In the starry sky, after Yuanmo put away his demonic domain, Luo Yuantian's figure reappeared.
He glanced at the middle-aged man with golden eyes, but ultimately said nothing about his previous inaction.
As protectors of their respective races, they each have their own stance.
Naturally, he understood why the Xuan Tu Jin Long had hesitated earlier.
Putting myself in his shoes, I think he would probably make the same choice.
To be honest, it's already quite good that Xuan Tu Jin Long didn't take advantage of the situation to kick someone when they were down.
So he only glanced at the other person before continuing to focus his attention on the Tianyuan Great World.
Based on his understanding of Lu Qing, that person was not very magnanimous. Now that he had been provoked, this matter with the Demon Clan would not be so easily resolved.
Lu Qing's figure suddenly appeared in the sky.
He identified the direction, and then his figure disappeared again, heading deeper into the Demon Realm.
The territory of the Demon Race is not much smaller than that of the Human Race.
Furthermore, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth here has undergone a kind of demonic transformation, becoming even more suitable for demons to cultivate.
Of course, Lu Qing's [Perfect Divine Art] incorporates the characteristics of many powerful techniques, making his physical body incredibly strong and capable of devouring various kinds of energy.
This demonized spiritual energy might be troublesome for human cultivators, but it has no effect on him at all.
Lu Qing used his spatial teleportation technique, and after several flashes, he stopped.
Ahead, a vast, black mountain rises majestically from the earth.
At the summit of the mountain, there stands a colossal palace shrouded in demonic energy.
Lu Qing could sense that the demonic spirits of Yuan Yi Demon Lord and the other demon lords were inside that black mountain.
When he cursed and killed several of the Demon Lords of Annihilation, he had already glimpsed some of the true appearance of this black mountain.
Feeling the demonic power emanating from the black mountain, Lu Qing understood that this must be the Demon Mountain, the sacred land of the demon race.
He lifted his foot, intending to enter the Demon Mountain, but suddenly stopped, and even the spatial fluctuations that had just arisen calmed down.
Because a figure appeared in front of him.
It was a tall figure with black hair and black eyes, who looked no different from an ordinary human.
However, Lu Qing could sense the terrifying demonic energy contained within the other party's body.
Even the Demon Lord Yuan Yi, who had reached the peak of the Nine Tribulations, was inferior to him.
He immediately understood the other person's identity.
This must be a divine thought clone descended by a Dao Integration Realm expert from the Demon Clan.
Lu Qing was not surprised by this.
Since the human race has a powerful being at the Dao Integration Realm like Luo Yuantian, then the demon race must have a strong being of the same level.
Otherwise, how could the demon race compete with the human race and occupy such a vast territory?
Moreover, he had also heard that in addition to the Demon Lords, there was a "King" who ruled over the entire Demon race.
What puzzled him was why this Dao Integration Realm expert from the Demon Clan hadn't shown up earlier.
"You must be the 'king' of the demon race?"
His supernatural ability was quietly activated, and Lu Qing stared at the figure opposite him.
"Indeed, it is I, the King. Boy, what brings you to my Demon Clan's sacred mountain?"
Yuan Mo scrutinized Lu Qing closely, his heart filled with dread.
Previously, he didn't have a very direct feeling about the starry sky.
Only now, facing Lu Qing directly, did I realize how terrifying he was.
Although he was only at the eighth level of the Nascent Soul realm, the pressure he faced was incredibly terrifying.
This greatly alarmed even a powerful expert at the Dao Integration Realm.
"What do you want?" Lu Qing chuckled. "I'm here to collect a debt, of course."
"As expected, I knew this person wouldn't let the demons off so easily."
Luo Yuantian smiled upon hearing Lu Qing's words.
The middle-aged man with golden eyes standing to the side also showed a look of deep agreement.
He still felt the pain of remembering when Lu Qing came to their demon realm to demand compensation in spirit stones.
However, this pain quickly turned into schadenfreude.
It's time for the Yuan Demon to experience what they went through before.
"Demand a debt? What debt?" Yuan Mo's face showed anger. "You slaughtered all the strongmen of my demon race, and I haven't even settled accounts with you yet. And now you actually want to demand a debt from me?"
"Yuan Mo, you don't actually think you can just let this opportunity to follow me around and reap the benefits so easily, do you?"
Lu Qing said calmly, as a note about the Yuan Demon floated into his field of vision.
"The deaths of those demon bastards under your command were their own fault, but I never said that this matter could be settled so easily."
After saying that, a wisp of black primordial spirit energy suddenly appeared in Lu Qing's hand.
