Wu Longzi told Shi Feiyang that he had a friend, a millennia-old Chinese Toon tree that grew on the East Great Road, which had attained spirituality and formed a Primordial Embryo, intending to reincarnate into a human body in the home of a disciple of the Lord of the Eternal Night City, Qian Kang. However, an unexpected event had occurred since the year before last.

At that time, it was the Winter Solstice, and disciples of Shenjun Zhenyue from the East Sea took advantage of the weakness during the Aurora Fire to gather herbs and tour the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain and made a visit to the Eternal Night City, where they were warmly welcomed by Qian Kang's disciples.

The Chinese Toon tree heard that the two disciples of Shenjun Zhenyue wanted to use it to create a Buried Wheel Electric Light Disc, and one of Qian Kang's disciples said that his master was planning to deal with the Black Dragon across the sea and asked for their help.

Wu Longzi said, "Qian Kang has been plotting against the king for more than a day or two! He's been scheming with all his heart."

Shi Feiyang nodded, "I know Qian Kang is after me."

Qian Kang entered the Dao during the Southern Song period and had now achieved the status of an Earth Immortal. Originally, a Cold Centipede lived on the west bank. Qian Kang had long intended to eliminate it but had no other choice. He anticipated that after the Cold Centipede survived its Ten Thousand Years Tribulation and attained an Undying Body, it would lead a group of demons to attack the Eternal Night City, so he was forced to prepare early.

Qian Kang knew that the Cold Centipede possessed tens of thousands of years of mana and had nine incarnations, saying its divine skills were boundless and its mana limitless was no exaggeration. Fighting it directly was out of the question, so to ensure ultimate victory, he specifically crafted two Magical Treasures to strike down the Cold Centipede during its final tribulation.

Unexpectedly, the Cold Centipede was taken down by a Demon Dragon that came from outside. On the day of the duel, although Qian Kang was not present to witness it, he had long been monitoring the movements of the Cold Centipede, calculating and investigating from time to time, and inquiring from sea monsters, and thus he knew almost the entire process.

He calculated that the Demon Dragon possessed powerful mana and was facing a tribulation. Once it passed through and formed its Nascent Soul, it would also qualify as an Earth Immortal. Even if it was not yet an Undying Body, possessing many powerful Magical Treasures and numerous disciples, and consistently gathering evil creatures as minions, once the tribulation was over, it would still attack the Eternal Night City. Although the divination showed a prelude of courtesy followed by force, unavoidable military confrontation would eventually occur.

He planned to take advantage preemptively while the Demon Dragon was undergoing its tribulation. Knowing that his own mana was no match for the Demon Dragon, and that the future was uncertain with many variables, he secluded himself for several days of fasting and personally wrote a piece of green prose to pray for blessings from his master in the Yuqing Immortal Realm, while also diligently performing divinations to gather more information.

After careful planning, he resolved to eliminate the Demon Dragon, began crafting Magical Treasures specifically targeting foreign species with his wife and disciples, and sent people to invite friends for assistance. The two disciples of Shenjun Zhenyue were just visiting the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, so he had his disciple extend an invitation for them to join forces in slaying the dragon and banishing demons.

In Shi Feiyang's plans, he indeed intended to completely unify the entire Outer Heaven Divine Mountain. However, he had no intention of utterly annihilating the Eternal Night City. If Qian Kang was willing to recognize him as King, Shi Feiyang was prepared to appoint him as the Lord of the Feudal State, maintaining his position as Lord of the Eternal Night City, and he would also help Qian Kang attain an Undying Body and assist him through the thirteen-hundred-year tribulation of becoming an Earth Immortal.

But according to his calculations, Qian Kang would definitely launch a full attack during these toughest hundred days, and a deadly struggle was inevitable. With him leading the planning, people who originally wouldn't have participated saw hope and would join, escalating like an avalanche, rapidly becoming an unstoppable force.

"Qian Kang's affair, I already know about. Is there anything else you want to say?"

Wu Longzi did not expect him to be so calm, rotating his rod-shaped eyes left and right a few times: "I came to join the Great King and serve under your command. That Qian Kang, for hundreds of years, has been slaughtering foreign species. Many fierce and ugly water clans, even the herbivores, as soon as they land on his eastern shore, are immediately slaughtered. We all wish to follow the Great King to annihilate him, and smash him to pieces!"

Shi Feiyang smiled, "He has operated in that Eternal Night City for hundreds of years, which was originally one of the Immortal Palaces of the Spiritual Space Immortal Realm. After his continuous expansion and management, it has become a fortress, connected to heaven and earth, grounded in the earth's veins, solid as a fortress. It won't be easy to break through."

Seeing that Wu Longzi had nothing to add, he awarded him an Angry Mysterious Pill as a reward and had Red Snake accompany him to arrange accommodation in the right court of the Shenzhe Palace.

Learning that Qian Kang was planning to seize the opportunity during the chaos, all the disciples were furious, eagerly coming forward to volunteer to strike at the Eternal Night City first.

Xiong Man felt deeply indebted to her master Shi Feiyang's kindness and was also most indignant at this time: "No matter how strong his Eternal Night City is, we'll stir up the sea water, flood it with high tides, and let Junior Brother Jin fan up hurricanes and tsunamis. I don't believe he can withstand that!"

