Chapter 120: The Imprisoned Demon Tribe Guardian!

【Your sword dao is inherited from the current number one swordsman of the human world, the Sword Lord!】

【After being amplified tenfold in power by "Man and Sword as One", and further stacking the effects of "The Most Severe Father to Non-Humans"...】

【These Water Demon Spirits, once you found their weaknesses, still weren't enough to withstand your slashes.】

【In a short while, you had sunk all these monsters that used seawater as their bodies!】

【The root that allowed them to appear, those pale blue spirit pearls, also ended up in your hands.】

【"Why do these look so familiar?"】

【These spirit pearls were extremely similar to the Demon Seed that was struck out from within Feng Yucheng's body before.】

【Apart from the color being different, their size and the patterns on their surface were almost identical.】

【"It really is a product of the Dragon-Man race, but this thing is more fragile than the Demon Seed; it broke as soon as my sword technique hit it."】

【The Dragon-Man race seems to really like making these kinds of small beads; it's probably some local method or technique of theirs.】

Time in the simulation passed like a fleeting white colt.

In the blink of an eye, five years had passed.

【Year 48, age 66.】 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

【On the vast, boundless sea, fierce winds gathered dark clouds.】

【Between the dark clouds and the sea, a bronze cauldron whistled past.】

【After years of flying...】

【The Spirit Crystal reserves were getting smaller and smaller. If this continued, one day the Nine Provinces Cauldron would be unable to keep flying.】

【Over these years, you encountered Water Demon Spirits several times.】

【It's just that you became more and more proficient at killing them, and now you didn't even put them in your eyes.】

【You had been following the direction marked as red by the "Traffic Light" in your field of vision.】

【This direction sometimes changed.】

【This couldn't help but make you gradually certain—you might have guessed correctly! The Migratory Continent really was in this direction!】

【Over these years, your cultivation only improved by one level; you are now at the seventh level of the Spirit Sea realm.】

【"Don't bully the old for being poor! I will eventually draw a higher-grade Innate Talent!"】

【Year 49, age 67.】

【Your hair had already turned half white, entering a state of twilight years.】

【However, this was only in appearance. With the "Ginger Gets Spicier With Age" trait, your cultivation and combat power were not affected in the slightest by aging.】

【"I see it! The moving continent!"】

【This year, you finally found the Migratory Continent.】

【You boarded this continent with a heart full of joy.】

【There wasn't much of a pleasant surprise, though.】

【This place was no different from the initial Heaven-Reaching Continent—dead silent, desolate, with wandering souls and wild ghosts everywhere.】

【Demon Souls being easier to obtain was good news. With ample raw materials for the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, the speed of your cultivation improvement gradually increased.】

【The Migratory Continent wasn't very big. Before long, you discovered an ancient city of the Demon Tribe.】

【Calling it an ancient city was more like calling it ruins.】

【All the buildings in the ancient city were built of stone, weathered beyond recognition.】

【Even imagining its original appearance, one could tell it was quite crude.】

【After all, it was the Demon Tribe; they were different from humans.】

【The Demon Tribe basically lived in caves, in trees, or in water; they rarely lived in houses.】

【The so-called houses were actually all palaces, used for sacrifices or other solemn occasions.】

【In the center of the ancient city, you saw the soul of the Demon Tribe Guardian.】

【It was a qilin dozens of meters in body length.】

【Like other members of the Demon Tribe, while called a qilin, it was actually a humanoid creature with a qilin's appearance.】

【The Qilin Soul was fixed within the ancient city by eighteen black chains.】

【At this moment, you faintly realized that within this weathered ancient city, there seemed to be some kind of power similar to a formation, suppressing and imprisoning the Qilin Soul.】

【Sensing the approach of the Nine Provinces Cauldron, the Qilin Soul opened its tightly shut eyes and slowly looked up.】

【"Thirty thousand years... To think a Great Dao Immortal Artifact from another world would appear in our forgotten world..."】

