The First Elder of the Great Martial Sacred Land looked at the crowd below and said, "Those participants, who want to withdraw from the competition, can shatter their tokens. After shattering the tokens, you'll lose your qualification to participate in the competition. This way, you won't have to go to the Demon World!"
Silence!
Once again, silence enveloped the entire Great Martial City.
After knowing about the reward, no participant wanted to retreat. Even though they knew that they'll fall into life-threatening dangers after going to the Demon World, none of them wanted to withdraw at this moment.
There was a saying, mortal die for food and cultivator die for treasures.
This saying perfectly fits the current situation.
Previously, when the First Elder of the Great Martial Sect announced the First Round of the Competition, everyone started cursing him and more than half of the participants wanted to withdraw from the competition. Now that the First Elder announced the reward that the winner of the First Round will receive, not a single person choose to come forward and withdraw.
Greed was flashing in their eyes at this moment. Everyone wanted to fight and survive for two years inside the Demon World now. Because it'll bring them a great opportunity. This kind of opportunity was only one in a lifetime's opportunity unless they become a disciple of the Great Martial Sacred Land and contribute greatly to obtain enough contribution points.
Of course, they had to raise their cultivation to the Ancient Immortal Realm first.
But this was impossible. Not to mention raising their cultivation bases to the Ancient Immortal Realm in a short time, with their strength and talent, it was simply impossible for them to become the disciples of the Great Martial Sacred Land.
If they were really that talented, they would have long become the disciples of the Sacred Lands in their worlds. They would not have remained as the disciples of First leveled Sects.
Seeing that no one came forward, the First Elder of the Great Martial Sacred Land snorted coldly in his heart. Then he again looked down and said, "Since no one is withdrawing from the competition, I announce, let the First Round of the Competition of Myriad Worlds begin!"
The moment the First Elder said this, a bright light flashed in the sky and then six pillars of light descended in the Great Martial City randomly and quickly formed a dimensional gate.
These were the gates that'll lead the participants of the Competition of Myriad Worlds to go to six different Demon Worlds.
The First Elder of the Great Martial Sacred Land again said, "All of you can now enter the dimensional gates. Remember, only 550,550 people can enter each gate. If any more people want to enter, they'll be repelled by the dimensional gate."
None of the disciples listened carefully to what the old man said, the moment the pillars of light descended in the Great Martial City randomly and formed dimensional gates, the participants dashed towards each one of them. All of them raced against each other to enter the dimensional gate.
"Yue Ying, It's time for me to leave. You take care of yourself. We'll meet after two years, ok?"
It was at this time, Ye Xiao held the hand of Yue Ying gently and said.
Yue Ying didn't want to part but she also knew, it was not possible. So she held herself back, forced a smile on her face, and replied, "Hmm! You also take care of yourself. And remember to come back safely."
"I will!" Ye Xiao smiled, let go of Yue Ying's hand, used the ability Spirit Devour Escape and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Seeing Ye Xiao disappearing, Yue Ying bit the corner of her lips. Her eyes became moist but she quickly calmed down, took a deep breath, and muttered, "I'll be waiting for you to come back. Also, the next time you'll see me, you'll see a different me!"
.....
Ye Xiao randomly chose a dimensional gate and rushed forward in its direction. It didn't take him long to arrive in front of the dimensional gate.
Since hundreds of thousands of people were struggling to enter the dimensional gate, a huge crowd was formed in front of him. Participants were fighting to enter. They were pushing each other, and if by chance, someone fell down on the ground, none of the participants went to help them stand up. Instead, they trampled down those people and went forward.
Because of this, the situation became very chaotic. Even some of the people's bones broke into pieces because of such chaos.
From the sky, the First Elder of the Great Martial Sacred Land was seeing everything. He sighed and muttered, "And at last, we have neglected one thing. We didn't expect the situation to become this chaotic, sigh!"
Although he was sighing, he didn't do anything to calm down the crowd. He left the crowd to fight amongst each other. It was up to them how they will enter the dimensional gate.
In front of the six pillars of light, the situation was extremely chaotic.
Ye Xiao could not hold himself back when he saw such a situation. His aura surged out and immediately, a great pressure descended on the people in front of him, forcing everyone to stop fighting. All of them circulated their cultivation technique to withstand the pressure but the pressure was so heavy that they could not even let out a single word from their mouths.
