Chapter 1 Among the Mountains

Among the mountains, a gigantic city stood imposingly.

It occupied an area of perhaps tens of thousands of miles, half buried in the earth, half towering into the clouds, with even mountain peaks rising from within the city.

Crude, barbaric, and yet grand.

Completely different from human cities, it was filled with a fierce and bloody aura, as if every tiny inch of the city had been soaked in countless blood and haunted by countless wronged souls.

Demons guarded the city gates, goblins patrolled the city walls, and giant birds hovered in the sky. Those entering and leaving the city were all jackals, tigers, leopards, mountain spirits, and tree demons.

It was truly a city of ten thousand demons.

A city that made one's heart grow cold.

Hollowing out thousands of mountains and leveling ten thousand valleys, they built a city.

This immense project for mortals was nothing to the demons in these mountains.

"These demons have truly become a force to be reckoned with..."

Looking at that city, Reverend Liansheng gasped.

He saw far more than what was outwardly visible. This demon city was not merely a shell; it had clearly become the demon court of the eight hundred thousand miles of mountains.

A place where demonic energy gathered, and where ten thousand demons paid homage.

Such a place must have great demons, and more than just one!

Boom!

The moment Reverend Liansheng focused on the demon city, the wind and clouds suddenly surged between the mountains, and a series of loud noises sounded like thunder.

A vast and immense pillar of demonic energy, immeasurable in size, rose into the sky like a dragon, stirring the demonic clouds.

It transformed into a gigantic human face that blotted out the sky:

"May I ask which Daoist friend is visiting my Mo Long Grotto?!"

The giant voice echoed through the mountains, spreading for hundreds of miles. The mountains and earth trembled, and countless demons and ghosts, no matter where they were, all prostrated themselves on the ground, shouting in unison:

"Long live King Mo Long!"

The ten thousand demons shouted together, their momentum was so great that the heavens and earth seemed to tremble, and the mountains shook as if they were about to shatter at any moment.

Beside the mountains, Huang Qing'er, who had just driven back the great demon tiger, was about to deliver a fatal blow, but her heart couldn't help but turn cold.

At the moment that giant voice echoed.

Even the little demons under her swords and magical artifacts were all prostrating on the ground, piously kowtowing, and even if they were chopped into mincemeat by the weapons, they didn't resist.

How could she not be shocked by such unity?

"Nascent Soul Great Demon, Nascent Soul Great Demon!"

Huang Qing'er looked up and her heart was instantly filled with chills. Although separated by an unknown distance, the giant human face seemed to be right in front of her.

Looking down, it made her dare not act again.

The huge red gourd behind her also trembled, emitting bursts of warning sounds, as if it had also sensed a great danger.

Even from such a distance, it was already like this. Reverend Liansheng, who was in the direct path, was instantly forced out of the void.

"This demon king..."

Looking at the giant human face, a look of astonishment appeared on Reverend Liansheng's face for the first time:

"How is this possible?"

How could it be a human?!

Reverend Liansheng's heart trembled.

Demons could naturally transform.

Great demons who had cultivated supernatural powers could theoretically transform into humans, but transforming into humans was not the same as being a real human. Even a Nascent Soul-level great demon was not human if it was not human!

But at this time, he could tell at a glance that the master of this giant human face was not a demon, but a human!

The demon king at the head of the city of ten thousand demons in these mountains was actually a 'human'?

How could this not make him feel absurd?

"Human?"

In the sky, the giant human face naturally saw Reverend Liansheng and Huang Qing'er at the foot of the mountain, and couldn't help but show a subtle expression:

"But I am not a human!"

The sound waves were like thunder.

The giant human face suddenly changed, and in an instant, the rolling demonic energy filling the sky transformed into a human form.

A black robe covered his body, his face was exquisitely handsome, and a wicked smile hung on the corner of his mouth.

"I am Qi Mo Long, how may I address you?"

