Chapter 868: The Demon Race's High Meat Yield

Ten Thousand Mountains.

This place used to be the sacred land of the Demon Race. In the past, the Peacock Great Ming King once charged into the Ten Thousand Mountains alone, slaughtering the ancient ones of the Demon Race who had attacked Kong Mengmeng and sowed discord among them, leaving no survivors.

It has been many years since the Peacock Great Ming King rampaged through the Ten Thousand Mountains.

Although the ancient ones of the Demon Race are gone from the Ten Thousand Mountains, many weaker members of the Demon Race have appeared here.

It is said that the great battle back then destroyed more than half of the Ten Thousand Mountains.

Even so, the Ten Thousand Mountains today is still a sacred place for the Demon Race.

After many years, they have come to the Ten Thousand Mountains again.

The mindsets of both the Peacock Great Ming King and Lin Yuan are completely different now.

Nowadays, the graves of the ancient ones of the Ten Thousand Mountains are overgrown with grass several feet high.

The grass over their master’s grave is also several feet high.

Lin Yuan opened the map given by the Yin Celestial Son, revealing the area of the Ten Thousand Mountains densely covered with black dots.

In the entire region of the Ten Thousand Mountains, there are exactly fifty-six black dots.

The fifty-six black dots on the map indicate that there are fifty-six Chaos Star Beasts in the region of the Ten Thousand Mountains.

It should be noted that there are a total of only a little over two hundred Chaos Star Beasts that escaped from the Gate of Chaos.

The Ten Thousand Mountains region hosts fifty-six Chaos Star Beasts, which is nearly a quarter of all Chaos Star Beasts.

Upon reflection, this actually makes a lot of sense.

Chaos Star Beasts need to devour flesh and blood to become stronger. They don’t necessarily have to consume human flesh; any creature’s flesh and blood will do.

And among all creatures of Heaven and Earth, the Demon Race undoubtedly has the most flesh and blood.

Compared to humans, members of the Demon Race have larger bodies and more flesh.

Even ordinary Wolf Demons and Rabbit Demons are not smaller than humans in size.

As for Ox Demons and Pig Demons, their bodies are several times larger than humans.

Meeting creatures like Elephant Demons, Tiger Demons, and Lion Demons, their sizes are akin to small mountains.

Why do Chaos Star Beasts prefer to gather in the Ten Thousand Mountains to hunt?

Isn’t the answer obvious?

The flesh yield is high in the Demon Race!

Chaos Star Beasts feed on flesh and blood, naturally preferring to hunt food with a high yield.

With the map provided by the Yin Celestial Son, finding Chaos Star Beasts is quite simple.

Although the map only gives a rough location of the Chaos Star Beasts.

But that’s not a concern.

The Chaos Star Beasts are also large, and once you know the general area, you can spot them at a glance upon arrival.

Lin Yuan led the way, followed by the Peacock Great Ming King, Nato, Guanyin Bodhisattva, and twenty to thirty Tier Two Experts.

Lin Yuan and Yang Jing split up, leading separate teams to deal with the Chaos Star Beasts.

Yang Jing, accompanied by Elder Bai, Qingqiu Mountain Grand Elder, and other Tier Two Powerhouses, headed to another gathering point of Chaos Star Beasts.

Of course, the number of Chaos Star Beasts on Yang Jing’s side is much fewer than here in the Ten Thousand Mountains.

Yang Jing’s gathering of Chaos Star Beasts numbers only twenty to thirty, substantially half less than Lin Yuan’s side.

Currently, the Ten Thousand Mountains is indeed the densest gathering place for Chaos Star Beasts.

Guided by the map, Lin Yuan quickly found the area where the Chaos Star Beasts are active.

However, they didn’t see any Chaos Star Beasts here.

They only saw scattered demon corpses.

The Elephant Demon body, the size of a hill, was half-eaten.

Only a tiger skin remained of the Tiger Demon body.

Only two horns were left of the Ox Demon body.

And the ground was littered with chunks of flesh and soil soaked in blood.

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The hill-sized Elephant Demon was a Tier Three creature in life.

The other demons were also Tier Four or Tier Five.

Such strength isn’t weak among the creatures of Heaven and Earth.

But against a horde of Tier Two Chaos Star Beasts, they could only become food.

Among the Tier Two Experts who came with Lin Yuan, many were also from the Demon Race, and they were infuriated upon witnessing this scene.

Even though they had no personal connections with the Demon Race members being devoured here.

Still, seeing one’s kin consumed by another race was enraging.

Nato also unfolded his piece of the map, looking at the black dots and asking in confusion, “According to the map, the Chaos Star Beasts should be nearby?”

“Why do we only see these demon corpses and no Chaos Star Beasts?”

After Nato posed the question, the Peacock Great Ming King answered him, “Heaven and Earth are vast, and the map is limited in size, it only shows an approximate location.”

“According to the map, the Chaos Star Beasts should be within tens to hundreds of miles from us.”

“I suppose those Chaos Star Beasts were just here feeding and sensed our approach, so they fled first.”

Guanyin Bodhisattva stepped forward, reached into the hill-sized Elephant Demon’s body, then pulled out his hand and wiped off the blood before saying to Lin Yuan, “The blood is still warm; these demons haven’t been dead for long.”

“I think those Chaos Star Beasts haven’t gone far.”

The Peacock Great Ming King, after a fierce analysis, …

Their assessments were all wrong.

They believed the Chaos Star Beasts had fled?

But Lin Yuan thought otherwise.

Who is Lin Yuan?

Lin Yuan is the heir of the Human King, though not yet Tier One, not yet fully a Human King.

But calling him a half-Human King is not an exaggeration.

Humans are the spirits of all things, saying they are the royalty of Heaven and Earth isn’t wrong.

Heaven and Earth is the realm of the Human King.

As the Human King’s heir, the half-Human King, it’s exaggerated to say he senses everything under Heaven and Earth.

But sensing things within a thousand-mile radius is within reason.

The Peacock Great Ming King and Guanyin Bodhisattva thought the Chaos Star Beasts sensed them and then fled.

But Lin Yuan knew that those Chaos Star Beasts, rather than fleeing, were actually close by.

These Chaos Star Beasts had gone into hiding, apparently preparing for a surprise attack on them, catching them off guard.

“They didn’t run!”

“Not only did they not run, but they are right beneath us!”

After Lin Yuan spoke, he stomped hard on the ground.

With a “boom,” the earth quaked violently, exploding suddenly, sending dust flying.

When the dust settled, a gully resembling a river appeared on the ground, faintly revealing tree root-like tendrils everywhere.

These creepy tendrils were the tendrils of the Chaos Star Beasts hidden underground.

It’s undeniable that these Chaos Star Beasts had excellent concealment techniques.

Even the Divine Senses of top Tier Two powerhouses like the Peacock Great Ming King and Nato couldn’t detect them.

However, they couldn’t hide from Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan is practically half a Lord of Heaven and Earth; Heaven and Earth is like a part of his body.

When foreign entities enter his body, Lin Yuan can sense it.

Upon arriving here, he had already noticed Chaos Star Beasts were hidden underground.