Beneath the clear blue autumn sky, Sky-Pillar Peak stretched for three hundred li, mottled yellow and green.
With a casual glance, Fang Yun could sense surging demonic aura in over thirty places in the mountains, all gathering grounds of the Demon Race. Areas farther away, concealed by the peaks, were difficult to sense.
According to the Sacred Academy's intelligence, the main summit of Sky-Pillar Peak rose three thousand five hundred zhang, and its range extended three hundred li. Two Peak Demon Kings lived on the main summit, while fifty-six Demon Kings in total inhabited the other seventeen smaller peaks. However, a note at the end explained that these were only the numbers the Human Race had verified. The number of Great Demon Kings on Demon-Grinding Mountain remained relatively stable, but Demon Kings came and went frequently. Even twice the reported number on Sky-Pillar Peak would be perfectly normal.
Most of Xiang Prefecture's demon troubles originated from Sky-Pillar Peak.
The Peak Demon Kings Hu Xiong and Snake Crow divided Sky-Pillar Peak between them. Though they occasionally fought, they would inevitably join forces if humans came to attack them.
The Five Demon Mountains had rifts connecting them to the Demon Realm, but at most, only Great Demon Kings or Great Barbarian Kings could pass through.
The rifts between the two realms were exceedingly complex. Fifty years after Confucius's Sagefall, human Half-Sages had rashly intervened, intending to wipe out the Five Demon Mountains. Instead, they had enlarged the rifts between the realms, making them even harder to control. Since then, there had been no record of the human Sages taking action near those rifts. At most, they fought around the outskirts of the Five Demon Mountains.
Over the years, the Demon Race had also learned where the human Sages drew the line. Unless