The entrance to the underground abyss was at the Temple of the Scorched Tree God, and Ning Cheng had been to the Temple of the Scorched Tree God. Back then, he could still see the dead tree that stretched for tens of thousands of miles, and the endless dead roots underneath it. The aura of death and decay could be felt from afar.
This second time when Ning Cheng came here again, there was a grey and hazy demonic aura everywhere. A violent aura filled the entire heaven and earth, and as for the scorched tree divine temple that stretched for tens of thousands of miles, it had long since disappeared. The scorched tree, I am afraid, had long been in the depths of the devilish Qi.
Beyond the grey area of demonic qi were some temporary isolation formations. At the edge of these formations there were also numerous human cultivators fighting with some demons, with humans and demons being killed every moment. There are white skeletons everywhere underground, so one can imagine how many people have fallen here.
Ning Cheng was secretly ashamed in his heart, this early outbreak of demonic creatures should have something to do with him. It was also unknown whether it was caused by him breaking the seal or absorbing away the divine marrow that had suppressed the demonic creature underground.
The old gas standing beside Ning Cheng did not have such thoughts, he licked his lips, “So many demonic creatures, it looks like a big fortune is about to be made.”
Just then, a harsh sound of war drums rang out. Followed by countless armies of Dao Court cultivators, scattered cultivators, sect disciples and demonic creatures clashing together, the sound of harsh hissing and the sound of magic treasure blasts came.
The human cultivators’ Yuan Shen kept being devoured by the demons, and the demon crystals of the demons kept being taken away by the human cultivators.
Ning Cheng was silent as he watched countless cultivators fall. According to reason, he should be happy that the Taiyi Realm had invaded the Tai Su Realm twice and that Taiyi’s strength had been damaged. But now, he was half happy.
“Senior, shall we go and make some money too?” In Old Gas’s eyes, there were countless high-grade magic crystals here, and to him, this was making a fortune.
As for those cultivators who had fallen, hehe, that was just their own lack of strength. If one wanted to go further, if one wanted to obtain more cultivation resources, then one would have to fight to the death. At the beginning, he had come this way too. The Great Dao was merciless, and this was merely a manifestation of it.
Ning Cheng was about to nod when suddenly another brittle gong sounded, human cultivators retreated, and those demons seemed to have a tacit understanding to retreat as well. Only a few scattered human cultivators and those devils that had fallen alone were still fighting.
Ning Cheng’s heart sank, when the demons in the Underground Abyss had erupted, he had also fought. That was a battle that was irrational and without order. Ning Cheng simply did not care about such battles. Even if the demons were stronger and more numerous, that kind of basically unorganised, instinctive onslaught would not be able to help human cultivators at all.
But this was not the case now, these demonic creatures were clearly organised and orderly, this was an attack and retreat under leadership.
“No more, let’s go to the command hall, I want to check on my old friend Seal Starwen, yes, and those Dao Courts’ Dao Monarchs.” Ning Cheng looked at the buildings towering like clouds in the distance and smiled heatedly.
Just now, whether it was the beating of the drums to impact or the sounding of the gong to retreat, they all came out of this great hall. It looked like this great hall, which towered into the clouds, had been temporarily formed by the Taiyi Realm to deal with the demons.
On the periphery of the great hall building for tens of thousands of miles were all sorts of cave houses. Some rudimentary workshops and ground stalls were established everywhere, and there was a constant flow of people coming and going. It is true that numerous cultivators fall here every day, but more devil crystals appear every day. Because of these magic crystals, people were advancing every moment.
Ning Cheng and Old Gas walked in without anyone stopping them at all, which meant that anyone here could come in and then all go out again.
“Boom!” A slight spatial fluctuation came out from a temporary cave next to it, and Ning Cheng subconsciously stopped for a moment. Even though his divine sense had not penetrated into this temporary cave, he could sense that this spatial fluctuation was someone making a move.
Wasn’t this the place where the Taiyi human cultivators gathered? How could someone else be making a move in the cave?
Ning Cheng’s divine sense immediately swept in, and the simple isolation barrier of the cave was as unobstructed as if it was paper mache to Ning Cheng’s divine sense.
The cave was actually a huge hall, and to Ning Cheng’s amazement, there were four men sitting right above the hall. In addition, in the middle of the hall, there were seven or eight women standing. Without exception, all of these women were dressed extremely little, and their cultivation was imprisoned.
A man with only Yuk Dao cultivation was standing in front of a tall woman with a very angry face. This tall woman had blood spilling out of the corner of her mouth, and Ning Cheng knew at a glance that this tall woman had just forced herself to break free from the confinement to do something.
“Brother Zi Ping, find another one to sleep with, this one doesn’t know any better, so why don’t we send it to seal the demon.” A man sitting directly above said.
The Yuk Dao Saint Emperor who was called Brother Zi Ping gave a fierce laugh, “I’m going to sleep with this pepper, insensitive, hehehe, I like insensitive women the most ……”
This Yuk Dao Saint Emperor’s voice came to an abrupt end as he found himself being picked up by the neck.
“Let go of him.” At this moment, the four men sitting on top stood up at the same time and shouted in alarm.
Ning Cheng did really throw this Yuk Dao Saint Emperor out with a lift of his hand, and without waiting for the four men who had just stood up to breathe a sigh of relief, Ning Cheng continued, “Old Gas, throw these grasshoppers aside and I will ask.”
The old gas raised his hand in the void and with a shot, the five men were thrown at his feet and stomped on, unable to even half resist.
