Journey to the West: Demon Emperor: Beginning as a Little Toad

Chapter 264 Shen Gongbao

Uttarakuru is naturally in the northernmost part, and it echoes the Dongshengshenzhou in the east, the Nanzhanbuzhou in the south, and the Xiniuhezhou in the west.

These four continents are surrounded by the vast four seas of the east, south, west and north.

Xiao Chen turned into a ray of golden light and crossed the sky at an astonishing speed, rushing straight towards the northwest direction of Dongsheng Shenzhou.

As Xiao Chen flew, the scenery around him gradually changed. At first, he could still see the green and vibrant scenery of Dongsheng Shenzhou, but gradually, all of this was replaced by a vast ocean of ice and snow.

Beihai has arrived.

The East China Sea is famous for its vastness and vitality.

The scenery of the North Sea is completely different from that of the East Sea. It is a land of silence and coldness.
The sea breeze is as sharp as a knife, biting and piercing, as if it blows from the depths of a glacier, mercilessly brushing across every inch of skin.

The water surface was sparkling with a cold blue color, like a huge ice mirror.

On the sea, huge icebergs float on the sea. Some of them are as tall as peaks, reaching into the sky; some are low and continuous, stretching endlessly, decorating the entire North Sea like a huge ice and snow maze.

"North Sea……"

Xiao Chen stood on the clouds and looked at the North Sea.

The environment here is similar to the Arctic Ocean he knew in his previous life, but it is also completely different.

There are no cute polar bears in the Arctic Ocean, no leisurely swimming seals, and no dull walruses...

The creatures in the North Sea are also very different from those in the other three continents.

They are a series of ice creatures that only exist in myths and legends.

Cold dragons swam in the depths of the North Sea, occasionally emerging from the water. Their bodies were winding and covered with crystal clear scales. The scales sparkled with ice-blue light, leaving gorgeous ice-blue tracks in the sea water.

A group of ice carps are tumbling happily in the water. Their scales seem to be inlaid with countless tiny ice crystals, shining with a soft and charming luster.

"Chirp, chirp, chirp..."

In the sky over the North Sea, flocks of white birds are circling leisurely. They are flying lightly, and their falling feathers are like snowflakes floating in the sky, adding a touch of dreaminess and softness to this quiet sea area.

The birds' singing is clear and melodious, like the sound of nature, touching the heart, adding a touch of joy and peace to the tranquility of the North Sea.

However, beneath this peaceful North Sea, there are endless dangers and challenges hidden.

"Roar!"

A deafening roar suddenly broke the tranquility of the North Sea.

Along with this earth-shaking roar, a gigantic ice dragon rose into the air. Its body emanated a biting coldness, making the surrounding air seem to solidify.

The ice dragon's eyes were as sharp as swords, and every time it tumbled, the surrounding icebergs shook and roared, as if it was going to overturn the entire North Sea.

The ice dragon sometimes soared into the sky, and its long roar shook the entire North Sea, causing the surrounding icebergs to shatter and collapse.

When the ice dragon saw Xiao Chen in the sky, a trace of greed and bloodthirstiness flashed in its sharp eyes.

The ice dragon circled over and first breathed out a stream of freezing cold air towards Xiao Chen, then opened its bloody mouth and tried to swallow Xiao Chen in one gulp.

"Out of control."

Facing the surging threat from the ice dragon, Xiao Chen curled his lips into a sneer, with a cold look flashing in his eyes.

He also retaliated by opening his mouth and spitting out a mouthful of scorching sun fire, which sprayed straight towards the ice dragon.

The true fire of the sun was extremely powerful and instantly burned away the cold air spewed out by the ice dragon.

The fire had not yet touched the ice dragon, but it had quickly spread along the cold trajectory to the entire body of the ice dragon, as if tracking every tiny flow of cold air like a spirit.

This poor ice dragon didn't even have time to utter a scream before it was completely engulfed by the sun's true fire and turned into a rolling and struggling "fire dragon".

The air was suddenly filled with the enticing aroma of barbecue, which was the smell of the Ice Dragon's flesh being roasted by the true fire of the sun.

"It's already ripe, so we can't waste it."

Xiao Chen opened his toad mouth wide and swallowed the fire dragon whole. He patted his bloated belly, burped with satisfaction, and secretly admired in his heart:
"It's delicious."

This scene terrified the surrounding birds. They spread their wings and flew away in all directions, fearing that they would become the next target of this horrific flame.

