Chapter 864 - 806: Battle Arena

Chapter 864: Chapter 806: Battle Arena

After lingering for several hours outside the battle arena, Jiang Yuebai, with a dirty and disheveled appearance, stepped into the Golden Scale Slope Battle Arena as a member of the Human Clan.

Her face was smudged with mud, her hair was messy, and she curiously surveyed everything around her.

This was both a battle arena and a marketplace. The outer area was filled with stalls run by the Demon Clan, most of whom were Magic Demons. The ones carrying items and doing miscellaneous tasks were Earth Demons. It was rare to see higher-level Primordial Demons, and no True Demons were in sight.

Without any True Demons around, Jiang Yuebai felt much more at ease.

Apart from the Sword Demons with four scythe-like arms and the Golden Demons with dark-golden bodies resembling brass statues, there were Fire Demons with flaming hair and Wood Demons looking like old withered trees.

Most demons maintained a humanoid form, with heads and four limbs, walking upright. However, some demons had beast-like shapes. Just now, a Sea Demon, covered in seaweed and resembling a long-haired lion dog, ran past her feet.

In any case, the essence of demons is a Demon Heart plus Demonic Qi, with no physical form. As long as you have imagination, you can mold yourself into a monster with eight arms.

She thought she might try it later, giving herself eight arms to slap with eight palms all at once. Just the thought of it was exhilarating!

Although Jiang Yuebai currently looked very much like a member of the Human Clan, the two Demon Horns on her head were characteristics of the Demon Clan. Each demon’s fixed form had different demon horns growing in various body parts, similar to the antennae of living creatures in nature, used during the Scattered Demon phase to explore the external world.

During the Scattered Demon phase, their demon horns were gaseous. With extended use and increased cultivation, they gradually hardened into stone-like horns.

Apart from Demon Hearts, demon horns are the most valuable things found on demons. They can be refined into Magic Treasures similar to those of the Human Clan. Some powerful demons like to collect demon horns, string them together to wear around their necks or waist, symbolizing honor and power.

The most common place for demon horns to grow is on the head, but they can also grow on shoulders, chest, back, and some unconventional places.

The horns on her head were like a sheep’s, with a curved arc. Seeing them, those around her would avert their gaze and refrain from further inquiry.

After all, even if she was weak, she was still a Primordial Demon. As long as her identity as a Mirage Demon wasn’t discovered, no one should come to provoke her.

Suddenly seeing something familiar, Jiang Yuebai’s lips curved into a grin as she squatted by the roadside stall.

The demons setting up stalls here would randomly sit anywhere, throwing a variety of items haphazardly on the ground, waiting for demons to approach.

Seeing Jiang Yuebai staring at the snail-like black Crystal Stones on the stall, the Sword Demon casually said, "Mirage Stones, thirty Demon Stones apiece, or trade for something of equal value."

Demon Stones were similar to the Spirit Stones of the Human Clan. They were minerals infused with Demonic Qi, and many such veins existed in the Demon Realm. Even the Demon Cultivators of the Human Clan used Demon Stones for transactions.

Jiang Yuebai felt a bit embarrassed because Mirage Stones were the excrement of the Mirage Demon Clan, and she squatted down merely out of curiosity.

"What are these things used for?" Jiang Yuebai asked.

The Sword Demon stall owner, seeing she was a Primordial Demon, dared not offend her. Although the battlefield marketplace prohibited consuming demons, if she was indeed devoured, high-level demons wouldn’t face severe punishment, at most being forced to birth some demons as atonement, while he’d truly be dead.

"Mirage Stones have plenty of uses. Fire Demons heat them to create soporific mists, while Fog Demons within the Water Demon Clan can use them to produce illusions. It’s not easy to dig out these stones from the stench beneath the Mirage Demon Sea."

"If you don’t hold your breath and inhale while down there, you can fall asleep immediately, trapped in a long dream, becoming nourishment for the Mirage Demons. If it weren’t for the recent disappearance of the sea water from the Mirage Demon Sea, exposing the seabed, these stones wouldn’t be so cheap."

Jiang Yuebai’s eyes widened. She had previously avoided them due to the smell, never expecting them to be so valuable!

