Chapter 56: Desolation(1/2)
Killing Demon Lord Wu, this is a name that resounds throughout the Burning Moon Domain and once dominated the realms of kings.
He is one of the most powerful Demon Lords in the Jianluo lineage. Even if the scope is expanded to the entire Burning Moon Domain, he can still be ranked in the top ten.
Jianluo King City.
Ying Zun Mansion.
Demon Slayer Wu put his hands behind his back and looked solemnly at a scroll hanging on the wall, not knowing what he was thinking about.
Above the scroll is a world of nothingness, and in the center of the world is a mass of twisted flesh and blood.
The Wu-Slaying Demon Lord looked very focused.
His appearance looks majestic and majestic, without any ferocious appearance of a demon.
This is because the higher the cultivation level of the warrior demon clan, the closer their appearance is to that of the human race.
By the time they reach the ninth level, they are no longer much different from the human race.
Not only they are like this, but most of the demons in the abyss are like this.
When it is of low quality, there are all kinds of gods, demons and monsters, all with strange shapes, like evil spirits.
But when you reach the high-level realm, you will more or less have a humanoid appearance.
Even the demon clan is like this. Once their cultivation reaches a high level, they will turn into human form.
It seems that the human form coincides with some law of heaven.
Finally, Demon Slayer Wu's eyes changed slightly.
Behind him, at some point, a middle-aged man wearing bright red armor and looking no more than thirty years old appeared.
Appeared silently.
He has been standing behind Wu-Slaying Demon Lord for a long time, but he has not dared to disturb him.
The middle-aged man is the eldest son of Demon Slayer Wu, named Ying Lie.
Demon Slayer Wu did not turn around and said calmly: "What do you want from me?"
"I heard that my father has found a son-in-law for Mingyue?" After hearing Demon Lord Wu's question, Ying Lie asked respectfully.
Demon Slayer Wu turned around, his expression didn't change much, but he was calm and intimidating, which made Ying Lie feel a deep sense of oppression.
"The information is quite good." Demon Killer Wu said calmly without any trouble.
As the eldest son of Demon Slayer Wu, Ying Lie is now close to the ninth level, but even so, facing Demon Slayer Wu, he still has instinctive awe and does not dare to be the least bit presumptuous.
He half lowered his head, hiding the expression on his face in the shadows, and said slowly: "Father, are you still planning to use the Blood God's sand veins as Mingyue's dowry?"
"What," Demon Slayer Wu's eyes were like a falcon, and he asked an extremely plain question, "No?"
"It's not impossible, it's just..." Forced by Demon Lord Wu's momentum, Ying Lie lowered his head lower.
But after hesitating for a moment, he still gritted his teeth and said: "The blood god sand mine, even our Ying family, only has one. Is it necessary to give such a precious thing to others as Mingyue's dowry?"
"I know that you love Mingyue, father, but with Mingyue's status, even without this dowry, there will be too many people in the royal city who want to marry her."
"Besides, even if you want to prepare a dowry for Mingyue, why would you give away the only Blood God sand vein?
A married daughter is just like spilled water. I think the Purple Gold Mine is of sufficient standard. Although it is not as good as the Blood God Sand Mine, it is still valuable."
"Are you teaching me how to do things?" Demon Lord Wu slew his hand and said impatiently, "I'm making a decision, and it's not your turn to give me your opinion."
He said coldly: "I'm not dead yet."
Ying Lie's face changed drastically, and he quickly said in fear: "Father, that's not what I meant..."
"I still don't understand your little thoughts?" Demon Lord Wu said coldly: "I don't care what you think, since I have made a decision, I will not change it easily.
If you interfere in this matter again, or interfere with it, and make trouble for Mingyue, then don’t blame me for being rude."
After saying these words, Demon Slayer Wu's eyebrows stood up, and his whole body exuded a frightening power.
It was because he knew these people had bad intentions towards Ying Mingyue that he spared no expense and exchanged the blood god sand veins for a worry-free life for Ying Mingyue.
Ying Mingyue is his reverse scale.
Now, Ying Lie may have touched his bottom line, which suddenly made him become cold and stern.
"Father, calm down... Don't worry, dad, I have no intention of disobeying father. Mingyue is also my sister, so why would I cause trouble for Mingyue?" Ying Lie explained nervously.
"It counts?" Demon Slayer Wu's eyes turned cold, "What do you mean it counts? She is one!"
