Attaining Immortality, Starting From Slaying Demons

However, it did not reveal any look of contempt, but simply stood still in place.

As the Great Demon General charged with garrisoning a territory, there had been no problems for many years, and it still maintained its position to this day. When dealing with serious matters, its composure was impeccable.

Mockery and scorn could wait until after the opponent's skull had been crushed.

"Give you a chance to explain yourself."

After speaking in a deep voice, the Crab Demon General's right arm surged with light, transforming into a jagged crimson giant pincer.

Meanwhile, demonic power flooded its eyes, focusing intently in an attempt to probe deeper into the true situation of the opponent, after seeing through the Breath Concealing Technique.

However, no matter how much it observed, that young man seemed to be fooling around, courting death.

With its strength, killing the opponent would be effortless.

The Crab Demon really couldn't understand who had given that fool the courage to be so presumptuous as to turn his back on it!

"..."

Finally, Shen Yi turned and looked back, his fair face showing no emotion.

He merely gazed quietly at the Crab Demon General and then lightly nodded his chin, as if signaling something.

In an instant, a pair of solid arms stealthily reached out from under the Crab Demon's armpits, and then suddenly clamped down on its shoulders. At the same time, the palm of another person had already fiercely covered the back of its head, the dense golden thread instantly enveloping it.

"Who?!"

The Crab Demon General instinctively tried to raise its dark red pincer, but was forcefully pinned down by a third pair of arms!

"Ambush!" cried out the lieutenant with quick reflexes, but before the words could fully escape his lips, a fourth figure smashed his skull with a punch.

Before dying, it finally smelled a faint hint of blood seeping through the prohibition.

Boom—

The lieutenants' skulls burst apart but did not cause the Crab Demon General to lose its composure. Without hesitation, it sacrificed its Lifeblood Essence, its skin sprouting a hard shell as its body began to swell instantly!

Clearly, these cultivators had come prepared.

It did not act recklessly but, instead, considered creating enough commotion to deter the enemy and then look for another opportunity.

"Have you forgotten that I am a Great Demon?" Roaring, the Crab Demon General's demonic aura once again thickened by a lot.

A group of cultivators dared to approach a Great Demon comparable to the White Jade Capital.

This miscalculation would leave them with everlasting regret.

However, what shocked the Crab Demon General was that despite exerting its full demonic body's power, whether it was trying to revert to its original form or wield that dark red pincer refined from crab claws, comparable to a Dao Soldier weapon, all were forcefully restrained.

As a renowned Great Demon General,

It was horrified to find that it was truly being immobilized in place.

"You all!"

The Crab Demon instinctively turned back only to meet four familiar faces, each carrying a ferocious sneer.

"What a coincidence, me too."

Wu Jun revealed his ghastly white teeth, abruptly tightening the golden thread, nearly crushing the Crab Demon's carapace.

"We all are." The remaining three figures twisted their lips into exaggerated arcs, issuing a low and dreadful hiss, like demons whispering, enveloped by green waves as if to drown the Crab Demon within them.

They were not only demons but also members of the Aquatic Race.

More importantly, each one of them was no weaker in cultivation than the Crab Demon, and their Breath Concealment Technique was peculiar, approaching the opponent like silent, lifeless stones from behind.

"You dare to betray..."

The voice of the Crab Demon began to tremble, as if it had seen something unbelievable.

But with so many factors combined, there was only one outcome left for it.

Crack! Crack!

An Aquatic Race member stepped heavily onto its chest, Wu Jun swung his fists, pounding the crab demon's back, while the fish demon and the Fleshwing Silkworm pinned it to the ground, pouring the might contained within their demon bodies onto the Crab Demon's carapace without reservation.

The golden threads wrapped tighter and tighter, the Crab Demon bulged its eyes with a sense of suffocation and let out a helpless moan, "..."

But even the privilege to let out a moan was taken away by Wu Jun with a punch to its neck.

Bright red blood plasma spurted out, forcibly silencing the Crab Demon.

Four against one, and it was an ambush.

The Crab Demon could not think of any chance it had to survive.

What puzzled it even more was when it had offended such ruthless people who had laid out such a careful plan, waiting to ambush it on the way back to its territory.

But no one seemed willing to give it any explanation.

