Half a year later, after traveling in fits and starts, they could smell a strong scent of blood from far away. An immortal city stood there, with more than a dozen immortal strongholds stretching around it like a protective guard. The strongholds curled like spirit serpents, forming a magnificent array, their ends linked together to protect the immortal city at the center.
Outside the immortal city, Demon Race settlements of all sizes were scattered about. Farther away, there were also signs of Ghost Race and Devil Race activity. More than a hundred years had passed since they entered the Spirit Ruins Mystic Realm from Autumn Water Town. The immortal city they had begun building back then—now known as Azure Immortal City—was still confined to a corner of the realm. Clearly, the situation of the several cultivation worlds led by Wangyue within the Spirit Ruins Mystic Realm was truly far from optimistic.
The Spirit Ruins Mystic Realm was rich in spiritual energy and dominated by the Demon Race. In the past, when spatial turbulence had caused it to connect intermittently with Azure, Scarlet Abyss, Blue Devil, and several other places, a few humans had entered sporadically, but compared with the entire Spirit Ruins Mystic Realm, they were nothing more than mud cows vanishing into the sea. The only branches to have achieved anything within the realm—the Zhao Clan branch, and the Fu, He, and other clans among the Qin Clan branch—were likewise confined to fixed regions.
The powerful demons each ruled their own mountains and claimed their own domains. Even great demons who had reached the True Intent level could not withstand the passage of time. Once a territory's leader died, the territory would often be fought over by Demon Cultivators of varying strength under his command, and the spheres of