Chapter 250

Rumor had it that the Ten Thousand Demon Nation was located in the southwest, hidden deep within endless mountains. The Divine Marquis Mansion had sent a large number of people to the southwest to investigate, but they had found nothing.

Chu Yang felt the legend should be correct; judging by the level of activity of the Demon Race in the south, they were definitely in the southwest.

It was just that they had hidden themselves using a special method.

Similar to the Dragon-Protecting Villa.

It was not uncommon to hide one's location using a formation formed by the natural laws of heaven and earth, but the Ten Thousand Demon Nation was as large as a country and required a much larger natural formation to hide it.

Did such a massive natural formation really exist between heaven and earth? Chu Yang intended to find it.

Riding the wind on a flying sword, it only took half an hour to reach the southwest. Among the ten thousand miles of mountains, at a glance, the dense vegetation looked like ten thousand acres of green waves.

"To gain insight into a natural grand formation, one must first cause a vibration in space."

Chu Yang summoned 【Fengdu】 and 【Heavenly Gate】, maneuvering the two flying swords to shuttle through every corner of the mountains. Wherever the flying swords went, they always cut long, narrow spatial rifts.

Searching for the location of the Ten Thousand Demon Nation in this way might cause some unnecessary trouble, but he could no longer care about that.

Although the method was crude, it was very effective. Before long, Chu Yang noticed an abnormal location.

Deep in the mountains, there was a dilapidated ancient temple, inside which a faceless statue was worshipped. Upon approaching, there were faint sounds of ghosts crying and wolves howling.

Sunlight shone in through the broken roof, yet it still could not dispel the gloom of the ancient temple. Something seemed to be twisting in the corner.

"The sense of spatial distortion is so severe; the entrance to the Ten Thousand Demon Nation should be here, but..."

Chu Yang looked around and muttered, "This ancient temple seems to be some kind of sealing method. Was the entrance to the Ten Thousand Demon Nation artificially sealed?"

"Who did it?"

A strange feeling rose in Chu Yang's heart.

He shook his head; standing outside and thinking was useless, so he might as well go in and find out.

Subsequently, he stepped into the ancient temple.

The interior of the ancient temple and the outside seemed to be two different worlds. The moment he walked in, the light disappeared completely, leaving only pitch-black darkness.

That kind of darkness was not just visual; the body's five senses seemed useless, and the surroundings seemed to be in a state of absolute silence.

"Playing god."

Chu Yang opened his palm, and blinding thunder light exploded suddenly, with electric snakes slithering into every corner of the ancient temple.

Strange figures and extremely filthy auras appeared.

"Demons!"

The power of the Five Absolutes of Heaven-Mixing swept toward the surroundings along with Chu Yang's fist edge. One punch with five styles, the power of the five spirits—wind, fire, thunder, earth, and water—pierced through the black shadows around him.

The ancient temple shook!

Sharp, mournful cries rang out, and the demonic figures in the darkness exploded one after another. After a few breaths, everything returned to nothingness.

However, the filthy aura did not decrease; instead, it had a feeling of intensifying.

After the demons died, the ancient temple finally became a bit brighter. Chu Yang looked up at the faceless statue, where a twisting vortex emerged in the center.

"The entrance to the Ten Thousand Demon Nation..."

Chu Yang pondered for a moment and walked into the vortex.

A familiar feeling of weightlessness came; this was a feeling often experienced when traveling through space.

After landing, Chu Yang was a bit dazed. Everything within his line of sight showed no signs of a nation; all there was was a gloomy ghost realm.

He had the illusion of having arrived in the Underworld.

A gray world, dilapidated buildings, and as the wind howled, many broken utensils rolled past Chu Yang's feet.

Chu Yang picked one up to examine it; some of the artifacts were inscribed with the language of the Demon Race.

This was indeed the Ten Thousand Demon Nation...

But why was the Ten Thousand Demon Nation like this? "The country was destroyed to this extent; no wonder the Demon Race left as a whole, abandoning their ancestral land. The scourge of demons is truly terrifying."

Where the demons came from, where they erupted from, and when they started—there was absolutely no record in the history of the Ming Empire, as if they had suddenly appeared one day.

The Ten Thousand Demon Nation was terrifyingly dead silent, with no signs of life. All that met the eye was a gray expanse, like an old black-and-white photograph.

Suddenly, a sound came from the end of the street—hungry and rapid breathing!

Before long, a strangely shaped demon rushed out, heading straight for Chu Yang, opening its mouth to let out an excited wail.

It seemed it hadn't seen a living creature for a long time.

Intense excitement made it want to tear apart everything it saw! Not only that, but greedy gazes came from the broken walls, landing on him like a slippery, damp poisonous snake coiling around him.

In the dead Ten Thousand Demon Nation, only demons remained, and these demons were transformed from a large number of the Demon Race.

Demons appeared on this street one after another, and even the air took on an indescribable smell.

The wind blew even harder...

Suddenly!

Blinding radiance bloomed between heaven and earth.

