In the frigid lands, after my exile, I began to slay demons and monsters.

Chapter 169 Chaos Demon Lord

With a staff in hand, Ning Xiaoxi swept across all directions, and wherever the wind from the staff reached, thorns were shattered and crushed.

Tianji's demonic whip simultaneously whipped up more than a dozen thorns, which burst open as the demonic energy filled the area.

After the thorns shattered, several illusory figures appeared beside Ning Xiaoxi and Tianji, and those figures were so close that they were about to pounce on the two of them.

Before Ning Xiaoxi could make a move, Tianji's whip swept up all the figures.

The figures all gaped open, and a silent sound wave spread out.

The blue light emanating from Ning Xiaoxi's body blocked the interference of the sound waves.

Tianji's demonic energy surged, tearing apart and dissipating the figures. Then, he lashed the thorn bushes with his whip, but no more mist or thorns appeared, nor did any illusory figures materialize. In fact, the thorns would retract and dodge the whip's strikes.

"what!"

"Don't shout!"

He lashed the whip with great vigor, continuing to whip it as he went. At the end, Tianji put the whip away. "Indeed, it was only the soul of a human."

After the two stepped out of the passage, the thorns of the Corrupting Thorn Demon grew rapidly, quickly blocking the passage and emitting thick fog that filled the surroundings with a putrid stench, obscuring the thorns themselves.

Ning Xiaoxi, who followed along, did not overstep her authority; she simply behaved as a follower, preferring to remain discreet and avoid standing out.

Tianji's expression was rather unpleasant.

"My lord, have you made any progress?" Ning Xiaoxi looked at Tianji's face and then thought about Jiuying's true form, and felt a sense of disconnect.

"Maybe it's awake. Let's go check it out." Tianji glanced at Ning Xiaoxi. "What kind of look is that?"

With an innocent look on her face, Ning Xiaoxi blinked and asked her question, "I'm just really curious, how did you become Jiuying? And who is this 'it' you're talking about?"

Tianji turned and walked westward along the barrier formed by the Corrupted Thorn Demon. "Have you read the records of the Fufang Zaidao Pavilion?"

"I saw the record of the poison spreading for thousands of miles after the Nine-Headed Serpent was killed."

“The Vice Pavilion Master is not yet capable of killing Jiuying,” Tianji said slowly. “At that time, it was only to give my soul a body to rely on that Jiuying used three lives and Xiangliu’s poison pills to lure those Celestial Masters into activating the Sun and Moon Formation, switching Yin and Yang, and letting my soul leave my body. But I didn’t expect that something would go wrong in the middle, and Jiuying had to sacrifice three more lives to take my soul into its body. It fell into a deep sleep, and I took control of the body for it.”

"But Jiuying was killed almost two hundred years ago. Does your status mean you're over thirty?"

"Don't you know that humans have family lineages?"

"Uh, whose house are you at?"

"The Dynasty Guard is divided into two branches, one overt and one covert. The overt ones are the Spirit Guards, while the covert ones are the Shadow Guards, who are exclusively trained by the Mo family."

"Can the king's shadow guards also become heavenly masters?"

Tianji smiled meaningfully, "That is the King."

Ning Xiaoxi felt that she didn't have the ability to cast spells, so why was this Master Tianji so willing to tell her everything? She really didn't expect that Master Tianji would be willing to tell her these things; she had always thought that their relationship was one of mutual exploitation.

Tianji turned to look at Ning Xiaoxi, "Qingli told me that you are a simple person and that I can trust you."

Ning Xiaoxi pouted, "So it was Sister Qingli who spoke up for me."

"Otherwise, why do you think I would believe you? The Heavenly Fox can see through people's hearts, so I only believe what it says."

"Hmph, I believe in Sister Qingli, not you."

"Hey, you little rascal, I haven't settled the score with you for touching my Qingli's hand last time! Don't you dare have any other ideas."

"Sir, aren't you being too stingy? Look at me, I'm only thirteen years old, I'm a girl, what are you worried about?"

This time, Tianji didn't even glance at her. "We are demons. Do you think age and gender are constraints?"

Ning Xiaoxi shut up.

"Remember not to let it out. This time, it might be Chaos awakening. If it finds out, we won't have any peace." Tianji stopped teasing her.

"chaos?"

"The Chaos Demon Lord prefers to sleep, sometimes not waking up for hundreds or thousands of years. Only it has the ability to transform inanimate and living things into each other, giving birth to soulless bodies."

"What should we do if it is that?"

"Put it to sleep."

Ning Xiaoxi stared blankly at Tianji, "My lord, are you serious?"

"If we don't want the world to restart prematurely, putting it to sleep is the best way."

How do I coax him?

Tianji pointed to himself, "Me? Look at me, I'm a man, how would I know how to coax someone?"

Ning Xiaoxi stared at Tianji in disbelief, suddenly realizing that the Tianji she had known before was a fake. The shameless one in front of her was the real one.

Gradually, the thick fog produced by the Corrupted Thorn Demon thinned, the thorns became less entangled, and light shone through.

The ice field ahead was no longer black; it began to have patches of snow, and the temperature started to rise.

Further ahead lies a towering mountain range, covered in ice and snow.

"My lord, can you feel it?" Ning Xiaoxi's Spirit Crystal Heart Armor was actually shaking.

Tianji looked up at the towering mountain before him. "Are you sure you want to go inside and explore further?"

"Although it's good to take a look, it's better to know what's going on so we can figure out how to solve the problem. Even if we can't solve it, at least we'll know the root cause!" Ning Xiaoxi was also a little scared. The armor was shaking so badly it was almost like a sieve. The cave was completely silent.

"I only have three lives left. One for myself, one for Jiuying, and only one left to cause trouble."

"If you don't emphasize it, I won't be afraid."

Tianji slowed his pace, and Ning Xiaoxi followed his gaze to a clearly trodden road. The road was wide, with deep indentations on both sides, like tracks left by a heavy carriage dragging a load. There were also overlapping, chaotic footprints, one on top of another, forcefully tamped into the dirt. The road contained compacted black soil, mixed with brownish substances. In the snow on both sides, there were various indescribable objects, some large, some small, some like dripping liquid, others just unidentifiable clumps of material.

This road leads straight down to the foot of the mountain, while the other side heads north, stretching as far as the eye can see.

Ning Xiaoxi leaned closer to Tianji and asked, "This looks like a transport route, but the key question is, what is it transporting?"

Tianji looked up at the high mountain. White mist was rising from the mountainside, like ventilation ducts. Three channels of white mist could be seen rising from this side.

"The transformation between living and inanimate objects, whether alive or dead, always requires material to operate. These mountains mostly contain rocks and black soil; to obtain living things..."

"Sea monster!"

"Sea monster!"

They both said it at the same time.

Footsteps approached, and Tianji grabbed Ning Xiaoxi's arm and dragged her into the swarm of Corrupted Thorn Demons, hiding behind the corrosive mist.

A small squad of humanoid half-demons approached from a distance in patrol formation.

After they had walked a distance, a long convoy followed behind them.