281: Good news and lots of bad news

The Sky Patrol Immortal Generals were about to arrive, so Lilia relaxed for the moment, continuing to play along with Fire Lin Chen to keep this "evil seed" stable.

"Fellow Daoist Lilia, if I want to return to my hometown, I wonder what I should do?"

"I can't answer that question. I am merely a small lower realm guardian. I have little influence and have only been to the Immortal Court a few times. I have no idea how to reach other Heavenly Courts."

Lilia was telling the truth.

Each of the Nine Great Celestial Heavens was an independent Upper Realm ruling over countless Lower Realms, and the relationships between them were intricate and hard to define.

These nine Heavenly Court-level powers, which had existed for countless years, fought incessantly but also cooperated closely at times.

Today you fight me, tomorrow I fight you, the day after we unite to fight someone else, and the day after that, others unite to fight us.

This was basically the state of the Nine Great Celestial Heavens.

Teammates and opponents were assigned based on the interests brought by major events.

Despite fighting and cooperating for countless years, the Nine Great Celestial Heavens remained standing. Each had its own unique trump cards. Unless it was an eight-on-one situation where everyone gave their all, it was nearly impossible to completely destroy a Heavenly Court.

"Fellow Daoist Lilia, has no one ever told you that you're actually not very good at doing bad things?"

"Huh?"

Fire Lin Chen had also just realized something was wrong with Lilia.

At first, Lilia was very wary and tense, but when she learned he might be from the Five Emperors Celestial Realm or the Terminus Evil Heaven, she suddenly relaxed after a while and treated him kindly, which was not at all the attitude one would have toward an evil seed.

Because of this, Fire Lin Chen knew that some change he was unaware of must have occurred.

Following the traditional tropes, it meant Lilia had called for backup. A powerful expert would come to deal with him. Whether he was killed on the spot or captured for interrogation, it wouldn't be a good ending for Fire Lin Chen.

After her initial surprise, Lilia displayed the poise of a Realm Warden.

Although it had been five thousand years since her last battle against an opponent at the immortal level, five thousand years was not a long time for an immortal who lived for ages.

"Fellow Daoist, I really don't want to start a conflict."

Fire Lin Chen felt helpless. He indeed wasn't a good person; he was classified as an Extraterritorial Heavenly Demon. Though his arrival in this universe was an accident, he was essentially an invader.

However, before gaining more intelligence, he didn't mind pretending to be a kind and merciful person who was unwilling to resort to violence.

But reality was like that, always full of surprises.

"Fire Prison Prohibition!"

Fire Lin Chen was, after all, Lin Chen's clone. Even if he didn't cultivate the Karma Dao, he could still mobilize Causality Power and borrow some of the Main Body's strength to face enemies.

Thus, Lilia, who was slightly stronger than Fire Lin Chen, had no power to resist. She was directly suppressed, her water-system rules were sealed, and her realm temporarily fell to the God Rank, leaving her with only the cultivation of the Ninth Order Gods.

Fire Lin Chen didn't do much; he simply applied the Causality Power he could mobilize to the fire-system rules he mastered, forming a fire-system sealed domain.

Lilia felt miserable. The water-system rules she was born with were suppressed and could not be mobilized. All her methods as an immortal were rendered useless.

"Alright, now I'll ask and you'll answer. I'm not some bad person, nor do I like killing innocents. So, Fellow Daoist Lilia, I hope you can be sensible."

Lilia didn't accept her fate yet. She tried to use her guardian token to activate her Warden Palace and use a formation to kill Fire Lin Chen.

However, how could Fire Lin Chen not be on guard against Lilia's potential hidden cards? When fighting on someone else's home turf, one must be prepared for any building to contain formations or killing moves.

Before the guardian token could be activated, Fire Lin Chen took it.

"A Standard Divine Artifact. It seems to only have communication functions; it's mostly for identification."

Lilia watched as the guardian token changed hands, her eyes filled with despair.

She had heard that the immortals from the Five Emperors Celestial Realm or the Terminus Evil Heaven were more often called Evil Demons rather than immortals.

Evil Demons always liked to use immortals of the opposite sex as Cauldrons. The fate of immortals caught by Evil Demons was miserable; they were either sucked dry or had their minds altered to become slaves.

"I don't want to be a Cauldron! I don't want to do... naughty things! Just kill me!"

