Attaining Immortality, Starting From Slaying Demons

The verdant Wutong Mountain was now empty, with thirteen wooden huts abandoned and desolate.

Within the Water Curtain Cave.

Ye Wenxuan sat cross-legged, her gaze tranquil as she stared at the stone wall and the dead ancient trees surrounding her.

She seemed lost in thought.

In the mountains, oblivious to the passage of time, one might become an Immortal.

Yet she meticulously counted every single day, converting this time into corresponding years of fruit.

The young body formed by the breath of heaven and earth could not conceal the decay of the Dao Infant's Five Organs.

That old dog was aware of her existence.

But it never hurried.

All it needed to do was outlast her, and then this place would once again belong to its Nanyang Sect.

Ye Wenxuan never denied she was doing this for herself, but all beings under heaven must also remember that she was the one truly acting to save the world.

From a mere mortal, she had become the strongest cultivator under the heavens.

Without her deterrence, would there be any survivors left from the demons' onslaught?

As long as Ye lives, the world lives.

If she were to fall, then the entire world would be buried with her, such a simple truth, and yet these fools she had raised by her own hand couldn't see it clearly.

Without saying a word, they all followed Nie Jun and left.

Did they have any regard for her, their master, in their eyes?

"You are the ones who will kill everyone."

Ye Wenxuan shook her head, clearly if only they waited a little longer, if only they earnestly broke through to the Return to Void.

No matter what happened at the foot of the mountain, all troubles would resolve themselves.

By then, she would no longer be the Wutong Mountain Ancestor, but the Sect Master of the Nanyang Sect.

All her disciples would be the elders of the future.

It was as if ascending to the heavens in one step.

She had granted these people such great fortune, yet they, hindered by their lowly vision, could not even swallow the delicacy that was presented to their lips.

Taking out an ancient stone tablet, she looked at the words "Nanyang" inscribed on it.

Ye Wenxuan slowly clenched it tightly.

Alas, the world is full of fools.

She then opened her left palm, and in the center lay a stone that emitted a faint glow.

As long as this object was in her hand, they would ultimately come back to seek her help, be it Nie Jun or that Shen Yi she had never met.

"As the Sect Master, this seat forgives you all once," she declared.

The woman slowly rose, stretching her arms as a snow-white robe adorned her body, with patterns of Nanyang that she had personally stitched on over the years.

Now, for the sake of those two fools not losing their lives in vain.

She was willing to make the final concession.

To meet them in person.

…

Demon-suppressing City.

This majestic city had been the essential path for nearly all cultivators visiting the Thousand Demon Cave for tens of thousands of years.

At this moment, the cultivators who sensed something amiss and temporarily halted their steps to observe within the city, witnessed the most horrifying scene of their lives.

In the clear sky, there was neither a spread of Demon Cloud nor terrifying gigantic figures.

There was just a youth in silver armor and a snow cloak, standing atop a blind ferocious beast, holding a beauty, revealing a kind smile to those below.

"Human cultivators have built a city here?"

"Great Horned Demon Emperor is unaware, all this happened after you entered the palace; the master of the cave is not fond of dealing with external affairs, as you know,"

Shen Feng, the Demon Emperor, replied with a sheepish smile.

Before he could finish his sentence, his head was fiercely stamped on, nearly causing him to plummet down.

"There is only one master of the Thousand Demon Cave,"

The youth in silver armor slowly withdrew his smile, stating plainly, "And that is this Emperor."

At least he never feared that another demon might surpass him.

And he certainly didn't think "demon" was a derogatory term.

He was a demon, the emperor of a thousand demons.

As for that one in the hall, he was nothing more than a lucky watchdog left behind by the Nanyang Sect.

"I have been hungry for too long," he said indifferently.

Upon hearing this, Shen Feng, the Demon Emperor, hurriedly opened his wide mouth, and a rank and stormy wind rolled out from between his sharp teeth, enveloping the city below completely.

The actions of the two demons in just a few words.

For the cultivators down below, it was like the arrival of a natural disaster.

Even the renowned and vastly experienced cultivators of the Primordial Realm, upon the moment the demons appeared, had already started to flee.

In the face of this wild wind, they were desperately enveloped and swept back.

Their roars turned into whimpers in the wind, as if pleading.

Flesh was torn asunder like tattered silk, the Dao Infant dissipated into the aura of the world, and their Spiritual Roots and organs were whipped up into pure medicinal power, carried by the wild wind into the mouth of the young man.

If this was the state of the Primordial Realm, what more of the other cultivators.

Like dust in a raging river, they were engulfed in the winds without even a ripple.

The pale face of the Demon Emperor twisted into an exaggerated arc as flesh entered his mouth, and his vermilion phoenix eyes grew increasingly red.

Until the entire Demon-suppressing City fell into dead silence, with only fallen leaves being swept up by the remnant winds.

He slowly closed his mouth, and his pupils suddenly flared into flames.

From behind his silver armor, a pair of wings made of blazing flames unfurled, stirring up waves of fire with each movement.

"It was just an appetizer," he commented.

The Demon Emperor wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, far from satisfied.

On the contrary, after tasting human flesh again, a greedy thirst welled up in his eyes.

He tapped his temple with his index finger and whispered, "Continue."

"We're not going to Great Qian?" asked Shen Feng, the Demon Emperor, tentatively.

At this, the Demon Emperor once again curled his lips into a smile, "It seems that compared to me, you prefer to kneel before that old dog. I may be mad, but I'm not stupid."

"You want me dead."

The young man leaned down, grabbed the back of Shen Feng's neck, "Or are you tired of living?"

After being trapped for many years, he was incredibly weak.

If that cultivator forced the old dog to let him out, how could he be simple?

Naturally, he wanted to eat his fill and drink his fill before anything else.

"First, let them loose, attract the attention of Great Qian, and exhaust their strength," he said.

Watching Shen Feng shiver, the Demon Emperor proudly stood up and flew towards another place.

Not until he felt the other disappear from the spot.

Only then did Shen Feng raise his head, looking at the Great Horned Demon Emperor, who was equally fear-stricken.

Things had indeed changed.

In the past, this young man was nailed in the hall too early because of his pride, before he had fully grown, after attracting the old dog's attention with his ambition.

Now, he even condescended temporarily for the sake of Great Qian.

If he could eat his fill and replenish his qi and blood, successfully breaking through his cultivation, he might indeed become a threat to the old dog.

"How about it, shall we go together?" asked Shen Feng after hesitating.

If it were the past, to him, Great Qian was nothing more than a human dwelling place barely surviving on the support of two Immortal Sects.

But now, although Great Qian hadn't changed, it had gained a young man with unfathomable cultivation.

If the Demon Emperor was not present, Shen Feng had no wish to confront him head-on.

"..."

The Great Horned Demon Emperor glanced at him, sighed, and patiently said, "My Thousand Demon Cave still has over twenty Demon Emperors, and more than a hundred Demon Kings, infiltrating Jiuzhou. Even with Shen Yi's capabilities, he can't defend against all."

"We haven't gained any advantage, why take the risk?"