"Hmm?"
This scene fell in the eyes of the First Elder of the Great Martial Sacred Land. He frowned and soon noticed Ye Xiao.
"He is not bad. No, he is even better than the core disciples of Sacred Lands. Only his cultivation is lacking. Just who is he?" The First Elder muttered in his heart.
At this moment, Ye Xiao's aura, which could even make an Immortal Emperor Realm struggle, was descending on the crowd in front of him like a huge mountain. Ye Xiao's face was cold at this moment.
He didn't emit his aura to suppress these people, he did this to stop the chaos and enter the dimensional gate. He was no saint. If the people wanted to fight and cause chaos, they could do that after he entered the dimensional gate.
Ye Xiao slowly floated in the air, executed the Spirit Devour Escape, turned into a flash of light, and directly entered the dimensional gate. The moment Ye Xiao entered the gate, the terrifying aura pressing down the crowd also disappeared.
Before leaving, Ye Xiao left behind some words: "Why bother to fight? Why don't you all form a line and enter one by one? Anyway, the dimensional gate will not disappear until all the participants enter the Demon World!"
When Ye Xiao disappeared into the dimensional gate, the terrifying pressure also disappeared, causing all the people to heave a sigh of relief.
They also came back to their senses became obedient as they accepted Ye Xiao's suggestion.
In just five minutes, a huge line was formed and participants started to enter the dimensional gate one by one.
"What a terrifying aura was that? I think that person must be at least at the Late Stage of Immortal King Realm."
"That pressure was really breath-taking. That person must be very powerful and very terrifying."
"Although that person is terrifying, his heart is not bad. Only because of him, we have formed a line to enter. Otherwise, we would have still been fighting with each other to enter the dimensional gate and injure each other. If that really have happened, we would already have been gravely injured even before entering the Demon World. And if we have entered the Demon World with those injuries, we would have become an extremely easy target to the demons there."
"Yes, you are right. That person was definitely not a bad person!"
As the participants continued to enter the dimensional gates one by one, they also continued to praise Ye Xiao.
Even the First Elder of the Great Martial Sacred Land had praise on his face. He had already noticed Ye Xiao and was now just waiting for him to come out from the demon world after two years as a winner.
At that time, he will invite Ye Xiao to join the Great Martial Sacred Land.
He had already decided to do this.
He really liked the way Ye Xiao acted. If not for Ye Xiao, who knows how many people would have been injured and how many would have died.
The chaos in front of the dimensional gate also wouldn't have been solved.
Most importantly, Ye Xiao was an extremely strong individual. From his aura, the First Elder has already guessed that even an Early and Middle Stage Immortal Emperor Realm martial artist might not be a match for Ye Xiao.
How can he miss such a young man?
He also wanted to invite Ye Xiao to enter 'that' place.
He had no idea that Ye Xiao was already chosen by the Sect Leader of the Double Sword Sacred Land.
_Green Blood Demon World_
A huge fluctuation of energy appeared in the air and very soon, a fissure was formed.
Suddenly a light flashed and a figure appeared. But at this time, this figure was in extremely bad condition. He was seriously injured.
It was Ye Xiao.
When he entered the dimensional gate, he didn't expect to be targeted by a void beast.
Void Beast was not a demonic beast. It was an existence completely different from beasts just like Dragons and Phoenix.
Just as the name says, Void Beasts are the Beasts who were born in the void and stay in the void. They mainly target unstable Dimensional Gates just like the gate Ye Xiao entered.
He didn't expect the dimensional gate to be unstable and targeted by a Void Beast. This Void Beast was actually an Ancient Immortal Realm Void Beast. After a tough battle, Ye Xiao was finally able to kill the Void Beast. He had to transform into the Celestial Poison Imperial Dragon to kill that Void Beast.
In that battle, he was badly injured. But fortunately, he was able to arrive at his destination, the Demon World.
Because of him killing the Void Beast, the other participants who'll enter the Demon World wouldn't have any danger to face. They can directly go to the Demon World.
Ye Xiao looked at his surroundings and to his surprise, everywhere he saw was a vast expanse of white snow.
Ye Xiao didn't know where he was nor did he know how long it had taken him to arrive here. After all, there was no concept of time in the void.