The sun and moon rose.

Illuminating the dim Ten Thousand Demon Nation.

Two flying swords circled at Chu Yang's side, killing demons one by one with the power of thunder. That filthy power could not affect 【Fengdu】 and 【Heavenly Gate】.

Chu Yang strolled through the Ten Thousand Demon Nation like this, and the pile of demon corpses behind him had already become a mountain.

"Where is the source of the demon outbreak? And where is the Sovereign of the Demon Race that the Demon Emperor spoke of?"

"Whether it's death or demonization, there should be some traces left behind."

Here, apart from demons, Chu Yang saw nothing else.

"Where is the Imperial Palace?"

The contiguous buildings of the Ten Thousand Demon Nation had become ruins, and it was somewhat difficult to find the location of the Imperial Palace among them.

Chu Yang could only lean toward the location where the filthy aura was most severe; intuition told him that was the Imperial Palace, where the Sovereign of the Demon Race resided.

He didn't know how much time had passed.

A great mountain appeared before his eyes.

The mountain was shaped like a dragon's head, and the mountain belly was hollow; one had to enter through the dragon's mouth.

"The answer is inside."

Chu Yang walked in. Along the way, the stone walls on both sides were carved with murals, which seemed to tell the origin of the Ten Thousand Demon Nation.

Twelve Demon Kings... Three Demon Emperors...

The murals told of their situation before heaven and earth changed, and also told of when they gained wisdom and when they cultivated to their current level.

For the Demon Race, this might be an inspiring growth history, but for the Human Race, this was a history of blood and tears of countless innocent people.

The birth of every Demon King was achieved by stepping on a mountain of human corpses and a sea of blood.

The murals traced back further and further, arriving at the part about the Sovereign of the Demon Race.

At the very beginning, it was a small, spiritual flower, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth under the moonlight.

Its growth did not involve the blood and tears of the Human Race; it just bloomed quietly between heaven and earth.

The murals stopped abruptly here.

Chu Yang also arrived at the deepest part of the Imperial Palace, an incomparably wide platform.

The surroundings were piled with the corpses of demons, some of which had died not long ago, and in the very center, where the corpses were most numerous, a beautiful flower was blooming.

On one side of the flower was the human world, and on the other side was an endless hell.

This was...

The Sovereign of the Demon Race!

"Who is it?"

A gentle female voice reached Chu Yang's ears, the voice very weak, with a trembling tone of pain. "Are you the Demon Emperor?"

As she spoke, Chu Yang walked over with large strides, the twin swords flying at his side, sweeping away the surrounding demon corpses. Before long, the entire platform became clean.

"Demon Emperor?"

"Those little ones do indeed call me that, but I don't think I am an Emperor; I am just a flower."

The flower's voice was ethereal. After the demon corpses disappeared, she seemed to feel a little more relaxed.

"As the Sovereign of the Demon Race, can you not even take human form?"

Chu Yang stood before the flower, his hands behind his back, looking coldly at the flower.

It was a very ordinary flower, with no stunning appearance on the outside; not to mention that one wouldn't look at it twice when passing by, one might even accidentally step on it and kill it.

It was just such an unremarkable flower.

"I could before, but now I can't. All my power is used to maintain the balance between the human world and the Underworld..."

The flower said, trembling.

Underworld?

Chu Yang's heart stirred slightly.

"Are you human?"

The flower asked curiously, "How did you get here?"

Chu Yang replied indifferently, "I walked in, naturally."

The flower's petals opened to the maximum extent, appearing very excited. "The Human Race is strong to this extent; you should be able to resist these ominous things. In this way, I don't have to worry about the Underworld affecting the human world."

Chu Yang frowned and said, "The Human Race is strong; as a member of the Demon Race, what are you happy about? Aren't you worried about your race being exterminated?"

"What does the strength of the Human Race have to do with the extinction of the Demon Race?" The gentle female voice revealed confusion. "Is the relationship between the two races not good?"

Chu Yang did not answer, but asked instead, "How long have you been here?"

The flower replied, "I have always been here..."

Chu Yang sighed; the so-called Sovereign of the Demon Race did not know that the Demon Race and the Human Race were at odds.

She had handed down cultivation methods to the demons she met; as for devouring humans to increase their cultivation, that was the demons' own choice.

The flower guessed something from Chu Yang's silence and asked in a low voice, "Did those children do bad things?"

Chu Yang laid out the conflict between the human and demon races, including the Demon Race using the Human Race as blood food to increase their cultivation, and the current situation where the Demon Race was confined to the East Island.

A long silence fell between the two.

"Everything is my fault; I am the beginning of the disaster."

"The Underworld and the ominous things were all brought by me."

The intermittent female voice came, full of guilt and sadness.

"Underworld?" Chu Yang frowned slightly. "Could it be the Underworld/Hell?"

"No." The female voice paused. "To be precise, it is not yet. Heaven and earth are recovering, and the Six Paths of Reincarnation are the first to restart. At this time, it is still in a state of chaos, so it is just a state of the Underworld, with no order to speak of."

