"You're talking nonsense! Your power has already entered the Nascent Soul stage, what young human cultivator can be your match!" The young man was enraged upon hearing this and was about to erupt again.

  "Ancestor, that young man's power is not high, but he has cultivated a second yuan spirit, and is only slightly inferior to me. Especially since he can use the Twelve Heavenly God-Killing Array, my subordinates and I were trapped by him!" Tian Xuan Blood Demon spoke quickly, fearing that the young man would become angry again.

  "What did you say, Second Yuan God? The Twelve Heavenly Gods' Great Formation?" That young man's face changed greatly, narrowing his eyes as he thought for a moment. His two eyes suddenly shot out two beams of bloody light, staring straight at Tian Xuan Blood Demon. "If it really is the Twelve Heavenly Gods' Great Formation, even if there were a hundred of you, you would all be annihilated! How could you possibly escape?" Although his tone was calm, Tian Xuan Blood Demon knew that if he gave one careless answer, Lao Zu would beat him until he was dizzy and scattered, turning back into a pool of polluted blood.

  At this time, Tian Xuan didn't know how he had transformed into a twelve-zhang-long banner made of fine steel: "Old Ancestor, that young cultivator seems to be unable to exert the power of the grand formation, and is only trapping my subordinates. This is the tool he used to set up the formation that I discovered when I broke out of the formation."

  Young man's eyes gleamed with a flash of blood, and together with the twelve command flags, he grasped them in his hand, gently stroking the silk flag surface embroidered with golden thread and strange symbols, muttering to himself: "Not bad, it's indeed...

  "All the heavenly gods are arrayed! If I, the old ancestor, had mastered this array technique back then, how could I have been trapped by the two instruments of dust and microcosm of that long-eyebrowed old cow nose?! Alas! Having a magical instrument without the method to set up an array is useless. No wonder, even with the second yuan Shen, this great array's power, even if it were just a tiny part, you wouldn't be able to handle it! Alas! This is only a temporarily made magical instrument, its power not even one ten-thousandth of what it could be. If I used 100,000 yin spirits to create the twelve heavenly demon king flags array, even if I, the old ancestor, were restored to my former glory, I would still be defeated by this array!"

  Tian Xuan Blood Demon saw that Lao Zu was no longer angry, and he let out a huge sigh of relief in his heart. He didn't dare to speak again, and just quietly watched as Lao Zu stood there in a daze.

  "This time, I'll let you off with a warning since you didn't bring back the Hook of Chen Tian. Hmph! The Heavenly Spirit Array has been lost since Yu Hua's death, and yet it reappears in the mortal world. That young cultivator must be found; the Hook of Chen Tian is definitely in his possession."

  "Ancestor, your powers have really recovered, can you leave this island now?" Tian Xuan Blood Demon asked hastily.

  "My old ancestor, I was once wounded by the purple and green twin swords of that long-browed old cow nose. He thought he had killed me, but unexpectedly, my old ancestor's body is formless, and my divine consciousness escaped, relying on the thick demonic energy of death here to recover my body. Unfortunately, that one blow scattered my condensed blood jade, and it took a thousand years to recover just a small part of it. It wasn't until recently that I could break free from the constraints of this underground demonic energy. You were created by me, using fresh blood as a guide, gathering thousands of souls and dead energies to create you three. Unfortunately, only you have your own consciousness. You've been active in the Central Plains for some time now, tell me, are there any formidable figures there? Although I've lived on the sea for a long time, I still know about the changes outside." The young man sighed, seemingly changing his tone.

  "The ancestors' creative kindness, I dare not forget for a day. Now the Central Plains are no longer called the Central Plains, but China. The changes in these few years are so rapid that it's unbelievable. I also can't explain clearly at this time. Fortunately, the ancestors can move around now and can see for themselves. The Taoist sects of the Central Plains have declined, and there hasn't been anyone who has returned to emptiness yet. The most powerful ones are Kunlun, Shu Mountain, Mao Mountain, and Dragon Tiger Mountain's few old Taoists, but they're all just in the later stages of transforming their spirits, far inferior to the ancestors. However, that group of monks from Tibet seems unfathomable. I once went to investigate and almost got killed by a lama from Potala Palace!" Tian Xuan Blood Demon replied with reverence.

  "Don't bother with those monks," said the young man. "There are some thorny figures inside, what kind of formidable figure has our demon clan produced?"

  "This clan doesn't seem to have any particularly powerful individuals, the highest cultivation is only mid-stage Nascent Soul. Compared to our clan, they're not much different. The current state of the demon tribe might be the weakest in history. However, there's something strange - with the current strength of China's Daoist sects, if they were to join forces and use their full power, they could easily annihilate us demons. But instead, they haven't made a move. In fact, things have gotten better for us compared to before. I'm incompetent, I really can't figure out the reason!" Tian Xuan Blood Demon's reply.

  "Oh! Now that you mention it, there is something strange. But I'm going to Zhongyuan... Hmm, I'll go take a look at China and bring back the Huichen Tian Shu from that young cultivator. You're the successor of the Tiānshén Jiézhèn formation! You take care of this island for me!" The young man tossed out a jade slip and disappeared in a flash. A message echoed in the ear of Tiān Xuè Mó, "This is my ancestral condensed blood technique, practice it well. As soon as I leave, I'll activate the Blood River Grand Formation. Don't interact with those scattered cultivators, there are formidable figures among them! Take good care of Master Two and Three, wait for my return!"

  Tian Xuan's Blood Demon was overjoyed and hastily picked up the jade tablet, then bowed again: "Respectfully sending off the Old Ancestor!"

  Zhou Qing's sword flew through the high sky, touching the token given to him by the Void Sword Sect. He hesitated, wondering whether to head to Shu Mountain first or to Ling Fei's place instead. Zhou Qing was in a dilemma.

  Since that day, Zhou Qing had instructed Liao Xiao Jin and Zhou Chen to cultivate well, and even set up a more powerful formation in the villa. In Zhou Qing's words, as long as it wasn't three or four high-level masters of the Houtian stage who came together, they would definitely be able to walk in, but not out. That formation was one that Zhou Qing had created by referencing the Great Heavenly Spirit Formation, and it truly had boundless power.

  Achoo! Zhou Qing let out another sneeze, her whole body shuddering with cold, almost falling from mid-air. Zhou Qing was shocked and quickly descended back to the ground, casting several arrays on herself. This is strange, why did I suddenly sneeze for no reason? And it's so severe that I'm even shivering... Could something really be going to happen to me? Why do I have such a strong premonition, like disaster is looming over my head? As the saying goes: "Unforeseen calamity, three moments will pass." Hide, hide. Just three more moments and it'll be fine. Zhou Qing thought to herself.

  Thinking of returning, his hands and feet were not slow. Zhou Qing flashed and hid behind a large tree, activated the Wooden Spirit Symbol, the Earth Spirit Symbol, and combined the wooden spirit energy of the big tree with the earth's earthy primal force. No longer distinguishable from each other, he thoroughly concealed his figure!

  Just as he was about to disappear, a young man wearing a golden Taoist robe appeared in the air where Zhou Qing had stopped, indeed the Old Ancestor of the Tian Xuan Blood Devil.

  That young man grasped a commander's flag and muttered to himself, "Strange, I clearly felt that aura within a ten-mile radius, but how did it disappear? Could it be that my old ancestor's powers have greatly diminished, and this 'Escaping Heaven and Entering Earth, Spirit-Roaming Eight Tombs' technique has gone wrong?"