Chapter 624: Land of Fallen Demons, Void Refinement True Monarch

Listening to the words of the Master of Moyun Cave, Luo Chen recalled that fleeting glance just now; indeed, there was no discrepancy.

That monster, standing by the vortex leading to the medicinal herb garden, was like a red high-rise building.

Because the black, turbid seawater blurred one's vision, an ordinary person truly would not have noticed that it was actually a desolate beast!

However!

"Such a famous desolate beast, why have I not seen corresponding records in the classics, yet you, Cave Master, know of it in such detail?" Luo Chen stared at the Master of Moyun Cave, his gaze burning.

The Master of Moyun Cave felt helpless and cast his gaze toward Ding Yi, who was slumped on the ground panting.

"For this, you must ask Fellow Daoist Ding; everything I know, he told me."

"Oh?"

Ding Yi looked over at this moment, annoyed. "Why do you think I know? Could it be you've forgotten that piece of Soul-Nourishing Wood you auctioned off back then?"

Soul-Nourishing Wood? Ghost Immortal Tower!

In an instant, Luo Chen connected the dots.

That piece of Soul-Nourishing Wood auctioned for Han Zhan had extremely terrifying baleful energy on it. Luo Chen had expended immense energy, even cultivating a fourth-tier spell to Great Perfection, before he could barely remove it.

At the time, he had been guessing what the owner of that baleful energy was.

Comparing it now, even though decades had passed, the sense of familiarity surged like a tide.

That baleful energy was clearly the aura emitted by the desolate beast Ghost Immortal Tower.

"Huu..."

Ding Yi caught his breath, and the fat on his body seemed to inflate again.

A look of disgust appeared on his face, but he didn't show too much, as if he were already accustomed to it.

Luo Chen, however, took a few extra looks.

Just now, the other party had used the fat on his body to execute a type of Blood-Transformation Evasion technique; the speed was incredibly fast, almost comparable to his own Great Success evasion speed in a short time.

Yet, it seemed there was no cost to it at all.

It was truly astonishing.

But at this moment, he was more concerned about this terrifying desolate beast, Ghost Immortal Tower.

Ding Yi didn't keep him in suspense and explained it to him.

"This beast is born feeding on the various demons in the sea, especially fond of turtles, soft-shelled turtles, and giant squids. Every time it devours a giant squid, it preserves its tentacles, wrapping them around its body like hair; one doesn't know if it's to show off trophies or if they have another use."

"Blood Lanterns are very powerful, but they particularly like to reside on the Ghost Immortal Tower, acting as its eyes. We only saw two Blood Lanterns just now, but that was just the tip of the iceberg; on that body hundreds of zhang large, who knows how many low-tier Blood Lanterns are residing."

"This beast has slaughtered too many living beings; over time, countless baleful energies wrap around its body, and it naturally generates illusions, causing anyone who sees its true form to instantly sink into them."

"The reason you don't see records of this desolate beast in the classics is because for thousands of years, the cultivators of the Yuanmo Sect have always wanted to subdue this desolate beast, once forcing it into the depths of the Demon Sea."

"Even if human cultivators who occasionally ventured deep into the Demon Sea saw it, they would be affected by the dense baleful energy on its body, fall into illusions, and thus become its food."

"Therefore, over the long passage of time, information regarding the desolate beast Ghost Immortal Tower, apart from the Yuanmo Sect, has rarely been recorded in the North Sea cultivation world."

"I, too, only learned the relevant information from the remnants of the Yuanmo Sect after being injured by that trace of baleful energy from the Soul-Nourishing Wood and searching repeatedly to treat my soul injuries."

Luo Chen listened, his heart shaken.

In order to cultivate the Forest Fire Prison, he had personally beheaded a third-tier late-stage Blood Lantern on the shores of the Sinking Sea and naturally knew the terrifying aspects of this demon.

Yet, this creature was merely a parasitic beast on the Ghost Immortal Tower?

And that giant squid was even more powerful, surpassing the Demon-Covering Sea Flood Dragon, the Golden-Horned Silver Rhinoceros, and other demons.

