Chapter 00383: Slaughtering the Nightmare Demons
# Slaughtering the Nightmare Demons
Chapter 383
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 383: Slaughtering the Nightmare Demons
"Immortal Lord, you must not underestimate Qiao Aomu. In just a few decades, he has risen from a Golden Immortal to a Great Luo Golden Immortal. His cultivation speed is astonishing. Not only that, but his methods are also extremely terrifying. Even Qian Qiong holds him in high regard and took him away from the Five Realms Immortal World," Jing Maoting said.
Apart from being addressed by the name of their respective Immortal Court, Immortal Kings can also be referred to as Great Emperors or Immortal Lords, with the latter being a more affectionate title.
In just a few decades, he went from a Golden Immortal to a Great Luo Golden Immortal? His cultivation speed is no slower than mine.
How did he cultivate so quickly? Apart from having ample cultivation resources, the biggest secret lies in the Cosmic Dimension Matrix.
Without it, he wouldn't even be at the True Immortal Realm, let alone the Void God Realm.
From this, it's clear that Qiao Aomu must also have a significant secret.
It seems that if I encounter him again, I'll need to be cautious.
However, Qian Qiong taking Qiao Aomu away might not necessarily be due to his talent.
It's more likely that he was interested in the secrets Qiao Aomu possesses.
"I understand. Before rebuilding the Five Realms Immortal Court, I need to deal with the Nightmare Demons in the Five Realms Immortal World. Jing Sizhu, do you know where the largest concentration of Nightmare Demons is in the Five Realms Immortal World?"
"It's the Land of Chaos. All the Nightmare Demons in the Five Realms Immortal World come from the Ice Transformation Zone of the Lingwei Immortal Domain. After leaving the Ice Transformation Zone, they established a base in the Land of Chaos. Moreover, these Nightmare Demons seem to be highly organized. Previously, the Five Realms Immortal World gathered millions of cultivator troops to besiege the Land of Chaos. Just as the Nightmare Demons were about to be defeated, those that had already spread to other Immortal Domains suddenly returned in a frenzy to reinforce their brethren..."
Jing Maoting sighed at this point, "It was that battle that made the Five Realms Immortal World feel as though the Nightmare Demons were invincible. In that battle, over a million cultivators perished, and the cultivator army was completely scattered, never to be reorganized. In fact, it was that battle that caused us to lose confidence in our ability to resist the Nightmare Demon tide."
If it weren't for that battle, as an Immortal King, who would willingly abandon their Immortal Domain?
Listening to Jing Maoting's words, Lan Xiaobu became even more certain that these Nightmare Demons were deliberately released by someone.
Choosing a location to establish a base clearly indicates an intention to slowly consume the entire Five Realms Immortal World.
This is similar to how the Nightmare Demons in the Mysterious Profound Immortal Domain chose the Ancient Battlefield of Mysterious Profound as their base.
"Qiao Xing, is the Land of Chaos the place we came to earlier?" Lan Xiaobu asked.
Qiao Xing quickly stepped forward, "Yes, that place is the Land of Chaos."
"In that case, let's head to the Land of Chaos now," Lan Xiaobu immediately decided.
He had a vague feeling that his relentless slaughter of Nightmare Demons must have disrupted some powerful figure's plans.
But there was nothing he could do about it.
If given the chance again, he would still not let them go.
...
The Land of Chaos was even larger than the Ancient Battlefield.
Lan Xiaobu spent nearly half a month setting up a ninth-grade Slaughter Formation without alerting the Nightmare Demons.
However, this Slaughter Formation was different from the ones he had set up before.
In the past, anyone entering the formation would be instantly slaughtered.
This formation, however, had many survival spaces built into it.
Those who entered wouldn't be immediately slaughtered and would even have a chance to break through the formation.
Of course, this was an illusion.
What they were breaking through were pseudo-formations within the ninth-grade formation.
The reason for this was to lure all the Nightmare Demons in and eliminate them in one go.
Otherwise, going from one Immortal Domain to another to slaughter the Nightmare Demons would be too time-consuming.
Up until now, he still didn't know when the Chaos Secret Realm would open.
Moreover, he needed to find Qian Qiong, or he wouldn't even have a chance to participate in the secret realm.
Some of these Nightmare Demons had a bit of intelligence.
As long as they sensed that they could continuously break through the Slaughter Formation, they would keep coming.
Of course, in Lan Xiaobu's view, it was impossible to completely exterminate the Nightmare Demons.
At a certain point, even the dumbest Nightmare Demons would stop rushing into the Slaughter Formation.
By then, the number of Nightmare Demons should be significantly reduced, and the cultivator army could slowly mop them up.
Half a month later, Jing Maoting personally led ten thousand cultivator troops into the Land of Chaos.
According to Jing Maoting, as soon as the cultivator army entered the Land of Chaos, the Nightmare Demons would swarm out to slaughter them.
Sure enough, as soon as the ten thousand cultivator troops entered the Land of Chaos, a tide of Nightmare Demons, like a cloud, swept over from the horizon.
The ten thousand cultivator troops were like a small boat in a raging sea amidst the endless tide of Nightmare Demons.
These ten thousand troops didn't know about the ninth-grade formation.
As the endless tide of Nightmare Demons approached, even Jing Maoting's commands couldn't stop them from fleeing.
The Nightmare Demon leaders, though somewhat intelligent, couldn't understand why the previous millions of cultivator troops had been defeated, and now a mere ten thousand troops had come to make a brief appearance before fleeing.
They didn't even remember that half a month ago, a sixth-grade Slaughter Formation had slaughtered countless of their brethren.
Or perhaps, for them, only the present mattered.
