Looting the life force of demons to forge a golden body Martial God
Chapter 126 - 124: Reaping the Benefits, Target: Iron Chain Demon Domain! (Part 2)

Chapter 126: Chapter 124: Reaping the Benefits, Target: Iron Chain Demon Domain! (Part 2)

Lu Lin frowned, "Must it be Upper Earth Tier?"

"You know, a cultivation technique of this level is already considered a secret transmission, capable of supporting a very large family."

"Logically speaking, you don’t need such a high-level cultivation technique just to begin the ’Chaos Scripture.’"

Chu Feng shrugged, "I know, because the technique I’m practicing is the Upper Earth Grade ’Eight Yang Nirvana Sutra.’

"And all of the insights from the ’Chaos Scripture’ are based on me..."

Lu Lin suddenly felt the same surge of regret that Chu Feng had experienced earlier: If only he had known, he would have had this kid learn a Human Rank cultivation technique!

But it was too late to say this now, after the Dao Foundation had transformed into Phoenix True Force, it was impossible to change its nature.

The True Force cultivated from an Upper Earth-Rank technique is extremely domineering and exclusive.

With Nie Yan and the Wang Family backing Chu Feng, Lu Lin couldn’t force him to abandon his cultivation and start over, nor could he demand the Wang Family to reveal their secret methods.

The way the other party kept bringing up Nie Yan and the Wang Family was giving Lu Lin quite a headache.

He sighed, "I’ll think of another way for the cultivation technique; you don’t need to worry about it.

"As for keeping you safe, I’ll lend you the True Armor I wore when I was at Zhou Tian Realm!"

He emphasized the word "lend," then surveyed Chu Feng with a smile from top to bottom and said:

"Right now, I can’t determine how much truth you’ve told me, so I won’t give you too much, lest I lose everything. Wait a moment."

He went back to his room to search and after a while returned with a small wooden box and a dark cyan leather interior armor, placing them on the table, he said:

"I have a Revival Pill here, which can save your life in an emergency and allow you to burst forth with full strength to escape danger in a short time.

"Take the True Armor as well, keep your little life, and come back alive!"

"Understood, don’t worry! I’ve reported to the school and Uncle Wang Er, I’ll call for help if something happens."

Chu Feng stood up, picked up the wooden box and leather armor, and gave them a cursory look.

Inside the wooden box lay a wax-sealed pill, exuding a strong medicinal scent.

He didn’t inspect it closely, as Lu Lin probably wished for his safe return even more than Chu Feng himself at this point.

Next was the dark cyan leather interior armor.

[Upper Grade True Armor: Qing Lei Yao Niu Leather Armor, with special effects: Level 3 protection, Level 1 paralysis]

"Upper Grade True Armor? Teacher, you’re quite wealthy." Chu Feng chuckled, quickly putting on the slightly worn leather armor.

True Armor is usually more expensive than True Soldiers, and Upper Grade True Armor is even more treasured, costing several times more than Medium Quality True Armor is quite normal.

Lu Lin looked at him with surprise, "You have a sharp eye."

Then his face bore a reminiscent and wistful smile, "This piece of armor was something I exchanged for after saving an entire year’s worth of points during my student days.

"It has been with me for many years, until I broke through to Grotto Heaven when I put it aside.

"The material is the outer skin of Qing Lei Yao Niu. Even now, this clan is a major powerful force on the northern battlefield, thanks to their thick skin and natural control over the thunder element.

"Wearing this armor, unless you encounter a Demon Clan member above the Not Yet (Restless) level, no one can harm you.

"To inflict a fatal injury on you would likely require a Zhou Tian Realm Demon Clan member to make a move.

"I’m only giving you this piece of armor because you’re preparing to go to the Iron Chain Demon Domain. If it were the northern battlefield, wearing it could cost you your life."

"The Qing Lei Yao Niu are very vengeful, and seeing you wear this armor, they would chase you to the ends of the earth."

"Understood, thank you, teacher. I’m heading out now, I’ll definitely be back before school starts!"

After Chu Feng finished packing, he bid farewell to Lu Lin and left straight away.

