The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 446 - 424 Demon Race Prodigy_1

Chapter 446: Chapter 424 Demon Race Prodigy_1

"Dragon Cave..."

The pitch-black demon pupils of the White Fox revealed awe and dread at these two words, and her exquisitely small face was full of struggle and hesitation.

As for Demon King Yuan Min, she wasn’t particularly afraid of him, even though she was not his match at the moment. She also had confidence in her ability to protect herself.

If it came to it, she could simply leave the Saint Spirit Continent and find a corner of land occupied by the human race to hide and bide her time.

But the Dragon Cave – to all demons of Purgatory, it signified authority and bloodshed.

After the fall of the Heaven Phoenix, not a single demon who dared defy the Dragon Cave had a good end.

If she truly provoked the Dragon Cave, even fleeing the Saint Spirit Continent and entering the lands and Fragment Lands ruled by the human race wouldn’t save her; the dragons of the Dragon Cave would still hunt her down and severely punish her.

All formidable demons had a gauge in their hearts, weighing their options carefully because they knew the terror of the Dragon Cave.

So, when the White Fox learned that Yuan Qi’s only condition was for her to confront the Dragon Cave,

she found it difficult to decide.

Meanwhile.

In the hands of a huge demon bone, clusters of blazing pale white flames, carrying a gloomy, icy, and fierce aura, still surrounded Pang Jian.

Blood uncontrollably flowed from Pang Jian’s eyes and nose.

In his eyes and perception, the blood remained pitch-black, dirty blood.

Looking up at the sky, the pure black night had not a glimmer of starlight or moonlight, as even the stars and moon had been submerged in darkness.

Peering down through the gaps in the bones, he saw the ground turn pearly white, as if covered with many soft, fluffy things waving and undulating like grass.

In Pang Jian’s Spiritual Soul perception, the world he saw had become only black and white.

It had turned into the bizarre world constructed by the Demon King White Fox.

"It’s not just because she is at the ninth level that her Demon Soul is so powerful. Rather, she is an anomaly among the demon race; she was born with an exceptional Demon Soul!"

Pang Jian suddenly came to a realization.

"Rise!"

The "Heart of Winter" hidden deep within the Spiritual Sea of his dantian was summoned by him.

Standing atop a globe of ice that resembled the Extreme Cold Stars, he burst forth with as much power as he could muster in this world of demon hands formed by endless bones.

A sword light, mingled with Extreme Cold Alien Power, stars, moonlight, and thunderbolts, carried him as he surged toward the exterior of the demonic bone hand.

Deep within his dantian, numerous bright stars suddenly shone, and both the round and crescent moons emitted their light!

The sky canopy, which had been obscured by the White Fox’s overwhelming demon power, seemed anew with stars and moons at this moment. The sword light wielded by the Origin Demon Sword frantically gathered the Extreme Cold Alien Power inside the "Heart of Winter."

"Crack! Crack!"

The chilly flames engulfing the demonic bone hand, under the push of the "Heart of Winter" and its profound mysteries, seemed to assimilate slightly.

"Ssst!"

A speck of cold light passed through the ashen flames, slipping between two bones, carrying Pang Jian as he stubbornly fled the White Fox’s seal.

"Soul Wandering Realm only, and you think to escape the palm of my hand? Dream on," scoffed the White Fox disdainfully.

"Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh!"

More demonic bone hands materialized one after another in the high skies.

Every time Pang Jian shot out of one hand, another new demon bone hand would grab him, causing him to fly about hither and thither, yet always within the palms of different demonic bone hands.

"Pang Jian!"

A Sword Boat came flying in like lightning.

Fan Chen, Dong Tianze, Hu, Liou Youyu, and others each brought out Divine Artifacts and Divine Talismans, preparing to assist Pang Jian in attacking those giant white bone hands refined by the White Fox’s Qi and Blood demon power.

A vicious gleam flashed in the demon pupils of the White Fox as she said icily, "Dare to come seeking death!"

"White Fox, do they have a True God behind them?" Yuan Qi screamed out a reminder.

"True God? So what? The demon race has always revered the Demon God, not some True God!"

The left and right demon pupils of the Demon King White Fox turned black and white again.

The elite human warriors of the Soul Wandering Realm above the Sword Boat suddenly felt dizzy, their souls as if plunging into a pure black and white otherworldly space, breaking the connection between soul and strength in an instant.

In Yuan Qi’s eyes, everyone’s eyes on the Sword Boat became vacant, as if their souls had been extracted.

The Sword Boat also suddenly froze in mid-air without moving.

...

Atop a hill by the sea, Demon King Yuan Min, with the support of the Dragon Cave at his back, stared into a pitch-black crystal ball.

His bloodshot beastly eyes opened a crack, and after stepping into the domain of the Demon King White Fox, Yuan Min saw three eighth-level Great Demons gather a group of lesser demons to besiege Pang Jian and Yuan Qi.

He also saw the three Great Demons being killed off one by one by Yuan Qi.

The terrifying power displayed by Yuan Qi as he rose through the ranks excited Yuan Min.

Both being eighth-level Great Demons, and with Yuan Qi being a junior who had just entered the ranks, he could rely on the completeness of his bloodline to slaughter those Great Demons who were several generations older than him.

Yuan Min became more and more excited about the combat power he would possess when all the hidden Bloodline Divine Powers in his body would be activated.

Suddenly, the bloodshot beastly eye caught sight of a small hand.

Then darkness replaced everything, preventing him from seeing the state of the far-off world.

"It’s the White Fox," stated Yuan Min.

Behind him, the Gold Carp, a ninth-level Demon King like himself, spoke in a voice tinged with jealousy and admiration, "Yuan Min, she doesn’t want you to see what she’s about to do next. This White Fox, is she so wary of you because she harbors different intentions towards the Dragon Cave?"

