Shen Song felt like he was still dreaming.

However, when Lin Jing brought Elder Shen Song into the palace and explained the full story of his coming to Qingzhou, Shen Song realized he was indeed dreaming.

"What did you say? You taught the Longevity Celestial Demon Body of the Celestial Lion Clan's rearing circle?"

"She even destroyed the treasury of the Celestial Lion Clan, letting countless treasures flow into the void?"

Shen Song's expression was strange. Indeed, he was dreaming, otherwise, how could there be such coincidences?

"Elder Shen Song, you are not dreaming."

"I have truly become the Demon Court Saint Child now; you must have seen Mosquito Maiden sitting atop the mountain outside."

"The method of transformation was indeed created by me, and as for the pill event at Heaven-Reaching City, just ask any Qingzhou Cultivator and he will recount it in detail," Lin Jing smiled slightly.

"I know it's hard for you to accept right now, but rest assured, even if I now have the protection of His Majesty the Demon Emperor, even if I am now the noble Demon Court Saint Child, even if I personally killed nine Xuanzhen, the Longevity Blood I promised you is still valid, after all, your kindness in teaching and protecting my path surpasses all."

"..." What Shen Song found hard to accept was that if all this was true, then the resources he acquired, which helped him advance to Xuanzhen, were, in fact, thanks to this brat?

"Let me take a moment..." Lin Jing saw the difficult-to-accept look on Elder Shen Song's face, laughed heartily, and thought to himself how he had long wanted to see Shen Song's expression like this.

Although he was surprised that Elder Shen Song advanced to Xuanzhen, evidently, what he did in Qingzhou was even more fantastical to Shen Song.

"Laugh, laugh my ass."

Mo Song saw Lin Jing emanating the laid-back air of a "Second Generation Immortal," and couldn't help but pour cold water on him.

"Your experiences indeed shock this old man; it eases my mind that you have the protection of the Demon Emperor, but you're happy too early."

"Do you think that with the protection of the Demon Emperor, everything is all set?"

"Hmm?" Lin Jing was taken aback and asked, "Elder Shen Song, what do you mean...?"

With the Demon Emperor's protection, Lin Jing felt that very few things on the Celestial Essence Continent could pose a threat to him since the current combat power of the Demon Emperor is absolutely at the top tier of the Celestial Essence Continent.

However, he believed Elder Shen Song wasn't speaking arbitrarily, and the seriousness in his tone didn't seem false.

"I was transported to..." Shen Song began to recount his experiences after being transported, not hiding his identity as the reincarnated Sect Leader of the Celestial Demon Sect, and his status as an outsider.

Lin Jing, upon hearing all this, appeared deeply silent.

"Rest assured, I am a reincarnated body, no longer having any connection to the Celestial Demon Sect."

"From the remnants of the failing ascension of the demon race, I learned many things, including the reasons why ascension is impossible from our realm now!"

"What is it?!" Lin Jing wasn't concerned about Elder Shen Song's identity, as he, too, was an outsider.

However, he was very curious about the cause of the failure to ascend.

Although he did not yearn for ascending to the Immortal Realm, such a major issue must be related to shifts in the situation between the Immortal Realm and the lower realms!

"Since you know that the Sect Leader of the Celestial Demon Sect is an outsider cultivator, do you know the purpose for his coming to other Cultivation Realms?"

Lin Jing shook his head.

Shen Song looked towards the sky and said, "Just as the Celestial Essence Continent is the territory of the Immortal Palace's lower realm, the headquarters of the Celestial Demon Sect in the Celestial Demon Realm is also a subordinate area of some Immortal Realm demon sect."

"Countless years ago, a Demon Lord emerged from the Celestial Demon Sect of the Immortal Realm, terrifying in both talent and power. Using Great Divine Techniques, he severed the ties between various forces of the Immortal Realm and the lower realms, intending to merge all the lower realms to create a large world, to possess and refine it, simulating the Heavenly Dao for further breakthroughs."

