In the skies above Lingzhou City, the many martial elites were left stunned at the sight of Jiang He stepping inside the Stargate on his own.

“Jiang He!” Wang Hou cried, flying out in a flash.

Lin Tianzheng promptly got in Wang Hou’s way, exclaiming somberly, “No, Minister Wang! Jiang He is as powerful as his methods are varied—he might have his own plans when he entered the Stargate.”

“Step aside!” Wang Hou barked.

Even so, Lin Tianzheng did not move an inch and continued persuading Wang Hou, “Jiang He had told us before not to approach the Stargate. What if we recklessly go ahead and ruin his plans in the process? Moreover…”

He glanced at the many elites around them and used Secret Acoustics, saying, “The Hua Nation would be in dire straits if something really happened to you, Minister Wang.”

Wang Hou turned ashen faced at that, staring at the Stargate for minutes before growling, “Send word—we’ll be preparing for battle. Dispatch several elites to hurry with the evacuation of Lingzhou City civilians.”

“We must do our best to protect the citizens before the battle really starts.”

“General Pei, contact Chief Commander Li right away and half the military make preparations. If we can’t stop the Sky Demon legion, execute our last resort at once!”

Having received his orders, Pei Donglai promptly turned to make the phone call.

As for what the last resort was…

Pei Donglai naturally knew what it was since he was a part of the discussion.

If the Sky Demon legion descended upon them and the many elites failed to hold them back, they would bombard the Sky Demon legion with nuclear bombs from every direction…

Nuclear radiation?

Who would care when it came to this point?

After the orders were issued, the many elites no longer spoke. Instead, they quietly charged their cultivation techniques and aura, waiting for the Sky Demons to arrive and killing them six ways from Sunday.

They were not aware that Jiang He had already run into the Sky Demons inside the Stargate right then.

Dozens of black-armored sky demon champions stood before him, all of them looking ugly with their blue faces and big fangs. Still, Jiang He was not being discriminating… the universe was very vast after all and it was normal for several uglier races.

Racial discrimination was unnecessary. All Jiang He wanted was to kill them, and that was all there was to it.

Be that as It may, Jiang He did not throw the Doom Shrooms he had already taken out.

There were merely dozens of the Sky Demons and not even a whiff of the Sky Demon legion. What if he alerted the bigger catch?

Moreover, Jiang He was perplexed that the Sky Demons’ language… was not different from Mandarin.

Could Mandarin be a lingua franca of the universe?

“Kill!”

“Take Earth and avenge his highness!”

Raging bellows were echoing from the rear—the Sky Demon legion was clearly not far.

Meanwhile, Jiang He watched the dozens of ugly Sky Demon champions, each of whom were exuding frightening auras and brute strength… he was about to find a topic to ease the awkward, heavy atmosphere, and promptly squeezed a smile in, greeting the Sky Demon champions, “Hi, how are you doing?”

Weirdly, however, the many Sky Demon elites were not attempting to kill Jiang He right away.

They communicated in spirit while the Sky Demon champion with aura matching an advanced Yuan Spirit stepped forward, studying Jiang He from head to toe and frowning. “Did you come to receive us?”

That was the only thing that made sense, after all.

Why else would a True Child-tier human have the guts to enter the Stargate on his own?

The Sky Demon champion was also aware that ‘Her Highness’ had founded the Sky Demon Cult on earth, drawing a group of humans to their cause.

“Why did you come alone?” He then asked. “Do you know who murdered Her Highness?’

The questions thrown out left Jiang He blanking out.

Receive you?

Hmmm…

That is true in a way… but how am I supposed to know who the heck kill Your Highness?

“Hold on…”

“Her Highness?”

“If I recall correctly, Wang Hou did mention that the Sky Demon Cult’s Saint had royal blood, did he not?”

Jiang He realized with a start then and was about to answer in understanding when the Sky Demon champion continued, “I heard that everyone in the religion Her Highness founded has a token plate to identify themselves. Where is yours?”

So, they really are taking me for a Sky Demon Cultist? Are these elites of the Sky Demon cult that retarded?

