The Former Demon Lord

The words had barely left his mouth.

"Rumble!!!"

Without warning, the earth began to shake violently, as if an earth dragon were turning over beneath it.

The two men struggled to keep their footing and stumbled a few steps. Horrified, they looked toward the source of the tremors: the pool in the distance.

The deep pool had been as smooth and still as a mirror.

Now its waters churned violently like boiling water, while steam rose up and spread into a vast white cloud.

More unnerving still, a ferocious, powerful demonic aura, thick with the stench of blood, erupted from the depths of the pool. It climbed higher and higher, instantly breaking through the Qi and Blood Realm—and it was still surging!

"This... this is..."

The older Li Family cultivator's face turned deathly pale as he stared at the surface of the pool in disbelief.

He knew this demonic aura all too well.

It was the aura of the Blood Spirit Flame Python from all those years ago.

But this aura was more than a hundred or even a thousand times stronger than before!

Sensing the disturbance, more than a dozen figures with powerful auras raced over from every direction.

Every one of them was a Qi and Blood Realm Cultivator.

Among them was even a powerhouse at Qi and Blood Great Perfection.

These were the cultivators protecting the medicinal garden.

The Qi and Blood Great Perfection powerhouse leading them was surnamed Zhang. He was an Attendant of the Li Family Guest Official Hall.

Now, he watched the deep pool with a grave expression and said in a low voice, "There's an extraordinarily powerful demon in that pool! It may well be a Demon Lord of the Innate Realm."

At those words, everyone drew in a sharp breath.

There was