This all happened swiftly, and it was only when Ning Cheng sat down at the top of the hall that the crowd in the hall reacted.
Feeling an aura of death overwhelming them, the man called Brother Ziping’s eyes flashed with a trace of fear as he called out in a trembling voice, “My name is Ziping Su, I am from the Su Family.”
“Oh, never heard of it, who is the Su Family?” Ning Cheng patted the corner of the chair by his hand and asked.
The tall woman whose mouth was spilling blood from the corners because of her forced resistance said hoarsely, “It’s Su Shenghe’s family, Su Shenghe is one of the three great Formation Masters of Taiyi, I heard that he has long since merged with the Dao, and is even a strong person in the middle stage of the Dao.”
“Oh ……” Ning Cheng was surprised to look at the tall woman and said, “You are saying this, aren’t you afraid that I will get scared in my heart and flee immediately and then not save you all?”
A miserable smile spilled out of the corner of the tall statured woman’s mouth, “I have not wanted to live long ago, I only hope that when senior leaves, he will give me a pain in the ass by the way.”
Ning Cheng nodded and raised his hand to throw a pill into the tall figure woman’s mouth, while flicking out a few Dao rhyme breaths.
The seven women who were imprisoned around them all unlocked their imprisonments in this instant.
These women were pleasantly surprised and hurriedly came forward to thank Ning Cheng. Ning Cheng waved his hand and asked the tall woman, “Tell me, why were you captured here, and is it to set up that Pure Body Suppression Seal again?”
The tall woman bowed, she knew Ning Cheng was an absolute powerhouse with one of his pills and the ease with which he unlocked the rest of the several people’s confinement without moving his body. The old gas had ingested several Dao Breeding and Dao Shaping powerhouses out of thin air, which was even more terrifying.
“Back to senior, that’s exactly what happened. The underground demons have erupted and are becoming more and more powerful. Although the Taiyi Realm doesn’t seem to be falling behind now, the truth is that many people know clearly in their hearts that if this continues, Taiyi will sooner or later be completely taken over by the demons. That is why the several great courts and sects of the Taiyi Realm, as well as the Taiyi Realm’s Realm Master, Yin Xingwen, wanted to seal the underground demons through the same method as before.”
When this tall and statuesque woman said this, Ning Cheng’s face turned somewhat grave, a realm being occupied by demonic creatures was no small matter. Even if he had a grudge against Taiyi’s Yin Xingwen, he could not sit back and watch such a thing happen, not to mention that it was directly related to him.
“What’s your name?” Ning Cheng asked, this tall woman was only at the Dao Shaping realm, her insight was extraordinary, and her speech was clear and coherent. In a few simple words, she gave an overview of what had happened. Not only that, she also deduced that the Taiyi Realm could not hold back the onslaught of these demons, very insightful.
The tall-statured woman bowed and said, “My junior, Qiao Xiaolan, is a casual cultivator.”
Ning Cheng gave a hmph and continued to ask. “As far as I know, now that the demonic creatures have fully erupted, I’m afraid that trying to use a woman as a pure body to suppress the seal is not very realistic.”
Qiao Xiaolan clenched his fist and said with a hint of sadness flashing across his face, “Because Su Shenghe is a top formation dao master, he has proposed to use 18,000 young girls to refine a pure body suppression sealing pillar to suppress the underground demons on a large scale ……”
Ning Cheng was equally shocked to hear this, how dog-headed did this need to be to come up with such a bad idea? Let alone the fact that 18,000 maidens would definitely not be able to suppress the underground demons, even if they were suppressed, how many days would it last?
“How do you know about this?” Ning Cheng suddenly became suspicious in his heart, if there was really such a thing, it would definitely not leak out. If it was leaked, it would be strange if there were still so many cultivators coming here to kill the demons.
“Because he was the one who just said to me by voice transmission that we are just a small group of them, and once the inspection is done, we will be imprisoned to a place to wait for the refining of the sealing pillar.” Qiao Xiaolan cut his teeth as he pointed at the underground Su Zi Ping who was being stepped on by the old gas.
Ning Cheng understood that Su Zi Ping was trying to threaten Qiao Xiaolan with this news, and he looked coldly at Su Zi Ping. Seeing Ning Cheng’s gaze looking at him, Su Zi Ping hurriedly said, “This is none of my business, you can’t touch me, I ……”
With a wave of his hand, Ning Cheng said to the old gas, “Kill them all.”
Old Gas smiled heatedly and spread out the Dao rhyme under his feet, including Su Zi Ping, the five men turned into nothingness directly under his feet.
Qiao Xiaolan’s eyes twitched as they watched, this kind of strength that could directly turn a Yudao Saint Emperor into nothingness, I’m afraid it was a mixed Yuan perfection, right?
Ning Cheng stood up and said to Qiao Xiaolan and the few women, “I’m going to find Yin Xingwen, but you must swear that you must not tell anyone about this, otherwise, I will kill them straight away.”
Once this kind of thing was told, I was afraid that the Taiyi Realm’s alliance against the demons would immediately collapse.
Qiao Xiaolan knew what Ning Cheng meant and hurriedly said, “Senior, please put it down, junior will follow senior and will definitely not tell anyone about this matter.”
The rest of the women hurriedly swore and promised not to tell anyone about this matter.
Ning Cheng was about to ask Qiao Xiaolan what he was doing by his side when he suddenly remembered something and his face suddenly changed, “Old Gas, go with me to find this wretch Yin Xingwen at once.”