Only after seeing Fairy Lingyue nod did Zhu Songyu continue:
"After the crushing defeat in the Heaven-Demon War thirty thousand years ago, almost none of the surviving Beheading Men of the Shangqing Realm remained there. They all fled to Outer Heaven."
"Among them, many have already forsaken their original oath. Some eke out an existence in Outer Heaven's secret realms, while others have established new factions there, no different from the cultivators we once spurned."
"My master, Qi Songyang, a few of our fellow Beheading Men, and I have been drawing on the power of fragments of the Heaven-Demon Battlefield to search for traces of the Tenth Demon Abyss."
"Wait." Hearing this, Fairy Lingyue abruptly interrupted Zhu Songyu.
"Wasn't the Tenth Demon Abyss destroyed by the combined efforts of the Five Emperors?" Fairy Lingyue asked, deeply puzzled.
"Once a Demon Abyss appears, it can never be completely destroyed. It and the demon seeds within it are merely sleeping." Zhu Songyu shook her head.
At this point, Zhu Songyu suffered a violent fit of coughing before continuing:
"While traveling through Outer Heaven, my master happened to discover clues related to this on a demonic beast."
"On that demonic beast, we discovered a tenth kind of demon seed power distinct from the powers of the Nine Abysses' demon seeds. No spell in the Shangqing Realm could counter it. We could only forcibly burn it with thunderflame."
"Most crucially, through his deductions, my master discovered that the demon seed power of this Tenth Demon Abyss very likely no longer feared battle intent."
At these words, both Fairy Lingyue and Xu Taiping felt their hearts jolt.
After his trials in the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, Xu Taiping knew full well how important the military formation battle intent created by the Five Emperors was when human