Hundreds of years ago, one appeared in the Coral Sea, once slaughtering countless low-tier cultivators of the Zhou family in the Coral Sea; in the end, it was the Zhou family ancestor who personally took action to behead it.

Even without mentioning hundreds of years ago, just three years ago, he had seen one in the Sinking Sea.

It had forced Dao Lan to flee into the sky above the Sinking Sea, bearing the pressure of the Void Burning Wind just to avoid the giant squid's attack.

Such an existence was actually food for the Ghost Immortal Tower!

When he heard that the Soul Transformation holy land, the Yuanmo Sect, had tried several times to subdue this beast and failed, Luo Chen felt even more awe.

"I wonder, what is the grade of this beast?"

Ding Yi replied: "The grade of a desolate beast cannot be judged by standard means. In terms of size, the large ones run rampant, while the small ones can swallow the ocean. They also don't have the concept of demon cores or Nascent Souls; if a cultivator wants to judge the strength of a desolate beast, they can only rely on the experience of predecessors and personal testing. And this Ghost Immortal Tower, its strength compared to our human cultivators, is at least at the late Nascent Soul stage! Even, judging by its record of repeatedly escaping from the hands of Yuanmo Sect powerhouses, I fear it is already infinitely approaching the fifth-tier Soul Transformation."

Speaking to the end, a look of lingering fear was clearly revealed in his eyes.

His gaze toward Luo Chen also became increasingly wary.

He remembered very clearly that under the infection of the Ghost Immortal Tower's baleful energy, Luo Chen had clearly fallen into an illusion.

But in just a short moment, the other party had woken up and was the first to flee.

While marveling at the Ghost Immortal Tower's realm, Luo Chen also noticed Ding Yi's wariness.

He didn't explain anything.

That kind of illusion would cause any Golden Core cultivator to sink into it at a glance.

But he was different; he was already proficient in the illusion technique Mirror Flower Water Moon, and using the Ghost Immortal Tower's baleful energy as a template, he had deduced the second layer, Ghost Immortal Tower Universe.

It could be said that he already had a certain resistance.

Plus, at the critical moment, Han Zhan's soul roar allowed him to escape easily.

After understanding the situation at the Ghost Immortal Tower, Luo Chen turned his attention to the surrounding environment.

Or rather, from the moment they entered the passage behind the cyclone, they had been carefully observing the situation nearby.

This was a narrow tunnel.

It was deep and bottomless.

A massive amount of Void Burning Wind surged out from within, then flowed from the cyclone above their heads toward the outside world.

If they wanted to enter the true ruins, they had no choice but to travel against the current in the tunnel.

Luo Chen was naturally unafraid; with the Profound Dust Armor on his body, he could largely ignore the Void Burning Wind.

But for Ding Yi and the others, things were not looking good.

The Treasure Basin Fish had been snatched away, and their backup Origin-Returning Pearl had also turned into powder.

This tunnel, constantly spewing Void Burning Wind, had become an impassable chasm!

"What do you plan to do next?"

Cave Master Moyun frowned, "I do have materials on me, but refining a new Origin-Returning Pearl on the spot would take at least half a month."

"No, that's too long!" Ding Yi flatly rejected this proposal, then looked at Luo Chen. "Qingyangzi, your armor was able to envelop that black dragon earlier; surely protecting the two of us shouldn't be a problem, right?"

Luo Chen smiled.

They were calling him 'Demon Lord' directly before, and now they were using the respectful title 'Qingyangzi'?

"Protecting you isn't a problem, but the question is, why should I do that?"

As he spoke, he moved his feet slightly, approaching the entrance of the tunnel.

Once this action was taken, the expressions of the two people opposite him changed instantly.

"Demon Lord Qingyang, what do you mean by this? Could it be that you want to take this opportunity to extort us?"

"Qingyangzi, we are in the same boat, grasshoppers on the same rope. Relying on your strength alone, you won't be able to get what you want in those ruins."

Luo Chen was unconcerned, laughing calmly.

