Eternal Life Begins with Learning

Chapter 442: Chapter 408: Startling With Every Step (Part 2)

The Demonic Qi surged. First, it gathered like a tornado, drawing in roiling Demonic Qi for the time it took to take ten breaths. Then, like a celestial river pouring down, the Demonic Qi cascaded into a palace not far from the group.

As the Demonic Qi poured in, streaks of bright, clear fluorescence flickered into view. Wisps of a terrifying aura also began to emanate from it.

"Follow me!"

Seeing this, the True Demon’s expression changed drastically. He did not linger to fight. With a sweep of his hand, he swept up the group and took a single step, rushing straight out.

But this time, trapped within the city, there seemed to be nowhere to run.

The surging Demonic Qi suddenly froze. A bright moon slowly rose from the palace. The moonlight was pure and beautiful, its gentle glow spilling across the city. The sunless Demon City seemed to finally be bathed in brilliant light.

But when the light shone upon Chu Mu’s group, the moonlight’s softness vanished. An icy chill abruptly surged through their hearts.

The light gathered, and in a mere instant, it condensed into a sky-piercing pillar of light that descended from above, striking at the fleeing group!

"Up!"

The True Demon sensed grave danger. He wanted to dodge, but the pillar of light seemed to have locked onto them, making escape impossible!

As the pillar of light drew near, the True Demon let out a thunderous roar, and the umbrella-shaped Magical Treasure reappeared. Shimmering with brilliant light, this giant umbrella was strong enough to withstand the unbridled roar of a Secret Realm’s Thunder Tribulation. Yet before this pillar of light, it was as fragile as paper. In an instant, the light pierced straight through it.

The brilliant light dimmed, and the giant umbrella shattered.

"ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!"

The True Demon’s pupils shrank. With a ferocious howl, his body twisted and transformed. As his Demon Body manifested, he swiped his sharp claws, conjuring a phantom giant claw to block the pillar of light.

BOOM!

The pillar of light collided with the giant claw, producing a world-shaking roar!

Demon Blood rained down. The True Demon plummeted to the ground. The people he was carrying were like falling sandbags, tumbling one after another from the sky onto the street below.

The Demon Puppets shrieked as their army charged. The aura of slaughter converged, and a clamor erupted in the city!

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Chu Mu scrambled up from atop a Demon Corpse. At this moment, he couldn’t be bothered with anything else. He glanced at the True Demon bleeding in the sky, and without the slightest hesitation, activated his Human Sword Unity Technique. A flash of blade light appeared, and he rapidly fled toward the city’s exit.

"Halt!"

He had flown no more than a hundred zhang when, with a low shout from the True Demon, the blade light vanished. Chu Mu, in mid-flight, lost control again and fell from the sky.

The next moment, a pulling force emerged, and the falling Chu Mu was yanked to the True Demon’s side.

The bright moon shone in the sky as the pillar of light reappeared. The True Demon’s figure twisted and shifted, pulling up the others who had fallen. Then, with a wave of his hand, a Banner Flag appeared. Demonic Qi surged from his fingertips, and the Banner Flag transformed, enveloping the group.

At this, the pillar of light in the sky seemed to lose its target and slowly dissipated. The rising moon also visibly dimmed before vanishing completely.

The numerous Demon Puppets, which had just been bristling with killing intent, fell silent one after another after losing their target. Like statues, they stood neatly in various places along the street.

"Let’s go!"

The True Demon, ignoring his battered state, swept up the group and leaped into the air.

Tall, imposing buildings flew past their vision. Amidst the sprawling Demon Corpses, silent Demon Puppets—some intact, some damaged, some in formations, some in groups of two or three—all came into view.

The True Demon was clearly wary of many things. He flew for no more than a few dozen li, and as soon as he was out of the range of that bright moon, he immediately stopped.

"Grandfather, are you alright?"

The moment they landed, the boy asked urgently.

"I’m fine. A small wound like this is nothing."

The True Demon shook his head, his words dismissive. But his deathly pale face and his body, which was covered in bloody wounds, seemed to prove that the recent turn of events was not as easy for him as he claimed.

"Senior, are these members of the Demon Race puppets?"

At this moment, Xu Ning, who was standing to the side, suddenly asked.

"They are a special kind of Puppet."

