On the plains, encountering a small number of devils was no threat to Lu Yang.
But if his presence was exposed and the devils from the Fourth and Fifth Demon Cities sent experts to hunt him down, Lu Yang's situation would take a sudden turn for the worse.
Before breaking through to Venerable Tier, Lu Yang had no wish to reveal himself too soon.
After digesting the fragmented memories of those devils, Lu Yang had gained a rough understanding of his circumstances.
Behind him, among the six passes occupied by the devils, humans still made up the majority.
Each city held only a small number of high-tier devils and nearly thirty thousand mid- and low-tier devils, who were there to keep watch over the human martial artists who had defected from Great Jun.
The vast majority of the devils were scattered across the wilderness of Tianjue Prefecture. They neither liked nor were accustomed to human settlements.
In fact, most of the inhabitants within the six passes occupied by the devils were still human.
Some of these humans had been abducted, while others had defected of their own accord.
Still others had been born and raised in the cities within the passes.
After all, apart from Amethyst City, the Fourth Pass, even the most recently occupied of the other five passes had been under the devils' control for over a hundred years.
The mortals living in those cities had already gone through four or five generations of descendants. They were no longer the people who had first lived there.
One of the earliest cities to fall had been occupied for more than a thousand years.
To the experts in the city, a thousand years might have been just one stretch of their lives. But to mortals, it meant dozens of generations