Since waking up, she had turned her brother’s water pavilion upside down, finally finding over a thousand Demon Stones he had hidden away. She had already spent quite a bit outside the arena, leaving her pockets emptier than her face.

If only... if only she had scraped the bottom of the Mirage Demon Sea thoroughly!

Unfortunately, after advancing to a Primordial Demon, the Mirage Demons no longer produce Mirage Stones; even if she wanted to, she couldn’t bring them out.

Jiang Yuebai felt a pang of pain in her heart and walked with unsteady steps.

Resources in the Demon Clan were scarce, unlike the vast and abundant lands of the Human Clan. Many items were essentially self-produced and self-sold. The best items were held by the high-level demons of the major clans, mostly treasures seized by demon ancestors from outside.

Without the mood to browse further, Jiang Yuebai headed straight for the central battle arena. Upon arrival, she heard enthusiastic cheers, indicating a victor had already been decided.

She pushed her way to the front, seeing the slender Mica Gold Rock piercing the ground, forming eight dark-golden walls enclosing a large area.

The walls were inscribed with blood-colored Ancient Demon Texts, which left Jiang Yuebai momentarily stunned as she didn’t recognize the characters.

The lines were simple, crooked like worm trails, yet seemed to possess some mysterious power.

They bore a resemblance to Human Clan’s Runes and Arrays, forming barriers to prevent external interference with the internal combat.

Jiang Yuebai quickly reached into her sleeve, retrieving a small beast-skin notebook to record the Ancient Demon Texts.

Crack!

The sound of a bone-breaking snap echoed from the arena, where the Copperman-like Golden Demon, glowing with a dark-golden sheen, had pinned the Sword Demon with its four scythe arms to the ground.

The Golden Demon snapped the Sword Demon’s most solid and sharp demon horn, located on the back of its neck.

The Sword Demon screamed in agony as its body dissolved into Demonic Qi, leaving behind only a fist-sized broken orb trampled under the Golden Demon’s foot.

That orb was the Sword Demon’s Demon Heart, which the Golden Demon grabbed and tossed into its mouth.

Hehehe!

The Golden Demon, hoisting the Sword Demon’s scimitar-like demon horn, laughed triumphantly. Thunderous cheers erupted once more outside the arena.

This Golden Demon, known as Golden Power Gao, was a renowned powerhouse among the Primordial Demon Generals.

He had dozens of demon horns hanging around his waist, all belonging to Primordial Demons of various clans within the Demon Clan.

He had achieved great merits on the battlefield between the Human and Demon Clans, with a string of Human Clan Golden Core Cultivator skulls around his neck, and the skulls of two Nascent Soul Cultivators, now jade-like, serving as shoulder guards.

Golden Power Gao had just come back from the front lines to recuperate in the Demon Realm. Feeling restless, he came to the Golden Scale Slope Battle Arena for some recreation.

Busily recording the Ancient Demon Texts, Jiang Yuebai noticed a slight change as the arena barrier vanished after the battle concluded.

A group of Golden Power Gao’s fervent followers stood behind her, pushing forward excitedly to cheer for him.

Jiang Yuebai, using her small stature to squeeze to the front, angered the group behind her. They forcefully pushed her from behind, causing her to stumble across the arena’s boundary.

The Ancient Demon Texts on the Mica Gold Rock flashed briefly as they scanned over Jiang Yuebai, and she inexplicably lost her human form, transforming into the form of a small Mirage Demon Beast, sliding on her belly across the ground.

Papers and pens scattered, dust billowed.

A huge shadow loomed over Jiang Yuebai as she lifted her nose to see Golden Power Gao grinning viciously down at her, eyes gleaming with bloodlust.

"A little Mirage Demon dares to challenge me?"

Golden Power Gao snorted coldly, the demon horns around his waist clinking with authority.

"Devour her! Devour her!"

Demons outside joined in the uproar, raising their arms and shouting.

"Devour her!"

"Devour her!"

"Devour her!"

Hehehe!

Golden Power Gao cackled maliciously, reaching out to grab the back of Jiang Yuebai’s neck.