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“Our Archean Mountain has accumulated numerous treasures for generations. In our generation, we have used most of the treasures to deal with the war. We have truly shamed our ancestors,” said Qin Wu softly.
Luo Tang nodded slightly as well. “Right now, I only hope to win this war.”
“We will win,” said Qin Wu.
Chapter 263 - Underground
Through the clouds, Meng Chuan saw Meng Manor in Jiang State Capital. He immediately dove down and landed at Lake Heart Pavilion in Starmoon Lake.
Liu Qiyue stood beside a peach blossom tree and held a divine bow in her hand. She pulled the bowstring over and over, shooting out Quintessential Essence arrows. The Quintessential Essence arrows skimmed the surface of the lake. When one Quintessential Essence arrow reached a tree-a kilometer away-it drew an arc and pierced through the leaves. Finally, the Quintessential Essence arrow dissipated.
One arrow after another…
In the blink of an eye, more than ten arrows were shot out.
“Ah Chuan.” Liu Qiyue put away her divine bow and smiled as she welcomed her husband. “What did Master say?”
“Master is, of course, very happy.” Meng Chuan walked to a stone table and picked up a plate of dessert. He smiled and said, “Even Origins Returning baneful aura and the Grotto-Heaven Magic Bead have been given to me. I wasn’t willing to take advantage of the sect, so they will take all the passive credit I earn due to my Patroller position for the next 35 years.”
Liu Qiyue wasn’t surprised. She smiled and said, “Doing the math, that’s 20 million credits per year? It’s four times more than what you got when you patrolled the six states. That’s considered normal. After all, Ah Chuan, you should be comparable to King White Treasure at hunting down demons. That’s equivalent to a sect’s total kill-count. Just a fourfold increase in annual passive credit isn’t considered high.”
“Everyone wants treasures from the sect, but where do the sect’s treasures come from?” Meng Chuan said. “They can’t just search for them. For example, Supremacy Luo Tang is guarding Luo Tang Pass. Master is responsible for guarding Archean Mountain. That should earn them plenty of credit, but they haven’t taken any treasures from Archean Mountain. Instead, they offer their services. There are many powerful Godfiends in history who gave most of their treasures to the sect before they died. Only a small amount is left to their descendants. Only then can the inner sect disciples receive plenty of grooming.” “Yes.” Liu Qiyue nodded. “I believe Master and the rest are looking forward to seeing you kill more demons.
Meng Chuan nodded. These two treasures were very valuable to him, but they weren’t anything to the entire Archean Mountain. After all, King White Treasure’s services cost more than that for just per year.
Archean Mountain looked forward to him killing demons en masse!
“Tomorrow morning, I’ll begin killing demons,” said Meng Chuan. “I’ll go out in the morning to hunt them down. I’ll return at night to rest and cultivate. I’ll have to rely on you to take care of An’er and You’er.”
“Don’t worry. Leave it to me.” Liu Qiyue nodded. “By the way, I have something to tell you.” “Oh?” Meng Chuan looked at his wife.
“Last year, You’er and An’er killed Wang Cong in order to save their junior sister. They read the dossiers, remember?” Liu Qiyue said.
Meng Chuan nodded.
“From then on, the two of them would occasionally come to me to read the dossiers. There are indeed some mortal cases in my dossiers, but most of them are information regarding the demons wreaking havoc everywhere. I discovered that You’er and An’er have been working harder in their cultivation,” said Liu Qiyue worriedly. “They’re only 13 years old after all. Have they been exposed to this too early?”
“It’s not too early,” said Meng Chuan. “Junior Brother Yan Chitong joined Archean Mountain at the age of 13. I experienced demons massacring humans at the age of six. In this era, it’s a good thing for them to know more. What they will experience in the future is much crueler than just reading words in the intelligence reports.”
Liu Qiyue nodded. “You’re right.”
The next morning.
“Dad, Mom.” After morning practice, the siblings sat at the dining table.
