Guarding the River of Time

Chapter 430 - 420: The Owl’s Identity—Among Ants, Above All

With these words, Bai Yuan was taken aback for a moment, then smiled bitterly.

Indeed, he and his Demon Realm could only become dust and sand swallowed by the torrent, not even worthy of being the fish on the chopping block.

So helpless, yet so real.

...

"Boss, thank you for taking care of me for so long."

With these words, it was clear that Bai Yuan’s mind was made up, deciding to give up his Great Dao opportunity and go back to face the calamity.

Upon hearing this, the Owl thought for a moment and also made a decision.

"Let’s go."

"Lead the way for me."

Hearing this, Bai Yuan was also stunned and asked, "Boss, what’s this?"

"Not busy today, nothing to do, thought I’d visit your hometown."

"What, not welcoming me?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Yuan’s heart was filled with excitement, he quickly shook his head and replied, "Very welcome, very welcome! But boss, won’t it delay you?"

"Why all the jibber-jabber? Just lead the way when I ask you to."

With that, Bai Yuan shut his mouth and entered a tunnel at the back of the Medicine Garden.

Soon, the two were traversing the void, heading towards a certain world.

......

Kunpeng Demon Realm, above the blood-red expanse.

The space began to distort, and two figures stepped out, one after the other.

The first to emerge was a white-haired man, tall and imposing, wearing a long robe of crescent white, with boundless demon light flickering in his blood-red pupils.

After stepping out, the white-haired man turned back and waited.

The next second.

A tall figure slowly stepped out of the spatial rift.

The man was dressed in plain black attire, his long black hair cascading down, waving in the wind, without any hint of femininity; his features were deep and profound, just standing there like a Holy Sword, ready to cleave the void at any moment.

"Boss, this is my hometown, the Kunpeng Demon Realm."

The white-haired man was Bai Yuan, who had returned to the Demon Realm, far away from the River of Time, and had reverted to human form.

...

The black-haired man was the "Little Owl" under Su Mu.

His real name was "Qin Yuan," a forbidden name, known by few in the entire Ten Thousand Realms.

....

Qin Yuan’s Divine Sense spread out, discovering the "main battlefield," and headed in that direction.

"Let’s go, your people are being slaughtered at this moment."

With these words, Bai Yuan looked towards a direction, clenched his fists, his breath slightly chaotic, clearly furious.

"Boss, excuse me briefly, this is a family matter that I must attend to."

With that, Bai Yuan transformed into a stream of light, flying towards the horizon.

Seeing Bai Yuan’s departing direction, Qin Yuan, hands behind his back, disappeared from the spot the next second.

.....

White Emperor Demon Hall, situated on the highest mountain of the Kunpeng Demon Realm.

The towering stone mountain soared skyward, as if a pair of giant hands had lifted up the magnificent Demon Hall in its palm.

This place was the territory of the head of the ten great Demon Race of the Kunpeng Demon Realm—the "Bai Family," and could be considered the center of power for the entire Kunpeng Demon Realm.

At this moment, the surroundings of the White Emperor Demon Hall were covered with dark clouds, which, upon closer inspection, were not clouds at all, but a multitude of powerful demon cultivators, surrounding the White Emperor Demon Hall impassably.

Dark clouds pressed down on the city, the autumn wind bleak, the air permeated with a dense scent of blood.

On the ground below, piles of corpses formed mountains, the red blood staining the earth, the setting sun like blood, the despairing bleakness spreading far into the distant sky, unceasing.

....

"No need to struggle anymore, you have no hope left."

At this time, within the demon army, a man clad in black armor, with a full head of hair and a burly frame, mocked the nine men standing before the White Emperor Demon Hall.

The nine men standing at the front of the White Emperor Demon Hall had various injuries—some had lost a hand, others had their legs severed, while some were blinded—all suffered in various degrees, yet even so, each one gripped their weapon tightly, refusing to back down.

They knew that once they retreated, their kin and fellowmen behind them would all be enslaved by the three great Demon Realms, subjected to eternal darkness, a fate worse than death.

These nine were the brightest stars of the Kunpeng Demon Realm, lauded as the "Nine Emperors of the Bai Family," the most formidable force of the Bai Family.

Yet, facing the joint onslaught of the three great Demon Realms, they didn’t last a hundred years before being driven to such a plight by the enemy forces.

They hated!

If only the forefather were still here, why would the Kunpeng Demon Realm, the Bai Family, face such a calamity!

Decades ago, they had gathered all the power of the Bai Family, searching for the trace of the forefather. Perhaps heaven took pity on the Bai Family, for they finally glimpsed an inkling of the forefather’s aura, and sent the message out.

It was uncertain if the forefather received it.

The forefather had been gone for nearly ten thousand years, and within those ten thousand years, the Bai Family had slowly declined, still able to maintain its status as the leading clan of the Kunpeng Demon Realm, yet far from the glory of when the forefather was present.

They didn’t know where the forefather had gone after vanishing all these years....

Whether the legendary Sacred Medicine Garden existed, whether the forefather found it....

.....

"Since you stubbornly persist, then go to hell together!"

At this moment, the black-armored burly man slowly raised his right hand, gathering terrifying demonic energy into pitch-black Dharma Seals, descending upon everyone in the White Emperor Demon Hall as if to suppress them.

Faced with the impending doom of the black Dharma Seals, the nine prepared to muster their last breath to resist as best they could.

But.... their injuries were too severe, they couldn’t withstand it at all.

Just when all hope seemed lost.

Crash—

A shattering sound echoed, and the black Dharma Seals cast by the black-armored burly man disintegrated into ashes in an instant.

Unbeknownst to them, in the void above, a figure in a white robe stood proudly.

"An....ancestor!"

One of the Nine Emperors of the Bai Family recognized him and exclaimed in astonishment.

In that instant, all the clan members of the Bai Family raised their heads in hope, looking up at the man in the void.

Seeing Bai Yuan’s descent, three towering figures slowly emerged from the void, and as they appeared, the space began to collapse and distort.

These three figures were the lords of the three great Demon Realms!

In the blink of an eye, Bai Yuan and the three lords of the Demon Realms were on the verge of a clash!

The entire void turned into a battlefield, the ripples of energy causing cracks in the earth, the space twisting and breaking apart.

Everyone watched the battlefield tensely, as this concerned the life and death of the Kunpeng Demon Realm.

Although Bai Yuan had gained much on the River of Time, these three lords were antiquities of the ancient era, and his ability to contend with three of them was already a miracle.

......

A sigh—

At this moment, a yawn rang out from the void.

The next second, this entire void instantly solidified, like a static painting.

A figure slowly walked out of the void.

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ps: There’s another Chapter to make up for later, didn’t expect to be allergic to cephalosporin, took one today and had to go to the hospital for an intravenous drip because of the allergy.