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Chapter 57 Wang Tianlong Emerges from Seclusion
Just as the Spirit Realm's Tianyuan City was making intensive preparations to send reinforcements to the mortal realm, the situation in the human realm had taken a sharp turn for the worse.
Under the command of the avatar of the Holy Lord of the Primordial Chaos, the ancient demon army, based in Tiannan, began to expand wildly in all directions. They swept away all resistance with absolute force.
The cultivation world of Tiannan, the initial target, had already fallen completely under the crushing force of a thousand Nascent Soul Ancient Demons. Major sects were either destroyed or surrendered, and Lingmiao Garden also fell into the hands of the Ancient Demons.
Immediately afterwards, the ancient demon army split into multiple routes, spreading rapidly like a black plague to major cultivation areas such as the Great Jin, the Chaotic Star Sea, and the Five Dragon Sea.
Faced with this terrifying army composed of ancient demons at the Nascent Soul stage, and with beings surpassing even the Nascent Soul stage in command, the resistance of the human cultivators appeared pale and powerless. Even the allied forces composed of top powers such as the Kunwu Alliance and the Star Palace collapsed at the first contact in direct combat, suffering heavy losses and forced to retreat to the core area, struggling to hold on.
Even more despairing is that, tempted by the absolute power and threatening brutality of the ancient demons, some cultivators from the human realm chose to defect to them, becoming their servants. These traitors, familiar with the terrain and power distribution of the human realm, guided the ancient demons and provided them with intelligence, making their invasions more precise and efficient.
In an instant, the entire human realm was engulfed in flames of war, with demonic energy surging to the heavens. Countless cultivators perished, mortal kingdoms were reduced to scorched earth, and once prosperous holy lands of cultivation were transformed into demonic realms.
An unnamed deserted island, an underwater cave.
The stone door to the secret chamber slowly opened, and Wang Tianlong stepped out. His aura was restrained, yet it gave people a sense of unfathomable depth, as if he were one with the surrounding world. After a hundred years of seclusion, he not only completely stabilized his late-stage Nascent Soul realm, but also fully absorbed the medicinal power of the Azure Mist Fruit, resulting in a dramatic change in his strength compared to before his seclusion.
He closed his eyes slightly, carefully sensing the changes within himself and the attitude of this world towards him.
"Late-stage Nascent Soul... truly extraordinary." A satisfied smile curved Wang Tianlong's lips. He could clearly feel that the magical power within his body was as vast as the sea, the range of his divine sense had expanded considerably, and his control over the spiritual energy of heaven and earth had reached a completely new level.
More noticeably, he sensed a faint, yet palpable, repulsive force emanating from this world. It was as if this space could no longer contain his overwhelming power, constantly "pushing" him away.
"This is the opportunity for ascension..." Wang Tianlong understood. With his current cultivation level, he could trigger the ascension tribulation at any time if he wished, shatter the void, and travel to the higher-level spirit realm.
But he did not rush into action.
"I still have over a thousand years left to live, why rush? Although the spiritual energy in the human realm is not as great as that in the spirit realm, it is more familiar, and there are still many unexplored places, enough for me to continue cultivating and accumulating experience." Wang Tianlong's eyes flashed, and he already had a plan in mind. "Besides, the future of ascending to the spirit realm is uncertain, so it is better to lay a more solid foundation in the human realm and prepare more trump cards."
He composed himself and strode toward the secret chamber on the other side of the cave, where the purple-haired rat had gone into seclusion.
As soon as they reached the entrance of the secret chamber, they sensed a strong fluctuation of demonic energy, mixed with a familiar connection to their souls.
Just as Wang Tianlong was about to observe the purple-haired rat's condition, he suddenly frowned slightly, his powerful divine sense detecting an unusual fluctuation.
That wasn't a fluctuation of spiritual energy, but... demonic energy! Although it was extremely faint and far away, he could still clearly perceive it with his late-stage Nascent Soul divine sense.
"Demonic energy... and so dense and mixed, it couldn't possibly be emitted by just one or two demonic cultivators..." Wang Tianlong's expression darkened slightly, a sense of foreboding rising in his heart. "Could it be that some great change occurred in the human realm while I was in seclusion?"
