Jiang Ming observed the situation on Lion-Camel Ridge for a while. This was a region dominated by demons. In Lion-Camel City at its very heart, demons accounted for sixty percent of the population, humans thirty percent, and human-demon hybrids the remaining ten percent.
Their current location was a human settlement relatively far from Lion-Camel Ridge. Its total population was only twenty thousand.
And from the look of things, it would not hold out much longer before the demons ravaged it too.
"To tell you the truth, now that you've come here, this place is very dangerous. This is the infamous Lion-Camel Ridge. More than eight hundred thousand humans originally lived here. Everyone practiced both the Martial Dao and methods of immortal cultivation and qi refining. Combining the two allowed our people to make a living by hunting. We could hunt tigers in the mountains, catch flood dragons in the sea, and hunt eagles in the sky.
"But three years ago, everything changed. Three terrifying demons suddenly came here.
"One of those three demons was a Golden-Winged Roc Eagle. On its very first day here, it opened its great mouth and swallowed a hundred thousand people! Back then, among Lion-Camel Ridge's court officials, king, queen, and others, there were even those with heavenly immortal cultivation. Yet they were still eaten in a single gulp.
"After that, more and more demons came here, drawn by their fame, and gathered in this place. They claimed to number a hundred thousand. The people living here became livestock penned up by demons! Some liked to drink human blood, with separate preferences for men, women, or children. Some liked eating flesh, and others enjoyed killing for fun. They learned human habits and gathered in Lion-Camel City, making the humans there supply their every need. Vast numbers