Chapter 122: Walking Out of Mythology

(PS: Three chapters updated normally today, taking a day off.)

The inheritance Jiu Jiu obtained from her bloodline was actually not much, only the most basic inheritance, such as the cultivation standard of demons, the types of powerful demons, and that humans are very dangerous, avoiding danger, things that can be eaten, demon cores, a small amount of Demon Script, etc.

Besides this, there was no cultivation method that could be cultivated at all.

In fact, it wasn't just her, even that northern wild boar giant demon was the same. Even though it had more than 300 years of cultivation, it actually didn't have any systematic cultivation method. Even if it refined magic weapons with its own wild boar tusks, it was just some of its demon bloodline inheritance. This was not a cultivation method obtained through systematic cultivation.

Not to mention this, Jiu Jiu used the few Demon Scripts she knew to find a lot of information in these coffins, murals, and a small number of burial objects. Even if the information was incomplete, she could piece together some facts.

At a certain moment, the race called "Demon" came from outside the sky.

The information here is a bit vague, but generally, it means this. And "Demon" is not a separate ethnic group, but a collective term for intelligent lives transformed from birds and beasts, mountain spirits, grass and trees, strange rocks, etc. "Demon" is its name.

The descriptions on these coffins, burial objects, and mural texts indicate that demons came to this world under the leadership of five leaders: Phoenix, Qilin, Dragon, Xuan Turtle, and White Tiger. And this world had just begun at that time, and the gods were just enlightened. Under the attack of the five Demon Sages, the gods were all wiped out, thus establishing the Great World of Demons.

The five sages lived high in the nine heavens, regulating yin and yang, filtering chaos, and turning it into spiritual energy.

Ten thousand demons rested and multiplied, refined their bloodlines, and guarded the five sages.

But all this beauty didn't last long. The internal strife was caused by the Ten Thousand Demon Conference of the five sages.

Phoenix and Dragon decided to establish a Demon Court, while Qilin and Xuan Turtle opposed it. White Tiger went mad at this time, bit off one of Xuan Turtle's legs, and attacked Phoenix. In the end, it was suppressed by the four sages, but this also led to the civil war of the demon race, the entire world was beaten into a mess, spiritual energy retreated ahead of schedule, and finally the four sages left this world with the suppressed White Tiger and the vast majority of the demon race.

Since then, the demon race that did not leave this world began to degenerate or die under the gradually fading spiritual energy concentration. A very small part combined with the creatures of this world and turned into the natives of this world, or were called... mythological creatures.

And the demon race that died in battle, the demon race that remained, and the initial mythological creatures were buried in a place by some power of this world, buried in the Ten Thousand Demon Hall where the five sages of the demon race and many demon clan leaders held meetings, and then turned into the brand of this world, finally forming the different difficulty areas including shallow, middle, and deep layers in the Graveyard District of the Demon Castle.

And this is just the shallow area of the Ten Thousand Demon Hall brand.

"According to this inference, besides the endless corridors, there should also be a hall here."

Wu Pifu looked at the Demon Script on the giant coffin.

Daphne received the greatest impact on her worldview in this day, because the mythological creatures she considered sacred were actually the remnants of the demon race. This was simply unimaginable!

But she actually saw the dry bones and remains of many top mythological creatures in this day, which made her unable to completely deny the information found in this Graveyard District.

However, Daphne was not a racial supremacist. This kind of descendant of mythological creatures was very common in the Age of Gods and the early civilization, but with the fading of extraordinary power, human civilization became the mainstream and basically disappeared.

Wu Pifu had been in this graveyard passage with the two women for a day. Counting the rest time when he rescued the two women, he had been in this graveyard area for more than a day and a half.

In this Ten Thousand Demon Hall Graveyard District, the only monsters encountered so far were headless knights. The combat power of all headless knights was slightly weaker than the giant bear. As long as there were not more than five appearing at once, Wu Pifu could solve them without injury very easily, which was not a problem.

The real main problem is fresh water!

Food is barely enough. One wild boar meatball can keep you from being hungry for a day, but fresh water cannot be solved. Before entering here, Wu Pifu had eaten food and drank fresh water in the Corridor District, but the two women hadn't. And they had been drained of a lot of blood, so their mouths were dry and smoking, and both were dizzy.

