Saint Emperor Devourer of Heaven

The Pei family's three generations have been shrewd calculators.

"Father, if this matter succeeds, satisfying Luo Xi's wishes will be a mere side effect. The most important thing is that the Swiftwind Clan and the Taiji Divine Beast Clan will continue to wear each other down. By then, the Swiftwind Clan will be greatly weakened and have no energy to target us. The other two major tribes will definitely take the opportunity to suppress the Swiftwind Clan, and together with our Ancestral Refinement Village, the three parties will restrict their development. It will be a fool's dream for the Swiftwind Clan to recover!"

Pei Luo Xi's father's eyes grew even more fervent as he said, "At that time, our Pei family's contributions will be undeniable! For countless years, the Swiftwind Clan has been our adversary, causing no small amount of damage to our Ancestral Refinement Village. The past village chiefs have been unable to solve this problem. If our Pei family solves it this time, then you, Father, can take the opportunity to impeach the village chief and let him step down and give way to a worthy successor, allowing you to sit on the village chief's throne!"

"Well said. The day of success will be the time when our Pei family reaches the pinnacle of glory. However, before that, we must remain low-key. Next, I will be going out for a trip to secretly inform the Swiftwind Clan. Before I return, if anyone comes here looking for me, tell them that I am temporarily in seclusion for several days and have no time to deal with village affairs."

After Elder Pei finished speaking, he stood up.

"Father, you can go with peace of mind. Your son is here and will ensure that there are no mistakes."

Pei Luo Xi's father made a guarantee.

Elder Pei nodded, then disguised himself and quietly left through the back door of the courtyard.

On the way out of the village, Elder Pei was very cautious, avoiding all eyes.

After all, the village was very large, and the buildings were not so dense. The entire village was almost the size of a small city, and it was not all flat land. There were also some small hills and the like.

......

Deep within the village, inside the stone tower, Mu Ciyin's powerful divine sense had already locked onto the Pei family.

"The elder surnamed Pei has left in disguise."

She told Jun Wuxie what she had sensed.

"Very good, the fish has taken the bait." Jun Wuxie had a confident smile on his face, "At the village entrance, the one surnamed Pei stood up and took it upon himself to try to deceive us, concealing the fact that Chen Yu was in the village. From this, it can be seen that this person is very arrogant and must have someone to rely on in the village. He is not very convinced by the village chief, otherwise he would not have acted that way."

Mu Ciyin nodded and said, "That's right. This person lacks respect for the village chief of Ancestral Refinement Village. To put it bluntly, this person has rebellious bones. Once given the opportunity, he will inevitably harbor the desire to seize power."

For the Pei family, this was an opportunity that had come to their door, so how could they miss it?

"I want to subdue Ancestral Refinement Village. Elder Pei must be eliminated. Keeping this kind of person around, the value is far less than the disadvantages. To eliminate the Pei family, a strong suppression and direct action is not a wise move."

Jun Wuxie sat on the bluestone futon, with Yue Chenyu leaning in his arms, still sound asleep, breathing evenly. Her whole person looked almost back to normal.

At this moment, Yue Chenyu in his arms stirred slightly and woke up faintly.

Opening her eyes, she saw that familiar face. Her eyes were somewhat dazed, unmoving, for fear that she was in a dream.

Feeling his warmth and strong heartbeat, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Recalling the moment she pushed open the tower door and saw him yesterday, and all the things that happened later.

"I... I'm fine now."

The daze in Yue Chenyu's eyes faded, replaced by her usual coldness. Leaving Jun Wuxie's arms, she distanced herself by half a meter.

"Chenyu, why do you change your face faster than flipping a book?"

Jun Wuxie couldn't help but feel speechless. From yesterday until now, she had been so delicate and gentle, endearing, but as soon as she woke up, she instantly returned to that cold appearance.

"No, Divine King Jun is overthinking it. Chenyu is just not used to being so intimate with men."

Yue Chenyu smoothed her hair, her voice cold, with no expression on her face.

Now, her physical condition was indeed almost good, and although her energy and spirit had not recovered to their peak, they had recovered to about seventy or eighty percent.

"Yue Chenyu, do you know that you are very annoying right now?"

Jun Wuxie was really angered by her. What did she mean by not being used to being so intimate with men?

If someone else said this, he would definitely believe it, but saying it in front of him was too fake.

If Yue Chenyu cared about this when she was with him, she wouldn't have let him see her whole body without a thread of clothing back then.

