"Hold my hand, or if we're seen by demons who've lost loved ones outside, you might get yourself killed."
Just as Yang Hong was anticipating leaving the Demon Sealing Secret Realm, Feng Ruhua suddenly grabbed his hand.
"Huh? Okay."
Yang Hong resisted Feng Ruhua's suggestion. He had been planning to use his escape technique to flee immediately after teleporting out! Now that he was being held by Feng Ruhua, and quite tightly, he couldn't shake her off.
"Hmph, you want to shake me off? No way! You owe me 20,000 high-grade spirit stones!"
Feng Ruhua, tense and noticing Yang Hong's subtle movements, turned to pry his hand away and interlocked their fingers. Their hands were clasped together face-to-face.
Smelling her pleasant fragrance and seeing her flawless skin flush pink, Yang Hong knew that the usually boisterous Feng Ruhua was feeling shy. He suddenly said, "You're quite cute when you're not being so fierce."
"Hmph," Feng Ruhua snorted and turned her head away, unable to meet Yang Hong's gaze. It was a moment of impulse. After interlocking their fingers, she realized what she had done and felt embarrassed. However, her proud nature prevented her from letting go of Yang Hong's hand.
"Sister Ruhua is so domineering! Let's get married when we get back and have our way with this monkey," Kun Kai, standing nearby, saw the situation and teased them.
"Hahaha, Sister Ruhua is just happy that we've all made it through this ordeal safely."
"Hehe, I want to find a male demon to relax with when we get back too."
The surrounding demons joined in the jesting, their moods light and joyful after narrowly escaping death.
For six consecutive days, almost all the demons from the Demon Sealing Secret Realm had gathered here. The intelligence received indicated that the Yin souls and demonic plants within the realm had become agitated and were more violent than ever before. The Bone Demons and Demonic Corpses showed no change, which further led the demons to misunderstand, believing a true demon had broken free. As a result, hundreds of thousands of demons were crammed into a small basin less than nine kilometers in diameter, the supposed human passage area.
"You scoundrels, disperse! A true demon shouldn't appear at a time like this," Feng Ruhua's face flushed, and she yelled furiously.
"Hahaha, Miss Ruhua is shy! Let's leave some space for her to do her thing."
"Haha..." The demons chuckled and began to scatter.
"Buzz..." A powerful spatial fluctuation swept through, and all the demons vanished from their positions. All of them vanished. But Yang Hong remained.
"What the hell!"
Looking at the ten bloody claw marks on his hand, Yang Hong leaped up with a cry. The spatial fluctuation had just pushed Feng Ruhua out of this space, and the immense pressure had almost instantly forced her away. However, when the spatial force acted upon Yang Hong, it directly compressed him, rendering him unable to move at all. Under the combined forces, Yang Hong's hand was directly lacerated by Feng Ruhua's grip, leaving ten bloody marks.
"What's going on?" Yang Hong frowned, completely bewildered.
"Huh? What's happening now?" He was then startled by the changes in the space. The sky of the Demon Sealing space suddenly darkened, and the sunlight disappeared within a few breaths. After the sunlight vanished, no starlight appeared. The world was not pitch black, but it was hazy, and even with Yang Hong's cultivation, his vision was limited to about ten meters.
"Is this demonic energy? Demonic energy from the Demon Realm?"
"No, there's also an opposing energy to demonic energy, which should be immortal energy."
After the spatial fluctuation, Yang Hong's divine sense suppression seemed to have been lifted. He could extend his divine sense for over a thousand kilometers. This thousand kilometers represented the height of the Demon Sealing Secret Realm's sky. His divine sense could detect two energies in a battle high above. Both energies exerted immense pressure on Yang Hong, even posing a fatal threat.
"They've been fighting like this for the past hundred thousand years. It seems demonic energy has the upper hand. I can feel that the concentration of demonic energy in the heavens and earth has increased significantly after the realm was sealed."
"No, I need to find a way to leave quickly." Yang Hong quickly took out the key-shaped iron shield and poured his spiritual power into it. A three-dimensional map unfolded before him. This map was somewhat different from before, covering an area of only ten thousand li. The red dot representing his current location was in the lower right corner of the map, while a green dot was at the center.
"This green dot should be the location of the human passage, right? But why wasn't it displayed before?" Yang Hong clearly remembered that when Feng Ruhua found this location, she had also used her spiritual power to input it into the iron shield, and it had displayed a green dot. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to gather hundreds of thousands of demons so accurately.
"No matter what, I have to take the risk now." Yang Hong memorized the direction and took flight on his sword.
"Wooo... Wooo..." As if sensing Yang Hong's presence, the Yin souls that had been scared away by the demons suddenly flew towards him excitedly, shortly after Yang Hong had flown a short distance.
"Roar... Roar..." Bone Demons and Demonic Corpses also began chasing him from the ground. After the Demon Sealing Secret Realm was sealed, the demonic energy became more active, and naturally, the demonic creatures also became more active.
"Bang~" A sixth-grade Bone Demon, over ten zhang tall, leaped from the ground and blocked Yang Hong's path, bringing a palm down on him.
"You're courting death!" Yang Hong's Kuishui Fenghuang Sword, beneath his feet, flashed and appeared directly above the Bone Demon, thrusting down. With a "crack," the Bone Demon's skull, which was comparable to a sixth-grade artifact, was pierced.
"Break~" Yang Hong let out a light shout, and the skull shattered. Even so, the Bone Demon did not die, merely falling to the ground. However, that was enough! Yang Hong's priority was to move forward, not to engage in combat. The sword light of the Kuishui Fenghuang Sword flashed and returned beneath his feet. As spiritual power was injected, Yang Hong increased his speed and charged forward again.
Along the way, Yang Hong plowed through with brute force, killing any demonic creatures he could. If they couldn't be killed quickly, he simply charged through them, accelerating his escape. As the Demon Sealing Secret Realm continued to be sealed, a sense of danger slowly emerged in Yang Hong's heart. This was not the heart-palpitating feeling that urged him into the secret realm, but a fatal premonition of danger, as if telling him that his life would be in jeopardy if he didn't leave the realm quickly. That was why Yang Hong was driving himself at breakneck speed.
Unfortunately, the danger descended before Yang Hong had even covered half the distance.
"Hahaha, someone actually hasn't left the secret realm yet, and it's a human! Caw caw caw~ I'll take this body." A piercing, maniacal laugh echoed from all directions, followed by terrifying demonic energy that pressed down on Yang Hong with immense pressure.
"Damn it! The Demon Sealing Secret Realm flashing with spiritual light indicates a true demon breaking through the seal, while the absence of light means it's sealed. I was too careless." Hearing the tone of someone wanting to seize his body again, Yang Hong immediately understood that another true demon had broken through the seal.
"Old Bones, I didn't expect you to be out too." Another sinister voice rang out, also encircling Yang Hong from all directions.
"Holy crap, I'm screwed!" Hearing this voice, Yang Hong's face turned instantly pale. If it were just one true demon, based on his past experience, there might have been a chance to kill it with his sea of consciousness. But now there were two true demons. And his injuries hadn't even healed yet!