The alliance cannot go a single day without a leader. The shadow demon Ye Yu met just now was the new alliance leader of
Tongtian Pavilion
.
Not because he was especially capable or overwhelmingly strongâ
âbut because [N O V E L I G H T]
Tongtian Pavilion
had only him left.
There was simply no one else to choose.
So they pushed that shadow demon into the seat.
Yet after only two days, the shadow demon, Kuang Tailong, regretted it.
Inside
Tongtian Pavilion
there was nothing at allâpoor as dirt.
He was a commander with no troops.
What was the point of staying in an alliance that could be struck from the rolls at any time?
Kuang Tailong wanted to bolt on the spot. Luo Shu blocked his path and tried patiently to talk him down.
He said that since youâve signed the contract, this great alliance is yours. Grow it slowly and everything will get better.
Hearing that, Kuang Tailong nearly collapsed on the spot.
âSure, a grand allianceâbut looking good takes divine stones!â
âAs alliance leader I have to contribute three hundred divine stones every year just to keep the alliance running. I canât meet thatâand I donât want to!â
When Ye Yu arrived just now, it happened to be the moment Kuang Tailong stormed out.
The latter didnât care about anything elseâhe just had Ye Yu press a fingerprint on the contract, then fled on the spot.
Simple, clear, directâone neat sequence of moves.
By the time Luo Shu came out, all he saw was Kuang Tailongâs retreating back and Ye Yu holding the contract.
Honestly, if Kuang Tailong wanted to leave, let him go. Forced melons arenât sweet. From his bearing alone, he was never going to make the alliance great.
So Luo Shu did not keep persuading.
But the alliance leader of
Tongtian Pavilion
should not have been a yokai.
After hearing Luo Shuâs account, Ye Yu finally understood the situation here.
He looked at the contract in his hand and tentatively asked, âHow about I return this to you and you take the alliance leaderâs seat? That wouldnât betray the intention you and your brother had at the start.â
Luo Shu snapped back, âIf I could, Iâd have been alliance leader long ago. Why wait until today? Forget itâyou do it. Maybe this is fate. Eh.â
Seeing him like that, Ye Yu was full of question marks.
Youâre the one sighing?
If anyone deserves to sigh, itâs me!
I got muddled into being a one-man commander and became alliance leader. Sounds nice, but in practice? I start with one dog and nothing else.
So Iâm the one who actually needs to sigh.
Ye Yu swallowed those words and kept them to himself.
After all, quarreling with a dog is hardly glorious.
Unaware of Ye Yuâs thoughts, Luo Shu stood up and headed into
Tongtian Pavilion
.
âAll right, kid, Iâll give you a tour of your turf.â
Hearing that, Ye Yu followed, curious.
Tongtian Pavilion
was vast. Even a simple walk-through took two hours.
And that was a speed-run, skimming past sights as if punching a timecard.
A careful inspection would take two or three times longer at least.
Afterward, Ye Yu had only one thought:
Bare walls.
Everywhere was empty. You could see everything from outside.
In a place like this, even a rat would leave with tears in its eyes.
Of course, rats didnât have the power to get here anyway.
Still, wasnât this a bit too poor?
And if thereâs nothing here, why bother showing me around?
Curious, Ye Yu voiced the question.
Luo Shu answered with utmost seriousness: âI just want you to know where your future money will go. Like I said, the alliance needs three hundred divine stones every year, injected into the array to keep this place running. Otherwise, itâll turn into a dead zone fast.â
âSoâwork hard.â
At that, Ye Yu couldnât help the corner of his mouth twitching twice.
Three hundred divine stones?
For a godkin cultivator at the New God Realm, thatâs an astronomical sum.
Even selling Ye Yu wouldnât fetch that much.
Luo Shu clearly thought of the same thing.
The light died in his eyes, as if all strength had been drained from him. He shuffled toward the exit on unsteady steps.
He left Ye Yu alone in the empty great hall.
Ye Yu was about to leave as well when he suddenly noticed that the surrounding walls were covered in dense, eerie demon script.
The runes were abstruse; earlier, Ye Yu would never have understood them.
But ever since he gained
Heaven-Defying Comprehension
, heâd studied ancient demon script, yokai script, and more, just to read old texts.
So now he could.
He walked up to a wall and examined it closely.
Thisâthis was a genuine ancient demon body-forging method.
And each wall held a different method.
Wasnât this a windfall?
If these ancient demon body-forging methods were integrated with the
Demon Arrival Heaven Method
âdiscarding the dregs and taking the essenceâ
âthen he could surely create the strongest body-forging art, one with no predecessors and no equals to come.
At that thought, Ye Yu grew excited.
He looked around and suddenly realized that what others saw as a wrecked alliance was, in truth, a treasure trove.
This was an accumulation of tens of millions of years.
As the new alliance leader, he ought to take full possession.
Hmm. Three hundred divine stones might not be a problem after all.
Smiling faintly, Ye Yu began studying the body-forging methods carved on the hall walls in earnest.
Two days laterâ
Luo Shu stood in the empty training ground of
Tongtian Pavilion
, gazing up in a daze at a gigantic jade statue.
It was none other than his old friend, Bai Hong.
Whenever longing hit, Luo Shu came here.
Only then did he feel a little better.
âOld friend, I may not be able to guard this house much longer. Iâm sorry. I truly have no way. Donât blame me, all right?â
A tear slid down the dogâs face and spattered on the stone slab.
The next secondâ
All of
Tongtian Pavilion
began to shake violently.
Luo Shuâs dog face changed.
Had his old friend manifested? Or... was it an enemy incursion?
Instinctively he looked around, and suddenly saw dust billowing from the direction of the great hall.
That made him very curious.
How could anything go wrong there?