The rapid demise of the Blood Demon dealt a severe blow to the Demon, which was now entangled by Qing Luan Alice, making escape difficult.
Moreover, the Water-Fire Two仪 Array, while generally weak in trapping souls, prevented the Demon from finding its flaws and escaping while entangled by Qing Luan Alice.
With Yang Feilong killing the Demon, the Demon's doom had arrived!
Yang Feilong put away the Swift Wind Thunder Fire Sword. Although its power was immense, its soul-killing ability was not as strong as that of his top-tier soul artifact sword.
He controlled his soul to wield the Soul Severing Sword and slash at the Demon.
The Demon, like the Blood Demon, possessed three main abilities: Soul Devouring, Immortal Soul Body, and Soul Sword. Generally, many demon cultivators found it difficult to resist the Soul Devouring innate divine ability. If they could resist it, the Demon would directly use its Soul Sword to heavily injure the opponent's soul before employing the Soul Devouring divine skill to absorb and refine it!
Unfortunately, its cultivation was not strong enough. It was merely equivalent to a human Nascent Soul realm perfect stage cultivator. Trapped within the Water-Fire Two仪 Array, its senses and reactions were weakened. Coupled with Alice's desperate entanglement, it was unable to escape.
At this point, it needed to deal with the combined efforts of two individuals.
Yang Feilong's top-grade spirit artifact, the Soul Severing Sword, powered by Yang Feilong's powerful soul and amplified by the Water-Fire Two仪 Array, was slightly stronger than the Demon's soul, perhaps touching the soul level of a Void Refinement realm cultivator!
Boom boom boom!
Piercing screams echoed.
As time passed, the Demon ultimately could not withstand the combined assault of Yang Feilong and Qing Luan, perishing under their joint efforts.
Compared to killing the Blood Demon, the Demon was harder to kill, primarily because Yang Feilong and Qing Luan's soul attack methods were not strong enough.
The Demon, however, was a creature with a powerful soul. Both of them used all their skills and barely managed to kill it.
Of course, the battle with the Demon was a good thing for Yang Feilong. His soul integrated better with the Soul Severing Sword. Not only that, but the bottleneck in his soul had loosened. Yang Feilong felt that within ten days to half a month, or at most two to three months, his soul cultivation would definitely break through to the Nascent Soul realm perfect stage.
Not long after, the four of them left the village.
"Fortunately, this Demon and Blood Demon were only at the Nascent Soul level. Otherwise, this would have been truly perilous!" Qing Luan Alice's face was filled with relief.
"Indeed! We are fortunate amidst misfortune," Yang Feilong nodded in agreement.
If not for encountering the Demon and Blood Demon, and if this pair of Blood Demon and Demon had been stronger, the four of them would undoubtedly have become their food, just like the unfortunate demons in the town.
Yang Feilong and Qing Luan had arrived an hour earlier. Even if some in the town had died, not all of them would have. Clearly, they were not fortunate enough.
And this was fate!
...
Three days later.
Jilong City, the capital of Jilong Province.
The Demon Realm was vast. Although the Vela Empire was just one of many empires, it was extremely large. Otherwise, if Yang Feilong and the others hadn't used the teleportation array, it would have taken them a very long time to arrive.
A single Vela Empire could be said to be many times larger than the entire Earth or even the Spirit Realm combined.
It was not an exaggeration to say that a single Jilong Province was tens of times larger than Dragon Country.
After all, this was the Demon Realm, one of the Three Thousand Great Worlds, while Earth was merely one of billions of small worlds, with a vast difference in tier.
Compared to a county town, Jilong City surpassed it by countless times in terms of land area, scale, and liveliness.
As the group entered the provincial capital, if they didn't carefully sense the aura, all they would see were people, or half-human half-demon and half-human half-devil beings.
Half-human, half-demon beings were at the Golden Core realm. Those who were fully human in appearance represented cultivation at least at the Nascent Soul realm, as only beings at or above the Nascent Soul realm could truly transform into human form!
Under normal circumstances, there wouldn't be so many Nascent Soul realm cultivators. However, in two to three days, the assessment for various county towns by the Holy City would begin, and almost all the lords and deputy lords of the county towns had arrived.
Hence, it appeared more crowded.
"Sister Sisi, where are we staying?" Tang Ya asked.
"The Holy City has arranged accommodations for the lords and deputy lords from various regions at Panlong Mountain. We'll just go there and stay!" Qing Luan Alice replied.
As they spoke, the four of them headed towards Panlong Mountain.
"Panlong Mountain?" Tang Ya blinked her eyes and asked curiously.
"Panlong Mountain is a real mountain, thousands of feet high, located within Jilong City. However, many years ago, it was remodeled into a castle. The reason we can't see it is that the surroundings of Panlong Mountain are protected by top-tier fusion formations, including spirit gathering formations and offense-defense formations, integrated into one. This also causes the spiritual energy on Panlong Mountain to be extremely rich, making both demon cultivators and devil cultivators proud to reside there!" Alice explained, "Panlong Mountain has nine levels! The uppermost level is where Her Royal Highness, Princess Vera Duoduo, resides."
"The eighth level contains the treasure room, the scripture pavilion, the gravity room, the enlightenment room, and other facilities."
"The seventh level is where individuals of noble status reside, such as demon kings and devil kings at the late Void Refinement and perfect Void Refinement stages! These beings hold important positions, such as the Flying Tiger Marshal of Her Royal Highness, the Seventh Princess!"
"The sixth level is where Heavenly Envoys and Earthly Envoys reside! Earthly Envoys and Heavenly Envoys are both Void Refinement realm cultivators. Earthly Envoys are at the early Void Refinement stage, while Heavenly Envoys are at the mid Void Refinement stage."
"The fifth level is where Mystical Envoys and Yellow Envoys reside. Mystical Envoys are all peak combat power Nascent Soul realm perfect stage cultivators, while Yellow Envoys only need to reach the Nascent Soul realm perfect stage to serve!"
"The Serpent Army Envoy who presided over the challenge in Wanshan County last time was only a low-level Yellow Envoy. Above Yellow Envoys are Mystical Envoys, Earthly Envoys, and Heavenly Envoys. Yellow Envoys and Mystical Envoys are both Nascent Soul realm beings. More precisely, Yellow Envoys and Mystical Envoys are almost all at the perfect Nascent Soul realm! The difference lies in their strength!"
"Below the envoys, there are also some apostles. Junior Apostles are all at the peak Nascent Soul realm, while Intermediate Apostles and Senior Apostles are cultivators at the Nascent Soul realm, but beings of this cultivation level are in the mid or late Nascent Soul stages."
"Junior Apostles at the Nascent Soul realm reside on the second level, Intermediate Apostles on the third level, and Senior Apostles on the fourth level!"
"What about the first level?" Tang Ya asked.
"The first level has the most residences. This is where the lords from various county towns are hosted," Qing Luan replied.
"The places where the lords reside are not even as good as where the apostles of the Nascent Soul realm live!" Tang Ya pouted and said.
"That's normal. After all, apostles serve the envoys and those important figures. And the lords of various county towns usually garrison their respective county towns under normal circumstances," Qing Luan smiled and explained.
"That makes sense." Tang Ya thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.