For a moment, the entire North Sea fell into deathly silence. Turtles, tortoises, and crocodiles all retracted their necks and dared not come out. Fish, shrimps, and crabs also all hid their heads and tails for fear of being affected by this terrifying force.

As the saying goes: "A thief never leaves empty-handed, but a passing goose plucks its feathers."

Since King Golden Horn has come to the North Sea, he cannot come empty-hearted or empty-handed. He must take some local specialties with him, otherwise his trip would have been in vain.

"Cold Dragon..."

Xiao Chen’s eyesight is now very good. He can penetrate the clouds at a glance and lock onto the creatures in the North Sea.

Cold dragon, he was no stranger to this kind of creature.

The immortal Yangli raised a cold dragon, which could quickly lower the temperature around it, making the oil in the pan become ice-cold.

The power of Leng Long is just average and useless.

"Ice carp..."

"The King of Inspiration..."

Think of the monster called the King of Inspiration.

Xiao Chen used the "water control technique" of the Fu Hai Pearl to catch a large group of ice carp and put them in the "small world in the belly" to raise them.

Then he took advantage of the situation and swallowed up thousands of miles of water from the North Sea to raise fish.

This King of Inspiration is an ice goldfish that has transformed into a spirit. He is able to freeze the 800-mile Tongtian River and has extraordinary power.

The King of Inspiration could even fight with Sha Seng and Zhu Bajie for two hours without a clear winner. Even when facing Sun Wukong, he could escape after a few rounds.

Goldfish belong to the Cyprinidae family of the Cypriniformes order, so this King of Inspiration can barely be considered a descendant of the Ice Carp.

From this we can see that the potential of the ice carp is actually not small.

Although he, King Jinjiao, is a water creature, he has never had any powerful navy under his command. If he trains these ice carps and has them serve as his water demon soldiers, it will be more than enough.

Thinking of this, he immediately began to catch ice carp in large numbers.

The North Sea was suddenly in turmoil, and he swallowed many ice carps into his stomach, storing them in his "small world in his stomach".

Just when Xiao Chen was catching a lot of ice carp.

The waters of the North Sea suddenly began to churn, and out of it leaped a hideous-looking patrolling Yaksha. This Yaksha had a face as blue as indigo, hair as red as cinnabar, a huge mouth with fangs, and two large axes in his hands. He shouted angrily:
"Who are you, monster? How dare you devour the creatures of the North Sea?"

Xiao Chen had a good relationship with the dragon clan, so he didn't care about the patrolling sea Yaksha.

However, this patrolling sea yaksha obviously did not know the depth of the water. It parted the waves, wielded an axe, and chopped straight at Xiao Chen.

Why would Xiao Chen bother with this little minions of the dragon clan?
His scorching eyes instantly pierced through the axe of the patrolling sea yaksha and forced it back.

The axe seemed to have encountered an invisible obstacle under Xiao Chen's gaze, and it broke into two pieces in an instant. The patrolling sea yaksha was so frightened that he could not retreat or advance, and stood there holding the two broken axe handles.

Xiao Chen collected thousands of ice carps and was very satisfied.

He turned into a golden light and flew away, leaving the patrolling sea yaksha trembling in fear.

"Fellow Taoist, please stay!"

Just when Xiao Chen was about to disappear into the sky, a voice trying to keep him suddenly sounded where he was staying.

However, Xiao Chen's speed was too fast and the sound could not stop him.

The bottom of the North Sea.

somewhere.

An old Taoist priest with a white face, long beard, and a sage-like appearance was pinching his beard, muttering to himself, and sighing:
"This North Sea has always been sparsely populated. I wonder which Taoist fellow has shown his magical powers here."

"Why doesn't he listen to me and talk to me?"

"Hey……"

"What a pity."

……

"Just now...someone seemed to call me?"

At this moment, Xiao Chen felt a little confused.

He had a vague feeling that someone seemed to call him just now, but when he looked back, he saw only the empty sea with no one there.

Xiao Chen thought about it and realized that he didn't have anyone he knew in Beihai, so he shook his head, thinking it was his illusion and ignored it.

Xiao Chen rode the golden light, crossed the North Sea, and sped northward.

The sun rose and the moon set, and after a few days, a coastline gradually appeared in front of us, and an extremely vast continent came into view. However, this continent was shrouded in a layer of dark fog, making it look gloomy.

Xiao Chen took a closer look and understood immediately:

"We've arrived at Uttarakuru."

The periphery of Northern Julu Continent was shrouded in an extremely fierce Nine Heavens Gale. The wind was so strong that it seemed to strangle all outsiders who stepped into it.

