Chapter 522: The Demon Lord

Lin Xun was taken to an inn by Long Qin.

The Little Furball looked around the inn, seemingly very curious about its surroundings.

Long Qin didn’t ask about the Little Furball’s true identity.

She simply assumed this red Little Furball was Lin Xun’s pet.

Even though this pet of Lin Xun’s looked truly bizarre.

Soon, Lin Xun was led into a room by Long Qin.

“Long Leier and Long Yaner greet Your Excellency Lin Xun.”

As soon as Lin Xun entered the room, he saw two teenage girls bowing to him.

Behind them was their father—Long Ming.

Upon seeing Lin Xun, Long Ming sat up from the bed and cupped his fists in gratitude, saying:

“Thank you, Your Excellency, for saving my life yesterday at the Dragon Cry Holy Land. I, Long Ming, have always said that a drop of water’s kindness should be repaid with a surging spring, let alone the favor of saving my life. Such a debt must never be forgotten!

I, Long Ming, owe Your Excellency my life.”

“There is no need for that.”

Lin Xun shook his head.

“As I said, the reason I saved you wasn’t because I specifically wanted to; you were just someone I saved in passing.

In reality, your life or death has nothing to do with me.

Therefore, there is absolutely no need for you to thank me for anything.

I saved you on a whim; you don’t owe me anything.”

Long Ming smiled and shook his head: “For Your Excellency Lin Xun, perhaps your true intention wasn’t to save me.

But for me, Long Ming, the fact remains that Your Excellency saved me.

Thus, I, Long Ming, must repay Your Excellency.

Although I cannot do much for Your Excellency at this moment and can only express a bit of gratitude like this,

if there ever comes a day when Your Excellency needs this life of mine,

then I, Long Ming, will surely offer it up with my own hands.”

“What would I want your life for?”

Looking at Long Ming, Lin Xun shook his head, unable to fathom what kind of logic this man followed.

To Lin Xun, he didn’t harbor any hatred toward Long Ming for blocking him at the entrance of the Rootless Secret Realm.

Because at that time, he had already made Long Ming pay the due price.

Furthermore, although Long Ming had a rather explosive temper,

he was actually quite upright—the type who had a clear sense of love and hate.

Unlike the Elders of the Soul Faction and Technique Faction, who liked to play petty schemes behind people’s backs, which made Lin Xun quite uncomfortable.

“That being said, I do have some things I want to ask you.”

Lin Xun sat down on a wooden stool in the room, and Long Ming personally brewed a cup of tea for him.

“Leier, Yaner, you two step out for a moment.”

Long Ming thought Lin Xun wanted to discuss something extremely important with him.

So, Long Ming waved his hand and told his two daughters to leave first, to avoid leaking Lin Xun’s privacy.

“It’s fine. Actually, it would be beneficial for the two young ladies to know about this. I even want to spread this news to the entire world.”

“In that case, let the two sisters stay.”

Hearing Lin Xun say this, Long Ming didn’t stand on ceremony and directly let his two daughters stay.

Long Leier and Long Yaner sat obediently to the side.

Long Qin left the room and stood guard nearby, alert for any pursuers or anyone who might discover them.

As for Goudan, whom Lin Xun was leading, it kept spinning around the room.

Then, seeing the two young girls, Long Leier and Long Yaner, it suddenly jumped onto their laps and began acting spoiled and rolling around; its series of actions looked very practiced.

Long Leier and Long Yaner looked at this previously unknown pet.

Although it looked quite strange, like a small ball of yarn,

it had a pair of large, watery eyes and a cute tail.

Especially with its fluffy and soft feel, the two sisters found it hard to put down.

Lin Xun didn’t pay much mind to Goudan playing with the sisters.

Lin Xun had checked; Goudan was genderless, just like a Dream-Eating Tapir.

So, Lin Xun didn’t have to worry about Goudan taking advantage of the sisters.

Moreover, the cultivation Realms of these two sisters were not low.

