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Chapter 476 The Day the Demon Realm Appears
The Church of Tranquility.

Looking at the vertical pupil between the Buddha's eyebrows, Wu Chang thought to himself that the Tranquil Church was indeed not going to stay put.

After entering the world instance, the Church of Tranquility remained inactive. He thought that with the Society of Light setting an example, the Church of Tranquility would be able to keep a low profile and stop causing trouble. He didn't expect that they had just hidden themselves even deeper.

If it were someone else, he might think that a bad person was doing a good deed.

Even if Lü Changgeng built this shelter, he would still wonder if Lü Changgeng had a change of heart and wanted to do some good deeds and accumulate some merit with his Dengtian Society.

But since the Church of Tranquility was involved in this matter, the construction of this shelter must have been for the purpose of doing something even worse.

However, what exactly they want to do still needs further investigation.

Judging from the layout of the inner world of Yan City, the purpose of the Tranquil Church should be to gather humanitarian spirit through these disaster victims.

In the context of history, they are like the rebel armies that staged religious uprisings at the end of every dynasty.

However, unlike the xx religion and xx Heaven, there really is an evil god behind the Goose City in the Inner World.

What is the purpose of the Tranquil Church in collecting humanitarian blessings?
Is it to overthrow the Great Xuan Dynasty like the rebels and inherit the humane destiny of Emperor Zhaoning?
But the world of the dungeon has superhumans. What can they accomplish with just these refugees they've gathered and a few second-rate experts?

Even with the help of the Human Alliance, they didn't make a move before the world instance started. Now that Emperor Zhaoning has gained the approval of the Ziwei Exorcising Array, there's no chance to make a move.

If collecting human fortune isn't for the Ziwei Exorcism Array, then what is it for?
But whatever their reasons, they have achieved their goal.

Because Wu Changzai only sensed a faint aura and power of faith from the Buddha in Yancheng, the inner world.

This indicates that before he entered, members of the Church of Tranquility had already come here and taken away the power of fortune and faith.

What intrigued him was why the Church of Tranquility, after taking what it needed, was able to leave this inner world intact and not sacrifice all the surviving victims inside.

Because tranquility taught him kindness?

Don't make your brother Lyman laugh.

The only reason the Church of Tranquility could keep these disaster victims without "making use of them" is that the people who created this inner world for them disagreed.

When the Demon Realm appeared, the world instance had not yet started. The Church of Tranquility did not have the ability to remotely project such a large inner world in. It must have been someone who received a decree from the immortals and created this inner world.

Wu Chang even suspected that the hidden worlds they created were not limited to Yan City; there might be many such hidden worlds within the Demon Realm.

After all, the Demon Realm did not erupt suddenly; it was the Ascension Society, to which Lü Changgeng belonged, that triggered it in advance in order to open the Heavenly Gate.

They have ample time to prepare in advance and to release these inner worlds at the appropriate time.

The demonic realm, shrouded in demonic energy, is difficult for cultivators to enter, but for some, the demonic energy is a natural barrier, making it convenient for them to do shady things within it.

In Wu Chang's view, it was highly likely that the one who helped the Tranquility Church was not Lü Changgeng, but rather a cultivator from the Humanity Alliance.

Wu Chang and Eileen stayed in Yan City in the inner world for a while, but they failed to find any other clues, and no members of the Tranquil Church noticed the intrusion and showed up.

It was as if this other world had lost all its value and had been completely abandoned.

After thinking it over, Wu Chang decided to leave the people in Yancheng in the inner world for the time being and put them here.

The structure of this inner world is very complete, with enough soil, water and food, so the people inside will not have to worry about supplies for a while.

The inner world, combined with the shielding formation of Yancheng in reality, prevents the monsters from discovering the survivors here, so they don't need to worry about their safety.

But if he wanted to take everyone away, not to mention whether they were willing, even if they were willing to leave, he couldn't easily take them out of the demon realm.

At the speed of cultivators, it would only take a day to travel from Dongshan Lake to Yancheng, but at the speed of ordinary people, it would probably take two or three days.

Wu Chang and the others couldn't possibly act as caretakers for tens of thousands of people, escorting them all the way to Shuanghu City.

This not only wasted time and slowed down the progress of the Wind-Character Demon-Slaying Army, but also put these disaster victims in more danger.

It would be better to leave them here until the demon realm is cleared, and then bring them out.

While Wu Chang's main body was exploring the inner world of Yan City, something was also happening to Wu Chang's true self.

