Published: March 2, 2025
“About the breath issue.”
The five short words from the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine made Wen Yu twitch his mouth in irritation.
I knew I didn't have that kind of luck...
As Wen Yu pondered the meaning behind the brief words of the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine, he grumbled in frustration.
The reasoning was simple; currently, the forces within the Heavenly Palace were divided into three factions—demonic creatures, Immortal Heroic World Souls, and the later entrants, the professionals.
These three factions were mutually hostile, but there would always be an order of opposition.
According to Wen Yu's understanding, the demonic creatures primarily hunted the Immortal Heroic World Souls, and the souls of the Immortal Heroic World did the same.
In the event of a change in his breath, it was only natural for these demonic creatures to consider him a primary target for hunting.
However, Wen Yu was unaware of the larger events occurring above; the true situation was indeed roughly as he thought, but the details were slightly skewed.
...
The sovereign had ruthlessly cut off resources, and with the interference from the Heaven-Piercing Immortal Emperor, the sovereign had made up his mind to clear out all the souls within the Immortal Heroic World.
Under the command of the sovereign, the hunting targets set in the brains of these demonic clan puppets prioritized the Immortal Heroic World Souls, followed by the professionals—the professionals still had value to the sovereign, and this order of priority was indeed not much different from Wen Yu's thoughts.
However, Wen Yu overlooked the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine.
As the entity that attracted the sovereign's hatred the most, the hunting priority of the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine was undoubtedly at the top. At this moment, as the host of the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine, Wen Yu found himself in an unwarranted catastrophe.
Unfortunately, without the Heaven-Piercing Demon Vine mentioning it, Wen Yu could not know this situation.
...
With a perplexed expression, Wen Yu found himself a relatively “reliable” explanation, then ignored the already mangled ancient demon entity, took a deep breath, and was about to continue forward when he suddenly caught sight of Tang Haofei standing nearby.
A thought unexpectedly popped into Wen Yu's mind.
“Old Tang, uh, you don’t have anything going on, right?”
“Hmm.”
Old Tang, deep in thought about the strange scene that had just occurred, didn’t immediately catch the malicious tone in Wen Yu’s words and decisively admitted he was a bystander.
“By the way, I suddenly thought of something. Don’t you want to know what I did earlier?”
“Right!”
Upon hearing Wen Yu's words, Tang Haofei immediately straightened up, perked up his ears.
“Ah, this is a long story. Let’s go to the fifth layer, and I’ll explain it to you as we walk.”
Wen Yu, with a mysterious look, put his arm around Tang Haofei's neck, forcibly pulling him away towards the distance while speaking.
“Everything started when I was in City M.”
In a situation where the odds were against him, having Tang Haofei as a bodyguard was the best thing he could ask for.
As for the distribution of benefits after obtaining the advantages...
With him becoming a living target, especially since a 10,000-point ancient demon entity had already appeared on the fourth layer of the Heavenly Palace, Wen Yu was truly uncertain if he could navigate the fifth layer of the Heavenly Palace. Bringing along a super bodyguard to ensure his safety was paramount; the rest would just have to be dealt with as they came.
...
Based on the abnormal movements of the demonic creatures nearby, Wen Yu could roughly understand the situation from the previous ancient demon entity's performance—according to his luck, the strange behavior of the ancient demon entity should not be an isolated case.
However, unseen far away, countless large whirlpools glowing with silver light appeared out of thin air in various places across the Heavenly Palace, from which demonic creatures of varying levels and races continuously emerged, quickly invading every inch of soil within the treasure land of the Heavenly Palace.