Jia Ling'er's Wedding

The Demonic Mother of Ghostly Visage was in agony!

After venting her fury for a while at the periphery of the dimensional barrier, she plunged into the black mist and vanished.

"Was that the Dao power of an Immortal? Why would an Immortal be in the lower realm? Weren't the Immortals of the Nine Heavens all guarding the borders? And with the current severance between heaven and earth—"

No matter how she calculated it, the Demonic Mother of Ghostly Visage couldn't figure out exactly how she had been wounded.

That sinister wind blowing into her eyes, while not causing substantial damage, was excruciatingly painful, a torment akin to having her eyes gouged out and her heart carved open... oh, wait, she didn't have a heart.

Pain... she hadn't felt pain in so long since falling into darkness.

"The Demon Lord once said the Demon Ancestor's revival... is in the lower realm. Could this be a contingency left by the Demon Ancestor?"

A trace of fear flickered in the eyes of the Demonic Mother of Ghostly Visage.

The Demon Ancestor...

That progenitor of all demons, in terms of seniority... was an ancestor-level figure to fiends like them. The power of the fiendish spirits was a brand new Dao force created by the Demon Lord, using the Demonic Dao as a foundation and fusing it with the Sinister Dao, the Ghostly Dao, and many other great Dao laws!

It could be said to be the three-thousand-and-first Dao, independent of the Three Thousand Great Daos—the Dao of the Bizarre!

If it were a contingency left by the Demon Ancestor, injuring her wouldn't be strange, but she hadn't sensed any aura of the Demonic Dao within that sinister wind.

"I must return and report to the Demon Lord. This is of grave importance!"

The Demonic Mother of Ghostly Visage vanished into the void.

......

"Holy shit!!! Fiendish spirits are coming! Fiendish spirits are invading the mortal realm!!!"

On Blue Star, someone pointed at the sky, their face a mask of terror.

From the rift in the heavens, vast amounts of black qi poured in, and within that black qi, countless bizarre fiendish spirits swarmed forth. It was like a bucket of water with a small hole punched in the bottom—the water just gushed out.

The spatial rift wasn't very large, so the fiendish spirits crossing over weren't huge in size, and their strength naturally wasn't that great, at most at the half-step Martial God stage. But their numbers were simply overwhelming, and the thick black qi flooded in. In an instant, it turned a region of Blue Star into a dead zone!

"Fiendish spirits? Didn't my brother already... No, he repelled the Demonic Mother, but this dimensional barrier is already cracked!" Jiang Ruoxu's expression grew increasingly grave.

The dimensional barrier had been breached. Now, the ability of Blue Star's cultivators to unite would be put to the test.

"Fellow cultivators of Blue Star, as you can see... the dimensional barrier has been breached. The Demonic Mother has been repelled, but if we don't stand united... we will soon be corrupted by these extra-dimensional fiendish spirits!"

Jiang Ruoxu stepped forward once again.

[Ding! Host has pulled off a show of caring for the world, earning 60 million show-off points.]

Just as his words fell, the earth shook and the mountains trembled!

"BOOM!!!"

Terrifying cracks appeared in the ground, as if from a magnitude ten earthquake.

From beneath the earth, countless intricate and tangled tree roots suddenly burst forth. The roots looked bizarre and horrifying, some dry and withered, others fresh, red, and plump. Ultimately, these roots coalesced into a colossal, towering tree!

Lin Mu. The secret realm was too small... his massive, monstrous form couldn't stretch out at all; he could only coil up. But now... having left the secret realm space, his body was finally able to fully extend!

It blotted out the sky and sun, its form bizarre and terrifying.

"What the hell!! Where did this monster come from? When did this fiendish spirit sneak into Blue Star? A mole or a spy?"

Jiang Ruoxu's eyes nearly popped out of his head. This guy was clearly a damn extra-dimensional fiendish spirit, right?

But how could an extra-dimensional fiendish spirit have lain hidden on Blue Star for so long without anyone noticing?

Looking up at the giant tree in the sky, Jiang Ruoxu felt his heart trembling.

A fiendish demon beyond the Martial God stage!

This entity was already beyond what he could defeat, but... for the sake of show-off points, he had to go all in.

The live stream was set. The young lad struck what he thought was a very cool pose, standing with his sword held behind him, his gaze blazing. "Demons and monsters bring chaos to the world. Everyone, watch this sword of mine, capable of moving mountains..."

"Move your damn head! Get over here and help!!!"

Before Jiang Ruoxu could finish his grand display, he was cut off by Lin Mu's shout.

The young lad's eyes widened, a look of 'who am I, where am I, who's calling me' on his face.

"I'm Lin Mu, Boss Jiang Che's number one enforcer! You can call me Brother Mu. You must have seen me before... I worked as a security guard at the Cultivator Academy entrance for a while..."

Jiang Ruoxu's mouth twitched. I was just about to unleash my ultimate move... and you're telling me you're one of us?

The strange tree at the Cultivator Academy entrance? He seemed to have some impression...

But the problem now was... he was in an awkward spot. Should he swing this sword or not? He was damn well live-streaming!

Counting the audiences from both Blue Star and the Nine Heavens, there were probably tens of trillions of beings watching.

He, Jiang Ruoxu, was a pretty big online celebrity, okay?

[Ding! Host has pulled off an awkward, epic fail, earning 250 points.]

"......"

"Damn it!" Jiang Ruoxu cursed angrily, then swung his white sword, slashing towards the spatial rift!

He had risen in status now. After becoming a major streamer, every live-streamed show-off act earned him tens of millions of points. After saving up painstakingly for a long time, he could finally exchange for an Immortal Physique.

Thus, he spent 3 billion points to purchase an Immortal Physique called the 'Extinction Sword Body,' even though the very next day after buying it... the Extinction Sword Body went on sale for 70% off.

Still, it was around that time he began to suspect his system was created by Jiang Che.

But it didn't matter anymore. The cheat was in his account, after all!

Working for family is always better than working for outsiders, right? At least they wouldn't screw you over.

...

"Jiang Che... maybe we should flee into the Nine Heavens? I... I'm a little scared!"

Jia Ling'er shrank into Jiang Che's embrace, her heart filled with fear. The mortal realm was, after all, an unfamiliar place to her, and the only one she could rely on was Jiang Che.

"Ling'er, what's there to be afraid of? It's just a fiendish spirit invasion," Jiang Che said with a calm smile.

The fiendish spirit invasion was, naturally, Jiang Che's doing!

He could have directly used a Dao-level dimensional barrier to completely protect the mortal realm, not letting a single fiendish spirit in.

But... he still opened a gap for the fiendish spirits, letting a large batch of them into Blue Star.

Complacency leads to peril; survival of the fittest!

Occasionally letting in a batch of extra-dimensional fiendish spirits to help the 'leeks' level up.

"Oh... right, Jiang Che! My mother has completely agreed to our relationship!" Jia Ling'er exclaimed excitedly.

"Mother said... once we enter the Nine Heavens, she'll hold a grand wedding ceremony for us, inviting all the great imperial clans of the Southern Abyss Heavenly Domain!"

Mentioning the wedding made Jia Ling'er's eyes sparkle like stars.

"Oh? Just a moment ago you said you wanted to flee back to the Nine Heavens? I think you just want to be a bride!" Jiang Che teased, gently tapping the girl's nose.

Jia Ling'er's pretty face flushed slightly, and she lowered her head.

"Jiang... Jiang Che, my mother knows you have many beautiful girls around you. I've been negotiating with her every night in my dreams, and she has finally agreed... When the time comes for our wedding, we can have a grand ceremony!"