We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real? Chapter 521: The Grand Ceremony for the Tushan Holy Daughter (2 in 1)

As the giant whale broke through layer after layer of cloud and sped straight toward the North Sea, the land below was swallowed by the immense shadow it cast.

The giant whale’s own flying speed was already astonishingly fast.

With the support of the spell formation, after three days, it had flown several million li. By then, the North Sea was only a single step away.

At this point, some of Cold Mountain Academy’s scholars had begun to notice that the direction they were traveling in seemed to be the route toward the Ten Thousand Arts world.

Especially when they saw Chaoxi, the vice headmaster, standing nearby with one hand held behind the back while the other was clenched tightly into a fist, obvious tension showing on Chaoxi’s face.

But they asked nothing. They merely pressed down the doubts in their hearts and buried them deep.

At the same time, Xiaoqing was growing increasingly tense.

Although these three days had been extremely fortunate, with no one coming to intercept them, as long as they had not left the demon-race world, her heart could not settle.

And the closer they came to this final moment, the less they could afford to relax.

RUMBLE—

Before long, peals of thunder rang out in the sky. Dark clouds kept gathering and condensing, as if a torrential downpour would fall in the very next instant.

Yet when they looked into the distance, as far as the eye could see, the sky was clear and cloudless for ten thousand li, bright and fair.

Only the patch of dark cloud above their own heads remained.

Moreover, wherever the giant whale flew, that ten-li stretch of dark cloud followed close above it, clinging like a shadow.

“Sister...”

Xiaoqing turned her head and glanced at her sister, worry emerging in her expression.

She knew that what she had feared had still happened.

“I know.”

Bai Ruxue gave a slight nod. Her expression remained as calm as still water, without the slightest ripple.

It was as though even if the sky itself collapsed, it would not stir half a wave in her heart.

“ROAR!”

Another earthshaking roar rang through the heavens.

The dense black cloud overhead was suddenly torn open.

A thunder beast as huge as a mountain stepped out into the air.

It looked like an ox, with a blue-green body, no horns, and only one foot. Its roar was like thunder.

Immediately afterward, a black flood dragon began weaving back and forth among the clouds.

This black flood dragon had already grown four legs and four claws. It faintly showed signs of atavistic return into a true dragon, as if it lacked only that final step.

In addition, a Tiaoyu looked down from high in the sky, watching them like prey.

Its form resembled an ordinary chicken. It had red feathers, three tails, six legs, and four heads.

The Northern Classic of the demon-race world once said, “The Peng River flows from there, westward into the waters of Bi Lake. In those waters are many Tiaoyu. Their shape is like a chicken, with red feathers, three tails, six legs, and four heads. Their cry is like a magpie’s. Eating one can put an end to sorrow.”

All three great demons were demon kings of their own territories. The moment they appeared, an extremely terrifying pressure spread across a thousand li.

Even with the great formation protecting the scholars, cold sweat still seeped from their foreheads. They could not help wondering why these three great demons had set their sights on them.

“Senior Bai, this is rather excessive of you!”

The black flood dragon blocked the giant whale’s path and stared greedily at Bai Ruxue as it spoke coldly.

“Excessive?” Xiaoqing stepped forward, her expression full of contempt. “My sister is returning to the North Sea, yet you came here to block the road. Who exactly is being excessive?”

“Miss Xiaoqing’s words are mistaken,” said the Tiaoyu named Su.

“These scholars have been studying at Cold Mountain Academy all this time, and Cold Mountain Academy occupied a vital land of spiritual veins in our demon-race world, stealing our demon-race world’s fortune. These scholars are people of our demon-race world. Naturally, they should be dealt with by us.”

“Dealt with by you?” Xiaoqing gave a cold laugh. “These scholars carry the fortune of the demon-race world. They are also the first seeds of learning among the demon race, and they have been favored by the Great Dao of Confucianism. Every part of them could be called treasure. So should they be eaten raw by you, or refined into medicine?”

“These things belong to our demon-race world. There is no need to trouble the two of you over them,” the thunder beast named Chang said in a low voice. “Put down these scholars, and you may leave!”

Just as Xiaoqing was about to say more, Bai Ruxue took one step forward and slowly spoke.

“And if we do not?”

Her voice was not loud, but no one present dared to ignore it in the slightest.

“If you do not? Then don’t even think of leaving the demon-race world!”

The thunder beast stepped forward.

In an instant, bolts of lightning as thick as rivers came crashing viciously down toward the giant whale.

Bai Ruxue merely looked up into the air.

One silver-white dragon after another, condensed from icy energy, surged upward and tore those bolts of lightning to pieces before lunging fiercely toward the thunder beast.

The black flood dragon raised its head and opened its mouth, spewing scorching black breath.

Everywhere that black breath passed, the silver-white dragons melted away completely.

“Bai Ruxue, this is not your Four Seas!” the black flood dragon roared in fury.

