Chapter 470: Demonic Puppets

"Another batch?" Fu Young looked at Little Baibei floating at the bow of the battleship.

With a small, stern face, Little Baibei launched attacks at the densely packed demonic figures within the pool with an extremely serious expression.

Fu Young silently thought that there must be information he did not know about this matter.

In just three days, my Master’s battleship and spiritual flame had been moving freely, and they had clearly grown considerably.

Hearing Fu Young’s tone, Little Baibei thought he was asking about it and hurriedly explained, "Three days ago, after we sensed Master’s will, Little Black transmitted its consciousness to Little Baibei. Little Black said that it sensed many, many auras in the Infernal Sky Continent that were similar to those of the Demon Abyss Clan. It felt that they could be eaten, but it was too slow. If it flew here on its own, it would take at least seven days. So it hoped that Little Baibei could bring it here.

"At that time, Little Baibei was firing its spiritual cannons at a Demon Abyss camp. After receiving Little Black’s request, Little Baibei agreed and brought it here to the Infernal Sky Continent..."

Fu Young silently listened to Little Baibei’s explanation.

From Little Baibei’s serious account, he learned that after carrying the Terrestrial Fox Black Flame to the Infernal Sky Continent, the moment they arrived, the Terrestrial Fox Black Flame had immediately set the Demon Heaven City of the Infernal Sky Continent ablaze.

The Infernal Sky Continent was a sacred land for demonic cultivators, and the cultivation methods of demonic cultivators were mostly filled with bloodshed, filth, and sin throughout the cultivation process.

Of course, some demonic cultivators practiced orthodox demonic cultivation techniques and did not need to take crooked paths.

However, these cultivation techniques often affected their nature, causing them to become cruel by nature and slaughter innocent people indiscriminately. When refining demonic treasures that required materials such as human souls and human blood essence, most of them would also resort to any means necessary to obtain them.

Therefore, once the Terrestrial Fox Black Flame began burning, it had originally intended only to eliminate the Demon Abyss bloodline. Unexpectedly, its appetite quickly became uncontrollable, and it burned all the demonic cultivators in and around Demon Heaven City who were burdened with sin and filth.

What it did not expect was that during the process of burning and purifying them, some materials created by the demon race through methods involving filth and sin were also destroyed by the Terrestrial Fox Black Flame. This exposed several enormous demonic pools hidden deep beneath the ground inside Demon Heaven City.

Seeing this, given Little Black’s naturally gluttonous nature, it immediately pounced over and began burning and purifying them as well.

However, it never expected that although the demonic power and demonic aura within the pools could be completely burned away, the demonic figures soaking inside them remained completely unharmed.

Yet these demonic figures did not wake up and retaliate even when faced with the flames.

Little Black simply kept repeating that it could not eat the Demon Abysss.

After hearing this, Little Baibei had some suspicions. It hurriedly gathered information around the demonic pools and, after compiling the information about the several enormous demonic pools, finally figured out what they were.

The demonic pools contained demonic puppets cultivated through special methods by descendants of the Demon Abyss Clan.

The source of these demonic puppets was the Demon Soldier bloodline that had been left behind here since ancient times and had grown from Demon Infants.

According to the scattered jade slips around the demonic pools, Demon Soldiers themselves had no ability to reproduce in the Demon Abyss Realm. Or rather, they had no right to reproduce.

They were born from the intermingling of the resentment of humans and demonic aura. They were born with somewhat inferior intelligence and limited aptitude, while the Demon Abyss bloodline possessed absolute control over them.

Later, due to certain changes, some members of the Demon Abyss bloodline were unable to return to the Demon Abyss Realm and could only remain hidden in this realm.

However, they were unwilling to continue living in hiding.

They wanted even more to seize control of the entire Heaven Origin Realm.

Driven by this ambition, the Demon Abyss bloodlines and their descendants who remained in the Heaven Origin Realm continuously researched ways to nurture more Demon Abyss descendants and strengthen their race.

They also sought to simulate the environment of the Demon Abyss Realm and cultivate large numbers of Demon Soldiers to serve as their vanguard.

With this goal in mind, the Demon Abyss descendants slaughtered countless mortals time and time again, using their flesh, blood essence, souls, and endless resentment, mixed with demonic stones collected from demonic veins, to create simulated Demon Nurturing Pools.

They had originally believed that these pools would allow them to mass-produce Demon Soldiers.

Unexpectedly, no matter how closely an imitation resembled the original, it could never compare to the genuine thing.

The Demon Infants produced by these simulated Demon Nurturing Pools had extremely low intelligence and no logical reasoning ability. They could only act according to orders from the Demon Abyss bloodline, and those orders had to be simple and direct. If the instructions were even slightly complicated, they could not understand them.

This remained true even after the Demon Infants grew up.

They were practically no different from puppets, attacking wherever they were directed.

Furthermore, as long as they continued receiving nourishment from the demonic aura within the Demon Nurturing Pools, their lifespan seemed to be endless.

Therefore, the Demon Abyss descendants eventually stopped calling them Demon Soldiers and instead gave them the title of Demonic Puppets.

Although these Demonic Puppets could not compare to genuine Demon Soldiers, the Demon Abyss descendants believed that as expendable combat forces for the Demon Abyss Clan’s conquest of the Heaven Origin Realm, they were still useful for exhausting large numbers of low-level human cultivators.

Because of this, they had continued cultivating Demonic Puppets without interruption for countless years.