I Have a Fairy King Slave

Several days later.

The whole world was shaken!

The news of Flowing Cloud Immortal King being captured by the Heavenly Tribulation Emperor spread throughout the entire Sixth Star Ruin.

Rumors about Gu Qingfeng grew increasingly wild, to the point where many privately called him the Greatest Demon of All Eternity.

Capturing a female Immortal King was something countless people would not even dare to dream of.

Yet, Gu Qingfeng had actually done it.

This time, even those lofty Immortal King factions dared not utter a word. One by one, they announced the sealing of their borders, refusing to participate in any outside disputes.

Without the Immortal King factions speaking out, Gu Qingfeng's reputation reached its absolute peak; he was truly unrivaled in the limelight.

In the streets and alleys, various storybooks even began to appear.

Titles like Old Demon Gu's Great Battle Against Flowing Cloud Immortal King.

I Have an Immortal King Slave.

Memoirs of Flowing Cloud Immortal King.

Records of the Divine Maiden Flowing Cloud.

These storybooks sprang up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, closely following current events. As soon as they hit the market, they sold out instantly.

In the past, who would dare write about the exploits of a female Immortal King like Flowing Cloud? But now that she had fallen from her pedestal and been reduced to a demon's slave, people's reverence for her naturally vanished into thin air.

The benefits of subduing Flowing Cloud Immortal King did not end there. Besides pushing Gu Qingfeng's fierce notoriety to the limit, those who wanted to undergo their heavenly tribulations also started coming to his door.

Previously, they had worried that the Immortal Kings would return to settle the score with Gu Qingfeng. However, through this battle, Gu Qingfeng had demonstrated his terrifying strength.

In the eyes of the public, Gu Qingfeng was already placed on the same level as an Immortal King, perhaps even higher.

After all, none of the past Immortal Kings had ever managed to capture a peerless beauty like Flowing Cloud Immortal King.

But Gu Qingfeng had done it.

One moment he was destroying the Chongming Immortal Clan, and the next he was capturing Flowing Cloud Immortal King to use as a cultivation furnace. Such monumental achievements far surpassed those of any Immortal King.

Although the Immortal Kings were far away in the Fallen Immortal Battlefield and had not returned, everyone believed that even if they did, they would find it very difficult to deal with Gu Qingfeng.

This demon was immortal and indestructible. He could even return after being exiled to the Land of Nothingness. He was universally acknowledged as incredibly difficult to handle, to the point where even Immortal Kings might not be able to solve the problem he presented.

Driven by this mindset, some of the bolder immortals began seeking out Gu Qingfeng to help them pass their tribulations. They searched everywhere for poisonous substances to win the favor of Emperor Gu.

It was entirely predictable that more and more people would come for tribulation assistance in the future. After all, if you saw the people around you successfully passing their tribulations one after another and experiencing massive surges in strength, would you still choose to cower in fear and refuse to go?

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Three hundred and sixty-five days later.

Inside a palace within the Flowing Cloud Immortal Domain, Gu Qingfeng held Flowing Cloud Immortal King in his arms while taking inventory of his harvest from the past year.

This year, his gains could be considered extremely bountiful. The people he had helped pass their tribulations, if lined up, could encircle one-tenth of the Flowing Cloud Immortal City.

The accumulated tribulation lightning had reached a terrifying level. According to his preliminary estimates, it was enough to threaten an Immortal King. If released all at once, even a mighty Immortal King would be severely injured, if not outright killed.

Furthermore, he had essentially swept the entire Sixth Star Ruin clean of its major poisonous substances.

In order to pass their tribulations, those immortals had searched for poisons like madmen. After all, there were only two ways to secure his help: offering a massive amount of immortal treasures or offering a massive amount of poisonous substances.

Given the choice between immortal treasures and poisons, only a fool would choose the former.

Everyone needed immortal treasures, but poisons had very few uses.

Under the accumulation of oceans of poison, Gu Qingfeng's Great Dao Poison Body had been further enhanced. The poison he could now produce had reached a level that even Immortal Kings could not ignore.

Aside from the tribulation lightning and the poisons, Gu Qingfeng's own strength had also increased significantly. Although he still had not broken through to the Daluo realm, his foundation had become much deeper.

