Chapter 587: The Bandit

This "bandit" who had disrupted the order of the Demon Realm was naturally Zhang Nuo! Over the past dozen years or so, what he had gained from various trading shops could be said to be extremely abundant! From Magic Treasures to Spirit Stones, from Pills to materials, he had truly filled his pockets to the brim!

The Demon Beast Tide had actually provided him with an excellent opportunity; if it were in the past, had he dared to run rampant in the Demon Realm like this, he likely would have been hunted down by high-level demon cultivators long ago!

But right now, the strongest resistance he encountered was from existences at his own level, and it took a bit more effort to finally slay those demon cultivators!

Later, several large trading shops in the Demon Realm gathered a number of Ninth-Rank demonic beasts, intending to completely surround and intercept Zhang Nuo. Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Zhang Nuo had no choice but to stop and hide in an uninhabited valley to first refine the two great True Spirit Bloodlines within his body!

Ever since the Azure Dragon bloodline and the Xuanwu bloodline had entered Zhang Nuo's body, he had been nurturing them with his own aura. After more than twenty years, they finally had a slight effect of Assimilation!

Quite easily, Zhang Nuo fused both of them into his body, but what left him somewhat speechless was that although he had fused the True Spirit bloodlines, his cultivation base did not increase because of it!

It seemed that after entering the Integration Stage, if one wanted to advance again, it would not be as simple as the Spirit Severing Stage! Relying solely on two True Spirit bloodlines was far from enough!

Lowering his head to ponder for a moment, Zhang Nuo looked inward at the Four Spirits Square Cauldron within his body; inside it were still imprisoned the Heaven-Mending Stone and the Blue Flame True Thunder!

The Blue Flame True Thunder was nothing much; under the slow refining of the Four Spirits Square Cauldron, it would be ready for his use in a few more days. However, this piece of Heaven-Mending Stone was extremely thorny! The Divine Sense Mark left by Zhan Luo inside the stone was not something he could erase in a short while!

If he did not advance to the Refining Void Stage, with his current strength, he could forget about getting rid of Zhan Luo's Divine Sense! But without turning the Heaven-Mending Stone into an ownerless object, he had no way to use it!

Sighing lightly, Zhang Nuo now did not know if it was right or wrong to have snatched Zhan Luo's "Heaven-Mending Stone" back then! Normally speaking, the nine divine objects needed to fuse the Divine Sea were just a general name; that is to say, apart from the "Rebirth Grass," the other eight could be replaced by other things!

This was the reason why he had looked at the Jade Slips for such a long time in the Dao Scripture Pavilion of the Wuliang Dao Sect back then. Although these nine divine objects were hard to find, they were not absolutely unique! However, each one was a condensation of the essence of heaven and earth. For Zhang Nuo to have obtained three of them in just a few decades could already be considered a very great stroke of fortune!

Standing up, Zhang Nuo left the place where he had been practicing. Having lived in seclusion here for more than twenty years, presumably the rumors outside should have died down by now!

Several years later, Zhang Nuo ventured deep into the central region of the Demon Realm. This place was completely different from the areas he had visited a few years prior; it was significantly more prosperous and even had several demon cultivators with not-so-weak cultivation bases!

After making some inquiries, he realized that the matter of the "bandit" from back then had long been forgotten by the demon cultivators, and now the trading shops were opening up one after another!

As for the rumors about the bandit, the accounts varied! Zhang Nuo was quite happy that the demon cultivators had forgotten about this matter!

On this day, Zhang Nuo arrived before a large city in the Demon Realm. This city covered an area of ten thousand miles, and its Spiritual Qi far exceeded that of other towns in the Demon Realm!

Looking at the large characters written on the city gate: Yanmen! Zhang Nuo's heart could not help but stir! He had not expected that by some stroke of luck, he had actually arrived at the Demon Realm's largest city, Yanmen City!

Since he was here, Zhang Nuo had no choice but to go in once. After all, he had not yet found the cross-boundary teleportation Dharma Array to return to the Immortal Domain; perhaps this array was right here in Yanmen City!

Thinking of this, Zhang Nuo walked toward the city gate! Like the large cities in the Immortal Domain, to enter Yanmen City, one also needed to pay a certain amount of Spirit Stones!

Following the rules of the city, after completing the procedures, Zhang Nuo walked inside! Watching the various demon cultivators coming and going on the street, his heart could not help but stir!

This place really did gather a large number of Ninth-Rank demonic beasts, and everyone seemed to have formidable supernatural powers. Zhang Nuo used the same method to hide most of his cultivation, revealing only the appearance of being around the Spirit Severing Stage, and walked aimlessly on the street to see which trading shop was large enough to buy things useful to him!

Suddenly, Zhang Nuo's gaze swept past unintentionally, and he saw a figure that looked very familiar!

That was a young girl of seventeen or eighteen, with a graceful figure and a dignified bearing! She wore a plain white long dress, had a high nose bridge, a pointed chin, and a standard oval face; her skin was so smooth that it seemed as if it would drip water if pinched! Her eyebrows were curved, her beautiful eyes were filled with emotion, and her thin red lips always carried a faint smile!

After lowering his head to think for a moment, Zhang Nuo felt as if his whole body had been struck by lightning! Wasn't this girl Murong Hongxiu, the Hall Master of the Wuliang Dao Sect's "Jintian Hall"? How did she appear in the Demon Realm?

