My Demonic Cult's Holy Maiden

But she saw it, she knew it, and that's why her heart was in turmoil.

"Mother, you wouldn't understand!" Su Yue lowered her head and whispered sadly.

Xu Shuqin frowned and asked, "How do you know I don't understand if you don't tell me?"

Su Yue lowered her head, but was unwilling to say anything more.

Because she was certain that if she told Xu Shuqin, her mother might do something incredibly crazy.

"Mother, what would you do if I wanted to divorce Qi Yu?"

Xu Shuqin frowned, feeling somewhat worried. What had happened that made her even mention divorce?

He wanted to ask what had happened, but when he saw Su Yue's sad eyes, he finally didn't ask.

“If you really divorce Qi Yu, I won’t say anything. You’ve grown up and you have your own considerations.”

"As your mother, all I can tell you is that if you divorce Qi Yu, you may never find another man like Qi Yu again."

"Qi Yu is really great. If you don't cherish him, someone else will. I don't need to say more about how good Qi Yu is. Just don't regret it."

After Xu Shuqin finished speaking, she stood up from her chair, brushed past Su Yue, and walked out of the hall.

Su Yue stood alone in the hall, motionless.

After a while, Su Yue turned around and walked into the woodshed. At the door of the woodshed, she saw her father. After hesitating for a moment, she walked over.

Su Chengying remained expressionless, neither happy nor sad, looking indifferently at Su Yue, holding a box in her hand.

“I heard everything you and your mother said. Although I don’t know what happened, as your father, I will only say one thing.”

"Just don't regret it. And then there's the children. If you and Qi Yu really do get divorced, you can let Qi Yu raise all the children!"

Su Yue stared at her father in astonishment and asked, "Why should I give him the child to raise?"

Su Chengying said calmly, "Because you are the one who wronged him, not the other way around!"

Su Yue lowered her head and fell silent; there was no way to refute those words.

Su Chengying shook his head helplessly, then handed the long box in his hand to Su Yue.

"Here, today is your twenty-second birthday, this is a gift for you!"

Su Yue was taken aback, and then she remembered that today really was her birthday, something she had completely forgotten.

Then, involuntarily, she thought of the last time she gave birth.

She spent that day with Qi Yu. They were still in Jinshui City at the time, and Qi Yu set off something called 'fireworks' for himself. It was really beautiful.

As she pondered, Su Yue gently bit her red lips and reached out to take the box that Su Chengying handed her.

"Thank you, Father!" Su Yue said softly.

Su Chengying glanced at Su Yue and said calmly, "Don't thank me. This isn't from me. It's from Qi Yu. He remembered your birthday and prepared a gift for you!"

“But you didn’t give him the chance to give it to you, so I have to pass it on to you.”

Su Yue lowered her head, said nothing more, and turned to leave.

Was I ultimately wrong?

But am I really wrong?

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Chapter 116 The Big Cake

The Li Huo Dynasty was located in the south-central part of the continent. Qi Yu set off from Jiangzhou City at noon and arrived in the Li Huo Dynasty in the late afternoon.

The Li Huo Dynasty is now a desolate place. All the villages and cities it has passed through have become ruins, with endless crumbling walls and swarms of flies and rotting corpses everywhere.

Even in broad daylight, the sky was dark and gloomy.

The invasion of monsters and ghosts caused the country to be destroyed in an instant.

Monsters and ghosts are natural disasters, but people today don't have this understanding and think they have nothing to do with them.

They lived too comfortably, and many dangers were forgotten.

In addition, the recent beast tide was repelled and did not advance to the central part of the land, so many people felt that the beast tide was nothing special.

This was one of the reasons for the downfall of the Li Huo Dynasty.

Because of blind arrogance, they underestimated the monsters.

Originally, the Blood God Sect was responsible for resisting the demonic beasts in the south, but this time, the Blood God Sect members were all doing other things. In addition, Qi Yu was partly responsible for this incident, and the demonic beasts still managed to reach the Li Huo Dynasty.

If the Li Huo Dynasty had organized an army to resist from the beginning, they could have held out. But they didn't; they couldn't even spare their most elite troops.

At that time, the Li Huo Dynasty's army was stationed in the north, on guard against a sudden attack from the Dayun Dynasty and the Da Qing Dynasty.

Even though the demonic beasts were almost upon them, the ruler of the Li Huo Dynasty still did not recall his main force to resist them, but only sent a 20,000-strong army to hold them off.

It's easy to imagine that, faced with monsters comparable to first-rank masters or even grandmasters, these soldiers were simply easy prey, truly easy prey.

Because those soldiers had already been eaten by the monsters, not even their bones were left.

By the time the demonic beasts entered the country, the ruler of the Li Huo Dynasty wanted to mobilize the army to defend it, but it was too late.

The beast tide surged northward with overwhelming force, and the Li Huo Dynasty was destroyed in just three days.

Seventy percent of the people of the Li Huo Dynasty were accepted by the Da Qing Dynasty, while the rest became food for the monsters. These ruins and broken bricks are proof of the monsters' brutality.

The Li Huo Dynasty is now truly a desolate place, with no sign of human habitation for thousands of miles.

This place has now become the territory of monsters, and at night, ghosts and monsters wander around.

