Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal?-Chapter 706: Arrogant Display

Chapter 706: Arrogant Display

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"No way, the old bald donkey just ran off like that?"

Chen Huaian stared at Burning Heaven's resolute back, utterly dumbfounded.

He could understand that Burning Heaven's Buddhist compassion might have been shaken by Tu Shan Yue's ascension today.

But he never expected Burning Heaven to simply bolt at the end.

In his imagination, that old bald donkey was so enraged that even if Tu Shan Yue posed no real threat, he would have charged up to clash with the five demon saints, right?

Instead... he ran?!

— Preserving the green hills because there will be firewood later, huh?

Scared that the newly ascended Tu Shan Yue would lift a single finger and crush him flat before she fully ascended.

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"Ha ha ha ha—!!!"

Above the five great demon clouds, Mountain-Moving Sage, Black Wind Sage, and the other demon saints erupted into ear-splitting, maniacal laughter, the sound waves almost overturning the Floating Peaks.

"See that?! What a pathetic Burning Heaven bald donkey! Before the might of our lord, he was shaking in his boots, dropping his prayer beads as he fled!"

"This is the fate of those who oppose our Demon Race!"

"You all said our lord couldn't ascend successfully? Well, look now! The Heavenly Dao favors our lord!"

The five demon saints had watched the lightning from the heavens restore Tu Shan Yue's wounds.

They were convinced this was a divine omen.

An omen that from today on, the Cangyun Realm would no longer belong to mankind.

It would belong entirely to the Demon Race.

Otherwise, if the heavens could have struck down Tu Shan Yue, why didn't they?

Mountain-Moving Sage's huge crimson eyes flashed with murderous light as he swept over the humans below, who went silent with fear, his voice like rolling thunder: "You ants listen well! Our lord is merciful and is about to ascend!

From today on, the Cangyun Realm shall honor our Demon Race as supreme!

The sacred mountains, blessed lands, and spirit vein deposits you occupy all belong to our race!

Within three days, hand them over obediently! Otherwise..."

He opened his hideous maw, exposing rows of white fangs.

"Heh heh! Though our lord has ascended, with a single thought he can unleash celestial punishment and reduce you to ashes! Do not say you were not warned!"

Demonic energy surged into the sky, the pressure oppressive.

The five demon saints' arrogance reached its zenith, as if Tu Shan Yue's ascension had left not a blessing but a Damocles sword hanging over all humanity's heads.

They frenziedly stared at the mountain peak, hoping for even a single approving glance from the newly minted demon immortal, any trivial sign that could turn their intimidation into reality.

However—

On the peak, the tribulation clouds dispersed, and immortal light first unfurled.

A pure, holy, seven-colored beam suffused with endless Dao essence descended from some unknowable high heaven.

It precisely enveloped Tu Shan Yue's battered yet radiant form.

Tu Shan Yue slowly lifted her head. On that face that had overturned countless hearts, there was no lingering attachment, no imperious look down upon the world, not even a glance at the humans or demons below.

In the depths of her eyes there was only a near-stubborn, boundary-transcending... yearning?

As if she were searching for something...

The immortal light guided her, feathered transformation awaiting at hand.

She showed no hesitation and paid no mind to the thunderous demon roars and uproar below.

The moment the immortal light wrapped her, the tattered gauze around her body scattered like drifting fireflies, and a brand-new, magnificent court dress, condensed from pure immortal spirit, covered her. She looked only once, briefly, at the familiar Cangyun land, her gaze indifferent, then—

She took a step forward!

Her figure became a dazzling streak of light, streaking against the seven-colored beam, resolutely charging toward the remote, unknown immortal gate.

She moved so fast that only a faint afterimage remained, and a trace of something almost like... release?

The immortal light retracted, the immortal gate faded.

On the summit of Taizhou Mountain, there was nothing left.

Only the lingering immortal aura and the residue of tribulation thunder indicated that an ascension worthy of Cangyun Realm's history had just occurred.

On the demon clouds, the five demon saints' ecstatic, arrogant, self-satisfied expressions froze like sculptures, rigidly locked in place.

Mountain-Moving Sage's giant paw, raised mid-celebration, hung motionless in the air.

Black Wind Sage's gaping maw forgot to close, a clump of yellow drool plopped onto the ground.

Golden-Winged Roc's vast wings, meant to spread and blot out the sky, remained awkwardly raised.

The Cyan Jade Rhinoceros nearly dropped his giant axe on his own foot.

The five Great Ascension demon saints stood on the demon clouds like five bizarre stone idols, staring at one another, eyes wide.

A silence of awkwardness hung in the air.

What had just... happened?

Our lord... seemed to have... ascended without even turning back?

Didn’t she promise support?

What about the celestial punishment deterrent?

The five demon saints felt as if they were being roasted alive, while countless human cultivators below shifted from fear and reverence to astonishment and bewilderment, and finally... a hint of pity as if watching naive fools?

Those previously terrified cultivators couldn't help whispering among themselves.

"It seems Tu Shan Yue had no intention of backing the five demon saints..."

"Well! How could she? She's already ascended. The immortal and mortal realms are separate—why would she concern herself with matters in the Cangyun Realm?"

"That's true..."

Murmurs swelled into the demon saints' ears.

The awkwardness thickened.

"Ahem!" Mountain-Moving Sage suddenly hacked a cough, forcing down the stiffness on his face. His crimson eyes glared viciously at Black Wind Sage beside him, and with divine-sense shouting only they could hear, he barked: "Old Black! Wh-what do we do? Our lord... she seems to have no time to deal with us!"

Black Wind Sage's black mist churned violently. His pea-sized eyes flashed with doubt and unease: "What is there to fear! Though our lord has ascended, she is still our Demon Race's immortal!

That is our greatest reliance!

Burning Heaven ran off, and those other old turtles hiding in the Void Abyss are surely scared stiff and dare not show themselves!

Now the entire Cangyun Realm has only that Chen from Moon Shadow Sect left as a lone Great Ascension cultivator facing a single tribulation!

The five of us joining forces—what's there to fear from him? We can still walk over them!"

Mountain-Moving Sage brightened at the words. Right!

Their lord's ascension was the Demon Race's momentum! The trend was set; even without their lord personally acting, the name alone was enough to frighten those humans to death!

Its courage swelled once more, and its ferocious bear face filled again with malice and greed.

"Hmph!" Mountain-Moving Sage took a step forward, the demon cloud trembling, his voice shaking the surroundings as he once more pointed his spear at the human camp, especially toward Moon Shadow Sect: "Are you all deaf? What we said just now stands—within three days, hand over your spirit veins and blessed lands! Especially you, Moon Shadow Sect's Chen Huaian!"

His massive bear claw pointed at Chen Huaian, fangs bared: "You previously took advantage of our absence to seize many of our spirit veins and even destroyed the foundation of our race! Today, old debts and new ones shall be settled! Not only must you return everything intact, you must add interest! Otherwise... heh heh!"

Demonic energy churned wildly around him, the threat plain as day.

Black Wind Sage's analysis had merit.

Those hiding in the Void Abyss, though Great Ascension cultivators, were mostly solitary practitioners with no sect ties.

If they hoped to ascend, they would avoid exposing themselves to danger and risk injury, lest they be unprepared when Heaven's might descended and their ascension failed.

Burning Heaven had fled.

Now the only person who could stand up for the human cultivators was the Moon Shadow Sect's ancestor—Chen Huaian.

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