Chapter 204: Demon Clan, Lihuo Horned Python
Compared with the outer star sea, the inner star sea has much richer resources. Many spirit veins and spirit stone mines are in the inner star sea.
It is precisely because of this that humans rushed to occupy this land and drove out the monsters.
As for the outer sea, its area is extremely huge. Although there are many islands, most of them are barren and there is nothing useful.
The alien world is vast but sparsely populated. No, it’s vast but sparsely populated with animals.
Except for the islands adjacent to the Inner Star Sea, there are basically no humans living in other places on the Outer Star Sea.
Even if there are, they are usually human sacrifices specially raised by monsters.
In the inner star sea, humans eat monsters; in the outer star sea, monsters eat humans!
In the outer sea, this is the world of the demon race.
Countless monsters are divided into tribes and occupy various places in the outer star sea.
The further you go, the more powerful the monster species you will encounter.
There are several races of monsters near the sea where Qin Feng is located, the strongest of which is the Lihuojiao Python clan.
Because there is an eighth-level Lihuojiao Python in the clan, which is a demon beast equivalent to the early Nascent Soul stage. It is extremely powerful and capable of dominating this sea area.
The other monster races nearby are all subservient to the Lihuojiao Python Clan and have to offer tribute to them every year.
The monsters are all pretty straightforward. When it comes to fighting for territory or annexing other races, their methods are very simple: just fight.
The reason why Lihuojiaomang was able to dominate this place was that it had defeated all the surrounding monster races.
The Cold Wind Carp is a race of demon beasts that are subservient to the Lihuo Horned Python.
On this day, a level five cold wind carp was basking in the sun on the sea, using the sun's essence to refine the scales on its body.
It is very diligent, thinking of practicing for another hundred years. After successfully refining the reverse scale, it may have a chance to break through to the Nascent Soul stage in the future.
Suddenly, it sensed something flying in the sky.
It immediately stood up, dived into the water, and looked over with its big eyes.
what is that?
Wooden frame? Iron? Human?
The monsters in the outer sea generally have very limited understanding of humans unless they reach the Nascent Soul stage.
At this time, there was a puppet released by Qin Feng in the air. It was in the late stage of foundation building and was flying in the air, looking for an island everywhere.
After observing curiously for a moment, Hanfengli gradually realized that this should be a human thing.
Then it opened its mouth and spit without hesitation.
A gust of cold wind swirled and in the blink of an eye it reached the puppet, slowly imprisoning it.
The puppet's flying speed was getting slower and slower, and it even cast a spell to disperse the cold wind, but the gap in strength between the two was too great.
Not long after, the puppet was frozen by the cold wind and fell into the sea.
Seeing this, the Hanfeng Carp swam over quickly, swallowed it in one gulp, and then quickly headed northwest.
He had to go back quickly to inform the elders of the clan, and then consider whether to report it to Ancestor Huo Rong.
That’s right, the name of the eighth-level Lihuo Horned Python is Huo Rong, and all the surrounding monsters respect him as their ancestor.
Although the monster tribes each have their own camp, similar to human sects, they all live in groups.
But overall, they are extremely hostile to humans.
The sea area where they are located is actually not far from the Inner Star Sea. A Jindan cultivator can reach it by flying for more than a year.
So now that humans have appeared, they must be alert at the first moment.
At the same time that Han Fengli was rushing back with the puppet, Qin Feng's clone, who was 50,000 miles away, frowned, but did not care.
He had thrown out hundreds of puppets half a month ago, and all of these puppets were specially made by him.
There are many formations engraved on his body for finding spirit stone mines and treasures, which are specifically used to find the Spirit Stone Island.
Qin Feng's original body and clone were separated by 100,000 miles, facing each other across the vast sea. With himself as the center, he controlled these puppets, searching within a distance of tens of thousands of miles, and constantly gathering information.
Finally, a complete map of the sea emerged in Qin Feng's mind, with islands, treasures, monsters and other things clearly distributed on the "map".
Because the puppet was too far away, Qin Feng certainly had no way to control it directly with his spiritual sense. Instead, he used the power of the formation to simply issue some commands.
During the past half month, such sudden loss of contact with the puppets has occurred frequently.
Maybe he entered the formation by mistake, or was affected by some special place, thus losing contact.
