toward the pill furnace.
As Yuyao and the others approached the Eastern Emperor Palace.
A southern wind suddenly came, blowing gently.
Those Divine Beast True Spirits, now nothing but ghastly white bones, instantly scattered and turned to ash, carried away by the wind.
This scene made Gushe and Gao Tianyou’s hearts pound with fright. They instinctively looked toward Yuyao, wanting to ask what the situation was now.
But Yuyao did not answer.
She merely waved her hand, and the long-cold pill furnace suddenly opened.
A sleeping, naked baby girl rolled out from the opened pill furnace.
Yuyao seemed to have expected this. She reached out and caught her, clothing appearing on its own to cover the baby girl.
“Let’s go.”
“Time to see Lin Qi.”
Yuyao said, holding the sleeping baby girl in her arms, and gestured for Gushe and Gao Tianyou to stand on the Dusk Mother Goddess’s palm.
They were to leave the Eastern Emperor Great Cosmos and go see Lin Qi.
“Master, don’t be the Riddler.”
“Talk to us.”
“Where did the Supreme Eastern Emperor’s avatar go?”
“And this baby girl — don’t tell me she’s Ali?”
“How did our family’s big Ali suddenly turn back into a little baby?”
Gushe could not help but press.
“I never imagined the Supreme Eastern Emperor would be so fierce and resolute.”
“Let’s go. I only have a half-understanding of the specifics right now.”
“But Lin Qi definitely knows.”
Yuyao replied, also not entirely certain what had happened.
She only knew that the Supreme Eastern Emperor’s avatar should not have left.
Rather, it had truly undergone ninety-nine and eighty-one years of fiery refinement together with Ali inside this already cooled and extinguished pill furnace.
No, not just the Supreme Eastern Emperor’s avatar and Ali.
She could sense that another Supreme’s aura still lingered within this pill furnace.
It should be the Empress Wa Banner.
So the Supreme Eastern Emperor’s avatar had refined itself, along with the Empress Wa Banner, into Ali’s body?
Yuyao’s thoughts flickered, but she did not stay to dig deeper.
Because the final toll of the Eastern Emperor Bell had delayed them by eighty-one years out of thin air.
They could not delay any longer.
They had to hurry to see Lin Qi.
……
At the Foot of Mount Xiangji.
Lin Qi’s expression was unchanged. He suddenly sensed something and raised his head.
He saw the Dusk Mother Goddess’s massive form halted outside the Heaven Demon Macrocosm, its terrifying aura of destruction casting a ghastly shadow across the Cosmos.
And following after came Yuyao and the others, over eighty-one years late.
“You’re late.”
“Was it because of the Eastern Emperor Bell?”
Lin Qi had not left his door, yet seemed to know all the affairs of the world.
The moment he spoke, Gushe, who had been suppressing a bellyful of anger and questions, shut her mouth, her heart easing with relief.
Sure enough, everything was within Lin Qi’s expectations.
Then there was nothing to worry about.
“We did indeed encounter the Eastern Emperor Bell.”
“I never imagined that Supreme Eastern Emperor would be so resolute either.”
Yuyao sighed softly, then handed the sleeping baby girl they had found in the pill furnace to Lin Qi.
Lin Qi did not reach out to take her. He only lowered his head to glance at the sleeping baby girl, then turned his head and spoke to the couple Fang Yun and his wife, who had been praying and worrying in his wooden hut for over eighty years.
“What are you still standing there for.”
“Take little Ali back and raise her well.”
Fang Yun and Bai Ling’er froze, then hurriedly ran forward.
Seeing the sleeping baby girl, with just one glance, the two knew she was their precious daughter Ali.
Because she looked identical to Ali when she was little.
But how had she turned back into a little baby?
Fang Yun and Bai Ling’er were somewhat anxious. As they received Ali from Yuyao’s hands, weeping with joy, they looked eagerly at Lin Qi.
