"Nine-Tailed Demon Empress": Heh heh, it's a bit too late to react now, what a shame. Your Supreme Refinement Mystic Art is truly miraculous, capable of so easily erasing world auras and world imprints.
What's most crucial is your caution; not only have the red envelopes you sent out never carried even a trace of world aura, but you've also meticulously cleaned away the world aura from every red envelope sent to you.
If not for that, how could you have survived?
"Nine-Tailed Demon Empress": Since things have come to this, I won't say much more. Whether you're willing to cooperate or not, just play dumb and keep your mouth shut afterward, don't say anything, don't do anything. For every group member I harvest, I can extend your lifespan by sixty years. I harvest on average every forty to fifty years. Theoretically, as long as you listen obediently and don't cause trouble for me, I can let you live on and on, becoming an ancient monster.
How about it? Aren't you tempted?
The lives of others are irrelevant to you; what truly matters is your own longevity. You should think carefully.
"Carefree Empress Dowager": Chang'e Lunar Palace, is this why you're cooperating with this demon?
Compared to the Nine-Tailed Demon Empress, whose wicked nature was already known, it was Chang'e Lunar Palace's betrayal, or rather the revelation of her hidden identity, that Ding Yun found most unbearable and infuriating.
Because she truly hadn't expected it.
That someone who cultivated immortality would collaborate with demons.
What's the difference between that and being a wolf's accomplice?
"Nine-Tailed Demon Empress": Chang'e Lunar Palace doesn't care about a mere sixty years of lifespan. Every time I harvest, she takes an entire world's origin from me to compensate for the damage to her own world, thereby gaining the world's favor and becoming that world's Son of Heaven.
The world is severely injured and needs world origin, and she can provide world origin. If she doesn't become the Son of Heaven,
Who else could?
After all, even worlds want to survive.
"Chang'e Lunar Palace": I'm sorry, my world suffered extremely severe damage after the last Immortal-Demon War. Without the world's origin to help it recover, it will soon fall into an era of magic decline, and even the entire world will be destroyed.
In order to ensure my world's continued existence,
I can only be selfish and cruel.
"Nine-Tailed Demon Empress": Why are you explaining so much to her? Don't act as if you're so innocent and forced. If you truly refused,
Would I force you?
Carefree Empress Dowager, do you agree to my proposal or not? Don't think your refusal will be effective, and don't naively believe that anyone will believe what you say. As long as there are sufficient benefits, who fears a little risk?
Even if you don't cooperate, it will only be more troublesome for us. So don't be ungrateful.
"Carefree Empress Dowager": Since your intention is to plunder worlds, why did you send a fox demon's subordinate soul to me through the Dark Night Empress? If you hadn't done this, none of the subsequent events would have happened.
Perhaps your plan would have succeeded.
"Nine-Tailed Demon Empress": Heh heh, do you dare to say your identity is not problematic? Do you dare to say you have no secrets?
An ordinary widowed Empress Dowager, yet possessing supreme peak spiritual power, and her world doesn't even have martial arts. Do you think that's reasonable? Therefore, I concluded that you must have problems, and who knows how many other secrets and good things you possess.
But who knew, I still underestimated you.
Fortunately, it doesn't significantly affect the subsequent plan. It's just that there's an anomaly like you, which cannot be completely resolved.
"Carefree Empress Dowager": You don't have the ability to suppress and devour worlds by yourself. The method you use is to destroy worlds and then seize their origin. Furthermore, the group members die first, and then the worlds are destroyed.
Therefore, you are still deceiving me.
The subordinate soul you sent through the Dark Night Empress was not sent to me alone, but to everyone through various red envelopes.
It's just that only I have the ability to discover it.
And destroyed that subordinate soul.
If I'm not mistaken, your method of destroying worlds is to first send a subordinate soul via red envelope to lie dormant.
Then, when the time is right, use the subordinate soul to possess a host.
Afterward, use other means to destroy the world from within. The subordinate soul, along with the world's origin from the destroyed world, are then jointly drawn back by you.
The only difference is that the subordinate soul you sent to me was eager to possess a host and gain more information, while the subordinate souls sent to others were meant to lie dormant.
The Dark Night Empress wasn't possessed by you back then, was she? She was only slightly manipulated by your subordinate soul and lost a small segment of her memory. She was only possessed just now!
As the other party gradually revealed information, Ding Yun quickly pieced together many circumstances and understood the questions that had been bothering her.
"Nine-Tailed Demon Empress": I knew you weren't simple. But even if you guessed correctly, so what? Tell me, are you going to cooperate or not? I don't have time for idle chat. I'm asking you one last time, are you willing?
"Carefree Empress Dowager": Although I don't know how you destroy worlds from within,
Your actions are truly an affront to heaven.
Therefore, you should prepare to face judgment.
While sending this message, Ding Yun had already activated her ultimate trump card: initiating the emergency function of her consciousness chip to contact the Upper Plane Administration.
Reporting a world destroyer.
She also simultaneously submitted the world coordinates and auras of the Nine-Tailed Demon Empress and Chang'e Lunar Palace, which she obtained by using her Golden Finger Trial Member's one-time-only, forced access to the Golden Finger backend during her feigned cooperation with the Nine-Tailed Demon Empress. This was to facilitate their capture by the Plane Administration.
When undertaking missions or acting as a Golden Finger Trial Member, there are situations where the emergency function of the consciousness chip can be used to contact the Upper Plane Administration for assistance. Dealing with world destroyers is one such situation.
For the Plane Administration, worlds that have not reached their natural lifespan cannot be artificially destroyed; this is one of their bottom lines.
Upon receiving such reports,
The processing priority is also ranked high.
Therefore, in the next second, before the Nine-Tailed Demon Empress could even react to the meaning of Ding Yun's words, or even prepare to sneer, her avatar directly disappeared. The group displayed that the Nine-Tailed Demon Empress had been apprehended.
Forcibly removed from the group.
Subsequently, Chang'e Lunar Palace's avatar also vanished.
According to convention, the main culprit, the Nine-Tailed Demon Empress, would likely never be reborn. Chang'e Lunar Palace should survive, at most being punished by being sent to some extremely harsh small worlds to manage the environment as labor.
Given her cultivation and lifespan,
She would have to serve at least three thousand years of labor.
...
Because the events in the group were not at all pleasant, Ding Yun soon stopped entering the group, focusing only on the present.
She continued to travel around the country, enjoying herself day after day.
Her mood quickly recovered.
However, because she was skilled in martial arts and had consumed pills like the Jiazi Dan, she lived an exceptionally long life. She transitioned from Empress Dowager to Grand Empress Dowager, then to Supreme Grand Empress Dowager, and eventually to Unsurpassed Grand Empress Dowager.
Her sons died, and she outlived her grandsons. Her grandsons died, and she outlived her great-grandsons. This was even though her sons and grandsons had all cultivated martial arts and could mostly live to eighty or ninety.
It wasn't until her great-grandson's ninetieth birthday
That Ding Yun finally passed away.