After clearing the level, the fairies were reborn!

Black Mane King suddenly opened his eyes.

Those eyes were murky and ferocious, like two burning embers.

When it saw Xu Ze, it paused for a moment, and then a look of extreme confusion appeared on its pig face.

"you--"

Xu Ze did not give it a chance to speak.

A wisp of spiritual energy surged from his palm and entered the Black Mane King's brow.

Its eyes were wide open, its mouth was agape, it tried to shout but couldn't, and its limbs thrashed about but couldn't move.

A moment later, its pupils dilated, and its body went limp and collapsed.

Xu Ze withdrew his hand, turned around, and walked out of the cave.

Tao Yaoyao stood at the cave entrance, watching all of this, her whole body trembling.

Every time she thought about how she had tried to drain the other person's cultivation last night, she felt a chill run down her spine.

"Let's go."

Xu Ze walked past her, his voice as calm as if nothing had happened.

The two flew through the air.

They returned to their previous village.

Xu Ze told the pig demon through telepathy that it was now possible to return to Black Wind Ridge and reclaim what it had lost.

“Your wife and children are still alive. I only eliminated that Black Mane King.”

"From now on, you must honestly help these villagers and you must not do anything wrong again."

The pig demon lay on the ground, its two big ears flapping back and forth, occasionally grunting as if in response.

It was extremely grateful to Xu Ze, and naturally there would be no more betrayal. Once the demon race recognized the contract made with humans, they would only be loyal.

Xu Ze then left again.

Not far away, Gou Dan seemed to realize something and shouted a few times at the sky:

"Immortal Master! Immortal Master!"

Xu Ze did not respond and left the place with Tao Yaoyao.

Behind her, Tao Yaoyao wore a complicated expression.

Her gaze would occasionally fall on Xu Ze's back, and on the sword wrapped in white cloth.

What happened last night still makes her tremble.

Tao Yaoyao has lived for thousands of years and has seen countless cultivators, but she has never seen anyone like this before.

This person is more terrifying than any demon king.

Yet it also exudes an aura that, aside from its strength, makes people want to submit.

"My lord, please follow me."

From here on, flying will be much faster.

The clouds on the horizon grew thicker and thicker, leaden gray, and hung low, like a giant millstone slowly rotating.

Tao Yaoyao's steps grew slower and slower.

Her face was pale, her lips were tightly pressed together, and her fingers were twisting the hem of her skirt until her knuckles turned white.

“My lord,” her voice trembled, “the border of the Savage Demon Realm is just ahead.”

He was once an invincible demon king in the Fusion stage, and all the creatures within him had to kneel and submit to him.

However, the demon race is all about strength, and their past glory was only because they had that strength.

Now, I'm just a plaything in the master's palm, unable to even defeat a Golden Core cultivator. If I go in again, I'll definitely be torn to pieces, or even divided up...

"Is this rift the dividing line between the Eastern Continent and the Wilderness?"

Xu Ze raised his head.

In the distance, a massive rift valley stretched between heaven and earth.

The rift valley is so wide that the opposite bank cannot be seen, and so deep that the bottom cannot be seen. It is like a scar cleaved open by a giant axe, dividing the earth in two.

On this side of the rift valley is a barren, yellow earth and grayish-white soil.

Beyond the rift valley, a thick, impenetrable purple mist surged and churned, like the breathing of a sleeping behemoth.

Something is moving in the fog.

It wasn't the wind, it was a living thing.

Those things roamed in the fog, appearing and disappearing, occasionally revealing a glimpse of their scales or claws, shimmering with a cold, eerie light.

Deep within the fog, a black mountain peak can be vaguely seen, piercing the clouds like an upside-down sword stuck in the ground.

Tao Yaoyao stopped in her tracks, her whole body trembling.

"My lord, this is really all I can take you this far."

Her voice was barely audible, like a mosquito's buzz, "Going any further, with my current strength, would just be suicide..."

Just as Xu Ze was about to speak.

A sharp shout suddenly came from the sky.

"How dare you!!"

A streak of light flew in from the horizon, as fast as an arrow released from a bow.

In the blink of an eye, the stream of light landed in front of Xu Ze and transformed into a person.

He was a middle-aged man, dressed in a blue Taoist robe, with a thin face, high cheekbones, and a pair of triangular eyes that shone brightly.

His gaze swept over Xu Ze, then landed on Tao Yaoyao, his pupils suddenly contracting.

"They actually subdued the Demon King?"

The man's voice was like a knife slicing through glass.

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A shocked voice came from afar, its tone laced with a sharp question.

For a human to approach their branch with one of the twelve demon kings is a very serious matter.

"My lord, what should we do..."

Tao Yaoyao shrank behind Xu Ze, her small face full of fear.

She feared that if she did something to anger her lord, she would experience that soul-shattering pain again.

"take it easy."

Xu Ze took out his own token from his sleeve, which had the same pattern as the other party's:

"I just want to venture into the demon realm."

Qin Ce tensed up the moment Xu Ze made that move.

His hand was already on the hilt of the sword at his waist, spiritual energy surged, and his Taoist robe fluttered in the wind.

But upon seeing the token, Qin Ce's expression changed again:

"Deacon's token?"

Unlike the three people he had met before, Chu Feng and his companions, who immediately acknowledged Xu Ze's identity, he instead asked:

"Where did you come from? If you killed a demon alliance deacon, that's a heinous crime..."

Xu Ze looked at him without saying a word.

Zhou Yan had once explained to him in detail how to use this token.

The reason why the Demon Slayer Alliance rarely has imposters is because this token has a 'real-name registration' function.

He separated a wisp of spiritual energy from his fingertips, and the token immediately emitted a dazzling light, displaying Xu Ze's name.

Qin Ce had only intended to bluff the young man in front of him, but his attitude changed immediately when he saw that the other party was indeed the owner of the token.

"Fellow Daoist, are you from a branch alliance in another continent?"

He respectfully performed a cultivator's salute, "I never imagined that someone with only the Refinement of Void cultivation could subdue a demon king... It seems he is a monstrous genius like Protector Zhou."

The other party also mentioned Zhou Yan in their words.

Xu Ze returned the greeting and said:

“Then Senior Zhou Yan is more capable. This junior is just an unknown nobody from Nanzhou.”

Hearing this, Qin Ce was even more shocked:

Jambudvipa?

Although he was only at the early stage of the Integration Realm, he knew very well that in the cultivation world, even those with the same cultivation level were divided into different ranks.

Zhou Yan was only at the Void Refinement stage, yet he had already achieved a remarkable record in the war between demons and monsters, killing a demon king.

Now that he has broken through to the Integration Realm, he is about to be promoted from a Dharma Protector to a Hall Master who can stand on his own, on par with those Tribulation Transcending True Monarchs.

If this young man in front of me can achieve similar success to Zhou Yan in the future... then I definitely want to befriend him.

"That's right, I am from the Southern Continent."

Xu Ze never felt that there was anything shameful about his hometown, no matter where he went.

Shocked, Qin Ce nodded repeatedly:

"Nanzhou is truly a case of 'silent until it speaks, then astounding when it does.'"

"Some time ago, a steward named Chu sacrificed himself to protect the peace between the human and demon races, dying together with the villains."

"Now another prodigy like you has emerged, truly a testament to your accumulated talent."