Yuan Min frowned, "She shouldn’t dare."

"Just because you don’t dare, doesn’t mean she doesn’t," the Level Nine Gold Carp said in a low voice, head bowed, "She is younger than you, but even when her bloodline was still at Level Eight, there wasn’t a Great Demon in that region who dared to provoke her. She is an outlier among our Demon Race, with wisdom that erupted even in her extreme youth, and her carving of the Demon Soul surpasses all other demons of the same level."

"The reason she’s not qualified to compete for a seat among the Demon Gods this time is solely because she’s too young."

"In my view..."

"Shut up!"

Before she could finish, Demon King Yuan Min interrupted her sharply, "Hei Guan is dead. Gold Carp, go delay Rock Bear’s pace, make him unable to turn back and look for White Fox for now."

The panic and resentment filled Gold Carp’s beautiful human-like face as she stared at Yuan Min in disbelief.

"If you dare to defy my command, you’re defying the Dragon Cave," Yuan Min said coldly. "I’m not asking you to fight to the death with Old Bear, just lead him away from his territory so that he can’t return temporarily."

"Yuan Min, you... you..." Gold Carp’s face showed an expression as if her heart was dead.

She didn’t expect that after giving so much for Yuan Min, this man she had admired for years could so easily sacrifice her on his path to ascend as a Demon God.

And he had brought up the Dragon Cave!

"I will go, but not because I fear the Dragon Cave, but because I truly wish for you to become a Demon God."

Gold Carp lowered her head, sighed in sorrow, and leapt into a surging river.

"The path to becoming a Demon God is paved with blood and bones; no one is an exception," Yuan Min murmured as if convincing himself, gazing into the distance with a cold demeanor, "To confront the Dragon Cave, to be eligible to speak with the Old Dragon, one must first ascend as a Demon God. Demons who fail to become Demon Gods, in this great calamity, are doomed to be adrift with the tide!"

...

The territory ruled by White Fox.

Her true form stood on dry branches, one hand holding a blood-red pupil, and her silver-white hair draped over her petite frame.

Without looking at Pang Jian, who was again enveloped by the white bone demon hands, nor at the still Sword Boat, she instead looked in a different direction.

Her gaze was fixed on the location of the Dragon Cave.

Pang Jian, everyone on the Sword Boat, including Yuan Qi who harbored the secrets of the Demon Race, were now outside of her considerations.

"I..."

"If I stand opposed to the Dragon Cave, I can’t kill them. If I obey the Dragon Cave, even if it offends a True God, the Dragon Cave will step forward for me."

"And if I decide not to heed the Dragon Cave’s dispatch and choose to flee Saint Spirit Continent and abandon my home, the True God will kill me."

She wrestled with herself internally.

After a long time, she still couldn’t make a decision and said to Yuan Qi, "I need time to consider."

Yuan Qi nodded and reaffirmed, "That is my only condition!"

He knew all too well what the Dragon Cave and Thunder Dragon meant to the Demon Race in the Purgatory World after the fall of Heaven Phoenix.

Powerful as she was, White Fox, possessing in her veins a rare and unusual bloodline akin to his, also found it so terribly hard and painful to truly oppose the Dragon Cave.

"Lord White Fox, let me reveal another piece of information to you. In the Extreme North Land of the Fourth Realm, shrouded by the Mysterious Fog, there is Fragment Land of Northern Qi harboring our Demon Race ancestors who can stand against the Thunder Dragon," Yuan Qi inhaled deeply and hinted, "If you’re truly out of options, you can take refuge in Northern Qi!"

"The power of the Dragon Cave might not be able to prevail over those in there, those Ancient Demon Clans who have been isolated from the world for many years!"

"Please consider carefully!"

Yuan Qi had said all he needed to.

White Fox’s eyes showed shock as she said, "Good! Allow me some more time to consider!"

"Swoosh!"

Her petite figure vanished into thin air.

The recurring white bone demon hands completely disappeared high in the sky, the dark Sky Curtain remained, but at last the moon and stars were revealed.

Above the Sword Boat, a group of people, as if having fallen into a different timespace, suddenly returned from another world.

The night breeze was cool, the stars and moon hazy, and the fearsome White Fox was as if she had never appeared at all.

"What happened?"

"Where did the white-haired girl go?"

"Pang Jian, are you okay?"

The people on the Sword Boat called out.

"I’m fine."

Shaking his head, Pang Jian also alighted on the Sword Boat.

Seeing everyone was slightly wounded but not seriously hurt, he was somewhat relieved.

The tip-of-the-iceberg strength shown by the Level Nine White Fox Demon King deeply intimidated him.

The immense gap between their realms was starkly laid out before him, letting him know that even with his special and formidable Soul Wandering Realm, it was impossible to leap across two levels and contend with a Demon King.

And such a White Fox still had an incomplete bloodline.

Due to some kind of Great Tao’s balance, the talents thoroughly comprehended by her ancestors were not entirely manifested as they should have been.

If she truly agreed to Yuan Qi’s conditions and survived the Dragon Cave’s opposition in exchange for the full manifestation of the Ancient Bloodline, this White Fox Demon King would surely become even more terrifying.

It might really take several Great Cultivators of the Immortal Realm of the Human Race to suppress her.

"White Fox, much like a few of you who hold corresponding status and identity within the Human Race, is an exceptional talent amongst the Demon Race. Among the Demon Kings of the same level, she is also the most outstanding. If not for her youth, far less accumulation compared to Elder Xiong, the first I would have come to persuade would’ve been her, White Fox,"

"She is the elite of the Demon Race, still a Level Nine Demon King, if you could contend against her..."

"Then our Demon Race would’ve already been extinct."

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