"Little ant, are you sure you're not kidding? This is the demon realm, how could humans possibly live here for so long? Let alone establish human settlements," Xue Daoguang clearly heard Hei Yi's words, his tone filled with disbelief.
Ye Yun agreed wholeheartedly. After entering the demon realm, Ye Yun felt various discomforts, and even negative emotions would surface unexpectedly. It was only because Ye Yun's own strength was sufficient; any ordinary person entering would likely turn into a madman within an hour.
Based on Ye Yun's estimation, he could only stay in this world for half a year at most. Any longer, and he would probably go mad. Yet now, Hei Yi was telling him that humans were living here again and had formed settlements, and the demons hadn't noticed? Or were these not humans at all?
"Master, it's true. I secretly followed them and investigated before coming back to report. I was even discovered by them. If I hadn't escaped quickly, I probably wouldn't be back," Hei Yi said.
Hearing Hei Yi's words, Ye Yun and Xue Daoguang fell silent.
Hei Yi's current strength, after absorbing the essence and blood of tens of thousands and a hundred thousand demons, had reached the eighth-rank of demons. If even he was discovered while trailing them, it was conceivable how powerful the other party was.
"However, what I find strange is that they clearly discovered my existence, but after a divine sense sweep, they took no further action. And their behavior was also very peculiar, their movements seemed somewhat stiff," Hei Yi continued.
Ye Yun's first thought was to flee, because it was too bizarre. At his earliest opportunity, he gathered the surrounding dark clouds again, which would at least make him less conspicuous.
"Little ant, you said their behavior was peculiar? Stiff movements? Think carefully, were there any obvious characteristics about their human appearance?" Xue Daoguang's tone was exceptionally serious this time.
"Characteristics? They just seemed silly. Oh, and their hair was all ash-gray, their pupils too. And the strangest thing was, both men and women had large bellies, as if they were pregnant," Hei Yi sat on the clouds, describing the humans he had seen.
"Ash-gray hair and eyes? All with large bellies?" Upon hearing Hei Yi's description, Xue Daoguang immediately manifested his spiritual body, looking somewhat disheveled.
"Senior, what's wrong? Have you discovered something amiss?" Ye Yun looked at Xue Daoguang's reaction with surprise and uncertainty. Damn it, don't scare me.
"I knew it, how could that fellow Da Yan have advanced to the Demon Emperor realm so quickly. So that's why, but damn it! I'll curse your ancestors!"
Amidst Xue Daoguang's muttering, Ye Yun finally understood.
Those humans were indeed humans, but they were humans being raised by demons! They were kept in a certain area like pigs and sheep.
Whenever a human was born, demons would descend, planting a demon seed within the newborn. Then, at the age of five, they would be taught the demon race's cultivation methods, allowing those humans to use their rapid cultivation talents to purify the impurities in the demonic energy and store them in the demon seed!
Every five years, they would come to collect the demon seeds. After collecting four times, that human would be taken away by the demons and directly consumed.
"Senior, how do you know this?" Ye Yun couldn't help but ask, looking at Xue Daoguang.
"Because one of my disciples went missing during a trial. He only managed to escape back to the demon den ten years later, barely clinging to life, but he passed away before he could explain clearly."
"At that time, he was like a skeleton, his essence and blood depleted by more than ninety percent. He seemed possessed," Xue Daoguang's expression became somewhat ferocious as he spoke of this.
"We always thought those missing disciples were killed by demons. Who would have thought the demons would be so depraved and insane."
Ye Yun fell silent. The natural law of the food chain, there was no right or wrong, only different levels of life. It was the same as how humans treated farmed animals.
"Kid! I have a demonic cultivation technique here. I want you to collect those people's demon seeds and refine them for your own use, and then..."
Xue Daoguang paused here, then gritted his teeth and continued.
"Afterwards, kill them all."
It was hard to imagine these words coming from Xue Daoguang's mouth. Taoism was always a sect that took upon itself the responsibility of benefiting the world. Although their cultivation path was filled with killing, it was limited to the cultivation world and would not involve mortals.
"Let's go and see the situation first," Ye Yun knew that he had to go there this time. If nothing unexpected happened, those humans were descendants of his disciples.
If his disciple's words were true, having experienced thousands of years, how many generations had he and those humans gone through.
However, this was not what Ye Yun was most concerned about. He was most concerned about why, if those humans were truly planted with demon seeds by demons, their divine sense could detect Hei Yi? One must know that Hei Yi was now comparable to an eighth-rank demon king!
"Little friend, this is a demonic cultivation technique obtained by my Southern Sect when we first entered the demon realm and defeated a wounded Demon Emperor. Familiarize yourself with it first." At this moment, Xue Daoguang's spiritual body emitted a halo, covering Ye Yun's head directly.
Ye Yun knew this was Xue Daoguang's memory of the cultivation technique, so he did not resist at all.
This memory contained not only the content of the demonic cultivation technique but also Xue Daoguang's and others' insights and experiences. It was so detailed that Ye Yun didn't need to think deeply.
However, this was Ye Yun's first time cultivating a real-world cultivation technique, especially after just finishing 'Nine Dragon Body Techniques', and now another demonic technique, 'Great Nirvana Art'.
"Senior, cultivating this won't conflict with my 'Burning Heaven Art', will it? Or will I become a monster that is neither human nor demon?" Ye Yun asked with concern.
"Kid, this demonic technique has been modified and perfected by generations of my Southern Sect. It has undergone countless validations to become a top-tier cultivation technique suitable for human meridians and human cultivation. How dare you doubt it now!"
"Do you know about 'Star Absorbing Great Method'? That's just the precursor to this technique. After we released that precursor, do you know what kind of bloody storm it caused in the martial world back then?"
Hearing Ye Yun's words, Xue Daoguang became instantly displeased. This was questioning his professional capabilities!
Ye Yun was completely bewildered.
Star Absorbing Great Method? And it's just the precursor to this 'Great Nirvana Art'?
Is this too outrageous?
"Damn it, you're going to anger me to death. Believe it or not, it's up to you," Xue Daoguang said, and then once again possessed the phone, ignoring Ye Yun no matter how he called.
What an advertisement. Next time you want me to listen, I'll charge a fee, Ye Yun grumbled, but he quickly settled his mind and began to cultivate according to it.