Half a month later, in the north ten thousand kilometers away from the Grand Desolate Mountain Range, on the boundless red soil, a team of demon beasts was rushing at an unbelievably high speed.
The demon beasts that made up the team were enormous in size, more than a hundred meters in length and width. Their membranes were bulging, filled with pink gas that looked like balloons that had been glued together.
The gas stored inside the gas bags was lighter than air, which allowed them to float and fly freely in the air.
Such demon beasts were known as' Land Whales'. They used to be a common giant sandworm in the deserts of the Blood Demon Sector. After hundreds of years of modification by the experts of the demon race, their genes had been changed, and they had evolved into gas bags that looked like swim bladders and the ability to synthesize super-light gas through the microbes inside their bodies.
Below the body of the Land Whales, six rows of blowholes that evolved from cloacae were distributed. They could change their direction by spurting out feeble air currents. In the meantime, soft tentacles almost a hundred meters long grew out of the two sides and the rear of the Land Whales. While swallowing the insects in the desert, the tentacles could also be used to change the direction, accelerate or decelerate, and even fix the passengers and the cargo like the 'poles' of a fishing boat.
Because of their high speed, agility, ease of feeding, unpickiness of food, and adaptability to all terrains, Land Whales gradually became the most common means of transportation in the Blood Demon Sector.
There were almost a hundred Land Whales in the team, which stretched dozens of kilometers. The air currents they were spurting out were blowing the red soil into the sky, as if a thick crimson dragon was rushing on the ground.
On the back of every Land Whale were dozens of dense warehouses. The edge of every warehouse was embedded with giant iron rings that were tied up by the tentacles of the Land Whales to fix them.
Countless dense holes had been pierced into the warehouse. Cries and moans could vaguely be heard from the holes.
It was a team of slave-hunters that had returned with a full load.
In the Riot of Bloody Blade … A large batch of black-blood demons and chaotic-blood demons were rebelling. The fire of rebellion almost spread across the Blood Demon Sector.
While the demon kingdoms were having headaches, it was the golden years for Void Turmoil City.
In the past … Even the chaotic-blood demons could not be captured randomly. They had to come up with some excuses.
But right now, it was very convenient. As long as they were labeled as' accomplices of the Blade of Chaos', they would be able to capture the chaotic-blood demons that were scattered in every corner of the Blood Demon Sector for refinement.
With the final battle between the Blood Demon Sector and the Tian Yuan Realm around the corner, the demand for cannon fodder was rising day by day, too. The bloody road to Void Turmoil City was packed with vehicles and screams all day long.
Behind each Land Whale was a cargo hold. They had all been packed to the brim. However, the slave-catching teams were obviously very experienced. They had partitioned small cabins with iron wires. Although the cabins were cramped, the basic space of activity was maintained so that the chaotic-blood demons that were captured would not die on a large scale.
Inside a warehouse behind the demon beasts, Li Yao and Jin Xinyue were locked in the same compartment. Different from the other chaotic-blood demons who were shouting, the two of them lowered their heads. He seemed to be weak, trying his best to hide the light shining in his eyes.
The two of them looked very different from half a month ago.
Li Yao had changed the distribution and orientation of his muscles. He had turned himself into a muscular man with a thick masseter. His left arm was covered in a layer of vague scales, but his sharp forelimbs revealed some of the features of lions and tigers. At first glance, he looked like a simple-minded, simple-minded chaotic-blood demon with brawn but no brains.
Jin Xinyue had her own secret arts of disguise. Her face was dark, and her body was thin. Her eyes turned into two vertical lines like those of a reptile. Her tongue was long and narrow like that of a snake. It was curled inside her mouth with a forked front end that was hissing now and then. She was exactly like an ugly female snake.
However hard Li Yao observed, he could not find any loopholes in her. He could not help but feel amazed.
The two of them had no choice but to disguise themselves as chaotic-blood demons.
Although Void Turmoil City was a lawless, murky place, the Fire Ant was a top-tier expert in the Blood Demon Sector. Therefore, it was easy for the two of them to sneak into Void Turmoil City, but it was rather difficult for them to do so without alarming anyone.
The search for the two of them by the four demon kingdoms was obviously not over yet. Their identities could not be exposed, and they had to disguise themselves.
Of all the demons, the size of the black-blood demons and the bronze-blood demons was too different from that of normal human beings. No matter how Li Yao changed himself, it was impossible for him to turn himself into an enormous mantis crouching on the ground or his legs into a snake tail.
Only the silver-blood demons and the chaotic-blood demons looked the closest to human beings, which was more convenient for the two of them to disguise themselves.
However, the silver-blood demons were nobles. Every silver-blood demon had a unique appearance, identity, and family tree. Anyone who was interested would be able to find out the answer easily.
Jin Xinyue had prepared a lot of virtual identities, but she was not sure whether or not they had been exposed.
