Sudden Change

Sudden Change

Valley of Ten Thousand Demons, before a prison cell.

A demon cultivator's corpse lay on the ground, its limbs twisted at unnatural angles, its eyes bulging, blood pooling all around it.

Several demon cultivators nearby wore grave expressions, their voices edged with chill.

"Only two days, and this is already the fifth one..."

"Damn it, we've run into ghosts."

"Don't spout nonsense. What 'ghosts'?"

"If it's not ghosts, then what is it? For no reason at all, they suddenly go mad, biting and gnawing, then finally explode and die..."

One demon cultivator's face turned pale.

"I keep feeling like something 'unclean' has entered our Great Prison..."

Another demon cultivator sneered. "What a bunch of damn cowards! Scaring yourselves. We're demon cultivators, cultivating demon power. We never followed the ordinary righteous path to begin with. Greater risks are perfectly normal."

"These demon cultivators died because their demon power ran rampant in reverse. Either something went wrong in their cultivation, or they ate too much monster meat and couldn't suppress their blood energy for a while... Is that worth making such a fuss over?"

"But five have died..." one demon cultivator questioned. "Isn't that a little too many?"

"And," another demon cultivator said, "the manager died too."

"The manager was eaten by a demon beast."

"He was too bold. He even dared to steal and drink the Second Elder's bear-paw blood. In the end, he brought disaster upon himself and let the Black Bear Demon break free of its chains and swallow him whole. Otherwise, he would surely have..."

The demon cultivator paused, then said coldly, "...taken a trip through the Monster Refining Map, where his soul would scatter and his corpse and bones would vanish without a trace..."

At the mention of the "Monster Refining Map," the other demon