This Is Not the Female Demon Lord I Remembered-Chapter 881 - 679: Awakening (Part 2)

"Cliff Sword Intent···"

Su Youyi closed her eyes, her divine sense extended outward, beginning to meticulously search for the most unique sword intent among countless sword intents.

"Has it begun?"

Outside the wooden house, Chen Hua seemed to sense something and turned his head to glance at the silent wooden house.

"Leave the elixirs to you, I'll stay here as the guard."

Chen Hua turned his head and smiled broadly at Gu Sheng, revealing a row of snow-white teeth.

"Alright, alright, you stay here then, I've already set up the array, I'll go refine some targeted elixirs."

Gu Sheng originally had his back to Chen Hua and was about to leave, but upon hearing this, he helplessly raised his hand and waved at Chen Hua.

Watching Gu Sheng's silhouette gradually disappear, the playful smile on Chen Hua's face also slowly vanished. He took out the Taoist Collection, placed it across his knees, closed his eyes, and sat upright in the void, his divine sense enveloping the heavens and earth, sword intents appearing and disappearing.

Now, Medicine Valley was completely enshrouded within Chen Hua's Sword Domain, with a mere lift of his hand, his sword could instantly reach any location, and no one could cause trouble!

With Chen Hua guarding, Grandpa Ju naturally wouldn't waste his energy and found a comfortable spot to curl up, closing his eyes, awaiting good news from Su Youyi.

Many intended to visit Liang Yi upon knowing he was seriously injured; people like Wan Tinggui, Yue Bai, and He Zhiqing all had such intentions.

Unfortunately, regardless of who it was, without exception, they were blocked by Chen Hua's sword intent outside Medicine Valley, which could only be entered but not exited now.

Yue Bai and the others were extremely regretful but helpless, not daring to confront Chen Hua at this time.

However, when Liang Yi returned, he had already hung the jade tube, recording all the intelligence, around his neck, and Su Youyi had conveniently handed it to people from other Super Forces when seeking the demon master. Even if his senior brother was unconscious, it wouldn't delay others from analyzing the intelligence he risked his life to obtain.

Day after day passed, thanks to Liang Yi's intelligence, the Mystical Mechanism's people were finally no longer ignorant about the current Abyss Continent.

Even though the opposite side might expect Liang Yi to return with the intelligence, they might turn the delivered intelligence into a trap. But the Mystical Mechanism's people were not fools, and naturally wouldn't follow the intelligence blindly.

Though some layout-related intelligence might change, many factual pieces of intelligence were immutable, such as: those cultivators from other epochs couldn't venture long in the outside world and would disappear for a period after each battle.

Later, Liang Yi focused on observing and discovered that the top cultivators from other epochs, eroded by the Abyss Demon Qi, were indeed powerful but had a fatal flaw, which was no sustainability.

Liang Yi took great risks, almost perishing to forcibly capture an Abyss Cultivator from another epoch for simple research, discovering their bodies still circulated spiritual power, but it was polluted by Abyss Demon Qi.

Previously, Liang Yi thought spiritual power was spiritual power, and Abyss Demon Qi was Abyss Demon Qi, even eroded Mystical Mechanism's cultivators couldn't change this point as the battlefield-eroded Mystical Mechanism's cultivators showed.

But in the jade tube, Liang Yi mentioned he might have been mistaken; those eroded cultivators on the battlefields were eroded too swiftly, and the transformation between spiritual power and Abyss Demon Qi was too slow, appearing as if they still used spiritual power.

Yet, those top cultivators from other epochs were eroded in the abyss for countless years, their spiritual power becoming turbid, mixed with Abyss Demon Qi.

And this led to their decline, unable to perform at peak strength, and this mixed spiritual power had the drawback of being hard to replenish, as no cultivation technique could simultaneously absorb spiritual power and Abyss Demon Qi, resulting in power depletion that couldn't be regained.

After a fierce battle, they could only retreat to replenish their strength.

This was a tremendous piece of good news for the Mystical Mechanism; it meant the abyss couldn't release all the top cultivators from other epochs simultaneously.

Even though it might catch them off guard, once blocked, the abyss would suffer the most significant short-term loss in combat power!

There were countless such pieces of intelligence, Zhou Zhukong, Fang Zhi, and Xu Yi were incredulous upon seeing the intelligence; the intelligence Liang Yi brought back far exceeded their expectations and was more comprehensive than anything they could have gathered themselves.

Fang Zhi and others couldn't fathom how Liang Yi managed to collect such vast and secret intelligence while being hunted by Abyss Cultivators across the continent.

"Tsk, I actually felt reliability and safety from a junior····"

Fang Zhi looked at the jade tube in his hand, sighed from the heart, and felt for the first time like he might indeed be old, while other sect leaders of super forces felt similarly complicated.

They naturally didn't know that when Liang Yi was still a player, he surpassed typical players with a keen sense of smell, and his forte was intelligence gathering. Now, armed with unrivaled powers, Liang Yi was incredibly reliable in gathering intelligence.

"I don't know how that kid is doing now···"

Fang Zhi put away the jade tube, his mind wandering. It had been a week and there was still no sign from Chen Hua and Medicine Valley, making people genuinely worried.

But Fang Zhi didn't have the time to think about anything else, after a brief distraction, he pulled himself together to continuously discuss subsequent strategic arrangements with Zhou Zhukong and others who came by avatars.

As Fang Zhi and others discussed fervently, Grandpa Ju in Medicine Valley was also like ants on a hot tray, no longer keeping his previous composure, pacing anxiously around Medicine Valley.

"It's been a week, why hasn't there been any movement? Could I have miscalculated? Doesn't make sense···"

Grandpa Ju murmured as he paced back and forth, even unaware that he was pacing in sync due to excessive nervousness.

Throughout the week, Yue Bai, Zhou Ruanxian, Zhou Yuqing, and Wan Tinggui, He Zhiqing, among others, came to visit Liang Yi and Su Youyi, but upon seeing the silent wooden house, they could only leave helplessly.

The wooden house had remained inert for a week; had Chen Hua not blocked entry, Grandpa Ju nearly went inside several times to see what was going on.

"Don't worry···"

Conversely, Chen Hua was utterly calm, contrasting Grandpa Ju's anxiety.

"Do you sense something?"

Grandpa Ju looked up suspiciously at Chen Hua, wondering if he sensed something he didn't.

"No, but I trust both of them." Chen Hua didn't open his eyes, yet his tone was immensely confident.

"Hah! Blind faith···" Grandpa Ju dismissed with a wave, pacing almost desperately.

"If blind faith worked, I'd trade my lifelong bachelorhood for Liang Yi to wake up immediately, wouldn't I?"

Boom——

As soon as Grandpa Ju finished speaking, a pillar of light shot skyward, shattering endless clouds!

This beam of light was incredibly imposing, visible not only to those in Medicine Valley but sensed by nearly ninety percent of cultivators on the Mystical Mechanism Continent, who all looked up in astonishment toward the distant pillar of light.

Grandpa Ju's neck stiffly turned as he looked at the wooden house behind him with a complex expression, momentarily unsure whether to laugh or cry···

"Hahaha!"

On the contrary, Chen Hua opened his eyes as soon as the light column appeared, his hearty laughter echoing into the sky, dispelling his heart's gloom with joy evident to anyone.

Under the illumination of the light beam, the peculiar Immortal Herbs planted around the wooden house by Gu Sheng seemed to have reacted, growing at an astonishing pace as if centuries were compressed into a moment.

Around the light column, laws surrounded, countless sword intents emerged and vanished from the void, enduring for the time of an incense stick's burning before slowly subsiding.