On the road leading into the depths of Night Demon Valley...
Three figures traveled together.
Xu Xuan, the little Night Demon, and Xu Xuan's Heart Demon.
The three walked slowly. As though he had sensed something, the little Night Demon shuddered, and a sense of terror instantly flooded his heart.
"What is it?"
Xu Xuan instinctively turned his head and saw a flicker of fear in the little Night Demon's eyes, though he quickly concealed it.
Hearing Xu Xuan's question, the little Night Demon hurriedly shook his head. "Nothing. I don't know what happened just now either."
"It was as though I'd encountered my natural enemy. That gaze just now actually made my heart tremble."
The little Night Demon spoke with lingering fear.
Xu Xuan had sensed nothing and merely nodded. After all, that gaze had not been directed at him, so he truly had not felt anything.
"I can sense the aura of a Saint remnant soul up ahead."
Just then, however, the Heart Demon beside him suddenly spoke, and those words quickly brought Xu Xuan to a realization.
He still had some recollection of Saint remnant souls. Back in the Nine-Story Palace, he had encountered one himself. Its world-destroying might still left him with lingering fear.
Although that Saint remnant soul had ultimately passed its inheritance on to him, there was no denying its absolute power.
"A Saint remnant soul..."
Xu Xuan murmured to himself, a gleam of excitement involuntarily appearing in his eyes.
"Then let's hurry over, so we don't keep that fellow waiting too long."
Without waiting for the other two to react, Xu Xuan picked up his pace. Soon, he reached the deepest part of Night Demon Valley.
There, he clearly saw a huge, dark-red Night Demon three meters long. Before the dark-red Night Demon