Starting My Cultivation With Time Management

Chapter 826: Chapter 64 Help from Maternal Family

“Sect Master Wei, you have performed exceptionally well, far beyond what the sect had originally expected of you.”

“Now that the war has subsided, please make haste to the Mountain God Temple where we met last time, and return to the sect headquarters to receive your reward.”

In Mount Wutai, Wei Dongliu, without a change in expression, read the message from Hell Path to its end, then stood up and explained to Jiang Lian:

“I need to step out for a bit. If anything arises within the sect in my absence, I entrust you with full authority to make decisions.”

“Where are you going, husband?” Jiang Lian hastily asked.

This Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon… no, this newlywed who had just had a taste couldn’t wait to stick to her husband twenty-four hours a day. How could she bear to let her husband travel far away?

“There is an urgent matter I must attend to,” Wei Dongliu said curtly.

Seeing that he did not wish to disclose the nature of the matter, Jiang the Witch took a different approach, inquiring indirectly:

“Then, roughly how long might you be gone?”

“I can’t say for sure,” replied Wei Dongliu. “It could be as short as half a day, or as long as two to three months. Anything is possible.”

On hearing that it might take a month or so, Jiang the Witch immediately felt a slight mood swing, but the Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon is the epitome of falsehood; surely she would not directly say whatever was on her mind, and so she replied with a diplomatic smile:

“I see. Go without worry, husband; I will take care of the sect affairs.”

As soon as Wei Dongliu left, Jiang the Witch’s ferocity erupted. She summoned two younger sisters hiding nearby and said fiercely:

“Is there anything urgent that needs to be dealt with within the Mortal Life Daoist Sect?”

Her sister Li Hen was somewhat confused, while Li Chou, more astute in reading the situation, quickly spoke up:

“What else could it be? It’s all about asking for cultivation techniques, seeking resources, coming for advice, wanting to transfer positions, looking for assignments, climbing relationships, getting acquainted, and so forth.”

“There’s no need for you, big sister, to step in; we can handle it just fine.”

“Good,” Jiang the Witch said coldly. “Then I’ll leave these matters in your hands. If there’s the slightest mistake, beware of your skins!”

Having said that, the Heavenly Demon mounted her dark clouds and quickly departed.

Li Chou and Li Hen looked at each other, speechless.

Even though their brother-in-law was clearly the Sect Leader of the Mortal Life Daoist Sect, he was extremely impatient with mundane affairs, preferring to push them onto their sister.

Their sister bent over backwards to please her husband, but was ruthless in exploiting and extorting them, pushing down the responsibilities layer by layer, and while the couple would go off to enjoy themselves, they were left to toil in misery!

How the two Heavenly Demons complained in their hearts is not the focus for now. Let’s say that Jiang the Witch secretly followed behind Wei Dongliu, thinking she was unnoticed, but unexpectedly the Kunlun Mirror alerted him saying:

“Your wife is following you.”

Wei Dongliu was jolted by the remark and quickly retorted:

“My wife? Which wife?”

The Kunlun Mirror was also taken aback by his question, and after a moment regained its composure, correcting its statement:

“Jiang Lian, she’s right behind you.”

“Oh,” Wei Dongliu promptly sped up.

However, as he sped up, Jiang the Witch did the same, and the two of them, like competitors in a race, kept a very close distance, making it impossible for him to shake her off.

Wei Dongliu was helpless, knowing very well that his witch wife’s cultivation realm was far superior to his own, making it impossible to create any distance between them.

But fortunately, reaching the deep parts of Hell from here requires passing through a Mountain God Temple. The temple houses a Spatial Transmission Array, and its controls are held by the Hell Path.

Even if my wife chases me into the Mountain God Temple, she won’t be able to get through the Spatial Transmission Array. Wouldn’t she still end up being shaken off by me eventually?

Brilliant! That being said, I really need to thoroughly study this long-distance Teleportation Array. It will be quite convenient for evading pursuit from relatives, friends, and enemies alike in the future.