Right now, all he felt was unbearable pain all over his body.
To be honest, he hadn't felt such pain in a long time.
Ever since he had successfully created the Solar System inside his body, the word "pain" To him had merely been a form of training. And it was only on the Fourth Floor of the Nine Story Pagoda.
His bones seem to have shattered, but fortunately, the Void Beast he faced was only at the Early Stage Ancient Immortal Realm. Otherwise, he might not have survived the attacks of the Void Beast.
Normally, a Void Beast is a lot stronger than a martial artist in the same realm.
For example, an Early Stage Ancient Immortal Realm Void Beast can fight against a Late Stage Ancient Immortal Realm martial artist and might even kill them.
So, being able to fight and kill that beast can already be considered a great achievement for Ye Xiao.
In exchange for the Void Beast's life, only a few bones of Ye Xiao were broken. It could already be considered a great feat in itself.
Right now, Ye Xiao was like an ordinary person with a deathly pale complexion because of the pain. He was completely unable to speak.
Ye Xiao feared that if he encountered any demon right now, he'll definitely end up as a dead man. He doesn't even have the ability to move, how could he fight a demon?
The most important thing right now was to
heal. The Wood Blossom Bloodline was operating on its own and was healing Ye Xiao's body at a very fast speed. If not for this bloodline, who knows how long it'll take Ye Xiao to completely heal.
Seeing that the Wood Blossom Bloodline was doing its job well, Ye Xiao didn't take his injuries seriously.
After Ye Xiao's injuries were healed mostly, he stood up and started walking. He didn't know what place he was currently at, he couldn't take the risk of staying at a single place for a long time. After all, he had the Death Order on his body and any nearby demon could easily sense him.
His footsteps were hurried. He was walking so fast that even a running Immortal Lord Realm couldn't catch up to Ye Xiao.
Before long, Ye Xiao saw the end of the snowy land.
"Dammit, I was actually on top of a snowy mountain. How can a mountain like this exist in a Demon World?" Ye Xiao cursed when he arrived at the end of snowy land.
Only now did he realize that he was actually on top of a snowy mountain all this time.
According to his imagination and expectation, a Demon World should be filled with darkness and dark things such as demonic trees that could eat humans, demonic flowers that could suck a human's blood. According to what he previously thought, a demon World should be filled with a demonic aura. Everywhere should be strange creatures and bloody scenes.
But there was nothing like this in the place he was currently standing. Only snow could be seen everywhere.
Standing at the edge of the snowy mountain peak, Ge Xiao raised his head and looked over. What entered his line of sight was, shocking, a huge red ball. He could faintly see a small black city within that red ball.
Outside of the red sphere were floating pieces of land, revolving around the sphere. On every piece of land, there seemed to get small towns and even residents.
Ye Xiao, which was watching this from afar, was astonished and muttered, "What exactly is this pla..."
Before he could finish his sentence, a cloud of black energy was released from the sphere and collided with a piece of land. The next moment, Ye Xiao saw hundreds and thousands of residents in that piece of land fly away because of the emergence of the black cloud, accompanied by miserable cries.
Ye Xiao was shocked when he saw this. He didn't understand what that black cloud of energy was, but even from afar, he could sense dense demonic energy from those dark clouds.
Miserable cries echoed. These cries were so miserable that they can easily obtain the sympathy of anyone.
Ye Xiao kept looking and saw black clouds swallowing every single resident on that piece of land. And when the Black Cloud retreated, there was not a single intact thing was left.
After swallowing everything on that piece of land, the black cloud retreated inside the red sphere.
Ye Xiao looked carefully and found out that this red spherical ball was actually a barrier to keep the floating lands separate from the land on the other side of the red sphere.
Ye Xiao didn't know what kind of place was this. He needed to leave this place soon but just as he wanted to leave, he heard the sounds of footsteps from behind. He turned back and saw a group of people standing behind him, looking at him strangely.
Below these people's feet were a few corpses of demonic beasts that Ye Xiao had never seen before. These beasts' entire body was furry and it looked like a human-sized ball. Only a pair of round eyes and a large cracked mouth were revealed.
The dozen or so people line up in a row and pointed their weapons at Ye Xiao.
