Ch 693: A Path To Survival
This demon wore a black robe edged with gold, slightly different in appearance from other demons; a three-inch-long horn grew on his dark forehead.
The horn was silvery white, very conspicuous.
“City Lord!”
The gate-guarding Two-Star Demon, upon seeing this horned demon, immediately shouted with respect.
The City Lord Demon nodded, then turned around, his gaze swiftly sweeping across the surroundings.
But after a sweep, a look of doubt appeared in his eyes.
“Strange, I clearly sensed a very unfamiliar aura just now, but now it’s suddenly disappeared. Did I sense wrong?”
The City Lord Demon muttered, scanning the surroundings again.
Still finding nothing, he slightly lifted his foot and disappeared on the spot.
At this moment, Li Hanzhou, already several thousand meters away, breathed a sigh of relief.
Looking at the enormous city before him, a flicker of fear flashed in Li Hanzhou’s eyes.
“This City Lord Demon is terrifyingly powerful; he’s a Six-Star Demon!”
According to the ranking of demon strength, a Six-Star Demon’s strength is comparable to that of a Tribulation Crossing Stage cultivator.
And a Six-Star Demon with Tribulation Crossing Stage strength is truly terrifying.
Even Moon Howling Old Ancestor and the Five-Star Demon could not discover his Baoding Cave Heaven.
But as he was about to enter the City Gate, the City Lord Demon instantly discovered his presence. If he hadn’t dodged in time, he would have been discovered.
“I can’t enter the city now.”
With such a City Lord around, Li Hanzhou estimated that if he insisted on entering the city, the consequence would only be discovery by the City Lord. The final outcome would be either immediate death or being captured like Zhao Lianzhen and the others.
But apart from this city, the surroundings were very desolate, with almost no demons in sight.
So Li Hanzhou carefully manipulated the Baoding Cave Heaven, stopping near the city.
Then he withdrew his gaze and shouted within the Baoding Cave Heaven: “Green Jade.”
“Coming.”
Green Jade’s voice appeared, and then, from a nearby Cave Chamber, accompanied by banging sounds, Green Jade, stepping on his alchemy furnace body, rolled over.
“What do you need?”
“I want to ask you some things about demons.”
Li Hanzhou asked. Entering the city to gather information was impossible, but Green Jade had been in the Baoding Cave Heaven for countless years, so perhaps Green Jade would know something about demons.
“You say demons?”
Hearing this, Green Jade fell into deep thought. After a moment of silence, he said, “I do indeed know about this.”
“Then tell me.”
Li Hanzhou’s eyes lit up, and he continued to ask.
“Demons are a very ancient race. Once they also lived on the Boundless Continent, but because of their innate brutality and murderous nature, they could not tolerate other races, and their growth speed was extremely fast. This led to almost every cultivator on the Boundless Continent hating demons.”
“So the cultivators of the Boundless Continent united. They killed and drove away the demons, eventually driving them out of the Boundless Continent. It’s likely that some of the demons driven away came to this world, began to multiply, and gradually grew strong.”
“Then how did this world appear inside the Immortal Tomb?”
Li Hanzhou nodded and then raised his question.
He thought that after entering the Immortal Tomb, he would see the corpses of immortals. Who would have thought that instead of seeing the corpses of immortals, he had come to a world filled with demons.
“This Immortal Tomb?”
Green Jade thought for a moment and said, “This should be the work of some immortal, using his body to suppress this demon world.”
“Then what should I do if I want to get out?”
“The Immortal Tomb, as the burial place of immortals after their death, even in death, is not something ordinary cultivators can ignore. Getting out must be extremely difficult, not that simple. However, generally speaking, although the Immortal Tomb is very dangerous, it leaves a way to live, a safety measure for those unrelated to it who unexpectedly enter.”
“To get out, you have to see if the immortal left a backdoor.”
“Finding a way to live… that’s going to be difficult.”
Hearing this, Li Hanzhou couldn’t help but smile wryly.
Who knows what kind of way to live the immortal set up? Finding it, even with the help of luck, would probably take a lot of time.
He tried to use the Son of Heaven Qi Gazing Technique, but because it was about immortals, it was completely useless.
Not to mention, this demon world also has a Six-Star Demon whose power rivals a Tribulation Crossing Stage cultivator.
He couldn’t even handle a Five-Star Demon with a Unity Cultivation Level.
Just trying to enter a city was already difficult for him, how could he possibly find this so-called way to live?
“Don’t lose heart. Your master left you a very special immortal treasure. This treasure can find vitality in the world. If you have this treasure, you can easily find a way to live.”
Green Jade patted Li Hanzhou on the shoulder and said calmly.
“Really?”
Li Hanzhou looked at Green Jade and reached out his hand: “Then give me this immortal treasure.”
“Impossible!”
Green Jade shook his head decisively and explained, “This treasure is one of the Inheritance Treasures. To obtain it, you must cultivate the Soul Returning Art to the Third Heavenly Layer.”
“Is it necessary to be so rigid?”
Li Hanzhou was slightly stunned.
Although he had cultivated the Soul Returning Art to the Second Heavenly Layer, his progress seemed rapid, but in his continuous cultivation, he could feel that the resistance to the Third Heavenly Layer was unusually great. He didn’t even know how long it would take to cultivate.
“I’m an inheritor. Can’t you be more flexible?”
Li Hanzhou looked at Green Jade and coaxed, “You don’t want me to stay in this world forever, do you? If I go back to the Boundless Continent, I’ll buy you whatever you want, as long as you give me that treasure.”
Although it was shameless to coax a child, he didn’t care at this moment.
“No.”
Green Jade wiped the saliva from his mouth and said seriously, “Do you think I’m a child? No matter how you tempt me, I won’t waver. This is my master’s instructions before he left, and I must strictly abide by them.”
“Alright then.”
Li Hanzhou sighed softly.
If so, his only option now was to cultivate the Soul Returning Art to the Third Heavenly Layer.
“Don’t worry, I didn’t say there’s no other way.”
Green Jade smiled slightly.
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