Or maybe it was simply attacked by a monster and the connection was severed.
There is no way to avoid this kind of thing.
After all, all kinds of situations may occur in the outer sea, and he is not directly controlling it with his spiritual consciousness, so it is normal to be affected. He can just regard it as a loss.
The loss was not large now, so Qin Feng didn’t care too much about it and continued to search the sea area.
Ten days later.
The elder of the Hanfeng Carp clan, a level seven demon beast, was heading towards Lihuo Island with Qin Feng's puppet.
Lihuo Island is the lair of the Lihuo Horned Python and also where the ancestor Huo Rong is located.
The Lihuojiao Python is considered a half-sea monster because it can survive in the sea.
But compared to the sea, they prefer to live on the island.
Lihuo Island is a special island because there is a volcano in the center of the island, which contains magma and is an extremely yang place.
The Lihuojiao python clan had been entrenched on this island for many years. With the help of the extremely yang energy, Huo Rong was able to break through and become an eighth-level monster.
At the southeast corner of Lihuo Island, the elder of the Cold Wind Carp tribe, who had transformed into a human form, came ashore.
Although he is in human form, it is just a magic creation. His body is covered with scales, he is short in stature, and looks very scary.
At least from the perspective of human aesthetics, it looks like a monster from a horror movie, and it can stop a child from crying.
After a brief report, the elder was led in and came to a large cave in the center of the island.
This is the 'reception hall' of the Lihuojiao Python clan. It completely restores its natural appearance. It is surrounded by red stones and looks very rugged.
"Han Shi, you are here too?"
The elder of the Hanfeng Carp clan was named Hanshi, and he was greeted as soon as he came in.
Han Shi tilted his head and saw that the person shouting was a humanoid monster that looked like a loach.
His name is Barney, from the Phantom Loach clan, and he is also a level seven monster.
"Barney, what are you doing here?" Han Shi asked.
The language they spoke to each other was the special language of monsters. The tone was quite strange, as if someone was cutting their throat with a knife, and it was very sharp.
"We found human puppets over there, so we came to report to the ancestor! What about you? Are you the same?"
"That's right, what about them?" Han Shi looked at the other beasts around him.
At this time, there were not only the two of them in the cave, but also two other level seven monsters, both of whom were elders of the nearby monster tribes.
"That's for sure!"
Barney said with a look of seeing through, "I told you, the human monks seem to want to expand their territory. They are laying out a frontier!"
"Where did you hear that?" Han Shi asked hurriedly.
The Cold Wind Carp tribe stayed in a fixed sea area all year round and did not run around, so they were relatively isolated from the news. However, the Barney tribe was different. The Phantom Loach tribe was good at escaping, liked to run around, and was relatively well-informed.
"I went to Dongyuan and heard what a cold dragon said."
When Barney was asked, he immediately started talking, "That cold dragon is the grandson of Patriarch Di Song. Patriarch Di Song knows about it, right? It is a late-stage transformation creature!"
"That guy told me that humans are now fighting among themselves. Some people want to occupy our territory, and some people want to fight for something called Xutian Palace. Anyway, humans are in chaos!"
"Anyway, the human race is in a state of chaos right now. If someone comes this time, I guess they are here to serve as a vanguard!"
After hearing this, Han Shi was a little shocked.
Dong Yuan knew that it was a holy land of the demon clan nearly ten million miles away from here.
Deep under the sea, it is occupied by the cold dragon clan.
As for Patriarch Di Song, he was one of the strongest among the demon race. He was in the late stage of transformation, which was equivalent to a human cultivator in the late stage of Nascent Soul.
The grandson of such a person might really know some news.
But this kind of thing is too far away from him.
They, the Hanfengli clan, do not fight or compete with each other. They will join whoever is stronger and do not like to inquire about what is happening outside.
Now that Barney had finished speaking, Han Shi was surprised but he did not have too many feelings. He just asked some questions to satisfy his curiosity.
At this time, other people were also attracted by Barney's remarks.
Seeing this, Barney excitedly continued explaining, with a bit of potential to be a chatterbox.
The Phantom Loach Clan is knowledgeable, their intelligence develops relatively early, they love to talk and are simply chatterboxes.
Half a day later, Patriarch Huo Rong came out of seclusion.
"Greetings to the ancestor!"
