Myriad Demon Grassland

Spring passed and spring returned, flowers bloomed and withered, stars shifted and things changed; more than fifty years had passed since Kong Yi was ambushed at sea.

It was currently the month of April. A tall, slender middle-aged man with a bundle on his back stepped onto an endless grassland. If any other human Cultivator were to see him, they would surely be shocked, for this was the western part of the Heavenly Heart Continent, known as the Myriad Demon Grassland—a place that had always been a forbidden zone for human Cultivators.

The middle-aged man looked back at a city in the distance shrouded in red clouds and muttered to himself, "To think I would obtain this treasure in Tongyun City. If not for this Spirit-Swapping Ring, I wouldn't have been able to secure this item so easily."

After speaking, he rose into the air and put away the ring on his finger. His entire aura of spiritual energy immediately transformed into rolling demonic energy. Amidst this demonic energy, he revealed his true form: a crow at the late stage of the Dao Foundation.

This crow spat smoke from its mouth and sprouted fire from its wings; it was a Fire Crow. It spread its wings and, in the blink of an eye, vanished into the sky.

It flew for seven days and seven nights until it arrived at a mountain valley. There was a bamboo hut in the valley. It landed in front of the hut and called out, "Second Uncle, look, what have I brought you this time?"

A hoarse voice came from inside the bamboo hut, "Wu Qing, what kind of junk have you brought back this time? Last time you went to Tongyun City, you were swindled by a human Cultivator who passed off a Spirit