Over the next period of time, Black Wind Mountain returned to calm once more.
Originally, Mo Fan had planned to station Hei Yi and Huo Ling to guard Black Cloud Mountain and Black Nether Mountain respectively. However, after returning from the Dragon Ruins and breaking through to the King realm, he abandoned the idea.
There was no other reason. It was simply unnecessary now.
The names of the Lai Bao Demon King and the Black Wind Demon King had already spread throughout the entire Phoenix Cry Mountain Demon Domain. Moreover, in the whole Demon Spirit Mountain Range, only Black Wind Mountain was widely known among demons, so the demons instinctively regarded the entire range as Black Wind Mountain’s territory.
Coupled with Mo Fan’s current strength, there was truly no need to worry about other demons coming to seize his land.
After the battle at the Demon King Grand Ceremony, let alone ordinary demon kings, even demon ancestors would have to think twice before acting!
As for the treasuries of the two mountains, Mo Fan directly sent Bai Tiaoyao and Hei Yi to empty them completely and transfer everything into the temporary treasury newly opened on Black Wind Mountain.
Even so, to better patrol the entire Demon Spirit Mountain Range, Mo Fan still stationed several demon generals on the two mountains, each commanding two or three hundred lesser demons.
In this way, everything proceeded in an orderly fashion.
Originally, Mo Fan had thought that retaliation from Dragon King Sea would arrive soon, but after waiting two months with no movement, he stopped paying attention to the matter.
It is worth mentioning that during these two months, Little Yellow returned once and, with Mo Fan’s help, directly advanced to the peak of the demon general realm, though he was still some distance from the demon king realm.
When Little Yellow left, he was accompanied by a figure wearing a bamboo hat.
This person was naturally Mo Fan’s Water-Moon avatar!
After two months of cultivation, Mo Fan had become much more proficient at controlling this Water-Moon avatar. At the same time, he had cultivated the Sun Heaven Scripture to a certain bottleneck.
Not only that, he had even used the Water-Moon avatar to practise the Tianlu Divine Derivation Art, along with several basic water-system spells.
These water spells had all been obtained from the storage bags of human cultivators in the Dragon Ruins. They did not require any specific technique to coordinate with them; simply possessing a water spirit root was enough to unleash considerable power, so learning them was not troublesome.
In truth, besides these spells, there were naturally many water-system cultivation methods as well. Human cultivators, however, were very strict about choosing techniques.
Cultivating a technique was different from learning spells. It required an extremely long time of gradual accumulation. Many cultivators spent their entire lives unable to fully comprehend even one technique.
Unless they were top heaven-chosen disciples of great sects, ordinary cultivators rarely practised multiple techniques at the same time.
The cultivation of techniques lay in refinement, not variety.
Although those water techniques were decent, compared to peerless sacred-ground arts like the Sun Heaven Scripture and the Tianlu Divine Derivation Art, they were inferior by an unknown number of levels.
Mo Fan naturally understood the principle of preferring quality over quantity.
Therefore, even though this avatar possessed a water spirit root, he ultimately chose the Sun Heaven Scripture and Tianlu Divine Derivation Art, which were quite far removed from water-affinity.
In fact, only the Sun Heaven Scripture had relatively high requirements for spirit roots. Even without a fire spirit root, one could still cultivate it, though it would be less compatible than with a fire root.
As for the Tianlu Divine Derivation Art, a method focused on divine sense and mental power, it had no strong requirements regarding spirit roots and instead placed greater emphasis on comprehension.
Thus, in Mo Fan’s view, the importance of the Tianlu Divine Derivation Art even surpassed that of the Sun Heaven Scripture.
Only with sufficiently powerful mental strength could one devote more energy to cultivating other techniques and even achieve the ability to focus on two, or many, things at once!
Just like Mo Fan at this moment, who could be considered operating two bodies with one mind, though it was still somewhat taxing for him.
This was the main reason Mo Fan cultivated the Tianlu Divine Derivation Art.
Since he now had the Water-Moon avatar, he naturally did not wish to remain on Black Wind Mountain forever. Instead, he sent the avatar to the Divine Domain Continent to create more possibilities and lay the groundwork for certain future matters.
After the two demons left the Demon Spirit Mountain Range, they headed east and entered the Southern Border region.
“Great King, the human scent on this body of yours is too strong. It would be best to cast a spell to conceal it, otherwise if the demon cultivators of Moon-Gazing Valley discover it, unnecessary complications may arise.”
The moment they entered the Southern Border, Little Yellow turned back and reminded Mo Fan of the precautions to take.
“That is simple.”
Mo Fan smiled faintly, flipped his palm, and a gleaming golden bead instantly appeared in his hand.
A demon core!
Little Yellow’s eyes widened at the sight. He had not expected that his Great King’s avatar would actually carry a demon core with him.
“Since I chose to come out with you, how could this king be unprepared?”
Mo Fan smiled, then placed the demon core inside his belt. In an instant, thick demon qi surged from his entire body, and the unique human scent was completely masked by the King-realm aura emanating from the core.
“With this, unless a demon king personally comes close to investigate, no one will be able to discover my identity.”
Little Yellow nodded and smiled, “The Great King is thoughtful. It was I who worried too much.”
“Let us go. The journey ahead will not be easy. I am afraid we will face interrogation from many demon kings.”
Mo Fan took a deep breath, looked at the enormous city emerging in the distance, and could not help feeling a headache coming on.
He had been to the Southern Border before and naturally knew what it had become. Almost the entire region was now occupied by the demon cultivators of Moon-Gazing Valley.
The demon cultivators of Moon-Gazing Valley were not only hostile towards human cultivators; they also held little goodwill towards demons from outside. A single misstep could spark conflict.
“Do not worry, Great King. I came prepared!”
Little Yellow smiled, opened his mouth, and spat out two white bone tokens, handing one to Mo Fan.
“What are these?”
Mo Fan looked at Little Yellow in puzzlement while sensing the bone token in his palm. The result left him inwardly shocked.
It was actually a piece of bone from a King-realm great demon!
As a demon king himself, Mo Fan naturally had a strong sensitivity to King-realm demon bones.
“These are called Moon-Gazing Tokens. Only guests of Moon-Gazing Valley may hold them. It is said that there are not many such tokens, only a few dozen have been issued so far, and all are refined from the bones of King-realm wolf demons.
As long as we have these Moon-Gazing Tokens, even Moon-Gazing Valley demon kings will not attack us,” Little Yellow explained with a smile.
“Moon-Gazing Tokens?”
“Quite interesting!”
Mo Fan toyed with the bone token in his hand, then asked curiously, “Since these tokens are so precious, how did you obtain them?”
“Great King, although my cultivation is lacking, that does not mean I am incompetent in other areas.”
Little Yellow smiled, and before Mo Fan could ask further, he continued, “Through more than a year of operations, I have spread the Demon Net across the entire Southern Border and established a massive underground intelligence organisation!
From the start, I had the Demon Net members collect information from various major cities, compile it, and sell it.
In just over half a year, the name of the Demon Net has become renowned throughout the Southern Border, and our biggest client is a demon ancestor with the surname Di.
These Moon-Gazing Tokens were also gifts from that demon ancestor to the Demon Net. He sent three in total, saying that with them, the upper echelons of the Demon Net can travel freely throughout the entire Southern Border without obstruction!”
Little Yellow’s words thoroughly shocked Mo Fan. He truly could not imagine how Little Yellow had managed to build such an underground intelligence organisation in a land crawling with demons.
After all, even Little Yellow, the leader of the Demon Net, was only at the demon general realm!