As Huo Rong appeared in the cave, a group of humanoid monsters all prostrated themselves on the ground and saluted respectfully.
Compared with the group of monsters below, the red-haired man sitting on the high seat at the top of the cave looked much more human.
Human beings are the most intelligent creatures in the world. The so-called transformation period of monsters and beasts is when they get rid of their monster bodies and cultivate human bodies.
The monsters in the transformation stage may look the same as humans, but there are still differences in some details.
For example, Niu De before was in the middle stage of transformation, which is the strength of the middle stage of Nascent Soul, and had two horns on his head.
Although Huo Rong is now the same as a human, there is still a small piece of snake tail remaining at the position of his tail vertebrae.
These small details can only be eliminated after the transformation is complete.
Only then will the monster be able to truly transform successfully and gain the opportunity to break through to the state of becoming a god.
"Everyone get up!"
Huo Rong's voice was loud and clear, with a hint of seriousness.
Although it was clearly a speech, it felt like an order, and they all stood up.
"Thank you, ancestor!"
There are actually not so many twists and turns among low-level monsters. Bowing their heads actually means submission.
But when they reach the transformation stage, in order to become more like humans, some monsters will go to human society specifically to learn etiquette and ways of doing things.
But their learning ability is weak and their intelligence is not very high.
So as you keep learning, it's very easy to end up with a hodgepodge of styles. It seems like it has a little bit of everything, but nothing is quite right, which is very awkward.
But this is all viewed from a human perspective. In the eyes of these monsters, this is pure "human" etiquette.
They enjoy it and never get tired of it.
"In the past few days, you have all reported that humans have appeared. I have seen them. They are puppets made by humans. They are indeed the work of human cultivators."
"I won't say much. When you return, immediately mobilize your men to find that human monk!"
"If you can catch him and bring him here, I will reward you handsomely!"
Those who were captured were all Foundation Establishment Stage puppets. As for the Core Formation Stage puppets, Qin Feng placed them relatively close and they were very powerful.
Some monsters in the Foundation Establishment Stage wanted to attack, but were directly killed by the puppets!
And because of this reason, Huo Rong believed that the strength of this human cultivator was not high, only at the Jindan stage at most, so sending these subordinates out to search for him was enough.
Just like that, after receiving the order from the ancestor, a group of monsters did not stay for long and left directly.
Half a month later.
Qin Feng has already searched nearly one-third of the area of this sea.
In the map in his mind, he also found five islands that were suspected to contain spirit stone mines, but when he sent Jindan stage puppets to look for them, he found that they were just small veins, and there was no trace of giant spirit stone mines.
Qin Feng did not feel the slightest bit of urgency about this.
Since we have searched one third of the area in one month, it will take at most another two months to completely search the entire area.
Three months is just a blink of an eye for Qin Feng now.
However, this afternoon, Qin Feng did frown.
Because he discovered that the puppets he released began to lose contact on a large scale.
This shows that there are monsters systematically destroying his puppets.
It seems that the demons here have noticed him.
Before Qin Feng went out to sea, he already had some understanding of the outer space. Now that this kind of thing has happened, his solution is very simple. He just needs to beat up the strongest one and control him.
So he immediately began to summon those puppets and asked them to move towards him.
It took him a long time to search such a vast ocean, so naturally he let the monsters come to find him.
So he summoned the puppets. If there really was a monster cleaning out these puppets, it would definitely catch up with him.
All Qin Feng has to do is sit back and wait.
To be safe, Qin Feng hid his real body and used his clone as bait. He also set up several formations on the island and placed puppets on them.
In this way, even if a big monster in the late Nascent Soul stage comes, he will not panic.
Just like that, half a month later.
Outside the island that Qin Feng had carefully arranged, Han Shi, Barney and several other late Jindan-stage monsters stood on the sea.
"Barney, you must be following the right direction, right? It's in front?"
"How could it be wrong? He's right in front of us. Let's just go up and capture him and send him to the ancestor!"
Barney looked eager to try.
He had previously used his innate magical powers to track the route and had finally determined the location.
However, his fighting ability was weak, and he did not dare to go up alone, so he turned around and found a group of people to come again.
Hundreds of miles away, on the seabed, Qin Feng watched all this silently, but did not take any action.
(End of this chapter)