The Fire Demon-Slaying Army, to which Zhenwo belongs, is led by An Rong. In some ways, the Fire Path is more disciplined than the Wind Path.

Players in the Wind Demon-Slaying Army obey orders mostly out of fear of the Earth Immortal's power and as a result of weighing the pros and cons.

The Fire Demon-Slaying Army is different. Many players joined voluntarily because of Peace's reputation. These voluntary members were already high-ranking members in their respective factions.

Furthermore, since most players belong to the Royal faction, if they try to cause trouble, they will likely be taken down by those around them first.

The Fire Demon-Slaying Army is highly disciplined and also the strongest of the four demon-slaying armies on average, resulting in greater gains than the Wind Demon-Slaying Army. In just one day, they have condensed over a thousand demon-suppressing blood talismans.

Both the Fire Road and the Wind Road adopted the same strategy: finding deserted cities to spend the night. However, An Rong was not as lucky as Wu Chang.

The city they chose was called Yan City. It was larger than Yan City and covered a wider area. If we disregard the fact that half of the city wall had been destroyed by brute force and the city was filled with scattered and rotting corpses, then it would be a good place to rest.

Because the city was so devastated, before they could rest there, An Rong ordered everyone to collect and bury the corpses so that they could rest in peace.

The players were unwilling to do these hidden and tiring tasks, but after witnessing Wu Chang's true form take action, they dared not openly defy An Rong and could only look on with longing for peace.

Feeling the gazes of the crowd, Wu Chang asked in confusion:

"What are you standing there for? Get to work!"

Seeing Peace's attitude, the players had no choice but to grit their teeth and collect the corpses in the city, considering it as accumulating merit for clearing the dungeon.

Wu Chang instructed everyone to collect the remains, but he himself did not intend to get involved, as he had more important things to do.

The demon realm has not been around for long, not long enough for the resentment in the city to completely dissipate.

Within the still relatively intact city walls of Yan City, Wu Chang found several wisps of ordinary resentment, so faint they had turned pink. These were all ordinary cultivators, of mediocre quality.

Their resentment recorded how the overwhelming hordes of demons approached, how they destroyed the city walls of Yancheng in a single encounter, and how they stormed into the city.

It's clear that there's a huge power gap between the monsters and humans. The humans can't even put up a fight; it's like a buffet that can be enjoyed at will.

However, there was one thing that Wu Chang was very curious about: Yan City was larger than Yan City, but when he looked at the several resentful spirits, not even a second-rate cultivator appeared in them.

Even in Yancheng, the city's garrison cultivators are all of second-rate skill, so how could Yancheng's defenses be so weak?

Driven by curiosity, he continued searching on the city wall and actually found the resentment of the city's guardian cultivators. However, the scene recorded in the resentment was different from what he had imagined.

The resentment of the city-guarding cultivator was even deeper, still retaining a pale red hue. When he saw it, the pale red resentment soared into the sky, then transformed into a stream of water, crashing down on him like a waterfall.

In a daze, he entered the resentment of the city-guarding monks.

He travels back to the day the city fell, not from the perspective of the city's defenders, but from the day the demon realm erupted.

It was a cloudy day with low-hanging clouds and a stifling, suffocating atmosphere.

The city-guarding cultivator was dressed as a scholar. Like Duan Rui, the scholar Wu Chang encountered at Tianquan Lake, he also came from Qingsong Academy. However, his cultivation level was not as high as Duan Rui's; he was only at the level of a second-rate expert.

The scholar, feeling uneasy, wanted to go outside for some fresh air and gaze at the distant mountains to calm his mind.

He came to the top of the city wall and looked into the distance. He felt that not only was the sky and earth gloomy, but the outlines of the majestic and precipitous mountains in the distance had also become indistinct.

The blurred, shifting edges made it seem as if the mountains had come to life, slowly writhing.

He had also been to the Immortal Abode of Tianquan Lake to test his literary courage. Now that the world was dangerous, he thought there was something wrong with him. Just as he was about to find a quiet room to adjust his mindset through meditation, he suddenly felt a violent tremor coming from underground.

The cultivators of the Great Xuan have become familiar with this frequency of vibration over the years. Each time this vibration occurs, it means that a group of demons will appear in the nearby world.

He turned his head in the direction of the vibration, the warning words stuck in his throat, but before he could say them, the sight he saw next made his mouth gape open, unable to utter a sound.

