From one of the demons, Wei He also learned that Zhang Hong of Haizhou, one of the great warlords of the day, had received massive financial backing from a mysterious force. He was purchasing weapons and equipment on a grand scale, already preparing to make trouble for Xu Mengde of Central Province and avenge the arrow from before.
Quite a few troops had already been stationed along the few areas where Haizhou and Central Province bordered one another. A clash could erupt at any time.
In this age that seemed overrun by demons, what truly made the people suffer was, in fact, war more often than not.
Wei He sighed and buried himself once more in the study of demonic power within demons.
Yet after several consecutive days of research, he still could not determine exactly how demonic power grew within a demon's body.
He even suspected that it involved matters at the cellular and genetic level.
"Wait. Since demons have such close ties to the True Realm, then what about the deeper layers of the True Realm? What state would demons be in at a deeper level?"
One morning, as Wei He held his chopsticks and ate the pig head meat he had just bought, this question suddenly flashed through his mind.
He paused his chopsticks.
Then he rose and walked over to the strongest of the demons hanging on the wall.
It was the little girl demon he had encountered that day.
Whoosh!
Wei He's eyes flashed abruptly as he entered the first layer of the True Realm, the Oriole's Laugh Wind layer.
Thick white mist slowly emerged around him.
Large patches of Floating Matter also began to cover the corpse before him.
Wei He had basically confirmed that this Floating Matter was a collection of things like