Chapter 345

Qian Chen reached out and crushed a 'Jade Food Pill', scattering it casually. The jade dust fell down in a flurry, and lonely ghosts and wild spirits from all directions swarmed over. When the shadowy residual souls manifested, Qian Chen was slightly stunned.

In these wild mountains and forests, those ghosts with blurred faces numbered about several thousand.

Some of them still had relatively clear faces and knew how to cup their hands and bow to Qian Chen, thanking him with a bow, but more of them were already muddled and had no intelligence left, knowing only instinctively to chase after those jade dust pill foods.

Feng Shi flapped its wings and was about to go up and grab food with the group of ghosts, but Ning Qingchen hurriedly held it back.

The group stared at the lonely ghosts and wild spirits that had gathered from the mountains and forests, and for a moment, they were speechless.

Some mountain spirits and demon souls also came over, smelling the pill scent.

The mountains were covered with moss, and the mountain spirits and wild monsters with beast heads had red eyes, looking at Qian Chen and the others with fear and trepidation. The residual sword qi here had disturbed them, and the look in their eyes toward Qian Chen and the others revealed a hint of extremely hidden malice amidst the fear.

Under normal circumstances, Qian Chen wouldn't care about them.

He casually scattered a handful of jade dust, which was just a habit of a Daoist disciple; seeing a mass grave, he subconsciously offered a sacrifice, which was no different from offering a sacrifice to mountain spirits and wild monsters compared to lonely ghosts and wild spirits.

But seeing these architectural ruins that had already turned into ruins, and the dense, terrifying lonely ghosts and wild spirits, Qian Chen had a feeling in his heart that he couldn't describe.

"Get lost! These things are not for you!"

He flicked a strand of sword qi, which manifested as a green lotus in the void.

The green lotus petals bloomed, and the green sword qi swept across the sky, slaying all those mountain spirits and wild monsters that lingered and refused to leave.

You San and the other were startled, discovering that this young Daoist priest, who looked no more than seventeen or eighteen, had sword qi sweeping across the sky with a single move, and his cultivation was quite good, not the disciples out for trials as they had imagined.

Recalling Qian Chen's address to Yan Shu, the two guessed somewhat anxiously: "Could it be that these few are also Core Formation True Persons?"

Although they had this thought for a moment, the two quickly denied it themselves!

So young, even if they had just succeeded in Foundation Establishment, they would already be young talents!

Core Formation True Persons have cultivation equivalent to the demon race's Great Demon Generals. Among human cultivators, which living Core Formation True Person is not famous, venerable and respected, and of an advanced age?

There are even many high-ranking figures who attained the Dao before the Great Tribulation.

Qian Chen and the others looked too young...

And Qian Chen only waved a strand of sword qi. Yan Shu had attacked earlier, but hundreds of sword qi had slain all the demon monsters in an instant.

Qian Chen raised one hand in a sword finger, stood it before his chest, bowed his head slightly, and said 'Shang Xiang' in a low voice to the group of lonely ghosts and wild spirits.

Seeing a point of spiritual light flow through the pool of blood on the ground, Qian Chen pointed casually, taking the two tusks of the wild boar demon.

He reached out and wiped away the bloodstains, shaking his head slightly: "Demons and monsters refine magic treasures, generally just using demonic qi to simply wash and refine their own horns and teeth. But this wild boar demon used the magic formula for refining magic treasures."

"This object can already be called a proper low-rank magic treasure!"

Qian Chen threw a wild boar tusk to Yan Shu.

Yan Shu took the wild boar tooth, his brows furrowed tightly, and couldn't help but shake his head: "Demons use proper magic formulas, while the human race uses all sorts of messy witch-tools and evil tools that come from blood sacrifices..."

"It seems that after the Kong Que Demon King slaughtered many human sects, it snatched many Daoist book inheritances, which it relied on to establish the Demon Kingdom!" Ning Qingchen said solemnly.

Yan Shu casually threw the wild boar tusk in his hand to You San, glared and said: "Change that evil magic treasure of yours! Bury it properly!"

Qian Chen stained a trace of the wild boar demon's blood qi and casually drew a round light. A water mirror formed in the void. The mirror light flowed like glaze, clearly illuminating the distance. Through the sword light, one could see a thick demonic qi rising into the sky on the horizon in the distance, coming toward their direction.

