Chapter 229: The Origin of the Demon Ancestor

Lu Yu opened his eyes calmly, showing not a trace of joy.

Absorbing six skeletons in front of everyone was because there was no place to hide.

The Demon Ancestor has not appeared yet!

Lu Yu believed that the Devil Ancestor was definitely watching, just waiting for the right opportunity.

Even without the Demon Lord, slaughter would not spare him.

He must become stronger!

Lu Tianming had already woken up on the other side. Upon learning that he had actually been choked unconscious, he nearly jumped up to fight Lu Yu to the death.

Lu Tianming felt that this was a double blow to his spirit and dignity!

However, Xue Hai held Lu Tianming back, urging him not to act recklessly. They had come too far already; if he were to be eliminated due to injury, it would all be too much of a waste.

The man in the black robe and Xiao Xiao had already started walking towards the treasure mountain.

Lu Tianming had already taken more than forty steps, but now he could only start over!

This time, the three of them moved forward much more slowly.

This time it’s not a competition, but a complete test of strength.

Under such gravity, it is also a form of tempering!

Lu Tianming spent two days passing the test and brought back a level-nine armor for Li Hun.

The man in the black robe passed by on the seventh day and did not take anything.

Xie Ming left the opportunity open, as if he had long been prepared to take something.

Xiao Xiao passed on the thirteenth day, which was not very fast.

However, for a woman to possess such strength at this stage is truly astonishing.

It also attracted the attention of several Demon Lords!

In the end, all the Demon Lords had only one last chance remaining!

Lu Yu carefully examined the man in the black robe.

This mysterious figure, apart from shining at the Dragon Arena, performed only moderately well in the following stages. He seemed talented, but his comprehension and other aspects left much to be desired.

However, Lu Yu always had a feeling that the man in the black robe was hiding something, just not the right time yet!

The shadowy figure whispered softly beside Lu Yu, “Be careful of the man in the black robe!”

Lu Yu frowned slightly and said, “You also feel that something is off?”

Huāgyǐng nodded and said, “I’m afraid it’s not just me—other Demon Lords should have noticed as well. After the outbreak at the Dragon Arena, he suddenly became quiet; it’s very unusual.”

Lu Yu said in a deep voice: “If he merely wanted to attract our attention, he wouldn’t have done this. And if he wanted to stay under the radar, he wouldn’t have needed to draw us in either. What exactly is he thinking?”

Not only Lu Yu, but the other Demon Lords also began to pay attention to the man in the black robe.

Even someone as arrogant as Lu Tianming began to sense that something was amiss.

On the surface, Shadow and Lu Yu were considered part of the same alliance. Meanwhile, Kill, Huowu, and Xiaoxiao walked together.

The Soulless, the Sea of Blood, and Lu Tianming were together.

Xie Ming and the black-robed figure were the most mysterious, prompting everyone to start speculating about the identity of the black-robed person.

The test of the fifth region is willpower.

Lu Yu didn’t need to take the test at all, while Lu Tianming, Xiaoxiao, and the man in the black robe nearly finished their tests simultaneously.

Several demon lords exhaled in relief.

The expression on Huang Ying’s face also began to show an eager and anticipating look!

When the group was teleported to the sixth zone, several demon lords whose faces were concealed by black robes couldn’t help but sigh in relief.

This area is quite different from the previous one.

The space here rises to nearly ten thousand zhang in height. The dragon bones above stretch for a hundred thousand zhang, with each colossal dragon bone gleaming in a different color.

These beams of light poured down from above the dome, like countless rivers of colored light, submerging the entire area in a sea of light and shadow.

The river of light flows across the land, allowing everyone standing here to feel its gentle, water-like radiance!

Li Hun said excitedly, “I never thought, never thought that I would actually have the chance to reach this level!”

“Moreover, it’s quite rare for four people to pass through at once.”

The Demon Lords cast their gaze around, searching for something.

Xie Ming’s gaze searched through the river of light, and suddenly he pointed toward the southeast, shouting loudly, “The golden dragon’s remains—they are mine.”

Xie Ming said, then suddenly grabbed the black-robed figure and dashed towards the southeast direction.

“What, the golden dragon corpse?”

The various demon lords were greatly startled and turned their gazes toward the southeast direction together.

There, a golden dragon stretching three hundred thousand meters in length coiled upon the land, its body spiraling upward to a height of nearly ten thousand meters!

The dragon’s body was entirely golden, without a trace of any other color.

The golden dragon that had already died indeed seemed as if it had not yet perished, exuding a faint aura of life from its body.

Around the golden dragon, ripples of power cut through the river of light in concentric circles.

A terrifying fluctuation approaches the Demon Lord.

This was the first time Lu Yu had encountered something so strange.

Even in death, there is such a life fluctuation; what about when it was alive?

As Xie Ming and the black-robed man rushed toward the golden dragon’s corpse, the other魔主 (lords of darkness) had already begun searching in all directions.

“The Silver Dragon corpse is mine,” the killer pointed at a Silver Dragon, also stretching one hundred thousand zhang in length, and laughed maniacally.

The shadowy figure didn’t seem to be in a hurry, leading Lu Yu deeper and deeper into the dragon’s lair.

Lu Yu said, “You haven’t told me yet what exactly these dragon corpses are used for. Can they allow the Devil King to possess the power of the dragons as well?”

The Shadow of Desolation spoke, “The dragon is already dead; the power within its body will certainly vanish. Although the dragon corpse still retains its last breath, that too is the dragon’s final strength, something non-renewable. The bones of the dragon are one of the paths for us to surpass the Demon Lord. Dragon bones can refine our physical bodies to the utmost limit.”