The family of four sat down and ate breakfast. Meng Chuan smiled as he glanced at his children. You’er and An’er had already reached the Impervious realm, but they still hadn’t achieved Force. To comprehend Force at the age of 13 made one a peerless genius. For example, King Calm Sea’s fifth son, Xue Feng, and Yan Chitong had comprehended Force at the age of 13. Now, these two were Marquis Godfiends.
Meng Chuan couldn’t do it himself, so he didn’t have high expectations for his children.
Of course, You’er and An’er’s cultivation environment was much better than Meng Chuan’s. They had been taught by a Marquis Godfiend-Meng Chuan-since they were young. They were guided with the best material. Liu Qiyue, a Marquis Godfiend, also often taught the children. When Meng Chuan and Liu Qiyue joined forces to teach their children, they held high hopes for their children. They hoped that their children could protect themselves during the war.
“I’m going out.” Meng Chuan stood up and nodded slightly at his wife. With a flash, he soared into the sky and vanished.
Liu Qiyue looked at the sky outside. This was the first day her husband began his underground reconnaissance of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Meng You and Meng An were unaware of what Meng Chuan was doing. They only knew that their father often needed to deal with the demons. Perhaps he was busy slaying the demons this time.
Meng Chuan flew through the clouds at high speed. After reaching the Undying realm, his body became more compatible with lightning, allowing him to increase his speed. In a flash, he could travel 9 kilometers.
Soon, he arrived at the East sea. I’ll use the East Sea as my starting point and begin the reconnaissance. Meng Chuan swooped down and instantly drilled into the ground. With a flash, the tunnel he drilled open immediately closed.
To mortals, traveling underground was an extremely difficult task. It was much easier for Godfiends and demon monarchs. For Marquis Godfiends, it was nothing worth mentioning! The Darkstar domain prevented the soil from touching Meng Chuan. As he flew underground, the resistance from the soil and rocks only reduced his flying speed to 70% his normal speed.
Open. The vertical eye at Meng Chuan’s glabella opened. The electromagnetic domain erupted and expanded underground. Even with the invisible forces of the earth obstructing him, he was still able to probe an area of 1.5 kilometers around him.
Swoosh!
Meng Chuan flew downward at high speed, rocks and soil were split apart by his terrifying speed.
At the start, he found underground rivers. Later on, he even discovered underground magma.
Further down, it gradually turned into a rock layer. It was all rocks!
Meng Chuan continued to fly deeper underground forcibly. The rocky layer was extremely weak in front of him.
The deeper I go, the harder the rock becomes, and the more the resistance increases. He flew for about 100 kilometers deep in one breath.
Huh? The scene before him changed. Most of the area which was filled with solid rock now turned into countless ‘rocks’ and ‘metals’ that slowly flowed beneath him.
Boom!
Meng Chuan continued flying downwards, charging into the countless rocks and metals. As he charged downwards, he could sense countless flowing objects forming an invisible force. The forces of the earth were much stronger here, causing the range of his electromagnetic domain to shrink to about one kilometer.
Meng Chuan continued flying downward for dozens of kilometers, continuing to see flowing rock and metal.
So the underground is indeed like this. Meng Chuan nodded slightly. According to the books, the underground is made of soil and rocks. The further down one goes, the harder the rock becomes. About 100 kilometers underground, there
is the liquid mantle. Countless rocks and metals constantly flow here… This is the same for the entire world. The further down one goes, the smaller the rocks and metals.
From 100 kilometers to 2,500 kilometers deep in the ground is the mantle. Deeper than this, the liquid mantle will become more life-like. The liquid rock and metal will seem to have life, like a sentient entity. Here, the resistance is even greater. With such great resistance, a Regis Godfiend will reach their limit after drilling 2,500 kilometers deep underground
Below 2,500 kilometers, the liquefied land’s forces will be even more terrifying. Only those at the Creation Realm can resist the terrifying resistance and go deeper. Even further down? There are no records in the books.
Meng Chuan looked at the surrounding liquid rocks and metal. As for the mantle, it’s constantly flowing. It’s impossible to build a cave abode here. The cave abode will be ripped apart. Therefore, the demon monarchs’ cave abodes are at most 100 kilometers underground.
