"Demon bodies were hard; even after death, they did not decay easily. Their corpse fluids and dead blood brimmed with Demonic Energy, making them among the most virulent poisons in the world."
"Water and fire cannot dissolve them. Only rain and wind, over the passage of countless years, can wear them away."
Each small mountain was piled from Demon Corpses, exuding a fishy, rank stench. Toxic Demonic Energy could be found everywhere, making people avoid them at all costs.
Mu Sigui pointed at the enormous Corpse Piling Ground before them. "The Great Prince has established Corpse Piling Grounds throughout the southeastern provinces to store the corpses of slain demons."
At this, Zhu Ruoxuan asked, "Could it be that the Great Prince's intention is to use the Nine Tripods of each province to suppress the Demonic Energy, letting time gradually dilute and erase it?"
"Precisely!"
Mu Sigui knew that Zhu Ruoxuan came from Northern Profound Zhu, and thought that he truly possessed extraordinary knowledge.
The massive accumulation of Demon Corpses would inevitably cause Demonic Energy to gather, even giving rise to calamities.
Therefore, the Corpse Piling Grounds chosen by the Great Prince were not natural sites selected at random, but locations chosen after careful consideration.
The Nine Tripods of the Celestial Beings guarded the Fifty Provinces, and several southeastern provinces lay under their protection.
Time could suppress all things unruly and unyielding; for Demonic Energy as wild and untamed as this, only the power of the Nine Tripods could do so.
Zhou You did not speak. He reached out and grasped a strand of Demonic Energy, carefully analyzing it.
The term "Demonic Energy" alone could not encompass the essence of this state of energy. More precisely, what people could perceive—
what they could capture and analyze as "Demonic Energy" was merely