For this, he naturally had to thank his excellent human furnace, Flowing Cloud Immortal King.

To prevent Flowing Cloud Immortal King from recovering from her injuries, Gu Qingfeng toiled day and night. Whenever she recovered even a little bit of her strength, he would drain her mana dry, repeating the cycle over and over again.

There was nothing else he could do. After all, he was not completely confident in his ability to restrain an Immortal King in her prime. He could not just strike her to death with tribulation lightning or poison her to death, he could not bear to part with such a prize!

Therefore, he could only resort to this inferior strategy. He had truly gone to great lengths to ensure that Flowing Cloud Immortal King remained by his side forever.

Today was the last time he would help someone pass their tribulation. It was not that he no longer wanted this lucrative business, but rather that he was preparing to head to the Fallen Immortal Battlefield.

He needed to see whether the Chongming Immortal King was actually dead or not. He always kept the safety of his family in his heart.

He had long since learned from Flowing Cloud Immortal King that her previous injuries were sustained at the hands of Immortal Kings from other Star Ruins while fighting over Transcendent Substance.

The same was likely true for the Chongming Immortal King.

In the Fallen Immortal Battlefield, the Immortal Kings from the various major Star Ruins generally banded together. Only by doing so could they protect their own interests and compete for Transcendent Substance.

However, the Sixth Star Ruin was frequently targeted by others. Every time, they paid the heaviest price but reaped the smallest harvest.

The reason was that the Sixth Star Ruin was the weakest of the Nine Great Star Ruins and had the fewest Immortal Kings.

In truth, the Sixth Star Ruin had once been powerful. Back then, the Flying Immortal Sect had not yet been wiped out by the blood of the Poison Demon. During the Flying Immortal Sect's peak, the Sixth Star Ruin ranked at least in the top three.

The Flying Immortal Sect was once the most powerful faction in the Sixth Star Ruin, dominating the entire realm and gathering all the world's talents under its wing.

Because of this, the destruction of the Flying Immortal Sect directly caused the overall decline of the Sixth Star Ruin.

Regarding this point, Gu Qingfeng had once raised a question to Flowing Cloud Immortal King.

Since the Sixth Star Ruin had the fewest Immortal Kings, why didn't the current Immortal Kings want others to advance to the Immortal King realm?

It would be one thing if they simply didn't offer support, but they actively suppressed them instead.

The answer Flowing Cloud Immortal King gave was that even if the Sixth Star Ruin gained one or two more Immortal Kings, it would not change the fact that they were the weakest. Instead, having an extra person simply meant having to split the profits into another share.

Over the years, the Immortal Kings of the Sixth Star Ruin had long established their own pattern of survival in the Fallen Immortal Battlefield. Whenever the Nine Great Star Ruins divided the spoils, although they received the smallest share, they would never be left with absolutely nothing.

Because the other major Star Ruins didn't want to push things to the absolute limit. If they truly drove the Immortal Kings of the Sixth Star Ruin into a corner, causing them to give up on competing for Transcendent Substance and instead focus entirely on sabotage, no one would be able to bear the cost.

Once an Immortal King was forced into a dead end and began to wreak havoc recklessly, the price would be far too steep.

Therefore, this was the reason why the Immortal Kings of the Sixth Star Ruin suppressed their own internal talents. Since their share of the profits was already fixed, why allow a few more Immortal Kings to emerge and divide those profits further?

Especially since adding a few more Immortal Kings would not change the overall situation anyway.

From this perspective, the Immortal Kings seemed somewhat shortsighted. Would it not be better to endure a period of reduced profits and cultivate more Immortal Kings? Once the number of Immortal Kings increased significantly in the future, would they not be able to reverse their status as the weakest?

That might be true in theory, but no one would actually do it.

In the struggle for the Great Dao, falling behind by a single step meant falling behind at every subsequent step. Transcendent Substance was limited. What if there was no Transcendent Substance left in the future?

How could they transcend then and become existences above the Immortal King realm?

Rather than nurturing the next generation, it was better to drain the pond to catch all the fish, securing their own success.