The black-robed youth stood with his hands behind his back in the sky, looking down at Reverend Liansheng on the mountain peak, his eyes gleaming:

"I heard that some unknown experts have come to the Longye Plains and built a strange building. Could it be you?"

At the foot of the mountain, Huang Qing'er's heart skipped a beat. This old demon actually knew of their existence.

But then she understood.

In the past ten years or so, the number of people they had seen was very small, but the number of demons and ghosts was unprecedentedly large.

They had killed batch after batch, so it was natural that the demon king would notice.

Perhaps the reason why that old rogue came here this time was because he had noticed Qi Mo Long's spying.

"I am Reverend Liansheng, greetings, Demon King."

Reverend Liansheng cupped his hands slightly:

"We come from the Central Continent, sent by the Taiji True Man to build the Fengshen Platform in the Eastern Continent."

He spoke frankly, without hiding anything.

Because hiding was meaningless.

The Fengshen Platform could not be built casually. It was rooted in the mountains and rivers, harmonizing with the celestial stars above and matching the earth dragons below. Once completed, it would surely alarm the Eastern Continent.

There was no way to hide it.

Moreover, once they completed the Fengshen Platform, they would have to go to the Southern Continent or the Northern Continent, and they could not guard the Fengshen Platform forever.

This was the reason why he came here.

"From the Central Continent? Taiji True Man? Fengshen Platform?"

Qi Mo Long's eyes flickered for a moment, not knowing what he was thinking.

Without seeing any action, he was already standing above the mountains in the next instant, only a few hundred feet away from Reverend Liansheng. The speed made the latter's eyes shrink.

Thump, thump, thump~

Qi Mo Long took two steps and looked at Reverend Liansheng indifferently:

"The Central Continent is a land of outstanding talents, a place favored by the luck of heaven and earth. Why doesn't that Taiji True Man build that damn Fengshen Platform in the Central Continent, but instead runs to the Eastern Continent?"

His tone was calm, but with a strong sense of contempt.

His eyes were extremely aggressive, and the way he looked at Reverend Liansheng was like looking at a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, a pot of cooked meat.

Greed, indifference, coldness, ferocity...

This was not the look that a human should have, but this was indeed a human.

Moreover, the words he spoke, although somewhat obscure, were in the language of the Central Continent...

Reverend Liansheng's mind turned and he slowly opened his mouth:

"That naturally has the True Man's reasons, how dare I inquire?"

"Heh."

Qi Mo Long stood with his hands behind his back, his clothes moving with the demonic energy:

"Although the Eastern Continent is small, it is not a place where a mere Tribulation Transcender can run rampant. Did that Taiji Daoist send you here because he has no one available, or did he send you here to die?"

Reverend Liansheng shook his head and said nothing.

His eyes shifted to the city of ten thousand demons, where two black shadows were breaking through the air and arriving in an instant.

One was tall and imposing, with a dignified face and a vertical stripe on his forehead that resembled the Chinese character for 'king.' His silver hair hung down to his waist.

The other was burly and strong, with a head of yellow hair like a lion, and his aura was like thunder.

"Big Brother!"

The two great demons stepped forward and bowed in unison.

Three great demons.

Reverend Liansheng's heart trembled slightly. The two great demons behind Qi Mo Long were both great demons who had passed the Lightning Tribulation. Their auras were extremely powerful and faintly had some of the aura of the Nascent Soul stage.

The strength of this Mo Long Grotto Demon Kingdom was so powerful.

It should be known that the Heavenly Will Sect dominated Great Azure, but its sect was only like this.

This demon kingdom had even more small demons, numbering in the thousands or tens of thousands, and its strength actually surpassed the Heavenly Will Sect!

"Yes."

Qi Mo Long nodded slightly.

"A True Man who has transcended the tribulation? It has really been a long time since I have seen one. It has probably been hundreds of years since I last tasted such flesh, blood, and soul?"

"More than hundreds of years, I feel like it has been thousands of years."

After the two great demons saluted, they looked at Reverend Liansheng, and the greed in their eyes was undisguised.

