Volume 1, Chapter 233 – Demon King

Looking at the scant bit of information left behind by that martial artist, Shi Lan felt slightly curious.

The person who had spent more than eighteen million battle merits to exchange for that fox Demon King was not someone from the Demon-Suppressing Army.

Given Shi Lan’s current understanding of battle merit totals, an ordinary ten-thousand commander in the Demon-Suppressing Army, even one seasoned by long years of battle, would only have a few million merits at most.

If he was not a commander in the Demon-Suppressing Army, then he was a martial artist who had accumulated battle merits through the Martial Summons Token. For someone to gather such an enormous sum of battle merits within the not-so-long stretch of time since the demon race’s invasion began—

one could only imagine how many demon beasts had died by his hand. His cultivation was certainly far above the Heavenly Astral Realm.

For a martial artist of that level, this Demon King should not have been of much use.

Those eighteen million battle merits could easily have been exchanged for other treasures that would directly increase one’s strength.

But that had nothing to do with her.

The thought passed through her mind in an instant, and Shi Lan tossed the matter aside and continued browsing the exchangeable items.

Seeing Shi Lan immersed in looking through the items, Wu Lingkong did not disturb her and instead walked straight to another exchange platform.

Page after page of all kinds of heavenly materials and earthly treasures slid before Shi Lan’s eyes, almost dazzling her.

The gap in battle merits required between items of different ranks was enormous.

Shi Lan glanced at a True Dragon Fruit listed among the seventh-grade immortal roots. The tens of millions of battle merits required made her keenly aware of just how poor she was.

After calming the sense of disparity in her heart, Shi Lan began to think about what she currently needed.

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The Purple Star Seven-Section Halberd she had been using before had been shattered to pieces during the trial of the Guiyun Sword Sovereign.

Although the Golden Rainbow Star-Chasing Sword was a five-star divine weapon, enough for her to use all the way into the Myriad Phenomena Realm, there were still two problems. First, her cultivation was not high enough, so it was difficult for her to bring out Golden Rainbow’s full power. Second, after using a great halberd in open, sweeping battle formations for so long, using a longsword again still felt somewhat unnatural.

Moreover, if she could have another suitable treasure weapon at hand, then in the midst of battle formations, she could let Golden Rainbow act on its own and reap even greater results.

Shi Lan opened the treasure section. After selecting carefully for a long time, she finally chose a new halberd.

This halberd was named Tianhuang, and it was a treasure weapon.

A treasure weapon was a special type of weapon between a top-grade magic treasure and a spirit treasure. It had already developed faint spirituality. It only needed one more opportunity to give birth to a weapon spirit and advance into a spirit treasure.

This Tianhuang Halberd cost Shi Lan 1.2 million battle merits, but she did not feel the slightest bit of heartache. This halberd would be enough for her to use all the way to the Heavenly Astral Realm.

Battle merits meant nothing just sitting there. Putting everything to its proper use was the right path.

After exchanging for the Tianhuang Halberd, Shi Lan opened the section for pills that increased one’s cultivation and exchanged for a portion of every kind of pill. Her battle merits fell by nearly another two million.

Ever since she began cultivating, Shi Lan had not taken many pills. Most of the time, she had directly consumed spiritual materials, which was actually something of a waste.

When spiritual materials were refined into pills, the effects of the various supplementary ingredients stacked together, making them naturally far more effective than simply swallowing the raw materials.

But Shi Lan truly did not have the energy to study the pill path.

In the blink of an eye, more than four million battle merits had been reduced to less than one million. Shi Lan skimmed over the information on the items before her at a glance.

A moment later, her eyes stopped in the techniques section.

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Nine Spirits Foundation-Casting Art

Battle merits: 800,000 points.

This was a method for condensing one’s martial foundation. Its grade was quite good. When someone in the Body Tempering Realm stepped into the Innate Realm, it could solidify the foundation, strengthening a martial artist’s future upper limit.

Naturally, with Shi Lan’s current cultivation, she had no use for it, but her two younger brothers at home were currently at just this stage of cultivation.

The Yuqing Creation Art that she herself cultivated had been adjusted by the system and was the most suitable for someone like her who possessed Innate spiritual blood.

Others were not completely unable to cultivate it, but without spiritual blood in their bodies, and not being Innate spiritual bodies, their compatibility with the technique would certainly be insufficient. They would achieve only half the result with twice the effort.

Shi Lan did not hesitate for long and exchanged for the Nine Spirits Foundation-Casting Art.

After confirming the information, Shi Lan removed the Demon-Suppressing Token.

Just as she was wondering how to retrieve the things she had exchanged for, a soldier of the Demon-Suppressing Army came to her side and raised a hand.

“Thousand Commander, please follow me.”

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After letting Wu Lingkong know, Shi Lan followed that soldier to the third level.

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The third level was very quiet. Silent chambers were scattered all around, and on their doors were the same grooves as those on the exchange platforms below. From time to time, people entered and left.

Among these people, those from the Demon-Suppressing Army appeared fairly calm, while most of the martial artists from various sects wore expressions of delight.

After bringing Shi Lan to the third level, the soldier left.

Shi Lan swept her gaze around. Just as she was about to find an unoccupied chamber and retrieve the things she had just exchanged for, two figures passed by her, one after the other.

In front was a young man a little over twenty, whose cultivation was not weak. He had already entered the middle stage of the Earth Fiend Realm.

The person behind him was wrapped from head to toe in a wide black robe. As the figure moved, the robe occasionally clung to the body, revealing several breathtakingly alluring curves.

Shi Lan turned and looked at the two, drawing two light breaths. The aura in the air was very familiar. She had sensed it many times before in the Boundless Demon Domain. This kind of aura belonged exclusively to a transformed Demon King.

Shi Lan closed her eyes. The Heaven’s Eye on her brow opened, and she swept her gaze over the two, activating Heaven’s Eye Qi-Sight.

Thread after thread of almost imperceptibly faint demonic qi rose from above the black-robed figure’s head.

Though the demonic qi was weak, it was incomparably pure.

There was no doubt that beneath that black robe was indeed a peerless Demon King.

At a time like this, for a transformed Demon King to appear here in such a form, there was likely no second possibility aside from the fox Demon King she had just seen.

Questions piled up in Shi Lan’s heart. She had originally assumed that the one who exchanged for that Demon King was a powerful expert at least in the Myriad Phenomena Realm. Looking at things now, her guess had been wildly off.

How had an Earth Fiend Realm martial artist managed to gather more than ten million battle merits?

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And with cultivation at that level, how did he dare to take along a Demon King at the great perfection of the Myriad Phenomena Realm? No matter how she thought about it, something felt wrong.

Shi Lan stared at the two for a moment, suppressed the doubts in her heart, then turned and entered a silent chamber.

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“Did that person just now notice something?”

After Shi Lan entered the chamber, the young man glanced at the black-robed figure beside him and asked through voice transmission.

“That woman’s bloodline is no simple matter, and she also possesses a wondrous eye technique. She should have noticed a few clues.”

“How about we…”

The young man frowned.

The woman beneath the black robe shook her head.

“Do not stir up trouble. The urgent matter is to get me out of the city first. The longer we stay, the more variables there will be.”

At those words, the trace of killing intent the man had just raised dissipated, and he quickened his pace.

At present, Xianwu City was a place where crouching tigers and hidden dragons gathered. Even the Demon King at the great perfection of the Myriad Phenomena Realm beside him was nothing more than an ant that could be casually wiped out in the eyes of the top experts here.