Chapter 118: First Exploration of the Demon Domain

After gaining a general understanding of the situation in the Earthly Profound Realm's subordinate worlds and the Demon Domain of the Green Demon Realm,

Ye Qingxuan decided to head to the Demon Domain first to see what kind of environment it truly was.

Arriving at the central area of Star Battle City,

he found that in the central square, many people were queuing to enter a series of fixed spatial gates.

Around the square, numerous cultivators were shouting, recruiting personnel to supplement their battle teams.

Most lone wanderers entered lower worlds that had not yet fallen, hunting down invading Green Demon Clan members.

Although the number of Green Demon Clan members in these unfallen lower worlds was small, they were suppressed by the world itself, greatly weakening their strength.

Hunting these suppressed Green Demon Clan members was undoubtedly much safer.

The battle teams that were formed mostly headed to the Demon Domain or the nine fallen realms to hunt Green Demon Clan members and seize the source of the demon veins.

After all, the Demon Domain and the nine fallen realms would suppress those entering them, making the danger level extremely high.

Acting alone, one would easily become trapped and be surrounded and wiped out.

Currently, the various battle teams formed in Star Battle City were mostly composed of Soul Transformation realm cultivators.

Once a team suffered casualties, they would immediately recruit outsiders to replenish their combat power.

As for those below the Soul Transformation realm, most went to those unfallen lower worlds to try their luck, hoping to catch a trace of the Green Demon Clan.

Of course, there were also some who feared no death, believing themselves to be chosen ones; with cultivation bases still below the Soul Transformation realm, they insisted on forcibly venturing into the Demon Domain or the nine fallen realms.

Most of these people never returned after descending to the lower worlds.

It could be said that this served as another selection process for the Earthly Profound Realm, eliminating some foolish individuals in advance.

Wearing a silver mask, Ye Qingxuan observed the teams recruiting personnel around him as he slowly moved forward in the queue.

Perhaps, once his cultivation improved, he could have his avatar form a battle team for fun? This thought flashed through his mind, and Ye Qingxuan soon arrived before the gate leading to the Third Demon Domain.

Currently, there were twenty-three demon domain channels opened by the Earthly Profound Realm, named with numbers one through twenty-three.

The demon domain channels opened by the Profound Heaven Sect in Star Battle City led to the Third Demon Domain and the Ninth Demon Domain respectively.

After Ye Qingxuan reached the spatial gate leading to the Third Demon Domain, the cultivator guarding outside the gate took out ten Spirit-Purifying Trees and a formation disk, handing them to Ye Qingxuan.

The ten Spirit-Purifying Trees were the task Ye Qingxuan needed to complete to use the spatial channel for free; he only needed to plant these ten trees within the Demon Domain.

The other item, the formation disk, was a spatial array disk that could open a temporary spatial channel, allowing cultivators to return to the Earthly Profound Realm.

After putting away the ten Spirit-Purifying Trees and the spatial array disk handed over by the cultivator guarding the spatial gate, Ye Qingxuan took a step forward and entered the gate leading to the Third Demon Domain.

Somewhere in a demon domain world under the Green Demon Realm's command.

A flash of white light passed, and Ye Qingxuan's avatar appeared along with the flickering light on a secluded flat ground in the Third Demon Domain.

The spatial channels opened by the Earthly Profound Realm leading to the twenty-six demon domain worlds, after consuming enormous costs, had been directly hidden within the void of the Demon Domain.

This way, the Earthly Profound Realm did not need to dispatch personnel into the Demon Domain to guard the spatial channels.

Moreover, cultivators entering the Demon Domain for training were safer, no longer needing to worry about the spatial channels being destroyed and losing their chance to return to the Earthly Profound Realm.

However, this method consumed far too many heavenly treasures and earthly materials; if not for the Green Demon Realm pressing them too hard, the high officials of the Earthly Profound Realm would not have been willing to easily employ such a measure.

After stepping into the Demon Domain, Ye Qingxuan instinctively frowned.

The moment he stepped into the Demon Domain, he felt a suppressing force that allowed him to exert only about eighty percent of his full strength.

