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Although the Heavenly Emperor was displeased, he knew that to insist forcibly and unreasonably at this time, letting Lan Xi go,

if anything happened to her, he would be regarded as a sinner by the entire world.

"Very well," the Heavenly Emperor turned to Lan Xi and said, "For this great battle, Lan Xi has made contributions. You are rewarded with ten Golden Cores to heal your injuries."

Lan Xi did not refuse but looked at the Heavenly Emperor and instructed, "I hope you can dispatch someone to deal with the Primordial Demon Dragon as soon as possible, to prevent it from going mad.

With its current strength, it cannot take on the mighty Immortal Venerables.

However, it can easily target the weak among humans.

To minimize the casualties, please send someone now. Lan Xi will take her leave."

With that, she bowed slightly, took the Golden Cores from the Palace Maid, and then disappeared from the Linxiao Palace.

The Heavenly Emperor and his gathered dignitaries all wore a grave expression, "Whom shall the Heavenly Emperor send?"

"Let’s not hurry. Did Lan Xi not say that the Primordial Demon Dragon is close to death? Therefore, let’s wait a bit longer. Zhong Li, select a few people, and as soon as the Demon Dragon appears, kill it without mercy," the Heavenly Emperor said with a cold and vicious tone.

Anyone who wishes to disrupt the order and does not follow the laws of the Immortal Realm must be punished.

When Lan Xi returned to the Goddess Palace, her complexion was already ashen.

Seeing this, Shaoqing was quite worried, "Lan Xi, what’s wrong with you?"

"I need to enter closed-door cultivation for a while. Ah Qing, you are also injured; take these Golden Cores and consume them all. As long as you refine them, the injuries in your body will heal," Lan Xi handed the elixir bottle to him.

She had been struck in the chest by the powerful Demonic Breath twice, and as her ribs fractured, the Demonic Qi had infiltrated her lungs and viscera.

She had not been able to receive timely treatment the last time and had been injured again this time.

If she did not heal in time, it was very likely that she would no longer be able to cultivate, or even her cultivation could be halted, and the most dangerous possibility was succumbing to demonic possession.

"What about you?"

"I will be in closed-door cultivation at the Caixia Pavilion. Help me guard the entrance; within eighty-one days, no one must be allowed to disturb me," Lan Xi instructed. After that, she directly entered the Purple Mist Pavilion.

By the time Lan Yan and Rong Feng arrived, she had already entered meditation.

When Lan Yan asked, Shaoqing told her everything that had happened.

At the same time, Zi Yun also mentioned that when Lan Xi returned from the Demon Realm ten thousand years ago, she carried the Demonic Breath, seemingly eroded by Demonic Qi.

Although Lan Yan did not know what had happened to Lan Xi in the Demon Realm during the Demon War ten thousand years ago, she was aware that Lan Xi’s current situation was perilous. Being eroded by Demonic Breath twice was no laughing matter.

As for Rong Feng, he remained silent throughout, uncertain whether the first time had anything to do with him.

But indeed, Lan Xi had once shielded him from a fatal blow by the Demon Lord. If she had not protected him with her body, he would have been obliterated long ago.

His master...

Had quietly done so much for him, yet she had never mentioned any of it to him.

He, as her disciple, was truly unfilial!

On the seventh day of Lan Xi’s closed-door cultivation,

Shaoqing calculated that the Primordial Demon Dragon had been in the Mortal World for seven years, its dragon tail severed, without treatment, and by now, it should be dead.

On the eighth day of Lan Xi’s closed-door cultivation,

The Heavens announced good news; Zhong Li led his troops, slaying the Primordial Demon Dragon and bringing its body back to be refined in the Tai Chi Bagua Furnace.

On the ninth day of Lan Xi’s closed-door cultivation,

More than six hundred people from the Mortal World implored the heavens, reporting an outbreak of an epidemic.

The continent was soon covered with corpses, and malice filled the skies.

In the Underworld, ghosts overflowed, too many people unable to enter the cycle of reincarnation, drifting in the world.

On the thirtieth day of Lan Xi’s closed-door cultivation.

For more than six hundred years in the Mortal World, the balance of Spiritual Energy between heaven and earth was lost, yin energy filled the skies, and the people could barely survive, with piles of bones accumulating like mountains.

