"If we're trying to infiltrate the demon race, it would be quite difficult to get there from the sky; we'd have to dig tunnels... but we'd also have to be careful of things like pangolins and earth dragons!"
"It seems that infiltrating the Demon Realm will be quite difficult."
(This "infiltration" refers to sprinting thousands of miles in a second.)
[This journey is to delve deep into the Demon Realm, where the Demon King roams freely. For safety's sake, you used your Foresight ability dozens of times per second to probe the surroundings.]
[Each probe begins with a dash down the celestial belt to determine which area of the demonic land one is currently in.]
[The remaining dozens of times involved charging in all directions while simultaneously using true energy to unleash frantic roars, searching the nearby Sun-Popping Belt and the Thunder Sea below for any hidden Pseudo-Kings or even Demon Kings.]
The Demon King isn't that free, but it's better to be safe than sorry.
[Through these tests, you gradually alerted the false kings in various regions and repeatedly confirmed your current location.]
[Having set sail from the human heartland for less than two hours, you have already crossed the third human-demon war zone and penetrated more than forty million miles into the demonic lands.]
"White Ghost City, Serpent Bone City, Ten Thousand Armor Territory..." Even the place names are so eerie. You shrink into a sun with a diameter of six hundred thousand miles, your true essence enveloping your entire body.
[You are currently taking out the Taiyuan Crystal Core from your spatial ring to replenish your true essence.]
[And it was discovered that these suns were also the pinnacle of hiding places.]
[The suppression of mental energy within these illusory yang energies is up to five times greater. By hiding within the core of this sun with a radius of 300,000 li, you have effectively expanded your mental energy detection range to 1.5 million li.]
[While restoring your true energy, confirm your location.]
You are currently above "Wanjia Territory," the territory of a third-realm, myriad-material armored demon, and also a gathering place for armored demons.
[While you recover your vital energy within the sun's core, you also occasionally descend to the ground in the future to pass the time.]
The architectural style of Wanjia Territory is quite bizarre and abstract. Because you need to travel quickly, you only have twenty seconds to explore each time you come to the surface. The entire territory of Wanjia Territory covers an area of about seventy to eighty thousand miles. Thousands of twenty-second intervals are enough for you to turn the place upside down.
[You've witnessed the ecology of this armored demon race, seen some armored demon cubs gnawing on bones and flesh, and observed them using the armor plates of their kind as decorations for their buildings.]
This kind of outrageous behavior... all you know is the Potala Palace, where some of the creations are made of human figures.
[Furthermore, even demons rarely use the body parts of their own kind as decorations.]
Yun Shou: "It's also possible that they were all used on the Primordial Demon Body."
The demon race has a strange ecology; they possess the ability to grow rapidly by consuming flesh and blood, meaning that the corpses of their own kind are equivalent to top-tier martial arts elixirs for them.
Therefore... in some demon tribes, the corpses of dead demons are collected as public resources and sold, with family members able to purchase them at half price.
[Furthermore, the armor plates of the Armored Demon race are actually rich in nutrients. If the armor plates shed after the death of a powerful innate-level Armored Demon warrior are ground into powder, they can be used as a high-grade secret medicine for the growth and training of a young Armored Demon at the first-stage pure bloodline for 2-3 years.]
[Armor plates below the second level are processed uniformly: they are soaked in a medicinal solution to extract the vital energy and other components from the plates, ultimately leaving behind a secret liquid and a pile of decorative armor plates.]
This not only provides the newly hatched demons with a nutrient solution, but also prevents some of them from getting so hungry that they start gnawing on the armor plates laid out by the roadside.
[The above are all self-produced and self-consumed. The main food source for the demon race is a kind of biologically modified "meat spirit mushroom," which is a living piece of flesh that can grow by absorbing nutrients from the earth.]
This type of fleshy Ganoderma has no bones and looks like lumps of white, fatty meat piled together. When you cut it with a knife regularly, you can feel the lumps of meat trembling.
[When a piece of flesh falls off, what's revealed are layers of bloody muscle and nerve endings... The demons did not perform painless modification on this kind of flesh-eating mushroom.]
Besides these plants, the hunting sources are the demonized creatures in the Demon Wasteland. However, these creatures are not demonized to become demons; their demonization is purely to destroy their minds, turning them into wild beasts.
[Among them are humans and demons, who possess demonic characteristics and are virtually incapable of developing sentience or purifying their bloodline on their own, ultimately transforming into pure-blooded demons.]
The vast majority of them exist to hone the combat skills of the lower-level demons within the Demon Realm, opening up new avenues of combat beyond infighting among their own kind.
"The transformation of demons mainly falls into two categories: one that preserves their consciousness, and the other that completely turns them into combat puppets."
Standing in the Sunrise Zone, images flashed through your mind—everything you had seen during your countless explorations of the future.
"The former conversion is costly, while the latter is less so... I haven't seen many demonized puppets in the human-demon war zone, because after being demonized, a human warrior's Yuan energy is essentially wasted by half. Given the physical combat strength of humans, turning them into puppets would be a waste."
"I've heard there are many demons, after all, even without their demonic essence, they still possess formidable demonic bodies, often reaching tens of meters in size. Losing their demonic essence reduces their combat power by at most half, while humans experience a reduction of more than tenfold!"
[After a short while, his true energy was fully restored.]
You rise and coldly gaze down at the armored ranks below.
[In some future scenarios, you will kill the third-realm armored clan member from Wanjia Territory, and you will discover farmed flesh-and-blood humans deep within this demonic land...]
Some of them are still conscious, looking up at you and reaching out their hands.
[One day later.]
You return to Wanjia Territory: a territory that has been destroyed and reduced to ruins.
[You smashed countless armored demon corpses. Now, a few passing demons have gathered on the ruins. Their first reaction isn't to report this serious incident, but to rush over and show off.]
[From the same clan, it's delicious.]
You glanced at it a few times expressionlessly, then chose to leave.
[However, when you ventured deeper into the demonic lands, even when you paused or rested, you no longer explored your surroundings excessively. At most, you would only probe for the presence of powerful demons for safety.]
There are some things you don't want to see too much of, and once you see them, you feel the urge to change them... so you simply stop looking and close your eyes.
...
(Let me reiterate a setting that was easily overlooked earlier: the Essence Reward and Punishment Divine Power can only be used once a year, and each use can only increase or decrease the essence of a single individual by 1%. Moreover, the number of uses cannot be accumulated. Here, Eleven saved up his one-time opportunity and did not use it. He was only able to use it once a week by relying on "Return to Truth".)
(And no matter how many trillions of miles the aura of a Supreme Being is, it will only affect the strength of the Holy Body and Divine Power after the breakthrough. This was also written in Chapter 275. The basic spiritual range of all newly promoted Supreme Beings is only ten thousand miles in radius. It can be higher with the help of the Holy Body.)
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