Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

The journey was quite smooth, without encountering any great demons investigating, likely due to the "Sky Concealment"'s mystical properties and being hidden deep underground.

After tunneling over five thousand miles underground, he slowly ascended, first releasing the blood worms to confirm there were no signs of demonic beasts active on the surface before emerging.

This was a hilly area, with undulating slopes like waves, occasionally covered by dense forests. The mountain wind blew, and the sound of waves echoed from all directions.

Zhang Yuanjing pondered for a moment, then summoned his flying sword and flew at low altitude towards the direction of the Second City.

About three thousand miles from the Immortal City, he found a high mountain and gazed towards the city. He saw mountains like forests and a vast expanse of mist, but couldn't discern any activity.

So, he released Ape Thirteen and the Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast, and they approached the Immortal City from the ground.

The Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast went ahead a hundred miles to scout. Only when it approached the thousand-mile radius of the Immortal City did the Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast return, informing Zhang Yuanjing of a message: the mountains ahead were teeming with demonic beasts.

To besiege an Immortal City, deploying forces to cover a thousand miles was a grand display of power. The demon race's mobilization of such a massive beast horde was not something done in a month or two; it must have been planned as early as a year or even several years ago.

The Candle Dragon's escape was over three years ago, and the demon race likely began plotting the siege of the Immortal City around that time.

He suddenly thought of an existence, the demon saint entrenched on the majestic Demon Saint Mountain in the western part of the Hengduan Mountains, one of the few Transformation Realm beings in this realm. With such an existence strategizing behind the scenes, anything was possible. Especially if the spiritual energy of heaven and earth increased and concentrated in the Hengduan Mountains, then the Demon Saint Mountain, suppressing the super spiritual vein, would undoubtedly be the first to notice this change.

With just one demon saint, the demon race could rely on the Hengduan Mountains, a treasure land favored by heaven and earth, to contend against the human race in the two regions. If the demon race produced another saint, the Hengduan Mountains would likely become a natural barrier separating the Central and Southern Regions. At that time, the Southern Region would be in a precarious situation, with the demon hordes of the Hengduan Mountains to the north and the endless sea demons in the South Sea to the south.

Zhang Yuanjing couldn't help but smile wryly. Releasing the Candle Dragon would actually lead to such consequences, something he never would have imagined.

Ape Thirteen asked, "Yuanjing, what do we do now? Should we go and take a look?"

Zhang Yuanjing looked at the golden-haired monkey's excited face and shook his head helplessly. "There's no telling how many demonic beasts are ahead. With just the three of us, I'm afraid we won't even make it a hundred miles before being devoured by the demon horde, leaving no bones behind. Let's go, let's check out the Savage Mountain first!"

The man and two beasts quickly left, traveled a thousand miles, then turned south. After traveling nearly ten thousand miles, Zhang Yuanjing summoned his flying sword, carrying the two beasts, and headed south.

In the Immortal City, Zhang Yuanjing had He Yuanzhang find him many maps of the Hengduan Mountains, mostly concentrated in the north and south directions of the five Demon Suppression Cities. These areas were crucial for the smooth passage of mountain roads, so over the past twenty thousand years, human cultivators had thoroughly explored the important areas and had a good understanding of the entrenched great demons. As for the east and west sides, the farthest they went was only forty to fifty million miles, and most places only had a few known points, without accurate regional maps.

Fire Crow Daoist said he wanted to raid the great demons' nests and even find Earth-Rank spiritual objects. The former might be partially achievable, but the latter was almost hopeless. Earth-Rank spiritual objects required at least the support of a large spiritual vein, and not just any large spiritual vein, but definitely one with abundant spiritual power and a convergence of many spiritual veins, to have any chance. Such areas were mostly in the western part of the Hengduan Mountains, even near Demon Saint Mountain. Either they were occupied by great demons, or they were under the nose of that demon saint. If there were Earth-Rank spiritual objects, the demon race would have definitely discovered them long ago.

