Chapter 594: Chapter 593 Demon Ancestral Land
At that moment, the Seven-Colored Demon Empress handed him a pill. "Swallow this. It will conceal your auras and help you avoid attracting unnecessary calamities."
Ye Fan held the purple pill in his hand but hesitated to take it. He asked the Seven-Colored Demon Empress, "Why are you helping me like this?"
"Why ask so many questions? Just tell me, are you going to take it or not?" the Seven-Colored Demon Empress chided angrily.
"I’ll take it!"
Ye Fan immediately swallowed the pill. When he felt no strange effects and everything seemed normal, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Then, the Seven-Colored Demon Empress said, "You are not from the Divine Domain!"
"That’s right!" Ye Fan admitted without hesitation.
The Seven-Colored Demon Empress continued, "You come from the Human Clan’s secular world! What is your purpose in coming to the Divine Domain?"
"To overthrow the rule of the Divine Domain!" Ye Fan replied instantly.
His answer stunned the Seven-Colored Demon Empress. After all, even an expert of her caliber wouldn’t dare claim she could overthrow the Divine Domain, yet Ye Fan was pathetically weak.
"Give me a reason," she asked him.
Ye Fan responded, "The Divine Race enslaves the Secular World, making the lives of its people unbearable. If it weren’t for our great predecessor, the Ancestor of Tianyuan, who used the last of his life force to sever the path between the Divine Domain and the Secular World, the Human Clan’s secular world would have been utterly devastated by now."
"So, I must overthrow the rule of the Divine Domain because they are constantly eyeing the Secular World! I come from the Secular World, so naturally, I want to contribute to its cause, no matter how meager my contribution might be!"
Hearing this, the Seven-Colored Demon Empress said, "You have the ambition, but your current strength isn’t enough to support it!"
"Even the Ancestor of Tianyuan, a man of peerless and astonishing talent, failed in the end. What makes you think you are stronger than him?"
"I have never thought I was stronger than him, but I need time to prove myself!" Ye Fan retorted.
The Seven-Colored Demon Empress scoffed, "Such boastful talk!"
Ye Fan said no more. Given his current strength, her mockery was justified; he indeed wasn’t qualified to make such claims. But given time, who knows what might happen?
At this point, the Seven-Colored Demon Empress said to him, "I will permit you to leave Demon Mountain!"
"What?"
Ye Fan was pleasantly surprised. He hadn’t expected the Seven-Colored Demon Empress to be so agreeable and permit him to leave. He had longed to get out of this place. It wasn’t that he disliked it, but he felt that on Demon Mountain, he lacked opportunities for life-or-death combat, which slowed his cultivation progress considerably. This was something he had been dreaming of, and now she had finally granted him leave.
Then, the Seven-Colored Demon Empress said to him, "You share a connection with my senior brother!"
"Therefore, I plan to let you enter the Demon Ancestral Land to study and learn from it!"
The Demon Ancestral Land was the final resting place of the Demon Clan’s ancient sages and the sanctuary of their most profound secrets, so it naturally piqued Ye Fan’s interest. He had not expected the Seven-Colored Demon Empress to grant him access to such a place. Perhaps it has something to do with the Divine Dragon Essence Blood in my body. After all, I do have a certain connection with the Divine Dragon. This is perfect. I’ve coveted a chance to visit that place for a long time but never had the opportunity. Now, my chance has finally come.
"You have fused with my senior brother’s essence blood, which makes you half a member of our Demon Clan. If you ever act against the Demon Clan in the future, I will not hesitate to kill you!" the Seven-Colored Demon Empress threatened.
"As you command!" Ye Fan promptly replied, bowing with his hands clasped.
Then, the Seven-Colored Demon Empress led him to the Demon Ancestral Land.
Within the Demon Ancestral Land, Ye Fan felt an intense demonic aura. In Ancient Times, the Demon Clan had dominated the world, and none dared to disrespect them—even the Divine Race would retreat before their might. He saw the skeletons of many Demon Clan predecessors, who must have been supreme figures that reigned over the Divine Domain in their lifetimes.
The Seven-Colored Demon Empress said, "You may comprehend anything you wish in here. I will wait for you outside. But if you dare take anything else from this place, I will not spare you!"
"Alright!" Ye Fan readily agreed.
As he studied the Demon Clan’s cultivation methods in the Demon Ancestral Land, he made a profound discovery: the Demon Clan did not rely on divinity. This was his most significant finding. Unlike the Divine Race, the Demon Clan possessed robust physical forms. They achieved godhood through their bodies alone, liberating themselves from the constraints of divinity.
They tempered their physical bodies to withstand the Heavenly Tribulation. Consequently, the mortality rate for the Demon Clan during this trial was very high. However, it was undeniable that those who succeeded possessed combat power that far surpassed other experts of the same realm. Take that day, for example. In terms of cultivation realm, the Jingnan Divine General was slightly stronger than the Nine Evil Demon General. The end result, however, was that the Nine Evil Demon General had thoroughly crushed him.
This was the might of the physical form.
He came to stand before a Dragon God whose very bones had petrified, a transformation that could only occur after countless eons. Then, he felt an aura emanating from the Dragon Bone.
Suddenly, Ye Fan was shocked. It wasn’t just the Dragon Bone emitting an aura; streams of energy also floated from the other enormous skeletons to encircle him. Auras of a White Tiger, a Vermilion Bird, and a Xuanwu... several such presences gathered before him, hemming him in. In life, these beings had been world-dominating experts. Even now, as mere remnants of their will, they exuded an immense pressure so intense that Ye Fan struggled to breathe.
"Divine Dragon Essence Blood!" one of the auras stated.
"Although he possesses Divine Dragon Essence Blood, he clearly fused with it; he is no descendant of the Divine Dragon," another observed. "And from the looks of it, he’s not one of those despicable gods. He must be a mortal, and a weak one at that!"
As the group of auras discussed him, Ye Fan spoke up. "Respected predecessors, I am indeed not of the Demon Clan, nor am I a god. I am a mortal!"
"Strange. How could a mortal fuse with Divine Dragon Blood?" a powerful aura demanded. "Shouldn’t he have exploded by now?"
Ye Fan dared not reveal that he possessed the Ancestor Realm Bloodline, so he replied with an awkward smile, "Maybe my body is just particularly resilient, so I managed to fuse with the Divine Dragon Blood!"
"There isn’t that much good fortune in the world, and it certainly wouldn’t fall upon a mere mortal," one of them rebuked him. "So, boy, you can’t fool us. If you are not of our Demon Clan, why were you able to enter the Demon Ancestral Land?"
Ye Fan explained, "I have a connection with the current Divine Dragon, and the current Clan Leader of the Demon Clan is a friend of mine, so they allowed me to enter!"
"They are them, and we are us," an aura promptly declared. "They may have permitted it, but we have not!"
"Indeed! These youngsters are getting more and more out of line, letting someone in without our permission!"
"What should we do, then?"
"I say we just kill him. That will teach those youngsters a lesson."
"A fine idea. I agree!"
As the auras of the Ancient Demon Clan discussed his fate, Ye Fan grew terrified. These beings are completely unreasonable! They’re openly talking about killing me. I have to be ready to flee at a moment’s notice. If things go south, I’ll run immediately. Otherwise, these auras might actually kill me.
But then, a Divine Dragon Aura spoke. "I have a different opinion!"
