Please, Young Master, Slay the Demon!
Chapter 1023 - 81: Seriously [2 in 1] _2

Chapter 1023: Chapter 81: Seriously [2 in 1] _2

Cold as a celestial, her eyes full of worry, who could it be if not Jiang Yuebai?

She was holding Chu Liang’s hand, her eyes filled with concern and joy, saying, "You’ve finally awakened..."

Chu Liang blinked, looking around. "Senior Sister Jiang is here, but where are the Spirit Stone Coins?"

"What did you say?" Jiang Yuebai was stunned, "Did you dream of something?"

Suddenly, Chu Liang reached out and pinched Jiang Yuebai’s cheek, squeezing it, and chuckled, "Really though, the Dao of Creation is impressive. She looks exactly the same on the outside, who knows..."

As he tweaked her face over and over, Jiang Yuebai’s expression gradually darkened.

Under the clear blue sky, inside Shenxu Temple surrounded by lush greenery, a loud explosion suddenly erupted.

Boom!

Amidst the explosion, a young man’s scream could faintly be heard.

...

In the vast, endless desert of the northwest, Ji Lingyu and Huo Tianya flew past.

They had meticulously explored this desert for a whole round, enduring the scorching sun for several days. Although their cultivation level meant they wouldn’t feel too tired, it was still uncomfortable.

"When will this end?" Huo Tianya frowned first. He cultivated Water-Based Divine Power and disliked the hot and dry climate here, but he dared not defy the orders of Venerable Wanfa, whose status was, after all, above that of the Heavenly Master. "The Nine Heavens and Ten Lands aren’t fools; they must have searched for Evil Ksitigarbha already. If their manpower couldn’t find it, how long will we continue searching like trying to find a needle in the ocean?"

Although Venerable Wanfa’s prediction was derived from the ignorant, his cultivation level wasn’t enough to pinpoint the exact location, only knowing it was in a boundless desert.

The largest desert in the world was this place, and the forces of Mars had been sent here to search thoroughly. If they found nothing here, perhaps they would have to move on to another place.

But when Tianshu Pavilion was in charge of the ignorant, they definitely also attempted to find Evil Ksitigarbha. Being on the Righteous Path, they were even more eager to find the weak state of Evil Ksitigarbha and eradicate it completely.

If they hadn’t found it, it meant that Evil Ksitigarbha’s hiding place was exceptionally secretive.

"The Venerable’s idea is that we just need to search. If we approach the hiding place of Evil Ksitigarbha, maybe we won’t need to seek him out; he will come out to find us himself," Ji Lingyu explained. "As long as we’re patient enough, we’ll find it."

"If he’s weak now, how can he come out?" Huo Tianya was still displeased but started moving anyway.

Ji Lingyu watched his back, his gaze flickering momentarily before he followed suit.

After the Heavenly Master declared himself a disciple of the Venerable, Mars’s official ruler also changed to Venerable Wanfa. Yet when the Heavenly Master was in charge of Mars, it was through the appeal of the Dao of Chaos.

He aimed to disrupt the Nine States, causing great turmoil in the human world, denying peace to the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.

Because of this, he could gather so many reckless folks to join Mars and work for him. They all held grudges against various Immortal Clans, hoping to overturn the old structure of the Mortal Realm.

However, after Wanfa appeared, the purpose of Mars seemed to change.

Not only did he want to create chaos across the Four Seas and Nine Continents, but everything he did was for his own ascent to godhood. From the alliance between Wanfa and Evil Ksitigarbha, it was clear that he never cared about the wellbeing of this region of the Mortal Realm. To ascend to the Ninth Realm, he might even consider destroying the world with Evil Ksitigarbha.

Huo Tianya realized this and thus his will began to waver. This was the reason he was reluctant to search for Evil Ksitigarbha.

Not only him, but the few key members left in Mars were more or less disloyal.

Although members of Mars were all bad seeds, none were fools. "I’ll do bad things with you, but I won’t become the bad thing itself." It was only because they couldn’t break away for the time being that they temporarily maintained the current situation.

Whiz—

Ji Lingyu’s eyes emitted a burst of golden light, surveying all around, taking in thousands of miles of landscape at a glance. Suddenly, he focused on one direction, as if he saw something strange.