The cause of everything was...

The Heavenly Emperor had delayed the seven-day long encirclement, and the Demon Dragon had been in the Mortal World for seven years. Even though it faced death frequently, it silently scattered the incurable wounds on its body like seeds of plague towards all parts of the Mortal World.

In this life, it could not kill immortals, but it could turn the Mortal World into purgatory.

At this time in the Heavenly Court.

Everyone with some ability in the heavens had gathered together.

The complexion of the Heavenly Emperor was ashen; he had not expected things to happen so suddenly.

And because Zhong Li and others had been seven days late, such a terrifying catastrophe had occurred in the Mortal World.

"Do my ministers have any solutions?"

When the Heavenly Emperor initially discovered the epidemic, he didn’t pay much attention to it.

He thought it was just some disease in the Mortal World, so he scattered some herbal medicine and sent some doctors, believing that the plague would naturally be cured by the medicine.

However, he didn’t expect that, after thirty whole years, the plague had already spread across most of the continent in the Mortal World.

Now, the number of surviving humans was pitifully low, and if this continued, humanity would face extinction, and he, as the ruler of heaven and earth, would have difficulty absolving himself of the blame.

"The epidemic is now widespread and cannot be treated with medicines. Only those with strong Spiritual Power can purify the polluted energy in the Mortal World and save the remaining humans," True Immortal Taiyi quickly said.

The Heavenly Emperor, his face filled with urgency, said, "Then what are we waiting for? Any immortal with strong Spiritual Energy must descend to the Lower Realm to save people."

But True Immortal Taiyi shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, it’s not that we cannot save them.

But after so long, the Spirit Vein of the Mortal World has been polluted by Demonic Qi, which is the reason the plague has raged for thirty years.

Hence, we must find someone who can purify the Spirit Vein and restore order to the Mortal World. "

Upon hearing this, a serious expression crossed the Heavenly Emperor’s face, as his mind instinctively thought of one person.

But at this moment, he also found it exceedingly difficult to speak out.

"Your Majesty, above and below the heavens, the Spiritual Energy between heaven and earth has nurtured the Goddess race, and Lan Xi is the only immortal to have attained Divinity.

Her capabilities are evident to all, and this issue can only be resolved with her intervention," True Immortal Taiyi said gravely.

Grinding his teeth, the Heavenly Emperor thought for a while and eventually sent someone to prepare a hundred celestial treasures and deliver them to the Goddess Palace.

He reported the matter truthfully to the Goddess Palace.

Lan Yan also realized the severity of the situation.

Although she was also a goddess, after giving birth to Lan Xi, as Lan Xi grew more and more powerful, she became increasingly weaker.

Now her strength was less than half of Lan Xi’s, and if she were to purify the Spirit Vein, she simply did not have the power to do so.

After all, with more than six hundred parallel worlds, each Mortal World was so vast that she feared she could not purify even one.

In the end, after weighing the situation, she still knocked on the door of Lan Xi, who was in meditation.

Shaoqing watched Lan Yan knock on the door, knowing that she could prevent anyone in the world from approaching Lan Xi, except for this one person.

Thus, he could only watch helplessly as Lan Xi’s healing was interrupted.

The moment the door to Caixia Pavilion opened, a massive surge of Spiritual Energy emanated from the room.

Lan Yan, looking at Lan Xi’s sweat-drenched figure, asked in confusion, "How is it? Is your healing complete?"

"Yes, fortunately! Mother, do you have something important?" Lan Xi asked, wiping the sweat from her forehead.

Although Lan Yan saw that her daughter’s condition wasn’t very good, the strong fluctuations of Spiritual Energy emanating from her were still pure and clean.

She then told Lan Xi about the events that had occurred in the Mortal World in recent days.

"Lan Xi, the Mortal World was created by the previous Life Goddess.

She molded humans from clay, bestowed them with life, and granted them longevity.

She left offspring to maintain the world, to manage humanity, and to protect and defend them.

This is the responsibility of every generation of goddesses," Lan Yan explained when she saw Lan Xi remaining silent.

Lan Xi put down the handkerchief in her hand and walked over to the windowsill of Purple Mist Pavilion.