Of course, there was also the possibility that the spiritual object concealed itself, growing in a hidden place that the demon race had not yet discovered. This possibility was quite high, because if the demon race had already discovered an Earth-Rank spiritual object, they could simply guard it with heavy troops to prevent human cultivators from snatching it. Their dispatch of troops to besiege the Immortal City was likely to both stop human cultivators and mobilize low-level demonic beasts to search everywhere in the mountains.

Zhang Yuanjing traveled fifty thousand miles south, passing a majestic peak called Stone Dragon Mountain, which was the nest of the Transformation Realm great demon, Mountain Splitter Demon. This place was very close to the Immortal City, and human Nascent Soul cultivators had besieged it several times, but this Mountain Splitter Demon escaped by tunneling underground. In the end, they had no choice but to ignore it and acknowledge this demon's territory.

Zhang Yuanjing released the Yang Refining Umbrella and used it to probe, confirming there were no great demon auras, then led Ape Thirteen and the Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast directly into the mountain. There were still many burrowing beasts in the mountain, but seeing the powerful auras of the man and two beasts, they dared not resist and burrowed into the ground to hide.

The Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast ran ahead, searching the main peak of Stone Dragon Mountain. It found over a dozen Mysterious-Rank spiritual plants, but all were below the third rank. There was only one fourth-rank plant, which was an important auxiliary material for refining the Spirit Fusion Pill.

Although he had expected it, he was still greatly disappointed.

The man and two beasts continued south, and at a million miles, turned southwest, heading straight for Savage Mountain. Along the way, there was another great demon's territory, the Thousand Peak Cave of the Black Crow King. The so-called Thousand Peak Cave was a collection of stone mountains with numerous caves occupied by crows. Its main peak was called Ten Thousand Zhang Cliff, a dangerous peak over ten thousand zhang high. The top section of the mountain sloped downwards, with sheer cliffs, making it extremely treacherous.

Five Nascent Soul cultivators from Tiannan City and the First City joined forces to attack this mountain, killing crows and staining the entire mountain black, but the Black Crow King used the intricate complexity of the mountain's thousand caves to escape from the five Grand Masters, thus achieving its formidable reputation among human cultivators.

Since this demon had been confirmed to have gone to the First City, Zhang Yuanjing had no worries. He led the two beasts into the mountain. There were still over a dozen Demon Core Realm black crows left behind to guard the mountain, and they attacked as a group.

Zhang Yuanjing didn't use the Yang Refining Umbrella. With the cooperation of the two beasts, he first used a sand formation to trap the enemy, then used the Nine Ring Tower to suppress their spiritual senses. The Limitless Saber and Armor Piercing Axe attacked repeatedly, one openly and one secretly. Before long, he had killed seven Demon Core Realm black crows. The remaining few, with slightly higher cultivation, relied on their extremely sharp hearing and eyesight to see through the sand formation and break out from the weak points, fleeing without looking back. The other crows naturally scattered in all directions.

The Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast had the sharpest eyes. It examined every stone cave to determine its true nature. If there was anything useful, it would burrow into it to search. These stone caves were the nests of the black crows, containing many crow eggs. The Suanni Beast was very fond of these, eating every crow egg it found. Ape Thirteen, on the other hand, looked disgusted, not even sniffing them.

After searching through all the caves, the Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast became round and plump, having eaten at least ten thousand crow eggs, and its aura had also increased slightly, which made Zhang Yuanjing secretly amazed. This Suanni Beast's cultivation was usually difficult to improve, but if it swallowed something suitable, it could often improve significantly.

After searching, they also picked a lot of Mysterious-Rank medicinal herbs, over twenty plants below the third rank, and five of the fourth rank, including a Flame Dragon Grass.

Zhang Yuanjing pointed to the Ten Thousand Zhang Cliff that pierced straight into the clouds and said, "Let's go up there and raid that Black Crow King's lair!"