After traveling another hundred thousand li underground, the group finally came to a stop.
The three Mahayana cultivators could already sense the rat clan's nest on the ground ahead.
The rat clan occupied a stretch of mountains.
The mountains were bare, not a single leaf growing upon them, and countless caves of every size had been excavated into them.
The rat clan dwelled within these caves.
Yet besides the rat clan, the caves also housed many other members of the Demon Race.
Apes, eagles, wolves, foxes, pythons, thunderbirds, giant lizards...
There were even fish-type demonic beasts from the water.
In short, all manner of strange and bizarre Demon Race creatures could be found there.
However, these demonic beasts from other races were mostly weak, with the strongest only at the sixth tier. Most were second- or third-tier demonic beasts.
Moreover, every one of these demonic beasts from other races was female.
They were either penned up like livestock, or mating with rat demons in some cave, whether willingly or by force.
"This..."
Song Wen and the other two Mahayana cultivators were rendered speechless.
The rat clan was far too fond of such affairs. They had actually gathered female demons from every race for this purpose!
Could it be...
That the name "Burrowing Rat" came from this?
And had nothing whatsoever to do with being skilled at burrowing underground, as they had originally assumed?
Indeed, while traveling underground, they had not encountered a single rat demon that had burrowed deep below the earth.
Cough!
Kurong suddenly coughed lightly, breaking the silence among them, then said,
"If my senses are correct, there are only three eighth-tier rat demons here: one at the peak of the eighth tier, one at the late eighth tier, and one at the early eighth tier. However, there