"This wild boar demon is only afraid of being the descendant of some great demon. When it died, the bloodline induction disturbed that great demon. It is on its way here!"

Yan Shu folded his arms and sneered, saying: "Should we kill them all here?"

Qian Chen shook his head slightly: "Just arrived, the situation is unclear. Even if we want to take action suddenly, we should kill a target with value. Just a great demon is not worth us alerting the enemy!"

Yan Shu wrapped You San and the other with sword light, and together with Qian Chen and the three, they rose with their swords, fleeing instantly in the opposite direction from where the demonic qi came.

After a long time, a wild boar the size of a small mountain squeezed rudely through the small path in the mountains and forests.

Trees as thick as one person's embrace were easily pushed over by the two thick tusks in front of it.

A thin, withered weasel stood on its back, standing upright, clutching its claws, its white fur dirty, looking like a stooped, old man wearing a sheepskin jacket.

The wild boar demon carried the weasel to the location of the ruins. The weasel twitched its nose and said in a hoarse, strange voice: "There really is the aura of living people here. Hmm? And a very wonderful clear fragrance!"

The wild boar made a human voice thick with phlegm in its throat and said: "I don't care who it is? The human race killed my son, so they must all die!"

The weasel looked at that pool of rotten meat and sneered: "To be able to slaughter your son into this state, the one who took action should be a Core Formation True Person of the human race. The Core Formation True Persons who can live until now are all ruthless characters!"

"Nuerchi, you might not be able to do it!"

The wild boar snorted twice, but did not refute. If it weren't for this, it wouldn't have called Huang Ji to come along.

"The two humans it was chasing should have come to spy on the Demon Kingdom's secrets. Hehe, the Great Wisdom King wants to take action against the Great King Chi Tie, so there's no need to hide it. In the Demon Kingdom, there are plenty of herbivorous demons to report to the Great King Chi Tie!"

The wild boar angrily swung its tusks, smashing a broken wall to pieces, and said angrily: "Those things that eat inside and out, back then we ate meat in big mouthfuls, but those old things couldn't stand their offspring being eaten, and made a fuss, making the Demon Kingdom restless."

"Later, the Great Wisdom King gave an order! We are not allowed to eat cattle, sheep, or deer, and everyone can only eat humans..."

"They let the human race farm to feed them, and even secretly colluded with the human race. Hmph! Back when the human race oppressed the demon race, if it weren't for the Great Wisdom King, they would have been mounts for the human race!"

"Where would it be their turn to turn over and be the masters?"

"Refusing to eat meat with us! These scourges should all be killed, letting us meat-eating demons dominate the Demon Kingdom! Should we report to the Great Wisdom King... and file a complaint against them?"

The weasel did not comment on these words of the brainless wild boar general, just stroked its beard and said: "There's no need to report this to the Great Wisdom King yet!"

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Fleeing a thousand miles away at will, Qian Chen landed his sword light on a mountain peak.

Yan Shu put the two down. You San clutched the wild boar tusk tightly, looking at Qian Chen and the others with some horror, because the demon race was too cruel. At first, there were still some human traitors, but soon, even the human traitors were desperate about the demon race.

So they saw that Qian Chen and the others were human, and did not doubt their origins.

But the performance of Qian Chen and the others couldn't help but make them somewhat suspicious. You San had already made up his mind that if these people asked about the secrets within the human race, he would tell a few lies.

Qian Chen saw his suspicious eyes and laughed: "Don't be afraid, we are human cultivators who came to this place from another world and will not collude with the demon race."

"Other... other worlds?" You San was somewhat confused.

Qian Chen didn't explain to him either, directly asking: "This world has a powerful demon race. I don't know how many demon kings there are, what their cultivation levels are, and where they are now? I won't ask you about human affairs, but the demon race's shouldn't be taboo, right!"

Saying this, he threw the other wild boar tooth to Hu Wu Liu.

Hu Wu Liu was not as suspicious as You San. He took the wild boar tooth, wiped it with his sleeve, and hurriedly said: "Not taboo, not taboo, the Demon Kingdom has five great demon kings, everyone knows this!"

