Volume 1, Chapter 178 – The Yueji Skirt

Clothing and ritual dress were things unique to the human race; demons and fiends disdained them entirely.

As for the Ancient Gods and the Half-God Race, they used their blood and qi as gauze to display their bloodlines. At most, they wore divine weapon battle armor and had no concept of clothing and formal attire at all.

Before the ancient era, the great demons and mighty fiends did not even have the notion of taking on a different shape. They walked the world in their true bodies, trampling mountains and land, collapsing peaks and severing rivers wherever they passed.

After the great war of the ancient era, a large portion of the demon and fiend races were forced into the Boundless Sea. The rest were sealed on the continent by the human race and slowly encircled and destroyed piece by piece.

A dog driven into a corner will still leap over a wall, let alone those great demons and fiend overlords.

The human race’s martial edge was too sharp. Meeting them head-on meant only one road: annihilation. As the situation grew ever more perilous, some of the great demons, desperate to change their fate, made a bold attempt.

That was to “become human.”

They would take on human form to evade this world-shaking calamity.

The first to try were several great demons of the fox clan. They turned their bewitching arts, which confused the minds of others, back onto themselves and used them to assume a human shape.

It was essentially like draping a false garment over themselves. Then they shrank tendons and softened bones, altering their size and frame as camouflage.

However, this method did not change their essence. It could only fool low-level martial artists. In front of high-level human experts, there was nowhere for them to hide, and those great fox demons were killed one after another.

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Seeing this, the other great demons and mighty fiends shrank their bodies as much as they could to evade the human encirclement, while also beginning to study a true method of transformation.

Although those fox clan great demons had been exposed and cut down, they had at least proven that this method had some effect, even if it only deceived a few low-level martial artists.

As time went on, the demon and fiend races made breakthrough progress in changing their forms.

However, the larger the body, the more terrifying the consumption required to transform.

Once they reached the level of Heaven Demon or Heaven Devil, or even Emperor level, these terrifying beings had bodies so enormous they were measured in tens of thousands of zhang. Their true forms naturally possessed dreadful combat strength, but taking on another form became all the more difficult.

In the end, it was actually those with lower cultivation who succeeded in transforming first.

Even so, the weakest among that group of demons and fiends were still at the Myriad Phenomena Realm.

The first requirement for transformation was to possess divine sense, and that only came after reaching the Myriad Phenomena Realm and opening up a sea of consciousness.

After transforming, as long as they did not erupt with their full power or let their demonic qi leak out, these demons and fiends were almost no different from ordinary people. What was more, with no impurities in their bodies, their looks and figures were, from a human point of view, all top-tier.

This group of demons and fiends mixed in among the humans and immediately caused the human race great trouble.

The human race had never imagined that demons and fiends would have such a method, one that even high-level martial artists could not see through, and many casualties followed.

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A flawless encirclement suddenly developed a gap.

The humans adapted extremely quickly. Seeing that the situation could not be salvaged, they simply opened the encirclement completely. After confirming, through their historical records, the true forms of some top experts, they集中力量 and focused their efforts on encircling and killing the Heaven-Man Realm and above demons and fiends first.

These powerful demons and fiends, even if they shrank their bodies, still moved in ways that were conspicuous.

Faced with this, the high-level experts of the demon and fiend races split into two groups. One chose to fight to the death.

The other chose to sever their own Nascent Souls, shatter the small worlds they had nurtured for many years, knock their cultivation back down to the Myriad Phenomena Realm, and then seek a way to transform.

Those demons and fiends who were the first to take on human form inevitably came into contact with many things unique to the human race, and their ways of thinking slowly began to shift.

After they broke out of the encirclement and regrouped with their kin in the Boundless Sea, they spread the transformation method.

Perhaps because the human form most resembled that of the Ancient Gods, as the method grew more refined, many demons and fiends discovered that comprehending the laws of heaven and earth in a human body allowed their strength to advance at a much faster rate.

As a result, high-level demons and fiends successively took on human form. Some of them used the opportunity to return to the continent and stir up storms.

However, the human race soon developed methods to sense demonic and fiendish qi. No matter how perfectly those demons and fiends hid their auras, they could not conceal every trace.

In the end, the demon and fiend races were still unable to raise any great waves. They were completely driven back into the Boundless Sea.

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But as the transformation method spread, clothing and adornment quickly became popular among high-level demons and fiends and have been passed down ever since.

After millions of years, some clans among the demons and fiends had already developed styles of dress very different from humans, each unique in its own way.

The Yueji Skirt in Cang Yue’s hands was only modestly known in the entire Boundless Demon Domain, but the Su branch of the fox clan that had woven this skirt was one of the most top-tier great clans, with a Demon Emperor in residence.

Clothing was only useful to transformed great demons, so the Su branch dealt exclusively with transformed demon kings. Their connections stretched far and wide, and their foundation was incomparably deep.

Shi Lan stared at the wooden box in Cang Yue’s hands for quite some time before reaching out to take it. Her current outfit was far too “wild,” and wearing beast hide on her body was definitely not as comfortable as wearing a skirt.

After wearing the White Crane Skirt for so long, she had grown rather used to it.

“These will count as two hundred Earth Fiend Realm demon beasts in total. Make up the rest as soon as possible.”

With that, Shi Lan waved her hand, closing the lids of the more than ten wooden boxes and putting them away together with the Yueji Skirt into the Qiankun Bracelet.

Cang Yue opened his mouth but ultimately did not say anything more. In terms of value, the treasures he had given, even without that Yueji Skirt, already far exceeded the remaining Earth Fiend Realm demon beasts.

When he had first decided to send Shi Lan such high-priced treasures and even gone to great lengths to find a Yueji Skirt, his intention had been to build a good relationship with her.

Cang Yue had thought Shi Lan would be very pleased or at least look at him differently. In the end, her reaction was only barely acceptable. The Yueji Skirt had not truly moved her.

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This left Cang Yue feeling that he had taken quite a loss.

Since Shi Lan was now saying that all these treasures could only count as two hundred Earth Fiend Realm demon beasts, then no matter how high their actual value was, they could only be worth two hundred. Saying more was pointless.

“This little king will make up the rest as quickly as possible. Thank you for your leniency, Venerable one.” Cang Yue sighed inwardly and answered respectfully.

After sending Cang Yue away, Shi Lan slaughtered all of the more than one hundred Earth Fiend Realm demon beasts. Without even taking time to absorb the blood and flesh essence, she darted back into the cave in just a few steps and began inventorying her gains.

The first box she opened was naturally the one containing the Yueji Skirt. She had been wearing beast hide for months now and was already a bit fed up with it. Although it did not have any strange smell, using beast hide to cover herself always felt somewhat off.

The moment her hand brushed the Yueji Skirt, Shi Lan was surprised to find that it was actually an extraordinary treasure on par with a top-grade magic artifact, faintly containing its own spirituality. It was exceptionally rare.

Besides that, the Yueji Skirt had both an inner and outer layer, with a soft, tough inner layer of thin armor.

Shi Lan stretched out both hands and gripped the corners of the skirt. As her strength surged, the hem went taut in an instant.

Half an instant later, when Shi Lan released her hands, the skirt remained completely unchanged.