Demon Lord Shi Wu, this is a name that resounds throughout the Burning Moon Region and once dominated the other realms of kings.
He is one of the most powerful demon lords in the Jian Luo lineage. Even if the scope is expanded to the entire Burning Moon Domain, he can still be ranked in the top ten.
Jianluo King City.
Yingzun Mansion.
Demon Lord Shi Wu put his hands behind his back and looked at a scroll hanging on the wall with a serious gaze, not knowing what he was thinking about.
On the scroll is a world of nothingness, and in the center of the world is a twisted mass of flesh and blood.
Demon Lord Shi Wu looked extremely focused.
He looked heroic and majestic, without any trace of the ferociousness of the demon.
This is because the higher the level of cultivation of the Soldier Demon Clan, the closer their appearance is to that of humans.
When one reaches the ninth level, there is already not much difference between them and humans.
Not only them, most of the demons in the abyss are like this.
At a low level, there are all kinds of gods, demons, and monsters, all with strange appearances, like evil spirits.
But when it reaches a high level, it will more or less show some human form.
Even the demon race is like this. Once their cultivation level reaches a high level, they will transform into human form.
It seems that the human form secretly conforms to some laws and rules of nature.
Finally, there was a slight change in the look in Demon Lord Shi Wu's eyes.
Behind him, a middle-aged man wearing bright red armor and looking no more than thirty years old appeared.
Appear silently.
He had been standing behind Demon Lord Shi Wu for a long time, but he did not dare to disturb him.
The middle-aged man is the eldest son of Demon Lord Shi Wu, named Ying Lie.
The Wu-killing Demon Lord did not turn around, and said calmly: "What do you want from me?"
"I heard that father found a son-in-law for Mingyue?" After hearing the question from Demon Lord Shi Wu, Ying Lie asked respectfully.
The Demon Lord who killed Wu turned around, his expression didn't change much, but he was intimidating without even getting angry, which made Ying Lie feel a deep sense of oppression.
"You are well-informed." Demon Lord Shi Wu said calmly without any emotion.
As the eldest son of Demon Lord Wu Shi, Ying Lie is now close to the ninth level. But even so, facing Demon Lord Wu Shi, he still has an instinctive awe and dares not be presumptuous in the slightest.
He half lowered his head, hiding his facial expression in the shadows, and said slowly: "Father is still planning to use the Blood God Sand Mine as Mingyue's dowry?"
"Why?" Wu Shi Mo Zun's eyes were like those of a hawk, and he asked in a very calm tone, "No?"
“It’s not that I can’t, it’s just…” Forced by the momentum of Demon Lord Shi Wu, Ying Lie lowered his head even lower.
But after hesitating for a moment, he gritted his teeth and said, "There is only one Blood God Sand Mine in our Ying family. Is it necessary to give such a precious thing as Mingyue's dowry to others?"
"I know that you love Mingyue, but with Mingyue's status, even without this dowry, there are many people in the royal city who want to marry her."
"Besides, even if we want to prepare a dowry for Mingyue , why would we give away the only Blood God Sand Mine? A daughter who is married off is like water spilled. I think the Purple Gold Mine is good enough. Although it is not as valuable as the Blood God Sand Mine, it is also very valuable."
"Are you teaching me how to do things?" Wu Shi Mo Zun threw his hands and said impatiently, "I make the decision, it's not your turn to give me advice."
He said coldly: "I'm not dead yet."
Ying Lie's face changed drastically, and he quickly said in fear and trepidation: "Father, that's not what I meant..."
"Don't I understand your little tricks?" Wu Shi Mo Zun said coldly, "I don't care what you think. Since I have made a decision, I will not change it easily. If you interfere in this matter again, or make trouble for Mingyue, don't blame me for being rude."
After saying this, Demon Lord Shi Wu raised his eyebrows and exuded an extremely terrifying aura from his whole body.
It was because he knew that these people had ill intentions towards Ying Mingyue that he spared no expense and exchanged the Blood God Sand Mine for a worry-free life for Ying Mingyue.