"The five great demon kings are led by the Kong Que Great Wisdom King. It is said that this demon's cultivation is heaven-penetrating and is about to become a Demon Saint of the demon race! This demon is the culprit who destroyed the Great Ming Dynasty back then. That year, it posed as the Imperial Preceptor, deceived the trust of the Emperor who advocated the Dao, and under the name of refining longevity pills, incited the cultivators of my human race to fight each other."

"It even used the name of great righteousness to destroy the Jin Gang Temple of the Buddhist sect, and later turned around and destroyed the Qingxu Sect of the Daoist sect that helped it destroy the Jin Gang Temple. The Tongming Sect and the Ten Thousand Zhushan, both being among the four major sects, felt something was wrong, so they joined forces with several seniors of the righteous path to enter the capital, wanting to expose the true face of the Imperial Preceptor. Who would have thought that all the civil and military officials in the court had already been eaten by the Kong Que Great Wisdom King, and the court was full of demons and monsters."

"Afterward, in the battle of the capital, several seniors and the people of the whole city were all swallowed by the Kong Que Demon King after it revealed its original form. At that time, this demon's cultivation was already unrivaled, and the elite of the righteous path were emptied."

"Then, the Kong Que Demon King ascended the throne in the Imperial City, calling itself the Kong Que Great Wisdom King of the Demon Kingdom, summoning demons and monsters from all directions to destroy the human race. Several demon kings responded, and after thirty years of bloody war between humans and demons, the human race suffered countless casualties, and the inheritance of human cultivators was mostly cut off. The sect master and the four great elders of the Tongming Sect all died, the Ten Thousand Zhushan was broken, and only one or two disciples remained. That piece of green wave bamboo sea was burned until only one ancestral bamboo remained."

"If it weren't for the fact that after the bamboo sea was burned, it disturbed the Great King Chi Tie deep in the bamboo forest, who protected the last inheritance of the human race, this world... I'm afraid there would be no human cultivators left!" Hu Wu Liu sobbed.

"And those demons and monsters snatched the classics, magic treasures, and elixirs of the four major sects and other sects, and their cultivation levels advanced by leaps and bounds, and they even began to practice human cultivation methods."

"Among them, four demon kings with ancient bloodline inheritance—the Dragon Tree King, the Black Ox King, the White Bone King, and the Wisdom Zhi Zhi Lang Wang—gradually showed their heads and became the four deputy kings of the Demon Kingdom."

"The Wisdom Zhi Zhi Lang Wang's bloodline is the Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf, a great demon from the northern grasslands. The reason it was titled the Wisdom Zhi Zhi Lang Wang is because it is cunning and treacherous by nature, leading tens of thousands of wolf packs from the grasslands to the south, killing countless people! Eight or nine out of ten of the human race's blood debts were committed by it. It is the demon king with the greatest power in the demon race besides the Kong Que Demon King. Now the wolf race occupies forty percent of the Great Ming territory, with a million wolf demons!"

Hu Wu Liu said with grief and indignation.

"Another Howling Moon Heavenly Wolf!" Qian Chen sneered: "I wouldn't mind having one more wolf-skin mattress!"

"I'm afraid it's too foul-smelling! Junior Brother won't be used to lying on it!" Yan Shu stroked his sword box, trying his best to suppress his killing intent.

"The Dragon Tree King was originally a Bodhi tree in the backyard of the Jin Gang Temple. Later, the Kong Que King slaughtered the monks of the Jin Gang Temple, buried their bones under the Bodhi tree, and even demolished the Buddhist pagoda, crushing the sariras of the high monks of past generations under the tree."

"The Bodhi tree thus fell into the demon path, wanting to kill the Kong Que King, but was subdued by it after three battles, completely becoming its accomplice, and was titled the Great Awakening Dragon Tree King, specifically to brainwash our human race and make us submit to the demon race's rule."

"The Dragon Tree King occupies the original Jin Gang Temple and has eight hundred demon monks under its command, specifically claiming to the human people that the human race had sins in their past lives, so they were reborn as humans and are destined to be eaten by the demon race. Only after passing through the demon race's belly can they wash away their sins and be reborn as demons, in turn 'converting' sinners! It also distorted Buddhist scriptures and created a set of demonic words to slander the correct Dharma of the Buddhist sect!"