"Let’s go check that out." He turned into a streak of golden light and dashed off, Huo Tianya quickly followed, not falling behind.

Hundreds of miles away, there didn’t seem to be anything special, but when Ji Lingyu landed on the ground and looked down, from a very distant place he had caught a glimpse of a single black grain of sand hidden in the vast yellow desert.

This is the power of the Golden Xuanyuan Pupil.

He bent down and gently picked up that black sand, and indeed, he felt an ancient and strange spiritual force emanating from it.

"Is this..." he muttered, "the blood of Evil Ksitigarbha?"

Boom—

Before he could finish his sentence, a sudden change occurred!

A huge black hand suddenly reached out from beneath the desert, with a tremendous suction force that gave him no chance to escape, directly locking Ji Lingyu and countless flowing sands together.

The sand in the palm of the hand instantly turned into nothingness, and the hand also shrank, leaving only Ji Lingyu trapped within the grasp. As it continued to tighten, Ji Lingyu’s bones made creaking noises, and his complexion turned crimson in an instant.

"Lord Evil Ksitigarbha!" Ji Lingyu shouted, "Venerable Wanfa sent us to find you, knowing you are currently weak and afraid of encountering cultivators from the Righteous Path. He has a way to help you recover and wishes for you to show yourself!"

After saying this, his golden pupils were almost bursting out, and it seemed he was about to perish.

Whew—

Finally, at the moment when he saw his grandmother waving, the tightening of the black hand stopped. Ji Lingyu was able to take a long breath, and his gaze became dark and determined once again.

It seemed that even if he truly met his grandmother, he would personally slay her once more.

Rumble, rumble, rumble—

The ground seemed to sink, creating a hole from which a black head emerged, followed by a body. After a moment, the body, the size of an ordinary person, emerged from the ground as Evil Ksitigarbha.

His appearance showed no signs of weakness, still with that deadly condensed aura, and a mere glance from his crimson eyes could chill even the most wicked people like Ji Lingyu and Huo Tianya.

After all, even the worst people are still humans, and the main composition of such Upper Realm Heavenly Demons is pure evil, which cannot be compared.

"If Wanfa wants to find me, let him come in person," said Evil Ksitigarbha, his voice deep and hoarse, like the scraping of metal.

"Naturally," Ji Lingyu landed, breathing hard, before he replied, "The Venerable will be here immediately."

As soon as his voice fell, a halo flickered in midair, and from within, a radiant light descended, casting the figure of a man in a white robe—it was Venerable Wanfa.

"I knew it, you need me too," Venerable Wanfa said with a smile upon seeing Evil Ksitigarbha, "As long as this world exists for one more day, we are the closest allies."

"You said you can help me recover?" Evil Ksitigarbha looked at him.

He had almost been entirely devoured by the Heavenly Demon, nearly perishing. Severely weakened, he fled swiftly and hid within a spatial rift using his own concealment method.

If he hadn’t wanted to appear, even if Ji Lingyu had found that drop of blood, it would have been very difficult to locate him.

The reason he showed himself was because if he quietly absorbed the evil thoughts of the world here, it might take thousands of years to recover. But he had already wasted too much life in this mortal realm, and he didn’t want to linger here any longer.

If Venerable Wanfa could help him, that was more than welcome.

"I only know of a method, but it cannot be implemented right now," Venerable Wanfa said.

"Let’s hear it," Evil Ksitigarbha said in a deep voice, "If you just wanted to deceive me into coming out, then you’ll find that, although I was severely injured by the Heavenly Demon, I still have the power to crush Limiters."

"Of course, how dare I offend the Heavenly Demon?" Venerable Wanfa smiled, "As I said, we are allies."

He paused, then continued, "You’ve been consumed too much by the Heavenly Demons, and it’s very difficult to recover on your own, while I need your power. So my help is genuine, you need not doubt it. With my cultivation as it is, I normally couldn’t do it, but fortunately... there is a Divine Artifact in this world."

"What kind of Divine Artifact can be of use?" Evil Ksitigarbha asked further.

Venerable Wanfa pointed to the east, speaking solemnly, "The Eastern Sea Time Wheel."