Stealing the Heavens.

Chapter 17 The Demon Hunter Team in Action
"Junior Sister Xinyu, are you sure we can wipe out this group of demon cultivators in the village?"

Zi Dong quickly grabbed Zhou Xinyu. This was no joke. If another Demon Clan elder at the Star Refining Realm appeared, they would basically be wiped out.

"Of course, no problem!" Zhou Xinyu said confidently, pulling Zi Dong along again as they sped towards the village.

"Wait!" Zi Dong stopped Zhou Xinyu again, quickly took out the leader's token from his storage bag, and sent a group message: "The Demon Hunter Team is on the move!"
“Even if you notify them now, they won’t be able to get here in time. What’s the point of sending these?” Zhou Xinyu glanced at the Demon Hunter Team badge that was flashing on her chest.

“Even though they can’t make it in time, we still have to notify them so that it counts as the Demon Hunter Team’s first operation.” Zi Dong said as he put the token back into his storage bag.

"Zi Dong, you're lying!" Zhou Xinyu immediately pointed out seriously, "Does the Heavenly Dao look so easily fooled?"

"This is the experience summarized by countless predecessors of the Yuntian Sect!" Zi Dong glanced at Zhou Xinyu smugly:

“Junior Sister Xinyu, you should go to the Scripture Pavilion to study properly. The experience will save you a lot of detours.”

"You think you can take shortcuts like this?!" Zhou Xinyu scoffed. Her master had told her that cultivators must follow the laws of heaven and earth in their actions.

"The Heavenly Fortune Continent has gone through countless years, and even the Heavenly Dao cannot be all-encompassing, let alone analyze it carefully."

Zi Dong felt he should teach Zhou Xinyu a lesson; as an earthling, he had considerable experience in management.

"It's like a sect. Once it becomes powerful, the organization will inevitably become bloated. The sect leader is too high up to handle everything, which will lead to all sorts of unsolvable problems. Once these problems become too deep to handle, the only option is to break it down and rebuild it."

"You mean you want to defy the laws of heaven?!" Zhou Xinyu was startled and quickly glanced at the calm night sky, knowing that such rebellious words would incur divine punishment.

"The cycle of Heaven is inevitable. So what if it is Heaven? We're not born into the Heavenly Way. Why can't we break free from it?!" Zi Dong said nonchalantly.

He had already stolen a lot of the Heavenly Dao's fortune, and yet the Heavenly Dao hadn't punished him, so he started to become somewhat arrogant.

"They've started! Let's hurry inside!" Zhou Xinyu was about to teach the rebellious Zi Dong a lesson when she suddenly sensed something amiss and quickly called for Zi Dong to rush into the village.

Zi Dong soon heard the sounds of fighting, and the surging true energy had already illuminated the dark village, like fireworks suddenly being set off.

"One Demon Clan elder at the Star Refining Realm, two Soul Breaking Realm deacons, one Sea Transformation Realm deacons, and more than thirty disciples."

As Zhou Xinyu ran, she gave Zi Dong a detailed account of the situation of the demonic cultivators in the village:

"The affiliated sect only has a dozen or so people: one Star Refining Realm elder and one Heavenly Profound Realm deacon. The rest are all disciples, and they are in danger of being wiped out!"

"Then are we still going in?!" Zi Dong was so startled that he almost stumbled and fell. Just as he was about to dissuade Zhou Xinyu, he saw her suddenly produce more than a dozen flying swords.

With his hands moving like butterflies flitting among flowers, he controlled more than a dozen flying swords and rushed into the village.

"Is this something a cultivator at the Innate Realm could do?!" Zi Dong stared in shock at the flying swords darting around in the sky, and quickly took out his own flying sword to chase after them.

Even a small storage bag couldn't hold so many flying swords. Zhou Xinyu must also have a storage ring; after all, she's the sect leader's daughter.

Two Star Refining Realm elders are engaged in a fierce battle high in the sky, while the Heavenly Profound Realm deacon from the affiliated sect is surrounded by three deacons from the Demon Clan.

Ten disciples from affiliated sects are being chased and fleeing from more than thirty demon disciples, and their situation is already precarious. There are also two members of the demon-hunting team.

Before Zhou Xinyu even arrived, more than a dozen flying swords rushed in, instantly killing and driving back more than thirty demon disciples.

Even the two Star Refining Realm elders were somewhat bewildered. When did the Daoist sect's Innate Realm cultivators become so powerful that they actually repelled a Demon Clan Core Formation Realm disciple with a single sword strike!
The power of the dozen or so flying swords was still at the Innate Realm, but their speed was simply too fast, no weaker than that of the two Star Refining Realm elders!
Zi Dong stared at Zhou Xinyu's hands, which moved like phantoms, and was 100% certain that she was definitely more than just a cultivator at the Innate Realm!