Thus, the Crab Demon could only watch the young man standing alone, wanting to spew curses, wanting to beg for mercy, yet unable to make a sound. The other party also seemed too indifferent to cast more than a glance at him, his cold and calm demeanor chilling to the bone.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Even as its entire shell-covered body was pummeled into utter ruin, it still glared with wide eyes, as if they were about to bulge out of their sockets, filled with unwillingness and resentment.

A Great Demon General tasked with garrisoning the waters, to die in such a suffocating manner.

Even now, it had no idea who its opponent was.

"..."

From start to finish, Shen Yi stood quietly at the edge of the cliff, his fingertips dancing with golden threads, coldly observing the silent farce.

The murky blood fog drifted in the water, and in the moment before it touched the ink-colored robe, it was collected into the finger ring.

Only when the golden threads at his fingertips were all retracted and the camouflaged formation was lifted, did it become clear that the bottom of the water was already a dark red domain of death, like a gaping maw choosing its prey, emitting a thick stench.

Regardless of victory or defeat, Shen Yi indeed had the qualifications to clash with a Great Demon of the White Jade Capital.

But whenever he entered the state of hunting,

he seemed to become a different person, no longer bothered by the damage to the Town Stones, nor would he allow himself to be in the slightest danger.

His mind was left only with calculations of gains and losses.

Like a true hunter.

And the Dragon Palace was merely prey.

[Elimination of a Return to Void Realm green-finned carp demon, total lifespan years of 170,000, remaining lifespan years of 38,000 absorbed completely]

These elite soldiers were highly valued by the Dragon Palace, with their abundance of experience at the cost of a shorter remaining lifespan.

It might seem inconsequential at first, but when notifications like this surpassed a hundred, it became incredibly terrifying.

[Remaining demon lifespan years: 3,230,000]

Shen Yi collected all the countless floating corpses into the finger ring and then transformed the four Town Stones into spiritual light, retracting them into his glabella.

After going through the Breath Concealment Technique again, his long robe rippled like ink, and he vanished from the spot like a wraith.

Leaving behind the waters that became clear once again.

...

In the gloomy depths of the water,

Shen Yi sat cross-legged, not wasting any time; he concentrated on condensing the Demon Origin and reshaping the soul of the Crab Demon, while also infusing his Divine Soul into the finger ring, beginning to categorize the corpses of the hundreds of aquatic race elite soldiers.

With information provided by Ke Shisan, he also had a rough understanding of the forces of the Dragon Palace.

Such a force led by a Great Demon under a Demon General,

was actually supported by several aquatic races combined, in order to vie for status within the waters.

This situation conveniently provided benefits for Shen Yi.

After all... he could truly achieve "gathering the strength of the entire race" in a physical sense.

These hundred or so demon soldiers were roughly composed of warriors from three major aquatic race families.

After simple classifications,

aside from one group of fish demons that was quite small in numbers and relatively weak—included merely to make up the numbers, with little chance of promoting to an exceptional grade of Dao Pillar—

Shen Yi quickly created three Town Stones.

Logically, creating Town Stones like Wu Jun, which were elevated from the Return to Void all the way to the White Jade Capital level, was quite a loss. Forcibly improving the grade of a demon's soul would surely consume more of the Demon Origin.

But that's not how the accounting worked.

What Shen Yi lacked the most now were time and manpower; he had to earn as much demon lifespan as possible before the Dragon Palace reacted.

A total of one hundred and seventeen Demon Origins were exhausted.

[Remaining demon lifespan years: 2,060,000]

Such a huge cost brought forth a significant gain.

Three Town Stones, including the Crab Demon General, stood silently behind him.

The two forcibly condensed Great Demons, though also at the White Jade Capital cultivation level, had a slightly weaker aura, clearly only reaching the level of one city.

But that was normal, after all, not every aquatic race had the strength to independently support a Dragon Descendant like the Golden Patterned Turtle Demon.

But it didn't matter.

It was just for this once, and after leaving, they would be just palace fillers anyway.

With this in mind, Shen Yi collected them all into his glabella.

He took out the Jade Slip given to him by Yan Xianqing earlier.

An appetizer alone couldn't satisfy his appetite.

Shen Yi had a very simple purpose for coming here.

He wanted to take advantage of this hard-to-come-by opportunity... to walk the entire path of Returning to Void in one go.