【You leaned out from within the Nine Provinces Cauldron. From the Ten Thousand Souls Banner in your hand, Hu Tiangong's voice came out.】

【"Guardian! You have already fallen in battle, yet they still imprisoned you here, tormenting you! Utterly despicable!!"】

【Seeing the Qilin Soul in this state, Hu Tiangong's emotional fluctuations were extremely intense.】

【"Is that General Hu? I never thought we would meet again one day. Are you trapped by that artifact?"】

【"It was my own choice. This artifact can refine souls... I've wanted release for a long time now..."】

【You opened your mouth to ask if the other party was the Demon Tribe Guardian.】

【After the Qilin Soul confirmed you were human, it was quite surprised.】

【Discovering you could see soul bodies without any special means surprised it even more.】

【"A human martial artist at the Spirit Sea realm can actually cross the world barrier and come to the Demon World? How did you do it?"】

【"That's a long story; let's talk about it next time. Can you tell me if there's a way to return to the human world?"】

【"There is, but..."】

【Before the Qilin Soul could finish speaking, a terrifying pressure suddenly rose from all around.】

【In your field of vision, everything around you instantly plunged into a vast expanse of dangerous red!】

【"Waibi babu! Xita!!"】

【The familiar native tongue of the Dragon-Man race.】

【There was a Dragon-Man guard here!】

【You ran incredibly fast, leaping in a single bound into the small world inside the cauldron.】

【The ground of the ancient city shook violently, and terrifying cracks spread up from deep within the earth.】

【"Boom! Boom! Boom!!"】

【Dazzling red rays of light burst through the earth. The scorching temperature directly melted the ground surface, and ripples of heat waves rose in layers in the air.】

【"Whoosh—"】

【A Dragon-Man ten meters tall rose from underground.】

【Its body was covered in red scales, and the fleshy wings on its back spread out to at least fifty meters!】

【This guy also had horns on its head, but compared to the Dragon-Man form of Feng Yucheng you had seen before, or the one that possessed Yin Rui of the Chixin Sect, these were thicker, longer, and more curved!】

【"Mana??"】

【The red Dragon-Man's triangular eyes stared fixedly at the Nine Provinces Cauldron, uttering a strange phrase.】

【But this time you could understand; it was speaking the language of the Demon Tribe.】

【What it said was: Ant! Who are you? From which world? How did you cross over here? Speak quickly!】

【You replied to it in the Demon Tribe language: "I'm your father!!"】

【"Xilili bashahaniduo kakalong axiba!!"】

【What it said was: Bastard!】

【The two of you started fighting because the greeting wasn't polite.】

【The Red Dragon-Man's ferocious claws clenched empty air, and a giant axe flowing with magma appeared in its hands.】

【"Earthshaking Heavenly Fire Slash!!"】

【The Red Dragon-Man angrily chopped down with its axe. The surrounding space trembled, the air was compressed to the extreme, emitting a series of continuous rumbling sounds.】

【The Nine Provinces Cauldron's movement was still relatively clumsy; it couldn't dodge and was struck by the Red Dragon-Man's axe!】

【"Clang!!!"】

【The sound wave from the impact transformed into a visible shockwave that swept in all directions, lifting the entire ancient city ruins!】

【Even the small world inside the cauldron felt the impact, shaking violently!】

【"Ugh..."】

【Da Chun vomited blood!】

【Your eyes instantly widened in fury.】

【"Da Chun!"】

【Hu Tiangong's voice came through.】

【"He is at the Dragon-Saint realm! That is what you humans call the Martial Saint realm!"】

【Above the Spirit Condensation realm lies the later stages of the martial path: Martial King, Martial Saint, Martial God!】

【The powerful experts encountered before like Shen Yue, Shen Wanquan, and the Sword Lord—judging from their ability to fly through the air, they were at least at the Martial King realm, but which specific realm was still unclear.】