Mysterious Valley, Entering the Demon Court!

With the Demon King defeated, the assembled demon horde scattered. Since they were already there, Qin Zheng didn't mind sending them all away...

He snapped his fingers.

Instantly, the Spiritual Power between heaven and earth began to gather...

Finally, on the icy plain, a black vortex of water gathered, swallowing countless Demon Beast, whether they were Third-Tier great demons or First-Tier lesser demons.

Anyone dragged into the vortex will eventually be crushed into a pile of mud!

Until the very end--

The black water vortex gradually subsided, and the beast tide completely collapsed...

Of the hundreds of thousands of Demon Beast, over 70% were slaughtered. The remaining demons scattered and hid in the glaciers and snowfields, not because Qin Zheng was kind-hearted...

They were deliberately spared.

Rather, they didn't want to exterminate them all, but rather to leave some seeds to exist, allowing them to continue to reproduce and provide more resources in the future...

Exterminating everyone is not a wise move.

Great Qin is not something that can be achieved overnight, so we must learn to pursue sustainable development. Perhaps in a hundred years or so...

Among these fleeing Demon Beast is the future Demon King!

A single Demon Core core is worth more than hundreds of Third-Tier great demons; only treasures of this Demon Core are truly valuable...

Only then can one catch the eye of the Qin Clan!

Materials from Demon Beast below the Fourth-Tier are no longer considered high-level by the Qin Clan; they are merely ordinary materials for refining weapons and pills...

The Qin Clan has no shortage of these things.

Only Demon Core possess such considerable value and have a wider range of uses...

In particular, the pure Dao Law within Demon Core can be used to refine top-grade pills, perfect treasures for the Seventh Heaven, and even give rise to vast blessed lands...

Its function is extremely versatile; even a powerful family like the Qin Clan is now in short supply of Demon Core!

After the black water vortex dissipated, a thick layer of fleshy pulp remained, the remnants of hundreds of thousands of Demon Beast forcibly slaughtered...

The area covered by the minced meat was over ten square kilometers, and the thickness was more than three feet!

It's like hell on earth!

Qin Zheng didn't even lift his eyelids, feeling somewhat bored. He then nodded slightly to those behind him, instantly lengthening his shadow...

The Soul Frost Ghost King then emerged from the shadows!

With a wave of his hand, the Soul Frost Ghost King forcibly pulled the six Demon King' souls from their corpses and then lined up to jump into the Soul Frost Ghost King's belly.

As for the Demon King's corpse, Qin Zheng ignored it...

He went back to his cabin to rest and recuperate.

In the end, it was divided equally among Flower Princess and the others, with each person receiving the corpse of the Demon King. Flower Princess immediately squeezed out all the flesh and blood from it and ground the demon bones into bone powder...

Then, Flower Princess took out a potted plant, inside which grew brightly colored Little Flower, which were her true form. She then added bone meal to the potted plant as fertilizer.

Fertilizing itself, that's something else, the first in history.

As for the four patriarchs and Gai Nie, their methods of using the Demon King's corpse were very much like those of Human Race cultivators: skinning, dismembering, fleshing, and blood extraction...

The usage of each part is clearly arranged, leaving no value wasted.

As for the three-foot-thick layer of minced meat, it looked disgusting and nauseating, but it was all treasure, belonging to the several third-grade Alchemist accompanying them...

I don't mind at all!

Using the earth as a cauldron and the sky as a furnace, the group carved a grand array to gather spiritual energy, and then began to refine the demon corpse, extracting only the most essential parts for alchemy...

It won't take long to turn this pile of minced meat into a top-quality blood dish!

After a short rest--

The Fourth-Tier warships continued their exploration deeper into the ice plains. This beast tide had not caused any losses; none of the accompanying cultivators had perished...

The loss was only a little over a thousand puppets, as long as there were enough materials.

The small workshops inside the Fourth-Tier warships will be able to replenish the puppet army's losses and restore its lost combat power in just a few days...

After that.

The Soul Frost Ghost King digested the essence of six Demon King and obtained a great deal of information about the Ice and Snow Ancestral Court. However, these Demon King...

After the Ice and Snow Demon Race was defeated, they were also unable to find their ancestral home.

Furthermore, with many years passing and the search yielding no results, the remaining remnants of the Ice and Snow Demon Race Clan gradually lost sight of their objective...

All the Demon King could do was hide deep within the icy plains and lie in wait.

They accumulated strength while continuing their lineage.

However, the Soul Frost Ghost King still managed to find a clue: a very secluded valley, where a group of Demon King also lived...

The place where I last entered the Demon Court!

Based on this situation, it's reasonable to conclude that the Ice and Snow Ancestral Court is most likely a mobile secret realm similar to the Mieyang Immortal Palace...

If that's the case, the difficulty of finding it will increase dramatically.

The problem isn't finding it, but rather that the Demon Court might move. The entire ice plain is so vast; finding the Demon Court would likely be extremely difficult...

Fortunately--

The living lanterns crafted from Frost Spirit Demon can last for at least another six months. If we can't find any more, we'll have to try to capture more Frost Spirit Demon...

Make more living lanterns!

The more cruel the Frost Spirit Demon Race were to Human Race in the past, the more inhuman Human Race are to the Frost Spirit Demon today, turning them into living weapons...

This is just the beginning of the torment; there will be plenty of time to slowly wear down this species.

In the days that followed--

Following the clue of the canyon and the guidance of the living lantern, the warship finally arrived at a corner of the northwestern ice field...

The temperature here is extremely low, and there are no living creatures.

It was practically a place devoid of spiritual energy, with extremely thin Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, and the overflowing Ice and Snow Dao Principles almost completely isolated it from other Dao Law...

If one were to cultivate here, it would only be a waste of effort and yield little result.

The living lanterns completely lost their vitality upon approaching this place, clearly indicating that this must be the entrance to the Ice and Snow Demon Court...

According to the habits of the Ice and Snow Demon Race, although the Demon Court moves constantly, it stays in one place for nearly a hundred years each time.

Time is running out before the next relocation...

This means that Qin Zheng and his group need to locate the Ice and Snow Demon Court's exact location before the Demon Court's next relocation...

We must also find a way to open the gates of the Demon Court!

At this time--

Then it was Guiyang's turn to take action. A flash of spiritual light appeared, Guiyang stood at the bow of the ship, silently sensing the subtle spatial fluctuations...

A moment later.

Guiyang then pointed to the mountains not far away, among which one peak appeared rather small, and its surface showed nothing special...

But then, Qin Zheng gave a look to his back.

Immediately afterwards, the main cannon of the Fourth-Tier warship slowly accumulated Spiritual Power, accompanied by the fusion and compression of massive amounts of Spiritual Power and Dao Law principles...

The next moment--

A giant beam of light, over ten zhang in diameter, roared out from the main cannon, its power so great that it leveled the small mountain to the ground!

Dozens of nearby mountains were also completely wiped out!

As the light spots gradually faded, the main gun emitted a large amount of heat, and the hit mountain was flattened, along with the earth...

They all turned into flowing lava!

An ice crystal archway then appears above the lava lake, creating a tale of ice and fire.

The flowing firelight reflected on the ice crystal archway, creating an incredibly Xuanqi. However, despite the dazzling light, Qin Zheng only sensed a slight threat!

Behind that door.

There must be some kind of great terror!