Furthermore, the demonic qi filling the Demon Domain made Ye Qingxuan extremely uncomfortable, forcing him to condense a spiritual power barrier around him to isolate this demonic qi.

Even so, upon contact with the demonic qi in the air, the spiritual power barrier and the demonic qi would react violently and be constantly worn down. However, since the spiritual power had been refined by cultivators, its energy purity was slightly higher than that of pure demonic qi.

Ye Qingxuan's current avatar possessed a Purple Mansion realm cultivation base; at this realm, the spiritual power would consume only about one strand of its own energy to wear down four strands of first-grade demonic qi.

Nevertheless, to avoid excessive consumption of the spiritual power within his body, Ye Qingxuan had to avoid the drifting demonic qi in the air.

After all, within the Demon Domain, there was no spiritual energy to replenish the spiritual power in the body; one could only rely on elixirs or spirit stones to replenish the consumption.

Fortunately, the demonic qi in this area was very thin; otherwise, Ye Qingxuan would find it impossible to take a single step.

Ye Qingxuan's situation in the Demon Domain was actually the same as that of the Green Demon Clan members in the small thousand worlds subordinate to the Earthly Profound Realm.

This was one of the reasons why the Green Demon Clan's invasion of other small thousand worlds in the Earthly Profound Realm had not yet achieved great results.

Only upon reaching the Soul Transformation realm, when one's spiritual power was refined to a brand new height, could one truly ignore the demonic qi born in demon domains of the small thousand world level.

However, even cultivators at the Soul Transformation realm could not ignore this suppression force originating from the Demon Domain.

Otherwise, the Mahayana realm experts would not have been unable to forcibly descend upon worlds or demon domains of the small thousand world level.

Worlds of the small thousand world level, though seemingly having a low upper limit, were still complete worlds, far beyond what a cultivator below the Immortal Realm could oppose.

The same logic applied to the cultivators of the Green Demon Clan.

Although demonic qi appeared to possess immense corrosive and destructive power, it was merely a force of the same level as spiritual energy.

Otherwise, the Earthly Profound Realm would not have been in a state of stalemate during its battles with the Green Demon Realm.

Ye Qingxuan raised his head slightly and surveyed the demon domain environment around him.

Compared to the Earthly Profound Realm, the sky of the Demon Domain appeared unusually dark, giving people a very oppressive feeling.

The vegetation growing within the Demon Domain also leaned towards a dark black color, looking extremely eerie.

After scanning the surroundings, Ye Qingxuan found a secluded woodland and planted the ten first-grade Spirit-Purifying Trees within this woodland.

It was truly miraculous that the Spirit-Purifying Tree, a spiritual plant that seemed weak in the Earthly Profound Realm, could survive and grow regardless of the Demon Domain's environment, even absorbing demonic qi and continuously converting it into spiritual energy.

Ye Qingxuan was also deeply amazed by this.

One could only say that in the myriad worlds filled with creation, every blade of grass and every tree could possess infinite possibilities.

Just as the Green Demon Realm also possessed similar demonic plants.

Perhaps, although worlds lack intelligence, under the instinctive trend of advancement and growth, they would also nurture some special products to help themselves grow better? Ye Qingxuan's Earth Immortal inheritance currently only covered inheritances below the Immortal Realm.

He still had too many unanswered questions regarding worlds of the level of the Earthly Profound Realm and the Green Demon Realm.

Relying solely on the Earth Immortal inheritance below the Immortal Realm was insufficient for him to master all information regarding the level of worlds.

Shaking his head slightly, Ye Qingxuan stopped thinking about these problems that were slightly beyond his scope.

Choosing a direction, Ye Qingxuan began to carefully explore the Third Demon Domain.

Having come to the Demon Domain this time, he still hoped to find a few demon veins and extract the source of the demon vein to take back.

He could not have made the trip for nothing.

It was a pity that the rank of his Qingxuan Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land was too low, and the realm gate it condensed could not be used across realms.

Otherwise, his actions with this avatar would have been much more convenient.

(End of Chapter)