Ning Hai opened the second-to-last Message Talisman.
"We followed the footprints across the river and walked for several more days before the footprints that had vanished appeared again. This time, though, only a few remained before they stopped. The trail ended beneath an enormous dead tree.
We searched everywhere nearby, but apart from the new, unidentified small demonic beasts breeding in the darkness, we found no other traces of life.
Speaking of these small demonic beasts, I believe a place like the Demon-Subduing Land still needs to be cleared out completely. Otherwise, as the years accumulate, even little demonic beasts will eventually grow powerful. The disasters that follow will then be beyond anything we can control.
So far, no one has died on this journey, but half our people have sustained injuries of varying severity. Clearly, even the small demonic beasts spawned in the Demon-Subduing Land cannot be overlooked."
The elders and Peak Masters fell silent at this.
Faced with a behemoth like the Demon-Subduing Land, how could they not want to wipe it entirely from the Azure Realm? The problem was that they could not!
It was not merely beyond their ability. Even the mighty experts ten thousand years ago had been unable to do it. Otherwise, the Demon-Subduing Land would not still exist today.
Everyone knew that, ten thousand years ago, after the mighty experts had barely managed to seal the three Devil Race rifts, the loss of innate origin qi had left them unable to completely clear away some of the "rubbish" the demonic beasts had left in the Azure Realm. Thus, they had piled it all at the southernmost point of the Vast Heaven Continent and even given that place a name: the present-day Demon-Subduing Land.
That so-called "rubbish" possessed an extremely potent demonic nature. Cultivators