In an instant, countless doubts rose in his mind, but they were broken one after another! He could not understand why Murong Hongxiu would appear here! And looking at her appearance, her delicate body also emitted the aura of a demonic beast!

Carefully following behind the girl, Zhang Nuo saw her walk into a stone grotto. The architecture of demonic beasts was not quite the same as that of humans; this stone grotto was equivalent to a teahouse for human cultivators!

Zhang Nuo did not rashly go in, because Murong Hongxiu's cultivation was far above his own, and there was no guarantee he wouldn't be discovered by her! He waited quietly at a spot outside the stone grotto. After about half an hour, the girl walked out of the stone grotto, a faint smile hanging on her delicate and pretty face!

With light steps, she slowly walked toward another tall building in Yanmen City! In Yanmen City, a Restriction against flying had also been placed, and almost all cultivators were walking! Zhang Nuo locked onto the girl with his Divine Sense and did not rush to chase her, but waited until she disappeared among the many demon cultivators before getting up to follow.

After walking for more than an hour, a tall, domed building appeared before the girl. Looking from afar, the atmosphere inside the building was peaceful, as if it were a geomantic treasure land for Zen cultivation!

This was the first time Zhang Nuo had seen such a place in the Demon Realm, and his heart felt a slight chill; it seemed that everywhere, there were places for people to cultivate in peace!

Murong Hongxiu flashed and entered the building. Zhang Nuo swept his Divine Sense toward the entrance, only to see two very special characters inscribed on the gate!

"Heavenly Demon!"

Zhang Nuo gasped. He was no stranger to the term "Heavenly Demon." Back when he was in the Human Realm, Baijiaowang was a descendant of a Heavenly Demon. When he was on the Immortal Illusion Continent, his spatial supernatural powers could be said to be peerless!

Since this building dared to bear the characters "Heavenly Demon," it was enough to show that this might be a gathering place for Heavenly Demons! But at the same time, questions arose in Zhang Nuo's heart!

Since it was a place where Heavenly Demons stayed, why could Murong Hongxiu come and go freely? And looking at her appearance, she seemed to be a regular here, and no demon cultivators had actually stopped her!

For a dignified Hall Master of the "Jintian Hall" to have such close dealings with Heavenly Demons seemed somewhat unusual! Zhang Nuo had once thought that he had recognized the wrong person! But the girl's unique, peerless beauty quickly made him dismiss this thought!

Murong Hongxiu's beauty completely exceeded normal boundaries; even if someone deliberately tried to disguise themselves, it would likely be impossible to achieve!

Zhang Nuo kept watch outside the building. Several days later, Murong Hongxiu still had not come out, and the doubts in his heart grew even larger. He had tried several times to probe his Divine Sense into the building, but all ended in failure! This building seemed to have no Spirit Power fluctuations, but inside, there was a powerful Restriction!

Forced by helplessness, Zhang Nuo made inquiries in the city and only then learned that the building with the characters "Heavenly Demon" was called the Heavenly Demon Mansion, an important place in Yanmen City, where all the residents were demon cultivators who possessed different Heavenly Demon bloodlines!

After finding everything out, Zhang Nuo was even more puzzled! Why could Murong Hongxiu enter the Heavenly Demon Mansion so easily? What kind of hidden story was there in this?

Zhang Nuo had wanted to summon Xuan Jin to let him go into the Heavenly Demon Mansion to investigate, but unexpectedly, Xuan Jin and Qiong Qi were at a critical point of practicing the "Myriad Phenomena Map" and could not get away at all!

Shaking his head with a bitter smile, Zhang Nuo had no choice but to continue waiting outside the Heavenly Demon Mansion!

A few days later, Murong Hongxiu finally walked out of the Heavenly Demon Mansion, and with a grave expression on her face, the girl seemed very anxious. After leaving the Heavenly Demon Mansion, she went straight out of Yanmen City and flew away into the distant sky in the southeast direction!

Zhang Nuo was also unwilling to let her go; he drove his escape light and followed from a distance. Two months later, Zhang Nuo suddenly discovered that Murong Hongxiu in front had disappeared!

Even with his Divine Sense fully expanded, he still could not find a single trace!

Zhang Nuo stood in mid-air with his arms crossed, thinking carefully. He believed that from leaving the city to the subsequent tracking, he had been extremely careful; even if Murong Hongxiu were an Integration Late Stage cultivator, she likely would not have been able to discover him!

But since she had not discovered him, how could she have suddenly lost her trace?

Unable to find an answer after much thought, Zhang Nuo flicked his body, and ten thousand rays of red light flashed from within him; these were the countless "Hidden Wing Blood-Eating Insects." These Spirit Insects were very strange; they had no distinction between male and female and were completely differentiated from individuals to the next generation. After so many years, the number of Spirit Insects in Zhang Nuo's body had long reached a terrifying level!

In order to ensure that he did not lose too much essence blood, Zhang Nuo sometimes needed to weed out a batch of Spirit Insects that had not evolved! Despite this, the number of Spirit Insects was still increasing!

After releasing these Spirit Insects, a white light flashed across Zhang Nuo's brow, and he activated the "Divine Sense Splitting" technique, dividing his Divine Sense into several parts and attaching them to these red beetles!

As the chirping of insects rose, the cloud of insects around Zhang Nuo scattered and descended toward the large area of ground in the surroundings! He wanted to use the "Divine Sense Splitting" technique to find some clues about Murong Hongxiu!