Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

The latter immediately understood, took a few steps back, and merged into the huge crowd.

His face still wore a smile, the same chilling smile as yesterday: "Lord City Lord has been waiting for a long time."

He was naturally referring to that Heavenly City Saint Immortal.

Ye Yuchan couldn't stand his smile, so she chose to look away and wander into the crowd.

Strangely, she did not find any trace of Huang Yisi.

For some reason, Huang Luo's fourteenth maternal uncle did not appear here.

Moreover, the cave they stayed in yesterday was clearly Huang Yisi's cave, but for some reason... he never came back.

Although the eerie smile looked particularly creepy, she found it even more unbelievable without seeing it.

Just as Ye Yuchan was wondering where Huang Yisi had gone, Yun Ping also spoke up and asked, "Speaking of which, what are you doing here?"

"us?"

The man was taken aback upon hearing this, then smiled faintly and said, "The Holy Immortal of Tiancheng has not returned for a long time, so we naturally have many things to report."

"However, since you are guests from afar, you should naturally be given priority."

In situations like this, should we instead observe the proper etiquette between host and guest?

Yunping couldn't help but want to laugh.

Because according to the way Xiandu does things and its code of conduct, they would not make way for a bunch of outsiders at this time.

It seems that the influence of the Paradise of Living Beings is not limited to completely eliminating the negative; to some extent, it also seems to transform those affected into polite, humble, and well-mannered individuals.

The scene before us is the best illustration of this.

In the past, let alone being allowed to be the first to meet the city lord so easily, they probably wouldn't even have been able to enter this lakeside city.

However, Yunping didn't think this was a good thing either.

"Then we'll go in first."

"please--"

The man grinned, turned to the side, and made a solemn and respectful gesture of invitation, his face full of friendly smiles.

It wasn't just him.

Imagine that hundreds of people around you are all looking at you, and each of them has an extremely happy and heartwarming smile on their face.

The smiles on their faces were so identical, as if they could be copied and pasted, like counterfeits produced in a factory with precision instruments, making it difficult to distinguish the real from the fake.

You look around and find... smiles all around you.

A terrifying smile.

Ye Yuchan felt a little scared under those sharp, needle-like gazes. Her body trembled a couple of times before she quickly followed Yun Ping's steps.

The others dared not delay either. After Yun Ping pushed open the magnificent golden and crimson door, they hurriedly passed through the gap between the doors and stepped into the main hall.

After stepping into the main hall, Ye Yuchan couldn't help but stop and look back.

The door slowly closing and closing... the crack gradually narrowing and almost disappearing—through the light above her head, one could see one smiling face after another.

Friendly, happy, smiling faces.

boom!

The gate closed.

Ye Yuchan's face turned deathly pale.

She couldn't understand or accept that terrifying smile. Just thinking about those hundreds of people's template smiles, which seemed to have been copied hundreds of times, would make her heart race and her hair stand on end.

But when she turned around, what she saw was an even more terrifying sight.

main hall.

The King's Palace.

The scene I had witnessed once in the Lantian Empire and could never forget was now being presented again.

Before them lay a thick, crimson wool carpet, and the floor was paved with silvery-gray jade bricks that gleamed with a silvery light. On either side of the spacious hall stood two rows of gleaming longswords; upon closer inspection, each one was clearly no ordinary weapon, certainly not something a cultivator below the Nascent Soul stage could wield. However, these precious magical artifacts were merely decorative elements, the tip of the iceberg, within the grand scheme of this hall.

The lanterns overhead had frames made of precious black gold, and their light source was a pure white halo. If one did not look closely, one would not notice that a large number of tiny, elf-like spirit entities were bound within the halo. These little creatures, born from the Azure Secret Realm, were imprisoned here as the light source and would exist for eternity as light until their death.

At the end of the line of sight was a brick wall with distinct patterns, on which hung the heads of several spirit beasts. The spirit essence of the spirit beasts was temporarily preserved using a special magic array. It was clear that a lot of effort had been put into preserving the heads of the dead spirit beasts as their spoils of war. At a glance, even just by analyzing the amount of remaining spirit essence, one could tell that these spirit beasts were definitely not to be trifled with in life.

This is a grand hall.

The King's Palace.

The king who belongs to the city in the heart of the lake.

The magnificent and dazzling throne is the best proof. The throne handle, which is made up of two dragons, is covered by two thick hands, with the palms holding the dragon heads. Behind it is a painting of three long dragons soaring into the sky.

