Chapter 108: Let

"I came to this Return to Ruins five years ago, and there was no danger. We can go deeper, Senior Brother Fang."

This was Fang Yu’s first time arriving at the Return to Ruins, but Long Xuan seemed to have been here more than once. At this moment, she stared at the black hole before them and spoke.

"Junior Sister Long actually came here five years ago? You must have still been an inner sect disciple back then."

Fang Yu activated the Five Prison King Cauldron and flew into the pitch-black hole, immediately feeling a force of distortion. This darkness was a cold, icy passage leading to another world.

Traveling through the darkness, a light soon appeared ahead. The Five Prison King Cauldron broke free from the restraints, revealing a desolate and decaying world before their eyes.

Everywhere was filled with gray mist; there were no flowers, trees, or signs of human life. Instead, there were mud pits one after another, rotting swamps everywhere, and large bubbles that would swell up and then burst with a *pop*, releasing even more gray mist.

These mists possessed a demonic nature, shifting into various hideous forms.

Heavenly Demons.

These mists were actually all Heavenly Demons.

Dense swarms of Heavenly Demons, far more numerous than those on the Heavenly Demon Battlefield; it was as if this place were the kingdom of Heavenly Demons.

*Gaga-ga. Jiji-ji.*

One Heavenly Demon after another moved in and out of the rotting swamps, absorbing the life-blood energy from the bubbles while emitting countless chattering sounds.

High above in the sky, such black holes were everywhere, like black stars. From time to time, Heavenly Demons would snatch up living creatures and toss them into the swamps.

Fang Yu watched as several Heavenly Demons grabbed a shark, the overlord of the sea, and threw it into the swamp. The shark was immediately swallowed by the mire, then exploded with a *bang*, turning into fresh blood energy. Numerous Heavenly Demons swarmed over to devour the fresh blood energy, and their bodies seemed to grow significantly stronger afterward.

"Senior Brother Fang, I came here when I was still an inner sect disciple five years ago. This swamp is called the Flesh and Blood Mire, formed from the rotting flesh and blood of countless living creatures. There are countless Heavenly Demons in the swamp, and at the end of the swamp are the castles of the Heavenly Demon Kings. I once had a fortuitous encounter here, but I was also hunted by a Heavenly Demon King and nearly lost my life," Long Xuan said.

"It is rumored that this Flesh and Blood Mire was created by a Demon God among the Heavenly Demons who destroyed a star, fused the flesh and blood of countless living beings, and turned it into this mire to serve as a base for the Heavenly Demon army. Because this base has a passage to the Return to Ruins, it can lead to our world. These Heavenly Demons can pass through the Return to Ruins to slaughter the living beings of our world and increase their power. Disciples of the Daoist and Demonic sects often come here to train, slaying Heavenly Demons to improve their strength. The Flesh and Blood Mire is very famous."

"The living beings of the extraterrestrial stars are truly miserable."

Fang Yu shook his head as he listened to Long Xuan’s description. A star destroyed directly by a Demon God, all its living beings slaughtered and refined into a Flesh and Blood Mire to raise an army of Heavenly Demons.

If someone were unlucky enough to be born on that star, their fate was almost sealed; there was only the path of being fodder for the Heavenly Demons.

Fortunately, he was on the Profound Yellow Great World, where his fate was much better than those extraterrestrial beings.

And becoming stronger was exactly what he needed to do now.

Fang Yu suddenly activated the Five Prison King Cauldron. Instantly, the cauldron’s array started, and the Spirit-Swallowing Array launched violently. Those Heavenly Demons still busy absorbing life-blood energy had almost no power to resist and were swept into the cauldron.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of Heavenly Demons were sucked into the Five Prison King Cauldron, landing on the screen depicting the "Hundred Ghosts Night Parade." Suddenly, the screen gained these hundreds of Heavenly Demons, slowly rotating; the entire screen became more vivid, and a surge of power flowed within the cauldron’s array.

The power of the Spirit-Swallowing Array grew even greater.

Fang Yu drove the Five Prison King Cauldron forward directly, and in an instant, those Heavenly Demons were all sucked onto the Hundred Ghosts screen.

The number of Heavenly Demons gathered on the screen grew larger and larger.

One thousand.

Three thousand.

Five thousand.

Ten thousand.

Fang Yu indulged in absorbing the Heavenly Demons here. With the Five Prison King Cauldron in hand, ordinary Heavenly Demons had no power to resist; even wanting to escape was impossible.

*Gaga-ga-ga* sounds erupted in the void; it seemed the Heavenly Demons were getting anxious, but the more Heavenly Demons the Five Prison King Cauldron absorbed, the stronger the array’s power became. In the end, gusts of tornadoes rushed out from the cauldron, sucking in large batches of Heavenly Demons.

"For inner sect disciples, Heavenly Demons are extremely difficult to kill one by one. With such a magic treasure, dealing with Heavenly Demons is as simple as eating and drinking..."

Long Xuan stood to the side. She had originally wanted to fly out of the Five Prison King Cauldron to show off her skills and train, but then she discovered that all the Heavenly Demons didn't dare to approach; they even tried to flee, but they couldn't escape and were swallowed into the Five Prison King Cauldron.

In the blink of an eye, the Five Prison King Cauldron had absorbed fifty thousand Heavenly Demons. From afar, it looked like a profound painting, with ten thousand demonic shadows layered upon it, from far to near.

They were all Heavenly Demons. After they were absorbed, both Long Xuan and Fang Yu felt the power of the Five Prison King Cauldron rising rapidly.

Originally, Fang Yu’s magic power was ten thousand Profound Yellow Fierce Horse power, already an outstanding figure in the third level of the Supernatural Realm, the Qi-Gong Realm.

But after adding fifty thousand Heavenly Demons, even if one Heavenly Demon only had five Profound Yellow Fierce Horse power, their combined strength, bolstered by the array, could unleash over two hundred thousand Profound Yellow Fierce Horse power.

And that wasn't even counting each Heavenly Demon exerting its full strength.

With the addition of over two hundred thousand Profound Yellow Fierce Horse power, plus Fang Yu’s own magic power, he could now fight against experts of the fifth level of the Supernatural Realm, the Celestial Realm.

What is cross-level challenging? This is cross-level challenging.

Obtaining a predecessor’s magic treasure and utilizing the power of the array gave one the opportunity to challenge across levels.

"It’s a pity I can’t absorb any more Heavenly Demons. These fifty thousand Heavenly Demons are an army of fifty thousand. With the blood energy of the Flesh and Blood Mire, I can keep them for a while, but any more and I won't be able to feed them; the Heavenly Demons will start killing each other."

After Fang Yu had raised fifty thousand Heavenly Demons, he stopped absorbing them.

There was no helping it; Heavenly Demons were also living beings. Although they were just a mass of yin wind, they were still living beings, and living beings must eat.

If he raised any more Heavenly Demons, the daily consumption would be enough to stretch his resources thin.

This time, when he had the Five Prison King Cauldron absorb the Heavenly Demons, he also absorbed the gray mist. This mist was flesh and blood essence, enough to feed this army of fifty thousand Heavenly Demons for several months.

After a few months, he would have to think of another way.

"The Heavenly Demons are enough. Let’s go, we’re going to kill the Heavenly Demon King."