...

Lu Lin sat back on the sofa, his eyes deep as he watched the closed door, his expression as calm as an ancient well, his thoughts unknown.

After a while, he let out a heavy sigh, rubbed his face with both hands, and squeezed out an ugly, forced smile.

Then, lamenting, "My old face!" he took out his communication device and started to dial...

...

Two days later.

Chu Feng casually walked out of the train station, squinted at the grey, murky sky above the small town ahead, and a strong scent of burning coal hit his nostrils.

The town ahead, situated near the mining area, was the closest rest area to the Iron Chain Demon Domain, and the entrance to the demon domain was another ten-plus kilometers south.

The location of the Iron Chain Demon Domain’s descent was upon a coalfield in the Jin South Mountainous Region.

According to records, unlike Blood Tree Demon Realm, Iron Chain Demon Domain was a "funded project"; it brought over a part of its space from the Monster Realm to Blue Star.

This space contained an active volcano cluster, and it dropped right on top of a huge open-pit coal mine.

The fuel stored in the coal mine ignited on a large scale when the demon domain descended, with the dispersed lava even igniting the flames beneath the rock strata, causing an underground smoldering fire.

The ignition of the underground coal led to a gradual temperature rise on the surface, completely drying and cracking the land, and calcining it into chunks of various sizes.

All plants withered, and all animals fled elsewhere.

Meanwhile, terrifying cracks appeared on the ground, which occasionally emitted dim red glows and spouted specks of embers.

The air around the demon domain was also shrouded with pollutants and poisonous chemicals, perpetuating darkness without sunlight.

The entire area was nothing short of a purgatory in the human world.

Fortunately, the way in and out of the Iron Chain Demon Domain differed from the Blood Tree Demon Realm, which had fully descended.

It was still in a state of tearing away from Blue Star, with only some overlapping spaces that served as portals.

As long as the Demon Exorcism Corps guarded these entry and exit points, they could completely block the demons within, preventing them from escaping and causing an expansion of their domain.

Unfortunately, due to the extreme harshness of the environment, it was difficult for the Demon Extermination Army Soldiers to survive at the entrance.

They could only set up the rest area at a small town more than ten kilometers to the north, sending warriors to take turns guarding the entrances and exits.

In such a situation, even defense was a struggle, let alone deploying a large force to conquer the Iron Chain Demon Domain.

As a result, the number and strength of the demons within the Iron Chain Demon Domain were much greater than those in the Blood Tree Demon Realm.

In response to the Iron Chain Demon Domain, the Demon Extermination Army’s strategy was primarily to defend while simultaneously enticing civilian martial artists to enter the Iron Chain Demon Domain and kill demons for forging materials and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

The core idea was to continually deplete and reduce the enemy’s living forces.

Demons could reproduce, but humans could also kill; it was a matter of whether the demons bred faster, or humans killed faster.

...

The demons living within the Iron Chain Demon Domain, named Iron Chain Demons, were one of the few intelligent species in the Monster Realm.

They used the geothermal heat from the active volcanoes and the molten metals flowing in the lava to forge weapons and armor—iron chains wrapped around their bodies.

Consequently, they were very powerful, with bodies as strong as fine steel, excelling in both defense and offense.

What made them even more troublesome was their intelligence; they could use tactics and traps, as well as simple weapons and tools like bows and arrows!

Though their tactics seemed naive in front of military strategists and the professors at the Tactical Command Academy, they were more than sufficient against ordinary martial artists.

After all, most martial artists believed that might made right, that having a bigger fist was more important, and didn’t much care for using their brains.

Many impulsive martial artists who stepped into the Iron Chain Demon Domain carelessly fell into their traps and ended up being tied up and roasted into jerky.

Of course, despite the loss of life every year, each year new martial artists entered the Iron Chain Demon Domain, hoping to strike it rich.

Because whether it was the chains from the Iron Chain Demons or the large-scale growth of fire attribute Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures within the volcano cluster,

either could turn a lucky individual from rags to riches just by stepping in empty-handed and coming out wealthy!