“Transcend the Devil Lord?” Lu Yu’s heart stirred as he asked, “Are there even stronger demons than the Devil Lord? Does that mean that something else is also required for evolution beyond the ninth-stage Star Soul?”

At this moment, Lu Yu thought of the King of the Underworld.

That demon-possessed old man’s power had already surpassed that of the Demon Lord!

Moreover, the power of a peak ninth-star soul still falls slightly short compared to that of the Demon Lord.

Lu Yu had long suspected that there were levels beyond the ninth-grade star soul; perhaps now he could finally confirm it!

Huāng Yǐng nodded solemnly and said, “Above the魔王, there exists an even more powerful魔尊, who is the supreme ruler of the demonic race! Beyond the ninth-rank Star Soul lies the Star Sovereign, and above that, the Star Venerable!”

As the two conversed, they had already traveled tens of thousands of miles.

This dragon’s lair really seems boundless.

The shadow’s initial joy turned into growing tension as it ventured further in.

This dragon’s lair is too vast; it’s impossible to distinguish directions inside. Even Huang Ying has to stop every so often, recalibrate the direction, and then continue moving forward.

This trip lasted for half a month.

I’ve already lost track of how far apart I am from the other Demon Lords.

The more Lu Yu acted this way, the more nervous the shadow became.

By the sixteenth day, his lips began to tremble slightly, revealing a mix of surprise and unwillingness.

However, on the seventeenth day, when Huang Ying came to a stop in front of a stone tablet, a look of immense relief spread across his face as he exclaimed, “The legend is true! It’s here, right here!”

Huāngyǐng said this, and at the same time, her expression was also turning somewhat shocked.

It seemed that this real legend made her look forward to it, yet also made him afraid!

Lu Yu examined the stone tablet carefully.

The stone tablet was a hundred meters high and nearly ten zhang wide. There were no inscriptions on it, but it was instead surrounded by black mist.

Lu Yu’s heart trembled violently. On the stone tablet, he had actually sensed a faint breath remarkably similar to the aura emitted by the Devil Ancestor!

Lu Yu felt a slight tingling on his scalp and asked, “What’s going on with this stone tablet? Why does the aura I sense seem somewhat related to the Dragon Clan?”

Huang Ying gently stroked the stone tablet with his hand, glanced at Lu Yu, and lightly laughed. “Legend says that dragons possess extremely long lives, long enough to span a single descent of darkness. Yet the Dragon King’s life stretches back even further, having experienced two descents of darkness in total.”

Lu Yu exclaimed in surprise, “What exactly is going on? Two instances of darkness descending—could this be a time loop?”

Huang Ying shook his head and said, “No one knows when the darkness will come. Even the Dragon King doesn’t know. Only some beings and powerful individuals possess an innate sense of death, allowing them to perceive the impending crisis just before the darkness arrives. Hmm, you seem to have heard of the darkness coming too. Who told you about it?”

Huang Ying looked at Lu Yu in surprise, suddenly realizing, “Ah, it must have been Fan Tian who told you something about it.”

When Huang Ying thought about the relationship between Lu Yu and Fan Tian, he found that knowing some things was not surprising at all.

Huāngyǐng became serious and said, “You’ve heard this term before, don’t you think it’s strange? If no one had survived the darkness, how could we know that it was the darkness that destroyed civilization and ruined everything? Only lives that survived the darkness can truly understand what caused that catastrophe, right?”

Lu Yu nodded solemnly. Under Huang Ying’s explanation, he finally realized that he had indeed overlooked some important matters.

If no one had survived, how could the term “the descent of darkness” have been passed down?

Huang Ying said solemnly, “Among the demonic race, there is a legend claiming that the Devil Ancestor, like the Dragon Clan, endured two descents of darkness, and was an equal to the Dragon King.”

Lu Yu carefully examined the stone tablet and understood why the dark aura around the Devil Ancestor was so similar to that of the tablet.

Perhaps it’s the lingering scent of darkness that remains on them!

If that’s the case, then the door mentioned by the Devil Ancestor, is it real or fake?

Lu Yu learned a bit more, and combined with the information he had received from Mingzun, his back felt even colder.

Huāgyǐng took items one by one from his black robe, placing them around the stone tablet as he spoke, “Legend has it that after the Dragon King from the Dragon’s Nest survived the descent from darkness, he once carried out a black dragon’s skeleton from the dark. There are also legends suggesting that this dragon was born during the Age of Darkness. It became violent and frenzied because of the darkness, and was eventually killed in battles for the throne. It was originally buried here!”

Lu Yu frowned and said, “If the Black Dragon were buried here, I think the Dragon King would not have sealed it inside the stone tablet just to let the dragon discover it.”

Huāgyǐng covered her mouth and giggled coquettishly, “Lùyǔ, you’re too adorable. Do you really think I’m someone who doesn’t value her life? Who said the Black Dragon was sealed inside a stone tablet? The Black Dragon lies right beneath our feet. What you called a stone tablet is actually a stone sword, plunged into the dragon’s head as a means to channel out the dark energy within its body. After millions of years, I suspect the Black Dragon may no longer be able to rage.”

“Standing on the dragon’s head?” Lu Yu looked around, his scalp tingling with unease.

How immense would a dragon’s body ten thousand zhang long be? Perhaps beneath the land he could see, the dragon’s corpse lay buried!

Now the dragon’s corpse is buried underground, yet they are actually standing above the head of the Black Dragon, just like mortals standing on the shoulders of a giant.

Humans are too insignificant.

Huang Ying placed the last item down, clapped her small hands lightly, and then gently leaned close to Lu Yu’s ear, softly whispering, “I need your Dragon Qi to help me lure out the Black Dragon!”