The True Demon’s expression was grave. "Before they became these Puppets, they were all Demon Race Cultivators. From a young age, a Seal was planted in them and they cultivated a special Magic of the Demon Soldiers. They inscribed a Demon Seal on their physical shells. When this Magic was cultivated to a high level, they would seal their own Divine Soul within their shells, transforming them into Demon Puppets that possess only the instinct to kill."

"These Demon Puppets are likely remnants from the Demon Realm’s invasion back then. The Demonic Qi in this land is dense, and the Demon Puppets subsist on it, so they have no lifespan limit... They should still be following their original mission: to guard this Demon City and kill any outside invaders."

As the True Demon slowly explained, Chu Mu looked at the piles of Demon Corpses not far away and couldn’t help but come to a realization.

Merely a single city wall separated the two areas. Outside was a Corpse Mountain Blood Sea filled with countless evil and strange entities. Inside the city was also a Corpse Mountain Blood Sea, but none of those evil and strange entities were to be seen.

He had originally thought that these evil and strange entities were just hiding. But now it seemed that under the protection of these Demon Puppets, this city had long since become a forbidden land for them.

"These Demon Puppets are all merely Tier Two and Tier Three. They are nothing to be afraid of."

"What you all must pay attention to are the remaining Array Prohibitions in the city. You all witnessed the Mighty Power of that bright moon just now."

"In a moment, follow me. Conceal your auras and do not, under any circumstances, leave the area concealed by this Banner Flag..."

After giving these instructions, the True Demon suddenly looked at Chu Mu, who was lost in thought.

"Little friend, you should have some understanding of the Array Prohibition Dao, correct?"

"These Demon Realm Array Prohibition Inscriptions are... different from what I’ve studied..."

The True Demon paid no mind to Chu Mu’s earlier attempt to escape, his tone remaining gentle.

Chu Mu suppressed his terror, carefully choosing his words to phrase his response tactfully.

"This city was a stronghold for the Demon Race back then. Even if it suffered a great catastrophe and its Array Prohibitions are in ruins, it is still bound to be fraught with danger."

"Little friend, your knowledge of Array Prohibitions serves as a safeguard. Observe carefully, and inform me immediately if you notice anything amiss. Once this matter is concluded, I will certainly not treat you unfairly..."

The True Demon ignored Chu Mu’s "humility" and began giving direct orders.

After the arrangements were made, the group continued down the street under the True Demon’s lead, concealed by the Banner Flag.

The True Demon’s destination was very clear.

However, the path to his destination was not a smooth one.

As the core location of the Demon Realm’s invasion of the Cultivation Immortal Realm, this Demon City must have been heavily fortified with countless Grand Arrays back in its day.

If the city were still intact, they wouldn’t have even been able to get close. Even with his Nascent Soul Cultivation, the True Demon likely would have been blasted to death on the spot.

But the Demon City was damaged, and tens of thousands of years had passed since that devastation. After tens of thousands of springs and autumns, under the mighty power of time, it was impossible to know what kind of changes the countless ruined Array Prohibitions might have undergone.

The bright moon they encountered just after entering the city was clear proof of this.

It was a terror that could have been fatal even for the True Demon. As for Chu Mu and the others, who were only at the Foundation Establishment Realm, every step in this city was fraught with terror, even with the True Demon’s protection.

No one knew whether an inconspicuous corpse by the roadside, a pile of ruins, or even a single building concealed some kind of deadly trap.

After nearly a month of groping their way forward through the city and experiencing numerous dangers, the group, led by the True Demon, finally stopped before a dilapidated grand hall in the center of the city.

After a month of constant peril, the group could hardly hide their exhaustion. But the True Demon alone, standing before this hall, had an undisguisable fervor in his eyes.

Chu Mu subtly glanced at the True Demon. The look on his face seemed to prove it. ’So this grand hall is the True Demon’s final goal?’

As he guessed, his gaze shifted to fix on the grand hall before them.

The grand hall was majestic, soaring into the clouds. Shrouded by Demonic Qi, its true height was impossible to discern.

But right down the center of the hall, there was a crack several zhang wide...

Following the line of the crack with his eyes, Chu Mu’s pupils suddenly shrank as a thought struck him.

’If I remember correctly, this crack...’

’...ran all the way from the city wall to this hall?’

GULP!

Chu Mu swallowed hard, his eyes filled with shock.

The crack stretched all the way from the city wall to this grand hall, and it continued even further, with no end in sight.

’In other words, a Great Divine Power User created a scar that stretched for at least several thousand li... with a single blow?’

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