Chapter 126 A Brief Balance
Humans and demons only know about the Fiend Clan because of the pervasive nature of the gray mist, which devours the spiritual energy and vitality of all things.
There is also the Fine Demon race, born from the gray mist, who possess periods of invincibility.
In everyone's perception, the Demon Clan is undoubtedly mysterious, powerful, and invincible.
The reason why the Demon Clan was able to conquer one interface after another was precisely because of this.
This is precisely the cunning of the Fairy Clan.
They did not stop the spread of this information in order to psychologically defeat other intelligent races first, thus subduing them without a fight.
The people of the Misty Heavenly Realm were initially frightened by the Demon Clan, to the point that a small number of their high-level combatants wanted to abandon the city and flee to a new realm.
Among the Demon Clan, since there aren't many truly high-end combatants, the ones leading the charge are mostly Yellow Demons and Green Demons.
Their role is to gradually devour, first encroaching upon the surrounding mountains, forests, towns, and ordinary people and low-level cultivators.
In their understanding, high-end combat forces usually live in the most prosperous central areas.
But to their surprise, there was a Five Elements City on the edge of the Misty Heavenly Realm, and in the city there was a Ten Directions Academy.
The Ten Directions Academy has gathered many young elites from across the entire interface, and among these young elites is a fearless individual like A-Chen.
Achen's courage stemmed from his experience as an infant, accompanying his mother to collect resources in the wild and fight against mutated beasts.
He came from a green algae planet in the midst of an apocalyptic crisis, naturally making him different from other elite teenagers living in peaceful and prosperous environments.
Therefore, he dared to rush into the gray fog, actively hunt down the fine demons, and discovered their weaknesses. He also informed the academy of these weaknesses, and through the academy, shared this information with the entire interface.
Under Achen's leadership, a group of young elites, such as Nie Xiaoxiao and Meng Hanhai, emerged from Shifang Academy.
By a twist of fate, another top-tier combatant, Venerable Yusheng, arrived. Under his protection, Achen and his team hunted down a sufficient number of Yellow Demons and Green Demons.
They even hunted down the second-highest level Blue Demons.
The team led by Achen, which absorbed members of the Ximo Clan, saw each member's cultivation advance by leaps and bounds, greatly stimulating the other students and the cultivation families outside the academy.
Cultivators are never short of courage when faced with rare and precious materials. Since the Demon Clan has become a rare and precious material, they will fight tooth and nail to seize it.
Thus, the Demon Clan, who were once feared by everyone, have now become a treasure that everyone is fighting over.
In addition, with the help of human elites from outer space such as Madam Xuan and Boyiyan, and the mentors of Shifang Academy, they successfully developed anti-gray fog battle robes and dyes for the Fine Demon Clan.
Now, the entire population has been inspired to hunt down the Little Demon Clan, some to protect their homes, and others to obtain the Little Demon Clan to improve their cultivation.
In just three months, the cultivators of the entire Misty Heaven Realm hunted down a total of tens of thousands of yellow demons, more than a thousand green demons, and more than a hundred blue demons.
However, the human race also suffered significant losses, with over a dozen Tongtian Realm experts seriously injured and three killed, and over five hundred Wentian Realm experts seriously injured and over one hundred killed.
As for the damage to those in the Spirit Connection Realm and Spirit Fusion Realm, it was countless.
Half of the experts in the Tongtian Realm and Wentian Realm were lost because of Zi Mo's actions.
Unfortunately, so far, they haven't been able to capture a single Purple Demon.
The good news is that as the number of casualties among the Demon Clan increased, the gray fog thinned out and even receded significantly.
At the same time, he absorbed cultivators from the Fine Demon Clan, and his cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds.
However, hunting more demons has become extremely difficult, because they have learned to hide and rarely enter areas frequented by human cultivators.
However, human cultivators dared not venture into the area with the densest gray fog, because the Purple Demon was elusive and could arrive within ten breaths once it received a distress signal from its people.
Only the Heavenly Realm experts among the human race can deal with the Purple Demon, and only those at or above the fifth level of the Heavenly Realm can barely remain undefeated.
Those with cultivation levels below this will either die or be seriously injured when facing the Purple Demon.
Top-tier experts are actually more afraid of death than lower-level cultivators, since reaching that level of cultivation is extremely difficult.
Furthermore, every time the human race loses a top-tier expert, it means that the danger of this world being destroyed increases.
Thus, three months after the humans began a large-scale hunt for the Demon race, a strange balance was temporarily reached between the humans and the Demon race.
