Hundred Ridge Demon King

"Perhaps it was Heaven's grace."

Su Yi chuckled lightly, as if killing Dongfang Jue had been a trivial matter.

The sight of that expression made the demons even more devoted to him.

Nan Xiaopao pursed her lips. She understood that Su Yi didn't want to reveal the truth in front of everyone, so she didn't ask any more questions.

Just then, Su Yi looked toward the other cultivators in the distance, and the demons followed his gaze.

Tens of thousands of eyes turned their way, scaring the cultivators so badly that they hurried to flee.

"The Lord is dead! Run!"

"Just what is that Half-Demon's background?"

"That was terrifying! Demon Sword Mountain will surely become a forbidden ground from now on!"

"Could some mighty expert be protecting him?"

The cultivators' voices faded into the distance, and the demons burst into laughter.

Su Yi took out the Three-Headed Ghost King's Demon Core, wiped it clean, and put it into the Dao Vault. Luo Zhenhai said nothing.

The Demon Core held little appeal for him.

Now he was intensely curious about Su Yi. He decided to keep a closer eye on him and find out just what kind of person this Half-Demon was.

The Purple-Backed Bear King, Grey Rock Dog King, and the other Humanoid Demons began cleaning up the battlefield as well.

The subdued demons prostrated themselves on the ground, waiting for orders.

Their eyes were all fixed on Su Yi. There was no hatred in them, only fervent devotion.

The Demon Race worshiped the strong. And Su Yi had killed Dongfang Jue with just a single count. It was practically divine.

Following Su Yi would certainly feel safer than following the Three-Headed Ghost King!

Afterward, Su Yi split up all the newly subdued demons and assigned them to different Humanoid Demons.

Between that and cleaning up the battlefield, a full half-hour passed before they set off for Demon Sword Mountain.

As they gazed at the three immortal mountains hidden among the clouds and mist, the demons' hearts surged with excitement. This would be their territory. They wouldn't have to wander from place to place anymore.

"The middle peak is the tallest and has the richest spiritual energy. Let's leave it to the Demon Lord and Demon Empress!"

Kui Savage Elephant made the suggestion. Ever since they had decided to call Su Yi their Demon Lord, Nan Xiaopao had adopted the same form of address, becoming the Demon Empress.

Su Yi had no objections. It suited his status perfectly. He couldn't live among the demons; only by having a mountain all to himself would he be worthy of the title Demon Lord.

Nan Xiaopao was over the moon. She often felt gloomy because she never got a chance to be alone with Su Yi, but now she finally had one.

Su Yi first led the group in searching the three mountains. He discovered that all three were covered in rare and wondrous fruits, and there were even spiritual springs.

Spiritual springs were formed from condensed spiritual energy. A single drink was worth five days of arduous cultivation.

The spiritual spring was on the middle peak, so it naturally fell under Su Yi's control. The rare fruits on the other two peaks were also fenced off, and the demons were forbidden from eating them at will.

The Humanoid Demons wholeheartedly approved. The more benefits the demons below them received, the less there would be for them.

As for the lowest-ranking demons, they hadn't expected to get anything in the first place.

Demon Sword Mountain spent two days getting everything in order. By then, Su Yi had eight Humanoid Demons under his command, with thirteen thousand demons below them. He divided the forces evenly, keeping the Humanoid Demons on roughly equal footing for now. From then on, how many demon soldiers each of them commanded would depend entirely on their own abilities.

Luo Zhenhai practiced wielding a blade with his left hand every day. He had no interest in power whatsoever.

Nan Xiaopao was the same. After seeing how formidable Su Yi was, she only wanted to catch up with him as quickly as possible.

She had the Qiling Holy Body and a remarkable talent for cultivation. If Su Yi didn't have a special constitution that let him absorb Demon Cores completely, she might well have caught up to him.

In just two days, news of Dongfang Jue's brutal death had spread throughout the Seven Dynasties. Fierce Tang was especially enraged and listed the Demon Lord of Demon Sword Mountain as its top target. If not for the vast distances between Fierce Tang and Demon Sword Mountain, Fierce Tang could have crushed Demon Sword Mountain that very day.

Su Yi learned all this through the Emperor Su Sect.