Furthermore, Lin Xun had placed a strand of Divine Sense on Goudan to monitor it.

Thus, every move Goudan made was under surveillance.

With just a single thought, Lin Xun could make it disappear from this world.

Goudan knew this too, so it was currently just trying to please the people around Lin Xun to make its own situation a bit better.

“I wonder what Your Excellency Lin Xun wishes to tell me?” Long Ming asked.

“It’s actually nothing much.

I believe that in a few days, Holy Master, you will start hearing some rumors.

And these rumors concern the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Clan.”

“Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Clan?!”

Hearing these four words, Long Ming’s heart trembled slightly.

“Yes, the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Clan.”

Lin Xun told Long Ming about the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon he encountered in the Ten Thousand Demon Sect, how the Blood Fiend escaped his pursuit and eventually fled to the Longming Continent, hiding in the Demon Shadow Sect to become its Sect Master, leading to a series of events.

How they colluded with the Dragon Cry Holy Land.

How they betrayed the Dragon Cry Holy Land.

How they wanted to use those Cultivators for reincarnation.

Everything.

Lin Xun told all of this to Long Ming without hiding anything.

After all, at this point, there was no need to hide anything anymore.

And regarding such matters, there really was nothing worth concealing.

As Long Ming listened, his expression became dazed with shock.

Even the sisters, Long Leier and Long Yaner, stopped petting Goudan and listened intently to Lin Xun’s words.

To anyone, the things Lin Xun said sounded somewhat like a fantasy.

But this person was Lin Xun, the true number one in the world.

Lin Xun had no reason to deceive him, nor any reason to make such a joke.

And when the story reached the part about Goudan,

Long Ming, Long Yaner, and Long Leier all turned their eyes toward Goudan at the same time.

They could never have imagined

that this strange and cute creature would actually be an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon.

Being stared at by so many people, Goudan blinked innocently and wagged its tail incessantly, trying to show how harmless it was.

“So, I wonder if the Holy Master can tell me in detail about that well in the Forbidden Land of the Dragon Cry Holy Land—what exactly is going on with it?”

After explaining the cause and effect, Lin Xun asked directly without beating around the bush.

He believed that as the Holy Master of Dragon Cry, Long Ming must know the most.

Long Ming took a sip of tea and spoke slowly:

“Actually, I shouldn’t be telling you these things.

Because these matters were told to me by the previous Holy Master and have been passed down through generations of Holy Masters.

I shouldn’t tell Your Excellency Lin Xun even if I were to die.

Even though Your Excellency Lin Xun saved my life, I cannot tell you this.

After all, this matter concerns not just me, but the entire world.

But now that such things have happened, I fear the matter of the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Clan will soon be impossible to hide.

The news of the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Clan will rapidly spread throughout the world.

Therefore, it should be fine to tell Your Excellency Lin Xun.

In fact, that well is a place where an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon is sealed.

The old Holy Master once said that in our Myriad Laws World, there are nine wells in total.

These nine wells are distributed across nine Holy Lands.

With one Holy Land being the exception, and that is the Zilin Holy Land.

The well that was supposed to be in the Zilin Holy Land is sealed in the Ten Thousand Demon Sect.

These nine wells each Seal a different tribe of the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Clan.

There are nine tribes of the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Clan in total.

According to Your Excellency Lin Xun’s detailed description,

then the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon sealed in the Dragon Cry Holy Land and the one you encountered should both belong to the Blood Demon Tribe.

Beyond that, there are other strange tribes.

Every once in a while, we must reinforce the Seal on this well.

But I can feel that as time passes, the Seal on this well has been getting weaker and weaker.

I believe that in a few years, the Seals on these wells will be completely broken.

And then, the other Seals will also be broken one after another.

In fact, just as Your Excellency Lin Xun suspects, I am also wondering if some Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons have already arrived in this world.

It’s just that they are waiting for a good opportunity.

In our Dragon Cry Holy Land, only when the Soul Faction and Technique Faction work together can the Elders of both factions firmly Seal that great well.

