Chapter 186: Seven Months

By I Eat Tomatoes

King Donghe saw Meng Chuan and the other Godfiend and nodded slightly. He was very familiar with these two Great Solar Godfiends.

Meng Chuan was personally recruited by him into Yuanchu Mountain and was the most outstanding disciple of that batch! King Donghe felt as if he was looking at his own disciple.

Zhang Junfeng, on the other hand, was close to his age, having joined Yuanchu Mountain two years after him. At the time, Zhang Junfeng's ability to cultivate a Transcendent-grade Godfiend body was also considered excellent among his peers. However, King Donghe was far more dazzling back then. Born into an ordinary family, he displayed astonishing talent while studying at the Dao Academy and was invited to join Yuanchu Mountain early. He was even more brilliant than Xue Feng, Meng Chuan, and Liu Qiyue are today, becoming a Marquis Godfiend at thirty-six and a King Godfiend at seventy-nine. Now, he has been a King Godfiend for over a century, and his strength is unfathomable.

"Yuanchu Mountain received several distress calls, stating that a 'Fourth Heaven' level threat was discovered in Changfeng Prefecture," King Donghe inquired. "I just scanned the entire Changfeng Prefecture, and only you two Godfiends are alive."

"Several distress calls?"

Zhang Junfeng and Meng Chuan exchanged glances. The Godfiends who fled for their lives must have also sent out distress calls.

"Junior Brother Meng and I rushed to Changfeng Prefecture for rescue. On the surface, there were three demon kings causing trouble, but it was actually a trap," Zhang Junfeng explained. "A Fourth Heaven Demon King was hidden in the shadows. Most of the Godfiends who rushed in were essentially walking to their deaths. Fortunately, Junior Brother Meng's speed was swift enough to save my life. That's how the Fourth Heaven Demon King was exposed."

"Where is that Fourth Heaven Demon King now?" King Donghe asked.

"The demon king fled skyward thirty breaths ago," Zhang Junfeng replied. "He's a scorpion demon with a divine ability that allows him to release poisonous needles, which can attack within a one-and-a-half-mile radius."

"Thirty breaths? There's still a chance to pursue." King Donghe's figure blurred and instantly vanished.

Zhang Junfeng couldn't help but say, "In thirty breaths, that demon king must be a hundred miles away by now, and we don't even know his direction. Yet King Donghe is still giving chase."

"Uncle-Master Donghe's speed is even greater than mine," Meng Chuan said in awe. "He just mentally scanned the entire Changfeng Prefecture. Naturally, he can also scan for that Fourth Heaven Demon King over a large area. He might just find him. Once found... that demon king is doomed."

King Donghe spent twenty breaths of time, scanning a two-hundred-mile radius centered on Changfeng Prefecture.

He still couldn't find Grand Demon King Zhuang Fu.

"It seems he burrowed underground," King Donghe said, looking down from the sky. His detection methods, when penetrating underground, would be far less effective, making widespread searches impossible.

Following this, King Donghe held his inspection token. The token's design was incredibly intricate, engraved with a map of the entire Great Zhou Dynasty. For this mission, he was responsible for five prefectures, including Wuzhou, Huangzhou, and Jiangzhou!

"To the next location."

King Donghe, flying at a height of one hundred zhang above the ground, vanished into the horizon at an incredibly high speed. Staying closer to the ground allowed for quicker detection of demon kings.

"In the human world, human Godfiends still hold the overall advantage. Within the Great Zhou Dynasty, there are only seven major city passes, requiring just one Creation Realm Venerable and eight King Godfiends for long-term defense. Other King Godfiends should currently be hunting everywhere," Grand Demon King Zhuang Fu thought as he burrowed more than a mile deep underground. "Underground is the safest place."

"Though slower, it's safe," Grand Demon King Zhuang Fu was very patient, and having cultivated 'Earth Power,' he was also skilled in earth evasion. Naturally, it was still much slower than moving unhindered on the surface.

"I'll switch locations and plan another ambush against Godfiends."

"The period of human migration is a rare opportunity to hunt Godfiends," Grand Demon King Zhuang Fu advanced quickly underground.

As for fleeing skyward in front of Meng Chuan and Zhang Junfeng? That was intentionally done for the human Godfiends to see.

Matters in Changfeng Prefecture would naturally be overseen by other Godfiends.

Meng Chuan and Zhang Junfeng returned to Jiangzhou City. As soon as they were back, Meng Chuan immediately rested and slept, as deep sleep was the fastest way to recover his primordial spirit energy, even quicker than meditation. More than three hours later, his inspection token heated up again, startling Meng Chuan awake.