Throughout the entire continent, only the Great Qing Dynasty sent troops to help, hoping to drive out the monsters and ghosts within the territory of the Li Huo Dynasty.

Logically speaking, with the Li Huo Dynasty destroyed, the land that originally belonged to the Li Huo Dynasty is now ownerless. It's impossible for the surrounding countries to turn a blind eye to this!

After all, this is a big cake!

Having more land is equivalent to having more assets, and the Li Huo Dynasty is very rich in mineral resources, with the most iron and copper mines among all dynasties.

But despite such a large opportunity, no other power besides the Great Qing Dynasty wanted to send troops to fight for it.

There's only one fundamental reason!

We can't beat them!

The ones we can defeat are too far from the Li Huo Dynasty, so an expedition is a bit inappropriate. After all, if you travel tens of thousands of miles to attack a dynasty, even if you succeed, how are you going to manage it?

Therefore, the Li Huo Dynasty became a hot potato and a burden.

Only a handful of people could set their sights on the Li Huo Dynasty, and only three of them were capable of sending troops.

One is the Dayun Dynasty. Although the Dayun Dynasty and the Lihuo Dynasty are separated by the Daqian Dynasty, this is not a big problem.

Another one is the Blood God Cult. The Blood God Cult's territory is very close to the Li Huo Dynasty; in fact, the fact that demonic beasts were able to reach the Li Huo Dynasty was a result of the Blood God Cult's indulgence.

Finally, there is the Great Qing Dynasty. The Great Qing Dynasty's national strength is second only to the Great Yun Dynasty, and it also has a small portion of territory that borders the Li Huo Dynasty.

The three forces were: the weakest, the Great Qing Dynasty, which sent troops to help; the Blood God Sect, which remained on the sidelines; and the Great Yun Dynasty, which, though willing, lacked the power to do so, and also chose to remain on the sidelines.

The Blood God Cult can understand this, since they seem to be preparing for something else and don't have the energy for this.

However, the Dayun Dynasty should not have acted this way, because the Dayun Dynasty had the help of Emperor Xuanzong.

After Taoism withdrew from the Dayun Dynasty, Li Muchen established Xuanzong as the state religion and embraced the Xuanzong faith.

Taoism advocates non-action, while Xuanzong believed in action, that is, human will can overcome nature.

As time went by, Taoism gradually became unsuitable for the Great Yun Dynasty. The Great Yun Dynasty was indeed very powerful, and Li Muchen was still an ambitious person. Taoism was not suitable for the current Great Yun Dynasty.

Therefore, the Dayun Dynasty clashed with Taoism, which led to the current situation.

Logically speaking, with the support of Xuanzong, the Dayun Dynasty could have easily taken a bite out of the Lihuo Dynasty's territory, but he didn't.

After all, if Xuanzong were to take action, combined with the strength of the Dayun Dynasty, they could definitely wipe out the monsters and ghosts within the Lihuo Dynasty.

Faced with the combined power of Emperor Xuanzong and the Dayun Dynasty, Qi Yu could only temporarily avoid their sharp edge.

Although Su Yue killed nearly thirty grandmasters of Xuanzong a month ago, this was only a small part of Xuanzong's strength and was not enough to seriously damage Xuanzong.

After all, the Xuanzong Sect controls all the resources of this endless sea, including human resources. All the resources of an entire continent are at the Xuanzong Sect's disposal, so how could the number of Grandmasters be small?

However, after Su Yue killed him, Emperor Xuanzong and the Dayun Dynasty seemed to be afraid and went silent, and have not made any moves so far.

Qi Yu was focused on developing his skills, so he didn't have time to worry about these things.

Taoism is currently developing very well. Xu Wenbing has taken over all of Ziqi Pavilion's businesses and established a Taoist temple in Mangshan called Changchun Temple.

Although its scale cannot compare with that of an academy, it surpasses even the original Taoist concept of longevity.

After all, having taken over the Purple Qi Pavilion, the resources it controls far exceed those of the Great Yun Dynasty three hundred years ago.

Not long after the establishment of the Longevity Temple, a considerable number of people came to join the sect, and they were all first-rate geniuses.

Most of these people have studied martial arts and have already entered the threshold of becoming martial artists.

Qi Yu's harvest is beginning to show results.

The first Taoist temple has been established, and Qi Yu plans to press his advantage and establish another Taoist temple in the Li Huo Dynasty.

After all, the Li Huo Dynasty is located in the center of the continent, and Qi Yu plans to establish a central hub that can connect all the Taoist temples, with the Li Huo Dynasty as the center.

After partnering with the Lulutong Merchant Guild, the academy is now wealthier than the Great Qing Dynasty.

The only thing Taoism lacks now is people.

The academy needs a large number of talented people to maintain the development of Taoism. After all, the more powerful the sect becomes, the more talented people it will need.

No matter how capable Qi Yu is, he cannot accomplish everything by himself; one person's strength is limited.

There is a place with a very large talent pool, and Qi Yu plans to visit it when he has time.

This place is Qingxuan Valley!

If Qingxuan Valley were to emerge, it would be comparable to Tianya Haige.

Moreover, this place has a complete range of talents in all fields.

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