Wei Dongliu quickly made his way to the Market of Mount Wutai and arrived at the previously visited Mountain God Temple, before slipping inside.

He adeptly moved behind the deity statue, and immediately his figure vanished from sight.

Jiang Lian followed soon after, entering the Mountain God Temple as well, but she couldn’t find any trace of Wei Dongliu.

She searched inside and outside the temple, finally finding some characters behind the deity statue—the entrance to the Array.

However, the entrance to this Array was designed with protection. Those with authority need only glance at it to be instantly transported away; those without authority could stand right there, wielding a Spatial Magical Treasure like the Heavenly Weaving God Shuttle to breach space, and still not be able to locate the coordinates on the other side.

When Wei Dongliu first entered the Hell Path and before he found this Mountain God Temple, he was once intercepted by a fortune teller on the road, just to capture his aura and grant him the corresponding access permissions.

Now where can Jiang Lian find this access? She could only employ various techniques of the Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon, which turned out to be completely useless, infuriating her to the point where she kicked the deity statue down to the ground.

Well then, should I just wait here for my husband to come out?

Jiang Lian subconsciously thought about waiting like guarding for a tree stump to catch a rabbit; however, upon second thought, if my husband is inside enjoying himself with another woman while I, as his legal wife, am bitterly waiting outside, how suffocating would that be!

Unacceptable! How can I, the Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon, suffer such humiliation!

Jiang Lian clenched her teeth in determination and transformed into a black mist, soaring up into the sky above the Heavenly Dome.

Above the Cultivation Realm, the Heavenly Dome, when observed from beyond the skies, appears as a hemisphere with its core located slightly westward of the centre—this is where Nuwa once mended the heavens.

The Heaven-Mending Stone embedded there has always provided a continuous flow of energy to the barriers of the Heavenly Dome, though its radiance has recently dimmed significantly.

The farther one is from the Heaven-Mending Stone, the weaker the spatial barriers become, but not to the extent that they could be breached by a Heavenly Demon.

In recent years, when Demon Heads from beyond desired to descend to the Lower Realm, they would search for those occasional breaches—given that the energy of the Heavenly Dome’s Array comes from the output of the Heaven-Mending Stone, and since the output cannot remain stable for long, some places always end up with holes.

Even though they are fleeting, they are enough for a single Heavenly Demon to seize the opportunity and swiftly pass through to the Lower Realm.

Now that Jiang Lian’s Demonic Techniques are fully matured, she no longer has to wander around the barriers of the Heavenly Dome like those Low Rank Heavenly Demons, who search for luck as if begging for crumbs.

She mobilized all her demonic power and slammed fiercely against the Heavenly Dome’s barrier.

Once, twice, thrice… Until her head spun and eyes blurred, and finally, a tiny crack appeared on the barrier of the Heavenly Dome.

In a flash, Jiang Lian transformed into a wisp of black mist, passing through the slight fissure in the Heavenly Dome, arriving in the world beyond the skies.

Upon reaching this external world, she no longer needed to maintain her charming young wife appearance. Revealing her true form of black mist, she soared upwards, heading straight for the Demon Palace of the sixth layer’s self-transforming ruler of Great Unrestrained Heaven, the Great Unrestrained Demon King.

The Great Unrestrained Demon King had been missing for many years. Rumors claimed he was refined into the Heaven-Mending Stone by Nuwa, but Jiang Lian well knew it was not so—he had simply vanished without a trace.

With no Demon King, the princess witches indulged in revelry within the Demon Palace. Perhaps after tens of thousands of years, everyone would lose their taste for play, so they each found their places to settle down.

When Jiang Lian returned to the Demon Palace, she immediately drew hundreds of gazes, and shouted out loud:

“Those who know how to identify coordinates from the spatial entrance, come here! Those who don’t, scram!”

Almost instantly, more than four hundred wraithlike black mists surged out from the palace chambers, encircling Jiang Lian, shouting noisily:

“I can do it! I can do it!”