Ye Xiao's mouth was agape as he stared at the people whose clothes were not even properly dressed. Some of these people were girls and half of these girls' chests and thighs were all exposed. Ye Xiao was dumbstruck at this moment.
Furthermore, Ye Xiao also noticed that these people were either at the Early Stage or Middle Stage of the Immortal Foundation Realm. Not a single one of them was at the Late Stage of Immortal Foundation Realm or Immortal Lord Realm.
Also, he didn't notice a single trace of demonic aura from these people. It means these people were humans and weak ones at that. This kind of people can only be at the bottom of any country in the Upper Realm.
"Wh-Who are you? What are you doing on the Jade Snowy Mountain?"
One of these people who looked like the leader of this group walked out and asked Ye Xiao while pointing the weapon in his hand at him.
Ye Xiao looked at the weapon of this man and was startled to see that what this man was holding was not an Immortal Rank Weapon but Mystical Rank.
Ye Xiao took a deep breath. He didn't know anything about this place. He also wanted to find out where he was, so he cupped his hands and said, "My name is Ye Xiao. I also don't know how I come here. I was going to my sect when a black fissure appeared in front of me and the next moment I appeared here."
Ye Xiao made an excuse and tried to look confused.
When the man saw this, he heaved a sigh of relief. He also didn't feel any kind of demonic aura from Ye Xiao's body, so he turned to look at his people and said, "He is not a demon. Maybe, he belongs to the outside world and somehow ends up here. Let's bring him to see the village chief!"
Everyone nodded their heads. The man again turned and said to Ye Xiao, "Brother Ye Xiao, I'm Han Bai and these are the juniors of our village.. Let's go, I'll bring you to see our Village Chief. Only our Village Chief can decide what to do next!"
On one of the floating mountains, Ye Xiao was standing in front of an old man. Many people were standing surrounding him. All of them had a pity look on their faces and it was clear that those looks were for Qin Ye Xiao.
Ye Xiao knew nothing that was going on? He could see the pity look on their faces.
The man called Han Bai had already told the old man about him. This old man was the village chief of the Han Village.
At this moment, the Village Chief of the Han Village shook his head and looked at Ye Xiao with sympathy before saying, "Your luck is a really bad young man. I don't know how you ended up arriving here, but now that you are here, don't even think about leaving this place."
"What do you mean, Village Chief?" Ye Xiao asked in confusion.
The Village Chief of the Han Village was named Han Sai. He was a martial artist at the Late Stage of the Immortal Lord Realm. He was not even an Immortal King Realm martial artist even though he had already lived for more than ten thousand years already.
The Village Chief again shook his head in regret as he said, "You can see that huge ball of the red sphere, right?"
Ye Xiao nodded his head. He was also curious about that huge ball of the red sphere. It was really too huge. He had previously seen dark clouds coming out from that ball of the red sphere and swallowing the lives of an entire floating land before retreating.
The Village Chief again said, "That is actually a door for the demons to enter and exit the Pet Prison!"
"Pet Prison?" Ye Xiao was again confused.
"Sigh!"
The Village Chief sighed and started to explain in detail. He said, "Actually, this entire land is the Pet Prison, a prison where Demons throw humans like animals. Whenever they feel hungry, they would enter the prison and eat us, humans, to their fills before leaving."
"This world is called the Green Blood Demon world. We are not from this world. We actually belong to Immortal Worlds, but these demons attacked our worlds and before retreating, they kidnapped us and threw us inside this prison."
"As they started throwing humans inside the Pet Prison, the population of humans started increasing slowly. This prison is extremely huge. Our ancestors build up many villages on the floating lands."
"All the floating land you are seeing once had a village on them. One by one, those demons destroyed all the villages and ate all the humans there. Now, there are only three Villages left. They are Han Village, Hua Village, and Chu Village."
The current alive people in our villages are all born in this prison. Even I, the oldest person alive in the Han Village, was born in this prison. We have only heard of the worlds outside from the mouths of our ancestors. We never thought that a fellow human from the outside world would end up coming here by accident."
"But since you come here, keep a low profile and try to survive for as long as you can. Those demons had just destroyed another village an hour ago. For the next hundred years, they'll keep throwing humans inside the Pet Prison so that those humans could establish some more villages. The reproduction rate of the human race is extremely fast. Those demons want us to establish a few more villages and increase the population."
