"I have my ways," Wang Mu said. "Moreover, if I don't go, Piao Miaoxu will become a massive threat."

"She has already been a massive threat," Mu Hongyuan said indifferently. "Always troublesome."

"Sister Mu, about Piao Miaoxu..." Wang Mu asked, "With your current strength, can you not annihilate her?"

"It's not that we can't, but it's useless," Mu Hongyuan said. "Since you've been to Yuhuan Immortal Mansion, you should be aware of the Heavenly Demons, right?"

Wang Mu's eyelids twitched. "I know."

"Heavenly Demons were Senior An's major foes in the past," Mu Hongyuan said. "They are fierce creatures from the Ancient Era. They cannot be killed. Even if they die, they reincarnate. Among them, the strongest of the Heavenly Demons..."

"Sky Demon Emperor Chen?" Wang Mu was startled.

In Yuhuan Immortal Mansion, Sky Demon Emperor Chen was the only one with very few records.

Among the many Heavenly Demon statues, its presence was also the most oppressive.

And indeed, Heavenly Demons were difficult to kill.

The Demon Suppression God Seal was named for 'suppression' and not 'extermination' precisely because these Heavenly Demons could only be suppressed and sealed, not completely eradicated.

Otherwise, the Heavenly Demons of the Ancient Era wouldn't still be appearing today.

"Exactly," Mu Hongyuan said. "That Piao Miaoxu is indeed the reincarnation of Sky Demon Emperor Chen; she is the King of the Heavenly Demons. After the great upheaval of Heaven and Earth, she was cleansed by the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi. The Piao Miaoxu you originally defeated should have died."

"However, once the Spiritual Energy emerged, the soul of Emperor Chen hidden within Piao Miaoxu also absorbed this Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and slowly awakened. Therefore, Piao Miaoxu did not die and gradually awakened her memories as a Heavenly Demon."

Mu Hongyuan glanced at Wang Mu and said nonchalantly, "The causality of this world is just so. You opened the Gate of Apocalypse, defeated Piao Miaoxu, and ushered in this golden age of cultivation in the Nine Provinces, yet you also sowed the seeds of disaster."

"Of course, this is not your fault."

"Perhaps, back when you defeated Piao Miaoxu, the course of future events was already set in motion."

"Later..."

Mu Hongyuan sighed lightly. "Senior An noticed the anomaly, sensed the aura of Emperor Chen, found Piao Miaoxu, and had several of us use the Demon Suppression God Seal to slowly seal her soul."

"Another method," Mu Hongyuan continued, "was for us to jointly use a secret technique, leveraging our cultivation realms at the time, to obliterate her soul. But doing so would cause Sky Demon Emperor Chen's soul to reincarnate in someone else. In the vast Nine Provinces, teeming with countless lives, no one would know who Emperor Chen's reincarnation was."

"Once Emperor Chen awakens, he would be even more cautious, making him harder to detect in the future."

"So killing her was meaningless. Senior An said she had tried it long ago. It was better to seal her directly; at least then we knew who Emperor Chen was and could keep him under control, perpetually sealed."

Upon hearing this, Wang Mu appeared pensive.

No wonder, as soon as Piao Miaoxu was released, that ancient tree said a Heavenly Demon was about to descend...

So, the King of the Heavenly Demons had emerged, and the other Heavenly Demons would inevitably awaken one by one...

And the Heavenly Demons that later appeared in Li State and Xilu all bore traces of the Demon Sect.

"It's just that..." Mu Hongyuan said, "later, just before Senior An passed away, it seemed she had divined something. All she said was, 'This is Heaven's will, Heaven's will...'"

"And when we later tried to perform a divination, we found that Sky Demon Emperor Chen's causality was too weighty, the Tianji too profound. With our cultivation, attempting to glimpse even a fraction of it would cost us our lives..." 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

"We can only guess..." Mu Hongyuan sighed softly. "Even if sealed for a long time, perhaps the day will come when Sky Demon Emperor Chen eventually emerges... That might have been what prompted Senior An to make such a remark, right?"

Wang Mu was silent.

"This strand of Residual Soul..." Wang Mu said pensively, "is actually the Residual Soul of Sky Demon Emperor Chen..."

"Exactly," Mu Hongyuan said. "She was sealed in Anle Heaven, tormented by the passage of time. Now that Senior An has passed away, you have become the source of her greatest anguish. After all, it was you who nearly killed her... you truly *did* kill her previous incarnation."

"Heavenly Demons are beings from beyond our domain and extremely troublesome," Mu Hongyuan said. "They do not belong to our world, and many of its rules are ineffective against them. With your current cultivation, it's almost impossible for you to contend with her."

"We can only wait until I revive Little Gu, then contact the others. Together, we can seal her again and stabilize the Eight Desolate Netherworld."

"There's no time," Wang Mu said, shaking his head. "Piao Miaoxu intends to use the power of the Dark Alien Race; she won't give you that much time."

Mu Hongyuan was slightly startled.

"The Dark Alien Race?" Mu Hongyuan frowned. "Senior An once said that this type of Foreign Clan is extremely troublesome. How could they be connected with Piao Miaoxu? Moreover... that place, the Eight Desolate Netherworld, is said to have never been visited by anyone. After the great upheaval of Heaven and Earth, Senior An first found us, sealed Piao Miaoxu, and then sealed the Eight Desolate Netherworld."

"We know little, only that those Dark Alien Races are extremely troublesome. If their seal were to break and they were to swarm out, the Nine Provinces would surely be destroyed."

"Piao Miaoxu is a Heavenly Demon. How can she utilize the power of the Dark Alien Race?"

"Besides," Mu Hongyuan added, "you're just a Nascent Soul Cultivator. You wouldn't be able to handle her either."

"Sister Mu, do you think there's something I, Dongfang Mu, can't do?" Wang Mu said. "Would I undertake something I'm not sure of?"

Upon hearing this, Mu Hongyuan's body shuddered, and she fell silent.

Recalling all their past moments...

This fellow...

"Who knows if you, you fool, are just looking to get yourself killed?" Mu Hongyuan said, turning away. "But you can't go now."