The speed of the flying sword could be explained by powerful divine sense, but even with powerful divine sense, it's impossible to execute such complex hand seals. Moreover, Zhou Xinyu's flying swords not only helped the disciples of the affiliated sect suppress the demon disciples, but also sent two of them to attack the demon deacons.

Zi Dong finally felt relieved and even a little excited. With Zhou Xinyu around, the Demon Hunter Team could basically complete all the missions.

With just these dozen or so flying swords, they can suppress a cultivator at the Star Refining Realm. What kind of demon stronghold can't they destroy?
With the help of two flying swords, the Heavenly Profound Realm deacon from the affiliated sect finally managed to injure the Sea Transformation Realm demonic cultivator.

Even the two demonic cultivators at the Soul Reaching Realm couldn't withstand the combination of a Heavenly Profound Realm cultivator and two extremely fast flying swords, and they quickly fled in disarray.

Zhou Xinyu had already killed several Qi Refining Realm demonic cultivators, and the disciples of the affiliated sects finally gained the upper hand.

Zi Dong, holding his spirit sword, was about to test his Eastern Purple Qi on a demonic cultivator at the Innate Realm when he suddenly began to continuously gain luck.

They were all first- or second-rank officials. Comparing them one by one with Zhou Xinyu's record, it was all thanks to her.

The Demon Hunters have not yet gained the approval of the Heavenly Dao, so Zi Dong has not yet obtained the Demon Hunters' Luck Tree.

Why was Zhou Xinyu able to help him gain luck?!
Zi Dong was completely baffled, but Zhou Yunting, standing in front of the Ziyun Hall on Yuntian Peak, nodded with a satisfied smile.

As it turned out, his prediction was correct; anyone who got involved with Zi Dong was able to help the sect unexpectedly gain good fortune.

Upon meeting Zhou Xinyu, Zhou Yunting grafted Zhou Xinyu's luck branch onto Zi Dong's luck branch, but this consumed a significant amount of his luck.

On the Qi Luck Tree of the Yuntian Sect, each branch represents a cultivator of the sect, and the leaves on it represent the Qi Luck that the cultivator brings to the sect.

Zi Dong was able to help the sect gain unexpected fortune, and after Zhou Yunting met Zhou Xinyu, he immediately decided to bring the two together.

Grafting was a new method he came up with, a complete innovation, and it would be even closer than making the two people become Daoist partners.

"What's making you so happy? Tell me so I can have a laugh too."

Chen Lin, dressed in a purple dress, walked out of the main hall and was very dissatisfied with Zhou Yunting, who had a smug look on his face. This guy had been secretly enjoying himself lately.

"Madam, Zi Dong and Junior Sister Xin Yu have helped the sect gain a lot of good fortune!" Zhou Yunting quickly turned around and grabbed Chen Lin's small hand.

"Are you trying to set them up?" Chen Lin stood side by side with Zhou Yunting, also looking out of Yuntian Peak.

"I would like to help Master keep Zi Dong in check, but I'm afraid he wouldn't be interested in Junior Sister Xin Yu!" Zhou Yunting shook his head with a wry smile.

"Then who will Zi Dong like?!" Chen Lin was quite surprised that Zhou Yunting had made such a conclusion so early.

"It's true that enemies are destined to meet, just like us back then. We were always secretly competing, but in the end, we became husband and wife." Zhou Yunting affectionately hugged Chen Lin in his arms.

"You mean Feng Qingwu?!" Chen Lin took the opportunity to bury her head on Zhou Yunting's shoulder. She didn't want Zi Dong to get together with Feng Qingwu, and it would be best to keep Zi Dong away from the Feng family.

"Linlin, how about we have a daughter and then she marries Zidong?" Zhou Yunting whispered in Chen Lin's ear.

"I wanted a daughter before you advanced to the Void Breaking Realm, but you insisted on becoming the sect leader. Now that you want to have one, it won't be so easy. Otherwise, I wouldn't have deliberately suppressed my cultivation!"

Chen Lin gently scolded Zhou Yunting, saying that cultivators at the Breaking Void Realm have already opened up a space within their bodies, which suppresses various bodily functions, making it extremely difficult for them to have children.

"There's always a way, even if it costs more luck!" Zhou Yunting waved his hand dismissively, saying that even Heaven couldn't deprive him of his right to have children!

(End of this chapter)