"Ruins, Southern Region, Demon Race, with me here, you are all trash." After saying that, he teleported away.
Lin Qing has also learned the divine power of Ten Thousand Swords Returning to One. Having obtained Jian Tian's soul, he can use Ten Thousand Swords Returning to One without any pressure.
Lin Qing also learned the direction of the Southern Region from this, and without stopping, he began to teleport towards the Southern Region.
The cultivation world is a vast continent, divided into the Eastern Region, Southern Region, Northern Region, Western Region, and the most prosperous and powerful Central Region.
There is also the most vast and desolate wilderness, where the Western Regions and the Northern Regions meet the sea. The sea is boundless and no one has ever explored the border.
Looking up into the sky, there are powerful beings who have been flying for a year without being able to fly out, and they don't know how high the sky is.
Lin Qing knew all this, of course, from within Jian Tian's soul, but it had nothing to do with Lin Qing.
Anyway, Lin Qing will enter the next world after completing this side quest; he's just a passerby.
Meanwhile, after the dozen or so top sects in the Central Region resolved the demonic conspiracy, they also learned that the Southern Region had become the Demon Realm.
They then began to dispatch a powerful army of cultivators to the Southern Region to slay demons and eliminate the demon race, the culprit.
This time, the team was led by Wang Youdao from the strongest sect, the Overlord Sect. Wang Youdao is very strong; he could kill someone like Jian Tian in ten moves.
As for the other domains, they all suffered from the demons' schemes to varying degrees, and the sects in the Central Domain sent cultivators to help them.
This time, Wang Youdao has a very important mission: to eliminate the culprit, and he cannot afford to fail.
"So this is the Southern Region. It is indeed a dead land, filled with demonic energy and death energy. Only corpse demons can survive in it. Even the sun cannot shine through."
Lin Qing frowned as he looked at the ground before him, and he also saw the Corpse Demon rushing towards him in the distance.
Its entire body was as black as ink, with a ferocious face, baring its teeth and claws, and its whole body was like a dried corpse, with demonic energy and death energy swirling around it.
Lin Qing looked at the border between the Demon Realm and the Eastern Region not far away, and then with a thought, he jumped out of the Demon Realm and stood on the land that had not been corrupted by demonic energy.
Instantly, countless corpse demons swarmed forward, but they stopped at the edge of the Demon Realm, baring their teeth and brandishing their claws as they looked at Lin Qing.
Seeing this, Lin Qing immediately captured a corpse demon. Instantly, sunlight shone on the corpse demon, and it melted into a pool of black water as if it had been exposed to sulfuric acid.
Lin Qing stroked his chin, then waved his hand at the sky. A dark cloud covered the sun, and the surrounding area instantly became gloomy.
However, the corpse demons remained stationary, so Lin Qing captured another one. This time, the corpse demon did not melt.
But the Corpse Demon seemed to have lost its power and collapsed to the ground like a corpse. Lin Qing seemed to be deep in thought.
The corpse demon was thrown into the Demon Realm, and immediately it came back to life, baring its fangs and claws at Lin Qing again.
"It seems that these corpse demons can only move by relying on demonic energy, and once they leave the Demon Realm, they are like dead corpses."
"If exposed to sunlight, it will dissolve directly," Lin Qing chuckled.
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Lin Qing has already come up with a solution; now it's time to find the culprit.
Ignoring the corpse demons, it flew directly over their heads and headed towards the inland of the Southern Region.
In the Southern Region, where demonic energy also permeated, Lin Qing's divine sense was severely obstructed, its range reduced by a full 50%, and even his teleportation range shortened, allowing him to only teleport a mere two hundred miles.
Lin Qing didn't even bother with teleportation this time; he simply flew and checked the surroundings for any clues.
After all, one cannot exert one's full power of divine sense at all times, as that would make Lin Qing even more drowsy.
After flying only a few hundred miles, he saw a large group of winged corpse demons rushing towards Lin Qing, and some of them could even spit out energy balls from their mouths.
"These corpse demons actually have levels." Lin Qing was quite surprised.
It seems these corpse demons can also evolve. Perhaps the higher-level corpse demons have become intelligent, or perhaps they have evolved into demons.
Lin Qing's pupils dilated slightly as the corpse demons exploded. Lin Qing didn't want to waste any more time.
He crushed the attacking corpse demons into powder and then concealed himself (invisibility + concealment of aura) to continue forward.
Unbeknownst to him, Lin Qing had been flying for several hours and was approaching the central area of the Southern Region, where the demonic energy was becoming increasingly dense.
Furthermore, the corpse demons here are becoming increasingly powerful; even the weakest one here is comparable to Xiao Hei's fighting strength from before.
The powerful ones are already on par with Jian Tian, which is incredibly terrifying, especially considering that there are tens of thousands of them.
Fortunately, they lacked wisdom and could only act according to their instincts.
Lin Qing stopped, opened his mouth and inhaled. Hundreds of nearby corpse demons flew into Lin Qing's mouth without any resistance, slowly shrinking until they were swallowed by Lin Qing.
[Ding! You have gained 1,000 evolution points by consuming a fifth-tier corpse demon.]
[Ding! You have gained 1,000 evolution points by consuming a fifth-tier corpse demon.]
[Ding! You have gained 1,000 evolution points by consuming a fifth-tier corpse demon.]
"Ugh!" Lin Qing vomited for the first time. She didn't know why, and nothing came out. She just kept dry heaving.
"What's going on? Is it the demonic energy affecting me? Or is it because I can still taste things now?" Lin Qing frowned.
"vomit!"
A full minute later, Lin Qing gradually calmed down. Seeing this, Lin Qing had a thought, and his whole body shone with golden light. Then, a small true dragon with a body size of two meters appeared.
