Mysterious mirror hanging high

Hetianyu, Heaven

It was already night, but inside the Heavenly Palace, the bright lights on the sides were flickering, illuminating the entire hall as if it were daytime.

Xiao Guanying was wearing the Emperor's robe with a black background and gold patterns. He sat upright on the throne in the main hall, his eyelids slightly drooping, as if he was dozing off.

There was no one under the Danbi, which was normal, after all, it was late at night. But let alone the ministers, there was not even a single attendant of the Emperor of Heaven to be seen in the hall. Instead, there was a sense of weirdness everywhere, which made people feel uneasy.

It was midnight, and thirty-six bells rang outside the palace, symbolizing that the thirty-six palaces in heaven were operating as usual.

But Xiao Guanying knew that the people outside the palace at this moment were definitely not the Qian Gang Guards who were on patrol as usual.

"Maybe it's time."

He is waiting for someone.

No, maybe a group of people.

Da da da--

Steady and rhythmic footsteps were heard, and Jing Yu, dressed in a gray robe, walked slowly into the hall from outside, looking up at Xiao Guanying who was on the steps.

"You're here." Xiao Guanying didn't seem surprised by Jing Yu's arrival. Instead, he spoke lightly and greeted the Taoist Xuan Jing who had repeatedly ruined his plans.

"Emperor Xiao Tian, ​​I hope you are well." Jing Yu's expression was a little complicated. The look he gave Xiao Guanying seemed to have less hostility and more admiration and pity.

"Are you the only one?" Xiao Guanying asked back.

"Of course it's more than that!"

As Jing Yu finished speaking, there was a loud "bang" and the dome of the hall shattered. In an instant, more than ten figures with extraordinary aura appeared above the dome, looking down at Xiao Guanying who was sitting on the throne.

Lu Yingzhao, Ye Xingyun, Nangong Fuhua, Yuwen Baoge, Xiao Zhenyu, Qi Tianhua, Yang Dingfeng, Taoist Zhican, Taoist Guxu... almost half of the righteous cultivators from the East China Sea and Penglai have come.

Even Xiao Guanying's sister, Xiao Guanyue, came here. At this moment, she was looking at her brother with a complicated expression.

Of course, there is one more person.

Xiao Guanying's gaze finally fell on the young man in the dark yellow Taoist robe standing beside Xiao Guanyue.

Xiao Shihua!

"kill……"

There were faint shouts and sounds of killing coming from outside the hall. Xiao Guanying tilted his head and suddenly asked:

"What is that sound?"

"It's the sound of the coalition forces of Donghai and Penglai breaking through the South Heaven Gate." Xiao Shihua said with a complicated expression.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Guanying's eyes flashed with intelligence. He used his spiritual eyes to look into the endless distance. Sure enough, he saw at the South Heaven Gate a golden-haired ape in the early Nascent Soul stage holding an iron rod. With one strike, it smashed the entire South Heaven Gate into pieces.

The surrounding area was full of soldiers and generals who had built their foundation and cultivated their Qi. They looked at the ferocious demon ape with fear on their faces and stopped in their tracks.

"It seems that all the high-ranking officials of the Heavenly Court have already fled. Otherwise, how could a mere demon ape in the early Nascent Soul stage have traveled all the way to the South Heavenly Gate without any hindrance?"

"Then why don't you run away?"

Jing Yu asked, "I thought fellow Daoist would retreat to the surface and reunite with Qiu Xuandong... If two great late-stage Spiritualization cultivators join forces, there might be hope for a comeback."

Xiao Guanying said indifferently: "It seems that you know a lot. I think Xiao Shihua has revealed all my secrets."

“That’s why I’m surprised.”

Xiao Guanying said: "Because it's meaningless."

"Even if I meet up with Qiu Xuandong, you only need to follow the strategy we used to deal with Ying Ba and Zhao Nu."