If there are only Cultivators from one faction, it is absolutely not enough.

Therefore, when I left the Dragon Cry Holy Land, my biggest concern was that well.

Additionally, if Your Excellency Lin Xun wishes to explore the other Seals…

As he spoke, Long Ming took out a blue-purple pendant from his pocket.

“This pendant has been passed down through the generations of Dragon Cry Holy Masters; it can help locate different Seal sites.

Actually, the most worrying ones right now are the Seals in the Demon Race World.

After all, those Seals in the Demon Race World have no one to guard or pass down their location; almost no one knows about them.

So it’s inevitable to fear that one or two of the Seals in the Demon Race World might have already been broken.”

“Regarding the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Clan, I wonder if the Holy Master knows anything else?”

Lin Xun continued to ask.

Long Ming thought carefully for a moment: “It should be the organizational structure of the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Clan.

I remember the previous Holy Master telling me.

There are nine tribes in the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Clan, and among the nine tribes, there are Nine Great Generals.

Besides the Nine Great Generals, there are also three Leaders.

Above the three Leaders, there is a Demon Lord.

I heard from my Master that this Demon Lord is the source of all Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons.

As long as this Demon Lord remains alive, Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons can be created continuously.

They can never be fully exterminated.

Even in the ancient era, when the myriad races finally achieved victory,

it was merely that the Demon Lord was sealed.

In reality, this Demon Lord is extremely difficult to kill.”

Lin Xun rubbed his chin and continued to ask: “Then does the Holy Master have any clues regarding the place where that Demon Lord is sealed?”

Long Ming shook his head:

“I don’t know, and there aren’t any clues at all.

Regarding the Seal of this Demon Lord, no clues exist.

Nor would anyone dare let them exist.

Because everyone can guess that these Seals will slowly weaken.

If a few Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons escaped and lurked in the human world, and if news of this Demon Lord were discovered and spread, then the entire world would truly fall into destruction.

Therefore, to be safe, none of us know where that Demon Lord is imprisoned.

However, with this pendant, if Your Excellency Lin Xun gets within a thousand meters of that place, the pendant will be able to sense it.

But if that time truly comes, I strongly advise Your Excellency Lin Xun not to venture there alone.

After all, that is a terrifying existence.

I know Your Excellency Lin Xun’s strength is great,

but when facing such an opponent, it’s better to be cautious.”

Lin Xun accepted the pendant without standing on ceremony with Long Ming.

Lin Xun felt that saving Long Ming had been quite a good deal.

“I understand. Thank you for the pendant and the warning, Holy Master.

With this, the favor you owed me is considered repaid. We are even now.

But having said that, what do you plan to do next, Holy Master?

Do you plan to establish a new Sect, or do you plan to retake the Dragon Cry Holy Land?

If I’m in a good mood, I can help.”

“I won’t trouble Your Excellency Lin Xun…”

A few traces of melancholy appeared in Long Ming’s eyes, even carrying a hint of weariness.

“I plan to recover my previous Realm; there’s a flower called the Dragon Snow Flower.

That Dragon Blood Flower might be able to repair my foundation.

I plan to wait until I’ve recovered before having a good talk with Long Wu and the others.

After all, we all come from the same Master.

And now that things have reached this point, the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Clan is like a ticking time bomb.

If we can talk things out, we will.

We should preserve as much strength as possible to deal with the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon Clan.

Of course,

if they still stubbornly refuse to listen and don’t want to talk with me, then I’ll have to resort to some other means.”

Hearing Long Ming’s words, Lin Xun nodded and didn’t say much else.

After all, as a former Holy Master, what he chose to do was something he had far more experience in than Lin Xun.

Finally, after exchanging a few more pleasantries with the Holy Master, Lin Xun left with Goudan.

Lin Xun headed directly toward the Ten Thousand Buddhas Continent.

Lin Xun wanted to go see the Nether Abyss.

He felt that place was not simple.

Besides,

it had been a long time since he had seen Wang Chen.”