The Eternal World

September was the rainy season.

The autumn rain was mournful, and the battlefield was cold.

Many people had already begun putting on their clothes.

The Cloudwater City was as bustling as ever.

However, in the short span of a few months, the structure of the Cloudwater City had unknowingly undergone a tremendous change.

First, it was the replacement of the Patriarch of the Wang Family. Wang Zhen was expelled, and Wang San regained his Patriarch's position.

Soon after, with the support of the Wang family, a sect that no one had ever heard of appeared — the Church of the Golden Light!

As for the main hall of the Church of the Golden Light, it was established right next to the Wang family residence.

As the Sect Leader of the Church of the Golden Light, the Brother Nan received greetings from all around.

Immediately after, the Cloudwater City's City Lord brought her personal guards to pay respects to the Wang Family's new Patriarch and Brother Nan.

After all, he had always been extremely fearful of the Wang Clan. Now that the Wang Clan had changed so much, he had to make his stance clear.

At the same time, he had to get a better understanding of Chu Tianjiao's temperament before he could get along with him in the future.

Furthermore, after he found out about the close relationship between the Church of Golden Light and the Wang Family, he was extremely respectful towards the Brother Nan.

Brother Nan felt that he was a bit floating, he never thought that such a day would actually come for him.

You must know that the position and identity of the Cloudwater City's City Lord is very high!

In the past, when his father saw him, he had to bow and kneel as well, showing great respect.

But now, this person was actually bowing to him. This contrasting feeling made him feel as if he was in a dream.

However, the City Lord of Cloudwater City was especially important to the development of the Church of Golden Light. Under Zhang Chao's secretly instigated efforts, the City Lord of Cloudwater City immediately took out a large amount of crystals, pills, and treasures, and gave them to the City Lord as a gift.

The reason was also very reasonable. They were to contribute a bit of strength to the defense of Cloudwater City, to use these to reward the soldiers, to enhance the construction and protection measures.

The Cloudwater City's City Lord was deeply grateful, she did not expect the Church of Golden Light to be so generous, her praise for the Brother Nan immediately reaching the pinnacle.

At the same time, he proposed the idea of encircling and annihilating the bandits, which Brother Nan naturally agreed to with full power.

After all, bandits were the enemy of every city. With them there, the city would not be peaceful and it was also the bandits that caused the death of Brother Nan's father that year …

Therefore, a bandit was also a sworn enemy!

To Wang San, the bandits were a group of villains raised up by Wang Zhen, they definitely could not be left alive!

Soon after, after they reached an agreement, the defense troops of the Wang family, the Church of Golden Light and the Cloudwater City immediately started to gather together.

Through this united sweep, the feelings between the three sides were further strengthened, making the entire Cloudwater City look like a metal slab.

After all, the Church of the Golden Light's actions were no longer restricted within the Cloudwater City after exterminating all of the bandits.

In other words, no matter what the Church of Golden Light did, as long as it wasn't something as wicked as that, it would still be tacitly accepted.

In this way, the power of the Church of Golden Light had been boosted to the limit.

Just like that, the Church of the Golden Light's growth rate once again soared.

In just half a year, the influence of the Church of Golden Light had already spread throughout the entire Lanling Continent.

Such a rapidly rising civil organization was also noticed by the Lanling King. However, no matter how much he investigated the Church of Golden Light, the Lanling King found out that there was no excuse to attack the Church of Golden Light.

The Golden Light Sect's methods were controlled by Zhang Chao behind the scenes. Basically, every time he arrived at a city, he would show goodwill to the city's master.

At the same time, not only did the Church of Golden Light do good deeds, it was also kind and benevolent. It helped the various cities to carry out their foundation construction, causing the citizens to be endlessly praising the Church of Golden Light.

In addition, the Church of Golden Light had also organized with the city's defense forces to exterminate all the bandits, horses, and bandits, causing the entire Lanling King to be free of criminal conduct for a time.

Of course, at the same time these forces were being encircled and annihilated, the Church of the Golden Light also took over the money that the enemy had amassed through illegal means, and then used this money to benefit the people and enhance their reputation.

In a short period of time, almost everyone in the city, from the city lords to the soldiers, had received benefits from the Church of Golden Light.

Even Zhang Chao did not expect that the sect that he had randomly established would actually develop to such an extent in such a short period of time.

Of course, this was all thanks to the commander of the Brother Nan and Wang San, causing the number of people in the Church of Golden Light to exceed a million!

At the same time, Zhang Chao's body began to recover fully from his injuries.

After the Lan Ling King learned of this, he also knew that it was impossible to suppress the Church of the Golden Light.

Although the law of the Loulan King Dynasty was extremely binding on civil society, he could only acquiesce to the existence and development of the Church of Golden Light. After all, if he were to make a move on the Church of Golden Light, it was very likely that it would arouse discontent in all directions and set his backyard on fire.

