Rebirth of a Thousand Years: Entering the New Demonic World

The three forces entered the main gate guarded by two winged monster statues and left one-third of their people to guard it. These sect disciples used their respective abilities to deploy defensive magic barriers and arranged people to patrol the surrounding area.

Ying Li fixed his eyes on an altar, and the Eclipse Sword in his left hand kept flashing purple light. This resonant force told him that the real entrance was not the door.

There is a brazier in the center of the altar, with a monster statue on each side. The statue looks weathered, but you can vaguely see some red dye and flame patterns on it.

Thinking of the sea of ​​fire seen in the "Dark Vision World", Ying Li boldly guessed that the brazier on the altar was the entrance. It can be seen that this place was once guarded by a certain force, and these protective measures were set up to hide the fragments.

Regardless of whether the person doing all this is an enemy or a friend, Ying Li must go in and take back his own power.

Ying Li whispered something to Slanda and Galantina, then he activated the "Magic Sky Walk" again, transformed into a fire snake and crashed into the brazier, setting the altar on fire.

"What's the noise?"

"Look! Who lit the fire on that altar?"

By the time the Iron Blood Alliance and the Sealed God Temple forces below discovered this change, it was too late. Ying Li had already entered the interior without anyone noticing, and many broken stone elephants outside suddenly moved.

"Ah! Are these monsters alive?"

"Be on alert! Everyone prepare for battle!"

The demonic energy of these monsters of various shapes surged, and they began to attack all the sects around them. A melee was about to break out, and Ying Li, who had just entered the altar, also came to the sea of ​​fire seen in the "Dark Vision World".

"Who are you and where did you come from?"

An angry voice rang in his ears, and Ying Li discovered that it was actually a few disciples of the Iron Blood Alliance. It seemed that they had lost contact with the main force.

They actually came here by accident, and I don't know what happened to these people. Ying Li didn't have time to pay attention to these people, and opened the dark vision to explore deeper. There was nothing but fire nearby, and it was visible but not touchable. He knew it was a trick.

"Hey! My senior brother is talking to you, are you deaf?" A lizardman stepped forward and scolded Ying Li, but as he took a step forward, a ball of fire burned his trouser legs. He rolled and screamed in panic, and soon became a burning corpse.

"Damn, is this fire real? I thought it was an illusion. And this place is so damn hot!" another werewolf complained, and several people started to take off their clothes because of the heat.

After closing the dark visual world, Ying Li had already found the way out. He stepped over the corpse of the lizard man, passed by the crowd and went to the next area.

Another talented person followed Ying Li's pace. He wanted to call him but found that the temperature rose several degrees with every step he took, and sweat instantly soaked his whole body.

"Look, he's fine and he's not even sweating."

As a purple flower demon, Ying Li is of course not afraid of high temperatures and does not sweat. Although it is a plant, the purple flower demon has the ability to self-regulate body temperature, which is unique to cold-blooded animals.

The purple flower demon has no sweat glands. Metabolites such as sweat, tears, and urine will be self-purified in the body into nutrients and then absorbed. The parts that cannot be absorbed will be destroyed by the magic power itself.

This is the body of the strongest demon. Its body functions are flawless. It does not sweat and does not need to excrete. This is an ability that many races dream of.

"What? Hey! Who the hell are you?" the Minotaur shouted. Seeing Ying Li's calm look, he thought: There must be a way to break the impasse.

The next moment, the man reenacted the tragedy of being burned in flames. Ying Li stopped, turned around and said faintly: "I am the Purple Flower Demon."

"purple…"

Before everyone could be surprised, dark flames suddenly appeared from their bodies. They felt as if their bodies were falling into an ice cave, and they lost their lives the next moment.

Under the erosion of the cold Netherworld Demonic Fire, their bodies turned into dried skeletons. He had no intention of letting this man go since the moment he entered the ruins.

The flame of the Nether Flame Art will not bring high-temperature burning like normal flames, but rather a bone-chilling cold and an all-embracing devouring power. Anything that dies from the Nether Flame, no matter its external nutrition, essence, and physical strength, or its internal magic power, consciousness, and energy, will be taken away by Ying Li for himself.

"Sir... you are the supreme being of the demon world thousands of years ago? Why... do you look like us humans?"

A human who was about to turn into a withered corpse grabbed Ying Li's trouser leg and asked as he was about to die.

Ying Li kicked his hand away, without even looking at him, and said proudly:

"What a joke! I, the Purple Flower Demon, have possessed the most perfect form of nature since the beginning of creation. What do you mean by the same as humans? It sounds like my demon race imitates your human appearance."