Endless Nightmare Demons rushed into the Slaughter Formation, and Lan Xiaobu activated it.
The highest level of Nightmare Demons here was only seventh-grade.
Under the ninth-grade Slaughter Formation, it didn't even take half an incense stick's time to annihilate them.
To attract more Nightmare Demons, Lan Xiaobu allowed them to continuously break through the formation's defenses.
Even after half a day, less than a fifth had been slaughtered.
Lan Xiaobu dared to do this because he knew there were no Nightmare Demons above seventh-grade here.
If there were ninth-grade Nightmare Demons, like in the Mysterious Profound Immortal Domain, this low-level tactic of luring and slaughtering wouldn't work.
As Jing Maoting had said, once the battle reached a stalemate, waves of Nightmare Demons came from afar, swarming into the Slaughter Formation.
No matter how many Nightmare Demons came, the losses within the formation were proportional.
A month passed, and countless Nightmare Demons had died in the Slaughter Formation.
Yet, the tide of Nightmare Demons continued to surge in, showing just how many had come to the Five Realms Immortal World.
"Jing Sizhu, I'm afraid you were wrong. Even the dumbest Nightmare Demons should have stopped coming under such continuous slaughter. But look, the Nightmare Demons here are still endlessly surging in, regardless of losses," Lan Xiaobu said.
Even without ninth-grade Nightmare Demons, seventh-grade Nightmare Demons should instinctively know this is a death trap.
So why are they still coming?
Jing Maoting and the others were already stunned.
The Immortal Formation Emperor was truly formidable.
If they had had such a Slaughter Formation earlier, what would the Five Realms Immortal World have to fear from the Nightmare Demons?
Now that Lan Xiaobu was asking, Jing Maoting didn't know if he had guessed wrong.
In fact, he was starting to doubt his own judgment.
Even the dumbest Nightmare Demons wouldn't knowingly rush to their deaths, would they? Two months passed, and the reinforcements of Nightmare Demons gradually ceased.
Lan Xiaobu activated the Slaughter Formation, annihilating all the Nightmare Demons within.
"This nightmare is finally over," Jing Maoting sighed in relief as he looked at the mountain of Nightmare Demon cores.
"Let's go and see what's so strange about this place," Lan Xiaobu said, then flew towards the Nightmare Demons' lair.
"Is this a natural Concealment Formation?" Gong Yunqi exclaimed in surprise.
Before them was a valley shrouded in mist, impenetrable to divine sense.
"This isn't a Concealment Formation. It seems to be a formation disk that surpasses ninth-grade," Lan Xiaobu said as he pulled out handfuls of formation flags.
After a full day of setting them up, the surrounding mist slowly dissipated.
Lan Xiaobu then reached out and a formation disk landed in his hand.
It was a formation disk engraved with formation patterns, containing rules that even Lan Xiaobu, with his mastery of formations, couldn't fully comprehend.
"What is that?" As the formation disk was taken away, what appeared before everyone was a three-zhang-tall egg nest.
It was called an egg nest because, although it looked like a nest from the outside, its shape resembled an egg.
"So this is where the fallen cultivators were moved to," Tong Yusha said, feeling uncomfortable.
Not far from the egg nest was a mountain of bones.
Piles of human heads were arranged around the egg nest, as if they were offerings to it.
Lan Xiaobu summoned his long halberd and struck down.
A violent surge of immortal energy hit the egg nest, causing it to crack.
To everyone's shock, inside the egg nest was a tree bearing a single fruit.
The fruit was half green and half red, clearly not yet ripe.
"What kind of fruit is this?" Gong Yunqi asked.
No one knew, not even Lan Xiaobu.
His Cosmic Dimension Matrix recorded almost all the spiritual plants in the universe, but this one was not among them.
"I'll take it for now," Lan Xiaobu said as he cast a series of seals, intending to collect the entire tree.
But as soon as he did, the shattered egg nest instantly vanished, and the tree withered, causing the fruit to fall.
Before the fruit could hit the ground, Lan Xiaobu waved his hand, and the fruit was sent into a jade box.
He then sealed it and stored it in the Cosmic Dimension Matrix.
He didn't know what kind of fruit this was, but he would study it later when he had time.
"Let's return to Mu Bei Great Immortal City immediately," Lan Xiaobu said.
After returning to Mu Bei Great Immortal City and establishing the Five Realms Immortal Court, Gong Yunqi would lead the cultivator army to exterminate the remaining Nightmare Demons in the Five Realms Immortal World.
...
In the Immortal King's Palace of Mu Bei Great Immortal City's Lingwei Immortal Domain.
Although Lan Xiaobu had left the Lingwei Immortal Domain many years ago, the Lingwei Immortal Court had been operating normally.
The Lingwei Immortal Domain's ability to maintain this was largely due to Gu Feihe, who, grateful for Lan Xiaobu's recognition, had done his utmost to resist the Nightmare Demons and protect the Lingwei Immortal Domain.
Thanks to Gu Feihe, Mu Bei Great Immortal City and the Great Desolate Universe had remained safe.
Immortal Kings like Huo Lan, Hou Xuancheng, and Sha Yunshao, who admired Lan Xiaobu's efforts, had not interfered with the Lingwei Immortal Court and had also been resisting the invading Nightmare Demons.
In truth, everyone knew that if it weren't for the sixth-grade defensive formation Lan Xiaobu had set up before leaving, the Lingwei Immortal Domain would have been swallowed by the Nightmare Demon tide long ago and wouldn't have lasted until now.
However, today, Mu Bei Great Immortal City received an unexpected visitor.
Unexpected because this person's cultivation level was far too high for the Immortal Kings of the Lingwei Immortal Domain—this was an Immortal Emperor.
(End of Chapter)