58: Our Lady of the Demon Pond

"Don't look at me!"

Being stared at by so many pairs of eyes, Lan Ao retreated two steps, his face full of resistance: "I really want to save the Demon Pool Holy Mother, but if that requires us to pay with our lives, then it's meaningless."

"All lives are equal."

"Why should we sacrifice so many of our lives for her alone? It's not worth it."

"The Demon Pool Holy Mother definitely wouldn't want us to make such a great sacrifice to save her, right?"

His words left everyone, both humans and demons, in stunned silence.

People from various families whispered among themselves.

"Good heavens, is this Chief Lan afraid to save her?!"

"No way, didn't their Demon Clan put on a show of being willing to pay any price to save the Holy Mother? Are they backing down already?"

"If this is true, then the Demon Clan will become the laughingstock of the three races."

Immortal Lord Changqing gazed at Lan Ao with a look of surprise.

This young man... is quite real.

It's human nature to cling to life and fear death, but fearing death in this kind of situation is a bit foolish...

"What!!?"

The great demons of the Myriad Demons Alliance finally recovered from their disbelief.

One by one, they couldn't restrain their dissatisfaction and roared at Lan Ao repeatedly.

"Chief! No! Lan Ao! Do you dare to say that again!"

"Not saving the Demon Pool Holy Mother? Lan Ao, are you out of your mind! Ten of you can't compare to the Holy Mother. If your life could save the Holy Mother, I believe all demons would wholeheartedly agree!"

"Everyone calm down! Calm down!"

"Calm down my foot! Such a person is not fit to be our Chief!"

"Chief Lan! You're not this kind of person! You're joking, right?"

Although the demons were furious, they still held a sliver of hope for Lan Ao.

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"Joking?"

Lan Ao turned and walked to the side, as if to distance himself from the demons of the Myriad Demons Alliance.

"Hehe, you're too naive."

"Sacrificing oneself for others is truly too naive. If I die, the Myriad Demons Alliance that we worked so hard to build will inevitably fall apart."

"What good would it do to save the Holy Mother then? I'd be dead. Even if she were truly saved, what does that have to do with me?"

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They saw it with their own eyes, heard it with their own ears.

There was no longer any trace of hope in the hearts of the demons.

Every demon looked at Lan Ao with eyes filled with disappointment.

"We were mistaken!"

At this moment, the great tiger demon who had bid farewell to Lan Ao by the coast walked with heavy steps to the edge of the invisible formation.

"Ten years of companionship, day and night."

"Lan Ao, are you truly this kind of demon?"

That tiger demon seemed ready to sacrifice himself, but before dying, he wanted to confirm his friend's true thoughts one last time.

So he turned his head and looked at him, memories of their past together seemingly flickering in his tiger eyes.

"Tiger Vanguard, the words have been said, I don't want to say more."

Lan Ao crossed his arms, his face full of irritation: "If you truly want to sacrifice yourself for a demon you've never met and who has never appeared in your life, what else can I say?"

Tiger Vanguard let out a bitter, low sigh.

Then he looked up and gazed at the Demon Pool Holy Mother's back, her white hair reaching the ground, his tiger eyes gradually turning red.

"Holy Mother, this little demon is coming to save you..."

As he finished speaking, he resolutely stepped into the formation before him!

In just an instant!

This great demon, whose cultivation had reached the Earth Immortal realm, instantly vanished into thin air before everyone's eyes.

Not a single trace was left behind.

It was as if even his existence was completely erased from the entire river of time and space!

It made people's hearts palpitate with unease.

"Heavens... what kind of power is this."

"It really can only be done by the Demon Clan..."

"The power of this formation has indeed significantly weakened!"

"......"

[Narration: Seeing that this was indeed the correct method to break the formation, the great demons of the Myriad Demons Alliance quickly took action.]

[Soon.]

[After sacrificing Tiger Vanguard, Cat Grandfather, Turtle Immortal, Scarlet Clear Chicken Demon... and twenty-six other great demons, the formation finally shattered.]

"I heard everything..."

"I thought that being trapped here with no demons coming to save me was because they didn't know..."

"It turns out they simply weren't willing."

In this vast, white world, this utterly calm voice echoed.

Immortal Lord Changqing's expression, which had remained a squinting smile, slightly changed.

Hmm?

Why can't I sense any aura at all!?

Just now, through the formation, he could still sense the death qi on the other party, but now, it was as if there was no such person there, his senses were completely empty.

The last time he felt this way... was with the Immortal Venerable Bishop of the Carefree Sect!

Could it be that this is another Immortal Venerable giant!?

But how is that possible! Could this formation actually trap such an existence?

They saw the Demon Pool Holy Mother stand up, and then slowly, slowly turn around.

Her long white hair cascaded down both sides of her face like a waterfall, her exquisitely beautiful face hidden within it, her pure white eyes deep and bright, as if they could see through all the illusions in the world.

She wore a white flowing cloud dress, which, when contrasted with her snow-white skin, made her resemble a white lotus on the peak of a ten-thousand-year-old snow mountain.

Pure and inviolable.

"Seventy-one thousand five hundred and twenty-three years and sixty-four days, that is how long I have been trapped here."

She said faintly and softly.

Her voice went straight to the heart, leaving a deep impression.

"From the moment I was trapped here, I believed that someone would definitely come to save me."

"At first, I thought I might be rescued within an hour, because some demons knew I had disappeared."

"After that, I thought I might be rescued within a day, because that was enough time for the news to spread to the Demon Kingdom, and they wouldn't be indifferent."

"Later, I thought that maybe they were busy with war, but surely someone would come to save me within a month..."

"Even later, I raised my expectations to a year, ten years, a hundred years..."

"I thought maybe they were in seclusion, and it's not unusual to be in seclusion for several hundred years, right?"

"But after several thousand years passed, it was still quiet here, and I thought I might have been forgotten."

"After that, I stopped expecting."

Speaking of this.

The Demon Pool Holy Mother calmly swept her gaze over the people and demons in front of her, saying: "In my eyes, you are all the same, there is no such thing as a distinction between humans and demons."

"I don't want to be grateful to heaven and earth, nor will I seek revenge on anyone who offended me."

"I have forgotten my name, and I have no intention of remembering my past."

Having finished speaking.

She lifted her fair and tender jade foot and stepped forward, her figure gradually fading like a dreamlike bubble.

Ah?!

Gone???

Everyone present, both humans and demons, was stunned.

No one had expected today to end like this!

"The Demon Pool Holy Mother just left like that!?"

"Alas, it seems she was completely disappointed with the Demon Clan and no longer wants to get involved in their affairs."

"Tsk tsk, the Myriad Demons Alliance is truly pitiful. First, their Chief revealed the news of the ancient giants, and then they lost over twenty high-level great demons. The worst part is they gained absolutely nothing."

"If Chief Lan had been willing, the situation now would probably be completely different!"

"After what happened today spreads, this Demon Alliance will probably just dissolve on the spot, right!? Hahaha..."

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