Cultivation of Immortality: Refining the Innate Spiritual Treasure at the beginning

Xu Hongsheng was slightly stunned after hearing Li Yang's question, and then fell into deep thought. After a while, he slowly spoke.

"Returning to the seniors, when I was young, I heard my ancestors say that the Demon-Suppressing Mountain a long time ago was not surrounded by demonic energy as it is today. Although the Demon-Suppressing Mountain at that time also had demonic aura, it was far less dense than it is now. It's the sky. The demonic energy from the demon tribe continues to spread here, which causes the demonic aura in Zhenmo Mountain to become increasingly dense."

Li Yang nodded after hearing this, thinking to himself. According to Xu Hongsheng, this demonic energy has been increasing, and its current concentration has begun to have an impact on the lives of cultivators. If it continues to increase in the future, Demon Suppression Mountain may become uninhabitable.

Not only that, flying all the way from the Demon Subduing City, many places have been eroded by demonic energy, and ordinary human cultivators can no longer survive here directly. Even in the Demon Subduing City, there are not many cultivators.

"Do you know how we humans resisted the Heavenly Demon Clan before we used the Demon-Suppressing Mountain to stop them?" Li Yang continued to ask with a frown.

"According to the few words passed down by our ancestors, there is a higher mountain 150 kilometers south of the Demon-Suppressing Mountain. That is where the human race used to resist the Heavenly Demon Clan. However, the demonic energy was becoming increasingly dense at that time, and the human race had to abandon that place." When Xu Hongsheng said this, his face suddenly changed, as if he had thought of something.

"Senior, this is the conspiracy of the Demon Clan. They are trying to slowly erode our territory with their demonic energy, forcing us humans to continuously retreat and gradually give up large tracts of territory!"

Li Yang was shocked when he heard Xu Hongsheng's words. He just felt that the demonic energy was strange, but he didn't think it was a conspiracy of the demon clan.

But when Xu Hongsheng pointed out the key points sharply, many of the previous doubts were instantly cleared up.

It is said that the Sky Demon Clan is not very intelligent, but they are able to invade the human territory silently. This conspiracy is not something that ordinary practitioners can plan.

Li Yang frowned, thinking secretly about how to deal with it.

The demonic energy in the Demon-Suppressing Mountain is gradually increasing. If he wants to contain it, he only needs to build a few more purification formations.

But this only treats the symptoms rather than the root cause. A large area around the Demonic Mountain is in danger of being eroded by demonic energy. If it is not resolved, there will only be a lonely Demonic Mountain left, which will have no effect at all.

If you want to solve this problem completely, you must eliminate the source of the evil energy.

However, the demonic energy was transformed from the spiritual energy by the Sky Demons. The spiritual energy could not solve the problem, but the Sky Demons could not be easily killed.

It is said that on the other side of the territory of the Demon Clan is the territory of the Winged Human Race. There is still a little relationship between them, and the Human Race is not willing to go to war for the Demon Clan.

"Do you know how many cultivators there are in the Heavenly Demon Clan and how strong they are?" Li Yang asked with a frown.

"Senior, you can ask Manager Zhong about this matter. He may know something about it!" Xu Hongsheng said.

He is merely a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage and has no qualifications to know many things.

"Well, you go back first! Don't tell anyone about what you just said. If you practice hard, Demon Suppression Mountain may become unstable!" Li Yang waved his hand, signaling Xu Hongsheng to leave.

Upon hearing this, Xu Hongsheng bowed respectfully and then withdrew. Li Yang sat in the hall and continued to think about countermeasures.

Not long after, Huo Qier came back, and her face didn't look very good either.

"What, something went wrong again?" Li Yang asked with a frown.

"Although Manager Zhong has ordered the patrol personnel to be more vigilant, the practitioners below and Manager Zhong lack sufficient confidence in fighting against the Heavenly Demon Clan. I heard that when we fought against the practitioners of the Heavenly Demon Clan in the past, the casualties on our side were quite heavy." Huo Qier said solemnly.

"This battle must be fought, otherwise, we may have to give up Demon-Suppressing Mountain in the near future!" After Li Yang finished speaking, he repeated to Huo Qier the conclusion he had drawn from his conversation with Xu Hongsheng just now.

"Is there such a thing? I will call Manager Zhong to ask him immediately." Huo Qier said, and took out the communication jade slip.

After a while, an old man with white hair and beard walked into the hall.

"Meet the two seniors!"

Although Manager Zhong had never met Li Yang, he did not look down on Li Yang when he saw Huo Qier and Li Yang sitting side by side.

"Guanshi Zhong, let me ask you, have we had any large-scale battles with the Demon Clan before we suppressed the Demon Mountain?" Li Yang asked.

"Every one or two hundred years, there will be a large-scale battle. Every time, our human race can defeat the demon clan, but we will also suffer some losses." Director Zhong said.

"Where were the demons that day? What were their casualties?" Huo Qier asked.

"Before our human race reaches the stage of transcending tribulation, we will be restrained by the demonic energy and will not be able to use it with all our strength. Therefore, the number of demons that can be killed is very small."

"Are there many small-scale conflicts?" Li Yang continued to ask.

"There are quite a lot of them, but fortunately, no one is killed in normal times. The demons only destroy some formations and then leave!" Manager Zhong explained.

"Have you ever inquired about the situation where the Demon Clan borders other races? Is it similar to ours?"

Hearing Li Yang's question, Manager Zhong's face changed slightly, "The direction bordering the Sky Demon Clan and the Winged People Clan is peaceful, and the directions bordering several other small tribes are slowly expanding outwards. One race was even destroyed by the Sky Demon Clan."

"Haha, they dare not provoke the Winged People, but they keep encroaching on our human territory. Are they bullying us because we have no strong men?" Li Yang sneered when he heard this. "Do you know how many people there are in the Sky Demon Clan and how strong they are?"

"Senior, the territory of the Sky Demon Clan is filled with demonic energy, and we cannot enter to investigate. However, the Sky Demon Clan is a peculiar race. They have almost no physical bodies, which makes their reproduction completely dependent on splitting, that is, one member of the tribe directly splits into two."

Manager Zhong continued to explain: "When encountering a strong enemy, some of the cultivators of the Demon Clan can fuse together and forcibly improve their cultivation level. Although the strongest cultivator of their Celestial Demon Clan is only at the eighth level, they can work together to kill Having killed a ninth-level cultivator should not be underestimated!"

Li Yang was stunned when he heard this. He had never heard of such a race. However, the more unique this demon race was, the more he wanted to destroy them.

"Manager Zhong, I believe you all know that at the current rate at which demonic energy is increasing, Demon Suppression Mountain will not be able to hold out for much longer. You don't want to fight against the Sky Demon Clan, so what do you want? Things have to be resolved eventually!" Li Yang stared at Manager Zhong and asked seriously.

He didn't believe that the high-level officials of Demon Suppressing Mountain would not know about the conspiracy that Xu Hongsheng, a Nascent Soul cultivator, could guess.