Chapter 264 - First Day of Underground Reconnaissance
An ordinary demon monarch would find it much more difficult to advance underground than me. They can only go up to 50 kilometers deep. Any further and the rocks are too hard for them; they will be too slow. To an ordinary demon monarch, going 50 kilometers deep underground is equivalent to traveling thousands of kilometers on the surface. Therefore, third Firmament demon monarchs are typically within 50 kilometers of the surface.
Fourth Firmament demon monarchs will usually be about 50 to 100 kilometers from the surface because of King White Treasure’s constant reconnaissance. Meng Chuan nodded slightly. Earth Net also searches for demon monarch lairs. Although they can’t be compared to King White Treasure, they can roughly figure out the unspoken rules of where demon monarch lairs are located.
The underground was vast. It would be very difficult to find demon monarchs 100 kilometers deep underground without any powerful reconnaissance methods.
Meng Chuan flew up and reached a depth of 40 kilometers underground.
Let’s begin. At a depth of 40 kilometers underground, Meng Chuan kept his Divine Eye of Lightning open. He used his electromagnetic domain to probe his surroundings. Following that, he transformed into a stream of light and flew west. He began a blanket search.
There were many demon monarchs in the human world, but the land was vast. Since most of them hid 100 kilometers deep underground, finding their underground lairs was akin to searching for a needle in a haystack! Earth Net typically followed the traces of escaping demon monarchs. If one was lucky, they could discover a demon monarch lair.
areas
One had to be capable of scanning large areas and be extremely fast to be efficient when conducting a blanket search of the underground. Otherwise, it would be better to wait for the demon monarchs to attack the cities.
Whoosh.
With the sensory feedback of his electromagnetic domain, Meng Chuan could ensure that he flew in a straight line.
So many demon monarchs have infiltrated the human world, yetit’s still so difficult to find them underground. Meng Chuan flew as his electromagnetic domain scanned a 1.5 kilometer-area around him. Even so, he didn’t discover any demon monarchs.
Swoosh!
Meng Chuan flew at high speeds, passing through countless rocks. At 40 kilometers deep in the ground, everything was rock.
After flying for 15 minutes and over 5,000 kilometers, Meng Chuan finally discovered a demon monarch lair.
Oh? When he discovered the demon monarch lair with his electromagnetic domain, Meng Chuan was pleasantly surprised. This was because he had flown more than 5,000 kilometers underground and was constantly scanning. With just rocks everywhere, it was a test of patience.
At that moment, Meng Chuan was pleasantly surprised. The electromagnetic domain enveloped the lair. This lair was nearly 1.5 kilometers above Meng Chuan. It was a cave palace dug out from rock. Inside the palace were more than 100 ordinary demons, five second Firmament demon monarchs, and two third Firmament demon monarchs.
“Come, have a drink.”
“Let’s drink.”
The seven demon monarchs were drunk.
“Demon Monarch Fox, you have done a good job stealing wine from the human race,” said Demon Monarch Elephant, who was sitting at the main seat of honor.
“Brother, this is just a little trick of mine. I can sneak into human cities to charm mortals and easily obtain large amounts of fine wine. It’s actually more troublesome to sneak into the cave abode while carrying the wine,” said Demon Monarch Fox with a smile. Beside him, a lesser demon was diligently pouring wine for him. These ordinary demons were personally brought to the cave abode by the demon monarchs. It was impossible for ordinary demons to come so deep underground by themselves.
These hundreds of ordinary demons would not leave once they entered the lair. They only had one purpose-to serve the demon monarchs.
“If we have a storage bag, it’ll be much more convenient.”
“How can storage bags be so easily obtained?”
“Let’s drink.”
These demon monarchs drank alcohol, reveling in their inebriation.
They could only hide underground in the human world. It was easy to steal alcohol, but if they wanted to slaughter humans, they would attract Godfiends. They would then be risking their lives.
“There’s only one Godfiend team in the surrounding two or three prefectures. We slaughter some mortals and immediately flee. Those Godfiend teams won’t be able to catch up to us.”
