Journey to the West: Starting from Changing Sun Wukong’s fate
Chapter 576 - 476: Besieging the Four Great Demon Kings, Haotian Completely Succumbs to Demonic Influence

Chapter 576: Chapter 476: Besieging the Four Great Demon Kings, Haotian Completely Succumbs to Demonic Influence

The Three Realms consist of Four Continents, with Dongshen Shenzhou occupying the land of spiritual beauty.

The Southern Continent Jambudvipa nurtured the Human Race.

Beiju Luzhou knew only desolation and war.

The Western Cow Hezhou was originally the most barren.

It was because Buddhism occupied the Western Cow Hezhou that it gradually evolved into the Ultimate Bliss World.

Beyond the Four Continents, the Three Realms has more places.

South of the Southern Continent Jambudvipa, there is a connection to the Underworld, leading straight to the Nine Netherworlds.

East of Dongshen Shenzhou and across the boundless Eastern Sea, one can arrive at the edge of heaven and see Far East Island.

To the west of the Western Cow Hezhou lies the Dark Demon Realm.

Now, those present journey to the Extreme North Land beyond Beiju Luzhou, surpassing the barren and war-torn lands, to gaze upon a world of icy expanses and snowy fields.

This place is like a world sealed in ice.

Apart from a race known as the Ice Spirit Clan, there are virtually no other creatures that can survive here.

Even beneath the glaciers, fish are pitifully scarce.

Lives of the Ice Spirit Clan were already harsh enough, worrying daily about food and how they would survive the next day.

From the Primordial Era to the present, their departures from this land have been scant; faced with the endless glaciers and snow mountains, they can only search over and over within for anything edible.

Of course, they haven’t been without progress over countless years. When they began their cultivation practice, they realized that, unlike cultivators, they simply condensed an Ice Core within their bodies.

With the Ice Core, they could enhance their strength and absorb the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth, achieving the goal of abstaining from food.

Initially, the Ice Spirit Clan simply aimed to conserve food, given the Extreme North Land was too barren, with virtually nothing edible.

But later on, as the Ice Cores within the Ice Spirit Clan grew larger, they became uncertain of their own strength. Yet, they could move mountains and seas, and searching for food became effortless.

So under such conditions, the Ice Spirit Clan managed to thoroughly survive in the Extreme North Land.

But now, atop the snow mountains of the Extreme North Land, the original territory of the Ice Spirit Clan has been invaded by four unwelcome guests.

Quasi-Saints from the Demon Clan from beyond the heavens have turned the Extreme North Land into their backyard garden, reducing the Ice Spirit Clan to slaves. Already few in number, the Ice Spirit Clan have been dwindling even further during this time because they discovered their inner Ice Cores can be absorbed by them, transformed into the purest Spiritual Energy.

At this moment, inside the Ice Spirit Clan’s ice and snow palace, the Prison-Suppressing King is cultivating.

Near him are over a dozen shivering Ice Spirit Clan women, naked and full of fear in their eyes.

In another direction lay a dozen corpses, all dissected to remove the Ice Cores.

A similar scene surrounded King Taiyou and Poxun.

Being of the Demon Clan, they acted without any restraint.

After the few Ice Spirit Clan members with the strongest cultivation levels died and had their Ice Cores removed to be absorbed, the rest of the Ice Spirit Clan became mere playthings.

Men were kept for killing and extraction of Ice Cores, while women served them within the palace.

Although their cultivation levels were bound by the Heavenly Dao, in the Extreme North Land, they still stood at the peak.

"Taiyou, why hasn’t Ksitigarbha returned yet? I always feel somewhat uneasy!"

The Prison-Suppressing King emerged from his cultivation state and with a gesture, an Ice Spirit Clan woman appeared at his side, for him to freely release his bestial desires.

"How would I know? He didn’t say anything when he left," replied Taiyou.

"Who cares what he’s doing, anyway? Our strength has greatly decreased now, and cultivating is pointless. We might as well enjoy ourselves!"

"The life in the Three Realms is not as good as that beyond the heavens."

King Taiyou had not been cultivating at all lately. Ever since the Heavenly Dao imposed restrictions, no matter how much they cultivated, there was no progress in their power, so they indulged directly, having no interest in cultivation.

That’s why there were the most women and corpses around him.

"Uneasy? Those Quasi-Saints of the Three Realms don’t even know where we are. What’s there to be uneasy about?" Taiyou said with a chuckle.

This was a confidence in their own strength; even if they had only half of their former combat power, it was not something ordinary Quasi-Saints of the Three Realms could shake.

Those who had never ventured beyond the Void couldn’t comprehend the dangers there.

Neither could they grasp how powerful the Quasi-Saints that emerged from the Void truly were.

"Let the Demon King know to keep it down, the males of the Ice Spirit Clan are almost extinct," said the Prison-Suppressing King, not wanting to move, or perhaps just wishing to relax, so he asked Taiyou to notify the Demon King.

While Ksitigarbha was around, things were somewhat controlled, but with Ksitigarbha gone, the Demon King’s cries resounded day and night, and corpses were carried out one after another.

"Got it, got it," muttered Taiyou vaguely, already taking several Ice Spirit Clan women to the bed.

The Four Great Demon Kings lived extravagantly in the Extreme North Land, but it was tough on the group of Ice Spirit Clan members.

From an initial population of tens of thousands, the clan members had died or been maimed, leaving barely more than a thousand people—those whom the Four Great Demon Kings had deliberately spared.

Every Ice Spirit Clan member was consumed with despair, with deadness in their eyes.

In this time, they lost even the desire to live, akin to the walking dead, awaiting transformation into corpses.

"The Extreme North Land, I have arrived!"

Wang Yang traveled northward and finally reached this mysterious land adjacent to the severed Beiju Luzhou.

With only a brief sense, Wang Yang detected four malevolent presences within.