Chapter 381: Realm Battlefield, Yingzhao Demon Fiend

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Outside the Spiritual Boat, the light of the Defense Array flickered wildly.

It flared and dimmed, showing faint signs of shattering.

The Spiritual Boat was thrown backward, and the many Demon Fiends inside felt the world spin around them.

Xu Chang’an and Chu Xianyi said nothing, but with a tacit understanding, they pressed against each other for support.

Fortunately, the Demon Fiends present were all at least in the Late Stage of the Refining Void Realm. After the initial, brief chaos, no further disturbances occurred.

In the end, the Spiritual Boat’s Defense Array didn’t shatter, successfully blocking the aftershocks of the Primordial Spirit’s self-destruction.

Evidently, this was because Yu Chen had intervened!

Otherwise, although the Defense Array of the Demon Palace’s Spiritual Boat was good, it wouldn’t have been enough to withstand the aftershocks.

When everything calmed down, the surrounding area was a scene of utter devastation.

The palaces within the Demon Army encampment were protected by their own Arrays, so they were largely unharmed.

However, many of the surrounding Spiritual Boats had suffered a terrible fate.

Wreckage was strewn everywhere!

Demons had fallen, and Spiritual Treasures were shattered.

An extremely thick, metallic stench of blood hung in the air, refusing to dissipate.

“Thank goodness there was a Demon General stationed at the Demon Army encampment. Otherwise, we would have been in real trouble!”

Inside the Spiritual Boat, the One-Horned Elder had a look of lingering fear.

A Human Race Great Cultivator, only a single step away from becoming a Great Power Cultivator.

He was even a cut above your average Qinyuan Level Demon Fiend!

The power unleashed by such a powerful Cultivator self-destructing their Primordial Spirit was simply terrifying!

Fortunately…

The Celestial Stone Demon General of the Kunpeng Demon Army was here!

A Demon General of the Demon Army, with combat strength comparable to a Fei Lian Level Demon Fiend.

This was a true Great Power of the Demon Race!

As more and more troops from the Kunpeng Demon Army appeared, the work of sweeping the battlefield proceeded smoothly!

A Province-level Demon Army encampment would naturally have more than one Demon General!

However, these Demon Generals were each busy with their own affairs.

The incident with the Human Race Great Cultivator had erupted too suddenly, and the only one who had managed to rush over was the Celestial Stone Demon General.

Now, as the Demon Army gathered, the chaotic scene gradually calmed down.

However, due to the infiltration by a Human Race Great Cultivator, the Demon Army’s inspections became much more thorough.

A squad from the Demon Army boarded the Spiritual Boat, holding a special Spiritual Treasure to conduct an inspection.

Fortunately, the One-Horned Elder, being a demon from the Demon Palace, stepped forward to handle the situation, and the inspection went very smoothly.

However, Xu Chang’an keenly noticed that after one of the Demon Army soldiers finished inspecting him, a flicker of surprise appeared in the soldier’s eyes.

Outside the Spiritual Boat.

“Stones, what was that just now?”

“It’s nothing. I just detected a Demon Fiend hiding his cultivation. He’s clearly in the Unity Realm but was disguised as being in the Late Stage of Void Refining!”

Hearing this, a round-faced man with a grizzled complexion suddenly grew tense.

“Is there anything suspicious?”

“Not at all. He’s definitely one of the Demon Race, no doubt about it! It’s pretty normal to hide one’s cultivation when you’re out and about!”

“Mm, that’s good then. Let’s go check over there!”

“Sigh, what bad luck. After what happened today, things won’t be as easy for us brothers as they were before!”

“Nothing to be done about it! What’s coming is coming!”

“The Realm Battlefield…”

As they communicated using their Demon Sense, the few Demon Army soldiers flew toward another Spiritual Boat nearby.

After the Kunpeng Demon Army finished their inspection, the Demon Palace’s Spiritual Boat was cleared for departure.

The Spiritual Boat moved off slowly.

Along the way, they saw squad after squad of solemn-faced Kunpeng Demon Army troops sweeping the battlefield and patrolling the area.

A Human Race Cultivator infiltrating a Demon Army encampment was a major incident!

Especially at a critical time like this.

The Realm Battlefield!

As the Spiritual Boat flew out of the enormous canyon, Xu Chang’an could clearly feel the atmosphere inside become a little more cheerful.

Evidently, the recent incident had placed considerable pressure on all the Demon Fiends present.

Especially while they were inside the Demon Army encampment!

“The Realm Battlefield is about to open again!”

“It opens once every one hundred twenty-nine thousand, six hundred years. It’s almost that time again!”

“There’s still over seven thousand years to go, but time really flies!”

“Yeah!”

Inside the Spiritual Boat, some of the Demon Fiends were chatting among themselves.

Xu Chang’an’s interest was piqued when he heard this.

He had come across some information about the Realm Battlefield while reading a Cultivation Observations Jade Scroll back in Kongchen Demon City.

The Realm Battlefield opened once every one hundred twenty-nine thousand, six hundred years.

Each time, it lasted for a thousand years.

Primordial, Taiheng, True Spirit, and Di Jun.

A place where these four Great Realms waged war on one another.

It was a true meat grinder, a mountain of corpses in a sea of blood.

Any member of the Demon Race who had entered the Divinity Transformation Realm could participate in the Realm Battlefield.

However, within the Realm Battlefield, a Divinity Transformation Demon Race member could only serve as the most common of soldiers.

Those in the Refining Void Realm could serve as squad leaders.

Those in the Unity Realm could command a thousand Demon Army soldiers.

Of course, this was for the most ordinary armies.

As for higher-standard armies, one had to be at least in the Refining Void Realm to even join.

There were also elite squads whose members were all, at a minimum, in the Unity Realm.

Their combat strength surpassed even that of the Kunpeng Demon Army!

The Four Directions Realm, along with numerous Affiliated Worlds and countless ordinary worlds, threw untold billions of living beings into the frenzied slaughter of the Realm Battlefield.

Fortunately, the duration of each Realm Battlefield wasn’t particularly long.

The resources invested by the great realms weren’t especially high either, and the overall situation remained within controllable limits.

According to the Great Power of the Demon Race who wrote the Cultivation Observations, the Realm Battlefield was very likely a method for the great realms to mutually control their populations.

“The Human Race has three great realms, while our Demon Race only has one. On the Realm Battlefield, wouldn’t our Demon Race be at an absolute disadvantage!?”

Inside the Spiritual Boat, a young Demon Fiend asked curiously.

He hadn’t been cultivating for a particularly long time and didn’t know much.

“That’s a misconception! Although our Demon Race has only one great realm while the Human Race has three, those three human realms are constantly at odds with one another, full of friction and constraints. They don’t truly work together in unison! On the Realm Battlefield, our Demon Race won’t necessarily be at a disadvantage.”