Therefore, this was obviously an excuse, a very clumsy reason in his opinion.

This woman still couldn't let go of the pride in her bones, insisting on putting on airs and refusing to lower her face.

"If Chenyu has angered Divine King Jun, Chenyu is willing to accept punishment."

Yue Chenyu gave him an apologetic salute, then remained motionless, as if saying, 'You can punish me if you want.'

The muscles on Jun Wuxie's face twitched a few times. He took a deep breath and ignored her.

Mu Ciyin on the side watched in stunned silence.

Jun Wuxie, who had always been dominant in front of her, his master, was actually angered to this extent by Yue Chenyu.

She couldn't help but wonder, what was the relationship between Wuxie and Yue Chenyu?

"Master Ciyin, don't look at your disciple with that kind of gaze. If it weren't in front of you, if it weren't for feeling sorry for her experiences over the years, your disciple would have already dealt with her at this moment."

Mu Ciyin couldn't help but smile at his unconvinced appearance.

"Has Divine King Jun been well these years?"

Yue Chenyu completely ignored Jun Wuxie's words about dealing with her, as if she hadn't heard them.

Perhaps in her opinion, this was indeed not something worth caring about.

"It's been okay. The doomsday torrent in the Lower Realm has ended. After arriving in the Upper Realm, everything has been going smoothly."

Jun Wuxie said with a smile, summarizing his experiences over the years in a brief and plain sentence.

"The Lower Realm, Divine King Jun was in the Dark Continent..."

Yue Chenyu remembered the situation at the time. Although she had not witnessed it, the blood rain all over the sky and the mournful cries of the heavenly music all indicated his fall.

But he was now truly in front of her, so she was deeply puzzled as to what exactly had happened back then.

"Only seriously injured. I was lucky enough not to die when I perished with the Dark Army, but I was severely injured. Perhaps because the Dark Continent was relatively special, the Heavenly Dao order sensed a deviation, which caused such an anomaly."

Jun Wuxie said with a smile, speaking of the past as if it were a light breeze.

Mu Ciyin listened on the side, but her heart was filled with mixed feelings.

Of course, she knew what had happened.

She had already understood the events of the Lower Realm in those years clearly.

It was so tragic, yet he spoke of it so lightly, concealing the fact that he had died for several years and turned into a dried corpse.

At this moment, the cold-looking Yue Chenyu finally had obvious emotional fluctuations.

A few tears appeared in her eyes.

"We all thought you had fallen..."

She seemed to be talking to Jun Wuxie, and also seemed to be talking to herself.

After speaking, she turned her back to them, and tears flowed from her eyes, dripping onto her crystal-clear, round chin, and falling down.

"Alright, it's okay, aren't I doing well?"

Although she had her back to him, Jun Wuxie sensed her emotions. He reached out and hugged her, gently stroking her hair, "Don't cry. In the doomsday torrent, we fought for such an ending, which is actually relatively perfect. Although there are still some regrets, those regrets will eventually be made up for."

"How did Divine King Jun know that Chenyu was in the world beneath this abyss?"

Yue Chenyu wiped the tears from her face, her emotions quickly stabilized, and she returned to her cold appearance, only slightly better than her usual coldness.

"The news of you being chased and killed back then was known to everyone in the major forces. My master is the Pavilion Master of the Iceheart Pavilion, so of course she knows about your affairs. Therefore, we came to the Soul-Stirring Ridge to find you. We saw the starting stance engraving of your Immortal-Slaying Sword-Drawing Technique in the mountains and forests, and followed the direction it pointed to the Eight Trigrams Land. In the end, all the roads were cut off, and only the abyss remained, so we came down."

"Divine King Jun really saw the mark left by Chenyu. At that time, Chenyu didn't know why, but left the engraving on that tree. Although I knew at the time that it was impossible for you to see it, I still did it."

"Facts have proved that your idea was wrong. Didn't I see that mark? Why didn't you continue to leave marks later? Was it because you felt it was too dangerous as you went deeper and didn't want me to put myself in danger?"

Yue Chenyu met his gaze, lowered her head slightly, and did not answer.

The answer was already obvious, she had defaulted.

"In these years, your cultivation progress in the Upper Realm has been good, reaching the Overlord Saint Realm."

Jun Wuxie had already checked her realm. He was not surprised by Yue Chenyu's fast cultivation speed.

In his opinion, this was simply a matter of course.

