This is currently within the True Demon Sect's territory.
Chen Jiuyang, however, sensed a powerful killing intent.
Although this killing intent was strong, it did not intend to attack him.
Yao Zixuan's face turned pale with fright. She was merely a cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage, which, when converted to martial cultivation, was only at the Heavenly Realm.
However, for someone to appear within the True Demon Sect and direct killing intent at them so quickly could only be the Patriarch of the Chongming Sea.
Chen Jiuyang held Yao Zixuan's hand and said with a smile, "It's alright, they won't actually attack. They're just trying to scare us."
Immediately, his aura surged slightly, dispersing his power onto Yao Zixuan.
Yao Zixuan's complexion improved considerably.
She also discovered with surprise that Chen Jiuyang's strength was unfathomable. "Jiuyang, what is your current cultivation?"
Chen Jiuyang smiled and replied, "Emperor Realm."
Surprise flashed in Yao Zixuan's eyes. "Jiuyang, your cultivation has improved so quickly."
Emperor Realm. She had heard of it in the Western Continent of the Small Immortal Realm. It was a realm of peerless martial arts masters, Patriarch-level existences capable of traversing continents with their physical bodies.
When she was captured back then, Chen Jiuyang was only at the Heavenly Realm.
Chen Jiuyang smiled and said, "It's alright, not fast enough. You've waited so long."
Yao Zixuan's eyes welled up with tears. "It's already enough."
He led Yao Zixuan out.
Outside the True Demon Sect's secret realm stood a dense crowd of True Demon Sect elders and disciples, with several Patriarchs at the forefront.
Almost every one of them stared at Chen Jiuyang with undisguised killing intent.
For no other reason.
Chen Jiuyang had achieved the eternal hegemonic enterprise of the True Demon Sect. Having just annihilated the Five Great Sacred Lands and revived the Chongming Sea, he had voluntarily relinquished the position of Holy Lord of the Chongming Sea and actively diminished his own destiny.
On that day, they had all heard the lament of the True Demon Sect.
They did not understand why.
Chen Jiuyang at this moment was no longer the True Demon Sect Master or the Chongming Sea Holy Lord whom they needed to treat with respect.
He was merely an ordinary peerless Emperor Realm master, Chen Jiuyang.
Yao Zixuan's eyes were filled with confusion. Why did these people hate her so much?
Chen Jiuyang simply said lightly, "Everyone, we will meet again on the path of eternal life."
A Supreme Elder of the True Demon Sect stepped forward.
"Bang—"
Before Chen Jiuyang could make a move, the Patriarch with killing intent in his eyes struck first, severely injuring the Supreme Elder.
Although Chen Jiuyang had voluntarily resigned as Holy Lord and Sect Master, he did not owe any destiny to the True Demon Sect or the Chongming Sea. On the contrary, the True Demon Sect or the Chongming Sea owed Chen Jiuyang a great karmic debt.
With Chen Jiuyang's words, perhaps Chen Jiuyang would return to the Chongming Sea in the future, and there might be secrets they did not know.
The leading Patriarchs cupped their fists in a salute to Chen Jiuyang, but they turned their heads away.
Without a word.
The True Demon Sect's Holy Son, Zhu Zhaoming, looked at Chen Jiuyang with a complex expression. "Master..."
With Chen Jiuyang's abdication in this manner, he would become the new Holy Son of the True Demon Sect, but not the Holy Son of the Chongming Sea.
The Han clan members were also extremely complex. Chen Jiuyang's ascension to the position of Chongming Sea Holy Lord and his accomplishment of a millennium-long great undertaking had made the Han lineage soar within the Chongming Sea Holy Land.
Yet, Chen Jiuyang had not uttered a word, and on the day of annihilating the Five Great Sacred Lands, he had voluntarily shed his position as Holy Lord, leaving them feeling complex and distressed.
Chen Jiuyang looked at him. "Zhaoming, cultivate well. Perhaps there will be a day when we, master and disciple, meet again."
