"Qiye, you must work hard. Your ancestor will not mistreat you. In the future, I will provide you with all sorts of cultivation resources, ensuring you advance to a fifth-tier Great Demon and a fifth-grade Formation Master."
After looking around Jade Flow Island once more, confirming Yang Hong had no secrets,
He even had Hua Xinlei transform into human form to inspect him. Hei Jinlai slung an arm around Yang Hong's shoulders, chuckling and offering encouragement.
"Thank you, Old Ancestor."
Yang Hong wished he could kill this bandit right now, but the power gap was too immense. He could only endure for now.
"Qiye, with Jade Flow Island as the center, the area within 50,000 li belongs to our Golden Star Black Fish tribe. If any demon dares to bully you, just tell me, and I'll kill them."
"Heh heh~"
"You can trade spirit stones with those guys outside, and all the spirit stones you earn are yours to keep.
However, you should appropriately reduce the trading volume."
"Heh heh~"
"Also, you are now fourth-tier, and even at the peak of fourth-tier. You must cultivate diligently and strive to break through to fifth-tier as soon as possible.
Only when our demon race breaks through to fifth-tier can we be considered true demons."
"Mm mm~"
"And..."
Yang Hong looked at the arm on his shoulder, filled with helplessness but daring not to voice any complaints.
His life was in their hands now!
If he dared to make a move, his life might be forfeit.
Amidst Hei Jinlai's nagging, like a bandit leader lecturing a subordinate, Yang Hong endured for two hours before finally seeing off this terrifying plague.
Feeling disgruntled, Yang Hong directly used his divine sense to inform the other demons outside that the trading of spirit fish would now only be once a year.
Got a problem?
Go tell the bandit chief of the Golden Star Black Fish tribe.
Yang Hong didn't hesitate to use the title "bandit chief,"
Not at all worried it would reach Hei Jinlin's ears.
He actually wanted it to be heard.
If someone is violently robbed and shows no temper or anger, that would be terrifying,
They would surely be secretly plotting something.
But if they get angry and curse, such a person wouldn't have much depth of scheming.
Such a person would be more reassuring.
"Son of a bitch!"
In his anger, Yang Hong punched the ground, cracking it open for over a meter.
Although he was already very powerful, he was still only at the fourth-tier Golden Core realm. While he was confident he could fight across two realms and kill a sixth-tier Nascent Soul realm cultivator,
He felt extremely powerless against an eighth-tier Tribulation Passing realm cultivator, those at the very pinnacle of the cultivation world.
"No, I must accelerate my cultivation speed.
And I can't stay on Jade Flow Island anymore."
"Yu Kewei, that idiot, a journey of 30 million li. With her sixth-tier cultivation, a year should be enough for a round trip, right?
Why hasn't she returned yet?"
Thinking of Yu Kewei, Yang Hong was also filled with anger. It had been over three years, and she still hadn't returned.
He had already learned all the cultivation techniques and spells he had previously acquired, and had cultivated them to the maximum level.
His current martial arts value accumulation had reached 72812,
But to evolve the advanced body refinement technique, he needed 300,000 martial arts value, another extremely arduous task.
"Sigh~ I need to find other ways to enhance my cultivation first."
As for escaping now, Yang Hong wasn't that foolish.
Before Hei Jinlai left, he sensed Hei Jinlai's divine consciousness fluctuations in his spatial artifact.
That bandit must have ordered thirty demons to keep an eye on him before leaving.
If he dared to run now, he would surely be captured and killed.
He needed some time to perform well, to first lull the demons, especially Hei Jinlin, into a false sense of security, before he could find an opportunity to escape.
"Master, why don't I go kill that black fish?"
Seeing Yang Hong's worried frown, Hua Xinlei suddenly said.
"Heh heh~ When you cultivate to eighth-tier one day, I certainly won't stop you.
For now, go and cultivate."
