Chapter 569 - 464: Breakthrough Beyond the Transformation Realm

One-tailed, Ah Xiong, and the Squirrel Demon were completely unaware of the situation in Celestial Wolf City. They had no channels to receive information from the Outer Realm. Therefore, despite having killed dozens of powerful members of the Celestial Wolf Race, they had no idea what plans Celestial Wolf City was currently making for the mining area.

However, to Celestial Wolf City, the situation at the mining area was like catching a fish in a barrel. After all, they had long since begun to investigate the traces around the area, trying to determine which members of the Demon Race had suddenly hijacked it.

That’s right. When Jiang Qiu and his group killed the hundreds, or even thousands, of Celestial Wolf Race members originally guarding the mining area, those in Celestial Wolf City had already received the news. They dispatched numerous members of the Demon Race to surround the site, and now, countless demons from the Celestial Wolf Race were stationed outside.

However, they did not attack immediately. The first reason, naturally, was that the power displayed by Jiang Qiu’s group was simply too terrifying. After all, who could so easily annihilate that many members of the Celestial Wolf Race?

Even an Ancestor couldn’t have killed so many members of the Celestial Wolf Race so easily—and without a single distress message getting out. It was simply too absurd.

One of the Celestial Wolf Race’s Transformation Realm Great Demons decided to first investigate and determine exactly what was causing trouble in the mining area. The investigation lasted a month, but he found no evidence that Great Demons from any other Demon Race cities were involved.

It appeared that Jiang Qiu’s group had no contact with the Outer Realm whatsoever. Furthermore, their numbers seemed extremely small. Only two of them, One-tailed and Ah Xiong, were seen wandering outside. Crucially, Ah Xiong later disappeared—presumably to go into Cultivation—and his place was taken by the Squirrel Demon, one of the former miners.

This change didn’t signify much, but it did confirm one thing: the ones who had annihilated the hundreds, even thousands, of demons in the mining area numbered only a handful of individuals!

Yes, the Celestial Wolf Race’s Transformation Realm Great Demon could only confirm that the mining area hadn’t been overrun by a large army. It was just a handful of demons who had slaughtered all of his kinsmen.

The crucial point was that their power was simply too bizarre. If it wasn’t Great Demons from other Demon Race cities trying to provoke them, he truly couldn’t imagine who else could possess such strength.

’It couldn’t possibly be the Chaos Main City from the Primitive Ancient Forest,’ he thought. ’Although they have the ability, there’s simply no reason for them to do this. The Chaos Main City has innumerable treasures of its own; why would they ever care about Celestial Wolf City?’

It was precisely because of this thought that the Transformation Realm Great Demon dared to send a Great Demon from above the Spirit Control Realm to lead a team and probe Jiang Qiu’s group. The plan was simple: if they resisted, the array would be used to annihilate them immediately. If they didn’t resist, their identities and origins would be questioned. And if their background proved to be unimpressive, they would be killed on the spot.

But even now, he had yet to receive any word from that team of Celestial Wolf Race Great Demons. ’What is going on? With the array’s power, they should be able to kill even a Transformation Realm Ancestor. Even if the enemy is approaching the level beyond the Transformation Realm, it shouldn’t be this difficult to deal with them... No, it’s possible. They’re just stalling for time.’

To this moment, he still believed the enemy was just exceptionally good at stalling. After all, the array laid out in the mining area was not the type to kill instantly. If an opponent’s Realm was incredibly high and they also possessed astonishing defensive abilities, they could indeed drag things out for a very long time. But they would undoubtedly be severely wounded in the process.

Indeed, the array at the mining area was of a very high level. One could say that within all of Celestial Wolf City, apart from the Old City Lord—the Celestial Wolf Ancestor himself—no one could walk through it with ease.

Against such overwhelming power, it was truly impossible for anyone to survive within the array. Only a being above the Transformation Realm could.

’But if they truly were at such a Realm,’ he wondered, ’why would they come here to seize a mining area from the Celestial Wolf Race? What would be the point?’

This Transformation Realm Great Demon naturally couldn’t make sense of it all. He silently closed his eyes to meditate, while simultaneously ordering his subordinate demons to investigate the situation. If activating the array proved too troublesome, they were to assist in the attack!

In reality, to reclaim the mining area this time, he had dispatched a large number of experts. They were practically the most powerful group from his own branch of the clan. Losing those few Great Dominators would be a crippling blow!

While the overall strength of the Celestial Wolf Race in Celestial Wolf City was formidable, and the loss of a few experts might seem trivial, he was from only one branch of the clan. Even if his branch had many experts, it wasn’t an inexhaustible supply. Now the mining area he was responsible for had been seized. If the other Transformation Realm Great Demons were to hold him accountable, he would be finished!

The mining area was the clan’s property. All the major branches had dispatched their own experts to guard it, and he was the one in charge. And the result? Everyone was dead. Now, the intruders had even occupied the entire area.

If he didn’t take back the mining area soon, the consequences would be dire!

The only saving grace was that the kills had been so clean that no news had gotten out. If the Transformation Realm Great Demons from the other branches—or worse, the Ancestor—found out that so many of their kinsmen had died, it would truly be over for him!

His priority now was to mitigate the damage as much as possible. He couldn’t afford a situation where, after losing so many kinsmen at the mining area, he also failed to capture the enemy!

But, unfortunately, after some more time had passed, the member of the Celestial Wolf Race who had been sent to investigate returned. His face was a mask of terror, as if he had witnessed some great horror. "My lord, the mining area... it’s been washed in blood again! The dozens of experts we sent out... they’ve all been killed!"