The members of the Emperor Su Sect had already come to regard the Demon Lord of Demon Sword Mountain as one of their own. After all, they had witnessed Emperor Su kill Dongfang Jue in their minds that day.

At the time, they had thought it was a joke. They hadn't expected Dongfang Jue to actually die.

The incident made the members of the Emperor Su Sect even more reverent toward Emperor Su.

Even Devil Lord Qingyan and East Marsh Flood Dragon King addressed Su Yi as "you" or "Senior" when they spoke to him.

Another three days passed.

It was close to dusk.

At the summit of Demon Sword Mountain's main peak, Su Yi opened his eyes after meditating. He had refined the Three-Headed Ghost King's Demon Core, and his demonic power had surged once again.

"Five Elements Severed Pulse Body? Heh, you really didn't know a mountain when you saw one."

Su Yi muttered to himself. When the Four Elders of Great Wei had judged him to be a good-for-nothing, they had scared him half to death. He'd thought he was like the protagonist of some cookie-cutter novel, destined to defy Heaven.

Now he was sure his constitution was extraordinary. Not a single demon on Demon Sword Mountain could convert even a quarter as much energy from a Demon Core as he could.

In other words, he was born to cultivate as a demon!

He even wondered if there might have been a demon among his ancestors.

Lost in thought, Su Yi stood up, intending to find Nan Xiaopao and chat for a while.

Demon Sword Mountain's main peak was a thousand meters tall, while the two flanking peaks were over seven hundred meters high. From the edge of the cliffs, one could look down over the grasslands.

At dusk, the grasslands were breathtakingly beautiful—almost hauntingly so. The sky looked as if it had been scorched by fire, merging with the grasslands into a single painted scene that soothed the soul and set one's thoughts wandering.

Su Yi walked slowly down the mountain path. Everything that had happened since he arrived in Desolate Ancient surfaced in his mind. Even now, thinking back on it all felt like waking from a dream.

He wondered how long the peace would last.

Whoosh—

Just then, an arrow shot through the clouds and mist, aimed straight at Su Yi.

Damn it!

Su Yi cursed inwardly. He'd only just wondered how long the peace would hold when danger came flying at him.

Was Heaven messing with him?

Su Yi was no longer the man he'd been. His right hand shot up like lightning and caught the arrow.

A scroll of beast hide was tied to its tail.

Su Yi looked in the direction the arrow had come from, but saw no sign of the attacker.

He unrolled the hide and found writing on it. It was an invitation.

The Hundred Ridge Demon King!

The message was direct: in three months, the Demon Kings of the nearby Hundred Ridges were invited to gather at Sunset Ravine to discuss a campaign against the Human Race.

Su Yi frowned. Although he had embarked on the path of the demons, deep down, he was still human.

But if he refused, he would offend every Demon King in the surrounding area. When that happened, he'd be doomed beyond redemption.

He had heard it from the demons who used to belong to Three Ghost Mountain: the Hundred Ridges were full of hidden tigers and crouching dragons, and there was no shortage of ten-thousand-year-old monsters with heaven-reaching cultivation.

That was why Fierce Tang didn't dare attack.

Su Yi's head began to ache.

At the same time, he thought of the Xuanyuan Human Emperor. According to the Xuanyuan Human Emperor, he had sent them here by reversing time and space. In other words, in the future, the Demon Race would slaughter the Human Race to the last.

And then there were Di Jun and Taiyi. Perhaps they had already become towering figures among the demons.

If a war between humans and demons really came, which side should he stand with?

Su Yi no longer felt like chatting. He closed his eyes and began peeking at the chat.

The Emperor Su Sect was still buzzing with conversation.

Black Tiger Emperor: Dongfang Jue's death has had a huge impact. Fierce Tang wants to expand into the Demon Realm, but all the demon kingdoms oppose it.

Demon Wolf Star: Heh, if war breaks out between humans and demons, I'll kill you first. I might be a demonic cultivator, but I'm human!

Black Tiger Emperor: Who's afraid of you? Bring it on!

Old Lord Qiyang: The Demon Emperor of Sunset Ravine is gathering the Demon Kings from the Hundred Ridges. This doesn't look good!

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