These are not the key factors that terrified Ye Yuchan.

What's truly terrifying is the king sitting on his throne.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

A corner of his short, golden hair was stained with black blood. The arrogant young man sat cross-legged on the throne, watching Ye Yuchan and the others with great interest.

This person was wearing a Taoist robe from the Immortal Capital. If there was anything peculiar about it, it was that there were several tears in the robe, and his left eye was closed for some unknown reason.

No, Lin Yuan knew the reason.

The red-haired girl's nerves tensed up instantly. She adopted a posture as if facing a formidable enemy, raised her right hand, and immediately summoned the ancient zither from her storage ring.

Huang Luo also looked quite flustered, seemingly unable to understand why this person would appear here.

Lin Yuan stared intently at him and asked sharply, "Zuo He... what are you doing here?!"

Yes.

Zuo He.

Golden-eyed Tiger Immortal.

The leader of the Eighteen Immortal Saints.

The man who suffered a great loss in the Qin Sect in the past has now reappeared here.

"I am here because you are here."

Zuo He spread his hands, a subtle smile on his face.

He sat on the throne as if it were his rightful place.

Zuo He's gaze slowly moved to Yun Ping. He seemed to find the face somewhat familiar, narrowed his eyes, and then, as if he understood, burst into laughter: "Hahaha... I didn't expect you to have turned into this. No... maybe not, perhaps you were originally a man."

"Yunping'er, right?"

He licked his lips, but the smile on his face unexpectedly vanished quickly.

Instead, there was an indescribable killing intent.

"It seems the intelligence was correct; you really did come here..."

intelligence.

I heard some interesting things—

Yun Ping seemed unsurprised by Zuo He's words; instead, he looked at him with great interest: "You don't seem to have been affected by the Paradise of Living Beings."

“Ah, yes.” Zuo He silently raised his right hand, showing everyone the jade ring on his index finger: “The Paradise of Living Beings is indeed an extreme of trouble, but thanks to this, I have been able to avoid its influence.”

"Although the way it was obtained was despicable."

As they were saying these words, Yunping and the others noticed that a strange aura emanated from the jade ring.

It is completely different from spiritual energy and immortal techniques; it is pure malice.

Demonic energy.

That was not a legal artifact, but a demonic artifact forged through what can only be described as evil.

People from Xiandu carrying demonic artifacts? You must know that Zuo He is the head of the eighteen holy immortals of Xiandu. As the mainstay of Xiandu, how could he possibly carry anything from the Demon Dynasty?

The answer seems obvious.

He colluded with the people of the Demon Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Yunping roughly understood the ins and outs of the whole incident, and at the same time, his face became gloomy.

He understood—

This was indeed a trap from the very beginning.

Realizing that the opponent's strength and cultivation were far superior to her own, Ye Yuchan quickly summoned her magic weapon Black Rain, drew her bow, and asked with a solemn expression: "Where is the Heavenly City Saint Immortal who should be here?"

"Amagi? Ah...you mean this?"

Zuo He pursed his lips, then pulled his right hand out of the air.

Suddenly, a vortex-like attraction emanated from his palm, traversing a great distance in the blink of an eye, and pulled a figure from somewhere in the main hall right in front of him.

Everyone looked on in horror.

It was a young man dressed in a Taoist robe from the Immortal Capital. He looked quite young, about eighteen or nineteen years old. He was holding half a broken sword in his hand. Seventy percent of the bones in his body were broken. His right leg was only the part above the knee. His neck had been choked with five bloody holes. He was being held by the neck by Zuo He like a corpse.

died.

He died a very serious death.

His soul was 80% destroyed, and the remaining 20% ​​was damaged beyond repair. In this situation, even if Yun Ping personally intervened, it would probably be too late to save him.

"You actually don't even spare your own people..." Lin Yuan said through gritted teeth, a faint red light flashing in her eyes.

“There are a lot of interests involved here. In fact, I asked Tiancheng to come with me, but he refused.”

He spread his hands and casually tossed the corpse of the Heavenly Immortal in front of Yunping and the others.

"A stubborn person who can't adapt to the situation is a hindrance, so he died."

"How pitiful. If they had joined me in making a deal with that person, they would not only have survived, but their cultivation would have also advanced further."

Yun Ping's eyes narrowed slightly: "That person?"

"You probably know him too, right? That guy from the Demon Dynasty..."