Ji Haoyuan harbors a considerable aversion toward the Tribulation Cultivators within the human race.

It's not an exaggeration to say that if he encounters them, he would not hesitate to kill them.

Yet, if the targets were instead the Demon Race, Ji Haoyuan would feel no qualms and certainly wouldn't have psychological burdens.

Wars over resources and territory have erupted countless times between the two races.

Cultivators use the flesh, bones, and Demon Pills of the Demon Race as materials for Alchemy, Artifact Refining, Array Formation, and talisman making.

Conversely, the Demon Race also consumes humans.

Devouring their flesh, soul, to nourish themselves.

Thus, under the current environment of the Cultivation Realm, they are indisputable sworn enemies.

In such a situation, if there is an opportunity to weaken the opponent's strength and seize their obtained opportunities, Ji Haoyuan would not hesitate to act.

Of course.

This comes with a prerequisite, that is, he must first ensure his own safety.

At least the risk must be within his controllable range.

Just like this time.

If it merely involves lurking in the shadows, seeking a suitable opportunity to launch a stealth attack, then given Ji Haoyuan's current strength and means, the risk should be within a controllable range.

He meticulously and repeatedly streamlined the entire plan several times over.

After confirming there were no oversights, he quietly left the mountain gate of the Demonstration Sect, heading north toward the Beimang Mountain Range.

At this moment.

A strange feeling of thrill arose unaccountably in Ji Haoyuan's heart.

This did not originate from a sense of some unknown danger but from a intuition about some crucial opportunity.

This is also the main reason why Ji Haoyuan would make such a seemingly greatly risky move.

Especially as he drew nearer to the Beimang Mountain Range.

That intuition became increasingly clear.

He had a premonition that within the Ancient Ruins of the Beimang Mountain Range, there would be something immensely important to him.

For this, he was willing to take this risk.

Beimang Mountain Range.

A place named Ten Thousand Poison Thunder Marsh.

Here, extremely dense five-colored poisonous mists linger all year round.

Anything below a third-tier Demon Beast, once it gets within a hundred-mile radius, would be corroded by the poisonous mists here.

It would take less than one and a quarter hours for them to be rendered as bones, separating flesh from bone.

Simultaneously.

In the central region, endless lightning permeates the surroundings.

This lightning isn't the bright and masculine lightning filled throughout the world, but a kind of utterly gentle to the extreme, dark to the extreme eerie lightning.

Its entire body is dark green and black.

Once contaminated, it is like an inescapable sickness, turning you into pus and blood until it is done.

It is extremely terrifying.

And as luck would have it.

The so-called Ancient Ruins are located precisely at the very center of this Ten Thousand Poison Thunder Marsh.

Its entrance resembles the giant mouth of an ancient beast Taotie, filled with a sense of savage frenzy.

At this moment.

Inside a forest approximately eight hundred miles away from the Ten Thousand Poison Thunder Marsh.

Ji Haoyuan's form seamlessly melded with the environment here.

He was like one of the giant trees here.

Present all this while, never changing.

And that is one of his sources of confidence for coming here.

An advanced Breath Concealment technique named Withered Wood Annihilation Technique.

It not only perfectly conceals all the aura pertaining to him as a human cultivator.

But also can seamlessly blend into the surrounding environment.

Especially in this forest setting.

Even if a fourth-tier Demon King were to come, unless they specifically attacked him, they simply could not detect his presence.

The most crucial part is, Ji Haoyuan possesses patience at this moment.

Waiting for the possible target to arrive. One day, two days, ten days, one hundred days…

A full hundred days, Ji Haoyuan persisted at the same spot, remaining static.

As if he truly became a tree, enduring the wind and beating rain.

Even when occasionally a Demon Beast stepped over him, Ji Haoyuan maintained his Withered Wood Annihilation state.

Finally.

After another fifty days had passed.

A sudden, immensely strong spatial fluctuation erupted from the area where the Ten Thousand Poison Thunder Marsh is located.

Following that, large figures swiftly darted out from what seemed like a Taotie's gigantic mouth, then quickly distanced themselves from that region.

Hmm? Nothing?

Instead, Ji Haoyuan, while in his Withered Wood Annihilation state, felt strong gusts of wind sweeping past him.

Inside his mind, a slight hint of disappointment arose.

Because at this point, he hadn't sensed anything he wanted from those great demons emerging out of the ruins.

Buzz!

But just then, from the area where Ten Thousand Poison Thunder Marsh lies, a new wave of spatial fluctuation suddenly appeared.

What's that?

Boom!

At that moment, over ten exceedingly strong auras suddenly emerged from the gigantic mouth resembling a Taotie.

Soon those aura owners, without any pause, just like those previous third-tier great demons, swiftly fled toward the distance.

They are late-stage third-tier great demons!

Instant enlightenment arose in Ji Haoyuan's mind.

It turns out the two groups of great demons did not come out from the Ancient Ruins at the same time.

Rumble! Rumble!

At the same time, an eruption of lightning, flames, frost, storms, and poisonous creatures emerged across the distant sky.

From the Ancient Ruins, as the various great demons emerged one after another, many have already engaged in extremely intense battles.

In just a short while, two or three great demons shed blood across the skies, falling dead on the spot.

It is evident that the internal conflicts within the Demon Race are even more brutal and stark compared to humans.

Hmm...?

Just as the intense battles between many great demons broke out in the distant sky, Ji Haoyuan's Spiritual Sense suddenly surged with a mysterious and intense thrill.

This nearly made him lose grip on his state.

His previously calm and unruffled heart involuntarily rippled.

Thankfully.

With battles erupting in the distance now, no one would pay attention to someone like him who had concealed his Qi Mechanism to the utmost.

Including the late-stage third-tier great demon beneath Ji Haoyuan's feet, swiftly fleeing from the underground, who also hasn't sensed any anomaly.

At this moment, its entire mind was focused on distancing from this area.

This made Ji Haoyuan sigh upon detecting its presence.

Indeed.

Among the purely survival-of-the-fittest-centric Demon Race group, there are also cautious and calm individuals present.

For example, that late-stage third-tier great demon currently leaving our region.

It chose not to fly, nor to leave from the surface, but opted to conceal its Qi Mechanism and depart from deep underground.

If Ji Haoyuan hadn't integrated his entire being into this environment and kept himself vigilant, alongside the special sensing bestowed from some mystical force.

He might have found it difficult to detect the presence of the foe.

Perhaps, there was a chance the foe might have slipped away right under his nose.

Unfortunately...

Since that unexpected event didn't happen, Ji Haoyuan's 'hunt' must thus commence.

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