Seeking the Dao in the Mortal World
Chapter 816

Demon King and Human Emperor

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After a brief discussion, Cheng Cheng and Qin Yi slipped into the Land of Chaos and began making arrangements behind the scenes through the Profound Yin Sect.

Qin Yi actually knew in his heart that this contained the manifestation of Cheng Cheng's desire for expansion as a ruler.

The Transverse Rift Valley was a long, narrow gorge. Though it stretched several thousand li in length and nearly a hundred li in width, its total area was fairly considerable. The demons were not yet numerous enough to fill the vast Demon City, much less the entire rift valley, which remained a land broad and demons sparse. In theory, they could continue multiplying there for a very long time.

Yet such terrain naturally gave one a suffocating sense of confinement, making one desperately want to expand outward.

Part of the reason behind the Demon Calamity back then could surely be traced to this. And when Cheng Cheng had first unified Demon City, she had immediately set about developing the rift valley for the same reason.

Qin Yi felt that if not for the blood oath she had made to him holding her back, the Land of Chaos would originally have been Cheng Cheng's first target once she had the strength to send troops out of the rift valley. The territory was sizable, it bordered the sea to the south, its resources were abundant, and it might even allow her to form an alliance with the demons of the sea. Most importantly, the Land of Chaos was not particularly powerful.

The strongest among that bunch of fools had not even reached perfected Qianyuan; their strongest seemed to be only at the late stage.

Thinking back to his first arrival in the Land of Chaos, when he had imagined that a Wu Xiang expert

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