The Heavenly Demon's Scheme

As Gu Yuanqing slipped into the Demon Land, he felt the surrounding spiritual qi grow turbid. Over millions of years of encroachment, the Heavenly Demons had already polluted parts of this Boundary Domain, intending to reshape it into a world better suited to them. The contamination extended beyond the soil aboveground to the spiritual veins below.

This contamination also greatly diminished the strength of cultivators who entered it.

Upon emerging, Gu Yuanqing headed straight for the region recorded in the jade slip provided by the Great Hao Dynasty.

It lay far from the human defensive line, nearly several million li away. Since Gu Yuanqing had never left a divine soul imprint there, he could only travel by evasion technique.

Along the way, he encountered several Heavenly Demons at the shattering heaven level, but he made no move against them.

He had no desire to alert Demon Lord Xuan You before slaying a Deathless Great Demon, so he used the Way of Space to isolate his aura throughout the journey.

He had little to fear. Powerful as Demon Lord Xuan You was, as long as he could not block the power of the Heavenly Angling Technique, Gu Yuanqing had nothing to be afraid of.

Moreover, during his recent stay in the Nine Domains Divine Continent, he had exchanged insights with Ling Yi and Nangong Xun and read many texts about Heavenly Demons within the Nine Heavens Divine Sect. Together with the information supplied by the Great Hao Dynasty, this had deepened his understanding of their powers far beyond what it had once been, giving him greater confidence in slaying them.

The Sky Patrol Inspectorate had provided the locations of three chaos heaven immortal level demonic beasts. The closest was a Deathless Great Demon known as the Bone Corroding Demon King.

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