Shi Sheng applauded: "Exactly, and if that fails, let Sister Deng freeze the seawater rushing into the city, or even pull down a Big Meteor from beyond the skies to smash it!"

"This talk," Shi Feiyang was somewhat surprised, then he smiled and said, "Is it also because I led you to turn falling stars into sand and build mountains and rivers that your visions and spirits have grown so vast? Such means, however, should not be lightly used. I was borrowing the might of heaven and earth opportunistically to change the form of the world, but you are talking about slaughtering a city. Such methods should not be used unless absolutely necessary. I've already planned for this, and the situation has not yet gone beyond my predictions. You just carry out what I'd instructed earlier."

He stopped his disciples from taking a defensive stance, knowing that this time the other side had a very formidable character ready to act. Although the identity appeared vaguely on the divination, it was extremely obscure, altered by someone, and without his years of deep study in numerology, he would not have figured it out, but he had no idea whether the person was male or female.

If merely provoking No Night City could resolve the issue, Shi Feiyang would have sought out Qian Kang years ago, he silently thought. Some enemies are more useful alive than dead.

In the following days, he refined elixirs by day, collecting water by night, managed to sleep deeply from the hour of Hai to the hour of Chou, each day sleeping deeper than the last. All his energy concentrated inward, working on a transformation that made his body appear increasingly ethereal and his mana weaker. He had experienced this before, but this time it was far more severe.

Days passed, but Qian Kang's attack was yet to come.

Qian Kang was also skilled in planning; he knew that Demon Dragon had made meticulous preparations, setting up layered ambushes, which would take him a great deal of time to penetrate into the Five Palaces range. Thus, he needed momentum. Although his master in the heavens couldn't communicate directly, through the divination indicated to him that this time, in slaying the dragon and exterminating the demons, he would have the help of another expert. He needed patience and could not afford to rush to success.

Qian Kang also worried about heavy casualties on his side and wanted others to lead the charge for him.

Within the territory of the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, there was another power he could utilize—the unusual beings of the sea. If they could break through Demon Dragon's prohibition, these members of the Demon Clan would definitely rush in to plunder amidst chaos. Although these beings were numerous and some possessed substantial Dao levels, they were essentially a disorganized crowd, each looking out for themselves. Good at fighting downwind battles but relying on them to charge and break through Shi Feiyang's arrays and prohibitions at all costs was impossible.

Beyond this, another force existed—Fourty-Seven Islands of Little Antarctic. However, those people would only come on the day of the Winter Solstice, which was just three days before Shi Feiyang planned to transcend his calamity.

Qian Kang sent his disciples to spread rumors among these beings, claiming that the main force of No Night City would exert all its strength on the Winter Solstice day to attack the Bright Realm and slay the Demon Dragon, who after killing Demon Centipede had scavenged considerable treasures and possessed numerous Magical Treasure Pills... inciting the demons to boil with excitement, rubbing their hands in anticipation of joining No Night City's master and rushing in to wreak havoc.

He also bribed some of these beings, promising them discipleship in the future, helping them to transform into human forms, and avoiding the Three Calamities. He wanted these beings to collect more information about the Bright Realm.

These demons came to Bright Realm under false pretenses of allegiance. Due to Shi Feiyang's policy of not turning anyone away, some were accommodated in the right courtyard of Shenzhe Palace, others in the Crystal Palace.

The right courtyard of Shenzhe Palace housed more than twenty thousand various demons, a chaotic mix without much discipline. They soon gathered some information and even learned the first level of the Sun Refining Great Technique.

Red Snake considered himself one of the earliest followers of Shi Feiyang, yet his strength ranked rather low. Shi Feiyang appointed him as a palace master, additionally granting him the authority to assist with the land-based external disciples. He believed this was entirely because Shi Feiyang was considering their past relationship. Otherwise, in these deep mountains, great demons of a thousand years were common, and those of three to five thousand, or even seven to eight thousand years were not rare. Why should he, a mere few hundred years in Dao Level, manage affairs?

Since being appointed leader, Red Snake's blood boiled— not because he was pleased to have power, but because he was touched by the heavy responsibility Shi Feiyang entrusted to him. He had sworn to the Xuan Turtle long ago to manage this group well for his king.

He also worried about spies infiltrating and committing acts detrimental to the king. He and Xuan Turtle would use the back of the turtle shell to perform divination and calculate every day during their rest time to see if any villains had slipped in.

One day, while using the Seven Birds Divine Skill taught by Shi Feiyang for divination, the snake and turtle indeed noticed an anomaly.

Qian Kang's spies had infiltrated secretly to disrupt the balance of Yin and Yang and alter variables, making it impossible for Shi Feiyang's side to detect.

Red Snake had not figured it out initially, believing today was uneventful, but Xuan Turtle was extremely talented in this respect. Given his indifferent nature, just as Shi Feiyang said, even when it involved his own life and property, Xuan Turtle could maintain a detached demeanor, making his calculations extremely precise and calm during interpretation, discerning many details which Red Snake missed.

The altered variable set by Qian Kang was thus discerned by Xuan Turtle. After telling Red Snake, Red Snake immediately became alert and recalculated with him. Indeed, the divination showed that two spies had infiltrated today: one was a four-legged beast with horns, white in color; the other—a bird, blue in color, connected to gold...

Red Snake checked today's registration records and quickly identified two newly arrived little demons.

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