Xiao Chen took a glance and thought that with just the Nine Heavens Gale outside, it would be difficult for people from the True Immortal Realm or even the Mysterious Immortal Realm to enter.

It would naturally be difficult for the monsters inside to come out.

Xiao Chen couldn't help but think to himself: "I wonder if this... is protection, restriction, or shackles?"

However, with the current cultivation level of King Jinjiao, he was naturally not afraid of the Nine Heavens Gale. Xiao Chen simply ignored the barrier of Northern Juluzhou and broke in.

……

"Crunch, crunch, crunch..."

Xiao Chen stepped onto the frozen soil of Uttarakuru. The snow beneath his feet creaked under his heavy footsteps. The sound echoed in the silent air, as if telling the desolation and loneliness of this land.

In the eyes of outsiders, Uttarakuru has always been a place of poverty, mountains and bad water.

It is a place that Tathagata Buddha described as "a place that loves killing," which shows how bad its reputation is.

Xiao Chen didn’t know whether it was good to kill or not, but there was a saying that “the mountains are poor and the waters are bad”.

In fact, it is true.

Compared to the Dongsheng Shenzhou, Nanzhanbuzhou and Xiniuhezhou where Xiao Chen had traveled before, those places had beautiful mountains and rivers and many feng shui treasures, while Beijuluzhou was completely different.

Xiao Chen emitted golden light, stood on the clouds, and looked around.

I saw that this Uttarakuru continent was full of steep mountains, dangerous hills, bad waters, deep valleys, swamps... The terrain was complex and changeable, and the environment was extremely harsh.

This place seemed like a trial ground specially set up by heaven and earth to test living beings.

What is even more bizarre is that Uttarakuru is filled with miasma all year round, and all kinds of colorful poisonous gases emerge one after another.

Snakes and insects are rampant in the valley, and all kinds of strange and messy creatures live and breed here.

In such a harsh environment, it would be difficult for ordinary creatures to survive.

Those who can survive are not simple creatures.

"Buzhou Mountain..."

Xiao Chen silently recited the place name in his heart, and his thoughts drifted to ancient legends.

According to what he knew, the formation of Uttarakuru was actually inextricably linked to Mount Buzhou.

Mount Buzhou was formed from the spine of the great god Pangu. It is the pillar that supports the sky. In ancient times, Mount Buzhou was also the only passage from the mortal world to the heaven.

In the distant ancient times, Emperor Jun and Donghuang Taiyi built the ancient demon court on the top of Mount Buzhou, which was once a symbol of the glory of the demon clan.

However, a shocking war between wizards and liches completely changed everything.

During the war between wizards and liches, the ancestor wizard Gonggong angrily struck Mount Buzhou.

Gonggong's collision directly broke Mount Buzhou.

At that time, the pillar of heaven collapsed, the sky tilted to the northwest, the sun, moon and stars shifted, the earth sank to the southeast, the water of the Milky Way flowed back, and the entire wilderness was about to turn into a swamp.

at this time.

Nuwa went to the North Sea in person and killed the first black turtle in the prehistoric world after the creation of the world. She took its four legs and placed them at the four poles as new pillars of heaven. This stabilized the heaven and earth and avoided the destruction of the prehistoric world.

Nuwa gained supreme merit for her act of repairing the sky.

However, the black tortoise that repaired the sky paid a heavy price for it.

As a result, the black tortoise lost its four legs and died with hatred...

That huge body was casually abandoned in Uttarakuru.

The black tortoise's four legs can serve as pillars supporting the sky, so one can imagine how huge its body is.

It is said that the body of the black tortoise is almost the size of a continent.

The corpse of such a huge creature had a profound impact on the environment of Uttarakuru after its death.

The black tortoise died with hatred and deep resentment. After its death, its huge corpse gradually rotted and turned into a strong aura of evil and filth. These bad auras lingered in Uttarakuru, making the continent filled with evil and filth.

Therefore, this Uttarakuru is a very chaotic place, and can indeed be described as a place of "poor mountains and bad waters".

There are actually very few places suitable for cultivation.

The demon cave of King Jinjiao, Kanyuan Mountain, can be regarded as a rare treasure in the desolate land of Uttarakuru.

But right.

In the three realms today, Xiniuhezhou is the sphere of influence of Lingshan Buddhism, Nanshanbuzhou is dominated by humans and is the source of incense for the gods in heaven, and Dongshengshenzhou is the private territory of Taoism and is also under the jurisdiction of heaven.

After the war between wizards and demons, the wizards retreated to the underworld and were protected by Hou Tu, while the demons retreated to the uninhabited Uttarakuru.