Neither side would easily venture deep into the other's territory. The area where the Demon Clan roamed was like the former Beast Forest, where only the fearless dared to venture and hunt.
Similarly, the Yellow Demon and Green Demon are extremely careful when hunting lone low-level human cultivators, and the Blue Demon is even less likely to take risks.
During this phase, Shifang Academy sent mentors to escort the students and lead them to hunt down the Lesser Demons.
Ah Chen and his group were among the first to venture into the gray fog and had extensive experience hunting down the fine demons, so they reaped considerable rewards.
Over the course of three months, a total of 8 blue demons, 56 green demons, and 324 yellow demons were hunted.
They traded all the yellow demons they hunted, and since the blue demons weren't very useful to the team's Heavenly Realm mentor, they gave them all to the students.
The team has a total of seven people. Last time, Achen and Meng Hanhai each absorbed a Blue Demon. This time, the first five Blue Demons were distributed among Jin Liu, Nie Xiaoxiao, Ge Hui, Lele, Leng Qiuchan, and Ni Zhiyong.
The team's overall combat strength has skyrocketed, and their teamwork has become much smoother, to the point that they no longer need a mentor to hunt down Blue Demons on their own.
The only time he encountered danger was when he met the Purple Demon.
Because Achen's team is a seed team of Shifang Academy, with two Wentian Realm instructors accompanying them.
In the half month before returning to the team, Achen absorbed a blue demon and broke through to the first level of the Asking Heaven Realm.
Meng Hanhai also swallowed a Blue Demon three days ago and broke through to the tenth level of the Spirit Realm.
When they encountered the Purple Demon, the two Heavenly Realm instructors accompanying the team risked serious injury to block one of the Purple Demon's attacks.
Newly promoted to the Heavenly Realm, Achen exhausted all his spiritual power and drew a directional teleportation array in mid-air at top speed, barely managing to send all the team members back to the academy.
After this incident, the academy forbade Achen and the others from going out to hunt demons again. These young elites all had the potential to break through to the Heavenly Realm in the future, and the academy could not afford to lose even one of them.
The dean gave a strict order: no one is allowed to go out and hunt the Lesser Demons unless they break through to the fifth level of the Asking Heaven Realm.
Humans and demons have now reached a strange balance. Ah Chen and the others have made rapid progress in their cultivation recently, so this is a good opportunity to consolidate their cultivation and improve their mental state.
As the two sides continued their tug-of-war, time continued to move forward at a steady pace, and more than five years passed in the blink of an eye.
Early in the morning, Nie Xiaoxiao barged into Achen's bedroom.
"Hey! Why are you still sleeping? The sun's already high in the sky!" She yanked the blanket off Ah Chen.
"Please! Men and women shouldn't touch each other, don't you understand? You turned 18 last month, who would dare to marry you like this?" Ah Chen opened her eyes and said irritably.
“I broke through to the Heavenly Realm last month, and my Xianxian also broke through to the sixth rank. If no one marries her in the future, I’ll just steal ten or eight handsome men from her and keep them as my concubines,” Nie Xiaoxiao said proudly.
"Enough with the nonsense! Get up and wash up quickly. Today is our little sister's seventh birthday. If you're late and Xi'er gets upset, I won't help you coax her," Nie Xiaoxiao said.
From the moment she first went to the Holy Witch Clan's territory with Ah Chen and met Xi'er, she fell adoringly in love with her.
After that, whenever she had the chance, she would go with Ah Chen, partly to pinch Xi'er's little cheeks, and partly to enjoy a meal at their house.
"The sun hasn't even risen yet. If we rush there so early, Xi'er will probably still be sleeping," A-Chen complained.
“I plan to hunt a Green Goblin as a gift for Xi’er,” Nie Xiaoxiao said.
"Haven't you already prepared the birthday gift?" Achen asked.
“Who would complain about having too many birthday gifts? Besides, our little sister is already at the Spirit Fusion Realm, so absorbing the Green Demon is most effective for her,” Nie Xiaoxiao said.
"Does she need this? She has so many uncles and aunts, and a whole bunch of godparents. I bet she'll be buried under a mountain of gifts today," Achen said listlessly.
“Others give gifts of their own sentiments, but I give my own. If you don’t want to go, I’ll go by myself!” Nie Xiaoxiao said unhappily.
"Alright, alright, I'll go with you, okay? We can pick a few more Didi Xuanjing Flowers." Ah Chen quickly compromised.
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