Before he could think further, roaring howls and wailing demonic winds enveloped him once more.
Profound Tortoise's expression turned icy as he transformed into a streak of light, preparing to flee. However, an aged voice abruptly entered his ears.
"Not bad, to be able to instantly break through some of the restrictions of the Myriad Demon Banner. Youngster, you're quite impressive. This old one observes that you carry a trace of heavenly lightning aura, so you must have only recently transformed."
Hearing the voice, Profound Tortoise paused, glancing around. He didn't see any demonic beasts or human figures.
At the same time, the Yin煞 demonic winds and numerous demon souls that had seemed ready to surround him, transformed into wisps of black gas in an instant, quickly dissipating as if everything just now had never happened.
"Young one, come in. This old one will take care of every demon cultivator who comes here."
The aged voice came again. Profound Tortoise immediately sensed the direction of the voice, turning his head towards a location within the Blazing Demon Mountain. After hesitating for a moment, he flew towards it.
A moment later, he saw a gray forest of trees. This forest wasn't large, only a few dozen miles in extent, but the gray trees were very strange. Their bark looked like stone, growing straight and upright, and shrouded in a layer of faint white mist, seemingly some kind of spirit wood.
But after entering it, Profound Tortoise sensed that the surrounding mist was a layer of spirit mist. He involuntarily circulated his spiritual power, and his whole body felt somewhat lighter. The spiritual energy here was even more concentrated than what he had sensed outside, at least five or six times that of a high-grade spiritual vein.
Quickly traversing through the strange forest, he saw a tall azure stone tower standing within it. The aged voice from before had come from here.
Beneath the stone tower were also several stone pillars. At this moment, a hunchbacked old man with white hair and beard was sitting cross-legged on top of one of the half-broken stone pillars. This old man was somewhat withered, wearing a tattered linen robe, with messy white hair, looking unkempt.
The aura on his body was also faint and indistinct. Without careful sensing, one might even overlook it, even thinking he was a mortal.
But one who could be here was definitely not a mortal. Profound Tortoise immediately bowed respectfully to the old man.
"Junior Xuan Ling pays respects to Senior."
"You are more polite than many juniors, but those are human customs. This old one doesn't like them."
"Wooo, Three-Eyed Great King. We haven't seen you in so long."
Before the old man could finish speaking, two Illusion Demons rushed over at once, flying around the old man.
"So it's you two little fellows. You two have been guarding this place during this time." The old man stretched out his withered hand and touched their heads, clearly very familiar with them.
Only then did Profound Tortoise clearly see the old man's appearance. His complexion was sallow and full of wrinkles, looking extremely old, but there was a blood-red crack between his eyebrows, like a third eye.
There were no demonic beast characteristics on his body yet. Profound Tortoise immediately realized that this person was a tenth-order Great Demon King.
"Boy, what are you standing there for? Come and sit." The old man glanced at him, his eyes calm, like the gaze of an ordinary old man.
Profound Tortoise hesitated for a moment, then flashed and sat cross-legged on a nearby stone pillar. "May I ask, Senior, are you a Great Demon King?" Calming his mind, he still asked the question.
"What Great Demon King? It's been a long time since I heard that title, but this old one has indeed reached the final stage of transformation, which is what humans call a tenth-order demon beast. You juniors can just call me Blood Eye." The old man said leisurely, then pointed to the stone tower behind him.
"You've come here to receive inheritance, so leave a drop of blood essence on this demon tower. There are some demon clan secret techniques on it. Although there are many demon races, the secret techniques left behind are quite mixed, but they can be considered a kind of inheritance for my demon clan. You can choose three secret techniques."
"Junior understands."
Profound Tortoise also looked at the stone tower behind him, responding with a happy expression. As the old man waved his hand, he landed directly below the stone tower.
This was an extremely tall stone tower, a hundred zhang high, but very old, with some cracks on it, but also engraved with demon beast totems and some demon clan characters.
Standing below, one could sense an ancient aura.
But to carefully examine these characters, the eyes would become blurred, making it difficult to see clearly. And using divine sense to examine them would be instantly repelled, obviously with some kind of restriction placed on it. According to the old man's meaning, the stone tower was also similar to a library.
He circled the stone tower a few times, then no longer hesitated, squeezed out a drop of blood essence and submerged it into the tower. Immediately, the demon beast patterns engraved on it lit up, as if they had come to life.
Thereafter, divine sense would not be repelled when it landed on it, but instead, one could see a lot of information.
Profound Tortoise narrowed his eyes, a wisp of divine sense scanned a flying bird totem in front of him, and immediately a piece of information entered his mind.
This information was quite mixed, not as detailed as human cultivation methods, but rather like a meridian map, a way of circulating spiritual power. But then he shook his head, sensing other demon beast patterns.
What he had sensed just now could indeed be considered a secret technique, but it was not suitable for himself. The secret technique on the cyan flying bird was only suitable for demon birds with wings to use.
In this way, divine sense landing on a demon beast pattern could sense a secret technique. After checking more than a dozen secret techniques, Profound Tortoise revealed a strange expression. Many of these secret techniques were not suitable for him, and only specific races could exert their power.
Then he no longer blindly checked other demon beast patterns, but instead specifically looked for turtle-like demon beasts. But there were very few turtle-like demon beast totems above, only a dozen or so.
Profound Tortoise eagerly sensed the information above, but not long after, he had to shake his head, and then began looking for ice-attribute demon beast secret techniques. After a full half an hour, he finally selected three secret techniques.
He squeezed out three more drops of blood essence and submerged them into the totems corresponding to the selected secret techniques, and the complete information of the secret techniques entered his divine soul. After carefully sensing them, he bowed to the old man.
"Thank you for your guidance, Senior."
"Now that you have chosen, you can leave. But seeing you come here, and being of the turtle race, I'm afraid you're also looking for that Xuanming Turtle. That demon does have some inheritance left here, but it was restricted by him before his death, so it's not easy to get close to that side. Whether you can obtain the inheritance depends on your luck. These tenth-order demon king inheritances are not easy to get. Go."
"Great King, we two will lead the way for you." The two Illusion Demons also flew up, howling and wanting to lead the way for him.
"Then Junior will take his leave."
Profound Tortoise bowed respectfully again and followed the two Illusion Demons towards the mountainside.