Ying Mingyue is his Achilles' heel.
Now, Ying Lie might have touched his bottom line, which made him suddenly become cold and stern.
"Father, please calm down... Don't worry, I have absolutely no intention of disobeying you. Mingyue is also my sister, so how could I cause trouble for Mingyue?" Ying Lie explained nervously.
"Also?" The eyes of Wu Shi Mo Zun turned cold. "What do you mean by also? She is!"
An invisible force spread out from the body of Demon Lord Shi Wu and pressed directly towards Ying Lie, making him breathless and even forced to kneel on the ground.
Ying Lie said with a painful expression: "Father, I made a mistake... I promise that I will keep an eye on the others and protect Mingyue..."
The next moment, Ying Lie felt the heavy power like a mountain on his body suddenly loosen.
"It's better this way," Wu Shi Mo Zun was still furious, and turned around, no longer paying attention to Ying Lie, "Retreat."
"Yes." Ying Lie stood up with difficulty, bowed respectfully, and then retreated carefully.
It was not until he was far away from the Demon Lord's Mansion and confirmed that he was no longer within the perception range of Demon Lord Shi Wu that Ying Lie stopped.
He raised his head and looked at the Demon Lord's Mansion. The respect in his face had long disappeared, turning into sinisterness, hideousness, anger and unwillingness.
“Old thing, you are dying but still so arrogant,” Ying Lie said with treasonous words, his eyes full of madness, “Fortunately, God has a good will and has spared your life…”
At the same time, in the Demon Lord’s Mansion.
"Cough... cough..." Demon Lord Shi Wu suddenly started coughing violently and spat out a mouthful of dark golden blood.
He panted slightly, "I just moved my Qi a little bit, but... the injury is really getting worse."
After taking another look at the scroll on the wall, Wu Shi Mo Zun sighed, a trace of worry flashed in his eyes, and murmured : "Although once the world falls into decline, the appearance of 'Huang' is inevitable. But who would have thought that the 'Huang' in the Burning Moon Domain would actually appear in Jianluo King City... According to the speed of the spread of 'Huang', the day of the decisive battle with the human race is imminent."
"It's a pity that I underestimated the power of Huang, and ended up like this." Demon Lord Shi Wu remembered something and his face turned a little paler. "I will never be able to witness our demon race conquer the human domain."
His reputation is known throughout the world and his combat power is extraordinary. If it weren't for special circumstances, who could have inflicted on him serious injuries that were difficult to heal and left him waiting for his death?
Everything comes from this "desertion".
The so-called "desolation" is what is bound to appear when a world falls into decline and before extinction.
It is a sign and symbol of the world's destruction, and a monster born from the world's dead air.
It has three extremely terrifying characteristics.
One is phagocytic.
"Desolation" is like a black hole. It will not directly attack life, but it will devour all the energy within its range, forming a realm of nothingness - Desolation.
Once the energy is gone, even the Demon Lord cannot survive for long.
Just like without air, everyone will die.
The only difference is that some people die faster and some die slower.
The second is randomness.
Its location, timing and quantity of appearance are all random and there is no trace to be found.
The third and most terrifying point is that it is diffusible.
When "Desolation" first appears, it will only occupy a very small area, and then under continuous devouring, the Desolation will gradually expand until it covers the entire world, turning the world back into nothingness and chaos.
Finally, after countless tens of thousands of years, everything cycled, the wasteland dissipated, energy was restored, and life reappeared.
…
"Huang" actually appeared in Jianluo King City.
I don’t know whether to consider it bad luck or good luck for them.
Because the speed at which "desert" spreads is synchronized with the speed at which the world declines.
It’s not fast at first, it’s a slow process.
But once it crosses a certain critical point, it will rush forward at an unimaginable speed.
Just like a snowball, once it gains momentum, it will roll faster and faster and become bigger.
But if it is discovered in time, it may be possible to inhibit its formation, or at least slow down its spread.
If "Huang" appeared in some uninhabited place, they would not discover it until it had spread to an irreversible point.
