Ming Zhiyuan stayed with Nan Chunyi in Yanshan City, and was finally able to calm down and work hard to study alchemy under the guidance of Nan Chunyi. He temporarily put martial arts behind him.
After Qianyuan's reinforcements arrived in Gaoyun, the armies of the two countries joined forces and, with the help of the magical beast Blue Lion King, slowly took back several cities near the border of Rouyun.
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Deep in the Nine Flame Sand Sea, close to the Monster Forest, in the vast desert.
In a huge city built of sand and stone, in a majestic palace, there is a throne made of huge spiritual stones in the main hall.
There is a black-haired man sleeping on the throne. The man looks very young and has deep features. He is extremely handsome. If Ming Zhiyuan saw this man here, he would be surprised and shout: "Damn, he is more handsome than the second senior brother, no,
Much more handsome than the second senior brother."
This black-haired man was lying quietly on the huge spiritual stone throne. His skin was so white that it was almost transparent, and the slowly flowing blood could be faintly seen under his skin.
If you hadn't seen his chest rise and fall very slowly, he would be almost a lifeless person.
Behind the throne made of spiritual stones, a long and sloping groove was built with various levels of spiritual stone fragments.
The groove is connected to a very wide concave stone platform at the back that is higher than the throne. The stone platform is also made of spiritual stones, but this stone platform is stained with blood.
At this time, several motionless people were lying on it, three men and one woman. Each of them had a bloody and terrifying hole in their chest.
The heart has disappeared, but because of the active spiritual power of the spirit stone, several people are still bleeding out.
The blood passes through the holes on the concave platform and through the groove of the spiritual stone. Under the action of the spiritual stone, the blood is kept fresh and flows to the throne without solidifying at all.
The man lying on the throne put his hand just at the exit of the groove, and a large amount of blood flowed out, but strangely disappeared under the man's palm, as if it had been absorbed by the man.
A burly figure in black clothes and long hair sat cross-legged under the throne, with his eyes closed and muttering something.
At this time, a voice came from outside the hall: "Great Elder, Commander Asinge is back and has something important to report."
The long-haired man opened his eyes, glanced at the man on the throne, and replied softly: "Let him come in."
A man immediately walked in outside the palace. He first knelt down and bowed to the man on the throne: "Age Xin pays homage to my king. My king Wansheng has returned."
Then he stood up and bowed to the long-haired man and saluted: "Age Xin has met the great elder."
The great elder turned his head, looked at Ag Xin and said softly: "No need to be polite, just say it."
Agaxin straightened up, still lowering his head and said softly: "Great Elder, the connection on the Jiuyan defense line has been cut off.
We have no way of knowing the situation in Yuhuo Kingdom now. The Qilin King led a group of monsters to patrol the Nine Flames Defense Line.
The head of Wushen Mountain also led some warriors from the Tianyuan Sect to sit in Yuhuo Capital.
Our people responsible for escorting resources are also temporarily unable to get through. The Qilin King is amazingly powerful, and we cannot break through the defense line and send reinforcements from outside."
After hearing this, the Great Elder remained expressionless for a long while before saying: "Warcraft and the human race have formed an alliance, and the high-quality weapons of the two races have gathered together. With such a good opportunity, we could have taken advantage of this opportunity to kill all the high-quality warcraft and humans at once.
Qi Lingfeng and Qing Lai are useless people, and they still have our emperor's demon-killing powder in their hands. They cannot seize such an opportunity.
Now that the Warcraft and Humans have formed an alliance, although we, the Demon, are stronger than them individually, there are many high-quality humans and Warcraft, and our Emperor has not yet awakened, so we are now outnumbered."
After saying that, the great elder stopped again, and after a while he continued: "
I have just entered the extraordinary realm, but the Qilin King has been in the extraordinary realm for a long time. If the Qilin King and the leader of the Martial God join forces, I may not be able to match him.
Now, they can only find a way to make the Yuhuo Empire fight with the other three empires, let the human race kill each other, and consume their own human race's strength.
Let Qi Fan lead a thousand soldiers, harass the defense line from time to time, pretend to attack, do not fight head-on, and move away at a touch, to contain the military strength of the human race and Warcraft on the defense line, and also to slightly assist the tribesmen in Yuhuo territory.
That's all we can do now. If there is a big defeat in Yuhuo and they can't escape, it's because they acted carelessly and ruined our clan's important affairs. We can consider them to have sacrificed their lives for our emperor."