"True, we are in the same boat, but activating this magic treasure also consumes a great deal of my magic power. I remember very clearly that when you boarded the Treasure Basin Fish earlier, you didn't think about bringing me along."

Ding Yi was somewhat displeased, "Do you think we were deliberately targeting you?"

Luo Chen shrugged, "Who knows?"

"You!" Ding Yi was so angry that he extended a finger, and his hand even trembled slightly as he pointed at Luo Chen.

Cave Master Moyun kept his composure, "Qingyangzi, your magic power is profound; we have all seen it. It's just a short distance, why be so stingy?"

"Profound magic power is not a reason for you to take advantage of me."

"Then what do you want? Magic treasures? Elixirs for restoring Qi..."

"I don't want any of those."

Luo Chen put away his smile and said seriously: "I want the specific location of the medicine garden where the Five Elements Lotus Platform is, as well as all the intelligence regarding the ruins!"

Cave Master Moyun suddenly realized, and then cast his gaze toward Ding Yi.

Ding Yi felt relieved, "So that's what it is; why make the relationship between everyone so tense?"

Luo Chen stared at the other party, "Then can you speak now?"

He was very clear that his three-person team was not harmonious, nor did they have any means to restrain one another.

Information regarding the ruins of the Sinking Sea was all in Ding Yi's hands.

If he didn't understand as much as possible, even with formidable martial power, he would still be at the mercy of others.

That was why, even while cooperating, he would resort to such an ungraceful and shameless act of extortion.

Ding Yi thought for a moment and said earnestly: "I really don't know the specific location of the Five Elements Lotus Platform."

Luo Chen frowned, "Impossible, you clearly said earlier that the cyclone led to the location of the spiritual medicine garden in the ruins."

"Therefore, there is only that cyclone!" Ding Yi insisted, "Only that cyclone leads stably to the spiritual medicine garden area, but that place is occupied by the Ghost Immortal Tower. If I don't go in from there, I have no clue either."

"How can this be?" Luo Chen was half-believing and half-doubting.

Ding Yi's demeanor was sincere, "The situation is just like this; I couldn't possibly lie to you."

"Then how could you be certain that the cyclone passage was the correct one?"

Luo Chen was determined to get to the bottom of this.

Under his questioning, even though Ding Yi was unwilling, he had no choice but to tell the truth about the situation.

"Remember what I told you about the Tai Sui? The flesh on my body has been affected by the Tai Sui and cannot be removed. And the lingering obsession within it guides me to where its main body is. That cyclone is the place where the obsession's perception is strongest, which is why I was so certain."

Luo Chen glanced at the fat on the other party's body that had swollen up again, and ultimately chose to believe him.

However, there was another question the other party had not yet answered for Luo Chen.

"What about the intelligence regarding the ruins?"

Ding Yi gave a bitter laugh and asked a question in return.

"What kind of cultivator do you think leaves behind ruins that allow the Soul Transformation holy land, the Primal Demon Sect, to explore for a thousand years without success?"

Cave Master Moyun clearly didn't know the inside story before, and now that he was asked, he and Luo Chen looked at each other in dismay.

Indeed!

What kind of existence could, after passing away, still block the exploration of a sect possessing three Soul Transformation ancestors and numerous Nascent Soul True Persons?

Nascent Soul True Persons? Soul Transformation ancestors could easily sweep them away.

A Soul Transformation powerhouse? Even when alive, they were evenly matched; how could the means left behind after death resist the living?

Vaguely, a possibility emerged in their minds.

The wooden plaque hanging on his chest trembled slightly.

By Luo Chen's ear, a weathered voice came.

"Sure enough, just as I suspected, these ruins were left behind by a True Lord."

"True Lord?" Luo Chen blurted out.

Cave Master Moyun also didn't hesitate, "A Void Refinement powerhouse?"

Ding Yi nodded slowly, "That's right. According to the records of the Primal Demon Sect, these ruins are indeed the palace of a Void Refinement True Lord. Furthermore, that True Lord might possibly be the strongest Void Refinement existence in history! Because he fell here, this place is also known as the Land of Fallen Demons!"

(End of chapter)