Chapter 164: First Arrival in the Demon Realm

"Well then, the two of us will go in first. Anyone else who wishes to come may follow, and those who don't can stand guard right here!" As soon as Xu Fu finished speaking, he grabbed me by the shoulders, flashed a sinister grin at me, and suddenly dragged me straight into the boundary of the Demonic Realm.

"What the absolute hell, damn you Xu Fu, I'm still young and I don't want to go and throw my life away...!"

However, everything became futile in a split second, because I had already been pulled in by him. Talk about ten thousand sorrows and a hundred million tragedies!

"Ah—help!"

Geez, this boundary was filled everywhere with spatial counter-currents and spatial ligaments. The slightest carelessness could tear someone to pieces. By the time I reached the Demonic Realm, I'd probably be reduced to nothing more than a pile of flesh and blood, with even my bones ground into dust.

"Damn it, what are you howling for? If you don't want to die, hold on tight to me!"

With a stern face, Xu Fu snapped at me, then quickly yanked me behind him right beside a raging spatial counter-current. If not for that pull from Xu Fu, I probably would have spent the rest of my life trapped within that vortex—just thinking about it sent chills down my spine.

To be honest, I really never wanted to experience a feeling like that a second time. The spatial gales blowing past were several times more destructive than the deadliest typhoons on Earth.

Had I not been a Corpse Demon King, my humble frame of just over a meter tall and weighing a little over a hundred pounds would have long since been smashed into smithereens.

"We're here, almost there!"

With that, Xu Fu pointed toward a dark, pitch-black exit not far ahead, surrounded by swirling shadows of dark energy.

From this vantage point, one could roughly make out the interior of the Demonic Realm. It must be quite similar to the Underworld, as everything looked gloomy and shrouded in gray mist!

"Bang—whoosh—!"

Good grief, why did exiting this boundary feel like letting out a fart, spitting me and Xu Fu straight out of the Gate of the Demonic Realm?

I asked, "Hey, did we land yet?"

Xu Fu replied, "What do you think?!"

After floating aimlessly in mid-air for a dozen seconds, I realized our landing spot was actually tens of thousands of feet in the air, and Xu Fu and I were plummeting rapidly.

"Damn it, you damned Gate of the Demonic Realm, you're really trying to push me to my grave!"

The Gate of the Demonic Realm had already closed by this point, while Xu Fu and I continued our rapid descent. Fortunately, I was a Corpse Demon King; the bat wings on my back still had their uses in a critical moment. I quickly unfurled my bat wings, grabbed the falling Xu Fu in my grip, and braced myself to cushion our rapid downward plunge.

"You're actually a Corpse Demon too? We're of the same clan, after all!" Xu Fu declared, his eyes turning blood-red as a pair of fangs bared from his mouth!

"I know!"

Indeed, I had known Xu Fu was a Corpse Demon all along, ever since I caught that fleeting flash of red in his eyes when I first met him.

I had sensed the exact same aura emanating from him that resided within me—an aura that originated from Jiang Chen.

...

Honestly, talking to Xu Fu was simply a waste of energy. He was so heavy I could barely hold on, yet he kept on mumbling and grumbling away. So, I simply chose to ignore him and cast my gaze down upon this realm of Reborn Demons.

Looking down at the Reborn Demonic Realm from thousands of feet in the air, I noticed something peculiar: the entire world was cluttered with towering giant boulders everywhere. Not a single flower, blade of grass, or tree could be found, nor could I spot a single town or village.

"Uh-ah, Xiaodong, watch out!"

From right above me, I heard a familiar voice. Sure enough, it was Buck, though the guy seemed to be falling too. The moment I looked up, the words slipped out of my mouth: "Buck, go screw your old—!" Before I could finish, Buck crashed straight into me.

Following that, the three of us plummeted straight down from a height of thousands of feet, kicking up a massive cloud of dust on the ground that formed a miniature mushroom cloud in the air.

Meanwhile, in a colossal cavernous palace five hundred miles away from the incident, a humanoid creature completely covered in dark purple skin burst inside.

"Reporting to the Demonic Lord, after more than a thousand years, outsiders have arrived once again. They have crashed into the gathering grounds of the dark-attribute demonic beasts five hundred miles from here. What are your orders...?"

The dark-purple-skinned humanoid half-kneeling on the ground made his report, his resentful black pupils staring straight up at a handsome young man seated upon the throne.

"What else is there to see? The usual rule: throw them straight into the Eternal Demonic Abyss and let them fend for themselves. Alpha, I now command you to lead five hundred elite armored cavalry of the demonic tribe to handle this. Go at once!"

On the surface, the young man looked refined and scholarly, with delicate facial features resembling a maiden emerging from the water.

Yet, his heart was ruthlessly cruel. Without hesitation, he dispatched troops to the scene and even ordered the outsiders to be cast straight into the Eternal Demonic Abyss!

"Understood, Demonic Lord! Your subordinate will see to it immediately!"

The purple-skinned man named Alpha replied, rising to his feet and heading back the way he came. The moment he stepped out of the palace, he immediately fired a signal flare into the sky.

As soon as the signal flare went off, demonic horses grew restless all around. Five hundred demonic soldiers clad in dark armor swiftly selected five hundred elite cavalry mounts from the herd, quickly assembling at the gates of the Demonic Palace. Then, riding atop the beast he commanded, Alpha led them rushing toward the site of the incident!

...

Meanwhile, five hundred miles away from the Demonic Palace, the surrounding smoke and haze had finally dissipated. To the naked eye, the land appeared completely ordinary.

Yet, a short moment later, abnormal life fluctuations stirred beneath a patch of terrain buried under thick dust, and two disheveled figures abruptly burst forth from the ground.

"Cough, cough, cough! Buck, you absolute weirdo, you almost crushed the life out of me!!"

Struggling to my feet out of the crater, I was sent into a fit of coughing by the swirling dust settling all over me.

Still, I couldn't forget to give Buck a piece of my mind. I mean, if an ordinary person had taken that hit, it would have been game over for sure!

"Hey, wait a minute... why is someone missing? Where, where did Xu Fu go?!"

Oh crap, Buck's words just reminded me, and only then did I realize Xu Fu was nowhere to be seen.

However, having fallen from a height of thousands of feet, our bodies were completely numb from the impact, leaving the two of us standing in place and shouting at the top of our lungs: "Xu Fu! Xu Fu, where the hell did you go? Did you drag us over just to run off by yourself?!"

"Damn it, your big brother is right under your feet! Just how long do you plan on standing on me? Get off me right now!!!!"

Oh my goodness, when I inadvertently glanced down, I realized that Xu Fu had actually been pinned beneath the feet of Buck and me the entire time.

Had he not spoken up, I truly wouldn't have known I was standing right on top of a living person. Buck and I hurriedly shifted our feet off Xu Fu, sitting tiredly near the edge of the crater we had smashed into, casting apologetic glances at Xu Fu as he clambered back up. Clearly, he was in an even more bedraggled state than the two of us.