The Thousand Machines Pavilion's training ground had also been converted from a Demon Race ruin. It was a sunken pit, resembling a beast-fighting arena. After the Immortal Alliance took it over, they gradually replaced the rock with metal and leveled the ground and walls—now it looked even more like a gladiatorial arena.
But Wang Qi knew this was no gladiatorial arena.
The Later Demon Race honored "above" and despised "below." Buildings beneath the ground were either death cells or places suppressing Outer Dao idols sealed with the aura of Eternal True Color.
Given that this was an open-air venue, it could not have been a sealing ground. Then it was—an execution ground?
Wang Qi noticed that the walls around this "gladiatorial arena" were covered in Later Demon Race writing. The writing was exceedingly strange, symbols formed from twisted curves, looking for all the world like bizarre Tentacle Monsters.
These were also images the Demon Race used to worship their "metaphysical" gods. The gods represented by such images governed domains such as spiritual energy and cultivation, realms ordinary people could never touch. At the same time, they served as the Demon Race's written language.
However, after seeing the Later Demon Race's transformed body at the Pole, Wang Qi now had a more intuitive understanding of them.
Those twisted curves might not have been tentacles at all, but shapes formed by clusters of luminous cellular bodies within the Later Demon Race's transformed form. Since that mysterious transformed body was round, with a curved surface, their writing as a whole was likewise circular, expressed through curves.
This was to make it easier for the Later Demon Race to display writing with their own flesh.
—In this respect, they had truly learned from the Dragon Race. Both used their own bodies to represent "writing."