Chapter 404

That was the Five Thunder True Person.

The Five Thunder True Person's arm was a patch of pallor, and there was still blood on his robe.

He had lost an arm, but it had been regenerated using precious medicine.

"What's going on?"

Zhang Jian's gaze fell on the Chasing Star True Lord beside him.

The Chasing Star True Lord sighed.

"Five Thunder had bad luck, encountering a demon god from the Barbaric Heaven Wolf Mansion, and only narrowly escaped with his life!"

"Heaven Wolf Mansion?"

Zhang Jian furrowed his brow slightly; he knew this was a major demonic power.

The power of the Heaven Wolf Mansion was no weaker than the Heaven Fox Palace he had dealt with before.

The Chasing Star True Lord pondered briefly, then said to the Five Thunder True Person.

"Junior Nephew Five Thunder, since you have suffered grave injuries, you should first return to the sect; as for the Heaven Wolf Mansion, we will seek justice for you!"

Upon hearing this, the Five Thunder True Person glanced at the other five; his expression showed some hesitation.

Having finally managed to enter, simply leaving like this truly made him feel unwilling.

The Five Thunder True Person pondered for a moment, then nodded: "Alright, I suppose even if I entered the inner layer, I wouldn't be of much help anyway; please, several uncles, elder brothers, and elder sisters, be careful!"

He forced a faint smile onto his face.

The Purple Orchid True Lord patted his shoulder, comforting: "You'll have another chance next time!"

The Ling River True Person and the Four Ming True Person, two female cultivators, showed no change in expression; their relationship with the Five Thunder True Person appeared rather ordinary.

After discussion, the Five Thunder True Person turned back, preparing to leave the Evening Moon Cave Heaven by the original path.

The Purple Orchid True Lord's gaze had long noticed the Taiyin Immortal Maiden behind Zhang Jian, and at this moment he asked.

"Junior Nephew, who is this...?"

"She is my subordinate, and also a descendant of the former Evening Moon Sword Sect!"

Zhang Jian said this casually, without further explanation, but still drew the attention of the other five Nascent Soul great cultivators.

However, Zhang Jian was unwilling to elaborate, so they did not press further.

The remaining six then hesitated no longer, each transforming into streaks of light flying toward the inner layer.

Within the Golden Crow Escape Light, Zhang Jian gazed toward the surrounding void.

This was a vast, desolate land of immense area, floating in the void.

The spiritual qi of heaven and earth on the land was extremely faint.

Zhang Jian noticed that the environment here was much worse than in the middle layer.

The middle layer had dense Taiyin spiritual qi, with nascent Taiyin spiritual veins still present.

Here, not only was the spiritual qi dim, but void gravity, gravitational distortion, collapse, and countless gravitational rifts existed in the void; a moment's carelessness would plunge one into other spatial storms.

In the distance, Zhang Jian saw extensive ruins.

Row upon row of weathered, petrified houses, pavilions—only scattered, disordered pillars remained in place.

The light of Zhang Jian's Imperial Treasure Mirror flowed and shifted, but the mirror's interior showed no gain whatsoever.

The other five each employed their investigative methods; the Purple Orchid True Lord's eyes burst forth with faint purple light—clearly some powerful child technique.

The Chasing Star True Lord had six peculiar strange objects appear around his body, resembling eyeballs, each entirely silver-white, flying out and scanning in all directions, very eerie.

"Probably an eyeball-type treasure, perhaps the eyeball of some strange beast dug up by this uncle and refined into an insight-type spiritual treasure!"

Zhang Jian noticed that after those eyeballs rotated for a moment, the Chasing Star True Lord had actually unearthed several medium-grade spiritual objects—green origin stones—from the ruins.

As for the Four Ming True Person's method, it appeared much more ordinary; she had a pouch tied at her waist.

Inside the pouch was kept a strange beast.

That strange beast resembled a fox and a rat, the size of a fox, yet moved like the wind; its nose seemed extraordinarily sensitive, able to detect all kinds of odors, and the aura it emitted was not weak either.

It was a Nascent Soul-level demon king spirit pet.

This was hardly not a display of great wealth and extravagance.

The group advanced, searching along the way; after passing several mountains ahead, they found that the preserved medicinal terrace ruins ahead were clearly more numerous.

Shortly after, the Thousand Blade Mountain Peak appeared before their eyes.

However, the mountain peak before them was quite strange, as if it had been forcibly twisted by some terrifying immense force, its upper half wrenched off.

It had been pushed over, lying askew above the valley; at this moment, beneath the valley lay numerous other medicinal terraces and buildings, many still circulating the power of forbidden spiritual light.

Yet as the six gazed upon this scene, each tightly concealed their form and aura, pressing against a massive rock, peering through it—only to see a colossal creature soundly asleep beneath the mountain peak.

That colossal creature resembled a pile of terrifying rotting mud heaped upon the valley's many structures, reaching a height of a hundred zhang like a dam.

From afar, the group felt a terrifying demonic aura emanating from within it.

"This thing seems to be a Gluttony Demon God!"

The Chasing Star True Lord's face was solemn.

The Four Ming Daoist turned his gaze inward, his willow brows slightly furrowed, his eyes filled with intense disgust.

"Uncle, this is the rumored Gluttony Demon God—it looks quite strange!"

Zhang Jian's gaze also swept over it—lying in the valley at this moment was a terrifying ball of flesh, like a heap of rotting mud piled in the valley, its entire body resembling a giant meatball, except the meatball was covered in countless whip-like, massive tendrils, its whole body covered with pore-like mouths, inhaling and exhaling demonic aura.