"Let's go."

He rendezvoused with Zhang Junfeng, and without hesitation, they immediately set off again for rescue.

Fortunately, the deep sleep for over three hours had restored most of Meng Chuan's primordial spirit energy, giving him the confidence to face dangerous situations.

The day Blackwater Palace Master attacked Jiangzhou City was March 19th, also the day when the Demon Race and the Sky Demon Gate launched their attacks across the world, all in the morning.

Even small and medium-sized city passes were attacked that morning! This forced Marquis Godfiends to go and defend them.

This day was the most tragic.

Five King Godfiends, including the Yuanchu Mountain Master, were each responsible for several prefectures. Venerable Qin Wu guarded the Yuanchu Mountain stronghold, also defending 'Yuanchu City' at the foot of the mountain. The Yuanchu Mountain stronghold was critically important; as the oldest sect, it contained too many secrets. A single King Godfiend guarding it would not be enough. One must remember... the Sky Demon Gate alone had two Fifth Heaven Sky Demons! It was also unknown whether any 'Fifth Heaven Demon Kings' were hidden in the human world.

There might even be one or two.

Everything was unpredictable.

As the main stronghold, Yuanchu Mountain would not panic even if half of the Great Zhou Dynasty's territory was lost. However, if the stronghold itself was gone and its long accumulation was plundered, then it would truly be over!

Yuanchu Mountain had faced many crises throughout its history, such as when Black Sand Grotto-Heaven was at its strongest, Yuanchu Mountain abandoned all external territories and completely defended its stronghold. According to the sect's iron rule, one Creation Realm Venerable must guard Yuanchu Mountain! If, in a certain era, there was no Creation Realm Venerable, at least three King Godfiends had to guard it.

As long as the Yuanchu Mountain stronghold was held, they would have the confidence to face any danger.

Time passed.

In the following days, the intensity of the battles significantly decreased.

This was because, although many human Godfiends had fallen on March 19th, the Demon Race and the Sky Demon Gate suffered even heavier losses!

On that day, six Fourth Heaven Sky Demons were killed! Three were fought to the death by Great Solar Godfiends, and the other three were slain by King Godfiends. The Sky Demon Gate was no longer willing to dispatch Fourth Heaven Sky Demons, deeming their losses significant enough.

On this day, three Fourth Heaven Demon Kings also died, all at the hands of King Godfiends. However, the cautious and cunning Grand Demon King Zhuang Fu survived. The surviving Fourth Heaven Demon Kings also became more vigilant; while rewards were desirable, one had to be alive to enjoy them.

Therefore, after March 19th... Fourth Heaven-level attacks became very rare.

Meng Chuan and Zhang Junfeng frequently received deployment orders, going on one rescue mission after another. Because of their swiftness, they could easily resolve threats from ordinary demon kings. Yuanchu Mountain was still happy to dispatch them.

Over the next nearly seven months, they rescued areas within a thousand-mile radius and encountered a Fourth Heaven Demon King only once! It was an ape demon king, incredibly fierce. However, in terms of ambush and assassination techniques, he was not as insidious as Grand Demon King Zhuang Fu. The ape demon king would charge out with a smashing blow from his staff, only skilled in close combat. Meng Chuan immediately unleashed his full primordial spirit energy, taking Senior Brother Zhang, and easily escaped!

A Fourth Heaven Ape Demon King, who specialized only in close combat, posed less of a threat than Grand Demon King Zhuang Fu.

Of course, the ape demon king's sneak attack with his staff was terrifyingly powerful, creating a gorge over a mile long in the earth and tragically killing hundreds of mortals. After chasing Meng Chuan and the other for a short while, the ape demon king, seeing no hope, immediately soared into the sky and fled. These Fourth Heaven Demon Kings also dared not fight for too long, fearing the arrival of King Godfiends.

"Junior Brother Meng, Junior Brother Yang."

On the evening of October 6th, a secret message from Yuanchu Mountain arrived for Senior Brother Zhang Junfeng.

After reading the secret message, Senior Brother Zhang Junfeng handed it to Meng Chuan and Yang Fang with a complex expression, saying, "The Great Migration... it's over."

Meng Chuan took the secret message, and Yang Fang put down his roasted meat to glance at it as well.

"The Great Migration is over." Both Meng Chuan and Yang Fang felt a sense of daze.

"Now, we can completely abandon the small and medium-sized city passes," Zhang Junfeng said with a sigh. "A large number of demon kings will flood into our human world."