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Chapter 250 Welcoming the Great Emperor's Return!
Chapter 250 Welcoming the Great Emperor's Return!
Legend has it that the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons is located in the southwest, hidden deep in the endless mountains. The Divine Marquis's Mansion dispatched a large number of people to the southwest to investigate, but they found nothing.
Chu Yang felt that the legend was probably true. Judging from the activity level of the Chongyao Clan in the south, they must be in the southwest.
It was simply hidden using special methods.
Like the Dragon Guard Manor.
It is not uncommon to hide one's location using formations naturally formed by heaven and earth. However, given the vast size of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom, an even larger natural formation is needed for concealment.
Does such a massive natural formation truly exist between heaven and earth?
Chu Yang decided to look for it.
Riding the wind on a sword, it took only half an hour to reach the southwest. Amidst the vast mountains, the lush vegetation stretched as far as the eye could see, like a boundless expanse of green waves.
"To understand the grand array of nature, one must first cause the space itself to tremble."
Chu Yang summoned Fengdu and Tianque, wielding two flying swords that traversed every corner of the mountains. Wherever the flying swords went, they could always cleave narrow spatial rifts.
Searching for the location of the Demon Kingdom in this way might cause some unnecessary trouble, but he couldn't care less about that now.
Although the method was crude, it was very effective. Before long, Chu Yang noticed the unusual location.
Deep in the mountains, there stands a dilapidated ancient temple, inside which is enshrined a faceless statue. Upon closer inspection, one can faintly hear the wailing and howling of ghosts.
Sunlight streamed through the broken roof, but it couldn't dispel the gloom of the ancient temple; something seemed to be twisting in the corner.
"The spatial distortion is so severe, the entrance to the Demon Kingdom should be here, but..."
Chu Yang looked around and murmured, "This ancient temple seems to be some kind of sealing method. Was the entrance to the Demon Kingdom sealed by someone?"
"Who did it?"
A strange feeling rose in Chu Yang's heart.
He shook his head. Standing outside and thinking about it was pointless; he might as well go in and find out.
He then stepped into the ancient temple.
The inside and outside of the ancient temple seem like two different worlds. The moment you step inside, all the light disappears, leaving only pitch black.
That darkness was not just visual; it was as if all five senses were rendered useless, and the surroundings seemed to be in a state of absolute silence.
"Playing tricks."
Chu Yang opened his palm, and blinding lightning suddenly exploded, with electric snakes slithering through every corner of the ancient temple.
Strange figures and an extremely foul aura appeared.
"demon!"
The power of the Five Elements of Chaos swept outwards with Chu Yang's punch, one punch with five moves, the power of the five elements of wind, fire, thunder, earth and water piercing through the surrounding shadows.
The ancient temple trembled!
A sharp, mournful cry rang out, and one after another, the demonic figures in the darkness exploded. A few breaths later, everything returned to nothingness.
The foul smell did not lessen; on the contrary, it seemed to intensify.
After the demons died, the ancient temple finally brightened a bit. Chu Yang looked up at the faceless statue, where a distorted vortex appeared in the center.
"The entrance to the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons..."
Chu Yang pondered for a moment, then walked into the vortex.
A familiar feeling of weightlessness washed over me; it's a sensation I often experience when traversing space.
Upon landing, Chu Yang felt somewhat lost. As far as the eye could see, there was no sign of a kingdom, only a gloomy and ghostly place.
It felt like I had entered the underworld.
The sky and earth were hazy and gray, the buildings were dilapidated, and in the howling wind, many broken tools rolled past Chu Yang's feet.
Chu Yang picked it up and examined it closely; some of the artifacts were inscribed with the script of the demon race.
This is indeed the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons...
But why is the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons in this state?
"With the country destroyed like this, it's no wonder that the demon race has fled en masse, abandoning their ancestral land. The calamity of demons is truly terrifying."
Where did the demons come from, where did they erupt from, and when did they begin? There is absolutely no record of them in the history of the Ming Dynasty; it's as if they suddenly appeared one day.
The Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons was eerily silent, devoid of any signs of life; all that could be seen was a hazy grayness, like an old black-and-white photograph.
Suddenly, a sound came from the end of the street—a thirsty and rapid breathing sound!
Before long, a strangely shaped demon rushed out, heading straight for Chu Yang, and let out an excited howl.
It seemed as if it hadn't seen any living creature in a long time.
Its intense excitement made it want nothing more than to tear apart everything it saw!
Moreover, greedy gazes emanated from the ruins, landing on you as if you were being coiled by a slippery, damp venomous snake.
In the dead Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons, only demons remained, and these demons were transformed from a large number of demons.
One demon after another appeared on this street, and even the air had an indescribable smell.
