Chapter 122: Walking Out of Mythology

(PS: Normal update of three chapters today, rest for one day.)

The inheritance Qiuqiu 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 systematic cultivation method at all.

In fact, not only her, but even that northern wild boar giant demon was the same. Even though it had more than 300 years of cultivation, it actually had no systematic cultivation method at all. Even if it refined magic weapons with its own wild boar fangs, it was just some of its demon bloodline inheritance, which was not obtained by systematic cultivation.

Not to mention this, Qiuqiu used the few Demon Scripts she knew to find a lot of information in these coffins, murals, and a few funerary objects, which, even if incomplete, could piece together some facts.

At some point, 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 group, but a collective term for intelligent lives transformed from birds, beasts, mountain spirits, plants, strange rocks, etc. "Demon" is its name.

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

The Five Saints lived high in the Nine Heavens, regulating Yin and Yang, filtering Chaos, and turning into spiritual energy.

Ten thousand demons rested and multiplied, refined their bloodlines, and guarded the Five Saints.

But all this beauty didn't last long. The Ten Thousand Demon Conference of the Five Saints led to internal disputes.

Phoenix and Dragon decided to establish a Demon Court, while Qilin and Xuan Turtle opposed it. Bai Hu went crazy at this time, bit off one of Xuan Turtle's legs, and attacked Phoenix. In the end, it was suppressed by the Four Saints, but this also led to the civil war of the demon race, the whole world was beaten into a mess, spiritual energy retreated in advance, and finally the Four Saints took the suppressed Bai Hu and the vast majority of the demon race to leave this world.

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

And the demon race that died in battle, the remaining demon race, 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 Saints 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 infinite corridors, there should be a hall location here."

Su Xing looked at the Demon Script on the giant coffin and said.

Dafuni received the greatest impact on her three views in this day, because the mythological creatures she considered sacred were actually the remnants of the demon race, which was simply unimaginable!

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

However, fortunately, Dafuni was not a racial supremacist. This kind of mythological creature descendant was very common in the Divine Era and early civilization, but with the fading of extraordinary, after human civilization became the mainstream, they basically disappeared.

Su Xing had been in this tomb 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 area, 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, Su Xing could solve them easily without injury. This 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, Su Xing had eaten food and drank fresh water in the Corridor District, but the two women didn't, and they were bled a lot. At this time, both of their mouths were dry and smoking, and both were dizzy.

Su Xing knew they couldn't last long. Even if one is a demon and one is a werewolf, belonging to the descendants of demons, because of age and gender, they are actually not much stronger than ordinary humans. Once they don't drink water for more than three days, they may faint at any time, and they may even die suddenly under the condition of 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.)

Su Xing looked at Dafuni silently.

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

This is probably the method used by Hao Cheng's captain's team members.

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

The ten-day suppression task has half a day left, which 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. At that time, it is simply unimaginable what monsters will appear.

And this also means Dafuni will definitely die.

Although he will not deliberately save Dafuni, he cannot let Dafuni die in front of him. These are two different things.

Something to do, something not to do!

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

Su

Wu Pifu was helpless, but he had made up his mind to upgrade to the Citizen Rank as soon as possible and then 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 all along, 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 the place with the most Headless Knights!"

After speaking, Wu Pifu waited a moment for the two women and 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. When Wu Pifu walked toward this group of Headless Knights, the six Headless Knights immediately sensed him and then swarmed toward him.

However, these Headless Knights were at varying distances, so they basically arrived one by one. Facing these Headless Knights appearing individually, Wu Pifu simply swung his great blade 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 place with the most Headless Knights. Gradually, the number of Headless Knights grew larger and larger. 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 Headless Knights arriving simultaneously. Although he encountered danger repeatedly, he also gained significant rewards because of it.

When the two women had almost reached their limits and Wu Pifu was also parched with thirst, the area ahead suddenly opened up in his Heart Lake perception, 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. The place ahead must be the Ten Thousand Demon Hall!"

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

Seeing them in such a 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 was afraid that the two women had already reached their limit.

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

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

With Wu Pifu carrying the two women as he sprinted, he passed 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 at the edges of the space. At the same time, Wu Pifu was finally able to see the scene of this open space clearly. The surroundings were filled with enormous skeletons of various kinds. These skeletons were sitting on massive stone chairs; each skeleton was over a hundred meters in size, and the largest ones were even several thousand meters high and over a thousand meters wide.

!

Most of these skeletons were humanoid with animal features, but a very small number of skeletons appeared in complete monster forms, such as one 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 brought the two women onto this vast, boundless open space, black energy immediately rose from Jiu Jiu. Wu Pifu immediately looked at Jiu Jiu nervously, only to find that she was still in a semi-comatose state and there were 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 sets of skeletons on the stands of the open space.

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

After these two sets of skeletons received the black energy, greenish light floated up in their eye sockets.

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

The Nine-Headed Bird skeleton was a descendant of the Guhuo Bird, mastering the domains of souls, death energy, and disaster.

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

This was the source of the monster blood within Jiu Jiu. Because she was a minor monster of unknown generations, the monster blood had long been mixed, but after tracing it back to its origin, these two monster bloodlines were the closest to her.

A moment later, the light in the eyes of the Nine-Headed Bird skeleton dissipated, and the Kong Que King descendant skeleton stood up, appearing at the far end of this open flat ground in the next instant.

At a height of one hundred and fifty meters, it held a bone longsword in one hand and a bone Vajra pestle in the other. At the same time, a bone-colored halo appeared behind the head of the Kong Que King skeleton.

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

If they could fight the Kong Que 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 was completely depleted, the Kong Que King descendant skeleton didn't even have one-ten-thousandth of its peak combat power.

"Kong Que Great Wisdom King, or Kong Que Buddha Mother?"

Wu Pifu placed Jiu Jiu and Dafuni at the edge of the entrance to this plaza, while the Kong Que King descendant actually stood still, not taking the opportunity to attack or anything.

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

Not to mention anything else, Wu Pifu could now throw a stone with full force, and within a hundred meters, its power was comparable to a bullet; from a thousand meters away, he could smash someone's head until it bled, or even kill them outright.

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

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

Seeing this, Wu Pifu could only test it out, pointing further away while he himself took the lead and ran toward that side.

Unexpectedly, the Kong Que King descendant skeleton actually followed him, also crossing several thousand meters in a single stride. Thus, it was at least ten thousand meters away from the two women.

After arriving here, Wu Pifu stopped moving and stood in place, breathing deeply continuously. Each breath had a lung capacity at least three times that of an ordinary person. When he even felt a bit of oxygen intoxication, he threw his head back and let out a roar. His blood energy and Qi energy erupted to their full extent simultaneously, and a wave of steam burst from his pores, swirling around him for a long time without dissipating.

Drawing his blade, cupping his fists, Dan Jin surged.

"Wu Pifu!"

"I have met you!"

The next instant, the jade-colored great blade pointed toward the sky, meeting the hundred-meter giant sword slashing down from the air!

(End of chapter)