"Hehe, true enough. These past two years, I’ve slowly started to feel it too. Dad, you were right. Actually, I just want to live a quiet, peaceful life..."

As she said this, Wu Mengting couldn’t help thinking of Chen Tianlong.

Even though she said that, she still felt that if Chen Tianlong wasn’t by her side, then living had no meaning.

"Thinking about that kid Chen Tianlong again, huh? Ai, what is love in this world, that it makes people pledge life and death to each other!" Wu Jian didn’t say much more. Love could make people blind, but at the same time, love was the driving force for some people’s entire lives.

His daughter had obviously been poisoned by love to the bone; she was probably beyond saving.

After the two of them had eaten for a while, Wu Mengting’s face suddenly turned pale. The Demonic Qi flared up again. A wave of tearing, soul‑rending pain made it hard for her even to breathe.

Wu Jian’s brows knitted. He grabbed Wu Mengting’s hand, and at once was shocked out of his wits. The Demonic Qi had already started a fierce assault on her heart. If it wasn’t treated in time, it would probably break through in less than half a month.

But what puzzled Wu Jian was, how was there another strange power in Wu Mengting’s body, as if it were dispersing the Demonic Qi?

Because of this, the Demonic Qi didn’t dare invade Wu Mengting’s Ren and Du Meridians, which put the initiative back in her hands.

"Urgh..."

After the pain passed, Wu Mengting actually threw up, and it was clearly the dry heaving typical of early pregnancy.

Wu Jian’s brows furrowed again. He recognized this scene—back then he had practiced medicine, after all, and he’d seen this situation before. So he hurriedly grabbed his daughter’s hand and pressed his fingers to her pulse.

A few dozen seconds later, Wu Jian’s face turned the color of pig liver. He asked weakly, "Mengting, you and Chen Tianlong... did you sleep together?"

Hearing this, a flush rose to Wu Mengting’s face. Even her dark skin couldn’t hide that shy look.

She only gave an embarrassed little nod. Wu Jian sucked in a sharp breath, then asked, "Does Chen Tianlong know?"

Wu Mengting shook her head.

"Hoo..."

Wu Jian let out a long breath. His daughter was really foolish, shouldering everything alone without saying a word. But in this, she was very much like her mother—just as stubborn.

"Starting tomorrow, you and I are going somewhere. The Demonic Qi in your body can only be slowly dispelled there." Wu Jian said.

"Ah? Father, you mean this Demonic Qi can be removed?"

Wu Mengting was taken aback. Master Wufa had said it would take at least five years to expel the Demonic Qi, and whether she could even last five years was a big question. She was suffering so much every day.

The most crucial thing was: she was pregnant.

If it took five years, the child would already be long dead. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

"Hehe, I forgot to tell you, back in the day your dad had a nickname—one of the Thunderbolt Heroes." Wu Jian didn’t explain further and went on eating.

Hearing this, Wu Mengting was overjoyed. If her father really could get rid of the Demonic Qi, then she could go back to Chen Tianlong’s side and live a happy life.

"But getting rid of the Demonic Qi isn’t something that can be done in a short time. It might take up to half a year. This time I’m taking you to that place, we can only stay at most a week. We can’t stay too long; I’m afraid your body won’t be able to take it." Wu Jian explained.

"Mm, I’ll listen to you, Father."

Wu Mengting finally showed a long‑lost smile, then suddenly remembered something. "Right, Chen Tianlong, is... is he really dead?"

Thinking of this, Wu Mengting’s expression suddenly dimmed. She didn’t believe Chen Tianlong would die, but that scene had been too big to be fake.

"Hehe, and you call yourself his fiancée. You really think that kid would die that easily?" Wu Jian didn’t spell it out, only hinted at it.

Hearing this, Wu Mengting let out a deep breath, her heart settling down. Since even her father said so, then Chen Tianlong definitely was fine.

Sure enough, the news quickly reached the Third Elder’s ears. Chen Tianlong had really been killed, which made him incomparably excited.

"Everyone, Chen Tianlong’s been taken care of. Next we go according to Young Master Hao’s plan. Tomorrow morning, we gather the forces of all the sects and head for Black Alliance headquarters." Situ Feng threw his head back and howled to the sky, looking like he had victory in his grasp.

"Yes, we’ll follow the Third Elder’s arrangements."

If it weren’t for the backing of the Celestial Pill Sect, the experts of the five great sects would never have dared go against the Black Alliance.

They knew that if the plan failed, what awaited them was death.

Situ Feng smiled with satisfaction. Everything was going according to plan.

Early the next morning, under the Third Elder’s arrangements, the eight great sects finally assembled. Two more sects had joined: the Sword Dao Sect and the Qingcheng Sect. These two sects both occupied territory in the Five Elements Mountain Range and were extremely powerful. The Sword Dao Sect’s Sect Leader, Xiao Changfeng, was an expert of the Celestial Dao Seven Stars, and the Qingcheng Sect’s Sect Leader, Daoist Qingyun, was also Celestial Dao Seven Stars.

These two weren’t even the most powerful in the Five Elements Mountain Range. After all, there was the Celestial Pill Sect, with experts as numerous as clouds. They didn’t even rank among the top there.

In an instant, the Pure Yang Martial Arts Hall, Celestial Martial Sect, Celestial Pill Sect, Sword Dao Sect, Qingcheng Sect, Martial Extreme Sect, Divine Fist Hall, and Taihang Sect—eight great sects—gathered together, reenacting a sect‑extermination posture. They marched aggressively straight toward the South Sea City docks. Each sect had brought about thirty people, over two hundred in total, but every one of them was an elite.

Most were Sect Leaders and a few trusted disciples, or martial uncles and the like. So the formation didn’t look large in numbers, but their strength was absolutely top‑tier.

Meanwhile, the Celestial Pill Sect’s Thunder Tiger had already made his preparations. He had secretly transferred five thousand warriors from Qilin of the Fire Domain, sending them over by ship in batches over the course of a week, and arranged them in various major hotels in South Sea City.

Hao Shuai, on the other hand, had brought a squad of only thirty from the Celestial Pill Sect and arrived two days early to stay in a hotel near Black Alliance territory.

"Bro, with just this few of us, can we really handle the Black Alliance?" Hao Jian asked worriedly.

"Hehe, don’t we still have you and Xue Kong?" Hao Shuai was unconcerned, and continued, "Relax. When you get back to the Black Alliance, do your best to cooperate with Xue Kong. He has his own ways."

Hao Jian froze. He had long known that Xue Kong was from the Black Alliance, but he hadn’t expected Xue Kong to betray them as well. It looked like the Black Alliance really was about to change sky and earth.

Black Alliance headquarters.

The Red-eyed Eagle had already sensed danger. She urgently ordered Niu Xiaosan to go to the army and muster troops, and during this period to intensify drills. She had a vague feeling that war was about to erupt.

Thunder Tiger, Wu Chi, and the others began secretly holding meetings to discuss the details.

"Second Bro, with only thirty percent of the military power in our hands, do you think we can really take that bitch on?" Wu Chi voiced his doubts. As much as he wanted to pull a big job with Thunder Tiger, they couldn’t be reckless.

"Hehe, if it was just us, we definitely couldn’t. But we’ve got reinforcements." Thunder Tiger said with a grin.

"Reinforcements? Let’s hear it." Wu Chi blinked and asked.

Thunder Tiger leaned in and whispered in Wu Chi’s ear for a while. The two of them then burst into loud laughter. Everything went without saying.