Agexin said with some hesitation: "If we don't try our best to break through the Nine Flames defense line and connect with Elder Yingqi and the others, then they...if they fail, they will definitely not be able to come back.
And if we can't break through the Nine Flames Defense Line, the human sacrifices won't be able to be transported, but the human sacrifices are no longer enough, the defense lines are blocked, we can't get in, and the people over there can't be sent out either."
After hearing this, the Great Elder was silent for a long time and said: "Tomorrow, you and Qing'ang will take the people to the Monster Forest. The war has just broken out. The human race should not have time to set up heavy defenses on the monster defense line. Let's capture some monsters first."
Agaxin said with some hesitation: "If we go to the Monster Forest now, we may not be able to go back and forth in time, and there are not many human sacrifices left.
We can continue for up to five days, so we might as well try our best to break through the Nine Flames defense line and occupy Flowing Fire City. There are many human races in Flowing Fire City, so there is no need to worry about insufficient human sacrifices."
The great elder was quiet for a while, the expression on his face kept changing, and finally he said with difficulty: "King Qilin and Mu Fengge join forces, no one in our demon clan can stop us unless our emperor wakes up.
At this time, I am trying my best to support Elder Qi and the others. Even if I add more than a dozen elders in the Demon City, I may not be able to open the Nine Flames defense line.
Even if we can break the defense line, it will most likely lead to the death of several elders. We are stationed in Flowing Fire City. The number of our demons is too small. To launch a defensive tug-of-war with human monsters in Flowing Fire City is to waste the strength of our demons.
At this time, Elder Qi and the others must be fighting the human race on the border of Gaoyue, thousands of miles away from Flowing Fire City, and they may not be able to rescue them yet.
It is foolish to do something you know clearly cannot be done. There is no need to say more about this matter.
Five days later, we will select those who have no military power from the tribe and continue to offer sacrifices. Our emperor is about to wake up and the sacrifices must not be interrupted. This is the most critical moment. Sacrificing some useless tribesmen is also for the rise of our tribe."
Ashin was surprised when he heard this. He looked at the great elder in disbelief and asked, "Great elder?"
"Go. You should also report to the other elders about using people from your tribe to sacrifice to our emperor. They will not have any objections."
The great elder looked at Asinge with cold eyes and said without hesitation.
Seeing the horrifying look in the great elder's eyes, Agaxin quickly bowed and bowed and exited. Feeling frightened and frightened in his heart, he couldn't help clenching his palms into fists.
Most of his family members were non-military. This order from the great elder made him feel very frightened.
The Night Emperor doesn't know when he will wake up. Starting from the sacrifice, the human sacrifices needed every day were originally provided by human traitors.
Now that the Jiuyan Defense Line is blocked, the Great Elder not only refuses to help Elder Qi and the others, he does not hesitate to use his own people as sacrifices.
Although he is somewhat powerful in the Demon Clan, he is only a leader.
I don’t know how long it will take for the Night Emperor to wake up? If it takes a long time, even his family members may have to be carried to the altar.
After Asinge walked out, the great elder stood up, approached the throne, and stared at the sleeping man on the throne.
He murmured to himself: "Think about back then, when I, the devil, dominated the world, how could I be afraid of these earthly humans and monsters?
When there was a war with humans and monsters at the same time, which time did they not make humans and monsters flee?
Nowadays, the inheritance of martial arts in Tianyuan Continent is cut off, and there is no way to reach the sky. How should we continue on the path of the devil? Emperor, have you figured out how to open the secret realm?
Now, I can only wait for you to come back soon and lead our clan on a new path.
The secret realm... If we can open the secret realm, our clan can obtain the resources of the secret realm and continue the inheritance of force.
At that time, what will Qilin King and Wushen Mountain mean?
But is there a faulty inheritance of force in the secret realm? If not, is our demon clan going to survive like this?
Now that we are at odds with the human race monsters, even if we want to survive, I’m afraid we won’t be able to.”
The great elder was thinking and talking to himself, and seemed to be telling the man on the throne, with a look of worry on his face.
At this time, in this huge sand city, in addition to the main hall, in almost every side hall, every room, and every courtyard, there are countless demons practicing, living, and busy.
If you look carefully, you will find that there are only tens of thousands of demons in this sand city.
There are countless houses surrounding the Demon King's palace complex, and there are many shanties and caves on the periphery of those houses.
There are also many demons living in shanties and caves, but those demons are different from the demons living in palaces and courtyard houses. They have no practice and have nothing to do.