That was the primordial spirit aura of one of the demon lords that he had casually intercepted when he killed them with a single punch.
Upon seeing that wisp of aura, the Yuan Demon's pupils constricted slightly.
He naturally recognized whose primordial spirit aura it was.
Just as he was about to ask Lu Qing what he intended to do, he saw Lu Qing flick his finger, and the wisp of primordial spirit aura was suddenly enveloped by a ball of black fire, which quickly burned and annihilated it.
As a strange fluctuation arose, almost simultaneously, a faint, shrill scream came from within the Black Demon Mountain.
Yuan Mo's expression immediately changed.
Because he discovered that the demonic spirit belonging to that demon lord in the demon pool within the demon mountain had also vanished at the same time.
In other words, the Demon Lord has completely perished, and even the Demon Pool cannot revive him.
"The Path of Curses..."
"I never imagined that you could cultivate the art of curses to such a high level."
Yuan Mo stared intently at Lu Qing and spoke slowly and deliberately.
At the same time, he was secretly shocked.
Previously, outside the starry sky, he watched as Lu Qing annihilated several people who were cursed to death.
At that time, it could be said that it was beyond our reach and difficult to stop them.
However, Lu Qing was currently casting a curse, and he still had no way to stop the strange fluctuations.
Only then did he realize that Lu Qing had cultivated the art of curses to a level that even he could hardly fathom.
"So, can we now have a proper talk?"
A wisp of primordial spirit aura appeared in Lu Qing's hand again, and this aura was much stronger than the previous one.
It was the primordial spirit aura of Yuan Yi, the most powerful of the demon lords killed by Lu Qing.
Yuan Mo remained silent, staring at Lu Qing, his heart filled with boundless rage.
As a dignified Dao Integration Realm cultivator, he is the true king of the Demon Clan, always having the final say and wielding immense power.
No living being has ever dared to defy his will.
Now he was being threatened to his face, which was something he, who had always been domineering, could not tolerate.
"It seems there's no way to negotiate."
Lu Qing moved his hand slightly, intending to curse and kill the primordial spirit in his hand.
"Wait!"
Yuan Mo finally broke his silence and immediately shouted.
He knew that continuing the stalemate would be pointless.
This kid in front of me is incredibly skilled, and his cunning is terrifyingly deep.
The opponent's earth-shattering punch earlier not only killed Yuan Yi Demon Lord and others in one fell swoop.
They secretly collected their primordial spirit energy, but the three Dao Integration Realm cultivators were completely unaware of it.
In that situation, he was still able to make such a plan.
With such methods and such cunning, Yuan Mo finally understood what Luo Yuantian meant by his previous words.
Their demon race had indeed provoked a terrifying monster.
"Boy, what do you want to talk about?" Yuan Mo asked in a deep voice.
"As I just said, I'm here to collect a debt. The fate of your demon race is now in my hands. If I curse and kill all those demon lords, guess what will happen next?"
Yuanmo did not answer immediately, but in his mind, the scene of the human elders being resurrected, their cultivation restored, and leading a large army to invade the demon race had already appeared.
"It seems you already guessed it."
Lu Qing smiled slightly as he looked at Yuan Mo's expression.
"You won't have an easy time either, killing more than ten Demon Lord-level experts with a curse. The backlash from the path of curses is not easy to bear. Aren't you afraid that your origin will be damaged and your primordial spirit will suffer Dao injuries, making it impossible for you to ever step into the Dao Integration Realm again?"
Yuan Mo said coldly.
"That's none of your concern. Or do you really think that cursing and killing a group of Nascent Soul Realm demon cubs would make me pay any price?"
Yuan Mo shuddered as he recalled the scene of Lu Qing transforming into a ten-thousand-foot giant.
He was not entirely ignorant of the ways of curses; he understood that the so-called curse killing technique, while cursing the enemy, also required him to suffer the backlash of the curse law and lose corresponding life force.
However, the overwhelming life force that Lu Qing displayed when he transformed into a giant ten thousand feet tall.
Yuan Mo suspected that even if he cursed ten times more demon lords, he might not be able to truly damage Lu Qing's essence.
Thinking of this, Yuan Mo suddenly felt a sense of dejection.
He understood that he had no leverage left to negotiate with Lu Qing.
"Fine, this time our demon race has lost. Now, tell me, what do you want?"
"It's very simple. I'm very interested in spirit stones. As long as your demon race provides 400,000 high-grade spirit stones and 1,000 top-grade spirit stones, then this matter can be considered settled."
Seeing that Yuan Mo had given in, Lu Qing directly stated his conditions.
"Four hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones, one thousand top-grade spirit stones..."