"You activate the [Death Battle Contract] to drag Qiu Xuandong into the death battle arena, and then the rest of the Daoists will attack me... No, even Daoist Fellow Lu alone might be enough."

"You can even hold back Zhao Nu, who excels at attack and manipulation, let alone Qiu Xuan Cave, whose principles favor defense?"

"Since it's useless, why bother doing this? It only makes you all run around?"

"Besides!"

Xiao Guanying slowly stood up from the throne, waved his sleeves and said with a smile:

"The Heavenly Emperor has his own majesty. I am the one who will take charge of the Qian Gang Hall. Even if I have to leave, I will do so in this Qian Gang Hall, which symbolizes the authority of Heaven!"

Lu Yingzhao stood out from the crowd. A suit of purple thunder armor had already condensed on her body, but her hands were empty, with only a pair of flesh palms. She looked at Xiao Guanying with a hint of regret:

"Xiao Guanying, it's a pity for you... If you weren't cultivating a path like Qian Gang, which is universally hostile, with your talent and ability, perhaps we could have become true fellow Taoists."

"It's a pity that you've chosen the path of Qian Gang. You're destined to become the enemy of the vast majority of cultivators who don't want to be suppressed by alternative heavenly ways."

"If you ascend, if you reveal the secrets of your path, perhaps a True Immortal or even a Golden Immortal-level being will disregard your status and forcibly descend to suppress or kill you."

"It's difficult to make decisions alone, but there is hope for the country to succeed. If there was a powerful person to guide me, Xiao Guanying would definitely not have taken the path of Qian Gang... I still suffer from a lack of vision." Lu Yingzhao sighed softly. She did not say this out loud, but just thought about it in her heart.

Saying these things at this time will only disturb the other party's mind.

Lu Yingzhao was sure of victory at this point, and he disdained to use such words to shake Xiao Guanying's will. He just clenched his fists silently.

She even had time to launch a lightning net, reinforcing the blockade outside the immortal palace where Ying Jin was hiding beside her. Then she said loudly, "Lu will send Fellow Daoist Xiao on his way today!"

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Boom boom boom——

A young man wearing a khaki cotton robe and with a dirty and unkempt appearance seemed to have sensed something and looked in the direction of Hetian Realm. The divine perception of a Jindan cultivator enabled him to keenly capture a trace of spiritual fluctuations thousands of miles away, and his originally dim eyes lit up.

"The fight started!"

This person is none other than Qiu Dongxuan, who had exchanged bodies not long ago!

Perhaps because the worry about not being able to ascend to heaven had been removed, Qiu Dongxuan's soul was no longer affected by the invasion of inner demons. His madness was also largely cured, and his IQ returned to a high level.

His eyes sparkled with wisdom as he pondered:

"I originally planned to restore this body's cultivation to the late stage of the Spiritualization Realm before ascending. After all, my understanding of the laws is already complete. It's just a matter of accumulating and honing my mana... Calculating the time, it shouldn't take more than a few hundred years."

"But Lu Yingzhao happened to appear. Even though Xiao has reached the late stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, I'm afraid he's in great danger. Although my body has escaped the constraints of the earth veins, I'm no longer immortal. I'm afraid I can't withstand a few punches and kicks from that little girl."

"No time to waste! While so many Divine Beings are gathering in Heaven to besiege Xiao, I can seize this opportunity to ascend!"

"Although the survival rate of those who ascend to the mid-stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm is not high, I am proficient in the Law of Earth after all, and my Dharma body is quite tough... I should have a 50% chance of success. I'll take a gamble!"

When Qiu Dongxuan went crazy, he offended too many sects, and he had grudges against almost half of the sects in Penglai Fairyland. Naturally, he didn't dare to stay for too long. Just as he was about to fly into the Nine Heavens Gangfeng layer, he found that a huge white sword suddenly fell from the Gangfeng layer. It completely abandoned the sharp and light characteristics of the magic sword itself, and it was like an extremely huge fire stick, rushing towards him fiercely!