Chapter 300: First Sight of the Thousand Demon Cave

Under everyone's gaze.

Tang Yuan briefly understood the situation, then led Da Qian and the others across the sky, heading north.

Only a street full of cultivators remained, their expressions varied.

In an instant, everyone became busy.

"According to the rules, we must wait at least half a day for Da Qian's people to leave before following them."

Xu Wanyun adjusted her emotions, holding her possibly outdated information to explain to Shen Yi: "Next is the time for cultivators to exchange treasures and make final preparations... The main purpose of the Xian Sect and Da Qian is the Year Fruit; with them attracting the demons' attention, it is the best time to snatch leftovers."

"Follow."

Shen Yi waited a moment, summoned his Dao Infant, and his body surged with the clear energy of the Year Tree.

Immediately, the whole person followed after them.

Those Slain Hunyuan Sect masters were to be used to exchange for incense and vows; unless necessary, it was best not to lose them outside.

"Hey! That is Da Qian's rule."

Xu Wanyun felt somewhat helpless; the top powers were already tolerant enough, tacitly allowing other cultivators to follow behind and get a sip of soup.

Shen Yi's actions, was he not afraid of offending Da Qian?

Moreover... it was meant for Da Qian's people to step into traps; following this closely, if Tang Yuan and the others were ambushed, there might even be a risk of implicating the three of them.

"Auntie, hurry."

A Qing urged twice; she believed Brother Shen had his own arrangements.

"Too lazy to talk to you."

Xu Wanyun rolled her eyes at her and casually summoned a wooden boat.

The three quickly left the bounds of the Demon-Suppressing City.

The view before them was still green mountains and blue waters.

Shen Yi flew through the air unhurriedly; empowered by the Golden Eagle divine ability, he would not lose them.

He was just somewhat puzzled.

At a glance, where was the appearance of a demon cave ahead?

"Ahead is the teleportation array."

Xu Wanyun caught up, speaking softly: "Do you think it's absurd? A group of demons live better than on Mount Wutong; to go to their territory, one actually needs such means, like visiting an Xian Sect."

"If so, why don't the demons just close this array?"

Shen Yi was slightly puzzled.

If the Thousand Demon Cave was truly so luxurious, how could it tolerate cultivators entering and leaving its territory at will?

"You don't know this, do you?"

Xu Wanyun raised her eyebrows and whispered: "According to my family's records, the entire protective array of the Thousand Demon Cave is in the hands of Mount Wutong."

"Isn't that strange!"

She exclaimed in wonder: "Even according to my elders' judgment, the location of Mount Wutong and the location of the Thousand Demon Cave, according to our habits of building arrays, look particularly like an outer sect and an inner sect."

"As for Da Qian, they are like ordinary mortals living at the foot of a mountain under a common power..."

"This whole area is like a huge Xian Sect!"

Hearing this, A Qing sighed and said helplessly: "Auntie is just guessing casually based on what the elders say; there is no basis at all. How could such a massive array possibly exist in the world?"

Obviously, in the eyes of someone like her who properly studies arrays, her aunt belonged to the type who hears the wind and thinks it's rain, starting to brag as soon as she gets a bit of news.

"Xian Sect..."

Shen Yi suddenly remembered what Senior Brother Zhu had said.

What Xu Wanyun said this time might not necessarily be false.

Could it be that the Thousand Demon Cave actually belonged to Mount Wutong in the past, but the cultivators were driven out by the demons?

That doesn't make sense either.

If they could withstand the array and seize the territory, the power gap was not just ordinary; why didn't the demons cut off the roots and leaves, but still leave the Xian Sect and Da Qian to oppose them?

Almost at the same time.

Tang Yuan had already arrived before an incredibly magnificent archway.

The Bai Yu pillars were covered in cracks, as if having endured endless ages; the carved dragons and phoenixes on them were long since broken, with only huge pits remaining where the eyes should be, as if the eyeballs had been gouged out, lifeless and gloomy.

The place at the very top where the plaque should have been was now empty.

Everyone had been here many times.

The shock of before was long gone.

Tang Yuan stepped toward the archway, casually glancing backward.

"The current loose cultivators are much bolder than we were back then," he chuckled and shook his head.

"Resources are scarce, no path forward."

The few cultivators of Da Qian nodded in deep agreement, looking back; outside this archway, Slain Hunyuan was the limit.

To continue improving their cultivation, one could only enter the Thousand Demon Cave.

As long as one could break in and then walk out alive, hundreds of years later, perhaps a famous power would emerge.

For example, Da Qian's Twenty-Three Forms of Golden Body Art were all retrieved from inside.

And such precious things were merely collections kept alongside miscellaneous books in those cultivators' cave abodes.

It is not tragic to risk one's life for one's own future.

What is truly tragic is people like them, doing work for others and still suffering humiliation.

Fortunately, this time with Senior Tang leading, they would not have to deal with that bunch of scum from Xuan Guang Cave.

"Is everything ready?"

Tang Yuan walked beneath the archway and asked one last time.

"We can only leave it to fate." Several of them returned a bitter smile.

"..." Tang Yuan withdrew his gaze and said no more.

These grandmasters of Great Qian had clearly lost their spirit, which also proved from the side that the giant occupying the Nine Provinces had no possibility of rising again.

It was slightly regrettable, but it had nothing to do with him.

Having thought this, he stepped forward into the archway.

His figure rippled like water and vanished on the spot.

After the several of them had all disappeared.

Soon, Shen Yi also descended from the sky with the two women, then stepped into it as well.

Unlike the nausea felt when entering the cave dwelling last time.

Shen Yi hadn't even had time to react before a new world appeared before his eyes.

The guest-reception hall, as large as a small hill, had collapsed halfway and was covered by dense weeds; the ruins of the hall seemed to have been searched countless times, looking desolate and lonely at first glance.

"What abundant heavenly and earthly qi."

Xu Wanyun instinctively widened her eyes, but someone tugged at her sleeve.

She turned back and saw that Shen Yi, at some unknown time, had donned a black cloak, held a breath-concealing array disk in his hand, and even Ah Qing, who was reminding her, had completely concealed his qi.

Xu Wanyun immediately realized and followed suit.

She then said, "They must have news of the cave dwelling opening; we can take the opportunity to search for other things in the Thousand Demon Cave... Tsk, the Thousand Mountains and Ten Thousand Caves are actually real!"

Shen Yi looked past the guest-reception hall at the boundless emerald green mountains.

He slowly shook his head: "Follow them."

"Huh?" Xu Wanyun was stunned; weren't they here to find the spiritual root?

"Brother Shen only wants the best things."

Ah Qing understood Shen Yi better; rather than searching in the wilds for leftovers that countless cultivators had scoured countless times, it was definitely more efficient to go directly and take what everyone was fighting over.

(End of this chapter)