“Miss Bai! These scholars have nothing to do with your Four Seas. Could it be that the Four Seas also wants to take a share of our demon-race world?” The Tiaoyu still had not acted, and was still trying to persuade her.

“The Four Seas has no interest in the little scraps of profit you value.” Bai Ruxue’s tone was gentle, neither hurried nor slow. “However, what they primarily cultivate is my husband’s learning. Since that is so, they may be considered my husband’s students.”

“Hahahaha...”

The black flood dragon threw back its head and laughed, its voice filled with contempt.

“You humans could not even protect your own Saint! You banned his learning, and did not even leave his name behind! And now, how fine this is. You actually need the ‘animals’ of our demon-race world to preserve his inheritance for you.”

“Bai Ruxue, that husband of yours was truly pathetic. His learning is not studied by humans, but animals study it instead. Could it be that his learning was meant for animals?”

The black flood dragon’s mocking voice echoed for a long time within a hundred li.

Xiaoqing burned with rage. Irrepressible fury surged through her chest, and she was about to take her original form and rush up to fight that black flood dragon to the death.

But the moment Xiaoqing had only just stepped forward, the sister beside her was already gone from where she had been standing.

By the time Xiaoqing reacted, she saw the black flood dragon’s body suddenly fold, as if its spine had been snapped beneath someone’s foot. Its entire body plummeted sharply downward.

BOOM!

The black flood dragon smashed heavily into a mountain peak, directly shattering it and raising dust that filled the sky for a thousand li.

As the dust gradually dispersed, everyone finally saw Bai Ruxue’s delicate embroidered shoes planted steadily on the black flood dragon’s spine.

The black flood dragon was pinned beneath her foot, unable to move, without even the strength to struggle.

“I did not hear you clearly just now.” Bai Ruxue lowered her head and looked at the black flood dragon beneath her foot, her voice as calm as water. “You... dare say that again?”

There was no anger in her golden vertical pupils, nor any killing intent.

Because in her eyes, this black flood dragon was already dead.

“Old bastard! If you still don’t make a move, I’m really going to die here today!” The black flood dragon did not beg for mercy. Instead, it raised its head and shouted toward the heavens.

And the moment the black flood dragon’s words fell, an enormous head slowly emerged from the clouds.

It belonged to a Soaring Serpent five hundred zhang long.

Xiaoqing stared at that Soaring Serpent, her small hands clenching tightly into fists.

Just now, she had been wondering how three demon kings in the Immortal Realm would have the courage to obstruct her sister.

So it turned out there was an old Soaring Serpent standing behind them.

The Soaring Serpent looked down from above. Its gaze fell on Bai Ruxue, and it slowly said, “Miss Bai, please show mercy.”

“I never imagined that the legendary Soaring Serpent clan would also emerge into the world to fight over this demon-race world.” Bai Ruxue looked calmly at the Soaring Serpent, her tone indifferent.

“Hehehe. Well, these times are not very peaceful, after all,” Kongsheng, the clan chief of the Soaring Serpent clan, said with a laugh. “My Soaring Serpent clan must come out and oversee the greater situation, lest these juniors cause too much disorder.”

“Oversee the greater situation?” Bai Ruxue gave a cold laugh, her voice as chill as ice. “Since when did this demon-race world need the Soaring Serpent clan to oversee the greater situation?”

The moment Bai Ruxue’s words landed, heaven and earth abruptly sank into silence.

No one present had expected Bai Ruxue to refuse to leave even half a shred of courtesy for the clan chief of the Soaring Serpent clan.

Yet the clan chief of the Soaring Serpent clan did not change expression. He merely gave a light laugh, his tone still composed. “Whether we can oversee it or not does indeed depend on whether the other demon races are willing to show us some respect. However... may Miss Bai also show us some respect, and spare him?”

“Your face?” Bai Ruxue asked indifferently. “How much is it worth?”

The instant her words fell, her little foot in its embroidered shoe pressed down slightly.

CRACK!

In a single instant, the black flood dragon’s spine was directly snapped beneath Bai Ruxue’s foot.

“Bai Ruxue! You have gone too far!” The clan chief of the Soaring Serpent clan’s voice suddenly turned cold, his anger impossible to conceal.

“So what?”

Bai Ruxue remained unmoved. Her foot continued to press down.

The black flood dragon let out agonized roars, the sound shaking the mountains and wilderness.

Gradually, its cries grew lower and lower, weaker and weaker.

After the time it took to drink a cup of tea, that black flood dragon had actually been stomped to death alive by Bai Ruxue.

“I will say this one last time.”

Bai Ruxue folded her hands before her and swept a cold gaze over everyone present.

“Move.”

Bai Ruxue’s voice resounded through heaven and earth, echoing for a long time.

And it was at this very moment that Bai Ruxue completely released the realm she had been suppressing all this time.

Endless dragon fortune surged toward her from every direction.

One dragon cry after another from ancient true dragons rang out between heaven and earth, shaking the wind and clouds into turmoil.

