"It's no wonder you would protect him since he willingly returned the Soul Tablet. Such humans are indeed rare. By the way, you must possess some bloodline power to successfully survive the tribulation. Common turtles rarely achieve our level of strength."
"Perhaps." Xuan Turtle helplessly shook his head and continued to ramble, "Before my spiritual wisdom fully awakened, I was muddle-headed and didn't have any inheritance."
Actually, this wasn't entirely nonsense. Most demon beasts survive on instinct before passing through the Transformation Lightning Tribulation. They might not know as much about themselves as human cultivators do.
"That's true."
Ape Five chuckled and suddenly looked at Golden Feather, who had been silent all along, and teased, "I heard that Golden Feather brother also worked as a spiritual beast in the human race hundreds of years ago. If Lei Peng Senior, who was at the tenth level, hadn't recognized his Tian Peng/Heavenly Peng bloodline and brought him back to the Demon Wind Mountains, you'd probably still be under someone's control."
"So what if I was a spiritual beast? The original sect was slaughtered by me three hundred years ago. Now, who among the humans can enslave me?" Golden Feather said with a flash of golden light in his eyes, revealing a bit of murderous intent. Even his face became somewhat twisted, as if recalling some unpleasant events.
Ape Five seemed not to notice this expression and chuckled again. " Gold brother's strength is certainly powerful, but I heard that sect was related to the Blood Demon Sect, one of the ten major sects on the human side. I heard that the Blood Demon Sect issued an arrest warrant for you and hasn't withdrawn it yet."
"Hmph, Ape Five, you seem to be saying a bit too much. I will destroy this group of alchemists of demons sooner or later." Seeing these two demon cultivators arguing in front of him, seemingly at odds with each other.
Xuan Turtle followed behind, contacting the main soul. Through the mental connection, Zhang Ling also gained some information from the words of the two demons. The words 'tenth-level Lei Peng', ' Tian Peng bloodline' were shocking.
Lei Peng is a powerful demon beast that controls the power of wind and thunder and has extremely fast flight speed. I didn't expect there to be a tenth-level Lei Peng in the demon race. This is definitely a Great Demon King, probably stronger than those few Nascent Soul stage great cultivators in the top ten sects.
As for Tian Peng, it's even more extraordinary. It is recorded in ancient books as a powerful True Spirit with the power to roam the myriad realms.
And this Golden Feather actually has Tian Peng bloodline. This kind of bloodline talent is even rarer than the Heavenly Spiritual Root talent among human cultivators.
Listening to the conversation between the two demons, Xuan Turtle silently followed behind. They walked down the stone steps all the way. After a while, they descended a thousand feet and arrived at a basin.
It was somewhat dim below, with tall mountain walls on the sides. Only the top occasionally let down a few strands of sunlight, but they couldn't penetrate the layer of black mist.
Xuan Turtle quickly scanned the surrounding area with his spiritual sense. The surroundings were barren, but the ground was a bright cyan-blue, like an ice surface.
The spiritual sense of demon beasts is actually equivalent to the divine sense of human cultivators, but it's not as powerful as the divine sense of cultivators.
However, after the baptism of the lightning tribulation, Xuan Turtle's spiritual sense could also expand to a range of seventy or eighty miles nearby. Although it wasn't as wide as the divine sense coverage of Nascent Soul cultivators. However, the other five senses of the demon race were much stronger than those of humans, compensating for this deficiency.
In some special senses, the demon race is even more sensitive.
At this time, Xuan Turtle keenly felt that the jade stone ground under his feet was very unusual. divine sense couldn't penetrate it and had the effect of isolating divine sense.
At the same time, the jade stone was trembling slightly. If you listened carefully, you could hear strange whistling sounds coming from under the jade stone. It was as if countless wind clusters were dancing wildly below.
This didn't seem to be ordinary jade stone. I don't know what material it was. The jade stone ground covered a whole forty to fifty miles. Even the surrounding rock walls were made of this jade stone material.
Upon arriving here, Ape Five and Golden Feather stopped and didn't move forward. Then, the spiritual power on their bodies fluctuated, and they each released a spiritual power. A flash of fire and a golden lightning disappeared into the front.
Golden Feather then turned to Xuan Turtle and said, "This is the Demon King Palace of our demon race. Later, you will directly follow the little demon who leads the way and enter it."
"金(金) brother, aren't you going in together?"
"Hehe, 金(金) brother just came out of it not long ago. It will take at least another ten years before he can enter there again." Before Golden Feather could speak, Ape Five explained.