The tremor came from the direction of Liuyun City. Liuyun City and Yan City are nearly a thousand miles apart, so he could not see how Liuyun City was shaking. However, he saw that the sky and earth in the direction of Liuyun City seemed to have lost their color and turned into a dull black, white and gray.

In the world instance, whenever a major event occurs, unusual phenomena will inevitably appear.

For example, when players enter the Great Xuan realm, they will experience auspicious clouds filling the sky, a celestial dog devouring the sun, and stars falling like rain.

Upon witnessing this extraordinary phenomenon, the scholar knew that something significant was happening without needing any information from Liuyun City.

The world has faded, giving rise to such a bizarre phenomenon, and the fact that this phenomenon can spread so far shows that the monster that has appeared in this world is no ordinary creature.

The fact that such a commotion could cause such a disturbance meant that something must have happened in Liuyun City. The scholar dared not be negligent. He made a hand seal with his left hand to calculate what was happening in Liuyun City, while at the same time he closed his left eye and placed his right index finger and thumb together horizontally above his right eye.

He concentrated all his spiritual energy in his right eye, activating a secret technique called "Seeing a Thousand Miles," and looked towards the direction of Liuyun City.

"Viewing a thousand miles" doesn't actually allow him to see a thousand miles away, but as his field of vision narrows, he sees more.

Near Liuyun City, not only did the sky and earth fade, but a golden light also shot into the sky, carving a huge crack in the heavens.

The cracks spread to both sides, revealing a deep, dark passage from which a large amount of blood-red energy flowed out and poured onto the earth.

The scene he saw was no less impressive than the Longkou Waterfall in Tianlan Province, but the blood-red aura was not river water, but rather a demonic aura that was almost solidified.

Oh no, disaster is coming!

The scholar trembled violently, momentarily forgetting that his left hand was still calculating.

How could a second-rate expert in the Spirit Control Realm possibly predict such changes?

Click, click...

With a series of cracking sounds, the five fingers of his left hand were twisted off by reverse jointing, then intertwined with each other to form a twisted shape.

He used his right eye, which was used to observe a thousand miles, and was swallowed by the demonic energy in the distance, turning it blood red. The next moment, it exploded with a bang.

"Run! Run!"

He tried to send a warning, but his voice was faint and hoarse, and no one heard him.

He died on the spot before he could utter a second cry.

Wu Chang withdrew from the scholar's resentment and rubbed his right eye, which was still a little sore.

No wonder there were no top-tier experts guarding Yan City on the day it fell. It turns out that the scholar guarding the city saw something he shouldn't have seen and calculated something he shouldn't have calculated on the day the demon realm appeared, and died on the spot.

Like the scholar before his death, he gazed toward Liuyun City, pondering the scene he saw in his resentment.

The water in the Demon Realm was deeper than he had imagined.

In the direction of Liuyun City, the cracks in the sky that are pouring demonic energy downwards are clearly the Heavenly Gate in the world instance plane.

At this moment, the sky in the direction of Liuyun City appears to be intact, but upon closer inspection, one can see that the horizon there is hazy, as if covered by a veil, making it difficult to see clearly.

The Heavenly Gate should simply be hidden, not closed.

Wu Chang was not surprised by the appearance of the Heavenly Gate. What he was more concerned about was the golden light that pierced the sky and led out the Heavenly Gate ahead of time.

The scholar only observed the strange phenomena in the heavens and earth, but did not understand what was happening, yet he could see it clearly.

That golden light was clearly a manifestation of the human destiny!
Although when the Demon Realm erupted, the Inner World Goose City had not yet begun to absorb human fortune by sheltering disaster victims.

Even if the Church of Tranquility was already secretly proselytizing before the Demon Realm appeared, that golden light could not have been created by them.

Because of the solidity of that golden light and the brilliance of its aura, only Emperor Zhaoning could achieve this in the world instance plane, far surpassing the small-scale antics of the Tranquil Church.

Thinking of this, Wu Chang laughed, laughing out of anger.

He recalled the scene when he returned to Zhenyue City after exploring the Demon Realm and learned about the remains of the immortals from Emperor Zhaoning.

Upon hearing that the immortal remains did not exist, Emperor Zhaoning mocked Lü Changgeng and told Wu Chang that Lü Changgeng's plan was to combine the power of the four immortal remains to break through the Heavenly Gate.

Lu Changgeng was confident in doing this because the demons inside the Heavenly Gate had been lured out in advance and had not yet returned to their perfect state.