"The ominous things come from the Underworld, in a state of being neither born nor dead, defiling the living, desecrating the dead, bearing all sins—they are the filthiest things between heaven and earth."

"Only when the Six Paths of Reincarnation are fully recovered and order appears will the ominous things disappear completely and return to heaven and earth."

"It was just that I communicated with the Underworld, which brought the ominous things that did not belong to the human world here, and the Demon Race was cursed because of it; seeing them is ominous."

"The Ten Thousand Demon Nation rose because of me and died because of me."

Chu Yang took a deep breath. Only now did he know the true origin of the demons, and he was even more curious about the flower that could communicate with the Underworld. "What exactly are you?"

"I... am the first Other Shore Flower of the Underworld, but I grew toward the sun, growing in the crack between the human world and the Underworld."

The Other Shore Flower revealed her identity and said with regret, "If I hadn't been greedy for this beautiful world and forcibly taken root and sprouted in the human world, the Underworld would not have approached here because of my attraction."

"I am the culprit who caused all this..."

Chu Yang looked at the Other Shore Flower in the crack between the two worlds. To prevent the Underworld from further affecting the human world, she was consuming herself to prevent the two worlds from getting closer.

This flower was already about to wither.

She had only craved the sunlight, yet she had paid a painful price.

Sympathy was not the word, as the Human Race had not had an easy life because of the demons and the Demon Race; Chu Yang just felt a bit emotional.

"Six Paths of Reincarnation..."

Ever since he approached the Other Shore Flower, Chu Yang had felt a palpitation from the 【Fengdu】 sword body, as if it were urging him to enter the Underworld.

The Other Shore Flower was still talking to herself, "I don't know if I can hold on until the Six Paths of Reincarnation are reshaped. After so many years, I am very tired and want to have a good rest."

"Are those ominous things increasing because the killing in the human world is increasing?"

The filthy aura surged suddenly, and the petals of the Other Shore Flower flickered with strange light, as if there were signs that she could not hold on.

Just at this moment.

【Heavenly Gate】 let out a crisp sword hum, and a soft white light shone brightly, allowing the gray world before his eyes to briefly appear in color.

The Other Shore Flower returned to calm and asked in disbelief, "What power was that just now?!"

Chu Yang shook his head; he didn't know much about the abilities of 【Heavenly Gate】 himself and couldn't answer the Other Shore Flower at all.

"Can you send me into the Underworld?"

"You want to enter the Underworld?!"

The Other Shore Flower was startled at first, then remembered the miraculous nature of 【Heavenly Gate】, and hope suddenly ignited in her heart. She said, "I can send you into the Underworld, but you must be careful yourself. The Six Paths of Reincarnation have not yet taken shape, and it is very chaotic and dangerous there."

Chu Yang waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter, I'll trouble you to give me a ride."

A petal fell from the Other Shore Flower and drifted into Chu Yang's hand, and the voice of the Other Shore Flower sounded in his ears.

"Take my petal, and you will reach the Underworld if you walk forward, but you must think clearly; I have no way to help you come back."

Chu Yang nodded, grasped the petal, and strode across to the other side of the Other Shore Flower.

A cold aura rushed toward him, and by the time he came to his senses, he was already standing on the Underworld.

A bone-chilling cold like Yellow Spring water attacked from all sides, and the deathly silence around him was also extremely similar to the Naihe Bridge.

The 【Fengdu】 sword body trembled non-stop, as if it were excited to the extreme. If Chu Yang hadn't forcibly restrained it, it would almost have pierced the sky! "To restart the Six Paths of Reincarnation, how can Fengdu City be missing?"

Chu Yang's eyes held a smile, and he spread his arms as if embracing this Underworld.

"Bankai!"

【Fengdu】 disappeared, and a large seal appeared in Chu Yang's hand. In the void, the shadow of Fengdu City flickered, gradually becoming real.

The moment Fengdu City landed on the Underworld, the entire Underworld began to shake crazily, undergoing some kind of drastic change! The roars of the ominous things echoed one after another on the Underworld land, as if in terror, or as if in relief.

The chaotic aura wandering in the Underworld all surged into Fengdu City, and the entire world gradually became clear because of this.

The wind rose on the land.

The ominous things passed away with the wind one after another.

At the same time, the Four Great Constables were leading the Divine Marquis Mansion constables in a fierce battle with demons near the Ten Thousand Demon Nation, the situation extremely dangerous, with everyone injured.

Sheng Yayu was unfortunately infected and was on the verge of demonization.

Just as she was preparing to perish with the demons, the demons before her slowly dissipated.

Even the injuries on her body stopped worsening.

"The demons are gone!!!"

Ten Thousand Demon Nation.

The Other Shore Flower bloomed quietly, and a beautiful woman walked out from the flower heart.

She bowed devoutly to the majestic figure in the Underworld, as if weeping and pleading.

"Welcome back, Great Emperor!"

(End of chapter)