Hello, is this a letter addressed to Demon Fortress?

With a sense of despair, the raft continued to ascend.

Finally, after a blinding flash of light, they arrived at the top of the spiral tower.

After many years, Lin Gui once again set foot on the red soil desert.

For Elvia and Lillian, this was the first time they had ever directly witnessed the scenery inside this legendary forbidden land.

Red sand spread out beneath my feet, stretching to the horizon.

The sky was dark red, as if shrouded in a thin layer of blood mist.

Besides--

There was nothing there.

There was no trace of demons, no roars of monsters, and even the sound of the wind seemed faint.

As far as the eye could see, there was only a deathly still red.

Elvia stood there, stunned for several seconds.

She slowly turned her head to look at Lin Gui and uttered a soul-searching question.

"That's it???"

"Why isn't there a single demon?"

"What happened to the promise of mountains of demons and epic tales on every mountaintop??"

Her tone carried an unbearable sense of collapse.

It's like being prepared to die, only to find that the opponent never showed up.

Lin Gui glanced at her indifferently.

"Aren't they all demons?"

Elvia: "Huh???"

Lin Gui took out a small piece of dark red meat from his storage space and handed it to Elvia.

This comes from that unfortunate epic low-rank demon they killed.

"Throw it over there with all your might."

Elvia took the piece of meat with suspicion and weighed it in her hand.

"Throw?"

"Just throw it away."

Elvia took a deep breath, swung her arm in a wide arc, and hurled the piece of meat away.

The piece of meat traced an arc in the air and flew towards the sand hundreds of meters away.

It hasn't fallen yet.

The sand exploded.

Dozens of dark figures leaped up simultaneously from beneath the sand.

There are sand centipedes, burrowing giant scorpions, sand spiders with compound eyes, and sand lizards the size of calves.

There were also countless deformed monsters whose names she couldn't recall.

They swarmed towards the piece of meat that had not yet hit the ground from all directions, like a school of hungry fish pouncing on bait.

The piece of meat didn't even touch the sand before it was bitten by a sand centipede that jumped the highest.

But the next second, the sand centipede, along with half of its body, was snapped off by the pincers of a giant burrow scorpion.

Immediately afterwards, three sand spiders pounced on it, tearing the fragments apart and devouring them.

Further away, the sand began to rise.

More monsters emerged from underground and converged madly on that area.

The entire desert area was instantly turned into a demonic riot and slaughter.

Dust churned, limbs flew, and screams and the sound of bones shattering mingled together.

In just a few breaths, not even a scrap of meat remained.

The sandy surface returned to its smooth state, as if nothing had happened.

Elvia stared in disbelief at the scene that unfolded in the blink of an eye.

"Holy crap..."

Just then, a small hand trembled and tapped Elvia's shoulder.

Elvia turned around and saw Lillian, her face ashen, pointing in another direction.

"Master, Master's wife, look over there..."

Elvia looked in the direction she was pointing, and her pupils suddenly contracted.

In the distance, a range of rolling black and red hills rises on the horizon.

Thick, red liquid kept gushing out of the cracks in the mountain, like a wound continuously bleeding.

Fresh blood flowed slowly down the hillside, forming countless tiny streams of blood.

At the foot of the mountain, they gather into several rivers of blood, winding their way into the desert.

The dark red sand was stained with blood, making its color even deeper.

Several enormous figures were slowly wriggling in the mountains.

Each one was the size of a castle, dark red in color, and covered with rough scales.

Its body stretched and contracted like a worm, slowly moving along the mountainside.

They embedded their mouthparts into the cracks in the mountain, sucking up the constantly seeping red liquid with slow, contented movements.

Even though they were far apart, the oppressive aura emanating from those enormous creatures still pressed heavily on their chests.

Every part of its body is an epic.

On the highest hill, a colossal creature lay prostrate on the summit, nestled against the hill in slumber.

It was a giant blood crow.

Its entire body was jet black, and its feathers gleamed with a metallic sheen under the dark red light of the sky.

Its wings were folded at its sides, with the wingtips drooping down to the mountainside, as if the entire mountain was wrapped in feathers.

Its head rests on the mountaintop, its eyes closed, and its breath rises and falls, creating subtle air currents.

Even from such a distance, the oppressive aura emanating from that body was still suffocating.

Elvia stared blankly, her lips slightly parted.

"This...this is..."

Lin Gui spoke calmly from the side.

"One of the forbidden areas inside the Red Earth Desert, the Weeping Blood Hill."

"Those colossal creatures that roam the mountains are epic demons, Blood Mountain Leeches."

"Each one has the strength of a lower-tier epic."

"I remember counting, there were a total of twenty-eight of these Blood Mountain Leeches on Bloodshed Hill."

"But don't worry, although they look scary, they are only interested in the red liquid flowing from the hills and are not very aggressive."

"Just don't get into their feeding area."

"As for that blood crow lying on the largest hill..."

He paused for a moment.

"It is the demon overlord of Weeping Blood Hill."

The exploration team called it Ursa.

"The name of the Blood God in ancient mythology."

His gaze fell on the huge black figure, and his voice was calm.

"You are the sixth people to see it."

Lin Gui turned his head to look at Elvia and Lillian's stunned profiles and smiled.

"How does it feel?"

"Isn't it...exciting?"

Elvia opened her mouth, but her throat was too dry to speak.

excited?

More than anything, it was fear.

The fear that ants feel when facing gods.

Compared to that enormous creature, their existence was as insignificant as grains of sand.

Every breath it takes, every turn it makes, is enough to grind them into powder.

That fear seeped from the depths of my bones, making my fingertips cold and my breathing shallow.

It took Elvia a long time to find her voice before she spoke, her voice hoarse.

"So...we'll have to go through that later?"

Lin Gui looked at the familiar hill with a distant gaze.

"right."

He paused for a moment, his eyes filled with an emotion that Elvia couldn't decipher.

It's like the anticipation of seeing an old friend.

"after all……"

"Our guide."

"The true king of the red desert."

"Right there."

"We need to meet it there."

"He will lead us across the red desert."