"Oh~"
Yang Hong was not angered by Hua Xinlei's impulsiveness and lack of thought. If Hua Xinlei had remained indifferent, he would have considered eliminating him for the greater good.
He didn't need subordinates who lacked loyalty.
"Cultivate~ Cultivate~ I need to cultivate too."
Putting away his worries and resentment, Yang Hong focused on cultivating (farming).
Every morning, he would still use [Gentle Rain Technique] for an hour.
For the remaining true essence, Yang Hong no longer cultivated [Bone Scraping Dragon Tornado Technique], but instead began cultivating [Earth Evasion Technique] and [Water Evasion Technique].
He was preparing for his escape.
When his true essence was depleted, Yang Hong would then provide a divine infusion to the spirit plants.
He still only infused fifth-tier spirit plants.
The goal was to have the spirit plants evolve and produce transformed demon races.
...
"Rumble~ Rumble~"
"Sigh~ It's starting again. Ever since the Lord of Jade Flow Island was plundered by King Jinlai, there hasn't been a single peaceful day.
Sometimes there's a gale, sometimes there's lightning and thunder.
It's so annoying!"
Seeing Jade Flow Island start to thunder again, Mao Kuan, standing outside Jade Flow Island, looked helplessly at Mao Xiu beside him.
"Sigh~ If it were me, I could only vent like this.
I heard that tens of thousands of kilograms of spirit wine on Jade Flow Island were all plundered by King Jinlai,
Along with various other spirit plants and treasures."
Mao Xiu looked towards Jade Flow Island with a look of sympathy and pity.
She also knew another piece of news: in the two years since King Jinlai had robbed Yang Hong, two sixth-tier Demon Kings of the Golden Star Black Fish tribe had successfully advanced to Demon Lords.
The number of other fourth-tier and fifth-tier demons who had advanced had exceeded a hundred.
All the demons in the surrounding waters with any strength knew what was going on.
"Sigh~ Regardless of whether the Lord of Jade Flow Island has gone mad, have our resources been prepared?
The annual trading day is in three days."
"It's ready. This time we've prepared 3 million spirit stones. We hope to buy two fourth-grade spirit fish."
While the thirty demon races were preparing their supplies, Yang Hong was also getting ready.
"Hua Xinlei, you idiot, after all these years, you still can't learn the Earth Evasion Technique."
"Thump~ Please punish me, Master."
"Alright, alright~ Get up. I have other arrangements."
Looking at Hua Xinlei kneeling again, Yang Hong waved his hand helplessly and then looked at Yu Kewei, who was by his side.
This fellow had finally returned three months ago.
"Yu Kewei, you and the other flower and tree demons will enter my scale space first. You can come out after I leave Jade Flow Island."
"Understood."
Yu Kewei didn't say much and, along with eight newly transformed tree and flower demons, entered Yang Hong's scale space.
They were all at least sixth-tier demons and could live in there for a long time.
It was just a bit claustrophobic.
However, as long as they transformed into their true forms, it wouldn't be a big problem.
After waiting for three days, first Hei Jinlin, that bandit, took away the third and fourth-grade spirit wines, and then traded with the demons outside.
Yang Hong began to prepare to leave.
First, he set up the immature [Omnipotent Heaven Earthly Wind Formation], which would allow him to generate strong winds towards the sky every day.
Next, he combined the [Thunder Drawing Formation] and [Essence Transformation Formation] with defensive formations.
This was a "surprise" prepared for Hei Jinlai, who was bound to appear next year.
Then, he collected all the fifth and sixth-grade spirit plants into his scale space.
Finally, Yang Hong put Hua Xinlei and Yu Kewei and the others into his scale space,
And used an Earth Evasion Technique to continuously descend into the ground.
In the blink of an eye, Yang Hong had burrowed a thousand zhang underground.
Perhaps it was to escape for his life, but Yang Hong's potential was stimulated, and his [Earth Evasion Technique] had reached the state of perfection.
While the demons were joyfully selling Yang Hong's spiritual items, Yang Hong had vanished without a sound.