“It seems that you two junior brothers have been finding your cultivation boring lately, lacking the motivation to advance your realm, hence your interest in such trivial matters.”

“Why not go to the border of the Central Continent and the Demon Realm for some training?”

“But senior sister, this is a bit…”

Before Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou could protest, their senior sister grabbed them by their collars and tossed them away like two little rabbits.

The scenery before their eyes changed abruptly, and they found themselves in mid-air, being thrown towards the south at a terrifying speed.

The surroundings were changing so fast that they couldn’t even calculate their current speed. Occasionally, they would see a flying boat passing by in a flash, or a powerful cultivator flying by, leaving the passengers on the flying boat and the powerful cultivator dumbfounded, secretly guessing what level of cultivation these two figures had reached to be able to fly at such an astonishing speed.

Thud—

They landed, tumbling head over heels, their heads towards the ground and their feet kicking up towards the sky, entangled by tree vines.

“I feel like my body is falling apart.” Lu Yang grimaced as he stood up, his body aching as if it had been disassembled and reassembled.

“Where are we?” Meng Jingzhou looked around. The area was densely forested, with many rare plants growing nearby, and it was exceptionally humid.

“Didn’t senior sister say that she was sending us to the border of the Demon Realm for training? This must be the place that borders the Demon Realm.”

Lu Yang pointed out the special products around them: “Look, these are all things that are rarely seen on the mainland. This is a money flower, this is a cloud grass, this is a ten-thousand-year-old green wood, and this is a snake demon whose realm we can’t discern… huh?”

Several snake demons with dark green bodies appeared in their line of sight. Their heads were triangular, and they were hissing and rapidly crawling towards them.

“Run!”

Unable to discern the snake demons’ realms, they didn’t dare to be careless. They untangled the tree vines, tumbled to the ground, and ran.

These snake demons looked troublesome. They weren’t afraid of those at the Foundation Establishment stage, but they were afraid that the snake demons were beyond that stage.

“Little brothers, don’t run. Come and play with us.” The snake demons spoke human language, their voices seductive and tingling.

“We promise to make you feel heavenly~”

“Come and play~”

They turned around and saw that the snake demons had transformed into human forms. They were beautiful and pitiful, dressed scantily, clearly not from good families.

“No, thank you. You’re too ugly.” Meng Jingzhou politely declined.

The snake demons were stunned at first, then became furious and ran even faster.

Fortunately, Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou were not pushovers. When it came to escaping, they were second to none, their legs moving at lightning speed.

Unfortunately, misfortune never comes singly. They didn’t pay attention and fell into a swamp.

Seeing that the snake demons were about to catch up, Lu Yang made a tough decision: “We can’t go on like this. Let’s use the Earth Shrinking technique to escape.”

“What about me?”

“Stay still, Earth Prison!” Lu Yang quickly drew a circle around Meng Jingzhou. Before Meng Jingzhou could react, he found himself in an earth prison.

Lu Yang used the Earth Shrinking technique, pushing the earth prison and the prisoner Meng Jingzhou as he ran.

“Can these two spells be used together?”

The snake demons were stunned. They didn’t understand what had just happened. By the time they spread their divine consciousness to search for the two, they had already run out of their range and couldn’t be found.

“Do we look that scary?” The snake demons looked at each other. They wanted to earn some spirit stones by using their bodies in the human realm, but they didn’t expect the humans to be so determined. As soon as they saw them, they ran away.

What was even more outrageous was that when they said they could offer their bodies, the humans ran even faster.

They were from the Azure Sky Green Snake tribe, famous for this kind of business in the Demon Realm. Now they wanted to expand their business in the human realm, but they hadn’t succeeded in a single deal.

“Should we apply for jobs in the human brothels instead of doing this in the wild? I heard that many of our sisters do that.” Another sister asked.

“Didn’t they say that humans also like to play in the wild? And we don’t have to pay taxes in the wild.”

“I don’t understand.”

…

On the other side, Lu Yang was still pushing Meng Jingzhou and running, his legs moving as fast as a fish.

“Are we safe now?”

“We should have escaped.”

They both emerged from the ground, only to see a giant elephant’s foot stomping towards them. Behind the giant elephant was a herd of elephants, their eyes blood-red and their tusks over three meters long. They looked menacing.

Lu Yang quickly pulled himself and Meng Jingzhou back into the ground.

When they peeked out again, they saw a beast that looked like a tiger or a leopard feasting on a deer demon’s corpse.

The two and the beast locked eyes for a moment, then the beast roared, and they once again fled underground.

Finally, they successfully crawled out of the ground, leaning on their canes, not knowing what hardships they had gone through.

“This isn’t training, this is just…”

Before the word “torment” could come out, Lu Yang interrupted him.

“Don’t talk nonsense, this is the training that senior sister gave us!” Lu Yang was more vigilant than Meng Jingzhou, fearing that senior sister had a way to see their situation, and frantically signaled Meng Jingzhou.

He was worried that Meng Jingzhou would annoy senior sister and add another layer of torment to them.

Meng Jingzhou quickly realized what was happening and hurriedly corrected himself: “She… she noticed that our realms were unstable and sent us here to fight and seek opportunities for breakthroughs!”

“Where should we go? We can’t stay here forever, can we?” Lu Yang walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow, feeling that survival was not easy.

“Don’t worry. Since this is the border between the Central Continent and the Demon Realm, there must be large cities! I heard from my family that the Great Xia Dynasty has established six cities here to guard against the demon race. One of my uncles is stationed in one of these cities!”

“Huh? What’s that on your arm?” Lu Yang noticed a small black bug wriggling on Meng Jingzhou’s arm. It was thick at the head and thin at the tail. He didn’t know when it had crawled up there.

“It’s a leech!” Meng Jingzhou was so scared that he quickly shook his arm, but the leech seemed to be stuck to his arm and wouldn’t come off.”Don’t panic, I heard this thing is afraid of fire, watch me burn it! Pah!” Lu Yang spat out the Samadhi True Fire, slightly grazed the leech, and the leech was burned to death, releasing its grip and falling off his arm.

Both of them had been keeping their divine senses active, but they were only on guard against large beasts, never expecting that even insects in this place required caution.

The leech was not enough to break through Meng Jingzhou’s defense, but Meng Jingzhou, who had been delicate since childhood, was physically uncomfortable.

After seven ventures into beast dens, five times being besieged by beasts, four forced battles with beasts, and once crawling out from the belly of a beast, the two finally emerged from the dense forest and saw a city built by the human race.

Both of them were disheveled and limping, with beast saliva still clinging to the tips of their hair.

The three large characters “Demon Suppression Pass” on the city tower shone brightly, emitting an inexplicable pressure, giving the two a sense of inexplicable relief.

“Thank the elder sister for her mercy, we finally made it out!” The two clasped their hands together and thanked the heavens, grateful for the elder sister’s grace of sparing their lives.

(End of the chapter)