At the same time, the Flying Immortal Master, along with a group of Masters and several alien beings, launched a purge against the rebellious or hostile forces.

In less than 12 hours, all potential threats around the world were completely eliminated, and overseas secret realms and resources were divided up by the Masters and alien creatures.

The sects in Kyushu that sought to survive by cutting off their tails were easily wiped out by Jiang Mo and divided equally with the Flying Immortal Sect.

At dusk, in the bamboo grove of the Flying Immortal Secret Realm, twelve envoys from the Sunset Royal Court knelt on the ground, their bodies bound by specially made demon-suppressing chains. Before them stood Jiang Mo, Xuan Hua, and others.

"Do we need to ask you, or do you want to tell us everything you can say yourself?"

Hearing that somewhat cold voice, Si Li felt a chill run down his spine and gritted his teeth, saying:

“I…I’ll say it.”

"We have been sent by secret decree from His Majesty the Sunset King and the Dark Blade King to infiltrate the Heavenly Abyss and carry out three major missions."

"1. Locate the three innate magical artifacts and seize them."

"2. Win over the local forces and bring them under the royal court so that in the future, when His Majesty and the princes personally lead the expedition, he can better take over Tianyuan and exclude the Daye Dynasty and the Void Sword Sect."

"3. Locate any suspected Taotie bloodline and secretly kill it."

"Um?!"

The last sentence immediately drew the attention of Yao Wang, who had previously been indifferent and uninvolved.

"What did you say? Who gave you the order to attack me, you bastard?"

Yao Wang felt a chill run down his spine; being targeted by these guys was not a good sign.

If it hadn't been incredibly lucky to have gotten close to Jiang Mo beforehand, it wouldn't have been possible to rise from the middle realm of the King Realm to the Ninth Heaven in just ten years.

If it were still at a normal cultivation pace, without the aid of a secret realm, encountering these outsiders would almost certainly mean certain death.

"It was an order from the Dark Blade King, but whether His Majesty authorized it behind the scenes is unclear to us."

Si Li said cautiously, "Within the royal court, besides the royal family's true dragon bloodline being the strongest, the Taotie bloodline is the next strongest. These two are far superior to all other royal bloodlines and have unlimited potential."

"The Taotie King, with its powerful cultivation, is the second strongest warrior in the royal court, but it is unable to have offspring. It is the only one left in its clan, exhibiting strong reproductive isolation against many other races. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that His Majesty Sunset is exceptionally lenient and reliant on it, without worrying about its descendants threatening the royal family's position in the future..."

"If it were not His Majesty's order, and the Dark Blade King commanded us to secretly eliminate the Taotie in the Heavenly Abyss, then it must have conspired with several kings to dare to act without authorization."

Upon hearing this, Yao Wang looked puzzled. He had been born without parents or even a single member of his clan. Could it be that the Taotie King from beyond the realm was related to him by blood?

"What is the background of your royal court's gluttonous king?"

"Their race escaped from your Tianyuan... I don't know the specific reason, but more than 20,000 years ago, a very small number of Taotie somehow escaped and then lived and multiplied on the primitive and vast land."

"But their numbers actually dwindled until, ten thousand years ago, only four Taotie remained. The strongest of them was a close friend of the first emperor of the Sunset Royal Court."

"As time has passed, the vast royal court now has only one Taotie King left. It is 4,692 years old. When it was still a child, it was sealed in the blood source by the Taotie patriarch ten thousand years ago and was not allowed to be born."

"Later on, only one Taotie was born in each generation to serve as a king, while seeking ways to reproduce the bloodline. Unfortunately, they all failed."

Si Li recounted the truth as it knew it, daring not to conceal anything, because its intuition told it that no lie could deceive the human Xuanzun.

"Live that long?"

Yao Wang hadn't expected the old monster from beyond the boundary to be so terrifying, but based on this information, it also concluded that it had no blood relation with the Taotie from beyond the boundary, because it was born and awakened a thousand years ago.

At the same time, it couldn't help but become wary, thinking of the evil human magic it had heard of in the past, such as possession and reincarnation, and the more it thought about it, the more apprehensive it became.

Even without meeting the Gluttonous King, Yao Wang instinctively felt uneasy, fearing that one day he would be tricked by that old monster and eaten alive, leaving not even bones behind.

"Did it also send people to infiltrate Tianyuan?"

"There should be some, but I don't know exactly who."

Seeing that Si Li didn't know the answer, Yao Wang didn't bother to ask any further questions.

It secretly plotted that it would spend the rest of its time cultivating in the secret realm.

