Chapter 824 - 429: The Land Collapses, the Nation Falls
Returning from the Peak of Jiuxiao to the mundane world, Ci Yun opened her eyes, adorned herself, tidied her appearance, and rose to step out of the Ice Palace formed by Xuanming True Qi.
From afar, she saw the man’s figure, as upright as a pine tree, standing at the peak of the ice and gazing up at the Sky Dome.
"Sect Leader, what are you looking at?"
Tie Dan, "A shooting star."
"A shooting star? Emperor’s fluid?"
Ci Yun stared at the blue sky and white clouds above, feeling momentarily baffled,
"Emperor’s fluid appears once in a millennium, rarely seen in the world, each emergence a cosmic upheaval, bringing great calamity upon heaven and earth, where’s the ease in witnessing such a thing."
"Is it so, is the hour not yet arrived..."
Tie Dan did not respond to her, just frowned and calculated.
Ci Yun smiled faintly, turning lightly as she approached to tidy his green robe,
"Since the hour is not yet here, why not engage once more, perhaps then it will arrive..."
However, Tie Dan impatiently flicked his sleeve, pushing her aside,
"What’s the point, don’t you end up exhausted every time, unable to ascend, don’t waste my time."
"Is this... is the Sect Leader driving me away now?"
Ci Yun was taken aback, hardly able to believe the man could be so ruthless and cold, using her up, pulling up his pants and disavowing her, truly human garbage!
Of course, Tie Dan did not mean it that way, he simply found her noisy, disturbing his calculations, promises made before still held, so he tossed the sect leader waist card to her,
"I have matters to attend to, wash the Princess clean and take her to Nine Yin Mountain, my Junior Sister will arrange accommodations for you."
Ci Yun was utterly furious, yet did not dare to burst out, she could only resentfully say,
"Alright, so there’s a Junior Sister hidden away, no wonder you look down on a carefree demoness like me..."
This actually reminded Tie Dan, so he also threw the Cloud Riding Jade Cicada to her,
"My Junior Sister also has a Leisure Cultivation Opportunity, give her some pointers."
Ci Yun was startled, then suddenly realized, covering her mouth with a laugh,
"I see, no wonder following us closely. I understand the mind of the Sect Leader, rest assured, I guarantee to impart all of my True Inheritor ways to Junior Martial Aunt."
Tie Dan frowned,
"What Junior Martial Aunt, who said you are my Disciple."
Unexpectedly, Ci Yun laughed even more,
"Yes, yes, Immortal Fate is, of course, separate for each, I was wrong."
This fellow could change her self-reference with every sentence, leaving Tie Dan baffled, but he was too lazy to deal with it, he simply flicked his sleeve and took his leave on a rainbow.
After all, Tie Dan truly had matters to attend to, no time to waste on guessing the whims of women in matters of the heart.
Hmm, a brief recount of prior events: Essentially, in the previously hidden plot by Heavenly Dao, Tie Dan benefited from the assistance of two women in his path of cultivation. After several debates and numerous attempts, he finally comprehended and executed the Carefree Technique thoroughly, attaining greatness, ascending together to the Peak of Jiuxiao with Primordial Spirit emergence, glimpsing the dreamscape of the Heavenly Demon, supplementing a whole lot of newbie introduction plot settings and such.
Waking up, having also integrated a slew of tutorial instructions from Chen Xuantian’s side, Tie Dan had finally gained a rough understanding of what he was dealing with now, no longer groping like a blind man feeling an elephant.
Indeed, while some key information about the Heavenly Demon remains unknown, at present, what they have encountered the most, the details of Taiyin Demon Palace managing the Taiji World have become clear.
Taiyin Demon Palace, rather than a feudal dynasty, it resembles more like a corporate business organization.
Outer Heaven has heavens, Taiyin Heavenly Demon also needs to work, also a working demon, with supervisors demon head above, and above them, there are directors demon, executive demon, board demon, boss demon, all pressing down.
Lower subordinates’ working demons also have to be beasts of burden, each sequence must pass the performance evaluation calamity, failing leads to career downfall, bankruptcy liquidation, thanks and goodbye, equivalent to being sealed in Nine Nether, turned to flying ashes, with Divine Soul perishing.
Of course, Taiyin Heavenly Demon’s technology is genuinely strong, especially in a bountiful dimension like the Taiji World, where material and energy are inexhaustible.
Just using some civilian technology, commercial technology, with a control department and security team subordinate to the company, can maintain the system of the Immortal Palace unchanged for millions of years.
Although the native combat force of Taiji Heaven is strong, with potential for ’seventh-grade combat humanoids’, having super mutant combatants like Tie Dan.
But the company also has multiverse subsidiaries, military technology and company fleets, not to mention among the Mountain Men of Taiji Heaven, there are many like Xuan Yue who defected to the Demon Palace.
Solely trying to overthrow the rule of the Heavenly Demon with force is like climbing to heaven.
Thus, the reverse engineering of Heavenly Demon metamorphic technology by Master Xuan Du appears infeasible, the technological gap too vast, relying on just his own tinkering, it is impossible to surpass a company backed by an entire civilization in just sixty years.
Lingxu’s escape path in Outer Heaven need not be mentioned, what Cloud Platform Third Void Heaven, is unlikely to contend with even a supply ship, not to mention the mercury wormhole, the company can mobilize countless star-crushing fleets through the galactic thoroughfare at any time for suppression, where then can you flee?
So it seems the path of ’if you can’t beat it, join it’ by Xuan Yue might be the right answer. After all, what’s wrong with joining Taiyin Demon Palace? At least as a beast of burden, you get fed, not to mention, they merely want to play with you...
Yes, the fundamental role of Taiji Heaven, at its core, is for play.
And the greatest survival crisis facing humanity in Taiji Heaven now, the most significant problem to solve to save all living beings, essentially comes down to one sentence: The boss doesn’t want to play anymore.