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Chapter 1921: Chapter 178: Return of the Dragon King! (2)

Its roar was so hoarse that it immediately caught the attention of other nearby mining teams.

The small boss suddenly felt guilty and quickly withdrew his whip: “Shut up! I just misjudged the grade of the original stone. Next, the entire team’s miners will have five days of extra meals. Today’s harvest is good, you can go back and rest.”

Extra meals and rest quickly eased the nervous tension among the demonic miners.

A few elderly lower-ranked demons casually carried the troublemaker back to the shabby hut, fed it some water and food, and let it fend for itself.

The demonic clan possesses very strong physiques and extremely resilient life forces; even the lowest-ranked demons, upon full maturation, can reach the equivalent strength of a Spirit Platform Realm cultivator from the human race.

In the recruitment points during the Divine Martial Era, those used for trials by the Qi Refinement Realm cultivators were actually juvenile individuals among the lower-ranked demons.

Under normal circumstances, lower-ranked adult demons can live for two to three hundred years, with all life indicators being very strong, especially their strength and recovery capability, which are quite astonishing. Such injuries from whipping can heal in about ten days.

Yet this lower-ranked demon seemed to possess some “culture,” its level of wisdom exceeding that of other lower-ranked demons.

It grumpily issued a low angry growl.

But what can be done about this?

Unless it happens to awaken a stronger demon bloodline, it will always just be a lower-ranked demon, forever unable to break free from the shackles of fate.

Sadly, for most demons, once hatched from the demonic nest, their bloodline potential and evolution direction are already set, and very few can reawaken after stabilization.

“Are you very angry?”

At this moment, a gentle voice suddenly sounded in the shabby hut.

“Who are you?”

The lower-ranked demon abruptly sat up and stared at a demon beside the bed.

That demon had a tall and powerful physique, its muscles bulging, densely covered in scales that exuded a noble metallic luster, with gigantic membrane wings high and mighty behind it, and sharp claws that seemed able to easily tear apart its body.

Especially those golden-red vertical pupils, deep and cold, exuded an indescribably terrifying deterrent.

It was the pressure from a higher-ranked demon, which, even without intentional emission, made lower-ranked demons tremble.

An ineffable fear suddenly arose in its heart, immediately causing it to shiver and prostrate directly at the feet of that higher-ranked demon, continuously pleading for mercy.

Such a higher-ranked demon is incomparable to those small bosses, even far exceeding the demonic generals.

“No need to be nervous. I’m just passing by and happened to see this scene.” The higher-ranked demon’s golden-red eyes revealed a touch of sympathy, “I can offer you a chance for a fair trade. I will grant you power and potential. You tell me where the Demon Crystal warehouse is.”

This “higher-ranked demon” was undoubtedly King of Zhennan, Yun Xiayang, who had just infiltrated the demon territory.

Since arriving at the foreign battlefield, he completely transformed his body into that of a demon.

However, demons and the human race are ultimately two completely different species. The human race, whether Immortal Dynasty people or Demon Dynasty people, primarily use “Spirit Stones” as cultivation resources.

In the Divine Martial Era, this resource was called [Immortal Crystal], with a standard lower-grade Spirit Stone equivalent to one Immortal Crystal, currently valued at about a hundred gold coins.

The Demon Dynasty also wanted to call this resource “Demon Crystal,” but the term conflicted with the real “Demon Crystal,” so it continued using the Immortal Crystal standard from the Divine Martial Dynasty Era.

Of course, those in the Demon Dynasty practicing various demonic arts, besides needing Spirit Stones, also require some other resources for cultivation assistance, such as the Yinsha Sect which favors some Evil Qi or Mingsha Qi for cultivation assistance.

And the Red Lotus True Demon Sutra of the Shen Tu lineage of the Demon Emperor requires some fire evil resources, with the higher the grade, the better.

At its core, it’s because pure demonic or evil qi cannot be fully converted and absorbed by the human body.

From this view alone, there’s no essential difference between Demon Dynasty people and Immortal Dynasty people; fundamentally, they are the same race, only differing in cultivation methods.

However, the true foreign demons are different. They are an entirely different species from the human race, with their most commonly used cultivation resource being “Demon Crystal.”

The origin of “Demon Crystal” is similar to that of “Immortal Crystal,” formed from the gradual concentration of high-density demonic qi into crystals.

Demon Crystal and Immortal Crystal are two completely opposite energy crystals.

Therefore, once King of Zhennan completely transformed into a demon, Immortal Crystal became useless to him, and only Demon Crystal could make him stronger.

In his demonic body state, his bloodline was entirely inherited from the Dragon Blood Demon God, even inheriting the Power of Laws mastered by the Dragon Blood Demon God, as well as some battle experiences.

Only because his cultivation base was at the Early Transcendent Void Realm, even after transforming into the Dragon Blood Demon God, he lacked sufficient energy to restore to the peak strength of the Dragon Blood Demon God. Currently, he is roughly equivalent to a “juvenile” Demonic God, possessing rank but lacking sufficient strength.

The base in the East Drought Defence Zone houses a batch of seized Demon Crystals accumulated over the years.

Relying on these Demon Crystals, King of Zhennan barely “recovered” to approximately the human race’s Mid Transcendent Void Realm strength. But this is far from enough.

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