The wind is blowing even harder...
suddenly!
A dazzling light shone between heaven and earth.
The sun and moon rise.
It illuminated the dimly lit Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons.
Two flying swords hovered around Chu Yang, slaying demons with overwhelming force. The filthy power could not affect Fengdu or Tianque.
Chu Yang strolled through the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons, with the corpses of demons piled up like mountains behind him.
"Where did the demon outbreak originate? And where is the so-called 'Demon King' of the demon race?"
"Whether it's death or demonization, there should be some trace left behind."
Aside from demons, Chu Yang saw nothing else in this place.
"Where is the palace?"
The entire Wan Yao Kingdom was reduced to ruins, making it difficult to locate the imperial palace.
Chu Yang could only move closer to the place with the most foul aura. His intuition told him that this was the imperial palace, where the demon race's supreme ruler resided.
I don't know how much time passed.
A large mountain appeared before us.
The mountain is shaped like a dragon's head, and its interior is hollow, requiring entry through the dragon's mouth.
"The answer is inside."
Chu Yang walked in. Along the way, there were murals carved on the stone walls on both sides, which seemed to tell the story of the origin of the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons.
Twelve Demon Kings... Three Demon Emperors...
The murals depict their situation before the world changed, and also tell us when they developed intelligence and when they cultivated themselves to their current state.
For the demon race, this may be an inspiring story of growth, but for the human race, it is a history of blood and tears for countless innocent people.
Every demon king is born by stepping over mountains of corpses and seas of blood of the human race.
The murals trace back further and further to the section on the ruler of the demon race.
In the very beginning, there was a little flower with a spirit, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth under the moonlight.
Its growth was not aided by the blood and tears of humankind; it simply bloomed quietly between heaven and earth.
The mural ends abruptly here.
Chu Yang also arrived at the deepest part of the palace, a very wide platform.
The surrounding area was piled high with the corpses of demons, some of whom had only recently died. In the very center, where the corpses were the most numerous, a stunningly beautiful flower bloomed.
One side of the flower is the human world, while the other side is an endless hell.
This is...
The supreme ruler of the demon race!
"Who is it?"
A gentle female voice reached Chu Yang's ears; the voice was weak and trembled with pain.
"So you are the Demon Emperor?"
As he spoke, Chu Yang strode over, his two swords flying alongside him, sweeping away the surrounding demon corpses. In no time, the entire platform was clean.
"A demon emperor?"
"Those little guys do call me that, but I don't think of myself as an emperor. I'm just a flower."
The flower's voice was ethereal; after the demon's corpse disappeared, she seemed a little relieved.
"The supreme ruler of the demon race can't even transform into human form?"
Chu Yang stood before the flower, his hands behind his back, coldly gazing at it.
It's a very ordinary flower, with nothing particularly striking about its appearance. You wouldn't even glance at it if you passed by, and you could easily step on it and kill it.
It was just an ordinary flower.
"I could before, but not now. All my power is used to maintain the balance between the human world and the underworld..."
The flower said, trembling.
Hades?
Chu Yang's heart stirred slightly.
"Are you human?"
The flower asked curiously, "How did you get here?"
Chu Yang replied calmly, "Of course I walked in."
The flower petals were opened to their fullest extent, appearing very excited. "Humanity is so powerful that it should be able to resist these ominous signs. In that case, I don't need to worry about the underworld affecting the human world."
Chu Yang frowned and said, "Humans are powerful, what's there for you, as a demon, to be happy about? Aren't you worried about your race being wiped out?"
"What does the rise of humanity have to do with the extinction of the demon race?" The gentle female voice revealed her confusion and bewilderment. "Are the two races not on good terms?"
Chu Yang didn't answer, but instead asked, "How long have you been here?"
The flower replied, "I've always been here..."
Chu Yang sighed. The so-called ruler of the demon race was unaware of the irreconcilable conflict between the demon race and the human race.
She passed on the cultivation method to the demons she encountered, while the demons' choice to devour humans to increase their cultivation was their own.
The flower seemed to sense something from Chu Yang's silence and asked in a low voice, "Did those children do something bad?"
Chu Yang laid out the entire conflict between the human and demon races, including the demon race using humans as food to improve their cultivation, and the current situation where the demon race is imprisoned in Japan.
A long silence fell between them.
"It's all my fault; I was the beginning of all this misfortune."
"The underworld and misfortune were both brought by me."
A woman's voice came through intermittently, filled with guilt and sadness.
"The underworld?" Chu Yang frowned slightly. "Could it be the netherworld?"
"No." The woman's voice paused for a moment. "To be precise, it's not yet. The world has been restored, and the cycle of reincarnation has restarted first. At this time, it is still in a state of chaos, so it is only the state of the underworld, without any order."
