The demon cave was dim, where daylight never flowed.
A Daoist cultivated bitterly, scarcely sensing the passage of years.
A year passed in the blink of an eye.
At the outermost edge of the Dark Demon Cave, the earth was scorched yellow, stretching for more than ten thousand miles.
No cultivator passing through would find it strange. They would only assume that trial participants had arrived early and scattered vast amounts of Demon-Clearing Liquid, completing the task of clearing the Nine Nether Demon Moss.
Thus, no one lingered.
Yet in truth, the withering of the demon moss here was completely different from elsewhere.
The Heaven Origin Dao Sect's Demon-Clearing Liquid merely suppressed the growth of demon moss in essence. Combined with dispersing demon caves, it kept them from expanding. Otherwise, the Demon Suppression Trial would not have been held every thousand years without end.
But the Nine Nether Demon Moss here had been completely eradicated!
It was as if someone had absorbed and refined every last trace of the Demonic Qi they depended on for survival, depriving them of the nourishment needed to grow and live.
There were very few in today's Xuan World capable of achieving such a thing.
Even the Primal Devil Sect, one of the Nine Great Sacred Sects, which claimed to transform devilry back into origin and cultivated Devil Race methods in Human Race bodies, would never dare to directly absorb Demonic Qi.
Some Great Vehicle Heavenly Venerates might be able to do it, but refining Demonic Qi was ultimately a thankless and exhausting task.
That was why demon caves throughout the Xuan World remained like centipedes that refused to die even after being crushed.
Luo Chen had not expected that relaxing his restraints would have such a tremendous impact.
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