The cheat system is useless, but I have the strongest living dad.

Huo Die received the message, left a letter, and decisively abandoned his post.

When Jiang Qi received news that Jiang Ming was seriously injured and that Feng Yu and Shen Yao had escaped, she went to find Huo Die, only to find six large characters on the letter: "I'm leaving, Huo Die."

Jiang Qi felt a lump in her throat, unable to calm herself, filled with immense regret: 'I was too greedy. If only I hadn't taken the detour, I would have directly attacked Yicheng and killed the Evil Emperor.'

Huo Die has escaped, how is she supposed to kill the Evil Emperor now!

She couldn't very well invite her father, who was far away in the Immortal City, to come and kill an evil lord with her.

Given the Evil Emperor's strength, even if she and her father joined forces, they would likely both suffer heavy losses.

The Evil Emperor's cultivation method is truly bizarre, far more unpredictable than that of ordinary evil cultivators.

Shen Yao dared to run away, which means she must have gained a new lease on life and no longer needs the Nine-Turn Spirit-Stabilizing Pill to prolong her life.

Jiang Qi felt that Shen Yao was even worse than her at using and discarding things.

How heartless! He didn't even care about his own son and just ran away.

She said that Shi Bao was destined to be a pitiful child.

Back in the training room, Jiang Qi removed the flag representing Huo Die from the formation diagram. Now, the Immortal Clan has expanded two circles to the south of the former Demon Clan. All the cities along the border are only two cities away from Yi City, and five cities away at the farthest.

She turned her gaze to the Demon Sea. For hundreds of years, cultivators who entered the Demon Sea have never returned. The Demon Sea is a place that no one can attempt to occupy.

The eastern demon sea area is connected to the current territory of the evil cultivators, and the sea area is also the best natural barrier for the demons.

In summary, the evil cultivators' current sphere of influence is very small, but the closer to Yicheng the evil cultivator cities are to the evil cultivator cities, the higher their level.

Apart from the Evil Emperor, she didn't take other evil cultivators seriously.

But on the battlefield, she can't fight alone.

Sigh, he's still not strong enough. Unlike Huo Die, who could kill the Evil Ancestor like cutting vegetables.

It's strange that Shen Yao's father was ruthless when killing evil cultivators, but when it came to ignorant immortal cultivators, he would at most beat them up and never kill them.

But Old Man Huo didn't seem to value his own clan.

Could it be that there are some taboos associated with the cultivation method he practices?

Jiang Qi shook her head, deciding she couldn't think about that now. Having just captured Beicheng, the army needed rest and recuperation, and she also needed to carefully consider whether to continue the attack.

After setting up all the city defenses, Jiang Qi stayed in Beicheng for a month.

With Huo Die around, all we needed to do to defeat the Evil Cultivator City was launch a direct assault.

He seemed to be able to break any formation or unbreak any barrier.

Now that Huo Die is gone, the inner circle of the Evil Cultivator City is impregnable, and a direct assault is basically futile.

She received no news from the inner perimeter, and all the spies she sent out disappeared without a trace.

In the end, Jiang Qi abandoned the siege, left his trusted confidants to guard Beicheng, and returned directly to Chongcheng.

……

Not long after Jiang Ming was brought back to the Thunder God Hall by Wang Xu, he received news that Huo Die had left.

He instructed Wang Xu to immediately send a message to Xiao Hong, asking Xiao Hong to take Shi Bao back to the True God Sect in Emperor Immortal City.

Before Shen Yao even arrived at the alchemy room, Shi Bao had already been taken away from the sect by his master, Xiao Hong, to search for rare and precious materials.

When Jiang Ming left, he deliberately swapped out Shi Bao's communication token. When Shi Bao and Xiao Hong were far away from Chongcheng and wanted to send a message to their mother, they realized they had brought the wrong communication token and it was too late for them to regret it.

The new communication order only contained messages from his father, Wang Xu, and his master. Shi Bao could only send messages to Jiang Ming every day, asking his father to convey his concern for his mother.

Jiang Ming's injuries took five days to heal, and he received seven more days of treatment with the aid of a medicinal spring before his skin was completely renewed.

Looking at his newly grown, fair skin, he recalled the crossbow bolt that had struck him with lightning.

How can a divine-grade spirit crossbow be so powerful? Even a breastplate of the same level can't stop it.

Jiang Ming thought about it for a long time but still couldn't figure it out.

The True God Sect has many divine-level spiritual weapons, but none of them possess such powerful destructive force.

They're both god-level spiritual weapons, so why is there such a big difference?