"They enter the Pet Prison every hundred years and destroy a village before leaving. And if our luck is extremely bad, some demons would occasionally enter to play with us. If an important figure among the demons visited this place, almost half of village members will surely be taken away by them as food."
"We humans have no freedom here. Inside this prison, we are nothing but pets of those demons!"
The old man told Ye Xiao everything with extreme sadness. His face was full of yearning for the Immortal Worlds, but he couldn't even go outside this Pet Prison, let alone going to Immortal Worlds.
The Village Chief of the Han Village also told Ye Xiao a few more things. Ye Xiao noted down some of the important things inside his mind, such as, only demons can enter and exit the Pet Prison through the huge red sphere which was also the entrance of the Prison.
If a human ever tried to pass the entrance, they'll be immediately killed by some mysterious dark energy, and their life force as well as the blood will be sucked away by that black energy.
After digesting all the information he received, Ye Xiao confirmed two things.
The first one, he has indeed arrived at a Demon World.
And the second one, He came to this Demon World because of the Competition and will stay here for two years only. After that, the mechanism in the token will activate on its own and teleport him outside. As long as he does not go outside the Pet Prison, he'll be safe.
He first wanted to stay here but maybe, the hatred for the Demons deep inside his soul didn't want to let him stay here peacefully.
Ye Xiao knew that this feeling of hatred has actually originated from the Divine Soul Emperor Dragon. There must be some kind of feud between the Divine Soul Emperor Dragon and the Demons.
But the large probability was the hatred between the Divine Soul Emperor Dragon and an Ancestral Demon Dragon such as the World Exterminating Demon Dragon.
World Exterminating Demon Dragon was just an example, it might not be this Ancestral Dragon. After all, there were nine Ancestral Dragons and among them, there might be other Demon Dragons other than the World Exterminating Demon Dragon.
Right now, the hatred within his soul for the Demons was affecting his mind. He wanted nothing more than to rush outside and slaughter those Demons, but he forcefully suppressed this feeling of his. he didn't know when his soul will stop affecting his emotions.
But he had a guess.
Maybe, after fusing together with the World Exterminating Demon Dragon, his soul might stop affecting his emotions.
After a while, Ye Xiao asked, "Have you lot never tried to go against those demons?"
The Village Chief laughed helplessly and replied, "Young man, who do you think those demons are? Those demons are not some cabbage whom we can cut as we want. Those demons are the ruler of this world, how can we go against them?"
"Not to mention going against those demons, we can not even fight any one of the demons who enter the Pet Prison. The weakest of them who enter the Prison are Demon Kings and the strongest one is already an Ancient Demon. With our little strength, how can we dare to fight against them?"
Ye Xiao was surprised when heard this.
It means that on the other side of the red sphere, there is a possibility of Ancient Demon Realm demons' presence. If that really was the case, if he were to go out, he'll really be in a big danger.
But it doesn't mean he'll not go out. Ye Xiao had already decided to go out and kill as many demons as he can. After all, demons were like cultivation resources to him. Devouring their demonic energy, death aura, and other demonic things can directly let him increase his cultivation of the Fourth Layer of Nine Dragon Universal Circulation Technique.
Ye Xiao didn't want to waste such a good opportunity given to him.
As for how he'll go outside since no human could pass the big ball of the red sphere, Ye Xiao already had an idea in his mind.
His fourth dragon, World Exterminating Demon Dragon has the 'demon' word in its name. Its demonic aura might help him pass through the ball of the red sphere.
What he had to do now is to gather more information about the demons and this world from the Village Chief before going to the side and starting the massacre.
Of course, he might also help these people gain their freedom.
As for how he'll help them leave this world and send them to the Immortal World, he had already planned to let them enter one of the worlds inside his Solar System when he'll about to teleport back to the Great Martial City.
After returning to the Great Martial World, he would release them outside and let them survive on their own. That much help would already be a great help for these prisoners who are spending their lives like pets inside the Pet Prison.
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Author's Note:- Maybe you have already forgotten, I once explained before that just like Immortal, Demons have their own way of cultivation.. The Immortal Lord Realm Demons are known as Demon Lords, Immortal King Realm demons are known as Demon Kings, Immortal Emperor Realm demons are known as Demon Emperors, and Ancient Immortal Realm demons are known as Ancient Demons.