Secret Records of the Leader of the Beichen Sword Sect
Chapter 352 - 260: The Demon is One Foot Taller

Chapter 352: Chapter 260: The Demon is One Foot Taller

So the next day, Liu Xiaoliu discussed with his fellow disciples and agreed to let Wu Di and Shen Jianjia patrol the mountain together. He used Sword Control (by foot), flew over Yan Zhi Mountain Range, leapt over the numerous Snow Ridges, and sped northward against the howling icy wind.

Looking around, dark clouds billowed and Demon Qi surged to the sky. From all directions, above and below, there were demons everywhere, and everywhere was the Demon Lord. No matter where, there were demons, and blood and light everywhere. For a moment, it was hard to tell where the main force of the Demon Nest was.

Indeed, the demons from the Arctic Ice Field were flooding south like a tide. Kan Country had already been completely overturned and collapsed. Human villages, ranches, and fortresses were in ruins, all attacked and destroyed. Looking up, one could only see devastation and corpses scattered across the fields.

Liu Xiaoliu pinched the formula, controlled his sword, and descended from the clouds to look down at a village in the mountain.

This time, he had actually come to find this village.

Earlier that year when he first arrived at the Priest Garden, Xiao Liu had been here once. The villagers were herdsmen from Kan Country, herding horses and sheep during idle times, but drafted into battle whenever there was a war to seize some food for winter.

True Man from Honzan ordered the disciples to scour all directions. Upon finding such villages, they were to behead a few people, kill the chicken to warn the monkey, and drag the herdsmen back to the Priest Garden to work. Those who didn’t surrender were all killed.

But the grandma in the village cooked a bowl of milk tea for Xiao Liu. Unconsciously, it reminded him of his own grandma, so he softened, went back to report, and claimed that they had already migrated south.

But now they were all dead.

So Liu Xiaoliu could only remain silent, examining the bodies of the villagers.

Most had been eaten. Their brains, internal organs, buttocks, and thighs, the human fat was more succulent than pork, and the softest, most tender parts were gnawed clean, leaving only a field of chewed and crushed bones.

Seeing this, it could have been the work of beasts. The grasslands were full of wolf packs, but a small portion of women had died from difficult childbirth, indicating certainly demon involvement.

Yes, humans birth humans, beasts birth beasts, but demons parasitize on humans and beasts.

The woman’s corpse had a bloody hole in the lower abdomen, where fragments of a gelatinous capsule remained at the breach and among the innards, soft inside and hard outside, pieced together to resemble a bean pod, deeply rooted into the mother’s body like a plant rhizome, absorbing blood and Essence Qi for nourishment.

This is the egg capsule of demons, and if they parasitize on humans, it’s called a Demon Fetus.

Although he didn’t attend many classes at Honzan, these matters were taught earnestly in the mountains.

The host body parasitized by the egg capsule determines the general form of the flesh and blood grown from the Demon Fetus. So some demons resemble humans, while others resemble beasts.

And some Great Demons’ egg capsules are so strong they require multiple parasitizations, absorbing essence blood from several hosts to fully develop, resulting in bizarre appearances once matured.

But no matter what, in essence, they are all demons.

Without enough blood food, without the conditions to hatch, demons can carry the egg capsules on their bodies, even consuming them for nutrients. But once they reach the South, abundant in resources and teeming with blood and flesh, they gorge themselves and then start laying eggs.

Any living flesh can be parasitized, but the best host is a pregnant female body. Too strong an entity might instead absorb the egg capsule’s nutrients, while too weak an entity cannot supply enough.

A pregnant host cannot resist the invasion of an egg capsule, and its body is also prepared for nurturing new life, producing some beneficial substances for demons to take shape. Both the mother’s body and the fetus can serve as nourishment for the egg capsule.

So whenever a demon beast escapes from the North Pole Ruins, if not immediately slaughtered, they start laying eggs, parasitizing, and emerging from cocoons like locusts, growing larger and proliferating until finally becoming an uncontrollable flood.

Where did the original demons come from?

Did demons come first, or did egg capsules exist first?

No one knows.

The Sword Sect tutor mentioned there are two sayings in the Mystic Sect, one claims they are born from the heavens, the other says they are nurtured by the earth.

Cultivators observed that, unlike humans, demon beasts can cultivate by observing stars and moons. Whenever Emperor’s fluid descends from the heavens, namely sun essence and moonlight, and Meteorite Star Iron, beasts that consume them gradually develop Spiritual Wisdom, transforming into demons. Thus, it is believed they are natural Spiritual Clans, impossible to eradicate, only coexistence solutions should be sought, and these sects do not shy away from adopting spiritual beasts.

Another claim suggests that demons emerge from underground fissures and caves.

Even if Immortal Venerables drive demons beyond the Nine Provinces, guarding the Twelve Countries’ fences, occasionally without Emperor’s fluid, demons still sporadically crawl out from the ground, bringing disaster to the human world.

Some suspect this is because there are Earth Vein passages underground connecting to Returning Ruins. Others speculate wild animals stumbled into an Ancient grave demon nest, coming into contact with remaining egg capsules. Still, others say they saw strange demon clan creations in secret realms, continuously producing new demons. In short, theories abound, yet no one can provide concrete evidence, so they can only strive to eradicate them.

"Strive to eradicate..."

Liu Xiaoliu counted the hatched egg capsules, calculated their whereabouts,

"Can they be killed quickly enough..."

But whether they can be killed quickly enough or not, they must be killed. If even one escapes, it can spawn a new horde in the blink of an eye. These demons from Returning Ruins are not like the favored creatures bound by the talisman prohibition of the Three Great Sects. They kill wantonly and without restraint; Kan Country is almost certainly doomed, and if they spill into the Central Plains, it will be an urban catastrophe.