After Tianyuan enters the world, before it has absolute strength, no matter how many sweet words the envoy sent by the Taotie King uses, it will not dare to meet him.

At worst, it can hide in Jiang Mo's secret realm.

"Tell me about the strength of your royal court's various monarchs and the Demon Emperor."

At this moment, the Flying Immortal Master, who had been observing from the sidelines, continued to interrogate Si Li.

"Yes......"

"The royal court has a royal family, plus twelve royal clans, occupying a vast territory of tens of millions of miles. Each king is in a domain, and all twelve kings are at the Sovereign Realm. There is no distinction between high and low cultivation levels in this realm, but there are phenomena of bloodline advancement and ancestral return. The higher the concentration, the stronger it is, and it will also condense the so-called Demon Palace Life Ring."

"For example, Your Majesty is the master of the Nine Palaces of Fate, and there is a star refined within each of the Nine Palaces of Fate."

A cold sweat appeared on Si Li's face. This was a serious crime of disrespect. Although there were no restrictions in place and the information was known throughout the country, it still made the natives of Tianyuan tremble with fear.

"Among the kings, the highest level is the Eight Palaces Life Ring, and the lowest is the Five Palaces Life Ring. Apart from that, the elites of the other kings, their right and left arms, the emperor's confidants, the demon generals and demon commanders of the royal court, are all at the level of the First to Fourth Palaces."

"And you? You must be pretty strong, right?"

Yue Min sized up the handsome man in front of him. The man's cultivation and age were both above Yue Min's, yet he showed no signs of aging.

"I'm at the first level of cultivation, but the suppression from Tianyuan has left me weaker than ever before," Si Li sighed, bowing his head.

"Your cultivation methods probably don't include the concept of the Life Palace, right?"

Jiang Mo turned to the three kings and asked them, but the answer was always negative.

"No, throughout history, our limit has always been to cultivate to the level of a master."

"How exactly to proceed has always been a mystery, hence the saying 'There is no high or low among the rulers, only strong and weak.' We used to think it was due to differences in bloodlines, but now it seems that's not the case."

As Yue Min answered, he was deep in thought, vaguely approaching the truth.

"That's because the laws of heaven and earth are incomplete, which prevents you from condensing the Life Palace Demon Ring."

Si Li revealed the answer, a fact it had never even told the Devouring Sun Demon Emperor. Otherwise, if the Demon Emperor had known, it might not have so hastily chosen to attack the human race.

"The difference between having a Life Palace and not having one is three to four times greater. Starting from the first Life Palace, each subsequent level will steadily increase one's cultivation by about twice as much as the previous level."

"Furthermore, because you creatures of Tianyuan are affected by incomplete laws, at every cultivation level, you will naturally be half or more weaker than humans and demons outside."

Jiang Mo had known about this for a long time, so he wasn't surprised. Instead, he asked:

"Have you seen the Sun-Devouring Demon Emperor and his subjects? In your opinion, are their strength comparable to the rulers of several palaces?"

"Those rulers, when they wear armor and wield various magical artifacts, should have a combat strength of about five palaces."

"As for the Sun-Devouring Demon Emperor, he is close to the eighth palace, or even the ninth palace. The gap between me and him is too great. The gap between me and His Majesty and the kings is also great. I cannot distinguish the strength between them."

"Based on their natural cultivation level, they couldn't possibly have become that strong. It's suspected that they were greatly enhanced after being tempered by the Chaos Cauldron. It's just a pity that such a treasure was destroyed by you."

Si Li sighed with melancholy. It looked at Jiang Mo, its mind blank. This was undoubtedly the strongest human it had ever seen.

"Is that so...? Then it seems the situation isn't too bad."

Jiang Mo seemed to be deep in thought, and then asked Si Li to tell him more about the Sunset Royal Court and hand over the map of the twelve domains of the Royal Court.

After several hours of conversation and obtaining all the intelligence, Jiang Mo did not execute these outsiders. Instead, he smiled slightly:

Do you want to live?

"If you would be so kind as to spare our lives, we would be eternally grateful!"

"Grateful!"

The other envoys echoed Si Li's statement.

They were all rulers who had cultivated for over a thousand years, or peak-level ancient demon kings, unwilling to die such a miserable death far from home.

"I will give you enough freedom. Before Tianyuan enters the world, go and find me more envoys from the Sunset Royal Court."

“Find the lackeys of the other two major powers, and bring them to me once you find them.”

"Okay..." Si Li understood his intention and did not press further.

"Pfft!" The sound of uniformly tearing flesh rang out. Each envoy's cheek was split open, and blood flew out. Jiang Mo casually refined it and controlled its Qi.

