Chapter 2287: Four Symbols Stones
Chapter 2287: Four Symbols Stones
“Saintess?” Zu An was stunned. He hadn’t known that the Demon race had that kind of title.
Yun Yuqing was also a bit stunned. She clearly didn’t know about any such thing either.
“Humans!” The demon experts recognized where they were from. They all released sharp whistles, and then even more demons flew into the air to surround the flying ship.
“Land this ship immediately and accept our questioning at once!” the strong cultivator leading the group shouted.
When they saw the people on the ship, the demons were shocked. Even the Demon race, which was known for their beauties, rarely saw so many beautiful women.
Jiang Luofu and Xie Daoyun prepared their weapons when they saw that these people’s attitudes were unkind, ready for a fight to break out at any time.
Zu An walked to the head of the ship and stood protectively in front of them, saying, “I am the Fiend races' regent. Have the Rong Clan Master meet me.”
“What regent? Never heard of him. Men, arrest these humans at once!” The leader harrumphed and ordered his subordinates to attack.
This ship was clearly something extraordinary. They’d really make it big if they got their hands on it. Besides, these human women were too beautiful. Wouldn’t they be able to do whatever they wanted with the women after capturing them? Judging from these people’s outfits and the man’s tough talk, he was probably just a rich human young master who was taking his women traveling. Unfortunately for him, coming to the Demon race's territory was nothing more than courting death.
The surrounding Demon race experts all attacked when they received these orders. Purple blasts of light flew at the flying ship.
However, Xie Daoyun’s fingers flew quickly to operate the formation disk. Soon after, a transparent barrier appeared around the flying ship, blocking all of the purple lights.
The Demon race’s leader was surprised. He quickly made a hand gesture to some people below. Several cannons on the mountain peaks below aimed at the flying ship.
Xie Daoyun grew nervous. This flying ship could still hold on against these powerful individuals’ attacks, but if it was hit by the powerful army cannons, it would immediately break down.
Suddenly, here was a cold snort, and with a wave of Zu An’s hand, the cannons that were gathering energy were destroyed by a mysterious power. The surrounding Demon race soldiers were shocked by the sudden development. It wasn’t just them; the Demon race experts in the air were also stunned. They didn’t even see how Zu An had attacked.
“Enemy attack! Initiate the highest threat…” the leader of the group exclaimed in shock. Midway, however, his voice suddenly stopped.
The surrounding demons were stunned, thinking, Where did he go? Only a second later did they see that the human man seemed to have raised his hand, and a mysterious power had sucked their leader forward. That person had instantly shriveled up into a corpse.
Zu An threw the demon leader's corpse away and called out, “Can someone tell me where the Rong Clan Master is now?”
The obscene look in the leader's eyes hadn’t escaped Zu An’s notice. Since that guy was looking for trouble, Zu An just figured he'd help with that goal.
The surrounding Demon race experts suddenly felt as if the world was spinning around them. By the time they reacted, they were already on the flying ship, with the man on the other side looking at them coldly. They all swallowed with difficulty. How could they still not know that they had ended up messing with the wrong person?
One of them carefully replied, “The clan master isn’t here. He brought the clan’s army with him after receiving the Yun clan’s invitation.”
Yun Yuqing was shocked and quickly asked, “What did the Yun clan ask him to do?”
“Not only did they call for our clan lord, they also invited the Wu Clan Lord. The Yun, Wu, and Rong clans have joined together to attack the Suolun clan,” another individual quickly replied. After seeing what had happened to his companion, he was worried that he would quickly become useless trash and be discarded.
Zu An frowned slightly. He remembered that the reinforcements the Demon race had promised never came, so Suolun Shi had returned to find out what happened. Why were the other three clans suddenly attacking the Suolun clan? He wondered if Suolun Shi was still safe.
“Why are the three clans attacking the Suolun clan?” Yun Yuqing asked in confusion.
After all, even though the four great clans of the Demon race weren’t that close, they could still be considered unified in the past. There were even many marriages between the clans. There had never been any instance of three clans joining together to attack a fourth.
Besides, the strongest among the four great clans was the Yun clan. Strictly speaking, it should have been the other three working together to defeat the Yun clan, right?