The clan chief of the Soaring Serpent clan stared fixedly at Bai Ruxue, his expression dark, yet he never made a move.

Cold sweat had appeared on the foreheads of Chang and Su, the two demon kings.

They were already at the middle stage of the Immortal Realm, but at this very moment, the thought of kneeling arose in their hearts beyond their control.

“I never expected that Miss Bai, despite your young age, had already stepped into the perfected completion of the Ascension Realm!”

The clan chief of the Soaring Serpent clan spoke coldly.

“Since Miss Bai insists on taking them away, then naturally, it would be improper for us to keep them any longer. However, my Soaring Serpent clan will remember what the North Sea has done today!”

After saying those final words, the clan chief of the Soaring Serpent clan twisted his enormous body and charged into the clouds, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

Once the clan chief of the Soaring Serpent clan had left, the other two demon kings naturally did not dare continue acting presumptuously.

They hurried after him and left, afraid that they might be the next one stomped to death.

After the great demons blocking the road had all departed, the giant whale met no further obstruction and safely flew out of the demon-race world.

After experiencing this, the students of Cold Mountain Academy also understood completely.

This journey of theirs was not a study trip. They were fleeing disaster.

Once they left, Cold Mountain Academy in the demon-race world would no longer exist.

Another two days passed, and the giant whale finally reached the North Sea.

Carrying everyone, the giant whale hovered steadily above a small island.

And this was the final destination of their journey.

“Sister Bai...”

“Sister Bai, you’re back!”

“We missed you so much...”

As Bai Ruxue slowly flew down from the giant whale, a group of children rushed forward and gathered around her.

Among these children were both humans and demons. The youngest was not even five years old, and the oldest was only around eight.

“Sister is back. Have you all behaved these past few days?”

Bai Ruxue crouched down and gently stroked the children’s heads, her expression extremely tender. There was no trace at all of the domineering force with which she had stomped the black flood dragon to death earlier.

“We were very good.”

“That’s right, Sister Bai. We’ve listened to Sister Sisi the whole time, and we’ve studied very seriously too.”

“Sister Bai, who are these people?”

The children spoke one after another, their curious eyes all turning toward the older brothers and sisters Sister Bai had brought back.

“These older brothers and sisters will also study on this island from now on, and they will be responsible for teaching you to read and write.”

Bai Ruxue gave the children a brief explanation.

Then she turned to Chaoxi and said, “Master Chao, from today onward, all of you will study at the Knowledge-and-Action Academy on this island. These children are the North Sea’s seeds of learning.”

“In the future, we will continue sending more children here to study.”

“You need not worry about safety. Simply set your minds at ease and study here. With me here, no one will dare do anything to you.”

“Thank you, Your Majesty. If Your Majesty had not saved us, Cold Mountain Academy would likely have been unable to escape this calamity.” Chaoxi stepped forward and bowed deeply to Bai Ruxue.

“Master Chao, you overstate matters. [N O V E L I G H T] I said before that what all of you primarily cultivate is my husband’s learning. Since that is so, I cannot possibly allow my husband’s inheritance to be severed here.”

Bai Ruxue smiled faintly, her tone gentle yet firm.

“I still have some matters to handle. Master Chao, if you need anything, you may ask freely.”

“Of course, of course. Safe travels, Your Majesty.”

Chaoxi hurriedly nodded and saw the Lord of the Four Seas off.

After Bai Ruxue said farewell to the children, she and her younger sister sank into the deep sea together and returned to the Dragon Palace.

“Xiaoqing, please put more effort into the matters concerning the Knowledge-and-Action Academy.”

Inside the palace, Bai Ruxue spoke to Xiaoqing.

“Sister, that is no problem. But Sister, are we going to build a Literary Temple?”

Xiaoqing asked in puzzlement.

Most academies had a Literary Temple. Confucian academies mostly enshrined the Saints of the past.

Cold Mountain Academy, however, was an academy of demons, so it had not built a Literary Temple to enshrine the human Saints.

“Naturally, it must be built.” Bai Ruxue nodded.

“Ah? We are going to enshrine those Confucian sages of old?” Xiaoqing said unhappily. Her impression of humans and Confucianism was extremely poor.

“Who said we were going to enshrine the Confucian sages of old?” Bai Ruxue smiled as she looked at her younger sister.

“Could it be that Sister wants to...”

Xiaoqing immediately understood her sister’s meaning.

“But Sister, if we enshrine Brother Xiao, that means a portion of Confucian literary fortune will be obtained by Brother Xiao. Those beasts dressed in robes and caps at the Confucian Academy will probably come trouble us.”

“Trouble?” Bai Ruxue gave a cold snort. “They would not dare.”

“By the way, Xiaoqing.” Bai Ruxue changed the subject. “There is something I need you to do.”

“Please tell me, Sister.” Xiaoqing nodded.

“Tushan is going to choose a holy daughter and hold a grand ceremony. Go there in my place.”