"The ominous one comes from the underworld, in a state between life and death, defiling the living and blaspheming the dead, bearing all sins, and is the most filthy thing in the world."
"Only when the cycle of reincarnation is fully restored and order is restored will the misfortune completely disappear and return to the world."
"It's only because I communicated with the underworld that I brought here an ominous presence that doesn't belong to the human world. As a result, the demon race is cursed, and seeing them brings misfortune."
"The Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons rose because of me, and it will also perish because of me."
Chu Yang took a deep breath. Only now did he realize the true origin of the demons. He was even more curious about the flower that could communicate with the underworld. "What exactly are you?"
"I... am the first spider lily in the underworld, yet I grow towards the sun, nestled in the crack between the human world and the underworld."
The red spider lily revealed its identity and said regretfully, "If I hadn't been so attached to this beautiful world and forced myself to take root and sprout here, the underworld wouldn't have been drawn here by me."
"I am the one who caused all of this..."
Chu Yang looked at the spider lily situated between the two worlds. In order to prevent the underworld from further influencing the human world, she sacrificed herself to stop the two worlds from getting closer.
This flower is almost withered.
It was nothing more than a thirst for sunlight, yet it came at a terrible price.
It's not fair to call it sympathy, after all, the human race is not doing well because of the demon race and the monsters. Chu Yang just felt a bit emotional.
"The cycle of rebirth in the six realms..."
Since approaching the other shore flower, Chu Yang has felt a tremor from the [Fengdu] sword, as if urging him to enter the underworld.
The red spider lily was still talking to itself, "I don't know if I can hold on until the Six Paths of Reincarnation are fully reconstructed. After so many years, I'm exhausted and want to take a good rest."
"Are these increasing ominous signs due to rising human killings?"
The foul aura suddenly surged, and the petals of the spider lily shimmered with an eerie light, as if it were about to give up.
Just now.
[Tianque] emitted a crisp sword cry, and a soft white light shone brightly, briefly bringing color to the hazy world before our eyes.
The spider lily regained its composure and asked incredulously, "What kind of power was that just now?!"
Chu Yang shook his head. He himself didn't really understand the abilities of [Tianque], so he couldn't answer the question about the other shore flower.
"Can you send me to the underworld?"
"You want to enter the underworld?!"
The other shore flower was startled at first, then remembered the wonders of the [Heavenly Palace], and hope suddenly ignited in her heart. She said, "I can send you into the Netherworld, but you must be careful. The Six Paths of Reincarnation have not yet taken shape, and it is very chaotic and dangerous there."
Chu Yang waved his hand and said, "It's alright, please give me a ride."
A petal fell from the spider lily and drifted into Chu Yang's hand, and he heard the spider lily's voice in his ear.
"Take my petals and keep walking to reach the underworld, but think carefully, I can't bring you back."
Chu Yang nodded, grasped the petal, and strode across to the other side of the spider lily.
A chilling aura swept over him, and before he knew it, he was standing on the Netherworld.
A bone-chilling cold, like the water of the Yellow Springs, swept in from all around, and the deathly silence was strikingly similar to that of the Bridge of Helplessness.
The sword 【Fengdu】trembled incessantly, as if it were extremely excited. If Chu Yang hadn't forcibly restrained it, it would have almost pierced the sky!
"How can the cycle of reincarnation be restarted without Fengdu City?"
Chu Yang smiled, his arms outstretched as if embracing this land of the dead.
"Swastika!"
[Fengdu] disappeared, and Chu Yang held a large seal in his hand. In the void, the shadow of Fengdu City appeared and disappeared, gradually turning into reality.
The moment Fengdu City landed in the underworld, the entire underworld began to shake violently, undergoing some kind of dramatic change!
Ominous roars echoed across the underworld, sounding both fearful and liberating.
The chaotic energy that roamed the underworld poured into Fengdu City, gradually making the whole world clearer.
A wind rises across the land.
One ominous sign after another vanished with the wind.
Meanwhile, the Four Great Constables are leading the constables of the Divine Marquis's Mansion in a fierce battle against demons near the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons. The situation is extremely dangerous, and everyone is injured.
Sheng Yayu has unfortunately been infected and is on the verge of being demonized.
Just as she was preparing to perish together with the demon, the demon before her slowly dissipated.
His injuries stopped worsening.
"The demons are gone!!!"
The Kingdom of Ten Thousand Monsters.
The red spider lily quietly blooms, and a stunningly beautiful woman emerges from its heart.
She knelt down in devout worship before the towering figure in the underworld, her voice filled with sorrow and lamentation.
"Welcome back, Great Emperor!"
(End of this chapter)