Jiang He then glanced at the Stargate behind the Sky Demon champions.

The Sky Demon legion had yet to arrive, so buying some time was a good idea.

Moreover, he had all the Sky Demon Cult token plates he needed, and so he promptly drew out a cardinal’s token plate with a turn of his hand and threw it to the Sky Demon champion. Catching it and sensing a strand of Demonic Qi it exuded, the Sky Demon champion could not help laughing, “It does contain the aura of the Sky Demon Arcanum. It must have been personally crafted by Her Highness.”

With that, Jiang He passed the identity check, but the Sky Demon champion repeated the question of ‘who killed Her Highness’ once more.

“Jiang He was the one who killed the Saint and he was also the one who wiped out our fraternity, inflicting endless casualties. Only a handful of us escaped.” Jiang He told the truth as it was and killing intent arose immediately from the Sky Demon champions, seemingly bent on skinning him and draining his soul, sealing his spirit and tormenting him over endless days.

Jiang He shivered.

What the hell.

Weren’t these Sky Demons too cruel?

They want to kill and torment him right in front of his face?

“Are there earthlings guarding the Stargate from the outside? You would know about them, so do tell.” The Sky Demon champion asked again after a brief cursing rant at ‘Jiang He’.

Jiang He mused to himself for a while, and soon decided there was nothing to hide. “There are definitely many martial elites gathered outside the Stargate, with approximately ten Void-tiers and thirty divine-tiers.”

Disdain showed all over the Sky Demon champion’s face and he flatly said, “Maggots. I alone could slaughter all of them! Everyone, follow me—we shall charge out of the Stargate and clear the obstacles for the legion!”

Killing intent broiling, they were about to charge out of the Stargate.

How could he allow that?

Stunned, Jiang He promptly stood in the Sky Demon champions’ way and said, “No rush, everyone. Why not wait until the legion arrives?”

“Move!”

The Yuan Spirit sky demon champion at the fore laughed fearsomely before saying sinisterly, “Piece of trash, getting in my way? Move!”

Jiang He expression darkened.

Aren’t you supposed to treat me as your ally?

Is this how you Sky Demons treat your own ranks?

The Sky Demon champion laughed coldly once he saw that Jiang He was not moving and reached out with a grasping motion, his fingers turning into claws streaking at Jiang He’s head. His turquoise nails, nourished by Demonic Qi, were harder than diamonds—even full-fledged True Child cultivators would have their brains squeezed out with that single strike.

Even so…

Was Jiang He your average full-fledged True Child cultivator?

Trying to kill me at the drop of a hat?

Laughing from the indignation, Jiang He promptly went all out and retaliated with a punch. With a booming collision, the Yuan Spirit advanced Sky Demon champion had his whole hand blown apart, his body instantly sent flying backwards.

Snikt!

Virtually at the same instant he punched out, Jiang He charged his Twenty-Three Swords. The crisp humming of a sword resounded in the Stargate right then, with veins of sword light ‘special effects’ filling the entire Stargate at once.

In the distance, many swords belonging of the Sky Demon legion who had yet to arrive were humming in resonance.

Ooom!

Formless sword light shot into the Sky Demon champion who had lost a hand, hitting him between the brows.

Thud.

The Sky Demon elite landed heavily and did not rise again.

The arcanum that the Sky Demons cultivated was similar in system to cultivators. They could condense their Yuan Spirits too, but their accomplishment on that front were not comparable to cultivators of the same tier.

How was he supposed to stop the Twenty-Three Swords that specialized in cutting Yuan Spirit with such a weak Yuan Spirit of his own?

After all, secret Yuan Spirit techniques were exceedingly rare. Jiang He did not know how awesome a martial technique he had actually copied from a movie about martial warriors!

Now, as the sword light ‘special effect’ that filled the Stargate faded, Jiang He brandished his Sunflower Water Sword, scanning the many baffled Sky Demon champions before laughing coolly, “What a bunch of trash. I was merely asking you to wait for a while but you would actually throw a tantrum in my face?”