In the starry sky, Luo Yuantian and the middle-aged man with golden eyes, who had been watching this scene closely, couldn't help but twitch their mouths and gasp when they heard Lu Qing's conditions.
The conditions Lu Qing offered this time were even more ruthless than those he had previously extorted from them.
However, after the initial surprise, they felt a surge of pleasure and excitement.
Lu Qing's outrageous demand was tantamount to biting off most of the Demon Clan's resources.
After this incident, even if the Demon Lords of the Demon Race are able to revive, they will surely be severely weakened.
At least for a long time, they won't be able to cause any more trouble.
"So many spirit stones..."
Upon hearing the conditions Lu Qing mentioned, Yuan Mo's heart trembled.
However, he quickly said, "Are you sure? The spirit stones of our Demon Realm are different from those of your human realm. Even if I gave them to you, you would have difficulty refining them."
"Whether I can refine it or not is my business. You just need to gather the spirit stones and send them over. What, are you perhaps unwilling?"
Yuan Mo froze upon seeing Lu Qing's indifferent gaze.
After a few breaths, he said in a hoarse voice, "I can barely scrape together 400,000 high-grade spirit stones, but as you should know, top-grade spirit stones are extremely rare. Even if the entire Demon Realm were turned upside down, I could never gather that many top-grade spirit stones for you."
"What? You demons have occupied such a vast territory for countless years, yet you don't even have a mere thousand top-grade spirit stones?" Lu Qing asked, his expression unchanged.
Yuanmo shook his head and said, "Really not. Top-grade spirit stones are only occasionally produced in large spirit stone mines. Our demon race simply doesn't have that many. If you don't believe me, I can swear an oath on the Great Dao."
Lu Qing quietly looked at Yuan Mo.
Yuan Mo met Lu Qing's gaze calmly, showing no sign of guilt.
After a while, Lu Qing asked, "How many top-grade spirit stones does your demon race have?"
“Three hundred. I can only give you three hundred top-grade spirit stones at most. Any more than that, even if you really kill Yuan Yi and the others, I still can’t come up with the money,” Yuan Mo said, holding up three fingers.
"Alright, I'll trust you this once. Three hundred top-grade spirit stones. However, my patience is limited. I need to see the spirit stones within one day. If it exceeds this deadline, I will curse and kill one Demon Lord for every day that passes."
Lu Qing stretched out his palm, and more than ten strands of primordial spirit energy appeared in his hand.
Yuan Mo looked at the aura of those primordial spirits and could only nod helplessly: "Alright, I will bring you what you want within a day. I hope you will keep your promise then."
"Don't worry, I've always been very trustworthy."
Lu Qing closed his palms, concealing all his primordial spirit energy.
Yuan Mo didn't say anything more, but his figure suddenly dissipated and disappeared.
Lu Qing conjured an auspicious cloud in the sky, sat down cross-legged, and waited silently.
But deep down, he did feel a sense of anticipation.
He offered a thousand top-grade spirit stones simply to trick Yuan Mo.
Unexpectedly, there was an extra gain; they were actually able to extract three hundred top-grade spirit stones from the demons.
"It seems that the foundation of the three major clans is deeper than I imagined. I was a bit hasty before."
Remembering that he had only asked for one hundred top-grade spirit stones from each of the human and demon races, Lu Qing suddenly felt that he had miscalculated.
However, he quickly suppressed these thoughts and closed his eyes to rest.
"The Yuan Demon actually gave in."
Seeing this scene in the starry sky, Luo Yuan said with some regret.
He genuinely hoped that Yuan Mo would be more forceful, ideally provoking Lu Qing to annihilate the demon race in one fell swoop.
That would be an excellent outcome for the human race, eliminating a major future threat.
Unexpectedly, the usually domineering Yuan Mo actually yielded and agreed to Lu Qing's extremely harsh conditions.
"What else can he do but back down? Does he really think he can just watch that kid wipe out the entire Demon Clan? If he does, without the support of the entire Demon Realm, his cultivation will probably never be able to improve again."
The middle-aged man with golden eyes said.
He looked at Lu Qing, who was sitting cross-legged on auspicious clouds in the Tianyuan Great World, and felt a sense of relief.
Fortunately, Luo Yuantian had not agreed to his request to join forces.
This kid actually possesses such terrifying strength, whether it's the divine power to transform into a ten-thousand-foot giant or the ability to easily curse and kill a Nascent Soul Realm expert.
These were all things he hadn't anticipated.
If Luo Yuantian had agreed to his request back then and then provoked this person, their demon race and human race would probably have been wiped out. (End of this chapter)
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