His Flaming Sun Blade is a divine-level spiritual weapon. He has been training it since he was a child, and he has never seen a spiritual weapon of the same level that can surpass the Flaming Sun Blade.

If their strengths are roughly equal, Feng Yu's Frost Sword can actually hold its own against the Flame Sun Blade.

The Frost Sword is also a divine-level spiritual weapon, and he admired it from their first encounter.

However, compared to that spirit crossbow, the Flaming Sun Blade and the Frost Sword seem quite useless.

He suddenly remembered that the Soul Chaser armlet that Shen Yao gave to Shi Bao, Shi Bao said, was obtained by his mother in the secret realm.

It seems that Feng Yu also obtained that spirit crossbow in the Dihe Secret Realm.

What exactly is inside the Dihe Secret Realm? When Feng Yu emerged, he had become an Immortal Ancestor, but Shen Yao was so badly injured that even her father couldn't protect her.

Unfortunately, the Dihe Secret Realm disappeared after they came out, otherwise he would definitely have gone to explore it.

Jiang Ming didn't chase after Shen Yao this time. He didn't know where she had gone. He couldn't catch up with her, and even if he did, he couldn't bring her back.

Having survived a near-death experience, he temporarily let go of his obsession.

As long as Shi Bao still acknowledges him as her father, she will come back for the sake of the child one day.

It is extremely difficult for cultivators to conceive offspring. The stronger one is, the harder it is to pass on the bloodline. He did not believe that Shen Yao could really be so heartless as to abandon her child.

……

Hua Fa stayed in the wilderness of Chongcheng for half a month, and Feng Yu did not receive any news of Jiang Ming's death.

It's unclear whether the True God Sect concealed the news or if he wasn't dead.

A few days later, he received a message from Feng Xuan that a friend had seen Jiang Ming in Chongcheng, and that he was alive and well.

Upon learning that he was not dead, Feng Yu and Shen Yao headed south to reunite with Huo Die.

The flower raft flew day and night for a month and finally met Huo Die.

Upon receiving the message, Feng Yu stood outside the greenhouse early in the morning, waiting.

The immortal lord with a long beard and beautiful hair saw his son-in-law in the air, nodded in acknowledgment, and landed on the flower raft, shouting loudly, "Daughter! Father is back! Hahahaha."

Feng Yu warmly welcomed his father-in-law into the inner room of the flower room. Shen Yao looked at her father with delight: "Dad! You're finally back!"

Seeing his daughter looking radiant, Huo Die smiled and nodded: "You look great, Yunhe has taken good care of you."

He patted Feng Yu on the shoulder: "Good son-in-law, you've worked hard."

With her father-in-law's approval, Feng Yu stood tall and beamed with joy.

Huo Die examined his scars: "Once your daughter's spiritual root is rebuilt, let her treat your scars."

Shen Yao asked in confusion, "Huh? How do I treat it?"

Huo Die succinctly stated, "Your divine-level resurrection technique, once mastered to the intermediate level, can regenerate skin that has become necrotic due to any reason within the Ten Great Realms."

Shen Yao hurriedly checked the inheritance of the Divine-level Resurrection Technique in the soul core, reading it word by word. She read until she reached the first stage of minor success, after which the scroll disappeared, becoming a blank book.

Shen Yao looked bewildered: "Father, the Resurrection Technique only goes up to the first stage of minor success, and then it just disappears, it's a complete blank."

Huo Die: "The opening chapters of the cultivation technique aren't written in the detailed records?"

Shen Yao read it again: "No, it only states the conditions required to perform the resurrection technique."

Huo Die understood: "That's the self-concealing mechanism of the cultivation technique, preventing cultivators from being impatient for quick success and taking shortcuts to reach the perfection realm."

Shen Yao suddenly realized that it was indeed the rarest resurrection technique among magic arts.

He heard his father's question in his ear: "Your divine resurrection technique, after all these years, is it still just the beginning?"

Shen Yao touched her nose sheepishly: "This technique can't be used for fighting. It's like a dead tree sprouting new leaves after ten thousand years. I don't know when I'll be able to find one. Plus, I've already acquired many divine-level techniques, so I thought I'd start by cultivating combat-oriented techniques..."

Huo Die could understand her. Other cultivators would awaken their spiritual roots and then specialize in one type of cultivation, and would also study two or three techniques. His daughter had only been here for a little over ten years, and she had to learn everything, including divine-level techniques. She had indeed done her best.

"Let's find a safe place first, and your father will rebuild your spiritual root."