They seemed to wish they could immediately skin and dismember Reverend Liansheng.

"Second Brother, Third Brother."

Qi Mo Long glanced at the two great demons lightly:

"Is the blood feast for the demon kings ready?"

"In the days that Big Brother was in seclusion, we prepared 1.6 million fresh ingredients, just waiting for the demon kings to arrive, and then we can hold a full-human feast..."

The white tiger demon licked its lips, its slightly bloodthirsty gaze fixed on Reverend Liansheng:

"We're only missing the main course, and although this old Daoist is not very fat, he's not far off..."

"Not far off won't do. The Hundred-Year Demon King Feast must be perfect."

The lion demon grinned:

"I heard Big Brother say that this human seems to have companions? If we catch them all together, I think that would be more than enough."

The two great demons talked unscrupulously, not taking Reverend Liansheng seriously at all.

They were more brutal and bloody than Qi Mo Long.

"Demon King Feast?"

Reverend Liansheng's heart stirred, and he put down the incense stick he was holding in his sleeve and asked curiously:

"May I ask, Demon King, what is this Demon King Feast?"

"As expected of an expert from the Central Continent, your courage is truly extraordinary."

Qi Mo Long glanced at Reverend Liansheng with a smile that was not a smile, and said lightly:

"Second Brother, tell him what the Demon King Feast is."

"Since he has come all the way to deliver such a good ingredient, we should tell him."

The white tiger demon smiled and spoke like thunder:

"Let you know, this Demon King Feast was established by my Mo Long Grotto, Qiwang Mountain, and Dianlong Water Mansion 1,300 years ago.

It is the time for the gathering agreed upon by the two great demon kings and our Big Brother, and it rotates every hundred years. This year, it is our Mo Long Grotto's turn."

The white tiger demon's voice was like thunder, with evil winds whistling, and the mountains and forests rumbled for hundreds of miles:

"Speaking of which, it's also your humans' fault. After being raised in captivity for a hundred years, the mating seeds are a bit inferior, and the meat quality of the produced ingredients is not fresh enough.

This Demon King Feast was also born to exchange seeds!

Do you understand now!"

Exchange seeds?

With a 'crack,' Reverend Liansheng bit off his teeth, his face twitched, and he almost couldn't help but explode.

"Hmm?!"

The two great demons snorted coldly, stepping forward in unison, and a fierce and domineering demonic aura burst out, covering Reverend Liansheng like a mountain:

"What do you want to do?"

When the two great demons moved, the nearby mountains and rivers suddenly shook.

At the foot of the distant mountain, Huang Qing'er was surrounded by demons, her face looking ugly. Hearing the rolling thunder from a distance, she couldn't help but look up.

Faintly, she could see the demonic energy crisscrossing in the sky, forming a white tiger and a lion.

Cold and lifelike.

They almost had the prototype of the Nascent Soul Dharma Idol!

There were actually two such great demons in these mountains?

"This old rogue is going to kill this old lady..."

Huang Qing'er's heart turned cold, her body tensed, ready to attack at any time.

"Don't rush, don't rush."

At the moment of tension, Qi Mo Long suddenly chuckled, easily suppressing the demonic energy of the two great demons:

"You two go and capture the person at the foot of the mountain first, and then bring some big and small demons to the Longye Plains to capture the remaining few!

Remember, don't kill them!"

"Yes!"

The two great demons immediately restrained their demonic energy, gave Reverend Liansheng another cold look, and then left.

At this time, Qi Mo Long turned to look at Reverend Liansheng, whose face was ashen:

"Don't worry, I won't kill you before the Demon King Feast... Do you know why?"

"Hoo!"

Reverend Liansheng put aside the distracting thoughts in his heart, took a deep breath, and forcibly suppressed the killing intent in his heart:

"I don't know!"

"I like to eat human brains."

Qi Mo Long licked the corner of his mouth, his smile cold and sinister:

"Especially the brains of cultivators, which are great tonics. How could I waste them?"