The several nearby Nascent Soul True Persons also sensed the intensity of the demonic aura on this demon's body, each furrowing their brows.

The Chasing Star True Lord spoke in a deep voice.

"Gluttony Demon God—this is a type of extramundane demon god, a race; they are all descendants of the extramundane demon god 'Gluttony God Sovereign,' naturally possessing strange divine authority and gluttonous arts, a formidable extramundane god-demon—let us detour around this place!"

The Four Ming True Person glanced at the several remnants of spiritual light lingering deep in the valley, then asked, slightly puzzled.

"Uncle, this fellow probably isn't very strong; with our numbers, we should be able to charge in and kill him without difficulty!"

Everyone was also somewhat surprised.

The Star-Chasing True Lord actually did not want to provoke this extradimensional demon god.

The demonic aura emanating from this extradimensional demon god was not particularly outrageous; it had not yet surpassed the True Immortal level, as the Four Clarity True Person had stated, and subduing it would not be particularly difficult.

The palaces beneath it radiated bright spiritual light, suggesting they might hold some value!

The Star-Chasing True Lord smiled faintly and merely transmitted a message.

"Have you carefully examined the style of these ruined relics?!"

Upon his reminder, everyone turned their gaze and glanced at the few remaining grand palace-like structures in the valley.

Just a glance, and the Four Clarity True Person's expression shifted slightly, unable to refrain from speaking.

"This resembles the alchemy chambers left by several second-generation patriarchs on each peak! Could it be...?"

Her expression was one of surprise, and the others were all sharp-minded.

Indeed, the Star-Chasing True Lord spoke in a deep voice.

"If I am not mistaken, this should be the place where the Sunset Moon Sword Sect once refined pills!

Look closely—there are still many spirit fields and medicinal fields around, with traces of insect-repelling禁法!

After so many years, there is unlikely to be anything of great value left here!

Even if there were any pills, their medicinal potency would likely have long been exhausted; there is no need for us to risk our lives over worthless things!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Jian's expression remained unchanged, but privately he also agreed with the Star-Chasing True Lord's words.

Most importantly, there are many monsters around here; even if we expend great effort to deal with them, we would only face others coming to take advantage—there is no need.

The Zither-Blossom True Lord glanced and then said: "Let us detour around this place!"

Everyone nodded slightly; the Lunar Yin Immortal Maiden had always stayed by Zhang Jian's side, remaining silent throughout, offering no opinion from beginning to end.

Everyone detoured from this valley and continued forward to search the ruins ahead.

"Leaving this place, we will speed up—this area appears to have already been searched, and valuable treasures are limited!"

Zhang Jian proposed, his head crowned with the Eastern Emperor Treasure Mirror scanning the surroundings; the area teemed with star beasts and demons.

Meanwhile, the heirloom treasure of the Sunset Moon Sword Sect mentioned by the Lunar Yin Immortal Maiden should lie in the innermost layer.

Deep within the mountain gate where the Sunset Moon Sword Sect's main stronghold is located.

"Very well!"

The Star-Chasing True Lord and the Zither-Blossom True Lord exchanged a glance and silently nodded; they did not particularly value ordinary things.

Several people quickened their pace.

Just as the group rapidly approached the central region of the continent, a plump figure appeared before the valley moments later.

This was a figure of prosperous bearing, with a face full of gentle smiles.

He immediately saw the meatball sleeping soundly in the valley's center and muttered slightly.

"Disgusting fellow!"

In the moment of his thought, his form flashed through the void, and simultaneously a vast, violent divine power surged forth; the colossal gluttonous demon god, still unawakened, was struck by a giant golden copper coin, and the demon god struck by the golden giant coin appeared foolish, immediately flailing its limbs in the golden light.

Countless violent demonic auras emanated from it, as if a terrifying demonic sound burst forth; the gluttonous demon god, as black气 coalesced into a vast black hole resembling the swallowing of the heavens, however much it surged, continued to spin endlessly beneath the golden light, seemingly unable to escape it.

The plump middle-aged man chuckled happily as he watched this scene.

"Wealth can move the gods!"

With a wave of his hand, golden copper coins flew out, instantly enveloping the valley's palaces.

Yet within the golden light, the禁法 spiritual light of the pill terraces shattered; moments later, their true form was revealed, but upon glancing at the plump middle-aged man, his eyes immediately darkened.

Inside, all the pill chambers were completely empty.

Only a few medicine cauldrons and jade gourds remained; the plump middle-aged man casually picked them up, poured out their contents slightly, and saw that the spirit pills were still present, but their medicinal potency had long been devoured by the inner禁法 due to the passage of time.

The pills had turned into stones!

"Damn it!"

Seeing this, the plump middle-aged man's smiling eyes instantly turned dangerous.

In faint anger, he casually squeezed the gourds into fragments; golden light coiled around his hand, instantly suppressing the true form of the gluttonous demon god, actually kneading its hundred-zhang demonic body into a meatball, then pinching it into golden powder that scattered into the void—thus its form vanished in an instant.

"Huh?"

At this moment, a group of people had already approached the central inner layer, only to see a towering, majestic mountain range appear before them, as if connecting heaven and earth, standing tall in the center of this floating continent, the divine mountain piercing into the heavens beyond.

Yet Zhang Jian stood still, his gaze turning backward, his expression one of astonishment.

"Junior Nephew Zhang, what's wrong?"

Beside him, the Star-Chasing True Lord noticed the anomaly in Zhang Jian's expression.

"Uncle Master, I suddenly felt a surge of passion; we should still be cautious later!"

Zhang Jian's face grew slightly solemn.

He rarely experienced such an intense surge of passion.