I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 663 The Azure Emperor (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Hundreds of alchemy furnaces are scattered across the huge white jade plaza in front of the Qingdi Palace.

The strong aroma of herbs mixed with the smell of burning and blood created a suffocating and bizarre atmosphere.

Hong Li stood frozen in front of her own alchemy furnace, her face deathly pale.

Her 'test' was right in front of her: a fox demon bound by thick rune chains.

This fox demon had just formed its demon core. It was not large in size, and its white fur was covered with dust and scars from its struggles. Its amber eyes were filled with extreme fear and despair, and it emitted intermittent moans from its throat.

This is the Azure Emperor's test: refine pills using living demonic beasts!

Hongli's gaze swept across the square, and the surrounding scene made her stomach churn.

Not far to the left, a cold-faced middle-aged cultivator was forcibly prying open the mouth of an armored rhinoceros, ignoring its painful roars, pouring scalding medicinal liquid into it, and then roughly shoving the entire rhinoceros into a furnace burning with raging flames. The furnace lid crashed down, blocking out the dull thuds and gradually fading cries from inside.

To the right front, a female cultivator's movements appeared gentle, but her eyes were as cold as frost. With a few taps of her fingertips, several flashes of cold light appeared, and several bloody holes instantly appeared on the body of the Azure Water Toad in front of her. The gushing blood was precisely guided by her into the alchemy furnace.

Further away, some were throwing still-flapping spirit birds into the furnace, or skinning demonic beasts alive to extract their marrow...

The entire plaza was like a hellish hell for Hong Li!

Over the years, Hong Li had used materials from demonic beasts to refine pills, but those were materials obtained after the demonic beasts died. She knew that there was a way to refine blood pills from living demons in the Azure Emperor Palace, and she had always tried her best to avoid it.

Unexpectedly, the Azure Emperor's test was so direct and cruel.

She looked at the trembling fox demon at her feet. For three hundred years, how many little demons like this had she protected as the Crimson Flame King, receiving their most devout offerings and incense?

Aren't those noisy little creatures in her cave, who keep circling around her, just like that?

A strong sense of nausea and anger instantly overwhelmed her reason. The demonic wildness that she had forcibly suppressed for three hundred years, her worry for Jiang Yi, and her hatred for the bloody purgatory before her erupted like volcanic lava.

"Stop it, all of you!!!"

A piercing scream filled with endless rage and grief soared into the sky, and raging crimson flames exploded outwards from her center.

Yi Xianyu's illusionary disguise crumbled inch by inch in the raging flames, revealing Hong Li's true form. Her seven enormous fox tails, like seven angry fire dragons, swept out with overwhelming force.

Bang bang bang!
The dozen or so alchemy furnaces closest to her were instantly shattered into pieces by the fox's tail. The cultivators who were focused on dealing with the demonic beasts were caught off guard and were sent flying backward with screams, as if struck by a giant hammer.

"It's a fox demon! How did she get in here?!"

"Seize her! She's the Crimson Flame King!"

After a brief silence, the square erupted in chaos!

The surviving cultivators were both shocked and furious, and they all summoned their magical treasures and began to perform incantations.

In an instant, flying swords, talismans, and magical light poured down on Hong Li like a torrential rain, with various binding and attacking magical lights intertwining into a destructive net.

Just then, a powerful pressure suddenly descended, and time seemed to freeze at that moment.

The ground cracked open silently, and thick tree roots burst forth from the soil, like living brown pythons, quickly coiling around Hong Li's massive body.

These tree roots were incredibly tough, containing immense vitality and absolute binding power. They instantly suppressed her raging demonic power, binding her massive fox body firmly to the spot, rendering her unable to move. All the cultivators in the plaza froze, feeling that supreme will. Their faces instantly drained of color, leaving only utmost awe.

"Meet the Emperor!"

No one dared to even look up before they all knelt down, barely daring to breathe.

The once noisy and chaotic square instantly became so quiet you could hear a pin drop, with only Hong Li's heavy breathing and the faint friction of the tree roots tightening around her.

Hongli raised her head with difficulty, her eyes showing no fear, only burning anger and unyielding arrogance.

A figure appeared silently on the jade steps in front of the palace gate. He was tall and slender, wearing a blue imperial robe embroidered with patterns of all trees growing. His face was blurred in a hazy blue light. His eyes seemed to be formed from the purest laws of life, deep and green, containing the ultimate truth of birth, death and reincarnation, and indifferently looking down at everything below.

"You beast, how dare you act so insolently in my sacred ground?"

The Azure Emperor's voice was like the whisper of an ancient tree, calm and still, yet carrying a crushing pressure that could shatter souls.

Hong Li grinned, revealing sharp canines, and let out a low growl full of sarcasm and defiance.

"If you've got the guts, kill me! If you kill me, you'll never get that perfect body again!"

These words struck like a thunderbolt, causing the kneeling cultivators to tremble even more violently. They had no idea what the fox demon was saying, but felt an even deeper chill rise from their spines.

The Azure Emperor's indifferent gaze, as clear as the eternal blue sky, lingered on Hong Li for a moment. He didn't speak, and casually waved his sleeve.

There was no earth-shattering noise, nor any fluctuation of magical power.

But in the square, apart from Hong Li who was bound by tree roots, all the kneeling cultivators, along with the shattered alchemy furnaces, scattered medicinal herbs, and even the bloodstains left on the ground, were wiped away as if they had never existed.

The vast square instantly became empty, leaving only the bound Hong Li, the slowly rotating celestial globe above her head, and the azure figure high above on the steps.

The tree roots dispersed, and Hong Li regained her freedom, transforming back into her original red-haired girl form.

Hongli stretched her shoulders, which were aching from being strangled, and said in a defiant manner, "Don't you humans have a saying? In times of war, envoys are not killed. I am an envoy, so it would be impolite of you to kill me!"

A faint sneer escaped the Green Emperor's lips.

Hongli said irritably, "I'm delivering a message to you on behalf of my master. She said she's waiting for you at the Qin Emperor Palace!"

The Azure Emperor narrowed his eyes, which contained the laws of life and death. Just as he was about to speak, a crack appeared in the ground beneath his feet, and a beam of earth-yellow light shot out from it, which the Azure Emperor caught with his hand.

The light faded, transforming into an invitation with an antique texture.

Hong Li's pupils contracted. She recognized the design on the invitation; it was an invitation from Emperor Kun.

The Azure Emperor quickly scanned the contents, and after reading them, he looked up at Hong Li again, his gaze even more unfathomable than before.

"Then come with me to meet your master!"

Before he finished speaking, he gently flicked the cuffs of his wide blue imperial robe, and a powerful suction force came from it. Hongli could not resist and was instantly forced back into her original little fox form, falling into the bottomless sleeves of the Azure Emperor's robe.

(End of this chapter)