Lanling looked at this scene with incomparable shock.
Countless demonesses came alive from the great hall’s door, flapped their wings and flew down, then crawled toward him on their knees.
Their gazes were filled with anticipation, filled with fanaticism.
It was as if they had been imprisoned for countless years, and had finally obtained liberation, obtained freedom.
For quite a while, Lanling was completely unable to react.
Without doubt, these demonesses were all very powerful, and they had wings. Were they not the strongest air force?
Moreover, they surged toward him so wildly, kneeling and worshipping him. Could it be that he was truly the real Demon Emperor?
At this moment, suddenly…
The demonesses at the very front seemed to be sucked back onto the giant door by a powerful force, turned to stone, and once again became sculptures.
“Ah… ah… no!”
These demonesses let out waves of unwilling shrill cries.
“Your Majesty, remember to come liberate us, save us!”
“Your Majesty!”
“Your Majesty!”
Just like that, countless demonesses were once again sucked back onto the giant stone door and turned into sculptures.
In just half a minute, there was not a single demoness on the ground. Everything that had just happened seemed like a dream.
Lanling closed his eyes and shook his head forcefully.
“Master, this is not a dream. Everything just now was real.” Gou Li stepped forward and said, “Look at the expressions and gazes of these sculptures.”
Lanling looked toward the countless demoness statues on the giant door.
All the demoness statues’ gazes were looking in one direction, which was his position.
Moreover, everyone’s face was filled with reluctance, unwillingness, and anticipation.
“I think it should be that your energy is insufficient, so you cannot truly resurrect them. You can only give them a brief moment of rebirth,” Gou Li said.
Lanling nodded.
Then, he once again reached out to push the door.
These two doors, each one was three hundred metres high and one hundred metres long. They weighed far more than tens of millions of jin.
But Lanling opened them effortlessly, as if pushing open a simple wooden door.
Inside the door was an incomparably spacious great hall.
Lanling had originally thought there would be a Demon God King’s statue inside the hall. In the end, there was nothing. It was completely empty.
The entire dome of the great hall was a black curtain, like the night sky.
Within the black curtain were countless gems dotted about, like brilliant stars.
Where was the Demon Flame relic?
It was right in the centre of the dome. It was not dark black, but blue.
Moreover, it was not in the shape of a flame, but a sphere.
If he was not mistaken, this Demon Flame relic was not only the energy core of the entire Heavenly Demon Ancient City, but also the sun of the Heavenly Demon Ancient City.
Lanling slowly walked toward the centre of the Heavenly Demon Great Hall.
The closer he walked to the centre, the lighter his body became, lighter and lighter.
When he reached the very centre, there was no gravity at all. Lanling gently pushed off with his foot, and his entire body slowly floated up.
The other thirteen death warriors, surrounding Lanling, also slowly floated up.
Floating up to the three hundred metre dome, Lanling saw this Demon Flame crystal.
It was a crystal approximately five chi in size, perfectly round, and crystal clear.
This was the Demon Flame relic. This was the former sun of the Heavenly Demon Ancient City.
Lanling slowly reached out his hand and touched this Demon Flame crystal.
A slight tremor, as if he had been electrocuted.
Lanling somewhat dared not move. He worried that if he dug out this Demon Flame crystal, the entire ruins of the Heavenly Demon Ancient City would collapse.
Unlike before, every previous time he went to search for the Divine Dragon relic, he had experienced countless hardships and dangers, narrowly escaping death nine times out of ten.
But this time searching for the Demon Flame relic could be said to be effortless. Moreover, for this beautiful demon city, Lanling inexplicably felt emotions and reluctance in his heart.
He wanted to ensure the integrity of this demon city.
What if one day, this Heavenly Demon Ancient City could come back to life?
This seemed to be his… demon kingdom.
Lanling gently stroked this Demon Flame relic, completely unable to make up his mind, unable to bear digging it out.
Better safe than sorry.
Lanling had heard of this kind of situation too many times, and even seen it too many times. Once this kind of energy core left, it meant heaven and earth would overturn.
On Rock Island, the core of the Rock Clan civilisation was the Dragon Tears.
And after the Dragon Tears completely fell, the entire Rock Island completely collapsed.
Which was more important, this demon city or the Xie Li tribe, or the centaur race?
Lanling could not say for sure.
Was there another way to save the Xie Li tribe and conquer the Chi Yan tribe, without needing to use this Demon Flame relic?
Just as Lanling was struggling with this dilemma.
Suddenly…
A faint ray of light flashed, and this Demon Flame crystal, like a ripe melon falling from its vine, gently fell into Lanling’s hand.