“Mm, speaking of which, it’s still faster to accumulate credit in the human world.”
“It’s just that the days are somewhat stifling. In a few more days, we will go out and slaughter once more. This time, we will definitely slaughter more than 10,000 humans.”
“Flee after we slaughter some. If we end up fleeing too late to slaughter more than 10,000 humans, it’ll be too late for regret.”
The demon monarchs chatted and drank.
“What’s that?” The demon monarchs were suddenly taken aback.
Resplendent dark-red streams of light appeared in the hall at lightning speed. They tore through the demon monarchs’ heads.
“Not good.”
“Human Godfiend!” Only the two third Firmament demon monarchs reacted, but they were unable to dodge. The Darkstar Quintessential Essence penetrated their heads.
In the blink of an eye, seven demon monarchs and more than 100 ordinary demons died in this demon lair.
Killing these demon monarchs means saving lives. Meng Chuan appeared in the hall with a cold expression. When he heard the demon monarchs’ conversation, he became even angrier. Every demon monarch had too many human lives on their hands.
Whoosh.
With a wave of his hand, Meng Chuan stored the seven demon monarch corpses and their items in his Grotto-Heaven Magic Bead.
In just 15 minutes, I killed seven demon monarchs. It’s indeed much faster than on the surface. When he was in charge of six states, he only received one rescue mission every half-month. Meng Chuan wouldn’t be deployed when ordinary demon monarchs attacked cities. He was but one person, after all. Meng Chuan would usually fly around Jiang State Capital and intercept the demon monarchs when he discovered them. Even so, killing 200 to 300 demon monarchs a year was already pretty good.
Continue.
Meng Chuan continued flying.
The Great Zhou Dynasty was vast. The route from east to west spanned 10,000 kilometers long. Further west was the Black Sand Dynasty.
After flying 10,000 kilometers, Meng Chuan only discovered one demon monarch lair.
Continue.
Meng Chuan continued flying the same 10,000 kilometers. From the west to the east, it was parallel to the route from before. This was also the rule of a blanket search. He basically didn’t miss out on anything by scanning the area over and over again.
Meng Chuan didn’t find a single demon monarch lair on his second 10,000-kilometer stre
tch.
He continued flying!
For more than 12 hours, Meng Chuan continued to scan the underground with his electromagnetic domain. He traveled the 10,000-kilometer stretch 20 times. At 40 kilometers from the surface, he traveled 10,000 kilometers 16 times! At a depth of 80 kilometers underground, he traveled 10,000 kilometers four times! He traveled at a depth of 80 kilometers underground in an attempt to find fourth Firmament demon monarchs.
Clang!
He broke through the soil and soared into the sky.
Meng Chuan flew towards Jiang State Capital from the East Sea. It was already a dark evening. He couldn’t hide the fatigue on his face. Although it was very easy for him to maintain the Divine Eye of Lightning, he still felt extremely exhausted after 12 hours. His Essence Soul was somewhat dispirited. He had to go back and rest.
Whoosh.
Meng Chuan flew through the clouds. At that moment, he realized that it was actually very relaxing when he didn’t keep the Divine Eye of Lightning active.
Soon, he arrived at Jiang State Capital. Meng Chuan flew down and returned to Meng Manor’s Lake Heart Pavilion.
Liu Qiyue was already waiting in the hall. There were plates of food on the table. “He’s here.” Liu Qiyue’s eyes lit up. Invisible flames immediately seeped into the food, raising the temperature of the food. Meng Chuan arrived in the hall, and he took in the aroma of food; it was fragrant. “How fragrant,” praised Meng Chuan. He was quite satisfied that he could smell the fragrance of piping hot food after an exhausting day.
“You’er and An’er just finished eating and went to rest,” said Liu Qiyue. “How was your first day out?”
“Tiring, but enjoyable.” Meng Chuan sat down and finished the tea that his wife prepared in one gulp. He smiled and said, “Today, I discovered 11 demon monarch lairs. I killed 116 demon monarchs and thousands of ordinary demons. I finally understand how King White Treasure killed 20,000 to 30,000 demon monarchs a year by himself.”