Happy Homeland

"You're awake?"

When Du Wuhen woke up, he only felt as though he had taken a trip through the gates of hell. His entire body was terribly weak, covered in wounds.

Chu Liang and Jiang Yue Bai stood around him, their faces carrying the ease and joy of "thank goodness he didn't die, so we don't have to destroy the evidence and bear the psychological burden."

It really was them. At death's door, he had thought he was seeing an illusion.

"Ah..." Du Wuhen said. "You saved me."

"We knew each other, after all. How could we stand by and watch you die?" Chu Liang smiled dashingly.

"But how did I..." Du Wuhen inspected himself and found that the damage caused by the demons was not severe. The injuries that had nearly killed him had instead all come from Sword Qi. "Why are all my wounds sword wounds?"

"That coral demon's attainments in the sword path were quite high," Chu Liang answered decisively.

"It had hands?" Du Wuhen asked, baffled.

"Quite a few, actually," Chu Liang said solemnly.

"It cultivated the Void-Slaying Sword Path?" Du Wuhen was startled again.

"It was no weaker than me." As Chu Liang spoke, he glanced at Jiang Yue Bai.

Jiang Yue Bai visibly hesitated for a moment before nodding. "Mm."

Since even she said so, Du Wuhen stopped asking. He merely said, "Why did you come to the Demon Sea too? A place like this..."

"This is the Demon Sea?" Chu Liang and Jiang Yue Bai both came to a realization.

No wonder this place was so strange. It was the legendary land where demons gathered.

"That's right. This place is exceedingly dangerous." Carrying the weathered air of someone who had been through it, Du Wuhen said, "You can only use physical strength here,