“You! Haha…haha…I see, the Purple Flower Demon is not destroyed after all, hahaha…but don’t get too complacent, you…”

The human laughed hideously before dying, and turned into bones with hatred in his eyes.

After taking a few steps, Ying Li's body was also engulfed by the flames, but he did not panic. Instead, he calmly felt that although the surface of his body was in pain, he was not actually hurt.

Is this what psychology is all about? When you are sure that you will die, you are a corpse; when you don't take it seriously, nothing can hurt you.

This journey down into the sea of ​​fire seemed to have no end, and the flames had already partially ignited Ying Li's body. Burn spots kept appearing on his skin, and a stinging sensation kept rising into his heart, but Ying Li remained calm and not panicked, not even frowning.

He closed his eyes and repeatedly told himself that the fire was fake. Sure enough, the scorching temperature became much lower as he moved his mind. When he closed his eyes and relied only on his mental power to observe his surroundings, he found that some of the burns were gone.

At the same time, on the other side, Slanda and Galanthena disguised themselves as archaeologists and infiltrated the Iron Blood Alliance and the Temple of the Gods respectively.

Ying Li asked the two to secretly protect Miaomiao, Binghe and other Yongye archaeologists who were separated, and then find out the plans of these sects.

Slanda turned into a black shadow and drilled under Binghe's feet, merging with his own shadow; Galanthe knocked out a woman while others were not paying attention, threw her out of the ruins and hid her in a remote bush, then stripped off her outer clothes and put them on herself.

"Eh~ The button on my chest...can't be fastened!"

When Galantina finally put on the ill-fitting clothes, the people from the Temple of Conferred God had already run away. She scratched her head awkwardly and said:

"Oh? I lost him. My man won't blame me, right? Forget it, I'll just find him based on my feeling!"

Ying Li wandered in the fire for nearly an hour and found that there was a city ruin buried in the sea of ​​fire. This place seemed to be a corner of the former Abyss City, just like the Mirage Forest.

Finally, he saw a circular area without fire in a cave. In the center stood a huge red crystal, surrounded by a pile of purple crystal ore.

There were many impurities inside the huge crystal, and the most familiar one to him was the fragment of the Eclipse Sword wrapped in the center.

"really."

Ying Li was delighted and shot a beam of dark fire into the crystal. Suddenly, a dazzling light burst out from the surface of the crystal, depriving Ying Li of his vision.

"You are finally here, Your Majesty the Demon Lord."

A man in a black robe and red armor with red flames on his body emerged from the flames in front of the red crystal. In just a blink of an eye, he formed a real human body, but his essence was an illusory image.

"It's you, Yan Gang. How come you look like this after not seeing you for a thousand years?" Ying Li recognized the other person's identity through his voice and breath -

One of the nine great demon kings, the "Fire Demon King" Yan Gang, was the demon king of the elemental demon clan "Fire Demon" who perished together with the Purple Flower Demon. He was one of the nine strongest clans under the Purple Flower Demon a thousand years ago.

"Your Majesty, it was you who chose me among the countless tiny fire elements to become the King of Fire Elements, and to become the Demon King who is second to none. To repay your kindness in ascending to the devil, I have the obligation to guard the traces of your existence in the world and wait for your return here."

Yan Gang's illusory figure bent and bowed. Although he no longer had a physical body, one could see his determination to face death head-on in his flaming eyes.

Although Ying Li didn't show his expression, his fists were clenched under his sleeves. With a heavy heart, he immediately asked, "You could have taken the debris and hid in a safe place. Who made you like this? Where are the other fire demons?"

Yan Gang shook his head and laughed dryly: "Haha~ Is there any place in the world that is more comfortable than my hometown?"

It turned out that this underground ruins was actually the territory of the Fire Demon Clan. It was so dilapidated and covered by ruins that Ying Li was unable to recognize it for a while.

Yan Gang continued, "It was the sects led by the Iron Blood Alliance and the Hundred Beasts Sect that destroyed our Fire Demon Clan. However, Your Majesty, there is no need to blame yourself. Every Fire Demon who sacrificed was willing to live and die with the Nether Abyss..."

"This is ridiculous! You should have retreated and escaped to safety!"

Ying Li said angrily, his voice full of anger and regret. They actually fought for a fallen capital and a wasteland until a trace of their soul remained.

