The Predecessors Dug the Pits, and Their Successors Fell In

"Uncle Ba, when you were young... did you offend the demon realm?"

"That's impossible. I'm an honest person. At most, I just do odd jobs and run errands for others. I didn't do any of the bad things."

"I've heard that the Dragon Clan and the Phoenix Clan are both friendly towards humans, so I should be able to go, right?"

Lu Yang remembered that they met the Phoenix Clan members who sold their blood to create Phoenix Bloodstones in Li Haoran's hometown. After they introduced themselves, the people were quite enthusiastic.

"It's possible to go, provided that some minor matters aren't exposed."

"What small matter?"

"As the saying goes, the dragon and phoenix bring good fortune and are symbols of auspiciousness. Wealthy families also like to display dragon and phoenix paper-cuts when they get married."

"Old Jiu thought about it and said that marriage is just a couple announcing to everyone that they will enter the bridal chamber to make love at night. The dragon and phoenix in paper cutting should also have this meaning. It's just that people don't have the opportunity to see the dragon and phoenix making love, so the paper cuttings are not close to reality."

"Old Jiu dared to be a pioneer. He secretly found a pair of dragon and phoenix couples, watched their mating process, recorded it, and compiled the first-hand information into a book called 'The Dragon-Phoenix Change,' leaving a reference for future generations. I don't know if you've heard of it."

Lu Yang: "..."

How could I not have heard of it? The first book I found in the Scripture Depository was "The Dragon-Phoenix Change," hidden in a corner. When I found it, I thought I had obtained a great fortuitous opportunity.

Back then, my senior brother in the Scripture Depository was puzzled. "Dragon-Phoenix Change" was a forbidden book, and it couldn't be found anywhere on the continent. How come the Scripture Depository had a copy?

So it was you who wrote this, Master!

Judging from the Dragon and Phoenix Clan's reaction, they still don't know it was their master who did it, but who knows what the future holds.

"What about the Bai Ze clan?" Lu Yang had heard that the Bai Ze clan was a neutral party, and when conflicts arose among the Demon Race, they often sought out the Bai Ze clan to mediate and witness the disputes.

"The Bai Ze clan isn't a big problem. It's just that a few of us brothers caused some trouble in the Demon Realm and were heavily hunted down. In desperation, we disguised ourselves as members of the Bai Ze clan and escaped. Unfortunately, we were spotted by a Bai Ze and he insisted on taking us back. In the heat of the moment, Lao Ba asked him, 'Since the Bai Ze clan knows everything, do you know what you don't know?'"

"While he was thinking, the rest of us managed to escape. We heard that the Bai Ze that Lao Ba questioned back then has now become the clan leader."

"The Bai Ze clan is just and kind, and they should have long forgotten about us from back then."

"Did it cause a commotion?" Lu Yang felt that the commotion was probably quite significant.

"It wasn't a big deal. It was just a coincidence that we happened to be in the Demon Realm during a secret realm that opened once every five years. A few of us went in to try our luck and see if we could get anything good. The entry requirements for the secret realm are quite high; you have to be a pure-blooded person. Luckily, we are all pure-blooded humans, so we got in without any problems."

"I never expected that once we were inside, the Demon Race would turn on us. They let us into their secret realm, but the Demon Race targeted us, ostracizing us, tripping us up, playing dirty tricks, and even trying to kill us. We knew this wouldn't do; they couldn't treat us like this."

"I blocked the entrance to the secret realm with stones, and my sixth junior sister created a fake entrance next to it using an illusion. Then we told everyone that there was a problem with the entrance and we couldn't get out."

"Of course the Demon Race didn't believe it. They walked to the entrance of the fake secret realm, but after entering, they found that it wasn't the outside world, but an unknown space. They quickly turned back, suspecting that they had encountered a spatial turbulence and couldn't get out."

"The fake entrance connects to the Beast Taming Sect's storage ring, a specially made one that can hold living creatures. He entered the storage ring, which is of course an unknown space."

