Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 423 The Cave of Ten Thousand Demons

The Xuan Turtle was unaware that its cultivation was the result of Lingbao Tianzun's secret guidance, nor did it know that its arrival on this ancient star was not an accident.

But since he was already there, he decided to make the best of it and quickly adjusted his mindset, starting to move towards the future.

However, the most urgent task is to find out where he is now and how this world is different from his hometown.

Although his innate supernatural abilities evolved after being combined with the Heavenly Evolution Array Diagram, gaining the ability to deduce and calculate, in most cases, the result was still ambiguous and inconclusive.

However, if one only wants to know whether it is auspicious or inauspicious, then unless the secrets of heaven are obscured, one can still know a little bit about it.

The black tortoise chose the best location for this journey and headed in that direction.

He seemed to be crawling slowly, but there was still a faint sense of shrinking the earth into an inch, leaving the vast land behind.

However, the further the Xuan Turtle went, the more it sensed countless demon cultivators converging in the same direction.

Suddenly, the black tortoise felt a powerful aura rushing towards it from behind. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a golden toad, its entire body radiating a golden glow, like a divine beast on its journey.

But wherever the golden toad goes, desolation and decay follow, for the golden glow is highly poisonous. It can even turn any place it touches into a desolate wasteland, devoid of any life.

The golden toad leaped continuously, each landing causing the ground to tremble. He quickly arrived near the black tortoise.

At this moment, a giant black dog with bloodshot eyes blocked the path of the golden toad.

The golden toad said, "A good dog doesn't block the way. Get out of my way, or I'll turn you into pus and blood in an instant."

The black dog flew into a rage upon hearing this and turned around, saying, "How dare you threaten me? Are you tired of living?"

As he spoke, he opened his enormous mouth, and instantly the world lost its color, the sun and moon lost their light, and a huge abyss appeared from his mouth, directly sucking the golden toad into it.

The black dog swallowed the golden toad whole, like a celestial dog devouring the moon, and then let out a satisfied burp. The toad's deadly poison seemed to have no effect on him.

The black dog sneered, "What are you, daring to threaten me? Don't you even know what kind of demon I, Xiao Wuguang, am!"

At this moment, the earth trembled, and countless mountains in the distance were directly smashed, with rocks flying everywhere, leaving the vast plain in a mess. Even many demons were caught in the crossfire.

They were immediately enraged and wanted revenge, but after seeing who had been invited, they backed down and pretended nothing had happened.

Amidst the swirling dust and flying rocks, a colossal white elephant charged forward, flattening everything in its path.

As it approached the spot, the giant elephant suddenly accelerated, transforming into a whirlwind that swept over and crushed the black dog into a bloody pulp.

The white elephant stopped and said regretfully, "Alas, how could I have committed such a heinous crime again? But who told you to be so thin and weak that I couldn't even see you? But daring to block my way, you deserve to die."

With that, he continued walking away.

The Xuan Turtle was dumbfounded. What kind of place was this? The people here were too simple and honest! Even in our Jade Flower Divine Island, where the average intelligence was extremely low and most lives had not yet developed sentience, things were not this outrageous.

Fortunately, the Xuan Turtle used its supernatural powers to avoid misfortune and seek good fortune, so this kind of thing didn't happen to him.

Just as the Xuan Turtle arrived and was marveling at the sound, a sharp shriek came from afar, its immense power almost causing the sky to tremble.

A ferocious bird with wings as if cast in gold soared into the sky, its claws gripping the white elephant from just moments before.

Before long, the white elephant was torn to pieces, its organs devoured, and the remaining flesh and blood rained down from the sky. The Xuan Turtle hissed softly and muttered to itself, "The demons here are too ferocious. I'd better go around them."

Just then, a voice came: "This turtle is absolutely right. He's clearly a peace lover like me."

The black tortoise turned its head and saw that the newcomer was a striped tiger, but its fur was pure white and had a faint golden glow.

The Black Tortoise said, "Brother Tiger, you also disapprove of the infighting among my fellow demons?"

The white tiger said indignantly, "That's right, I hate seeing our demon race cultivators fighting amongst themselves the most in my life. This golden roc dared to cause trouble in front of me, I must teach him a lesson and build a more peaceful situation for our demon race."

The black tortoise asked curiously, "Brother Tiger, what are you planning to do?"

The white tiger grinned, revealing sharp, gleaming white teeth, and said, "Of course, it's to teach him a lesson for his next life."

With that, the white tiger soared into the sky, and a fierce battle erupted in the starry heavens. But in just thirty or fifty moves, the roc was killed by the white tiger, its head smashed to pieces.

Upon seeing this, the black tortoise immediately sped up in an attempt to leave, but the white tiger charged straight at him.

He hung the Golden Roc's corpse high on a cliff, then said to the Black Tortoise, "That's enough. As long as they see this Roc, they won't dare to cause trouble anymore, and our demon race will have less conflict."

Seeing the unpredictable expression on the black tortoise's face, the white tiger smiled kindly and said, "Brother Tortoise, don't worry. I am a vegetarian from birth. In all my years of cultivation, I have never eaten any blood or meat. I have always drunk mountain spring water and eaten melons and fruits."

"This swift and decisive action is a necessary measure in chaotic times, a way to stop killing with killing. Brother Turtle, you should agree with me, right?"

The black tortoise grinned and said, "Brother Tiger is absolutely right. I also thought that the only way to deal with these villains was to kill them until they were afraid."

The white tiger immediately said, "Brother Turtle understands me best! We regret not meeting sooner. Why don't we become sworn brothers right now and become brothers of different races?"

The black tortoise was overjoyed and said, "Brother Tiger, that's exactly what I was thinking too."

Xuan Gui was worried about being unfamiliar with the place, and Bai Hu was not weak and seemed to have a gentle temperament, which would make it easier for him to get to know the world, so he immediately agreed.

Xuan Gui asked, "Brother Hu, I was directly sent here by my master. He said there's some event here that I need to participate in. Could you tell me the details?"

The White Tiger glanced at the Black Tortoise's innocent eyes and said, "Brother, you are actually the successor of a powerful hermit of our demon race. No wonder you are so extraordinary. Very well, I will tell you."

“Our ancient star Gouchen has a special terrain called the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons. Legend has it that this place was left behind by the Power Emperor, and his legacy may be preserved in its core.”

"Even if you can't get to the very core, you can still obtain various divine treasures or supernatural powers by passing each level of the outer array. It can be said to be a huge treasure trove."

"However, under the influence of the great formation, only cultivators who have not yet attained sainthood can enter this place. After joint discussions among the various tribes of my demon race, this place will be opened once every five hundred years."

"Now is the day when the Ten Thousand Demon Cave will open, so all kinds of geniuses from our demon race have come here, hoping to gain great fortune from it."

"It is said that whoever can pass all the trials of the great formations and obtain the core of the Emperor's inheritance will possess the true qualities of an emperor, and may even become the future leader of the demon race of the ancient star Gouchen."

The Xuan Turtle couldn't help but ask, "Leaving aside the core area, after so many years, what could possibly remain on the outer perimeter of the Ten Thousand Demon Cave?"

The White Tiger said, "Don't worry, if the divine treasures in the array patterns on the outer or even middle layers are taken away, my demon race seniors will replace them."

(End of this chapter)