"The Demon King Palace is not a palace, but a special independent space. In the words of human cultivators, it's a Sumeru space. This is a space fragment discovered by the great powers of the demon race in ancient times and refined into an ancestral inheritance ground..."
After listening to Ape Five's introduction, the second soul in Xuan Turtle's body was also shocked. He didn't expect the Demon King Palace to be a Sumeru space.
Suddenly, Xuan Turtle sensed two light shadows appearing in front of him. A white light and a black light quickly shuttled over.
The white light scattered, revealing a white-haired rat with a body length of only two inches. The rat had a pair of big red ears, and a thin, long tail was spinning rapidly behind it, like a spinning top, which was quite comical.
In the black light was a furry thing. On closer inspection, it turned out to be a black-haired pig. This beast had extremely small ears and short, thick limbs, like a meatball. Only a large mouth revealed two white, sharp teeth. It didn't look fierce, but rather cute.
However, the aura on the two demon beasts was not weak. They were both at the peak of the seventh level.
After the two strange demon beasts flew over, they bowed to them very spiritually and called out in human language. "Little demons, little demons welcome... three great kings."
Their words were intermittent and unclear. Ape Five directly waved his hand. "This is the newly promoted Demon King. You can take him to the Demon King Palace."
"Ooo, I'm called Red Ear, he's called Big Tooth. Greetings, New Great King." The two demon beasts flashed around, circling around Xuan Turtle, looking excited. Xuan Turtle also looked at the two demon beasts strangely.
"玄灵(Xuan Ling) Fellow Daoist, you follow them into the Demon King Palace. We'll wait for you here." Golden Feather also nodded to Xuan Turtle at this time.
"I'll trouble the two Fellow Daoists to lead the way." Xuan Turtle also cupped his hands to the two demons and followed the two demon beasts towards the front.
In a moment, they disappeared into the black mist.
After a silent moment, Ape Five, who was standing in place, asked in a deep voice with a blank expression. " Golden Feather, what exactly are you planning, bringing this newly advanced demon race here?"
"猿(Yuan) brother is overthinking it. Our demon cultivators are fewer than the 元婴(Yuan Ying) old monsters on the human side. Since I met a demon cultivator who has just successfully advanced, what's wrong with bringing him here to receive the inheritance of our demon race?"
"Hehe, I might believe this if other demon cultivators said it, but you, who have been in the human race for many years, are more cunning than humans. Would you be so kind? Even if other demon cultivators don't know about the Demon King Palace here, they will naturally find this place after a while to receive the inheritance, so there's no need to guide them at all."
"Think what you want. I have no other thoughts."
"No matter what your plans are, it's best not to involve those few Great Demon Kings, especially the one in the Hidden Demon Valley. Otherwise, even with the protection of 雷鹏(Lei Peng) Great King, you won't get any good."
金羽(Jin Yu)'s face became gloomy and silent when he heard this. He wasn't a fool like the one in front of him who rarely went outside. He knew a lot about some secrets of the human and demon races.
Although there are not as many demon cultivators in the 流云海(Liu Yun Sea) as there are 元婴(Yuan Ying) old monsters on the human side, there are still quite a few, most of whom live in seclusion deeper in the Demon Wind Mountains. Among them, there are a few Great Demon Kings who have cultivated to the tenth level, but they rarely come out to move around.
Things seem to be a bit uneasy recently. Some changes have occurred in the 天渊(Tian Yuan) in the Wilderness. This outbreak of turbid air is also due to this. During this period, some old monsters of the human and demon races have also been restless.
金羽(Jin Yu) had a premonition of what was about to happen.
......
The heavy black mist shrouded the surroundings, making the front appear dim. One black and one white little thing flew up and down, breaking through the mist, like two bright lamps guiding the way.
The long, thin tail behind the big-eared white rat was swinging, like a wind wheel, seemingly using it to fly.
The black-haired pig, however, bulged its body, and a muffled bang sounded inside its body. Every time it sounded, it darted more than ten feet forward, and its speed of progress was actually faster.
Looking at the two strange demon beasts, 玄龟(Xuan Turtle) asked, "Your spiritual wisdom doesn't seem low. How long have you been here?"
"Ooo, New Great King, we've been here for tens of thousands of years." The white rat shook its big ears and made a crisp sound, like the voice of a young girl.
"Mmm, he remembers wrong, we've only been here for thirty years."
"Stupid pig, you're the one who remembers wrong. We rotate once every sixty years. We've been guarding here since ancient times." The two demon beasts suddenly started arguing.
