The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 671

Chapter 671: Chapter 667: Watch the changes quietly Chapter 671: Chapter 667: Watch the changes quietly Shen Luo was speechless at the willingness of the common people of the Black Chicken Kingdom to accept such realities. However, this was the domestic policy of another country, and he wasn't going to meddle in it, doing thankless tasks.

He quickly cast aside this thought, instead focusing on the demonic energy here.

According to Master Hai Shi, when Golden Cicada was making his journey to the West that year, he had already detected a great fluctuation in demonic energy in this country. This matter could not be taken lightly.

Even though, according to Li Jing, the reincarnation time of Chiyou's Five Demon Souls and the pilgrim were similar and should have no correlation with that demonic energy fluctuation, they did not know if Chiyou had made any other moves before he released the Five Demon Souls.

Moreover, demons everywhere in the Black Chicken Kingdom were far more powerful than in the Great Tang. It was almost the same as he had speculated based on the situation in Dreamland.

Just as Shen Luo was deep in thought, a distant and haunting roar came from outside. Although it seemed far away, the chilling savagery in it still made Shen Luo's heart grow cold.

“Not good, a demon has appeared!” he got up immediately, and went outside.

The outside was starting to turn white, and the early-rising townsfolk were on the move. Hearing that roar their faces changed instantly.

“Demons! Demons have come again!” The townsfolk cried out, running towards their homes to lock their doors, not daring to show themselves.

“Customer! Hurry inside, the demons are back!” The innkeeper was also up, and upon seeing Shen Luo standing outside, he completely forgot his resentment and urgently shouted.

“Don't worry.” Shen Luo nodded and smiled at the innkeeper while looking towards the direction of where the noise was coming from.

A black speck appeared in the sky, growing bigger rapidly, turning into a roll of dark clouds. Sand and rocks whirled around the clouds, buffeted by the demon wind, appearing ghastly.

“It's that snake demon!” The innkeeper turned pale with fright, not caring about Shen Luo anymore, he turned around and dove back inside, slamming his door hard.

“Snake demon…” Shen Luo murmured to himself, judging by this circumstance, it seemed this demon has been here before.

“I wonder how Chan'er is doing?” He suddenly thought of something and his figure turned into a crimson light as he dashed towards a temple within the city.

Yesterday, while moving stealthily within the city, he had already found out where Chan'er and Bai Xiaotian were staying – at a small temple.

In a small temple inside the Bai County City, Chan'er and Bai Xiaotian were already up, standing in a courtyard and watching a cloud of demonic energy in the distant sky.

“Amitabha, who would have thought that even the countries of the Western Regions would be plagued by demons. This town is poor and the people here are weak. Brother Bai, if it's within your power, please help the people of this city,” Chan'er said to Bai Xiaotian.

“As it should be,” Bai Xiaotian immediately nodded.

At that moment, a crimson sword light shot from the distance coming straight for them and in the blink of an eye, it arrived, revealing Shen Luo.

“Master Chan'er, Brother Bai, are you alright?”

“Brother Shen, your arrival is just in time,” Bai Xiaotian sighed with relief in his heart.

The demon in the dark cloud was powerful – its presence alone was overwhelming. He had been worrying that protecting Chan'er and exorcising the demon alone would be too much. Now with Shen Luo here, he felt relieved.

During their conversation, the dark clouds have already reached the sky above Bai County City, expanding and spreading out, almost instantly covering half the sky and over half the city was shrouded in shadow.

A loud hissing sound came from the dark cloud, which sounded like a massive python flicking its tongue. Even more horrifying, two lantern-sized red lights appeared within the cloud, seemingly two demonic eyes staring down at Bai County City below, filled with a sense of greed.

A raging demonic wind shot down from the looming dark cloud, spiralling towards a house in the eastern part of the city.

Shen Luo's hand was enveloped by a surge of red light, prepared to unleash the Pure Yang Sword Embryo in retaliation.

However, from a towering Buddhist temple in the center of Bai County City, the golden pagoda suddenly flashed with a golden light. This was from a water-jar-sized golden crystal ball embedded on the top of the tower.

The crystal ball was engraved with formation patterns all around it. As one pattern suddenly lit up, the golden crystal ball's glow intensified, emitting a massive golden light pillar which collided with the descending demonic wind.

After a thunderous explosion, the golden light dispersed, whereas the demonic wind was dispersed as well, both annihilating each other in the process.

Within the hovering dark cloud, a roar of fury rang out. From another part of the cloud, an even colossal demonic wind shot down, heading towards a construction site in the southern part of the city.

However, a formation pattern on the southern side of the crystal ball lit up again, releasing a golden light from the southern side of the pearl, accurately blocking the demonic wind once again.

The airborne demon was enraged. The black cloud churned ominously and a continuous torrent of sounds could be heard as more than a dozen demonic winds swirled downwards, transforming into a group of black snake demons and pouncing towards various parts of the city.

The golden crystal ball, as if sensing the looming danger outside, had all its surrounding formation patterns light up. The pearl's interior shone with a golden light that was several times brighter than before, with a nebulous golden cloud rapidly revolving within it.

Accompanied by a humming sound, a number of thick golden beams shot out from within the golden crystal ball, confronting the black snake demons, and impressively intercepting them one by one.

“It seems that the city of Bai County is not without its own measures to counter demon attacks. That is the Sacred Lotus Dharma Altar Temple over there. Since they have contingency mechanisms in place, as outsiders, it's best if we adopt a wait-and-see approach,” Shen Luo commented upon witnessing the scene, as he offered a slight nod of agreement.

“Sacred Lotus Temple?” Bai Xiaotian expressed confusion on his face, as he seemed to have heard this name for the first time.

“You didn't inquire about Bai County City and Black Chicken Kingdom from the monks of this temple?” asked Shen Luo with a touch of surprise.

“Of course we did. However, as soon as the monks heard that we were from the Great Tang, they refused to utter a single word. It seemed that they were quite hostile towards the foreign visitors,” Bai Xiaotian explained.

“I see. So it was like this. According to what I discovered about the Black Chicken Kingdom…” Shen Luo came to an understanding as he quickly summarized the situation he had investigated for the duo.

“I never expected such circumstances within the Black Chicken Kingdom. Brother Shen is right, we should bide our time before intervening rashly,” Bai Xiaotian nodded in agreement.

“If the Sacred Lotus Temple is unable to resist the demon, we will have to take action. We can't let the common people suffer,” Chan'er hurriedly added.

“Rest assured, it goes without saying,” Shen Luo said.

Even though the Black Chicken Kingdom is not a part of the Great Tang, nevertheless, as a part of the Human Race, he would not sit by while its people suffer.

“This is not good! The power of the golden crystal ball is starting to weaken!” At this moment, Bai Xiaotian suddenly changed his expressions.

Shen Luo and Chan'er immediately looked over. The golden crystal ball on the golden pagoda was still firing golden beams, aiming at the black cloud in mid-air. But the light was noticeably dimmer compared to before, already struggling to ward off the attacks of the airborne demonic winds.

“It seems that the power of the golden crystal ball is limited, we are going to need to step in,” Shen Luo said.

At this very moment, within the Treasure Pagoda of the Sacred Lotus Temple in Bai County City, several monks with tall yellow lama hats and who were donned in grand red kasayas were seated on a violet-gold lotus platform.

Virtuous light radiated from these individuals, with a faint hint of Buddhist chants around them, giving off an aura of highly respected monks. However, their faces all held a hint of brash arrogance, making them profoundly different from the general monks in the Central Region.