Nowadays, the demon race has long been deserted on this continent and has lost its former glory. In fact, they have no choice but to temporarily live in Uttarakuru.

of course.

If all the demons in Uttarakuru run away in large numbers, it is very likely that Lingshan and Heaven will join forces.

Xiao Chen had just arrived and didn't know much about the internal situation of Uttarakuru.

Although he wanted to gain a territory as a retreat, he couldn't act rashly to avoid provoking others and getting himself into trouble.

He went to look for the Lion King first.

Xiao Chen had learned about this earlier during his conversation with the Lion King.

The Lion King once had a mountain called "Lion's Roar Mountain", but it was later occupied by the Nine-Headed Insect and renamed "Nine-Headed Mountain".

Therefore, the Lion King can only find a small hill to stay on by himself.

But the Lion King could not swallow this humiliation and was extremely angry, but there was nothing he could do as he could not defeat four hands with two fists, and he alone could not defeat the Nine-Headed Insect and its group of monsters.

Only then did he invite the three brothers Bull Demon King, Golden Horn King and Monkey King to help.

The mountain where the Lion King is now staying is called "Nameless Mountain". To put it bluntly, the Lion King thinks that this place is just a temporary place to stay, so there is no need to give it a name.

For monsters, hills are actually very important.

A hilltop is not just a place to live, but also a symbol and a sign of status.

Only when a monster has its own mountain can it set up its own faction, be qualified to be called the "Monster King", and become famous in the monster world.

Without his own mountain, no matter how great his abilities are, he can only live under someone else's roof and be treated as a "little demon", which the big demons are absolutely unwilling to accept.

Wuming Mountain is a small hill located in the northwest of the central part of Uttarakuru. It is the temporary residence of the Lion King.

Xiao Chen restrained his breath so as not to alarm the monsters along the way, and went directly in the direction given by the Lion King.

They continued on their journey for several more days.

Xiao Chen took the blueprint given by the Lion King and compared it before he determined that the slightly barren hill below, about a hundred feet high, was the Lion King's "Unnamed Mountain".

Since it is an unnamed mountain, it naturally has no name and no stone markings.

Xiao Chen glanced at the hill. The hill was not high, about a hundred feet wide, and there were sparse grass and trees around it, making it look a bit desolate.

Wherever Xiao Chen's eyes reached, there were withered yellow grass leaves and sparse bushes, with occasional stubborn weeds swaying in the breeze.

This hill is indeed very ordinary.

"A mountain like this really doesn't need a name."

Xiao Chen whispered to himself, then pressed down the clouds and stood steadily in front of the cave entrance of the Nameless Mountain.

After a while, a yellow-haired lion demon who was guarding the door opened the door and looked at the visitor curiously.

Xiao Chen smiled and said, "I am the Golden Horn King of Dongsheng Shenzhou. I am here to look for your king. Please allow me to report to you."

The yellow-haired lion had obviously received an order. When he heard that it was the Golden Horned King of Dongsheng Shenzhou, he immediately became respectful and said quickly:
"Please come in, King Jinjiao. My king has been waiting for a long time."

After saying that, the yellow-haired lion demon did not dare to be negligent and followed closely in front, leading the way and leading Xiao Chen to the living room.

Xiao Chen followed the yellow-haired lion demon and walked into the "Nameless Cave".

Xiao Chen glanced at this "nameless cave".

The decoration inside the cave is simple and tattered. It is obvious that the Lion King does not plan to live here for a long time, so there are not too many decorations.

A banquet is being held in the nameless cave.

As the host, the Lion King sat at the top seat.

The Bull Demon King sat on the left side of the Lion King.

On the right is a monster with a strange appearance.

This monster looks like a pig but has four long tusks. It looks like both an elephant and a pig. It is covered with green hair and has an ivory pig head.

“Hahaha, big brother Bull Demon King, last time your beastly true form of the 獓因 showed up, with your thousand-foot-long bull body, and you charged around recklessly, almost knocking the nine-headed beast off its feet. You can vent your anger for me, your brother!”

The Lion King laughed happily.

"With the help of my brother Jinjiao's magic weapon, Feather Robe, my speed has greatly increased. After fighting with that nine-headed bird, I don't have to be afraid of it."

The Bull Demon King waved his hand and said disapprovingly.

"It's just that those two little snake demon girls are a bit troublesome."

The Bull Demon King frowned and continued.

It’s a big chapter of 5000 words. Do you have a monthly ticket? Hahaha.

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