Chapter 333 - 180: Searching for Demon Fiends, Phoenix Feather Vermilion Fruit

The sky was silent and oppressively dark. Clouds as thick as mountains stretched for tens of thousands of miles, black as ink. They hung like an oppressive mass, as if ten thousand dark cavalry were thundering overhead, bearing down with a crushing pressure that felt as if the heavens themselves were about to collapse!

Below, endless, bottomless ravines crisscrossed the land for tens of thousands of miles. Terrifying gales surged out from them, creating whistling streams of Powerful Qi that tore through the air. In the darkness of this world, the sound of these gushing gales was like the wailing of ghosts and the howling of wolves—sinister and unpredictable.

WHOOSH!

WHOOSH!

From the bottom of the gloomy abyss, terrifying and tyrannically powerful air currents suddenly surged upward. They seemed to possess enough power to tear space itself apart, emanating a Momentum that made one tremble in horror.

At the same time, beneath a hidden Abyssal Forbidden Land, the surroundings were dim and silent. The area was protected by a Barrier of incredibly profound Inscriptions, which were knotted and writhing like a vast spiderweb.

Beneath the protection of the Barrier was a dark spatial vortex: the entrance to the Demon Fiend Secret Realm!

Inside the Secret Realm, a blood moon hung high in the sky. The realm itself was dim and silent.

The entire Secret Realm was filled with an extremely dense and powerful Demon Qi!

"Two Tongxuan Realm experts.

Perhaps they’re just passing through the Silent Extinction Abyss." From within the darkness, a figure with a tiger-like appearance and a ferocious face spoke in a deep, hoarse voice. He stood thirty feet tall, his cape billowing, his body radiating an extremely tyrannical aura. "Besides, we have been hiding here for several hundred years without being discovered in the slightest. How could we be found now, just because two Tongxuan Realm experts are passing by?"

"Xue Ying, I’m afraid you’re overthinking things."

In the darkness stood a figure covered in deep, magnificent scales. His eyes were long, narrow, and sharp, his face sinister. His body contained a Demon Power as vast as the sea, and the mere wisp of terrifying aura leaking from him caused the very space around him to faintly distort and collapse. This was one of the Demon Kings: Xue Ying!

A scarlet light flickered in Xue Ying’s eyes. He then spoke in a deep, hoarse voice, "Everyone, at a time like this, the great plan for the Demon Lord’s descent into this world draws ever closer.

And the closer we get to this crucial moment, the more imperative it is that we allow no mistakes!"

"If anything goes wrong with the Demon Lord’s plan, we will be branded traitors to the entire Demon Race!"

"This is a price so heavy that none of us can bear it. Nether Tiger, do you understand?"

As Xue Ying spoke, the entire dim Demon Fiend Secret Realm fell silent.

After a moment, Nether Tiger asked, "Then what should we do about these two Human Race experts in the Tongxuan Realm passing through?"

"How about it? Let this old bull go out and slaughter them!" a belligerent voice boomed from the darkness. It belonged to a figure with a ferocious face, two pairs of horns, and a tall, powerful frame covered in knotted muscles. His body contained an extremely vast Demon Qi.

"Absolutely not! Celestial Bull, if you go out, your very appearance would reveal that Demon Fiends are hiding here! At that point, never mind whether or not you can take down two Tongxuan Realm experts; we will be completely exposed. Then, the experts of the Human Race will attack in force, and what awaits us will be annihilation!"

An extremely terrifying Demon Qi surged around Xue Ying as he spoke in a steady voice, "And if we die, won’t all the sacrifices the Demon Lord made be for naught? He paid a great price, defying this world’s Celestial Dao, to tear open space and send us here. Was all the blood shed for his plan to be wasted?"

"Ah... well..."

"Xue Ying, you’re the thorough one, all right." Celestial Bull scratched his thick head and added,

"This old bull’s different. All I know how to do is fight!"

A flicker of resignation passed through the depths of Xue Ying’s eyes.

’He’s a Demon Fiend who only knows how to charge in headfirst.’

’The Demon Race does need this kind of talent, but not too many of them! Otherwise, we’d have been fucking schemed against and annihilated by the myriad races of the heavens ages ago.’

Then, Xue Ying spoke again in his deep, hoarse voice, "All we need to do is remain carefully hidden. We must not alert the enemy. There is no need for any unnecessary actions.

Moreover, we have been concealed here for hundreds of years without being discovered. We have laid down multiple Concealment Arrays and numerous killing Arrays. With this Absolute Heaven and Earth Kill in place, how could two mere Tongxuan Realm experts possibly find us?"

Immediately after, a terrifying scarlet light flashed in Xue Ying’s sharp, profound eyes, and his voice turned utterly cold and filled with killing intent:

"Of course, if they really do discover this place... then we will slaughter them both!"

...

「Silent Extinction Abyss.」

The sky was dim and deep, with sinister, ink-black clouds stretching for tens of thousands of miles.

High above the firmament, two powerful experts sped across the sky, their bodies wreathed in Dao Rhythm and emanating a terrifying aura.

One of them, clad in green robes, had a posture as straight as a pine tree. His face was resolute, and his Sword Intent was Heaven-Reaching!

The other, dressed in white robes, was handsome, with sword-like brows and star-like eyes. His long hair danced in the wind, and his gaze was as profound and unfathomable as the stars. His aura was so powerful it seemed to make heaven and earth tremble.

His eyes swept over the endless, dark abyss crisscrossing the land for tens of thousands of miles below. Ye Xuantian spoke calmly, "Brother Shen, it’s time to begin the search."

"We’ll search inch by inch. Even if they’re hiding in an Abyssal Forbidden Land, I’ll dig them out!"

Shen Qing laughed heartily. "Does this mean I’ll soon be able to fight alongside you, Brother Ye?

It’s been a few years. I wonder if your sword is still sharp."

The corners of Ye Xuantian’s mouth curled up slightly, as if recalling something. "Naturally," he said softly.

With a wave of his hand, Ye Xuantian produced a hexagonal Jade Plate. It emitted a faint glimmer and was covered in Profound Mysterious Inscriptions.

In the center of the Jade Plate was an indentation, as if meant for holding an object.

He then took out a thumb-sized piece of dark red Demon Fiend flesh. It emanated an incredibly dense aura and pulsed with vigorous life force. Ye Xuantian placed it in the indentation on the Jade Plate and began to chant a Divine Technique.