"Go, do what you are supposed to do. After Tianyuan enters the mortal world, it is up to you where you go or what you do."

At Jiang Mo's command, the envoys knelt and bowed several times, touching the ground with their heads.

"Yes...we understand."

Chapter 537 Adding Fuel to the Fire, the Second True Form Reaches a New Height

The envoys, relieved to have survived, found their backs drenched in cold sweat as their fear gradually subsided.

If a cultivator of Jiang Mo's level really wanted to torture them, there would be at least tens of thousands of ways to make them wish they were dead, which is why they couldn't muster any thoughts of resistance.

Si Li let out a soft sigh, calming its tense emotions. It slowly stood up, glanced at Jiang Mo, then at the two human cultivators beside him, and after much deliberation, finally spoke:

"Your Excellency, how should we address you from now on?"

"All living beings in the mortal world call me Xuanzun, and you may also address me in the same way."

Jiang Mo noticed its hesitant expression and gave it a way out, saying:

"Just say what's on your mind, there's no need to hide anything."

"yes....."

Seeing that Jiang Mo had spoken, Si Li dared to ask, "I wonder if Your Excellency Xuanzun's two friends are members of the Flying Immortal Cult in Tianyuan?"

"Yes, that's right. What do you mean by asking that?" A hint of doubt flashed across the Flying Immortal Master's eyes, and he keenly sensed something was amiss.

Is it possible...

"In addition to the three major tasks assigned to us by His Majesty and the King, there is also a huge bounty."

Si Li bowed with his hands clasped and slowly recounted the events of that time.

"We are ordered to do everything in our power to find the Dao Lord and the Master of the Flying Immortal Sect, and to capture them alive at all costs and bring them back to the royal court."

"?!"

"!!!"

Upon hearing this, the temperature in the entire thatched hut suddenly dropped several degrees, and a chilling cold filled the air.

The Flying Immortal Master's gaze was icy, and a murderous intent surged forth in an instant.

"What is the purpose of taking him back?"

"His Majesty and the princes have not explained that we only know that the Dao Lord and the Master of the Flying Immortal Sect may be the key to unlocking an ultimate treasure, so they ordered us to capture them alive."

"If this succeeds, we will be granted three ancient Earth Core Jade Lotuses. Consuming one of them will greatly increase one's cultivation, aid in the return of one's bloodline to its ancestral form, making it several times more potent, and allowing one to forge another Life Palace Demon Ring."

"In addition, they can be granted the title of Marquis, enjoy vast territories, and be bestowed with great treasures."

Si Li felt a chill run down its spine. It noticed a subtle change in the expressions of the two human cultivators, and even Jiang Mo was frowning slightly.

The secret hidden behind this is probably terrifyingly large, and it dares not delve into it.

"Is that so?"

"The Sunset Royal Court has actually set its sights on us."

Xianhua sighed softly. This was yet another problem. It seemed that the royal family of the Daye Dynasty was not an impenetrable wall after all.

Without the leakage of the core bloodline, these demon races, separated by tens of millions of miles, would not have been so eager to seek out Feixian County in the far north of the Daye Dynasty.

"Alright, you should all leave now. Forget everything we've discussed today; it will be good for you."

After saying that, the old man waved his hand. The Flying Immortal Master understood immediately. Without waiting for their response, he activated the Master's authority and teleported all the demon kings, including Si Li, to the outside world.

"It seems the situation is becoming increasingly perilous."

"From the initial covetousness of the four great monarchs of the Great Ye Dynasty, the Emperor, and the Grand Preceptor, to the current Sunset Royal Court, the Demon Emperor, and the twelve monarchs, it's truly a headache."

Xuan Hua rubbed his temples, and to prevent any accidents, turned to look at the Flying Immortal Master beside him and gave the order:

"From this day forward, you, me, and your fellow disciples should all minimize our interactions and, unless it is absolutely necessary, refrain from going to the mortal realm."

"As for your disciple, he shall stay in the capital city in the mortal realm, but he shall not move around without permission. If there is any unusual situation, he must be reported immediately."

"Yes, please rest assured, Uncle-Master."

The Flying Immortal Master responded in unison, a sense of crisis rising in his heart. There were already 19 beings he regarded as threats from outside the realm.

This is still without the Void Sword Sect intervening. If they were included, the number would be at least around 30.

Furthermore, there are quite a few monsters who can rival him, or even defeat him decisively.

As they were talking, Jiang Mo seemed lost in thought, gazing at the scenery on the horizon, his mind still lingering on the two mysterious auras he had captured during the battle in the starry sky.

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