Lanling was startled, and quickly went to sense this Heavenly Demon Ancient City.
It was still peaceful, not collapsed.
Immediately after, this five chi diameter Demon Flame crystal in Lanling’s palm continuously shrank, shrank, until finally it was only two cun in diameter, like a jade ball, easily held in the palm of his hand.
“Master, perhaps it has also been waiting for you, just like the Mirror Demon King,” Gou Li said.
Lanling gently stroked this Demon Flame crystal. It truly had no energy at all.
Lanling tried biting open his finger and dripping a drop of blood onto it.
Instantly, the entire Demon Flame crystal flashed with a blurred light.
In an instant, the countless stars in the great hall’s dome lit up, flashing charming light, just like real stars.
However, it faded in a flash.
Lanling’s energy was too weak. He could only create this fleeting beautiful scene.
Lanling carefully put this Demon Flame crystal into his bosom, then walked toward the outside.
He pushed open the door of the Heavenly Demon Great Hall and left the great hall.
Lanling looked at the countless demoness statues on the door and said quietly, “If one day I am strong enough, I will come to save you, to release you into freedom.”
Then, Lanling left the thirty third level of the Heavenly Demon Ancient City, and along the winding road, walked toward the level with the exit.
Walking all the way, Lanling clearly saw that inside every building here there were people, or more accurately, demon race beings.
Demon soldiers, demon generals, succubi, demonesses.
Too many to count.
These demon race beings were all inside the buildings, sitting quietly, their faces filled with peace, eyes closed as if in prayer.
Everyone had the same expression.
They seemed to know the arrival of doomsday. Everyone was calmly welcoming the apocalypse.
Lanling walked inside. Every demon race being was vividly detailed, lifelike, but all had turned to stone.
Who was it? What energy? Caused the entire Heavenly Demon Ancient City to die, caused the countless citizens inside to instantly turn to stone?
Lanling felt that this Heavenly Demon Ancient City contained countless secrets, crucial secrets.
However, now was not the time to unravel them.
Even, he clearly felt that the Mirror Demon King letting him come here was completely well intentioned.
Just like the Demon Star, the Mirror Demon King also seemed to be guiding him, walking toward some direction.
Lanling gently stroked one fossilised demon race being after another, and said, “One day, I will return. When I am strong enough that day, I will return to resurrect you.”
The exit of the Heavenly Demon Ancient City was on the seventeenth level.
When Lanling arrived at the exit, the stone door here was completely sealed, a stone door a thousand metres thick.
Lanling stepped forward and gently touched the stone door.
This time, without needing to drip any blood, the stone door immediately became transparent, disappeared, and turned into a passage that allowed Lanling to leave.
Passing through the thousand metre thick passage, Lanling arrived at the secret waterway, the one hundred and thirty li secret waterway.
Swimming out of the secret waterway, arriving at the bottom of the great river, bursting out of the water surface, mounting the griffin beast, flying toward the Chi Yan Sea in the south.
Next, Lanling’s task was to go deep into the volcano beneath the Chi Yan Sea, and place the Demon Flame crystal into the magma.
At this time, exactly one day had passed since Lanling left the Yan Mo tribe. There were still four days until the deadline set by the Khan of the Chi Yan tribe.
The Chi Yan Sea was over one hundred li southwest of the Chi Yan tribe.
From the ruins of the Heavenly Demon Ancient City to the Chi Yan Sea was five thousand six hundred li. Lanling led thirteen death warriors riding griffin beasts, flying for a full twenty seven hours.
When they arrived at the Chi Yan Sea, it was exactly nightfall.
The entire Chi Yan Sea was a circular inland sea lake, roughly one hundred and fifty li in diameter.
Under the night sky, white moonlight sprinkled upon it, sparkling and rippling, breathtakingly beautiful.
The entire Chi Yan Sea was like a piece of beautiful jade inlaid upon the ground.
This was the spiritual sustenance of all the centaurs of the Chi Yan tribe, the place of holy water.
Lanling and the thirteen death warriors leapt down from the air, drilled into the Chi Yan Sea, and continuously dived deeper.
The entire Chi Yan Sea was like an inward concave funnel shape. The deeper one went, the smaller the area.
The deepest place exceeded two hundred metres, and the diameter of the water area here was only about two to three thousand metres.
This depression of two to three thousand metres diameter should be the ancient volcano mouth.
Here, Lanling saw a huge crack.
This should be the crack torn open by the volcanic eruption accompanied by an earthquake at that time, causing seawater from the east to pour in and form this inland sea lake.