It could even be said that it helped him stabilize the rear of the Lanling Continent. As a reward, the Orchid Tomb King even issued an imperial decree to reward the Brother Nan, and even bestowed upon him the false name of a first-tier duke.

This was also a disguised acknowledgement of the Church of the Golden Light's status.

However, on Zhang Chao's side, he was always thinking about Wang Zhen.

In this half a year, Wang Zhen seemed to have disappeared from the world, and never appeared again. Even though the Church of Golden Light had spread throughout the entire continent, they couldn't find any trace of Wang Zhen at all.

Where was he hiding?

What kind of conspiracy was brewing?

It was now the middle of winter. The temperature on the continent plummeted, snow fell, and cold winds howled.

At this moment, something big happened.

There was a small town at the border of Lanling Continent that was suddenly attacked by an unknown force.

The attack began in the latter part of the night and ended in the early morning, causing the entire town to be completely destroyed. Not a single person or animal remained alive in the city.

Along with the members of the Church of the Golden Light stationed in this small city, all of them had died.

The most peculiar thing was that all the corpses had their blood sucked dry and turned into mummies. This scene was very strange.

From the looks of the scene, they had indeed fiercely resisted before they died. However, for some reason, after being attacked, they were unable to promptly send out of the city to seek help.

According to this point, it could be determined that there was an expert of the sage realm involved in the attack on this small city.

Only an entity with a Domain of the Dao of Saints would be able to quietly lay down a barrier, completely covering the entire city, making it impossible for anyone to spread the news.

Not only did this matter arouse the wrath of the Church of Golden Light, it also caused the upper echelons of the Lanling King to be greatly shaken.

Their first suspect was the Half Demon Continent's enemy.

However, after investigating all the Teleportation Arrays that were connected to the Half Demon Continent, he couldn't find any traces of teleportation formations that had been used in the near future.

Could it be that it had nothing to do with the Half Demon Continent?

However, who would do such a crazy thing on such a large scale?

The Lanling King fell into a state of confusion for a moment.

On the third day after the incident, Zhang Chao went to the destroyed small city to check out the situation.

Even though he was experienced and knowledgeable, he could not help but frown at the sight of the desiccated corpses and the brutal sight in the city.

Too miserable!

Someone who could do such a thing was definitely a madman.

"Hmm?" Suddenly, he felt a faint trace of demonic energy in the air.

It's the demons!

That's right, only the demon race could do such a thing!

is Wang Zhen...

He had finally made his move!

It seems that there are a lot of demons hiding in this Lanling Continent!

Zhang Chao's expression changed, and he could not help but smile: "That's good too, Wang Zhen, oh Wang Zhen, I'm just afraid that you might not make any movements, and continue to endure. As long as you dare to reveal the tail of a fox, it is an opportunity for me!"

Zhang Chao did not want to interfere too much in the matters of the Demon race. Since the Demon race had come straight for the Lanling Continent, then this blame should be completely thrown to the Lan Ling King.

Who asked him, the Lan Ling King, to put Zhang Chao to death?

If not for Qianqian's jade pendant and Little Red's help, Zhang Chao would have died a long time ago.

Furthermore, his main body was about to come out of seclusion. Taking advantage of the battle between the Demon race and the Lanling King, he could conveniently settle his own matters.

He did not expect that, although he was originally chasing after the Poison Man and Emperor Imoortal, he still ended up wasting so many days on the Lanling Continent due to an accident.

Everything. It was time to have an understanding!

In the following half a month, although the Lan Ling Kingdom increased its defenses in all aspects, the seven cities still suffered a calamity.

All the animals and common people had died, and they were all dressed the same. All of their blood had been sucked out of their bodies.

Regarding this matter, the upper echelons of the Lanling King nearly went crazy.

The Church of the Golden Light had also suffered heavy casualties.

Wang San and Brother Nan were so furious that they would grind their teeth and forget about food and tea every day.

Zhang Chao was also at a loss as to what to do in this situation.

After all, the movements of Wang Zhen and the demons were strange, and they were extremely clear about the situation in the entire Lanling Continent.

Just then, a member of the Church of the Golden Light came over to report that an anomaly had occurred in the area that Zhang Chao had asked them to monitor!

This so called area, was precisely where the Poison Man and Emperor Imoortal were concealed!

The cause of the abnormality was Emperor Imoortal's location!

Hearing that, Zhang Chao immediately led the experts to go.

However, when he arrived at that vast uninhabited region, he discovered that the entire sky was incomparably gloomy. The air was filled with a cautious baleful aura, as if some heaven shocking devil was about to appear!

"Really?" Could it be … That Emperor Imoortal, not only is he in cahoots with the foreign world, even the demons are also … " Zhang Chao suddenly thought of this possibility.

He had not thought about it before, but the situation now made him realize that he had been wrong all along.

The disaster of the demon race was most likely brought by Emperor Imoortal!

Next, he completely confirmed his thoughts.

Following a burst of earth shaking, Emperor Imoortal appeared …