玄龟(Xuan Turtle)'s heart sank. They've been guarding here since ancient times. How is that possible? Seventh-level demon beasts can't possibly live that long.
Although the lifespan of demon beasts is longer than that of human cultivators, how could a seventh-level demon beast live for more than ten thousand years? Could it be that they're lying to deceive him? 玄龟(Xuan Turtle) narrowed his eyes and kept scanning the two demon beasts.
After careful sensing, he immediately discovered that these two demon beasts were indeed somewhat different. The spiritual power on their bodies contained the spiritual energy of the five elements, not a single-attribute demon beast.
It's not that there are no demon beasts with all five elements of spiritual energy. Many low-level demon beasts have this characteristic. After all, low-level demon beasts survive on instinct, and the spiritual power in their bodies is also very mixed.
However, these two demon beasts were very different. The five elements of spiritual energy on their bodies reached an extremely balanced state, without any other aura, and were extremely pure. It was as if they were spiritual bodies transformed from pure spiritual energy.
But they had some characteristics of living beings, such as temperature and heartbeat, and were not spiritual bodies. This was a rather strange place.
Every living being has its own unique aura. Even if they live in the same environment and absorb the same spiritual energy, there will be subtle differences.
But the aura of the two demon beasts in front of him was exactly the same, like one demon beast, without a unique aura.
Just as he was thinking, the big-eared white rat flew in front of him and said with a puffed-up face, "Great King, this stupid pig definitely remembers wrong. There are a total of twelve Phantom Demons. Every sixty years, two Phantom Demons rotate to guard this place. It's been tens of thousands of years, not just thirty years, ..."
"Phantom Demon, aren't you demon beasts?"
The big-eared rat showed a human-like dazed expression and looked at 玄龟(Xuan Turtle) with big eyes and shouted, "Oh, oh, New Great King doesn't know Phantom Demons?"
The black-haired pig also flew over and explained with a hum. "New Great King, Phantom Demons are special beings between demon beasts and spiritual bodies. We are beings in a special space. We live by absorbing spiritual energy and are mostly in a dormant state. We can only wake up once every period of time. When I'm dormant, I'm a boulder."
Listening to the explanation, 玄龟(Xuan Turtle) was also quite surprised. He didn't expect them to be this kind of thing. And it seemed that there were twelve of them guarding this place.
In the cultivation world, there are indeed records of some special beings that are difficult to classify as ordinary demon beasts or spiritual bodies like ghosts. The Ice Enchantress he encountered before was a special monster that often possessed some incredible magical powers.
However, 张凌(Zhang Ling) still didn't quite believe that the so-called Phantom Demons could really exist for tens of thousands of years.
The two in front of him didn't seem to have much spiritual wisdom, and seemed to have the mentality of children, arguing with each other, looking like they were enjoying it.
After arguing for a while, they finally arrived at their destination.
A rubble area appeared in front of them, with scattered pieces of cyan-black jade stone of varying sizes. The jade stone ground under their feet had also turned dark purple, with dense cracks on it.
Cyan-purple spiritual light flickered in the cracks, and whistling sounds rose from below. These spiritual lights spread to the ground, turning into wisps of light purple smoke, and spiritual lights of various colors kept flashing in it. Forming a purple mist.
"New Great King, the Demon King Palace is inside." The big-eared rat called out excitedly and turned into a white light and flew inside. The black-haired pig also followed closely into it.
玄龟(Xuan Turtle) didn't follow in immediately because he found that the spiritual energy fluctuations in this purple mist were extremely strong and quite chaotic, giving him a sense of trepidation.
What was even more strange was that when divine sense entered it, it was greatly attenuated and could only detect a distance of dozens of feet around him.
The two demons said earlier that the Demon King Palace was a Sumeru space, so there might be space cracks in this mist.
He stood at the edge of the mist and pondered.
The so-called Sumeru space refers to some stable space fragments. These space fragments are mostly fixed in one place, and the entrances and exits are mostly stable space cracks.
As for unstable space fragments, some powerful cultivators can also enter, but their life and death are unpredictable.
This kind of space may be in a stable state one moment and may collapse the next. 元婴(Yuan Ying) cultivators who enter it may be squeezed into pieces by space turbulence.
Some spaces are extremely unstable, and using powerful means may cause the space to collapse. Even the legendary 化神(Hua Shen) cultivators, if they fall into it, will find it difficult to escape death.
Only stable spaces can be called Sumeru spaces. It is said that in ancient times, some ancient cultivators who were proficient in formations could refine this space into a real space treasure.
