Demon Realm Slaughter Trial 5

After saying that, Xie Guijin realized what she had said, and she felt even more agitated.

Frustrated, Xie Guijin closed the interface for items she didn't need for the time being, and used her magic to ignite demonic fire at her fingertips, burning the documents to ashes.

Then the witch was summoned and asked, "Is Master Chu still outside?"

"Your Highness, Master Chu Gui is still waiting outside," the witch replied with a bow.

Xie Guijin immediately said, "Tell him to leave."

The witch accepted the order and left.

Xie Guijin's gaze fell on the witch's fair legs as she moved, and a thought popped into her mind: "These witches are not as flamboyant as I imagined."

"What time is it for me to be thinking about these things?" Xie Guijin shook her head in annoyance, as if trying to shake away the distracting thoughts.

The more chaotic her mind becomes, the more inappropriate and pointless her thoughts will be.

"This can't go on," Xie Guijin thought to herself. She took out a pen and paper and wrote down the things that were bothering her.

This is a habit she has developed over the years. When she is under a lot of pressure, writing down her worries on paper seems to relieve half of her anxiety.

Through her years of practice, she has found this to be an effective method.

This was, in fact, the first time she had ever experienced this since she came into this world.

After finishing writing, Xie Guijin arranged all the items according to their importance, urgency, and difficulty, and then rewrote them.

After that, she will solve the problems one by one in order, and leave the ones that cannot be solved to time.

Xie Guijin pointed to the first item on the paper: "Use the sale of residences (related elements) as bait to bribe the lower-level demons." She pondered for a long time but couldn't come up with a good idea.

With a sigh, Xie Guijin got up and headed to the very center of Shanghai.

There stood a huge stone tablet called the "List of Ten Thousand Demons," but it was neither stone nor jade, and its material was unknown.

Legend has it that it was erected by the progenitor of the demon realm. It displays the names, cultivation levels, and times of advancement of all living demons. The higher the level, the higher the position of the name and the brighter the light.

Xie Guijin quickly browsed from bottom to top, wanting to first grasp the basic information about the lower-level demons, and then visit and investigate to find a breakthrough.

Of course, she could only observe the demons from afar or invisibly; she couldn't lower herself to talk to them personally, as that would arouse too much suspicion from the demons.

But as she looked around, Xie Guijin shifted her gaze upwards, taking in all the demons.

The system asked curiously, "Host, what have you discovered?"

"I'm so confused, I actually forgot." Xie Guijin became excited and said enthusiastically, "Do you remember that in order to sell the Ghost Realm house to the Sixth Princess, I promised that the Ghost Realm could release evil ghosts to help the demons cultivate?"

“I remember,” the system replied, “and then?”

“I had only heard that the Six Realms had been at peace for a long time, and that the cultivation of the Demon Race had been affected,” Xie Guijin said, tracing the time it took for the Demon Race to improve their cultivation. “I didn’t expect that the Demon Race’s cultivation had slowed down to this extent.”

Since the founding of the nation by the Great Ancestor of the current dynasty in the human realm, the human race has made great efforts to promote peace among the six realms.

The chaos of war among the six realms has gradually decreased thanks to the joint efforts of the human, god, immortal, and ghost realms. In recent years, there has even been a rare situation of no war among the six realms.

For most beings in the Six Realms, peace and tranquility are undoubtedly a good thing, but for the demon race, who deeply believe in the supremacy of the strong and pursue the improvement of their cultivation, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.

Cultivation in the Demon Realm differs from that in other realms. In addition to personal cultivation, elixirs, magical treasures, and magical artifacts, the most important thing is to awaken and break through in battle to improve one's cultivation level.

Xie Guijin said happily, "That makes things much easier."

"Host, what method have you come up with?" The system understood the unspoken meaning.

"You'll find out soon enough," Xie Guijin said, keeping everyone in suspense. She excitedly returned to the Demon Palace to gather her subordinates, including demon generals skilled in magic arrays, and declared that she wanted to create a Demon Realm Trial Ground to improve the problem of slow cultivation and difficulty in breakthroughs for the demon race.

Xie Guijin demanded that the training grounds be able to make the demons' minds leave their bodies and fight each other. The combat experience must be very realistic, including the state of being injured and dying, which should make the demons unable to distinguish whether it is real or not, but it should not actually harm the demon's body.

Upon hearing this, the Sixth Princess's subordinates had not yet uttered a word of agreement.

The system said first, "Host, you're being too lazy. Isn't this just a copy of the barrier where demons and evil spirits fight in the ghost realm?"

"What do you know? It doesn't matter if the trick is new or useful," Xie Guijin retorted.

Next, Xie Guijin ordered her subordinates to go with her to the Sixth Princess's estate in her fiefdom to find a suitable location. She instructed them, "Make one as quickly as possible that can accommodate the two demons fighting."

After saying that, Xie Guijin didn't leave. Instead, she sat down on the couch that the witches had brought and personally supervised the work.

The subordinates withstood the pressure and, after repeated experiments, finally managed to stack the various magic arrays after nightfall, meeting Xie Guijin's requirements.

Xie Guijin was overjoyed and immediately rewarded her subordinates handsomely, telling them to rest for a while while she went to invite the Demon Lord to come and take a look.

A demon with a full head of silver hair, the strands of which fluttered in the wind, stopped Xie Guijin and said, "Please reconsider, Princess. The Demon Lord has already said that he will not concern himself with anything and there is no need to reply to him. Moreover, the Demon Lord has always disliked disobeying. If you go, Princess, you may anger the Demon Lord, and it will be a loss for you."