The huge demon city divides the demons into three, six or nine levels, those who can cultivate and those who cannot.
Demons who can cultivate are divided into various elder power classes. The direct descendants of the elders live close to the city. The lower class led by the elders live in the outer city close to the shanty caves.
Even the resources are distributed according to the three, six or nine levels. The elders give priority to their own selection, and the best is given to the descendants.
After selecting the remaining ones, give some to each commander and some to the demons who can cultivate.
In the end, those demons who cannot cultivate and can only reproduce offspring belong to the lowest level of demons and can only receive some basic materials for survival.
Most of the demons living in these shanties and caves look confused and listless. The demons living here are the lowest level of the demon clan.
They are unable to condense inner alchemy and have no foundation for cultivation. The only thing they can do is to reproduce offspring, add fresh blood to the demon clan, and expand the population.
After Agexin came out of the main hall, he came to a side hall, where there were more than a dozen powerful demons holding spiritual stones and magic beast inner elixirs, and they were practicing.
After the communication, Asinge conveyed the order of the great elder to them. The dozen demons also hesitated for a long time with embarrassed expressions, but in the end no one raised any objection.
Asinge withdrew in disappointment and walked to where he lived.
Not long after, he walked out of the palace and walked around a large number of houses. These houses near the Demon Palace were the residences of some elders' families and family branches in the Demon Clan.
Asinge walked all the way to the edge of Shacheng, almost close to the shanty town, and came to a small courtyard. Asinge returned to the place where he and his family lived.
Since more than a hundred years ago, five demon kings divided into several factions to fight each other in order to compete for the position of the Demon King, the population of the demon clan has begun to decrease significantly.
This battle for the Demon Emperor lasted for decades, until more than ten years ago, the current Demon Emperor finally defeated all opponents and won the position of Demon Emperor.
He received the inheritance from the previous Demon Emperor, but he was also seriously injured due to decades of fighting. He had to enter a deep sleep to cultivate himself.
At this time, the Demon clan, which had experienced the Five Kings Rebellion, had only less than 100,000 people left.
Thousands of years of battles with humans and monsters have not caused the demons to suffer such a rapid loss. Decades of civil strife have made the demons almost extinct.
From then on, the demons were weak. In order to avoid being hurt by the human race, all the remaining tribesmen of the demons who survived came to the deepest part of the sand sea and built this sand city. Here they began to hide in Tianyuan.
life on the mainland.
However, although the number of demons has been greatly reduced, the newly built sand city still does not contain so many demons.
As a result, many demons at the bottom were unable to allocate their own residences, so they could only build shanties or dig caves around the sand city for shelter.
Asinge's family originally lived in a shanty town. Since he condensed the inner elixir and was able to practice it, he has been practicing hard day and night.
He finally entered the fourth level and was appreciated by the Great Elder, who slowly promoted him and allowed him to start from an ordinary demon soldier.
Asinge also strives for success. As an ordinary soldier, he practices conscientiously, obeys orders, and practices hard day and night.
Later, when I became the leader of a ten-man team, I set an example every day, leading the soldiers to patrol and practice, and I was meticulous. I didn't dare to be lazy at all.
Slowly, he became the leader of a hundred-man team. Later, after becoming the commander in the past few years, he moved out of the shanty towns and built a small courtyard on the outermost edge of Shacheng. This allowed his family to live better.
Fortunately, before the Demon King fell asleep, he arranged for the human race's traitors to deliver all the resources. Although the Demons have been under high-pressure control over the years, they don't have to worry about survival resources.
The demons at the bottom only need to serve the high-level nobles of the demon clan, and then work hard to reproduce, create new blood for the demon clan, and cultivate a new generation.
The cultivable demons only need to practice diligently every day to improve the strength of the demons.
The human traitors will provide all the demons with various survival resources and cultivation resources obtained from the human race.
Asinge also got an opportunity more than ten years ago and was given some low-grade spiritual stones and magical beast inner elixirs before he started practicing.
Because of the successful condensation of the magic elixir, he reached the fourth level of cultivation in more than ten years. In the past few years, he was valued by the great elder Brahma Tianhai and promoted him to the position of commander.
After becoming the leader, he can lead a team of five hundred demons. Now Asinge can have his own place in this sand city infested with demons.
In this small courtyard lived Asinge's parents, younger brothers and sisters, and several of his own children.
Although the place is smaller, it is very crowded.
But compared to other demons who have neither power nor force.
Those who can only live in shanty towns and caves and receive only the minimum subsistence food every day are too much.