The Thousand - Handed Godly Lord didn't even spare her a glance. "What do you, a little demoness, know?"
With his words, the other gods followed suit. "What feint strategy? Little girl, don't spout nonsense."
Yaohua explained, "Zhao Xing may have split his forces into two groups by now. One group is making a feint to distract your attention, while the other is attacking the place he really wants to capture."
The ancient gods naturally didn't believe her. No one paid her any heed and they just discussed among themselves.
Who would have thought that not long after, a celestial soldier came to report, "It's bad! Those heavenly demons seem to be attacking various places on the surface, but in fact they've split their forces into two and captured Jiangbei City!"
Yaohua's prediction came true, and the ancient gods felt as if they'd been slapped in the face.
After a long silence, the Thousand - Handed Godly Lord said somewhat uneasily, "It seems you, little girl, have some talent for warfare. As a member of the Phoenix Clan, you're naturally capable of restraining the heavenly demons. How about I appoint you as the great general of the Celestial Realm? You should fulfill the duty of the Phoenix Clan and eliminate the heavenly demons."
Yaohua was a bit tempted, but then she remembered what had happened after she became the great general in the secret realm and flatly refused, "No."
The gods immediately changed their expressions. The Thousand - Handed Godly Lord accused her, "As the clan leader of the Phoenix Clan, you're so cowardly that you're not willing to exterminate the heavenly demons!"
The other ancient gods also chimed in. "Little girl, your ideological awareness is really too low."
"Tsk tsk, the moral standards are really deteriorating. Even the Phoenix Clan is not willing to go and exterminate the heavenly demons."
Yaohua ignored them and left with Chongming.
Since these people didn't appreciate her advice and Henan Prefecture was temporarily safe, she was too lazy to play along with them.
Unexpectedly, although the ancient gods didn't catch up to force her to serve the Celestial Realm, the faith power she received was getting weaker day by day, causing a slight fluctuation in her cultivation realm.
Chongming noticed the change in her body and pondered, "The ancient gods are spreading bad rumors about you all over the Divine Land, which has even shaken your faith power. What are you going to do now?"
Yaohua felt the significantly weakened power in her body. After a long - time of thought, she finally decided to follow her heart. "Faith power is just an addition to me. My real strength comes from my own hard cultivation. So I'm not going to compromise because of this."
Seeing her firm expression, Chongming didn't say anything more. He just gently pulled her into his arms.
Not long after, the God - Lord came to Danyaoshan with a bruised face.
Yaohua didn't want to let him in at first, but when she saw his miserable state, she was startled. Then she gloated, "How did you end up like this?"
The God - Lord said with a bitter face, "It's all thanks to you! Since you refused to be the great general, the ancient gods have been arguing and fighting among themselves. Today when they were fighting, they accidentally beat me up too!"
Yaohua wanted to feel sorry for him, but she and the God - Lord had a long - standing feud. Seeing his miserable state, she just wanted to laugh. "So what are you here for today? If you're here to ask me to come out of seclusion and be the great general, forget it!"
The God - Lord took out a token. "I'm here for this."
Yaohua took the token and found that demonic energy was surging on it. "This... Could it be something of the heavenly demons?"
"Zhao Xing wants to cooperate with me," the God - Lord replied. "He promised to divide the power equally with the Celestial Realm and guarantee my dignity as the God - Lord so that I won't be oppressed by the ancient gods!"
Yaohua tightened her grip on the token. "You're not going to agree to him, are you?"
"Of course not. Otherwise, I wouldn't have shown this to you," the God - Lord quickly said. "I just think this matter is a bit tricky, so I came here specially to discuss it with you."
"Why don't you go and discuss this with the ancient gods?" Yaohua couldn't help asking.
The God - Lord shook his head, and there was even a hint of disgust in his eyes. "All they can think about now is power - grabbing. They don't care about others' lives at all. If I show this to them, I'll just become their pawn."
Yaohua praised, "I can't believe you've become so smart now."
"I've always been this smart!" the God - Lord argued somewhat sheepishly. "It's just that the heavenly demons are too cunning. They fooled me before."
He had already suffered from the heavenly demons once, so he naturally wouldn't let it happen again.
After the discussion, the God - Lord decided to agree to Zhao Xing on the surface but actually act as an insider for the Celestial Realm.
After watching the God - Lord leave, Yaohua turned around and happened to meet Chongming.
Yaoyao poked her head out from behind him. "Mother!"
"Yaoyao, why are you here?" Yaohua was a bit surprised.
Chongming rubbed her head. "I've thought of a way to restrain Zhao Xing, and I need Yaoyao's help."
He took them to the Tianhe River and took out the Hongmeng Yuan Pearl.
The blue mark on Yaohua's forehead appeared again. She felt a huge suction force. Then the system screamed, "What are you doing? Let me go!"
It struggled constantly but was finally sucked out.
Chongming took out a talisman and pasted it on the system, sealing it in the Tianhe River.
The system cursed, "I know. You want to use me to deal with Zhao Xing! For this, you even want to seal me. You're really repaying kindness with enmity and kicking me away after using me!"
Chongming strengthened the seal. "You don't want Zhao Xing to become powerful either, do you? Help us deal with Zhao Xing, and then I'll set you free. Otherwise, you'll just wait to be sealed at the bottom of the Tianhe River forever."
The system had no choice but to agree.
Half a day later, Zhao Xing finally appeared by the Tianhe River.
Chongming took out the Hongmeng Yuan Pearl. Zhao Xing immediately felt himself being caught by a powerful suction force and walked uncontrollably towards the place where the Yuan Pearl was. Then, blue light emerged layer by layer. It was the system getting ready to deal with Zhao Xing.
Zhao Xing sensed a familiar aura and was surprised. "There's actually a wisp of the soul of the Nine - Heavens Mysterious Demon here? We're of the same origin. We should understand each other. Why are you so persistent in trying to defeat me?"
The system gritted its teeth and cursed, "Don't try to shake my will. If I don't kill you today, you'll kill me tomorrow."
Zhao Xing thought for a moment and laughed. "I understand. You're worried that your consciousness will be erased. I can promise you that if you help me get out of trouble today, I won't erase your consciousness in the future. Instead, I'll find a better body for you."
The system was a bit shaken.
Taking this opportunity, Zhao Xing tried to break through.
Chongming shouted, "The heavenly demons are naturally cunning. We don't know how it will treat you after it becomes powerful!"
The system woke up and immediately helped to lock Zhao Xing up.
Chongming quelled the system's restless thoughts and then handed Zhao Xing over to the God - Lord.
The God - Lord had been watching from the sidelines. He was extremely excited after getting the talisman that imprisoned Zhao Xing.