Hoping Lin Qi could give them a reasonable explanation.
“The Supreme Eastern Emperor was a good demon.”
Lin Qi said with emotion.
Having grown accustomed to Supremes placing profit above all else, their every action cold and rational.
A Supreme Being like the Supreme Eastern Emperor, who could still care about the fate and future of the entire Demon Race, was something Lin Qi was seeing for the first time.
It really was somewhat beyond Lin Qi’s expectations.
But it was no big problem.
After all, if the Supreme Eastern Emperor’s actions were not for personal gain, but for the fate of the entire Demon Race.
Then for Ali.
It was instead a blessing.
At least there was no need to worry that Undying Wa Huang would revive within Ali, turning Ali into Undying Wa Huang’s reincarnation.
Because the current Ali was no longer just a reincarnation body left behind by Undying Wa Huang on a passing whim.
She was also one to whom the Supreme Eastern Emperor had entrusted great hopes.
The final hope capable of sheltering the Demon Race after the Dream Bubble Shadow Eighth Commandment: the descent of the Heavenly Dao.
Simply put.
After this series of maneuvers by the Supreme Eastern Emperor’s avatar.
The hope was that Ali could be similar to the ancient Immortals and Gods era.
After the War of Wu and Yao, after the Demon Court’s fall, when the Heavenly Dao was about to permit the Human Race to flourish greatly — like Undying Wa Huang’s predecessor, Saint Nüwa.
Under Heaven’s Mandate for the Human Race to flourish, in the role of the Mother of the Human Race, she could shelter the last bloodline of the Demon Race.
And for this purpose.
The Supreme Eastern Emperor absolutely would not allow Undying Wa Huang to revive within Ali, treating Ali as her own reincarnation body.
Because the Supreme Eastern Emperor knew, and Lin Qi knew as well.
Ali might indeed possibly become an existence similar to the ancient Saint Nüwa under the great trend of the Heavenly Dao for Tianyou the Human Race.
But Undying Wa Huang, who had once been Saint Nüwa.
Absolutely could not become Saint Nüwa a second time.
Because Lin Qi would not permit it, and the other Supremes would not permit it either.
“In other words, she has indeed been blessed by misfortune.”
“Then what that avatar of the Supreme Eastern Emperor schemed and sought was actually to help her grind away the Undying Wa Huang divine sense hidden within her body.”
“Helping her escape the danger of becoming Undying Wa Huang’s reincarnation body?”
Yuyao asked.
“It should be so.”
“However, we must not be careless.”
“After all, the Eastern Emperor Bell ultimately fled rather than shattered, right?”
Lin Qi asked. Seeing Yuyao nod, he continued.
“Then we still need to guard against the possibility of the Supreme Eastern Emperor going back on his word.”
“But for now, there’s no need to worry too much.”
“Let’s raise her and see.”
Lin Qi looked again at the couple Fang Yun and his wife.
“From now on, you two stay by my side and don’t wander off, bringing Ali with you.”
Fang Yun and his wife exchanged a glance, held Ali tightly in their arms, and nodded silently.
“In addition, Yuyao.”
“I’m afraid I must trouble you to make a trip.”
“Go with Princess Longji to the Void Homeland.”
“If you can delay Venerable Lisheng’s breakthrough to Supreme, that would naturally be best.”
“If not, you must retrieve the Earth Emperor Book from Venerable Lisheng’s hands.”
Lin Qi looked at Yuyao and bowed slightly.
“Between you and me, what need is there for such courtesy.”
Yuyao turned aside to avoid the bow, smiled faintly, and was about to turn and leave.
“Be careful on the road.”
“And do not relax your control over the Dusk Mother Goddess.”
Lin Qi softly cautioned a few words. Seeing that Gao Tianyou and Gushe also wanted to follow along.
He called them to a stop.
“You two don’t need to go with her.”
“Go directly to the Great Cosmos of Tianyuan.”
“Wan Teng is there.”