“?????”

Fire Lin Chen was completely bewildered.

Looking at Lilia's expression of facing death with equanimity, Fire Lin Chen thought that the immortals of the Five Emperors Celestial Realm and the Terminus Evil Heaven must really be pieces of work. He hadn't even done anything, yet Lilia was already imagining what would happen next.

"Stop talking nonsense and answer my questions honestly. You sent a distress signal to the Supreme Immortal Court. What level of immortal will come to support you next?"

Lilia remained silent, her mind so full of lewd thoughts that she could no longer receive external information.

"Oi, what are you thinking about? Answer my question!"

Fire Lin Chen waved his hand in front of Lilia and found that she was immersed in her own mental world, dazed, with a flushed face and wisps of steam rising from her head.

"No, don't the immortals of the Supreme Immortal Court cultivate their mental state? How exactly did they cultivate to become gods? Is it a divinely bestowed status? As long as they have a God Position, they have the corresponding cultivation and strength?"

With Lilia like this, Fire Lin Chen feared he wouldn't get any information unless he used some harsh methods.

And so, a 'horrendous' interrogation began.

Half an hour later, Lilia lay on the ground, her body limp, her clothes disheveled, and her eyes glazed.

Please don't misunderstand; Fire Lin Chen didn't do anything.

He simply used Godly Might to pressure Lilia, forcibly pulling her consciousness back to ask the information he wanted. The process was as simple as it could be.

One piece of good news, and many pieces of bad news.

The good news: The worlds of immortals and mortals were separated. In the Lower Realm, besides the Wardens appointed by the Heavenly Court, there were no other immortal-level beings. For an immortal to descend to the Lower Realm, not only were the methods cumbersome, but they would also be suppressed to the level of a Lower God.

The immortals of this universe corresponded to the God Rank.

A Heavenly Immortal corresponded to a Lower God.

A True Immortal corresponded to a Middle God.

A Golden Immortal corresponded to an Upper God.

A Taiyi-rank immortal corresponded to a Main God.

A Daluo-rank Immortal Emperor corresponded to the Foundation Level.

Therefore, even if the immortal sent by the Supreme Immortal Court to deal with Fire Lin Chen had a higher realm, they could only be temporarily suppressed to the peak of the Lower God realm in the Lower Realm.

Unless a Daluo Immortal Emperor personally intervened, Fire Lin Chen's greatest enemy would be an immortal at the peak of the Lower God realm.

The first piece of bad news: The Lower Realm had no resources that could allow the God Rank to advance further, and even the rules were restricted to the Lower God level.

The second piece of bad news: The top ruler of the Supreme Immortal Court was a Heavenly Emperor (peak Foundation Level) and nine Immortal Emperors (ranging from early to late Foundation Level).

The third piece of bad news: There were nine such Heavenly Courts in this Immortal Dao Universe.

In addition, the Nine Great Celestial Heavens jointly suppressed a common enemy, the Abyss. The overall strength of the Abyss was not bad, but it was slightly weaker than the Heavenly Courts' side, which was why it was suppressed.

The fourth piece of bad news: The Immortal Dao Universe was in a semi-closed state. External exploration was insufficient, and internal development had reached its limit. Classes were solidified, and the Heavenly Courts existed eternally.

Aside from the Daluo Immortal Emperors, the orthodox immortals of the Heavenly Court were products of the Heavenly Court's God Positions. Only those who possessed a God Position were True Immortals and truly called members of the Heavenly Court.

Ordinary immortals who ascended from the Lower Realm were merely the bottom of the Heavenly Court, members of the rank-and-file Heaven Soldiers. They were cannon fodder used to deal with the Abyss, with no room for advancement and no way of knowing when they might die in battle.

As for why a minor lower realm guardian like Lilia knew so much, it could only be said that someone who could land a cushy job like lower realm guardian had a background and backing.

Lilia's grandmother was a concubine of an Immortal Emperor, so Lilia's backing could be traced back to the Immortal Emperor level. Even if the blood relation wasn't close, she was no ordinary immortal.

This news was the biggest piece of bad news for Fire Lin Chen.

Even a random immortal he encountered had an Immortal Emperor background.

Fire Lin Chen felt like he had been set up by the Heavenly Dao of the Immortal Dao Universe; otherwise, how could everything be so coincidental?