After much consideration, the two of them could only disguise themselves as chaotic-blood demons and sneak into Void Turmoil City.
After escaping from the Hundred Desolation Mountain stealthily, the two of them set off at night and headed north toward Void Turmoil City.
The further north they went, the more they felt the influence of the Riot of Bloody Blade on the Blood Demon Sector.
The remote villages that they passed through were mostly empty. A lot of villages of the chaotic-blood demons and the black-blood demons were involved in the fire of rebellion. Either all the villages joined the 'Riot of Bloody Blade' or were regarded as the accomplices of the Blade of Chaos in the suppression later and punished harshly.
In the wilderness, they would run into groups of chaotic-blood demons and black-blood demons every now and then. Most of the demons had fled to the mountains to avoid the flames of war. Naturally, some of the remnants of the Blade of Chaos might be hiding among them, but most of them were innocent civilians.
However, when the suppression teams of the four major demon kingdoms and the slave-catching teams of Void Turmoil City arrived, they captured all the demons indiscriminately. Some of them became the honorable silver-blood generals' accomplishments, and some ended up as cannon fodder in the great war to come.
Under such circumstances, the fleeing low-level demons were mixed together. Most of the demons were ignorant and stammering, unable to tell where they came from. A lot of wild demons living in the forests were captured, too. It was a mess. It was almost impossible to identify every low-level demon.
The slave-catching teams from Void Turmoil City had no intention of identifying their prey, either. After all, they were just slaves and cannon fodder in their eyes. Who would care about the identities of slaves and cannon fodder at all?
Li Yao and Jin Xinyue tracked a slave-catching team for two days and three nights in secret. Finally, they confirmed that they were from Void Turmoil City.
What happened next was very simple. They disguised themselves and snuck into the crowd of refugees that the slave-catching team had to pass through. Then, they were 'captured' very smoothly.
However, 'smoothly' was just on the surface. On his way, Li Yao was more and more agitated and furious. His mental devil was expanding nonstop, too.
"Wa! Wa! Wa! Wa! "
In the upper compartment of the same warehouse, a baby of the chaotic-blood demons burst into tears. His cries pierced Li Yao's eardrums like iron needles.
The chaotic-blood demons looked very similar to human beings on the whole. It was especially so for the babies of the chaotic-blood demons. Without careful observation, it was barely possible to find any features of the demon race. They were like chubby human babies, and it was not until they were two or three years old that the features of the demon race gradually appeared on their faces.
On his way, Li Yao could not help but feel infuriated, almost instinctively, as he watched the demons that resembled human beings being bullied and tortured by the hideous black-blood demons and bronze-blood demons.
If the Tian Yuan Realm is swallowed by the Blood Demon Sector one day, I'm afraid that the citizens of the Xing Yao Federation will end up the same way, won't they?
The thought was burning fiercely inside Li Yao's heart. It seemed to have formed a crimson lotus, and the mental devil was sitting on the lotus as the base, staring at everything coldly.
Huala!
Right then, several tentacles on the back of a Land Whale in front of Li Yao were broken. A large warehouse rolled down and smashed into smithereens.
Countless black-blood demons immediately jumped out and fled in all directions in a hurry.
The black-blood demons were all hideous. At first glance, they looked like beetles that had been magnified countless times. They were emitting a pungent stench and shrieking earsplittingly.
They were so strong that they tore apart the iron wire that carried feeble electric currents into shreds after a slight struggle.
Li Yao observed the chaos outside with his telepathic thoughts through the ventilation holes in secret.
Several demons in the front and back of the team were yelling, perhaps complaining that the amount of drugs they had was not enough.
For a moment, dozens of muscular demons lunged at him. They were holding beast-catching poles that were more than three meters long. Muscular tentacles that looked like electric eels were dangling from the front end of the poles, which were emitting crackling electric arcs and driving the black-blood demons back.
A black-blood demon that looked like a mantis happened to be right next to Li Yao's Land Whale, only to be tied up by a few electric whips and finally dragged back.
His mandibles plowed eight deep ravines on the red soil, which looked like eight bleeding wounds.
Perhaps it was his imagination, but Li Yao seemed to see fury, sorrow, pain, and desperation in the crimson compound eyes, which were full of humanity.
Pu … Pu …
The slave-catchers released tremendous pink venomous gas to the black-blood demons. In the spreading venomous gas, the brilliance in the eyes of the black-blood demons was gone. They fell to the ground one after another and were evenly distributed before they were stuffed back into new cabins.
Li Yao asked Jin Xinyue in a low voice, "Do the black-blood demons need to be modified, too?"
"Of course," Jin Xinyue replied. "The black-blood demons are the 'producers' in the 'Four Pillars' system of the demon race. Most of the black-blood demons boast the genes of vegetarian animals and do not have any combat ability."
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