"Why would I lie to you? You were originally the Wen Chang Emperor, the deity in charge of the fame and fortune of scholars in the three thousand worlds."
"In the past, you followed the Celestial Emperor's order for a last tour of the mortal realm, but you were ambushed by a law corpse at the end of the Heaven-Reaching Road, on the border of yin and yang, and were lost to the Yin River."
"Later, the Heaven-Reaching Road was broken, and the divine beings of the Return Ruins could not return to the upper realm. The God-Sealing Celestial Scripture in the Celestial Emperor's hand also lost its effect, leaving only the Emperor's true spirit to reincarnate, waiting for the reopening of the heavenly road."
Lu Xiu remained half-convinced, pondering for a moment, and shook his head, saying: "No matter whether your words are true or false, that deity has nothing to do with the current me."
"In today's evil world, there's no deity in charge of the order of heaven and earth to relieve the suffering."
Lu Xiu sneered, "It seems that just reading can't save the world, and becoming a deity is no different."
"Those deities probably can't even compare to my Sect Leader..."
The young man immediately retorted, "Not all Immortals in the upper realm are like that! How many Immortal and divine beings are there in the celestial realm? A few who can't achieve much can't represent the whole."
Lu Xiu reminisced about the chaos of the turbid world, his tone melancholy, "Is it really just a few who can't achieve much?"
"In my view, Immortals like those who dare to defy the Celestial Emperor's will and take the initiative to descend to solve matters are the minority."
"..."
The young man was left speechless.
He racked his brains, counting on his fingers those who dared to openly defy the Celestial Emperor's instructions, and came in last as a useless character himself.
If that's the calculation, they seem like the rat poop spoiling the whole pot in the Celestial Emperor's eyes...
Lu Xiu left the Devil Pill Temple.
He didn't ask anything about his identity, as if the celestial deities who seemed unattainable to mortals were nothing in his eyes.
After Lu Xiu left, the once lively-minded Haihui Grand Deity also began to fall silent.
Perhaps I should just steal that tower...
Here, while Haihui Grand Deity was contemplating how to steal the tower, a new guest arrived outside the Devil Pill Temple.
"Big brother, are you an Immortal?"
A pair of Golden Carp Children came to the temple, speaking in a childish voice.
Immediately after Hexin spoke, Ruoyi followed up, saying: "My brother and I are the younger generation of the Cyan Dragon Divine Monarch, and we've heard there's a destiny with Immortals here..."
Haihui Grand Deity opened his Wide Eye Recognition and saw the children before him were clearly two golden carps with dragon aura that had attained the path.
"Cyan Dragon Divine Monarch... since you are the juniors of the Divine Monarch, why seek Immortal fate from me?"
Hexin Child made a bow and said, "The Divine Monarch has been eroded by turbid qi and is in seclusion. Although Ruoyi and I have already crossed three tribulations and obtained the dragon-transformation qi, with heaven and earth blocked and the dragon gate not open, we cannot transform into dragons and can only take human forms to cultivate in the world, accumulating our path."
The young man raised an eyebrow upon hearing this and immediately said fiercely, "Do you know who I am?"
"I do not."
"I am the villain who has drawn dragon tendons and skinned dragons, known as the Demon Child of the world; the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas see me as an enemy. And you two little fishes and shrimps, not yet transformed into dragons, dare to come seek me for skills?"
"..."
The fierce-looking young man grinned slyly, "While I'm not hungry now, you have time to leave. If you're late even by a moment, when my stomach starts drumming, not just one or two golden carps, even a sea or river of dragons won't be enough to fill the gaps between my teeth!"
Girl Ruoyi stared wide-eyed, her body rigid.
Beside her, Hexin Child grabbed Ruoyi's hand and frantically pulled her out, thinking to himself, this is not some big brother, despite what the Sect Leader says!
This is clearly a demon!
The two children fled without looking back to the seaside, never again mentioning anything about seeking Immortal paths or visiting sages.
In the Devil Pill Temple, Haihui Grand Deity laughed heartily.
As if frightening two children for fun was quite entertaining.
After the laughter faded, the boy sitting on the divine platform grew bored again.
If it weren't for his feud with the dragon clan, he really wished he could take the two golden carps as disciples.
After all, who's ever been the youngest in the family, and could resist a pair of children always calling them brother? Moreover, the pair were particularly adorable, well-behaved, with merits and blessings.
Haihui Grand Deity felt it was a pity.
If he had taken the two golden carps, when the dragon gate opens in the future, and the two children leap to become dragons, and are asked who they apprenticed under?
The two would answer: "The Three-Temple Haihui Grand Deity!"
When that time comes, not only would the deities laugh at him and the two golden carps, but the two children would also be ostracized by the dragon clan, becoming a joke in others' eyes.
"Walking in the mortal realm really is hard to find."
Haihui Grand Deity calculated the days, deciding to wait another half year. If during the period, he couldn't find someone destined for him, he would simply return to the upper realm with his senior brother...
Seven days later, at the Devil Pill Temple.
While Haihui Grand Deity was resting with closed eyes, a heavy bright yellow aura suddenly flew towards him from outside the temple like a mountain.
That's a mountain spirit constantly demonstrating the Divine Techniques of moving mountains and seas.
Haihui Grand Deity initially paid no heed, as he had encountered many with merit in this past half year. However, when Qishan Clan appeared in front of the temple with the authority of more than a dozen famous mountains, he was quite overwhelmed!
Where did this wild path spring from?
Haihui Grand Deity observed the various mountain seals privately refined on Qishan Clan, as if seeing heavenly laws hanging on the person's forehead, each being a grand crime worthy of severe punishment!
By normal standards, as a divine general of the Five Camps, he should capture this rogue demon who had eaten the heart of a bear and the gall of a leopard and take it to the upper realm for judgment by the judicial heavenly deities.
But... how come the mountain spirit in front of him carries incense tightly linked with the human race's fate?
In a world of great calamity, the Saints do not appear, and the Immortals and deities hide.
In a corner of the East Sea, where do people with such distinguished merits emerge from?