In the Land of Lawlessness.
With Xia Chan's help, it had taken Luo Xiu a great deal of effort to suppress the side effects of the Nine Yang Constitution. Looking at Xia Chan, who lay on her side on the bed as if paralyzed, Luo Xiu felt a pang of pain in his heart. He gently caressed her cheek. "Rest well, I'll head out first—"
"Ah!"
Before he could finish his sentence, he let out a scream as his body flew straight out the window. He had been kicked out by Xia Chan.
「Within the Hundred Herbs Garden.」
Luo Xiu was rubbing his bottom, cursing under his breath. How did she get such a temper after coming to the Upper Realm? Kicking people at the drop of a hat...
He suddenly noticed Master Ping sitting before the Primordial Divine Vine, also cursing angrily and seeming to be in a very bad mood.
Luo Xiu walked over and asked, "What's wrong?"
Master Ping looked up at him sharply. "From what you said earlier... does this an we're not going to plunder the Heavenly Moon Cult?"
A bitter smile appeared on Luo Xiu's face. He had already given Master Ping a general overview of what had happened at the Heavenly Moon Cult when they first entered the Land of Lawlessness.
"I can't. There's no way I can steal from the man I'm supposed to call my father."
Master Ping punched the ground. "This is such bullshit!"
"I already had my pants down, ready for so major action, and now you're telling it's a no-go? The Heavenly Moon Cult is way richer than the Swordfire Divine Sect!"
Watching Master Ping, who was on the verge of frenzy, Luo Xiu could only shake his head helplessly. It is bullshit... he thought. But just as he'd said, he couldn't possibly steal from Luo Yunnie, who was almost certainly still at the main church.
As the two of them were talking, the sound of breaking air was heard. Kui Dou flew into the Land of Lawlessness through the nearby spatial entrance that Luo Xiu had yet to close.
"Your Majesty, I've captured the person!"
Kui Dou landed before Luo Xiu, threw a sect follower to the ground, and bowed.
Luo Xiu waved a hand, signaling Kui Dou to step aside. He then walked up, planted his foot on the sect follower, and his left eye flashed with a cold light as he activated Elysian Nether Earth.
A mont later, the recently deceased Heaven Moon Pope "ca back to life" right in front of Luo Xiu. He stared at Luo Xiu, his eyes filled with disbelief and a hint of panic. At that mont, he couldn't help but recall the Heaven-Supporting Venerable he had killed. He realized that his current body was exactly the sa as that Venerable One's had been.
"You... What kind of wicked Taoist Arts are these? What have you done to ?!"
The Heaven Moon Pope tried to flee but found he couldn't move a muscle; his body was completely beyond his control.
Luo Xiu said flatly, "Kneel when you speak."
BOOM.
The Heaven Moon Pope dropped to his knees without the slightest hesitation.
Luo Xiu looked down at him coldly. "Tell about the Heaven's Aegis Army."
Hearing this, the Heaven Moon Pope clenched his teeth. He suddenly felt that even his thoughts were no longer his own, that his mind and body were incapable of defying any of Luo Xiu's wishes.
"Back then, it was Emperor Hao who told and the Sword Fire Ancestor the route the Heaven's Aegis Army would be taking. He instructed us to set up a Slaughter Array to ambush them along the way.
"We trapped and killed those three thousand soldiers in the Flowing Thunder River, first, to prevent them from entering the Boundless Heavens to support you, and second, to obtain their three thousand sets of Heavenly Armor."
Luo Xiu's eyes narrowed slightly. "And then?"
"Later, we discovered that the three thousand sets of Heavenly Armor had already fused with the flesh and blood of the soldiers and could not be removed. We had no choice but to recover the bodies with the armor still attached.
"After that, Emperor Hao reclaid the three thousand bodies. I have no idea what beca of them after that."
Luo Xiu's eyes glittered with an icy, bone-chilling light as he stared at the Heaven Moon Pope, gradually suppressing his rage. The Pope was already dead; there was no point in venting his anger on him. Besides, the true mastermind behind this was not the Pope, but Luo Hao.
Just then, Kui Dou spoke up from the side. "By the way, Your Majesty, when I went to capture the sect follower... I found that person... your father, I an, had already killed all the other sect followers."
The Pope's eyes widened. "What did you say?!"
Kui Dou shot him a vicious glare. "I wasn't talking to you."
The Heaven Moon Pope turned back to Luo Xiu. "Perhaps Luo Yunnie did that because he was afraid you would seek out the other sect followers and discover that Luo Hao was the true culprit who frad the Heaven's Aegis Army.
"I wasn't the only one who knew about this; so of the Elders and Offerings knew as well.
"After all... Emperor Hao is his real son."
Luo Xiu remained expressionless. "I'm not interested in his motives," he said flatly. "In any case, you killed one of my Venerable Ones. From now on, you will replace him and work for ."
The Heaven Moon Pope gave a miserable smile. "Since this is my fate, I have nothing more to say. However... if the Goddess of Heaven Moon learns that the religious lineage she established in the Mortal Realm has been destroyed, she will certainly descend to the Lower Realm to seek revenge on you."
Paying the Pope's words no mind, Luo Xiu turned to leave, issuing a command as he went. "I'm giving you three days to plunder all the resources of the Heavenly Moon Cult. After three days, we will et outside Holy Moon City."
「Sowhere in the Celestial Realm.」
A luxurious palace hovered quietly in the starry sky, wreathed in celestial mist. Occasional Celestial Cranes soared through the vapors, creating a picturesque scene of breathtaking beauty.
Deep inside the palace, on a soft, plush bed, a pair of sharp, hawk-like eyes snapped open, blazing with terrifying murderous intent.
The owner of those eyes possessed a noble air and a peerless beauty, like a goddess from the Nine Heavens, inspiring awe in all who gazed upon her. And she was, indeed, a goddess—the Goddess of Heaven Moon.
At that mont, she was staring at a cracked Jade Talisman in her pristine palm, her expression turning utterly grim. The very air in the bedchamber seed to freeze.
My religious lineage in the Mortal Realm... destroyed? How could this be?
"Soone, co at once!" she shouted.
A mont later, a beautiful palace maid hurried into the bedchamber.
"What are your orders, My Lady?"
The Goddess of Heaven Moon spoke with iron resolve. "I must descend to the Lower Realm! If His Majesty cos, tell him I am in seclusion at a critical juncture and cannot be disturbed."
"Yes, My Lady!"
Ti flowed like water. In the blink of an eye, three days had passed.
「Outside Holy Moon City.」
In a desolate, ancient forest, the Heaven Moon Pope arrived as agreed. He saw Luo Xiu standing under a tree, and his expression was uglier than tears. This is even more agonizing than death itself, he thought.
For three days, he had concealed his identity and followed Luo Xiu's orders, "looting" the various branch churches of the Heavenly Moon Cult and its large mining operations. The thirty high-end Storage Magical Treasures he carried were now stuffed to the brim with all sorts of resources, without a single inch of space to spare.
"How was the harvest?" Luo Xiu asked.
The Heaven Moon Pope walked up to Luo Xiu and handed over all thirty of the shimring Storage Magical Treasures.
Luo Xiu accepted them and nodded at the Pope in satisfaction. Though he wouldn't confront Luo Yunnie himself, that didn't an he couldn't send soone else. Besides, the Pope wasn't an outsider... he was essentially robbing his own house. With him taking action personally, it couldn't really be called looting.
Afterward, Luo Xiu dispelled the Pope's Body of the Dark Land and flew toward the Teleportation Plaza in Holy Moon City, planning to use the Teleportation Array to return directly to Yan Huang Star.
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