The entire bottom of the Chi Yan Sea was hard and smooth. This should all be rock formed from solidified magma.
At that time, this huge volcano mouth erupted. The magma originally ejected was supposed to pile up into a high mountain.
But unexpectedly, the volcanic eruption was accompanied by an earthquake that tore the earth apart, causing seawater to pour in and completely extinguish the volcano alive.
Thus, seawater and volcanic magma formed a balance point.
The seawater froze the thick magma at the volcano mouth into rock, and this layer of magma also separated the seawater from the magma.
To throw the Demon Flame crystal into the volcanic magma, one had to chisel through this layer of hard rock.
Lanling did not need to do it. The death warrior Afangso drew out a dark gold heavy sword and began to dig.
“Crack, crack…”
Under Afangso’s force of tens of thousands of jin, the hard volcano mouth rock was quickly dug out into a cave passage.
The rock at the volcano mouth was not just stone, but also had a very high concentration of metal.
Fortunately this was a dark gold heavy sword, and fortunately it was the infinitely powerful Afangso.
In just one hour, they had already dug out a passage over ten metres deep into the volcano interior.
After two hours, they had dug thirty metres.
At this time, the second death warrior took over.
They dug like this.
After three hours, they had dug forty five metres.
At this time, the surrounding water temperature gradually rose.
After going sixty metres deep, the surrounding water began to boil.
Clearly, the deeper they went, the higher the temperature.
After going eighty metres deep, even though water constantly seeped in, one could still see that the rock here was already red, the temperature extremely high.
The surfaces of these death warriors’ bodies had already suffered severe burns and scalds.
But because they had Lanling’s demon blood inside them, they healed and recovered quickly.
After going ninety metres deep.
One could already hear the surging sound. The surroundings were completely red.
Below was countless magma.
Chi Yan Sea water constantly poured in, but instantly turned to steam.
So the temperature in this space was incomparably astonishing. Only Lanling and the death warriors could endure it. If it were anyone else, they would probably be cooked alive.
“Master, we will use our last strength to break through this final layer of rock,” the thirteen death warriors said.
Lanling nodded.
At the instant the final layer of rock was broken through, Lanling would throw the Demon Flame crystal into the magma.
He took out the spherical crystal like Demon Flame relic from his bosom, and condensed power into his hand.
And the thirteen death warriors began to condense the magic power in their bodies.
Three, two, one.
“Strike!”
The thirteen death warriors condensed all their magic power and fiercely struck out toward the final layer of rock.
A force of several hundred thousand jin fiercely shot out.
In an instant, it broke through the final layer of red hot rock, revealing the surging magma inside.
At the same time, the Demon Flame crystal in Lanling’s hand was thrown out like a cannonball, smashing into the depths of the magma.
“Boom…”
A loud noise, and countless magma was about to erupt out.
The magma inside the volcano had enormous pressure. Once the final layer of rock was dug through, the magma inside would erupt out.
Of course this force could not form a volcanic eruption. It should instantly be extinguished and suppressed by countless seawater.
But what was unexpected…
This magma, just as it was about to erupt, instantly solidified and froze, but still maintained its erupting form.
But at this time, the seawater had not extinguished them.
Not only that, the surrounding magma also rapidly solidified, changing from boiling hot magma to cold rock.
At the same time, Lanling saw that Demon Flame crystal continuously falling, falling.
It was madly devouring the flame energy of the magma.
Everywhere it passed, all the magma was solidified into stone.
Looking at it this way, it seemed to only devour, and not release at all.
If it did not release, it could not cause a volcanic eruption. Even, the entire volcano’s magma was not enough for it to devour. All of it solidified into cold stone.
This kind of thinking was completely overthinking. This Demon Flame crystal would continuously fall, finally penetrating through the entire volcano, heading toward the depths of the earth’s core.
What it wanted to devour was the flame energy deep within the earth.
Once it had devoured enough energy, it would turn into a raging Demon Flame.
At that time, the terrifying energy it released would be able to turn all the stone red hot, melt it, and turn it back into terrifying magma.
More and more magma would crush the Chi Yan Sea’s seawater, and flames would instantly erupt out.
At that time, the entire Chi Yan Sea water would instantly evaporate clean. And the crack leading to the East Sea would also be blocked by magma.
The entire Chi Yan Sea would disappear, turning into raging flames.
Seawater would be boiled dry, turning into raging fire.
This heaven shaking miracle would prove that Lanling was the Sea Demon Fire God, the Sea Demon Fire God that the Chi Yan tribe believed in.
At that time, he would completely conquer the Chi Yan tribe.