Ordinary storage rings can only hold inanimate objects.

"If one Demon Race's attempt fails, several high-ranking Demon Race will enter the fake secret realm entrance and arrive at the same conclusion—they've encountered spatial turbulence."

"The entrance to the secret realm was open for ten days. We left the secret realm at the end of the tenth day, telling the people outside that the secret realm was dangerous and that all the demons were dead. Those Demon Race were imprisoned by us for five years, and when they came out, they searched the whole world for us."

"Why bother? Wouldn't it be better for everyone to compete based on their own fortuitous opportunity and try to outsmart us?"

Lu Yang: "..."

Meng Jingzhou: "..."

"The Taotie tribe... well, they're Demon Race that hates humans anyway, so it doesn't matter whether we provoke them or not."

Grandpa Ba wholeheartedly agreed, "That's true. The Taotie tribe's hatred of humans has little to do with the Ask Dao Sect. The eldest brother was merely visiting the Taotie tribe's ancestral tombs out of a research mindset, and was eventually discovered by the Taotie tribe."

After asking Grandpa Ba, the two went to ask Elders Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, and Eight.

The two were fortunate to discover that Grandpa Ba was lying—the nine disciples of the Ask Dao Sect had provoked the Demon Race far more times than Grandpa Ba claimed.

"These precautions don't mean we should mention we're from the Ask Dao Sect; they're clearly telling us not to go to the Demon Realm."

Lu Yang sensed that the future was fraught with danger and filled with murderous intent.

"It should be alright. Look, Third Senior Sister is doing just fine in the Demon Realm, and she even has the opportunity to study High Antiquity history. We'll definitely be safe if we seek refuge with Third Senior Sister."

"I just don't know if our portraits have reached the Demon Realm yet."

"Probably not. Look, we've never even heard of any geniuses from the Demon Realm. Conversely, the Demon Realm isn't familiar with the geniuses of the Great Heaven either; at most, they might know their names."

That makes sense.

After discussing it, the two decided to head to the Demon Realm.

How can a cultivator be afraid of challenges?

The two went on a shopping spree, focusing on buying life-saving items, which they then placed in their identity jade tokens. Lightly equipped, they boarded a flying boat and headed to their old haunt—the Demon-Suppressing Pass.

It was the eldest sister who dumped them here.

The once-thriving wig industry in Zhenyao Pass is now in decline; without Lu Yang's meddling, wigs are no longer needed.

The two no longer needed mosquito-repelling pills; their Golden Core stage aura was so powerful that no mosquitoes dared to approach.

The Demon Suppression Pass and the Demon Realm are separated by a dense forest, and it was in this dense forest that Lu Yang advanced to the Golden Core stage.

"Back then, those Golden Core stage Demon Beast posed a considerable threat to us, and we even had to flee when we encountered Nascent Soul Realm. Now it seems they are nothing special." Two Golden Core eighth-level elders chatted and laughed in the dense forest.

The tall trees blocked out the sunlight, and from the dark bushes, pairs of green eyes stared at Lu Yang and his companion with greedy and bloodthirsty eyes, filled with murderous intent.

However, after the two patriarchs casually killed a Nascent Soul Early Stage Demon Beast, the hidden Demon Beast knew they were out of luck and quietly retreated, and nothing happened.

Even when they entered the territory of the Nascent Soul Realm Demon Beast, those Demon Beasts with extremely strong territorial awareness did not dare to show their faces, pretending not to see the two, and secretly praying that nothing would happen.

Those who have cultivated to the Nascent Soul Realm are not fools; they have a clear understanding of themselves. They are merely mixed-blood Demon Beast with mediocre combat power. These two, on the other hand, are comparable in combat power to top-tier Demon Race prodigies. How could they dare to provoke them?

The dense forest no longer posed a threat to Lu Yang and his companion.

Before officially entering the demon realm, the two took every second to show off their power.