"Han clan, I owe you nothing."
Then, Chen Jiuyang, with Yao Zixuan in his arms, transformed into a stream of white light and flew towards the outside of the True Demon Sect.
The moment they left the True Demon Sect's territory.
"Rumble!!!"
Chen Jiuyang instantly felt the self-contained destiny of the Human Emperor's Path begin to decline from its peak.
A calamity, perhaps, was brewing, waiting for him ahead.
There was an intuition in the unseen.
If Chen Jiuyang had gone directly towards the forbidden area of the Old Beggar Village, it would have led him back to the thousand-mile-long calamity he faced in the Qinling Mountains, with numerous obstacles.
He could face it, but Yao Zixuan was only at the Nascent Soul stage, too fragile. Even a touch from a Venerable Realm power, let alone an Emperor Realm, could easily lead to her demise.
And Yao Zixuan was clearly his reverse scale.
In this vast world, where was Chen Jiuyang's home?
Naturally, there was.
It was Qingzhu Town, the Qingzhu Spiritual Domain.
There were Chen Jiuyang's former guards, Yan Huang, Gong Wang, Zhou Fangzun, and others.
He flew at the fastest speed to Qingzhu Town below Feng Province.
"Jiuyang, where is this?"
Yao Zixuan looked at the greatly changed Qingzhu Town before her, a look of confusion flashing across her beautiful face.
Chen Jiuyang smiled and said, "This is Qingzhu Town."
"Where is the Royal Mansion?" Yao Zixuan's memory was stuck nearly ten years ago, when Chen Jiuyang was still the King of Qian in the Dragon Country.
Chen Jiuyang's expression dimmed. He landed with Yao Zixuan and walked into the courtyard in the depths of the bamboo forest in Qingzhu Town. Seeing the bungalow in the courtyard, Yao Zixuan's eyes finally showed familiarity.
"Back then..."
Chen Jiuyang told Yao Zixuan the events that followed, and when Yao Zixuan heard that the entire Yao family had perished, with only her father, Yao Deyun, still alive, tears streamed down her face.
"I killed them all. There are no longer Five Great Sacred Lands."
With the disappearance of the Five Great Sacred Lands' blessed lands, the human orthodox lineages were directly severed during the year-long war.
"Thus, Grandpa and the others can rest in peace."
Yao Zixuan asked, "Where are Grandpa's and the others' graves?"
Chen Jiuyang replied, "Across the river."
Back then, the Yao family had been almost wiped out, but their bodies remained, and they were buried on the mountain across the Qingzhu River.
Arriving across the river, Yao Zixuan saw the dense graves of the Yao family and almost fainted.
After a long while, Yao Zixuan finally accepted this fact.
Yao Zixuan, with red eyes, asked, "Jiuyang, what about Mom and Dad? And Nannan and the others?"
Chen Jiuyang said, "They have all been sealed by me and entered the forbidden area of the Old Beggar Village..."
Chen Jiuyang did not hide anything from her, finally telling her all his secrets.
"For your safety, I could only seal you all. I can already feel the destiny of decline from the peak approaching."
"Within this Qingzhu Spiritual Domain, no one dares to make a move yet, but I will eventually have to send you, Zixuan, into the forbidden area of the Old Beggar Village and seal you together with the children."
Yao Zixuan's eyelashes trembled slightly. "Perhaps by the time we wake up, this world will have undergone great changes..."
Chen Jiuyang was silent for a moment and said, "There is no other way. I am prepared."
Yao Zixuan placed a hand on Chen Jiuyang's cheek, a hint of panic in her eyes. "I'm afraid that by the time we wake up, Jiuyang, you will be old, or..." She didn't finish the sentence.
Chen Jiuyang smiled and said, "Zixuan, you don't need to worry so much. I am a peerless prodigy. If martial arts are severed, I will also switch to cultivating the immortal path."
"I will slumber with you. Perhaps I will awaken a little earlier than you, but I will always be here."