“That is because the Suolun clan refused to offer up a saintess, and they are also unwilling to hand over the Four Symbols Stone," a Rong clan cultivator quickly responded.
“Saintess? Four Symbols Stone?” Zu An gave Yun Yuqing a confused look. He had never heard of such things before.
Even the well-learned Xie Daoyun and Jiang Luofu were a bit confused. These Demon race matters weren’t well known by outsiders.
Yun Yuqing said, “I’ve heard of the Four Symbols Stones before. It is rumored that the four great clans eachhave a special stone. The Yun clan has the Azure Dragon Stone, the Suolun clan has the White Tiger Stone, the Rong clan has the Vermilion Bird Stone, and the Wu clan has the Black Tortoise Stone. But I thought that was just a legend. When I asked the clan elders, they all said that they’d never seen such things before. Could it be that they really do exist?”
Zu An was also really confused. What connection was there between the Demon race and these four symbols?
Wait, the Wu clan is the Black Tortoise? I thought that the Wu clan were golden crows. It now seems to be the 'wu' from 'wugui' (tortoise)...?
“Hm? Why does this lady know so much about my race’s secrets?” a Rong clan expert exclaimed in surprise.
Yun Yuqing didn’t reply, and asked another question instead. “According to what you just said, could it be that the Rong clan has already handed over the Vermilion Bird Stone? Who did you hand it to?”
“That’s right. It’s not just the Rong clan either, the Wu clan also handed over the Black Tortoise Stone.”
“To the Yun clan, of course.”
Two people replied excitedly one after another.
“The Yun clan?” Yun Yuqing’s expression changed a bit. “You all obeyed just because they asked?”
After all, even though the four great clans did have stronger and weaker clans, they were still overall at around the same level. She had never heard of a single clan being able to manage the other three clans.
“The Yun clan is too powerful, so what other choice do we have?” The ones who could fly into the sky were all the strong cultivators that the Rong clan had left behind. They knew more than others, so they explained, "Besides, with True Demons supporting them, how could we stand against them? Otherwise, wouldn’t our end be the same as that of the Suolun clan?”
“At first, the Yun clan only wanted some cultivation resources. Even though the other clans weren’t too happy, they could only give those resources up and be a bit more frugal among themselves.”
“But later, the Yun clan crossed the line more and more. They actually wanted the other clans to hand over the Four Symbols Stones.”
“At first, nobody agreed to it, but they were all scared that the True Demons would only support the Yun clan. They were also worried that their clan would be attacked, so the clan leader compromised. The Wu clan probably shared similar thoughts as our Rong clan.”
“True Demon?” Yun Yuqing repeated with a frown. She didn’t understand this term.
“They are the emissaries from the world our Demon race’s ancestors lived in. Their bloodlines are purer and they are stronger. They aren’t like our Demon race whose bloodlines became weaker and weaker from mixing our blood. Not only were we bullied by the human race, we have to bow down to the Fiend Court too.”
When they talked about the True Demons, their eyes all held a bit of a feverish expression.
Jiang Luofu held Ji Xiaoxi in her arms while giving Zu An a worried look. She said through ki, “Ah Zu, it sounds like the alien monsters.”
Zu An nodded. He asked, “How many of these True Demons are there?”
“There’s only one. The True Demon bloodline is precious, so how could there be many of them?”
Zu An was a bit surprised when he heard their reply. “Only one? A single one was able to make you all yield like this and even give up your clan’s most important possession?”
“That’s because the True Demon proved just how incredible the noble bloodline of our Demon race is. They can even activate the bloodline that has become dormant after endless years, to raise the Demon race cultivators’ strength by several cultivation realms in a single go and make them incredibly powerful.”
“But we don’t have any hope of obtaining the True Demon’s enlightenment; otherwise…”
Even so, the unspoken implication was clear. If they could receive enlightenment, why would their clan be in the sorry state it is now?
Zu An’s face darkened. It was the alien monsters, as expected. In the past, the sealed land’s Golden Winged Little Peng King and the Fiend races’ Second Prince seemed to have been enlightened by a monster through a secret method, allowing their strength to increase dramatically.
“What's the deal with the saintess you were talking about? From what I know, the four great clans don’t have any saintesses...”