Chapter 362 - A Chaotic Night (1/2)

Chapter 362 A Chaotic Night“Wait!” The Old Demon of the Black Mountain stretched his hand, yelling for Xiao Chen to stop. Xiao Chen turned around. “Ten days later. Second floor. Whether you come or not, it’s up to you.”

The Old Demon threw his head back and laughed. “Very well, I appreciate your braveness, kid! I’ll forgo the three kowtows!” His voice suddenly turned cold. “But if you fail, I’ll still swallow you whole!”

Xiao Chen didn’t reply and left in the direction he came in. Behind him, the Ox-head Monster was covered in cold sweat. This kid didn’t even fear the Old Demon of the Black Mountain, he thought. It seemed that Xiao Chen must also be an incredibly vicious person out in the wild.

Back on the second floor, he found the Koo-chee beast waiting for him at the end of the passage. “Koo-chee, Koo-chee!” it cried, running over to him after seeing him return safe and sound. Xiao Chen chuckled and showed the beast his two hands, now filled with four or five orange-red and bright purple fresh fruits. He had conveniently taken them on the third floor on his way back.

“Koo-chee! Koo-chee!” The Koo-chee beast was overjoyed. Some distance away, the Siberian weasel and his group of demons started salivating. “Those are… Lingering Fragrance Fruits. It’s been so long since we had them…”

“That reminds me of the time when I was young and just imprisoned here…”

Xiao Chen looked at them for a moment before conjuring ten or so of such fruits from his Divine Vessel and tossing them over. The group of demons was stunned and dared not pick the fruit up. On the one hand, they feared the current Xiao Chen. On the other hand, they remembered how they had beaten him up when he first arrived here.

The Siberian weasel demon drummed up his courage to say, “Um… Great Immortal Xiao, did you meet the Old Demon of the Black Mountain?”

Xiao Chen didn’t answer. Only after walking more than a hundred feet away, did he turn his head to reply, “Ten days later.” Then, he returned to his spot.

Under the stone wall, Xiao Chen took a deep breath. He felt exhaustion wash over him. Could he pull off the escape successfully this time? This time, the flight wasn’t the only thing he would do. He must return in the future and save Senior Xiao Ning. However, the Old Demon of the Black Mountain implied that their previous attempts at escaping had all failed.

“Brother Koo-chee, we’re going to leave this place soon. Will you feel reluctant?”

The Koo-chee beast looked around it with its large, blinking eyes. It whimpered, “Wuu… Koo-chee…”

Xiao Chen was stunned. Could the beast be genuinely reluctant to leave this tower? He asked, “How long have they imprisoned you here?”

“Koo-chee… Koo-chee, Koo-chee!” The beast blinked its big eyes and shook its head.

Xiao Chen sighed. The Koo-chee beast could no longer remember how long it had been… He turned to look at the group of small demons fighting over the fruits, suddenly finding them to be somewhat pitiful.

The destruction of the Demon Realm forced them into a fate of wandering in the Human World. Yet humans drove them out and hunted them just because they were different. Every year, countless demons died under the might of flying swords, had their Internal Elixirs stolen by immortality-seeking hunters, and callously abandoned by their human lovers after learning about their identity.

Out of the blue, he noticed a problem. Back in Xianyong Sect, he remembered Perfected Immortal Fengxi mentioning how grim the ancient war. In releasing his Primordial Power, the Demon King accidentally caused the collapse of the Demon Realm and led to the third stage of the Annihilation Times—the Age of Dharma Decline.

The five other Realms—the Human Realm, Ghost Realm, Heaven Realm, Devil Realm—ought to have collapsed along with the Demon Realm but ultimately didn’t. The only difference was that cracks appeared between the realms. What happened? Could the rumors be true, that a divine being miraculously saved the living at such a critical juncture?

“Koo-chee! Koo-chee!” the Koo-chee beast cried, interrupting his train of thoughts. Xiao Chen chuckled and then sighed. These unsubstantial things were better left for another day. He might as well concentrate on figuring out his escape in ten days.

The next day, he once again went down the ninth underground floor. He clenched his hands as he watched the man sleeping inside and said softly, “Senior Xiao Ning, you must have fallen for the trap while executing my Master’s orders back then. I vow that I’ll get you out of here and right the thousand-year injustice against you even if the price I must pay is my life!”

Xiao Chen had no attachment to the Xiao family in Violet Manor. Still, the man in front of him was the true forefather of the Xiao family in the Human World. Without him, the family in the Human World and by extension, him, wouldn’t exist.

Over the next few days, Xiao Chen carefully prepared for his upcoming “prison outbreak” plan. The demons and monsters on the floors above were busy. Many monsters frequently came down to report the latest progress to him. The Siberian weasel demon also served as the messenger, helping him pass on messages to those above.

In just a few days, Xiao Chen’s name had become a household name among the demons. After all, he was someone who could get the Old Demon of the Black Mountain to work with him with just a few words. Simultaneously, the world outside was also experiencing significant turmoil.

A year passed by, numerous significant events happened. Soul-consuming Evil Flowers had blossomed in all parts of the world, many Sect Leaders had gone missing without reason, and the Devil’s sects had been going on a rampage. The terrifying news of them all was the Corpse Refinery Sect teaming up with a deranged Great Devil—a lone-wolf who claimed that he was trapped in the Human World for a thousand years after being entrapped—to attack thousand-year-old ancient sects. No one was strong enough to hold them off.

Meanwhile, countless Orthodox seniors had worked together to seal the Abyss of Devil’s Aura. The damage in Spiritual Meridians that Tianyuan City suffered one year ago had led to the sharp decline of spirit energy and the withering of many plants in a range of several hundreds of miles.

Numerous ancient sects and clans that had lain in seclusion for many years sent their disciples outside to temper themselves through experience. This led to a meteoric rise in many youngsters, and many achieved the real Nascent Soul Realm, surpassing the older generation in numbers. Turbulent times were upon the Violet Manor, and unrest was near. Many in the older generation could feel that the first stage of the Annihilation Times had truly arrived.

Even more shocking was the numerous sightings of auspicious signs or falling of Heavenly Punishments in the five continents in recent days. Rumors had it that someone had ascended to the Grand Completion Realm and achieved immortality. In nearly a thousand years, no one had ever heard of anyone capable of pulling off such a stunt, yet these had been happening at an alarming rate.

Recently, a shocking piece of news went round the East Continent with the speed of an inferno ravaging the prairie and reached the other continents in just a few days.