"Swish!"

A strand of sword qi leaked from the sword box, shattering the large rock Yan Shu was sitting on.

Hu Wu Liu was startled, but Qian Chen comforted him: "It's fine, Yan Yan Shixiong is polishing his sword!"

"Polishing his sword?" Hu Wu Liu looked at Yan Shu's empty hands and was somewhat confused.

"Polishing the sword in his heart!" Qian Chen said calmly: "You continue!"

"The White Bone King is a demon formed from white bones, with a mysterious origin, commanding many ghosts, and it has established its own branch in the Demon Kingdom. Although it is named a demon king, it is actually a ghost king! In the territory it governs, the human race is the most miserable! Other demon kings at least need living people to support them, but the White Bone King doesn't want living people, only dead people!"

"Finally, there is the Black Ox King. It doesn't eat humans. But it makes the human race plant grass and grain in the fertile fields, but the grain produced is all eaten by the herbivorous demon race under its command. The human race under its command works hard, often starving to death, with few living past forty!"

"The relationship between the Black Ox King and the Wisdom Zhi Zhi Lang Wang is the worst, because the Wisdom Zhi Zhi Lang Wang has too many wolf packs. Although they ranch the human race, every time they eat humans, they leave some human seeds, but such scourges, of course, make the number of the human race smaller and smaller, so the wolf packs under the Wisdom Zhi Zhi Lang Wang often run to the Black Ox King's territory to eat humans, making the Black Ox King very angry!"

"They are all demons and monsters that should be killed!" Yan Shu said angrily.

Qian Chen's eyes moved slightly. He turned his head and asked Yan Shu and the two junior sisters: "Having heard this, what are Yan Yan Shixiong Yan and the two junior sisters' thoughts?"

Yan Shu answered first: "The Kong Que Demon King is the strongest, and far stronger than the other demon kings!"

Ning Qingchen also nodded slightly: "In the war between humans and demons, the human race was almost wiped out, mostly caused by the Kong Que Great Wisdom King. This demon's will, wisdom, and cultivation cannot be underestimated."

Si Qingcheng hurriedly nodded: "I think so too!"

Qian Chen ignored this fool and turned to continue asking: "Among the human race, what level is a Core Formation True Person equivalent to in the demon race?"

Hu Wu Liu said: "Equivalent to a Demon General!"

So the demon king is the Yin Spirit realm? No, the five great demon kings all have ancient bloodlines, so they should be slightly superior, equivalent to Yang Spirit? The Demon Saint is the human race's Primordial Spirit, so the Kong Que Great Wisdom King is equivalent to the peak of Yang Spirit?

Qian Chen made a judgment on the cultivation and combat power of the five great demon kings in his heart.

And what the reality is, still needs further investigation... for example, kill a demon king and try it out!

"You are spies sent by the human race to the Demon Kingdom. You should know the places where each demon king often appears, their patterns of action, and how many demons and monsters they have under their command. You should tell me in detail."

Qian Chen didn't think that the remaining forces of the human race had been beaten to this extent by the demon race, and still had anything that could help them.

Getting entangled too deeply would instead be a burden.

The struggle between humans and demons in this Qiongming world is already a life-and-death situation, and with this ground full of demonic stench, Qian Chen didn't think there was any room for maneuver. It is only a matter of killing.

Taking advantage of the fact that they are in the dark and the demons are in the light, find one and kill it first.

If it can be dealt with, then use lightning strikes and guerrilla tactics, looking for the five great demon kings and killing them one by one, until the demon race is fully vigilant, then find an opportunity for a decisive battle, behead them, and sweep away all the demons and monsters in this world.

Only by killing until the demon race is terrified at the thought of it three hundred years later!

Can the demonic stench be swept away, and a bright blue sky be returned to this world.

Hu Wu Liu turned his head to look at You San with some difficulty. In this regard, he really didn't know as much as You San, who had been mixing in the Demon Kingdom for a long time.

You San saw that Qian Chen and the others were all asking about the demon race, and gradually let go of his vigilance, cupped his hands and said: "If several True Persons want to ambush the great demons and demon generals of the demon race, I am willing to lead the way for the True Persons!"