Chapter 1768

Saving Niké was a pleasant surprise, but the main task ahead cannot be delayed.

Xu Jingming, having returned to the palace, called out in his sea of consciousness:

"Vera."

"Here, Master!"

The soul form of Vera, the little succubus loli, appeared in Xu Jingming's sea of consciousness.

Her heart-shaped tail swayed happily:

"What's up? Are we starting the operation?"

On the territory of the Demon Lord of Illusions, if not inside the World Ring.

She would not dare reveal her form at all, and could only appear within the sea of consciousness.

"Hmm."

Xu Jingming nodded, "You said earlier that your inheritance is specifically located where?"

"My inheritance consists of ten locations, scattered throughout this starfield.

On this Illusion Demon Star, there are three of them."

Vera replied.

Mentioning the Illusion Demon Star.

Her expression turned grim, teeth gritted.

There was no way around it.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, when she was here.

This place was still called the Lust Star.

She took a deep breath, suppressed her surging anger, and began to explain in detail:

"The first location is the simplest, in a remote mountain range on the outskirts of the planet.

As for the remaining two, they are somewhat troublesome, both located within this palace complex."

"Within the palace complex?" Xu Jingming's brows furrowed immediately.

This is the old nest of the Illusion Demon Lord.

Any rustle in the grass could be detected, and acting here carries extremely high risk.

"Back then, I never thought I would be ambushed!"

Vera spread her small hands, her expression aggrieved:

"When I initially set up the treasure caches.

I naturally chose places I deemed safest and most convenient to access.

The Lust Palace was my main base, I believed this place was utterly secure.

At most, I only thought, even if I were defeated and retreated once.

I could always return to rely on these stored resources to make a comeback.

Who could have imagined that the Illusion Demon scoundrel would strike so ruthlessly, I didn't even get a chance to flee back to the palace!"

The more she spoke, the angrier she became, her tiny fists clenched tightly.

"In that case, let's first go find the first inheritance."

Xu Jingming pondered briefly, then swiftly made a decision.

"Good!" Vera nodded vigorously.

She quickly transmitted the detailed location into Xu Jingming's consciousness.

It is a place named the 'Eagle Hawk Mountain Range'.

Located in the northern hemisphere of the Illusion Demon Star, approximately 800,000 kilometers from the Illusion Demon Palace here.

"This inheritance is too far away.

Flying there would take considerable time, and you've just arrived.

It's also inadvisable to make a grand show of leaving."

Vera reminded in the sea of consciousness, "Anyway, the inheritance stays put there, it won't run off.

We can wait a while, get familiar with the environment first, then go."

"Flying? No need."

Xu Jingming slightly shook his head, "I'll teleport directly there."

After breaking through to the eighth level of Longevity.

His teleportation distance has surged from 200,000 kilometers at the sixth level of Longevity to a terrifying 1.5 million kilometers.

The mere 800,000 kilometers to the Eagle Hawk Mountain Range outside is but a stone's throw away.

"There are spatial restrictions on the Illusion Demon Star, I fear teleportation may be impossible."

Vera quickly added.

"Spatial restrictions?"

Xu Jingming raised his sword-brows, his divine sense stirred slightly.

Indeed, he sensed an invisible barrier enveloping the surroundings.

If it were an ordinary Longevity cultivator, they might not even be able to stir spatial fluctuations.

"There is a barrier, but it cannot stop my Netherworld Demon bloodline's affinity for space."

Xu Jingming's mind stirred.

The Netherworld Demon flower pattern on his back glowed faintly, and his entire body immediately sparked with fine spatial ripples.

That barrier seemed to have met its nemesis, as he forcibly tore open a rift in it!

Swish—

Xu Jingming's figure instantly blurred, disappearing within the palace.

Deep within a hidden cave somewhere in the Tianying Mountain Range.

Dark purple demonic qi swirled like mist, and luminous moss clung to the rock walls.

Xu Jingming's four-meter-six demonic form materialized out of thin air, his black scales gleaming with a cold light in the dim surroundings.

"Tsk tsk, as expected of an ancient demon bloodline.

Even the spatial restrictions set up by the Phantom Demon couldn't stop you."

Weila's soul drifted out, her large purple eyes full of astonishment.

She then excitedly pointed in a direction:

"Follow me, the inheritance is right ahead!"

She led the way, drifting deeper into the cave.

Xu Jingming stepped forward, his demon wings folding in, his footsteps silent.

Soon, the two arrived before a rock face.

The rock face was carved with intricate demonic qi sigils, forming a solid restriction.

"Use your demonic qi, and activate the sigil nodes in this sequence."

Weila quickly imparted the solution.

Xu Jingming did as instructed.

Pure purple-black demonic qi surged from his fingertips, precisely striking several key nodes.

Hum~~~

The sigils lit up in sequence, the restriction's light flowing and shifting.

Finally, it silently dissipated, revealing an unassuming stone platform deep within the cave.

Resting quietly upon it was an ancient-looking world ring.

With a thought, the world ring flew directly into Xu Jingming's hand.

A slight sensation revealed that within the ring's space, some medicine bottles were neatly stacked.

Piles of dark purple demon crystals, as well as several special-material secret manuals.

"I didn't leave much here at this inheritance site, probably worth around seven million crystal coins."

Weila somewhat embarrassedly shook her tail:

"Back then, I thought I wouldn't come here, so I didn't leave anything too valuable."

"Eh, not bad."

Xu Jingming nodded.

He naturally wouldn't disdain wealth picked up for free.

As his divine sense swept over those secret manuals, he suddenly paused, pulling one out.

The manual's cover was dark purple, with lightning patterns intertwined with demonic qi.

Written in the demon race's language on it were the three large characters "Mó Léi Shā".

"Oh? You still have a lightning-system secret manual?" Xu Jingming said, somewhat surprised.

He flipped through it; this was a T1-level combat technique fusing lightning origin and demonic qi.

"Is that so? I just casually placed it back then, didn't even look closely at what was inside."

Weila leaned over to take a look, "You want to learn? This is a T1-level secret manual.

Lightning combat techniques fused with demonic qi will have their power greatly increased.

But the cultivation difficulty is also extremely high......"

Weila originally wanted to remind him that this would take too much time.

It would take decades or even hundreds of years just to get started.

But upon thinking of Xu Jingming's monstrous comprehension, she immediately shut her mouth.

In front of this monster, this combat technique would probably be mastered in no time.

"Since we've come to the demon race, naturally we should learn something characteristic of the demon race."

Xu Jingming put the manual away, his gaze sharp and clear.

His previous combat techniques mostly focused on lightning and destructive origin.

His use of demonic qi was indeed a shortcoming; this technique perfectly compensated for it.

"Let's go."

He didn't linger, again activating spatial power, his form vanishing from within the cave.

Swish!

Inside the palace chamber, space rippled slightly, and Xu Jingming's figure reappeared.

"Alas!

Too bad the two inheritance sites in the palace complex are the real big ones, worth over thirty million crystal coins!"

Weila was still chattering away in the sea of consciousness:

"It's all because that scoundrel Phantom Demon took over the magpie's nest.

Now she's in charge here, we simply can't make a move......"

Xu Jingming was about to reply when his expression suddenly shifted.

A fluctuation of Nikki's divine sense came from within the world ring, requesting to come out.

"Looks like Teacher Nikki should have mostly recovered."

Xu Jingming's heart stirred slightly, and he released her.