The buff is permanent, and you start the game with a fountain of water.

"Something's not right!" Looking at the ravaged land, Huan Cheng frowned, shook his head, and sighed.

"Something's wrong! Something's wrong!!"

The little fox shook its head and imitated Huan Cheng's childish voice.

Huan Cheng gently patted Ah Li to keep her quiet, then leaped onto a high ground to survey the surroundings.

He wandered around the core area for nearly an hour without seeing a single ghost, which was nothing like the golden BOSSes he had imagined, where every step required a fierce battle.

What puzzled Huan Cheng even more was that the concentration of demonic energy here was much lower than outside.

The most obvious damage is caused by the erosion of demonic energy.

At its peak, the demonic energy permeating the environment could cause 500 points of damage per minute. However, in the core area, which should theoretically have the most concentrated demonic energy, the damage dropped to 100 points per minute, which is about the same as when I first entered Hidden Dragon Valley.

Frowning, Huan Cheng continued forward.

The further they went, the more rugged the terrain became. Following the path that stretched across the valley floor, Huan Cheng walked for nearly two more hours, getting closer and closer to the core location coordinates provided by Qingxi, but still hadn't encountered any monsters.

Forget about monsters, we didn't even encounter any flowers, birds, insects, or fish. The surroundings were completely silent, as if all living things had died out.

"Aww!"

Just as Huan Cheng was advancing unhurriedly, a desolate and earth-shattering roar suddenly came from ahead.

Huan Cheng frowned, identified the direction, and rushed off quickly.

About ten minutes later, after crossing a small hill, the view ahead suddenly opened up.

Standing atop the hill, Huan Cheng was stunned by the scene before him.

The first thing that catches the eye is a giant python.

The giant python was nearly a hundred meters long, its entire body covered with dark purple demonic scales, with three rows of barbs on its belly, a pair of pitch-black demonic horns protruding from the top of its head, and a pair of vertical pupils that were generally dark gold. From time to time, an unidentified grayish-brown liquid flowed from its eye sockets, corroding and eroding the earth.

The Eye of Insight told Huan Cheng that this giant python was called the Ink-Scaled Sky-Piercing Python, and was a level 40 Dark Gold-grade BOSS...

Huan Cheng had anticipated encountering a Dark Gold-level BOSS, but what he found truly unacceptable was that this Dark Gold-level Ink-Scaled Sky Python was firmly bound to the ground.

The giant python resembled a fish waiting to be slaughtered on a chopping board, its body covered in mysterious, dark demonic patterns, with wisps of demonic energy constantly eroding its form.

The giant python would occasionally struggle due to the excruciating pain, but such struggles were futile, only resulting in more brutal suppression from the demonic runes.

There is more than one such monster.

Looking around, one sees a red-haired demon ape, a three-eyed blood fox, a moon-eating demon wolf, and a hundred-poison spider...

Dozens of bosses, large and small, were bound to the ground.

The lowest grade is gold, with nearly one-third of them being dark gold.

These high-level bosses, who were once feared by all, now resembled lambs to the slaughter, their bodies bound by mysterious magical runes, lying half-dead on the ground.

Huan Cheng swallowed hard, his gaze following the demonic runes forward.

In the very center of the group of demonized bosses was a dragon with two heads.

Judging by its size alone, the dragon is not exaggerated; it is smaller than most of the bosses present. However, its aura is extremely terrifying.

The dragon was covered in jet-black scales with unevenly distributed barbs of various sizes. It had a head on each side, and the two heads shared a single body.

The left dragon head has its eyes closed and drooping limply. Upon closer inspection, there is a deep wound on its neck that exposes the bone, and there are still drops of demonic blood that have not yet dried.

Not only the dragon's head, but the dragon's body was covered with countless wounds of all sizes, large scales were torn and turned outwards, and there was a hole as big as a bucket in its abdomen. Through the hole, one could vaguely see the damaged internal organs.

A pair of demonic wings hung limply on the ground, the left dragon wing severely damaged, as if it had been torn off by brute force.

The right side is generally intact, but there are obvious signs of flame burns.

The bone spike's long tail was cut in half, leaving only half of the tail, and demonic blood continued to flow from the wound.

The magical runes that bind the BOSS extend from the feet of the demonic dragon.

"Damn it, this isn't a demon corrupted by demonic energy, it's a living, breathing demon!"

Upon seeing the dragon's attribute description, Huan Cheng inwardly cursed at Qingxi.

[Abyss Two-Headed Dragon]

Race: Demon

Level: 75

Rank: Sun-level

Life: 9456920/60000000

Attack: 520000

Defense: 242000

Skills: Eternal Night Dragon Breath, Demonic Dragon Starburst, Cataclysmic Claw, Demonic Dragon Roar, Dragon Wing Annihilation Slash, Demonic Tide Dragon Fury, Devouring Seven Kills...

Special status: Severely weakened, attack and defense reduced by 30%, movement speed reduced by 90%, loss of flight ability.

Note: The Abyss Demons, who remained on the Divine Realm Continent after the ancient war, were recently discovered and were surrounded and killed by experts dispatched by Qingyang City.

The two-headed abyssal dragon was no match for the enemy and, at the cost of losing one of its heads, faked its death to deceive the encirclement team. It is currently using abyssal evil magic to devour living beings and heal its injuries.

"Damn... how did Qingxi become the city lord? He's been played like a fool and doesn't even know it!"

Cursing inwardly, Huan Cheng bent down and quietly retreated from the top of the hill.

"I'm so scared, so scared! My brother's thing is so scary!"

As soon as I got away, I heard the slightly panicked voice of the little fox in my mind.

Although both are Sun-class creatures, there is a significant difference between level 75 and level 20.

Furthermore, because of its transformation into a pet, the little fox's attributes are significantly weakened compared to its BOSS form, making it unable to defeat the Abyss Twin-Headed Dragon even at the same level.

"It's alright, that monster is still far away from us!" Huan Cheng gently reassured the little fox and began to think about what to do.

First of all, the task of clearing away demonic energy is definitely not going to be completed. Even if the level 75 Sun-level BOSS is severely injured and has low health, it is still not something he can provoke.

Ignoring the dragon's overflowing skill list, its base attack power of 52 means it could be wiped out with a single sneeze!

This dragon is far beyond what he can handle at this stage.

Now all he can do is go back to Qingxi and inform him so that he can send an expert of Qing Ao's caliber to wipe them out.

"The intelligence was seriously flawed; the mission failure shouldn't be blamed on me, right?! Shouldn't we be exempt from the punishment for failure?"

"No, we also need to demand compensation from Qingxi for emotional distress. That level 75 Abyss Demon was terrifying!!"

As he was pondering this, a violent energy fluctuation suddenly came from behind him.

"What happened?"

Huan Cheng was startled, got up, and cautiously peeked out to check the situation.

Suddenly, the magic runes binding the numerous bosses burst forth with a dazzling black light, and wisps of demonic energy seeped out from the runes, causing the high-level bosses to roar in pain.

"What's going on?"

The deafening, agonizing roar filled Huan Cheng with unease.

Looking at the Abyss Dragon again, a new line appeared in the notes: "Currently casting Abyss Devouring Spirit Technique. After casting, it will restore 40% of health."

"Ding! Player Chengfeng, your quest [Cleanse Demonic Energy] has undergone a major change and has been officially revised to [Prevent the Resurgence of the Demon Race]. Please inform Qingyang City of the news about the Abyss Two-Headed Demon Dragon within ten minutes. If you exceed ten minutes, the quest will fail."