"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..." 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

In the Royal Garden of the Tongtian Immortal Dynasty, the Little Yellow Gate stumbled and crawled to kneel before Li Chengshi: "Your Majesty, something terrible has happened."

Li Chengshi, who was interrupted from enjoying himself with his concubines, slightly furrowed his brows: "Speak."

"According to the Wei Family Head and the Kong Family Master, the Life Stele for the Sword Immortals sent to the Lin Yuan Sword Sect in the Lower Realm... have all shattered!"

At the moment the words fell, Li Chengshi's expression slightly changed, his first thought was that the former Kong Yao, now Ji Shuang, had completely betrayed.

Otherwise, the Lin Yuan Sword Sect couldn't possibly have slaughtered all the Upper Realm Sword Immortals; only with ambushes or poison could they wipe out the dispatched Upper Realm Sword Immortals.

With a slightly gloomy expression, Li Chengshi waved his hand, and the other concubines tactfully withdrew, then he spoke: "Go and call Wu Qianying over, and bring those Life Steles as well."

"By Your Majesty's command."

In no time, an elder in a scholar's gray robe appeared before Li Chengshi, leaning slightly on a cane: "Greetings, Your Majesty."

Seated on a chair, Li Chengshi looked up at Wu Qianying, slightly frowning: "You've aged again; are you alright?"

Wu Qianying was his most valued subordinate, although not from a noble family, he excelled in the Divination Array, being the most important force in competing with Shangguan Qizheng from Hidden Life Mountain and the Tianyan Pavilion in the Lower Realm.

Although he couldn't defeat Shangguan Qizheng in Daoist Skills, with the ancient heritage of the Upper Realm spanning tens of thousands of years, he frequently caused Shangguan Qizheng to suffer losses.

Only in recent years has he become somewhat powerless, not only failing in the layouts of Mist River Cave Heaven and the Qinglian Secret Realm, but even the complete Jiangshan Map was taken by Shangguan Qizheng...

Naturally, Li Chengshi wished to vent his anger, but for many years, Wu Qianying was the only one from Hidden Life Mountain to achieve Great Success in the Divination Array, so he couldn't be overly harsh.

Noticing he had aged a few more years now, Li Chengshi's first instinct was to express some concern.

"Thank you for Your Majesty's concern, I am temporarily fine, just having divined on the Outer Heaven."

Li Chengshi nodded, not pressing further inquiries, instead narrating the incident at Lin Yuan Sword Sect, then said: "I am highly confident in the means of the Upper Realm, so it can only be that Kong Yao has betrayed. What do you think?"

Wu Qianying stayed silent for a while before saying: "Qi Huizu is a Sword Cultivator who suppressed that era a thousand years ago, and it's very possible Kong Yao was moved in her interactions with him, but... she concealed Qi Huizu for so long, which can be considered a response to Your Majesty. I hope Your Majesty won't be too harsh on the Kong Family."

"I haven't asked you here to discuss this." Li Chengshi shook his head: "I want to know if this was a collaboration between Lu Jin'an and Qi Huizu."

Pausing, he added: "It doesn't matter if Kong Rong and others are all dead; after descending, being alive is a gain, and dying was expected from the start, just not so fast."

He leaned forward slightly: "Is Lu Jin'an really under the control of the Qingqiu Fox Clan, or not?"

"Please wait, Your Majesty."

"Hmm."

Li Chengshi quietly watched as Wu Qianying brought out various Immortal Artifacts to perform Daoist Skills.

Relying on the Upper Realm's heritage, coupled with Wu Qianying's Time Daoist Skill, and the Heart Blood left in the Life Stele by Kong Rong and the others in advance, it's enough to glimpse traces that ordinary people cannot see from the shattered Life Stele.

Even though Wu Qianying said "please wait," the process would not be short, but for an Immortal of Li Chengshi's caliber, this little time was tolerable.

"Your Majesty."

An hour later, Wu Qianying opened his eyes, unable to hide his fatigue: "Lu Jin'an is indeed in Lin Yuan Sword Sect."

Upon hearing this, Li Chengshi sat up slightly: "So, is that kid pretending?"

Wu Qianying shook his head: "Your Majesty, he is indulged in debauchery, but that doesn't mean he's become stupid. The Lu Jin'an that Kong Rong saw had a pale face and indeed a feeble aura...

For someone like Lu Jin'an, who opened Eight Dao Palaces, such a situation should hardly occur to him, so the Yu Yunzhou plan still worked."

"Are you sure he's not pretending?" Li Chengshi pursued: "If he had to use Daoist Skills to disguise, it's possible, isn't it?"

"There's definitely that possibility, but..." Wu Qianying weighed his words: "With Lu Jin'an's physique, achieving such a disguise is no easy feat, moreover, Qiu Qingtang herself doesn't fully understand that Outer Heaven Eye Technique, so what could Lu Jin'an perceive?"

He said meaningfully: "Cultivating the body to this extent, any emptiness suggests a true issue with the body, and it's not easy to remedy."

Li Chengshi was silent for a moment: "Forget it, after all, this is the Demon Clan's business, it's not something we need to worry about at the moment."

Closing his eyes, Li Chengshi couldn't let Lu Jin'an enter Divine Concealment; otherwise, the vast earth and heavens would become Lu Jin'an's greatest stage.

He must mention this to Zhu Tianqi to prevent any problems.

"Come with me to pay the Demon Clan a visit."

"By Your Majesty's command."

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Lin Yuan Sword Sect.

In the concluded battle, only Dongfang Xinglan continued to pursue some Sword Cultivators; in the main hall, Lu Jin'an stared at Kong Rong, who was surrounded by Yin Ming Qi, his Dao Domain circulating around him, suddenly smiling meaningfully.

Someone was using the Time Path to spy secretly.

It was obvious that it was people from the Tongtian Immortal Dynasty, and needless to say, it was Wu Qianying, the magician from Kong Rong's memory.

It seems this was a probing by Hidden Life Mountain, but the losses for Hidden Life Mountain from this probe were not small at all.