Because she was the reincarnation of the Heavenly Maiden, and now that her Dao Fruit was initially awakened, her cultivation was naturally rapid, because there was no bottleneck at all for breakthroughs, everything came naturally.

"In these three years, resisting the Dark Curse in the stone tower, my realm has not progressed at all. Now that the Dark Curse has been removed, after Chenyu recovers, she should usher in an explosive breakthrough. After all, there is still some power of the Dao Fruit remaining in her body. As long as she uses it well, breaking through some realms is not a problem."

"That's great, little junior sister is already higher than the big senior brother, is she going to reach the peak of her life?"

Jun Wuxie teased with a smile. Yue Chenyu glanced at him and said coldly, "What's the use of realm? No matter how high the realm, Chenyu can't beat the perverted big senior brother."

"Can you speak properly?"

Jun Wuxie flicked her fair forehead.

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At the same time, in an area far away from Ancestral Refinement Village, Elder Pei, after disguising himself, was sprinting across the mountains and rivers, leaving a trail of afterimages.

Suddenly, Elder Pei sensed a powerful aura rapidly approaching from behind.

This aura made his heart pound with fear. He abruptly turned around and saw a Taiji-colored shadow tearing through the sky, its speed terrifying.

The Taiji-colored shadow instantly caught up to him and blocked his path.

Elder Pei stopped abruptly, almost colliding with it.

When he saw clearly who was blocking him, his pupils constricted violently, his face filled with shock and anger.

"You… how could it be you?"

He was shocked and furious, a bad premonition rising in his heart.

Blocking him was actually the Beast Queen of the Taiji Divine Beast Clan, who was now looking down at him with cold eyes.

The Beast Queen chasing after him and intercepting him was definitely not a coincidence.

Elder Pei was not a fool; on the contrary, he was very shrewd. He immediately realized that he might have been tricked!

"Elder Pei, where are you going?"

The Beast Queen had a human-like sneer on her lips, her eyes playful.

Her master had arranged for her to hide near the village and monitor the movements of the Pei family. If anyone left the village, she would secretly follow them and, once far enough away, capture them.

Her master was truly wise and resourceful; an Elder of the Pei family had indeed come out.

"So it's the Beast Queen. This Elder has some matters to attend to outside. What? Does your Taiji Divine Beast Clan even manage where this old man goes? Isn't that a bit ridiculous?"

Elder Pei calmed himself, an displeased expression on his face, showing no sign of guilt, steady as a rock.

"The Su Feng Clan is far away; Elder Pei must be very tired from running?"

"Beast Queen, this old man respects you as a big figure of the Taiji Divine Beast Clan, but you can't just pin accusations on this old man's head. Everyone knows that my Zu Lian Village has been at odds with the Su Feng for countless years. The two are enemies. How could this Elder possibly go to the Su Feng? As the Beast Queen, how can you speak nonsense like this? Aren't you afraid of being laughed at?"

Elder Pei's voice was stern and his expression fierce, putting on a righteous appearance, his aura very intimidating.

"I'm too lazy to watch you perform here."

The Beast Queen didn't waste words and directly slapped him.

Her realm was so high, a queen of a clan, one of the rulers, naturally higher than an elder of Zu Lian Village. Adding the blessing of the divine beast bloodline, Elder Pei couldn't resist at all.

"Beast Queen, you're going too far!"

Elder Pei roared, his eyes spitting fire, trying his best to resist and counterattack, but he was slapped to the ground, his body marked with deep bloody grooves from sharp claws.

"You better save your strength and be honest, or you'll only be in more pain."

After the Beast Queen finished speaking, her huge claws pressed down on Elder Pei, blood energy pouring into his body, sealing all his meridians and rendering him powerless.

"If you dare to do this, our Zu Lian Village will not let it go!"

Elder Pei roared.

"Noisy."

The Beast Queen slapped him again, this time directly on Elder Pei's face, shattering all his teeth. His tongue was almost bitten off by his own teeth, the pain excruciating, causing him to emit a miserable whimper.

She grabbed Elder Pei and disappeared into the mountains.

At this time, inside Zu Lian Village, in the Pei family's courtyard, Pei Luoxi and his father were leisurely drinking tea, waiting for the plan to proceed smoothly, both with smug smiles on their faces.

They were both full of confidence in this plan, completely assured.

Thinking that the Pei family was about to reach its peak and move towards brilliance, they couldn't help but feel excited.