Taking advantage of the weakened state of the demon race within the Heavenly Gate, coupled with the power of the true immortals within the immortal remains, they had a sliver of hope for victory.

He pressed Emperor Zhaoning on why the demon race within the Heavenly Gate had not yet recovered to its optimal state, yet was bringing the Demon Realm to the world prematurely.

Emperor Zhaoning did not answer, but instead asked him for the reason.

Based on Emperor Zhaoning's attitude and the previous groundwork, he successfully concluded that Lü Changgeng had somehow brought the demon realm to life ahead of schedule.

He still remembered Emperor Zhaoning's reaction at the time; Emperor Zhaoning said with a smile.
"Sir, you are truly a celestial being."

Thinking of this, Wu Chang laughed in anger again.

Okay, okay, let’s play like this, right?

By selectively expressing oneself, one can guide the other party's thinking and make them fill in a seemingly reasonable false truth in their mind.

Since the process is formed by the other party through thinking, they will have a natural trust in the deduced answer, while avoiding telling lies and being exposed by a sword heart ability similar to that of a sword star.

I hunted geese all day long, but got pecked in the eye by the geese.

He used to use this method to fool others, but he never expected that Emperor Zhaoning would use this method against him.

Everything else Emperor Zhaoning said was true, except for that one question he didn't answer directly, leaving him a trap.

That is, Emperor Zhaoning removed himself from Lü Changgeng's plan.

He acted as if it were none of his business, but in reality, he was highly involved.

Wu Chang was still speculating about what methods Lü Changgeng used to trigger the appearance of the demon realm ahead of time, and whether it was due to the efforts of the Bright Society.

It turns out that the method was more direct than he had imagined: Emperor Zhaoning used the semi-activated earth-worshiping ceremony to directly stimulate the Heavenly Gate with the luck of humanity, forcing the demon race inside the Heavenly Gate to awaken prematurely.

If it weren't for the resentment of the city's defenders, who were also recklessly trying to predict and observe such a strange phenomenon, Emperor Zhaoning would have kept him in the dark.

He took a deep breath, reached out and beckoned the clay figure over, and asked:
"How is the burial of the corpses in the city going?"

The clay figure said:

"The remains were too badly damaged and decomposed to be identified, so there was no need to bury them separately. Therefore, the burial process was quick and is now basically complete."

Wu Chang asked, "Where is the body buried?"

The clay figure replied, "Buried in the cemetery outside the northern city."

Wu Chang nodded and used teleportation to arrive at the cemetery in the north of the city. The tomb had been sealed, and the players had all returned to the city, leaving only An Rong at the cemetery. He used a large stone to carve a stone tablet and was using a short sword to inscribe the tablets for the dead.

After An Rong's tombstone was finished, Wu Chang took out three incense sticks from his personal space, lit them, and placed them in front of the tombstone.

Thanks to them, he was able to discover Emperor Zhaoning's abnormality in advance, turning the situation from passive to active.

For this reason alone, he should light three incense sticks for these people.

An Rong looked at the incense in front of the grave and asked:
"Special incense offerings for the earth-worship ceremony?"

Wu Chang said, "I picked it up during the earth-worship ceremony, thinking it might be useful, so I carried it with me. Now it seems it has come in handy."

While his main body was helping Emperor Zhaoning prepare for the earth-worship ceremony, he noticed that the Court of Imperial Sacrifices had a lot of supplies. Since the world instance plane emphasized various rituals, he took some of them without hesitation.

An Rong asked, "Is there anything else?"

Wu Chang then took out three more and handed them to An Rong.

An Rong lit the incense and said softly, "The incense used in the Earth Worship Ceremony originated from the Heaven Worship Ceremony. It was originally something that Heaven and Earth enjoyed, and mortals were not fortunate enough to receive it."

"But this is what Heaven and Earth owe you, and you can endure it."

He placed the incense sticks in front of the stone tablet, stood up, thanked Wu Chang, and then turned and left.

Wu Chang stared thoughtfully at An Rong's retreating figure. Ever since the Ziwei Exorcising Array was activated, he felt that An Rong had suddenly changed a lot. An Rong seemed to have gained a lot from his own destiny with immortality, which made him a little confused.

He was about to teleport back to Yan City when a sound suddenly came from his personal space.

He took out a communication talisman from his personal space, connected the talisman, and on the other end was Meng Yawen, who had disappeared for some time.

Meng Yawen asked, "Heping, I just received some important intelligence. Is it convenient for you to talk now?"

(End of this chapter)