Seeing more corpse demons rushing towards him, Lin Qing immediately opened his mouth wide and inhaled, swallowing hundreds of corpse demons into his stomach.
[Ding! You have gained 1,000 evolution points by consuming a fifth-tier corpse demon.]
"Ugh!" Lin Qing vomited again, and this time he even vomited up bitter water, not just dry heaving.
It took Lin Qing a full five minutes to recover. He immediately transformed back into human form, took out some drinks, and gulped them down to calm his stomach.
"Could it really be due to demonic energy? You know, I had no sense of taste when I transformed into a dragon."
Lin Qing wanted to figure it out, so he took out a red boar corpse. Although it had been dead for a long time, time did not pass in the storage bag.
So, just as if he had just died, Lin Qing swallowed the red boar whole in one gulp.
[Ding! You have gained 100 evolution points by consuming the Red Boar's corpse.]
"Ugh!" She vomited again, still bitter liquid, because the contents of her stomach were instantly digested, leaving only bitter liquid.
"It seems it's not due to taste, nor is it due to demonic energy." Lin Qing vaguely sensed something.
He then continued to take out the red boar's corpse and began to eat it. "Ugh!" Ten minutes later, Lin Qing finally understood the reason.
Lin Qing is now a true dragon, with the bloodline of a top-tier divine beast. When he devours these inferior creatures, even raw, he feels a sense of disgust and rejection.
That's why he felt nauseous. Of course, if Lin Qing were to eat those mythical beasts, he definitely wouldn't feel this way.
Of course, Lin Qing wouldn't object to cooking and eating those lower-level creatures.
Now, Lin Qing was destined not to devour these low-level demons and monsters anymore; gagging and vomiting bitter water was just too uncomfortable.
If it were only for such a short time each time, Lin Qing could definitely endure it, but this feeling would gradually intensify, and if it happened too often, she might feel nauseous just from smelling it.
Upon learning the reason, Lin Qing flew directly into the sky, piercing through the demonic energy and appearing above the Southern Region, in an area free of demonic energy.
Lin Qing immediately took out some food and began to eat voraciously in mid-air, trying to alleviate the feeling of nausea, which was too unpleasant.
Just now, when he was drinking the beverage, it was instantly corrupted by demonic energy, and the taste was extremely awful. If it weren't for the spiritual power protecting him from behind, Lin Qing would probably have vomited even more severely.
Therefore, one can only eat outside the range of demonic energy; otherwise, the food will be infected the moment it is taken out.
Meanwhile, Wang Youdao's large army had reached the central area of the Southern Region, the origin of cholera.
Lin Qing didn't know, because Jian Tian didn't know either, but Wang Youdao did know; their intelligence system was the best in the world.
The information that Ba Zong received was as follows:
Ten thousand years ago, ten demon lords who invaded the continent were killed by an unparalleled powerhouse, their souls scattered.
However, there was a Demon Lord, and Quan Hong survived with one soul because he possessed a top-tier demonic artifact bestowed upon him by the Demon Emperor.
This soul recuperated and healed within the demonic artifact, eventually restoring its lost soul and becoming a new demon lord.
Quan Hong possesses memories and has a completely different personality, but he only has a soul and no physical body, so he dares not be too flamboyant.
They could only quietly preserve their strength and make their own plans; those ancient ruins were part of Quan Hong's conspiracy.
The above is information about the Overlord Sect; what follows is information they are unaware of.
Eleven years ago, he successfully repaired part of the array that led to the Demon Realm, although he could not open the passage between them.
However, they also made contact with the Demon Emperor. There is only one Demon Emperor in the Demon Realm, who is supreme and rules over the entire Demon Race.
The Demon Emperor had only one order: to repair the teleportation array as soon as possible. He then ordered his subordinates to continuously send demonic energy through the array into the Southern Region for twelve hours.
The demonic energy that had been gathering for ten years swept across the entire Southern Region in just a few days a year ago, turning it into a wasteland.
Furthermore, the teleportation array is almost fully repaired; otherwise, Quan Hong wouldn't have directly transformed the Southern Region into the Demon Realm.
This was merely to lure the demons here, to turn this place, which they had once used for recuperation and cultivation, into a base for war and to invade the cultivation world.
As for the Demon Emperor, he was too powerful and was rejected by the world, so he could not descend upon the cultivation world and could only send his subordinates to invade.
Of course, Lin Qing knew none of this, but Ba Zong also knew nothing about these matters, only that the culprit was Quan Hong.
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"Haha, you're too late. The formation has been almost repaired and will be fully completed in a few more days."
An exceptionally loud voice pierced through the layers of demonic energy and reached Lin Qing, who was enjoying a delicious meal in the sky.
Lin Qing immediately covered the area with his divine sense and saw the hundreds of powerful figures from the top sects of the Central Region below.
They also saw thousands of demons, standing in an orderly military formation, led by an exceptionally burly demon.
It has two horns on its head, is five meters tall, and is entirely black except for the red veins and blood vessels that flow through it, which emit a faint red glow. Its face is also unusually ferocious.
Behind him were two folded black wings, which made him the true demon, not the thousands of demons behind him.
They should be the demons transformed from the hundreds of billions of lives in the Southern Region.
"You are Quan Hong? The defeated opponent of my Bazong's tenth ancestor tens of thousands of years ago, Quan Hong who has been lingering on for tens of thousands of years?" Wang Youdao stood with his hands behind his back, his white robes fluttering.
Coupled with the image of thousands of demons in front of him and hundreds of his subordinates behind him, he really knows how to put on a show.
"You're a disciple of the Overlord Sect?" Quan Hong's expression became somewhat unnatural. However, he quickly regained his composure.