But in the eyes of Ying Li, the demon monarch who advocates benevolent rule, the most important thing is always the lives of his people. As long as the mountains are green, there will be no shortage of firewood.

"Retreat? No, no, no..." Yan Gang looked around at the remains. Scenes from the past flashed through his mind. His illusory soul began to burn, and he seemed to be disappearing.

"What's wrong with you?" Ying Li felt that the other party's breath was getting weaker and weaker. Could it be that he was constantly burning magic power to support his spiritual body until he met him?

Yan Gang did not respond directly, but said in a confident tone: "Retreat...where should we retreat to? The Netherworld is the common home of you Purple Flower Demons, us Fire Demons, and even all the demon descendants in the world. If we can't even stay at home, then where else can we go in this world?"

"I……"

Yes, the world is big, but as a demon, I am homeless. A strong sense of self-blame emerged in my heart. If I could have anticipated all this, I would have done my best in every step and changed my fate. Maybe I could have saved the demons from such a disaster.

"I'm sorry, I... am not a good demon lord. I failed to protect the demons and caused you to die in vain."

At this time, only less than half of Yan Gang's upper body was left, but he felt relieved. He had completed his mission and delivered the fragments to the Demon Lord personally.

"No, you can't avoid your fate. None of us blames you. Hmm? You are..."

Ying Li suddenly cut his wrist with a finger, and the purple arterial blood swirled into a strand of silk in the air, wrapping the shadow of Yan Gang into a purple ball and injecting a large amount of Nether Flame into it.

Yan Gang's body, which was about to dissipate, stopped burning and became the flame core in the purple ball, and the lost vitality was saved. "Why are you doing this? I can feel that your magic power, which has already lost most of its power, has been reduced even more now."

Ying Li did not deny it either. The demon general who had just quickly become a first-level immortal soldier by devouring the enemy's magic power had now dropped back to the ninth-level immortal soldier.

Just now, he used the magic skill "Blood Dish Soul Retention" which sacrificed blood and magic power to forcibly preserve the remaining soul of Yan Gang that was about to disappear in Xumi. Although he could not restore it to its original state, he could ensure that he would remain alive.

"There will be a way to repair your broken soul and create a new body in the future. The loss of magic power doesn't matter, because...aren't there supplies?"

As he spoke, Ying Li urged the Nether Flame to wrap the fragment and the Eclipse Sword together. All his magic power transformed into a pillar of light that shot up into the sky, covering his entire body. In this world with only light, Ying Li witnessed the process of the fragment and the broken sword merging together.

The fragments burst into an endless sea of ​​dark flames, which then poured into a column of light and entered Ying Li's body. These were his original magic power, which flowed into his heart along the eight extraordinary meridians. Scenes of fire raining all over the sky emerged in his mind, as tragic as the arrival of a disaster. Everything on the earth turned to ashes in an instant, and purple flames filled the entire world.

In the center of the blazing flames, the one who brought down the rain of fire appeared. It was a magic sword that exuded a fierce aura, was exquisitely carved, but gave people an infinite sense of oppression. It was the "Erosion Sword".

"The second move of the Netherworld Sword Technique: Sky Embers!"

Using the sword to bring about natural disasters, it brought down a rain of fire transformed from the myriad sword energies in the world, destroying the heavens and the earth, and ravaging the mortal world.

"Sky Embers" represents the power to burn everything. The fragmentation of the Eclipse Sword also brought seven different new powers to all parts of the world. These seven powers are based on the Nether Flame but contain powers other than the Nether Flame.

The sea of ​​fire here is a formation set up by Yan Gang with the help of the power of "Sky Embers", simulating the desperate scene of blazing flames burning the sky to deter the invading enemies or trap them in their inner demons. Only the owner of the sword can pass it smoothly.

"We should leave now. Thanks to your protection, this power has been preserved intact. The sacrifice of the Fire Demon will not be in vain."

After completing the assembly of the fragments, Ying Li regained some strength. Now his cultivation had made an unprecedented leap forward, and he had directly reached the fifth level of Demon General, without any signs of instability in his realm. After all, this was his own strength, and it was also Ying Li's shortcut to cultivation.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty. May I ask what your plans are? The outside world is no longer a demon world that we can control. There are dangers everywhere."

"Of course we are developing our power step by step. You can just stay in this blood dish and recuperate."

Ying Li told Yan Gang about the situation of the Ghost Alliance and Galantina. Yan Gang was also deeply angry when he heard about the plight of his compatriots and claimed that these foreign enemies must pay the price.