He immediately said to the purple-haired rat, "You stay here and consolidate your cultivation level. I'll go out and investigate."
Having said that, Wang Tianlong's figure flickered and instantly disappeared from the cave. The next moment, he appeared high in the sky above the deserted island. He gazed into the distance, his divine sense spreading out in all directions like a tide.
As his divine sense extended, his expression grew increasingly solemn. The sea, which should have been teeming with spiritual energy and bustling with cultivators, was now permeated with an aura of deathly stillness and chaos. Further away, he could even faintly sense the intense fluctuations of a battle, and… soaring demonic energy!
Wang Tianlong moved like lightning, following the faint fluctuations of battle and demonic energy, covering thousands of miles in an instant.
A moment later, he hovered above a ravaged sea. Below, a fierce battle was raging.
On one side were seven or eight ragged, terrified, yet desperately fighting human Nascent Soul cultivators. The magical artifacts they wielded were dimming, clearly at their limit. On the other side were five demonic cultivators clad in black demonic armor, their faces contorted in rage, emanating a dense aura of demonic energy.
However, Wang Tianlong's pupils suddenly contracted!
The aura of these demonic cultivators... something's not right!
The demonic energy they exuded was not the mixed and cold aura of ordinary demonic cultivators in the human world, but rather a purer, more domineering one, carrying an ancient and evil aura that seemed to come from another world! He had felt this aura before when he fought against the ancient demon Hei Ming, who was trying to steal the Heavenly Void Jade Book, in the Void Heaven Palace!
"It's an ancient demon! It's definitely the aura of an ancient demon!" Wang Tianlong's heart trembled violently. "Could it be... that the ancient demon in the Void Heaven Palace isn't an isolated case? Has the human realm... already been invaded by ancient demons?!"
Just as he was filled with doubt, the battle below had already been decided.
The five ancient demons (human cultivators transformed by ancient demons) let out a piercing, sinister laugh and unleashed a powerful demonic attack. Black demonic fire, corrosive demonic mist, and an invisible soul-shattering attack instantly tore apart the defenses of the Nascent Soul cultivators!
"ah--!"
"No!"
Screams rang out one after another as the bodies of several Nascent Soul cultivators were quickly reduced to ashes in the demonic fire. Even their Nascent Souls were unable to escape and were devoured by the demonic mist, becoming nourishment for the ancient demons.
After the battle ended, the five ancient demons began to skillfully clean up the battlefield, collect their spoils, and greedily absorb the soul energy dissipating from the air.
Wang Tianlong, hidden high in the sky, took in everything, his face grim and terrifying. He had initially thought it was just an ordinary battle between cultivators, but he had never expected to witness the ancient demons slaughtering human cultivators! Moreover, the way these ancient demons acted was exactly the same as the ruthlessness of Hei Ming in the Void Heaven Palace.
"It seems something truly terrible has happened in the human realm." Wang Tianlong's mind raced. "These ancient demons are numerous and well-organized; they're definitely not just scattered soldiers. Could it be... a large-scale invasion from the demon realm?"
He recalled that before his seclusion, there seemed to be signs of chaos in the outside world, but at the time he was too eager to break through to the next level to investigate further. Now it seemed that the source of that chaos was very likely these ancient demons!
"We must capture one alive and find out what happened!" A cold glint flashed in Wang Tianlong's eyes.
Without further hesitation, he appeared silently behind the five ancient demons who were gloating.
"Who?!" The leading ancient demon seemed to sense something and turned around abruptly, only to see a giant hand formed from pure wind spirit power grabbing down at his head!
"Not good! It's a Nascent Soul cultivator..." the ancient demon cried out in terror, but before he could finish speaking, he was firmly grasped by the wind palm and unable to move. The other four ancient demons were shocked and were about to resist or escape when Wang Tianlong simply snorted coldly. A massive pressure from a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator descended upon them like Mount Tai crashing down, instantly pressing them to the ground, unable to move even a finger!
Wang Tianlong beckoned, pulling the leading ancient demon before him, his gaze icy cold: "Speak! Who are you? Where do you come from? What exactly happened in the human realm?"
The ancient demon trembled under Wang Tianlong's terrifying pressure, its eyes filled with fear.