A devil's self-redemption

"Haha, what a warm scene, it's really comforting, but this doesn't seem to be the place to discuss things, let's go to my dojo and discuss the rest of the matter!"

Lilith wiped the tears from her face, turned around and stared at Jurgen and said, "Have you given up the Essence?"

“No, no, no…” Jurgen waved his hands and denied, “The Essence is only placed on Luo Lai first. If his progress is not as fast as I expected, I will still snatch the Essence away from him. Don’t blame me for being ruthless then!”

"Haha, I'm afraid you won't be able to wait until then. Don't you know that Xiao Luo has only been practicing for a hundred years and has already reached his current level?"

Jurgen did not comment on Lilith's words, and said directly: "Hey, I'm not blind, but the past is the past, and the present is the present. There are many examples in the cultivation world where people practice very fast in the early stage, but they stop moving forward when they encounter a bottleneck. Even though he is making great progress now, the bottleneck of the Heavenly Immortal Realm blocks 99% of the cultivators in the cultivation world, let alone the Heavenly Immortal's promotion to the Immortal King Realm."

Lilith was speechless for a moment, not knowing how to refute, and could only say angrily: "Humph, wait for my son to slap you in the face with facts!"

Jurgen ignored Lilith and instead fixed his gaze on Luo Lai. He said with interest, "My words are very clear. You can make your choice now."

What a bullshit choice! Luo Lai cursed in his heart. Now he was being framed. It seemed that Jurgen gave him a choice, but in fact, he had no choice at all. He could only agree. As for whether he could do it or not, he would decide when the time came. Otherwise, he would have to die here!

After seeing Luo Lai nod, Jurgen finally showed a happy smile on his face, but his next words made Luo Lai's heart pound.

"I can sense that the spirit of the Tree Ancestor is not in you, but it is closely connected to you. If you cannot become an Immortal King, the Tree Ancestor will surely die! Not only will I kill him, but other Immortal Kings will not let him go either."

Luo Lai's face changed. He heard something behind Jurgen's words and asked without hesitation, "What do you mean? Could it be that the Great... Tree Ancestor has some incredible secret?"

Jurgen did not answer, his figure slowly disappeared, and then his words reached Luo Lai's ears.

"Let your mother tell you, she knows better!"

Seeing Jurgen disappear, Lilith finally breathed a sigh of relief. She slowly turned her head and looked at Luo Lai with a complicated expression. She reached out her hand again to touch Luo Lai's face, and murmured, "My son, I finally see you!" As she spoke, tears flowed down her face again.

At this time, Luo Lai was also a little excited, but he still controlled his emotions well and let Lilith vent her emotions!

After a long time, Luo Lai saw that Lilith's mood had stabilized a lot, so he spoke: "Mother... this is not the place to talk, let's find a quiet place!"

Lilith nodded hurriedly and said, "Okay, okay."

As he said that, he took Luo Lai's hand and flew in a certain direction.

In fact, the place where they were was very quiet, and there was no one nearby. The reason why Luo Lai said this was just to ease the awkward atmosphere!

Half an hour later, Lilith led Luo to a valley with an exceptionally beautiful scenery. The valley was lush and green, with trees and many rare and exotic animals wandering around. In the distance, a clear stream meandered down, and the fish in the water seemed to be swimming in the air without support.

A small tree house stands quietly beside the stream, blending perfectly with the surrounding scenery.

Lilith landed next to the tree house with ease and said with a smile, "This is my mother's dojo. Usually no one comes here, so it's a relatively quiet place. Let's have a good chat!"

Luo Lai followed Lilith into the tree house and found that although there was no spirit gathering array in the tree house, the spiritual energy was extremely rich, and practicing here would definitely be twice the result with half the effort!

The furnishings inside the tree house are extremely simple, with only a futon and a bed!

Lilith waved her hand and summoned a cushion from somewhere, then pulled Luo to sit down.

"Come on, tell me how you got through these years. You must have suffered a lot to have achieved your current level of cultivation at such a young age!"

Luo Lai did not hesitate and began to tell everything about his experiences over the years!

From being disliked as a child to being accidentally teleported to the cultivation world. From his own emotional problems to killing the old demon Qi Jue, and finally to killing Eric!

This lecture lasted for a whole day and night. Lilith did not interrupt and just listened quietly.