But the place where it was born happened to be in Jianluo King City.
So, as soon as he appeared, he was discovered by them.
Although they knew of Huang's existence, it was the first time they saw and touched it with their own eyes.
Therefore, even though the classics say that famine can be eliminated in no way except by solving the problem of the world's decline.
At that time, the first reaction of the top leaders of the Jian Luo lineage was still to try to eliminate "Huang".
They sent many seventh-grade and eighth-grade magic cultivators into the wilderness, wanting to destroy it.
The result was that the wilderness was like a huge gluttonous mouth, eating everyone who came, and no one could get out.
In this situation, Demon Lord Shi Wu decided to go in person to investigate the situation.
One reason is that people with great skills are bold and have sufficient confidence in their own abilities.
The second reason is that the "wasteland" is still in its infancy.
He believed that in this situation, even if he could not eliminate "Huang", he would definitely have no problem saving his life.
After entering the wilderness, he saw the source of the wilderness at a glance—a mass of wriggling flesh and blood, constantly expanding and contracting, with a dark hole in the middle.
A desolate and dead aura wafted out from it.
That is the mouth of "Huang".
He launched a tentative attack on the mouth.
Then he realized that he must not use any energy in the wilderness.
——"Huang", who had been sleeping motionless and treating him as nothing , suddenly burst out with terrifying power the moment he took action.
The bloody mouth suddenly opened, revealing sharp and ferocious fangs, and bit towards him.
As one of the top ten fighters in the Burning Moon Domain, he was completely unable to resist the attack from "Huang".
It was like the fangs of the god of death.
The first thing he did was to retreat quickly, wanting to leave the wilderness.
But even so, he was attacked by "The Wilderness" the moment he left the Wilderness.
Just this one attack was too much for him, the Demon Lord, to bear, and caused him horrific and incurable injuries.
If the wilderness was not small and he retreated quickly enough so that "wild" had no time to launch a second attack, he would probably have died on the spot.
At this moment, his body was still filled with the aura of the wilderness.
This breath is constantly devouring his life.
"The wilderness cannot be destroyed by humans. The only way is to take over the human domain before it spreads."
This is the final conclusion reached by the Soldier Demon Clan after discussion.
The reason why desolation appears is because the world is in decline, producing a thick air of death, which gave birth to it.
And Huang relies on dead air to survive.
But as long as the human domain is taken over, the decline of the abyss is stopped, and the death energy is exterminated, Huang will die on his own.
Without Huang, the desolate area will gradually dissipate, and the abyss will return to its original state.
All they can do now is to reduce the loss of resources while slowly accumulating strength and preparing for the upcoming decisive battle.
"Xia Daozu..." Demon Lord Shi Wu kept muttering this. Even among the demons, the name was well-known.
If they were not afraid of Xia Daozu who had not appeared for 20,000 years, why would they, the demon clan, need to prepare so much with their strength?
The army can be directly sent to invade and crush the human race.
"How come an ancestor-level figure could appear on the human race, which is obviously so much weaker than our demon race?" Demon Lord Shi Wu murmured.
In terms of overall strength, the demons completely crush the human race.
But even though there are so many strong humans, there has not been a single person with ancestral combat power among their demon clan.
However, the "weak" human race was able to produce Xia Daozu.
This is really hard for them to understand.
…
In the capital city of Senluo, the huge square in front of the Qingwang Palace where the warships were parked was very lively.
Today is the day when Lu Qingshan leaves the Senluo King Realm.
Several feet in front of him were people coming to see him off.
Most of them were servants of Prince Qing’s Mansion and Qing Ge’s former subordinates.
Standing behind him were Yu Luo, Meng Cang and Ye Ying.
These are all the people Lu Qingshan will bring with him on this trip to Jianluo King City.
There is nothing much to say about Yu Luo. He is Lu Qingshan's only loyal lackey.
As for Meng Cang and Ye Ying, they were the people that the Hound Blade Demon Clan later transferred to him.
One reason was to compensate him for the Puqu incident, and the other was to provide him with someone to use when he arrived at Jianluo King City.