Wu Pifu knew they couldn't last long. Even though one was a demon and one was a werewolf, belonging to the descendants of demons, because of their age and gender, they were actually not much stronger than ordinary humans. Once they didn't drink water for more than three days, they could faint at any time, and it was even possible for them to die suddenly due to massive blood loss.

He must find the so-called core location as soon as possible, and then take the two women out of this Graveyard District!

(There is another way.)

Wu Pifu glanced at Daphne silently.

There is another way, which is to return to Gaia through the Main Brain!

This is estimated to be the method used by the members of Hao Cheng's captain's team.

But this method has two drawbacks. The first is that leaving directly may cause the situation mentioned by the skull, that is, being dragged into the 0.5 baseline reality Demon World when returning to this Demon Castle Dream World next time. The second drawback is that the ten-day suppression mission is not completed. Once returning, any monster may go to Gaia, and his location will also be detected by the nightmare.

The ten-day suppression mission still has half a day left. This can be endured, but returning like this means he can never return to this Dream World. Then, a month later, his event shelter coordinates will be detected by the nightmare. It is simply unimaginable what monsters will appear then.

Moreover, this also means Daphne will definitely die.

Although he wouldn't deliberately save Daphne, he couldn't let Daphne die in front of him either. These are two different things.

There are things that can be done, and things that cannot be done!

"We now roughly know that this is the residual information left by a race called the Demon Race a long, long time ago, and its core is the Ten Thousand Demon Hall. But we can't find the Ten Thousand Demon Hall now."

Wu

Wu Pifu was helpless, but he made up his mind to upgrade to the Citizen rank as soon as possible and obtain something like a spatial pocket or spatial magic from the Main Brain. Of course, if he could obtain a fantasy item with similar attributes, that would be even better, as it would save him two upgrade rewards.

Wu Pifu continued, "We have been avoiding those headless knights, only engaging when we couldn't avoid them. Now that I think about it, that was a mistake... I don't know where the Ten Thousand Demon Hall is, but I know that the more important a place is, the more monsters there must be. So, there is only this one clumsy method: we head toward where there are the most headless knights!"

After speaking, Wu Pifu waited a moment for the two women, then took the lead, following his heart-lake intuition toward the nearest headless knight.

The alert range of these headless knights was two hundred meters in a straight line. In this winding and complex tomb passage, two hundred meters was already a very long distance. As Wu Pifu walked toward this group of headless knights, six of them immediately sensed him and charged at him in a cluster.

However, these headless knights were at varying distances, so they basically arrived one by one. Facing these individual headless knights, Wu Pifu simply swung his great saber to take them out one by one, easily and effortlessly shattering all six of them without even pausing his stride.

For the next half day or so, Wu Pifu led the two women toward the areas with the most headless knights. Gradually, the number of headless knights increased. Even though Wu Pifu used his heart-lake state to sense them in advance and lure them over one by one, he was still besieged by more than five headless knights multiple times, with the largest group being thirteen at once. Although he encountered danger repeatedly, he also made significant gains because of it.

Just as the two women were reaching their limits and Wu Pifu was also parched and thirsty, his heart-lake perception suddenly revealed an open space ahead, and there were no more headless knights present.

This kind of open terrain was unique here. Wu Pifu immediately felt encouraged and said to the two women behind him, "We've arrived. This must be the Ten Thousand Demon Hall ahead!"

However, neither woman answered. They were supporting each other, following Wu Pifu out of inertia.

Seeing them in this state, Wu Pifu's heart sank. Without further delay, he picked up the two women and quickened his pace toward the Ten Thousand Demon Hall.

He feared the two women had already reached their limit.

In ancient times, there was a state of disaster victims called "starving corpses." They appeared to be walking normally and seemed capable of traveling long distances, but at that point, if anyone bumped into them or they lost their footing and fell, they would die instantly—a sudden, immediate death.

Wu Pifu didn't even dare to imagine what the two women's current state was.

With Wu Pifu carrying the two women, he sprinted through several corridors in less than a minute, and finally, a huge open space appeared ahead.