It didn't stop until it talked about crossing the eternal ruins and entering the abyss.

"Mother, if I kill Eric, it won't anger Jurgen, right?" Luo Lai asked hesitantly!

Lilith smiled and said, "It's okay. To be honest, Jurgen should thank you. I stole Eric's essence and completely destroyed Eric's hope of becoming an Immortal King. You killed Eric and solved Jurgen's trouble. In fact, Jurgen wanted to kill Eric a long time ago, but it was difficult to do it because his grandfather and father were still alive. Later, going down to the mortal world would cost a huge price, and it might not be possible to kill him, so he never did it."

"Haha, just as I thought." Luo Lai said with some pride.

At this time, Luo Lai seemed to have thought of something and asked, "By the way, mother, what did Jurgen mean when he left just now? Is there any secret about Dafu... Tree Ancestor that I don't know? From what Jurgen said, it seems that Dafu has caused a big disaster!"

The smile on Lilith's face faded, and her expression became more serious. She seemed to be organizing her words. She did not answer immediately. After a moment, she said, "Do you know my grandfather, the Immortal King Tengri?"

Luo Lai nodded and repeated the information he had learned about Tengri.

Lilith nodded, and then said: "Grandfather was the most powerful Immortal King in the entire Immortal World at that time, and was known as the King of a Hundred Kings! And the Tree Ancestor was the first tree born in the chaos. He was of great significance to the entire world! With him, the world would be extremely stable, and the evil demons from outside the world would not dare to invade the Immortal World! But for some reason, the Tree Ancestor went crazy! He actually blew himself up. With his cultivation level of only a celestial immortal, it would have been impossible for him to kill so many Immortal Kings, and he might not even be able to kill one. But his self-explosion destroyed the rules of the Immortal World, making the originally stable Immortal World extremely turbulent, and thus causing the cultivation levels of those Immortal Kings to become unstable."

Luo Lai interrupted and said, "Mother, these great fortunes have told me that it was because of the chaos in the rules caused by him that so many immortal kings died!"

"Haha, you are both right and wrong! Dafu may not know what happened later. Since he protected himself, many immortal kings' realms have been unstable. In order to stabilize their own realms, they began to attack each other, killing each other and plundering each other's Dao Fruit. For a time, the immortal world was flooded with blood. The number of immortal kings who died was reduced from more than a hundred to only more than thirty! Just when the surviving immortal kings thought that things would slowly calm down, a group of immortal kings who had never appeared in the immortal world suddenly appeared and started hunting the surviving immortal kings."

Luo Lai frowned as he listened. When he heard this, a flash of inspiration came to him and he blurted out, "Devil from outside the world!?"

Lilith nodded with relief and continued, "Yes, it was the evil demons from outside the realm. Most of the surviving immortal kings were injured and naturally could not fight against them, and there were heavy casualties for a while. At this critical moment, grandfather stood up and joined forces with the remaining immortal kings of the immortal world to hunt down those evil demons from outside the realm. I won't go into details about the specific process, but you can see the result. In the end, there were only five immortal kings left in the immortal world, and grandfather also died together with those evil demons in the final battle."

The amount of information was too much for Luo Lai to digest for a while. It took him a long time to recover. Then he realized that there were some problems and asked, "Were those evil demons from outside the world attracted by Dafu?"

Lilith shook her head. "Not really. It's just that the barrier protecting the fairyland was breached by Dafu's self-explosion and the fierce fighting among the fairy kings."

"Barrier? I didn't notice any barrier before?" Luo Lai asked puzzledly.

Lilith sneered and said, "The barrier is just a general term. Did you know that there are some insurmountable places around the fairyland, such as the eternal ruins in the west, the void city in the south, the ten thousand year old glacier in the north, and the lingering black fog in the east!"

Luo Lai nodded and said, "Yes, I know. Not only that, I have also traveled through the entire Eternal Ruins. Now the Eternal Ruins have become the Eternal Immortal! I have refined all the Destruction Dao Fruits inside!"

He had a slightly smug expression when he said this, like a naughty kid who got a perfect score on the test and was showing off to his mother.

However, after hearing his words, Lilith's expression suddenly changed drastically, and her voice trembled as she said, "You...you said...you said you refined the Dao Fruit of Destruction?"

