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The ends of their limbs are claws. Not nails, but claws. They are long, curved inwards, like hooks.

head...

It has no eyes.

It has no nose.

Two antennae, about twenty centimeters long, stood upright on its head, their tips trembling slightly.

The mouth is on the lower jaw. Not an ordinary mouth. It's a circular opening with outward-curving edges and a dense network of barbs on the inner wall. Like a suction cup covered in teeth.

The tail... is very long, as long as the body, and its surface is covered with tiny barbs.

One. Two. Five. Ten.

Twenty. Hundreds or thousands.

They swarmed out from all directions, surrounding the four of them. There was no sound. The only sounds as they moved were the rustling of their claws across the ground and the faint creaking of their joints.

The tentacles all trembled in the same direction...towards them.

Yun Wanlan's voice was very tense: "Venerable One, they are the extraterrestrial demons."

Chen Siyao stared at the nearest one.

She could sense its energy intensity... Body Tempering Realm.

That's it?

Yang Wanqing clearly sensed it too; her tense shoulders relaxed, and she twirled the candied hawthorn stick in her hand. "Body Tempering Realm? This thing is the extraterrestrial demon?"

"They're difficult to deal with when there are many of them," Yun Wanlan said. "And they're impervious to pain and won't retreat. This is just a small group of extraterrestrial demons; there are even larger and stronger ones out there."

The voice just fell.

A roar came from the group of demons.

It wasn't coming from the throat. It was from the chest cavity... a low-frequency vibration produced by some kind of resonance. Dull, piercing, it made the gravel beneath our feet vibrate slightly.

The leader was a size larger than the others, with longer antennae and a higher trembling frequency.

The moment the roar subsided, all the Heavenly Demons moved simultaneously.

Thousands of gray figures rushed toward the center at the same time.

Yang Wanqing gripped the candied hawthorn stick tightly, while Chen Siyao had already activated her spiritual energy.

But Chen Hao made a move.

It's a very simple action.

He raised his right hand, bringing his index and middle fingers together, and drew a horizontal line in front of him.

A silvery-white light detached from the fingertip.

Crescent moon.

Shaped like a crescent moon. Thin, sharp, and silent.

After leaving Chen Hao's fingertip, it began to fly forward rapidly, and at the same time, it grew larger.

From the size of a palm to the width of an arm, from the width of an arm to three meters long, then to five meters, and then to a hundred meters.

Wherever the crescent moon swept, all the extraterrestrial demons were cut in half.

There was no blood. The cut surface contained gray tissue and a dark yellow liquid.

Thousands of celestial demons. In the blink of an eye. All were split in two.

Its upper half twitched a few times on the ground, its tentacles trembling wildly. Then it stopped moving.

The time difference should not exceed two seconds.

Yang Wanqing had only raised her candied hawthorn stick halfway, not even having had a chance to swing it. She looked at her stick, then at the corpses of the demons scattered on the ground.

"...Master, you could at least leave us one to practice with."

Chen Hao did not respond.

He walked to the nearest demon corpse and squatted down.

My gaze lingered on the cut surface for a few seconds. Then I looked at the internal structure of its thoracic cavity.

Chen Siyao noticed her brother's movements and walked over. "What's wrong?"

"The structure is different." Chen Hao stood up. "This thing isn't a spirit beast. Nor is it a demon."

"What is that?"

Chen Hao didn't answer directly, but only glanced at Yun Wanlan. "You said they feed on the earth's ley lines?"

"Yes."

"Um."

He looked away and walked forward.

"continue."

Yun Wanlan followed and continued to lead the way.

In the live stream, the chat resumed flooding after a two-second pause.

"That's it??"

Just once. Just once.

"Did you notice? Chen Hao didn't even look directly at those Heavenly Demons. He just casually made a gesture."

"I think what he cares about is not the Heavenly Demon itself, but the structure of the Heavenly Demon."

"That action of crouching down to examine the corpse... he was studying it."

"The extraterrestrial demons are not a threat to him. They are samples."

"What a terrifying visual difference. Something that the entire clan fought to resist for a thousand years is nothing more than a warm-up in front of him."

"I feel sorry for the Sushen people."

"No, these are just small fry. There are definitely stronger ones among them."

The last comment was quickly buried.

But Chen Siyao saw it.

That's what she thought too.

This demonic force is only at the Body Tempering Realm.

The group continued on their way.

The surface on the far side of the moon is much more rugged than that on the near side. It is covered with impact craters of all sizes, some of which have rims that reach waist height.

Overcoming these obstacles in low gravity is not difficult, but you still need to watch your step.

Yun Wanlan walked at the front, with a strong sense of direction. She didn't hesitate at all, and every step she took was firm.

We walked for about five more minutes.

The terrain began to flatten.

It wasn't the kind of "relatively flat" that forms naturally. It was—...the kind of flat that has been artificially smoothed. The gravel underfoot had disappeared, replaced by a compacted, smooth gray surface.

Then, a wall appeared in front of them.

No. It's not a wall.

Yes, air.

No, it's not air either.

Chen Siyao stared ahead, trying to understand what she was seeing.

Ten meters ahead, the view suddenly blurred. It wasn't fog. It was like a layer of frosted glass standing upright, completely obscuring the view behind. A hazy, gray expanse. Nothing could be seen clearly.

It has no boundaries. It extends to the left and right, all the way to the edge of the field of vision, a hazy grayness. And upwards, it extends into the black sky overhead.

Yang Wanqing took two steps forward out of curiosity and reached out to touch it.

"Why?"

Her hand froze in mid-air. Her fingers pressed against an unseen surface. There was a tactile sensation. Hard. Smooth. Like glass.

"There's something there!" Yang Wanqing pushed hard. It didn't budge. She tried a different spot. Still the same. "So hard. I can't move it."

"This is a barrier," Yun Wanlan said.

She walked to the gray barrier and took something out of her pocket.

It wasn't the opening jade used to open the stone gate before. It was another piece, larger, flat in shape, like a leaf. It was milky white all over, with faint, moonlight-like flowing patterns on its surface.

"This is another token given to me by the clan chief," Yun Wanlan said. "It is needed to open the entrance to the Taiyin Realm."

She affixed the jade talisman to the surface of the gray barrier.

The moment the jade talisman touched the wall, a burst of silvery-white light erupted from the point of contact.

The light spread rapidly along the surface of the barrier, like ripples. Circular patterns of light expanded outwards in concentric circles, then stopped at a diameter of about three meters.

The gray barrier inside the aperture begins to dissolve.

It didn't shatter, it dissolved. The invisible "glass" became transparent within the aperture, and then further, it disappeared.

A circular hole, three meters in diameter, appeared on the barrier. Its edges were surrounded by a silvery-white light, like moonlight condensed into a door frame.

On the other side of the void...

It has color.

green.

Chen Siyao saw green.