Both of them are eighth-grade magic cultivators.
"Your Highness, most of the resources in Prince Qing's Palace have been packed up and taken with us. We can set off at any time." Yu Luo said respectfully, handing over a mustard seed.
The mustard seed contains the resources accumulated in the Qingwang Mansion's treasury over the years.
Green Snake and Wu Sen were standing among the crowd seeing them off. When they saw this scene, they looked a little embarrassed.
They had already discussed how to work together to squeeze out Yu Luo and take his place.
Just waiting to take action.
As a result, plans cannot keep up with changes, and man proposes, God disposes.
In the blink of an eye, the news that His Highness Qingge was going to become Jianluo's son-in-law and leave the Senluo Realm to go to Jianluo City in order to marry Ying Mingyue, the only daughter of Demon Lord Shi Wu, spread quickly throughout the entire Senluo capital, causing a huge wave of joy.
Although they were both very surprised at first, they didn't think it was a big deal.
The reason why Chi Pu, Diao Feng and Qing Ge were unwilling to go to Jianluo King City was because if they stayed in Senluo King Realm, they would have the opportunity to become the Lord of Senluo Realm in the future.
Leaving means giving up this opportunity.
But for their subordinates, this problem does not exist at all.
——No matter where he stays, just lick His Highness Qingge well.
Qingge is going to Jianluo King City, and they just need to follow him.
It was not until they learned that the only people His Highness was going to take to Jianluo Royal City this time were Yu Luo and two others that they realized something was wrong.
The two of them immediately found His Highness Qingge and explained the reasons and appealed to his emotions.
"I can't bear to leave Your Highness", "I want to serve Your Highness"... and so on.
Unfortunately, all this was in vain. Qingge was unmoved and beat them back directly.
This made them extremely depressed.
…
This way.
Lu Qingshan nodded slightly and put away the mustard seeds.
Then, he turned to his men and said loudly, "I am about to leave Senluo Realm and will not be able to come back in a short time. The reason why I am not taking you with me is, first, this trip is just to marry Ying Mingyue, so there is no need for such a grand event. Second, my father is still in Senluo Realm. It would be better for you to stay in Senluo Realm and serve my father and Senluo Realm than to let you follow me. After I leave, you need to work harder. I hope that when I come back, some of you can become Demon Marshals or even advance to the eighth rank!"
Lu Qingshan looked at Wu Sen and Green Snake in the crowd.
"We will not let His Highness down and will work hard!" Wu Sen and Green Snake suddenly realized and responded loudly.
I see.
Just tell me why His Highness went to Jianluo King City and refused to take them with him. This is the reason!
After Lu Qingshan finished speaking, he looked towards the direction of the Realm Lord's Mansion where the Hound Blade Demon Lord was.
There was a reluctance in his eyes, and I don't know what he was thinking.
Your Highness must be reluctant to leave his father.
Everyone in the crowd thought so.
...You'd better pay attention to me, otherwise my dedicated and sensational performance will be for show to the dogs!
Lu Qingshan said hatefully in his heart.
In the distance, in the Realm Lord’s Mansion.
The Demon Lord of the Rat Blade had a look of relief, with a complex expression in his eyes, "Even though Qing Ge is about to go to Jianluo King City, he still thinks of me as his father..."
He was indeed paying attention to the situation on Lu Qingshan's side.
…
"Let's go!" Lu Qingshan didn't waste any more time. He shouted, jumped into the warship.
Yu Luo, Meng Cang and Ye Ying followed closely and boarded the warship together.
call!
With a whistling sound that pierced the sky, the blood-stained warship soared into the sky and soon turned into a white dot and disappeared.
At the same time, in the other two royal palaces in Senluo Capital.
Chi Pu and Diao Feng were both looking at the warship going away.
"This idiot finally left. Without this troublemaker, I can concentrate on fighting Diao Feng." Chi Pu thought.
"Although it's a good thing that Qingge is gone, once he's gone, there will be no one to help me share the firepower. It's a bit of a pity..." Diao Feng sighed.