Seeing her strange expression, Luo Lai was a little puzzled and said, "I didn't refine it, I just gave it to the nerd and asked him to refine it!"

"Oh! You're in big trouble!" Lilith looked anxious, stood up and walked out of the tree house.

Luo Lai quickly stopped her and asked solemnly, "Mother, what's going on? Please tell me!"

Lilith stopped, turned around hesitantly, and finally sighed deeply: "Oh, forget it, anyway, it has already happened, there is no need to rush, I will explain it to you first. Didn't I just say that there are barriers around the fairyland! In ancient times, it was because of Dafu's self-explosion and the wars between the fairy kings that the barriers were broken, resulting in the invasion of the fairyland by the evil demons from outside the world..."

Luo Lai reacted immediately, frowning fiercely, and continued with Lilith's words: "There was no battle between the immortal kings this time, but I took the initiative to tear open the barrier, the evil demon from outside the world..."

He didn't continue talking, but his heart was already in knots.

Lilith nodded and said, "Yes, that's what I mean. I think the evil demons from outside the world have already received the news and are likely to have begun invading the fairy world."

"No, I have to rush to the Eternal Fairyland immediately!"

Luo Lai was extremely anxious at the moment. You know, the Loose Cultivator Alliance is in the Eternal Immortal Realm. If the evil demons from outside invade the Immortal Realm, the Loose Cultivator Alliance will definitely be the first target. Luo Jin, Zi Yafei, Zhao Xuanba and others...

But at this moment, Lilith said, "Come on, calm down. Even if you rush back now, it's too late. I haven't received any news about the invasion of evil demons from outside the world. I think your master has temporarily come up with a countermeasure.

Luo Lai calmed down immediately after hearing this, looked at Lilith and asked, "Mother, what exactly is the evil demon from outside the world?"

"Haha, if you ask someone else, I may not be able to answer you, but I do know something. You also know that when the world was first created, there was a distinction between pure air and turbid air, and the fairyland contained most of the pure air and a very small part of the turbid air. The remaining vast majority of the turbid air and a small part of the pure air were isolated outside the fairyland. Most of the cultivators in the fairyland are clear-minded and will not kill in anger. However, the cultivators outside the fairyland have no possibility of controlling their emotions at all. Killing has occupied all their lives. It can be said that they are either fighting or on the way to fight in this life. So although their number is small, their combat effectiveness is extremely strong. Under the same realm, the cultivators in the fairyland often need three or five people to compete with an evil demon from outside the realm, and to kill them, more people are needed."

As Lilith continued to talk, Luo Lai's face became extremely solemn. He asked, "Doesn't that mean that it only takes one Immortal King-level evil demon from outside the realm to destroy the Immortal Realm?"

Lilith shook her head and said, "The Immortal King level powerhouses are not in the situation I mentioned. At that level, one can only judge their strength by the strength of the Dao Fruit they have mastered."

Luo Lai's expression eased a little. If even the Immortal King was not helpful, the Immortal World would be doomed.

Then he realized that he was too optimistic. The fairy kings in the fairy world have always been at odds with each other, and it is extremely difficult to get them to unite to resist the evil demons from outside the world!

Lilith said at this time: "Now that I think about it, the reason why Jurgen did not take the Essence by force is that he knew that the Eternal Ruins had been destroyed. He wanted you to grow up as quickly as possible. If you can rely on the Essence to become an Immortal King in a short period of time, the Immortal World will have more combat power."

Luo Lai nodded, indicating that he understood. At the level of Immortal King, no matter how powerful the treasure is, it is impossible to increase his strength in a short period of time. It is better to gamble on the opportunity of having one more Immortal King-level strongman to help.

"Mother, I have to go back to the Eternal Fairyland. My relatives and friends are all there. If anything happens to them, I will never forgive myself. After all, it was me who caused the trouble."

Luo Lai said seriously.

Lilith nodded and said, "Okay, go ahead, but I can't go with you, after all, Jurgen's..."

"I understand. I will achieve Immortal King as soon as possible, and then Jurgen will not be able to imprison you anymore!"

Lilith sighed. To become the Immortal King, what difficult conditions there are. You know, since Dafu’s self-destruction, only the nerd has become the Immortal King, and Luo Lai is only at the peak of the Immortal Realm at this moment.