“Father’s intention is simply to leave our brothers and sisters alone in the matter of vying for the throne,” Xie Guijin said confidently. “Don’t worry, Father will come.”

Xie Guijin left after saying a few words and hurriedly returned to the Demon Palace to seek an audience with the Demon Lord.

The Demon Lord, as expected, showed little interest and had no intention of going.

Xie Guijin said respectfully, "If it were a trivial matter, I would not dare to trouble you, Father. However, this matter concerns the great cause of our Demon Realm for generations to come. Without your approval, Father, I am afraid things will not go smoothly."

"You mean you can't get things done without my endorsement?" the Demon Lord asked, raising an eyebrow.

Xie Guijin smiled and said, "It's not that, it's just that I think this matter is of great importance and cannot be taken lightly. If Father is in charge, we will surely achieve twice the result with half the effort."

"I heard you were nearly killed in an assassination attempt in the suburbs yesterday?" the Demon Lord suddenly blurted out.

Xie Guijin was startled and didn't know how to answer for a moment. Cold sweat trickled down her forehead, her back straightened, and she could hear her heart pounding.

"Don't be nervous, I have no intention of killing you," the Demon Lord laughed. "I know my daughter well. If she doesn't want to, no matter how many tricks you have, you won't be able to possess her."

"Even if she lets you get away with it by being careless, she won't let you use her body peacefully. If she really can't do anything to you, since she's in front of me, she'll definitely have a way to ask me for help," the Demon Lord said loudly and proudly.

"I never would have guessed that the Demon Lord is such a talkative, doting father," Xie Guijin thought to herself.

She secretly breathed a sigh of relief, then smiled and agreed, "The Demon Lord is right."

"If the Sixth Princess had been assassinated yesterday, those traps wouldn't have even scratched her. If it were her today, she wouldn't be so hesitant as I am, needing the Demon Lord's intervention to feel at ease," Xie Guijin said sincerely.

“Hey, you don’t need to belittle yourself,” the Demon Lord immediately said. “My daughter has very high standards, so you must have some extraordinary qualities to have been chosen by her.”

Upon hearing this, Xie Guijin gritted her teeth and thought to herself, "This sounds like a compliment, but I don't feel like I'm being praised at all."

The Demon Lord thought for a moment and said, "Fine, I will go with you."

"Thank you, Demon Lord," Xie Guijin bowed and clasped his hands in thanks.

"No need to be polite. Although you may have other motives, this matter is indeed beneficial to my demon race. It wouldn't be right to let an outsider like you handle it," the Demon Lord said with a wave of his hand. "Besides, we have met twice before. Goddess who guards the seal of the ferocious beast, the ghost messenger who crosses the boundary, how have you been?"

Upon hearing this, Xie Guijin cursed inwardly, "Who doesn't know I come from another world? This garbage system is completely unreliable."

"The Demon Lord has such keen insight, I admire him," Xie Guijin said with a smile as she teleported with the Demon Lord to his fiefdom manor.

The demons in the manor were all surprised when they saw this, and some of them secretly thought, "We bet on the right thing. The Demon Lord really does favor the Sixth Princess."

After the demons paid their respects to the Demon Lord and Xie Guijin, they obeyed and demonstrated the effects to the Demon Lord.

The Demon Lord said after looking at it: "The Ghost Realm's barrier allows other living beings to watch the battle, but if you want to implement it in the Demon Realm, you must erect a high wall outside the magic array and carve demonic patterns on the wall so that living beings cannot spy on it."

"Yes, Your Majesty, I have remembered," Xie Guijin replied from the side.

The Demon Lord paced around the magic circle and said, "The reason why our demon race can break through and improve their cultivation more easily on the battlefield is because the battlefield is a real life-or-death struggle, and the instinct for survival will maximize the stimulation of potential. If the newcomers knew that they would not die, or even be injured, the trial ground would have no reason to exist."

"What does Father mean?" Xie Guijin asked.

The Demon Lord said indifferently, "Just remove all the protective formations by sending your thoughts out of your body. The loser will either be injured or die, it's because its skills are inferior to the Demon Lord's, and it has only itself to blame."

Xie Guijin was stunned upon hearing this, her breath caught in her throat, and she swallowed the objection that was about to come out of her mouth. She quickly looked around and saw that all the demons present had expressions of agreement.

This is probably due to differences in perception between different races.

Xie Guijin was, after all, human and could not conform to local customs on such matters. She sorted out her thoughts and said, "In this way, there is almost no difference between fighting against demons outside, one is legal and the other is illegal."

At the beginning of peace in the Six Realms, the demons of the Demon Realm followed their custom that if they had a grudge, they would fight each other directly, regardless of life or death.

Later, the demon race faced difficulties in breaking through, and fearing that the demon realm's vitality would be severely depleted, the former demon lord established an ironclad rule that demons were not allowed to fight among themselves.

It is said that when the Demon Lord first took office, he wanted to abolish this ironclad rule, but it was opposed by all the elders and he was unable to abolish it.

Later, the Demon Lord seized power and abolished the Elders' Council, but for some reason, he never mentioned abolishing it again.

Seeing that the Demon Lord was not angry, Xie Guijin continued, "If we disregard life and death, we will waste our fighting strength in vain. This will not be conducive to the development of our Demon Realm in the long run."

"Don't let us keep quiet and claim that they won't die or get hurt, making them really think it was a life-or-death struggle. Afterwards, we can say that they recovered because their cultivation level improved." Seeing that the Demon Lord's face clearly said, "Do you think they're fools?" Xie Guijin changed her tune and said, "Or we could cancel the mind-splitting formation but keep the protective formation, at least leaving the loser with a breath left?"