Demon Species

Roar! Roar! The demons' howls rose and fell without end. The nauseatingly thick stench of blood had dyed this entire cage crimson.

Chu Mu stepped inside. What met his eyes were grotesque, savage demons, one after another.

Chains hung down from above, binding every demon tightly within this cage.

Yet compared to the third- and fourth-order demons found in the Secret Realm, the demons imprisoned and suppressed here were far inferior.

Looking across this open-air cage, among the several dozen demons, the strongest was only at Second Order Late Stage. The overwhelming majority were merely first-order beings.

And...

Chu Mu stopped before one demon.

The demon stood roughly three zhang tall, its entire body covered in crimson ravines, as though dry, withered bark had spread over every inch of its flesh. Its eyes were scarlet, yet held not the slightest trace of clarity, only boundless savagery and bloodlust.

Under the perception of Divine Sense, that savagery and bloodlust became even clearer. There was not even the faintest trace of intelligence to be detected.

And this was no exception. Every one of the several dozen demons confined in this cage was possessed of that same pure savagery and bloodlust, with no trace whatsoever of intelligence.

As Chu Mu examined these imprisoned demons, his heart grew several degrees heavier.

These demons had all been living people not long ago, people who had not yet been corrupted by demons!

According to Gong Shan Hong, after the Demon Calamity erupted and the initial chaos had passed, he had begun gathering the disciples of his sect and conscripting independent cultivators who had not been corrupted by demons.

After several days of bitter fighting, certain horrifying signs began to emerge.

Some cultivators who had clearly been captured by demons would, after a day or two, not