The open space was semicircular. After entering, intense flames ignited along the edges of the clearing. At the same time, Wu Pifu was finally able to see the scene of this clearing clearly. The surroundings were filled with enormous skeletons of various kinds. These skeletons were seated on massive stone chairs, each one over a hundred meters in size, with the largest reaching several thousand meters in height and over a thousand meters in width.

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Most of these skeletons were humanoid with animal characteristics, but a very small number of skeletons appeared in complete monster forms. For example, there was a snake—or dragon—skeleton; it was in the shape of an Eastern dragon, but it had three pairs of huge bone wings on its back.

When Wu Pifu stepped onto this vast, boundless clearing with the two women, black energy immediately began to rise from Jiu Jiu. Wu Pifu looked at Jiu Jiu nervously, only to find that she was still in a semi-comatose state and showed no other abnormalities. Only then did Wu Pifu immediately look toward the direction where the black energy was rising.

This black energy rose into mid-air and then split into two streams, drifting toward two different skeletons on the clearing's stands.

One skeleton was about five hundred meters in size; it was a bird-beast type skeleton with nine skull heads. The other skeleton was a humanoid skeleton, about one hundred and fifty meters tall, but it had a pair of bone wings on its back.

After these two skeletons received the black energy, greenish light began to drift in their eye sockets.

At the same time, Wu Pifu learned the identities of these two skeletons from the information that had inexplicably descended.

The nine-headed bird skeleton was a descendant of the Guhuo Bird, mastering the domains of souls, death energy, and calamity.

The humanoid winged skeleton was a descendant of the Peacock King, mastering the domains of the underworld, death, and withering.

This was the source of the demon blood within Jiu Jiu. Because she was a minor, insignificant fairy from who knows how many generations back, the demon blood had long been mixed, but after returning to the source, these two demon clan bloodlines were the closest to her.

A moment later, the light in the nine-headed bird skeleton's eyes dissipated, while the Peacock King descendant skeleton stood up and, in the next instant, appeared in the distance of this vast, empty plain.

At one hundred and fifty meters tall, it held a bone longsword in one hand and a bone vajra pestle in the other, while a bone-colored halo appeared behind the Peacock King skeleton's head.

Inexplicable information descended into Wu Pifu's mind once again.

If they could fight the Peacock King descendant skeleton for one minute without dying, they could leave this tomb area. If they died, they would sleep here for all eternity.

Because it had been thoroughly extinguished, the Peacock King descendant skeleton did not even possess one ten-thousandth of its peak combat power.

"Peacock Great Wisdom King, or Peacock Buddha Mother?"

Wu Pifu placed Jiu Jiu and Daphne at the edge of the entrance to this plaza, while the Peacock King descendant actually stood still, not taking the opportunity to attack.

Wu Pifu roughly estimated the distance between the Peacock King descendant and Jiu Jiu and Daphne. Visually, it was at least several thousand meters away, but this was still not safe.

To say nothing else, if Wu Pifu were to throw a stone with all his might now, its power within a hundred meters would be comparable to a bullet, and even at a thousand meters away, it could smash someone's head bloody or even kill them outright.

The origin of this skeleton was too shocking, and its appearance was terrifyingly frightening. Whatever a Peacock King descendant was, existences like the Peacock King were top-tier powerhouses even in myths. Even if it were just a descendant, and even if its power was less than one ten-thousandth of what it was after death, Wu Pifu dared not imagine what its power was like.

Therefore, a distance of several thousand meters was truly not safe.

Seeing this, Wu Pifu could only test it out; he pointed further away and took the lead in running toward that direction.

Unexpectedly, this Peacock King descendant skeleton actually followed him, covering several thousand meters in a single stride, putting it at least ten thousand meters away from Jiu Jiu and the other woman.

Upon arriving here, Wu Pifu stopped moving and stood in place, breathing deeply. Each breath had a vital capacity at least three times that of an ordinary person. When he even felt a bit of oxygen intoxication, he looked up and roared, exploding his blood energy and qi-blood to their full potential. A stream of steam erupted from his pores, swirling around him and lingering for a long time.

Drawing his saber, cupping his fists, dantian energy surged.

"Wu Pifu!"

"I have met you!"

In the next instant, the jade-colored great saber rose toward the sky, meeting the hundred-meter giant sword slashing down from above!