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Chapter 116 Deterrence, Questioning

In the mountains.

In the dark, damp, dense forest.

A snake demon with a snake tail and a human body, dressed in a black dress, was fleeing at high speed. Its snake tail swayed rapidly, and its figure flashed past in the forest as it fled into the distance.

During her escape, the scales on the female snake demon's body began to open slightly, and her snake body swelled up as if it had been filled with a large amount of gas.

The scales on its body had gaps, from which visible wisps of black smoke emerged, leaving a trail of black smoke along its escape route.

The black smoke quickly dissipated into the mountains and forests, spreading over several miles.

It's like ink being dripped into a basin of clear water.

Looking down from high above.

The demonic aura permeating the black smoke was extremely dense; it could be said that the snake demon was indeed difficult to locate within the black mist.

It was completely hidden in the mist, and other human martial artists at the Core Formation stage would have no way of detecting its whereabouts.

However, Lin Zhou, who had merged the bloodline of the Silver-Winged Flying Leopard and some of the mutated zombie bloodline, was able to vaguely sense it from the air with his demonic cultivation, which was comparable to the Gang Jin.

Within the black mist of the mountains below, a very faint aura of a serpent demon was fleeing towards the depths of the distant mountains.

This method of escaping by concealing one's presence is still somewhat effective.

However, since this snake demon had encountered Lin Zhou, there was virtually no chance of it escaping.

"This demon soldier at the Core Formation Realm is very likely a demon warrior among the human race."

"Behind them must be a human sect from Qingzhou Prefecture. How could such a major human sect react so quickly?"

"Even in such a remote place, there are already those who have reached the elixir stage. It seems we need to continue to even more remote places."

"It will take several elite demon soldiers to deal with that demon warrior at the Core Formation stage."

"And there's also a top-tier sword."

"Troublesome."

The snake demon fleeing through the black mist had a pair of vertical pupils filled with apprehension.

"How is that possible..."

Just then.

The snake demon, whose hair was now quite disheveled, suddenly saw a burly white-furred leopard demon appear on the mountain path in front of him. The leopard demon had a pair of pale silver wings on its back, and the demonic aura emanating from its body caused the snake demon's pupils to shrink sharply.

The demonic aura emanating from this leopard demon was at least at the peak of the Core Formation stage.

She was just one step away from becoming an elite demon soldier at the demon general level. This was not something a little snake demon like her could contend with!

Moreover, the fact that the other party was able to locate her so precisely means that her escape methods of concealing her presence had failed to work against this suspected human demon warrior.

They had become nothing more than lambs to the slaughter.

"grown ups."

"Spare me!"

"I am ignorant of my own mortality, I beg you to spare my life."

"I know information about a demon general hiding in Qingzhou Prefecture."

"If you, sir, spare my life, I will tell you everything without holding anything back."

The snake demon, its eyes filled with terror, lay prostrate on the ground, repeatedly kowtowing and begging for its life.

Although they are all said to be embracing the elixir.

However, the leopard demon she was facing was at the Perfect Realm, and its combat power was more than twice that of hers. This was the difference between an ordinary demon soldier and a wild beast; the two were simply incomparable.

"Oh?"

"Looks like you know quite a lot!"

Tell me about it.

"I would like to know about the situation in the borderlands."

"Also, how did you know I'm not one of the demon race?"

Lin Zhou did not intend to kill this serpent demon with the core. It would be best if he could extract more information from it, since Lin Zhou currently knew very little about the demon race outside the Great Wall.

The best course of action now is to obtain some information from this snake demon so that we can accumulate more resources when we enter the demon lands beyond the Great Wall in the future.

"Replying to your question, sir."

"I know about the other demons and monsters in the vicinity who are at the Core Formation Realm."

"Your aura is unfamiliar, and you immediately killed those ordinary demon soldiers in my cave."

"Such swift and decisive methods of slaying demons are not the methods of us demon soldiers who have infiltrated Qingzhou Prefecture and reached the Core Formation Realm."

"As for the demon general hidden in Qingzhou Prefecture, he is one of the demon-suppressing army dungeons in the prefectural city."

"That demon general disguised himself as an ordinary demon soldier and deliberately allowed himself to be captured."

"Thus they entered the city of Qingzhou Prefecture."

"Among the relatives and attendants of that demon general, there is a snake demon who is my brother from the same mother, which is why I know this crucial information."

"This is what I'm saving to save my life."

The black-scaled snake demon confessed honestly.

"oh."

"Go on."

"I am very interested to know the current state of the demonic forces beyond the Great Wall."

"How many Qi-level demon generals are there, and how many True Essence-level demon generals are there?!"

"Why did that hundred-mile-long defensive line of the Great Wall on the border collapse!"

Lin Zhou casually sat down on a large rock covered in green vines and continued to ask the black-scaled snake demon in front of him.

Since they don't intend to kill, they should naturally interrogate the person thoroughly.

"Sir, what if I were to say something?"

"Then can you spare my life?"

A thoughtful look flashed across the black-scaled serpent demon's vertical pupils before it cautiously began to ask.

"It depends on what you say."

"If you don't tell me, I will naturally find the next demon in the Core Formation Realm."

"Of course, if they knew what you were saying was false, and dared to fabricate false information, you wouldn't just die so easily."

A murderous glint flashed in Lin Zhou's eyes as he spoke.

"Yes, sir."

"However, I am merely a demon soldier at the Core Formation Realm, and my knowledge is limited."

"All I know is that an uninvited guest at the True Essence Realm has arrived from the outside world at Mangniu Ridge, outside the Great Wall of the border."

"The other party is not a demon from Mangniu Ridge."

"And after the True Essence Realm demon arrived at Mangniu Ridge, it went straight to the Great Wall on the border of the Chu Kingdom."

"They actually used swift and decisive methods to severely injure a human True Essence cultivator atop the Great Wall!"

"In an instant, the city wall formations within a hundred-mile radius all malfunctioned."

"The three kings of Mangniu Ridge gathered us demon soldiers early on. When we saw the formation on the Great Wall disappear, we demon soldiers from the mountains rushed forward."

"After devouring the human warriors on the city wall, they crossed the border wall and fled into Qingzhou Prefecture."

"The Third King wants us to eat as many humans as possible in Qingzhou Prefecture and create some chaos for human warriors. We don't know when that guest from Mangniu Ridge will make a move again."

"There may also be a second batch of demon soldiers from Mangniu Ridge behind them."

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