This Young Master is not Cannon Fodder - Chapter 479

Donghai Longzi once again entered the Sacred Fire Grotto. Everything appeared exactly the same as when all the demons entered and left the Divine Beast Pseudo System. At least on the surface.

He had already noticed a lightness in his sleeve. Although not significant or noticeable, it was still a familiar weight, which accompanied him for thousands of years, that disappeared. His main body’s conduit had taken action.

A pair of pitch-black eyes gazed up.

“What’s wrong?” Honglin asked, noticing his abnormal movements.

Donghai Longzi didn’t say anything for a moment. Finally, he shook his head and said, “It’s nothing.”

Honglin didn’t believe him, and also looked up, but she couldn’t capture what drew his attention.

‘Silly girl, I couldn’t detect anything. The reason I looked up was because my intuition told me that something changed in the Sacred Fire Grotto,’ Donghai Longzi thought. Although he didn’t know what or how, Tianyi’s conduit definitely took action. Just look at Demon Empress Bluefeather.

Demon Empress Bluefeather appeared unfazed, with nary a change in her expression. Well, for the amount of expression a bird could have. Still, Donghai Longzi detected the wariness in her eyes, as well as the change in the flow of qi in the realm artifact.

That change soon settled down and the spiritual qi calmed down. It seemed that Demon Empress Bluefeather couldn’t discover anything, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t wary. Although Donghai Longzi couldn’t sense anything outside of the Sacred Fire Grotto, he got a vague sensation of extreme vigilance during their return.

Still, that had nothing to do with Donghai Longzi. Sooner or later, they would return to the Divine Beast Pseudo System. He wasn’t worried about the ambush that might occur when the Sacred Fire Grotto arrived outside the pseudo system. The time would be far too soon.

This was a war between the daoist path and the Demon Clan. Catching Demon Empress Bluefeather might sound good and all, but how could war preparation be done so fast? Even if they had already allied ahead of time, they couldn’t show too much because of the need for secrecy.

Donghai Longzi didn’t think the Demon Clan would be alerted, either. Because of their recent actions, both the Immortal Court and Numinous Sword Sect used this chance to clean up as many spies as possible. To prevent these two hegemonic forces from catching their tails, the Demon Clan would hide as much as possible to prevent any accidents.

Unfortunately, they didn’t account for one Xi Tianyi.

Donghai Longzi threw the information into the back of his mind and resumed his role as a rising star of the Demon Clan. Demon Empress Bluefeather delayed their return by a decade, but eventually, she returned to the Divine Beast Pseudo System.

“I have failed everyone’s expectations,” Demon Empress Bluefeather said when she saw the fellow members of the Four Divine Beast, Demon Emperor Redraco and Demon Emperor Blacktiger, with no intent on shirking her responsibility.

Demon Emperor Redraco didn’t admonish Demon Empress Bluefeather, but he didn’t comfort her either. He only sighed.

“It’s not your fault,” Demon Emperor Blacktiger said. “Who would have known that stinky dragon had long sold us out?”

“What do you mean by stinky dragon?” Demon Emperor Redraco asked. He felt like Demon Emperor Blacktiger was pointing at the mulberry tree, but cursing the locust.

The negotiations between the three clans had finished. The Dragon Clan ceded some resource points because of Yujiao, but its strength was not affected much. Although the Phoenix Clan also gained a portion, the Qilin Clan swallowed most of the resource points. Still, at least they didn’t pay any price for Yujiao’s betrayal under Demon Empress Bluefeather’s watch.

Now, all the Demon Clan wanted to do was bide its time and regain their strength, watching for the next opportune time to relocate the Divine Beast Pseudo System.

“It took over ten years.”

“What did you say?” Daoyi asked, looking at Tianyi.

Tianyi shook his head. “It’s nothing.”

He, along with Daoyi, stood in the main hall of the control palace of Shangri-La. Although Shangri-La wasn’t sparse by any means during the Jade-and-Numinous Conference, the amount of resources in it at this time made Tianyi feel what it meant to be poor for the first time in his life.

There was even an inner voice telling him to snatch the resources and store it into his Nine Heavens Universe. Of course, he would not let this little greed control him. The Nine Heavens Universe had far more resources, but they haven’t been discovered or processed yet.

The Immortal Court and Numinous Sword Sect really went all out this time. If the Immortal Court had pulled out these cards during the Huang Realm unification war, Tianyi estimated that they would have steamrolled all opposition. Well, except the founder of the Saintly Scholar School. Yet, they only brought them out now. They really were careful.

Even without expanding his spiritual sense, Tianyi could sense over ten immortal emperors, two hundred immortal monarchs, and countless true immortals on Shangri-La. And that was just the advance force. He was sure that both sects kept reserves.

Granted, most of the immortal emperors were in stasis and emitted an aura of decay, meaning that their willpower was reaching its end. Still, over ten immortal emperors! That was a force that could easily conquer an immortal-rank realm back in the day.

His mother and Sovereign Yanxu stayed in their respective realms to hold the fort in case the Demon Clan attacked the Primordial or Numinous Realm with most of their fighting force gone. It would not be a wrong tactic, divide and conquer.

At this time, Minister Primewood stepped next to Tianyi. “How is it?”

“We’re almost there,” Tianyi said. “I didn’t expect it. The reason the Demon Clan was able to hide for so long was because they hid their location partly in another timeline. No wonder it’s so hard to find.”

“Well, it is the Demon Clan, mankind’s oldest nemesis,” Minister Primewood said. “But that’s even better. They’ll suffer a backlash once they’re dug out.”

Tianyi said nothing. He could feel Meng Tingfeng’s gaze on him, so he purposely kept conversing with Minister Primewood. Finally, Shangri-La stopped.

“Be careful. Although there’s a concealment formation on Shangri-La, and I haven’t sensed anything, the Demon Clan may have already noticed our presence,” Tianyi said.

At this point, the sleeping immortal emperors have awakened from their stasis. Each one stared at the empty void in front of them with frightening gazes.

“Like we planned before, the Immortal Court will shatter the Demon Clan’s barrier and expose them to the world,” Minister Primewood said. He, along with the eight other immortal emperors—Tianyi included—forty-nine immortal monarchs, and eighty-one true immortals flew out of Shangri-La’s protection and formed a formation with it at the core.

The war against the Demon Clan had officially commenced.