An invisible power centered on the body of Demon Lord Wu, spread out, and directly pressed towards Ying Lie, suffocating him and even causing him to kneel down on his knees.
Ying Lie looked painful and said: "Father, I made a mistake...I promise that I will take good care of others and protect Mingyue..."
The next moment, Ying Lie felt that the mountain-like power on his body suddenly relaxed.
"It's best this way," Demon Slayer Wu's anger was still lingering. He turned around and ignored Ying Lie, "Back off."
"Yes." Ying Lie stood up with difficulty, bowed respectfully, and then stepped back cautiously.
It wasn't until he was far away from the Demon Lord's Mansion and confirmed that he was no longer within the range of the Demon Lord Wuslayer's perception that Ying Lie stopped.
He raised his head and looked at the Demon Lord's Mansion. All the respect in his face had long since turned into sullenness, ferocity, anger and unwillingness.
"Old man, you are so cruel even though you are already dead," said Ying Lie, his eyes full of madness, "Fortunately, God has the eye to take your life..."
At the same time, in the Demon Lord's mansion.
"Cough...cough..." Demon Lord Wu Slayer suddenly coughed violently and spat out a mouthful of dark golden blood.
He panted slightly, "I just moved my Qi a little bit, and it turned out... this injury is really getting more and more serious."
Looking at the scroll on the wall again, Demon Slayer Wu sighed, with a flash of worry in his eyes, and murmured: "Although once the world falls into decline, the emergence of 'famine' is inevitable.
But who would have thought that the ‘Desolate’ in the Burning Moon Domain would actually appear in the Jianluo King City...
According to the rate of spread of ‘Desolation’, the day of the decisive battle with the human race is imminent.”
"It's a pity that I underestimated the power of 'Huang', and ended up like this." Demon Slayer Wu thought of something, and his face turned a little whiter. "It's because I didn't have the opportunity to witness our demon clan take over the human realm."
His reputation is resounding throughout the world, and his combat prowess is extraordinary. If it weren't for special circumstances, who could inflict serious injuries on him that are difficult to heal, leaving him waiting for his death?
Everything stems from this 'famine'.
The so-called "desolation" is something that will inevitably appear before a world falls into decline and extinction.
It is a harbinger and symbol of the destruction of the world, a monster born of the world's death.
It has three extremely terrifying properties.
One is phagocytosis.
‘Desolation’ is like a black hole. It will not directly attack life, but it will swallow up all the energy within its envelope, forming a realm of nothingness - the wilderness.
Once there is no energy, even the Demon Lord cannot survive for long.
Just like without air, everyone will die.
At most, the difference is that some people die quickly and some people die slowly.
The second is randomness.
The location, timing and quantity of its appearance are all random and cannot be traced.
The third and most terrifying point is that it is diffuse.
When 'Desolation' first appears, it will only occupy a very small area, and then under constant devouring, the Desolation Area will gradually expand until it covers the entire world, turning the world into nothingness and chaos again.
Finally, after an unknown number of thousands of years, everything reincarnates, the wilderness disperses, energy is restored, and life reappears.
…
‘Huang’ actually appeared in Jianluo King City.
I don't know whether to count them bad luck or good luck.
Because the rate of spread of ‘famine’ is synchronized with the rate of decline of the world.
It was not fast at first, it was a slow process.
But once it crosses a certain critical point, it will rush forward at an unimaginable speed.
Just like a snowball, once it takes hold, it will roll faster and bigger.
But if discovered in time, it might be possible to inhibit its formation, or at least slow down its spread.
If 'Desolation' appears in some desolate place, it may have spread to the point of being irreversible before they discover it.
But its birth location happened to be in King Jianluo City.
Therefore, they had already discovered it just after it appeared.
Although they knew about the existence of Huang, it was their first time to see and come into contact with this thing.
Therefore, even if it is said in the classics, there is no way to eliminate famine except to solve the problem of world decline.
At that time, the first reaction of the senior officials of the Jianluo lineage was still to try to eliminate 'Huang'.
They sent many seventh-level demon cultivators and eighth-level demon cultivators into the wilderness, wanting to destroy it.
The result is that the wilderness is like a huge gluttonous mouth, one eats one after another, but no one can come out of it.
In this case, Demon Slayer Wu decided to go in person to explore the situation.
One is because people with high skills are bold and have full confidence in their own abilities.
The second reason is that ‘famine’ is still in its infancy.
He believed that in this situation, even if he couldn't eliminate 'Huang', there was absolutely no problem in saving his life.
To be continued...