"However, limited by the existing Heavenly Dao, immortals couldn't descend to the lower realm normally, so that Immortal Realm Demon Lord could only have the lower realm's Celestial Demon Sect wage wars, and refine each Cultivation Realm on his behalf."

"The Celestial Demon Realm has countless powerful beings... With the cross-world divine techniques taught by the Immortal Realm Demon Lord, they could easily travel to other worlds, with only one mission, to completely seize control of those worlds."

"Then, you..." Lin Jing looked at Elder Mo Song, wondering if Mo Song's mission in coming to the Celestial Essence Realm was to...

"That's right, my mission should also have been to seize the Celestial Essence Realm, but as you can see, my previous incarnation was killed by the first-generation Ancient Emperor, and I could only reincarnate as myself," said Shen Song.

Lin Jing: "..."

"And according to what the demon remnants said, if the Celestial Demon Sect sent by the Celestial Demon Realm fails to completely seize control of a realm in the designated time, the Celestial Demon Realm will send even stronger Celestial Demon Sect cultivators to recapture the realm!"

"This means that when my previous life's incarnation was killed, the task was almost doomed to fail. There's a very high chance the Celestial Demon Sect already knows about this, and it's unknown how long it will be before they send even stronger Celestial Demons to the Celestial Essence Realm."

"By then, the Demon Emperor might not even be able to protect herself, let alone you. Such Longevity Bodies as yours would absolutely be the first resources to be collected after a Celestial Demon Sect invasion."

Lin Jing: ???

"Elder, why do you bring such bad news just after returning," Lin Jing rubbed his forehead, feeling a bit of a headache. After all, he had just secured backing from the powerful Demon Emperor.

"A rather hopeless future, isn't it?" Elder Shen Song said, "It must be the most hopeless for you."

"Cross-world travel isn't easy, and it takes time—maybe a thousand years, maybe ten thousand—for the existing cultivators of the Celestial Essence Continent, by the time the Celestial Demon Realm reinvades, countless years might have passed, and they would have long met their end. But for you, you will absolutely live to see that day."

Lin Jing sighed and said, "I know Elder Shen Song tells me this because there's a strategy to deal with it, right?"

"Hehe," Shen Song laughed, "I did get quite a few good things from the remnants of the demon race."

He took out a gigantic golden bell and said:

"This is a supreme treasure of the domain, and after using it, within the next ten thousand years, that Cultivation Realm will enter a Golden Era, with flourishing immortal fortunes, countless talents emerging, and bodies of Immortal level flourishing like mushrooms after rain. However, the price of usage is that after the Golden Era, that Cultivation Realm will enter an era where the end of the law is near, making cultivation to Divinity Transformation exceedingly difficult; it is a treasure that exploits the world's potential."

"With this item, perhaps soon the strength of the Celestial Essence Realm could be greatly enhanced to resist the invasion from the Celestial Demon Realm."

"But to activate this, it will require at least ten Dao Querying stage experts to operate simultaneously. Now that you are the Demon Court Saint Child, you can present this to the Demon Emperor to see if she can gather enough people to quickly enhance the Celestial Essence Realm."

Lin Jing was taken aback, looking at Elder Shen Song, and asked, "Why, elder, do you, as a cultivator of the Celestial Demon Realm, choose to firmly stand on the side of the Celestial Essence Realm to fight against the Celestial Demon Sect?"

Shen Song said, "Hehe, during the process of breaking through to Xuanzhen, I saw some inheritance from my past life's memories. I am not actually a native of the Celestial Demon Realm; I was captured and brainwashed by the Celestial Demon Realm's invasion of other worlds and taken from other Cultivation Realms as a talent. However, due to the special nature of my race, I was not completely brainwashed, and I have always been just going through the motions on orders. This Celestial Demon Sect occupied my homeland and still hopes I would sell my life for them; how could there be such a convenient matter?"

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