Chapter 261
Chapter 261: The Royal Demon
How large was the Ancient Desert Sea? Perhaps only after some Ultimate Bloodline Warriors spent a long time exploring it would, people know the answer!
However, Ultimate Bloodline Warriors were always busy with fights! They never had time for such a meaningless task.
As such, this place remained a huge mystery.
In the afternoon, the sun was still blooming with fire! After absorbing endless heat, the golden Ancient Desert Sea had turned into a burning stove which could scald people even several kilometers away!
The rolling heat waves blew over on the face with puffs of wind! It felt like a pot of hot water had been poured down one’s body! With each breath in the nasal cavity, the pores on the whole body would instantly open to push the heat out!
They finally reached the legendary Ancient Desert Sea, and it looked far more spectacular than any book had recorded! The wind roared across the sand sea as it tried to invade Zence territory. But strangely, the wind hadn’t carried a grain of sand when it arrived in the marginal land!
Dragons seemed to surge into the sky from afar. However, they were not the legendary dragons but columns of yellow tornados! They ran up high in the air as if they were trying to tear the sky apart! The wind kept roaring all the time like it was re-telling the glory of a million years prior.
“This is the Ancient Desert Sea …”
Qian Jin was also shocked by the sight! He had only seen boundless mountains before. He had never known there was a majestic place in the Zence Empire that was in no way inferior to the West Mountains in the Endless World!
The West Mountains were lofty, majestic and imposing!
Ancient Desert Sea was totally different! It was a vast prison with no boundaries!
“Turn to the east…”
Qian Jin could barely open his mouth. The hot air once again ripped his wound as if it were to burn and evaporate all his blood in a second.
“East?” Although the question came from Duren Burg’s mouth, he still followed Qian Jin as the man had ordered. In fact, the destination was right before their eyes. They could throw the horses there and walk directly into the desert. “Why go east? Screw it! Qian Jin couldn’t be wrong!” He thought.
“Huh? They changed direction?” Qian Wutian laughed out.
Qian Wuchen had to admit this Qian Wutian had some skills. This genius of the new generation excelled not only in fighting but also in mind-reading! He had first seen through Qian Wuchen’s deception, and now, he knew that those men in front were pretending to enter the Ancient Desert Sea to frighten them off!
“Well, I’ll spare them a few minutes and play this game with them.” Qian Wutian spurred on his horse. “I’ll kill all of them as long as their horses fatigue out.”
Run…
Lying on the horseback, Qian Jin felt his eyelids were becoming heavier and heavier! He squinted his eyes as he was trying to find an unknown entrance from the shadow that the sun cast on the land!
Toad! Yes! There was not just sand in this place, but also a lot of broken walls, stones and the barren hill where weeds didn’t even grow.
Every day this time, as the sun shone on a barren hill, there would be a huge shadow which looked exactly like a toad! The toad had a heavy luggage on his back, making it look like a traveler that was ready to go out for a trip.
This huge toad-figured shadow had a giant mouth shouting toward the sky! That mouth was a hidden entrance! Step into it, one would not reach the edge of Ancient Desert Sea but the belly of it!
Different people reached different spots every time they walked into it.
“You…” Qian Jin turned around and said in a choky voice, “You still have time to leave! Once you step on this path, you won’t be able to turn back…”
Cech Flet gently raised his handsome eyebrows. “Do you really think there is a safe spot for a Demon-Human hybrid in Zence territory? Since there is not, I don’t care where my destiny leads me! ” he said.
“As for me…” Fanta Kunge chuckled at Qian Jin, “I have to learn the [Gold Essence Warrior Power Training Scroll] but I don’t have much money. I’m counting on you for some cheap Purified Iron.”
“Dear comrade,” Duren Burg pointed to the other two warriors, “They’ve decided to stay! How can I leave you behind! They can’t protect you if that Qian bastard catches up! We can outrun him even if we take turns to carry you forward.”
“Ready for a gamble?” Qian Jin looked at the approaching toad. “Everybody, hold each other hands! Let’s see if the book was written just for fun!”
“Hold hands?” Before Duren Burg reached out his hands, Qian Jin stepped on the stirrups and jumped away from the horse! He used too much strength that his wounds were once again lacerated. A surge of blood tried to flow out of his mouth but he bravely held it back.
He couldn’t spit it out! He couldn’t leave any traces! The discarded horses had been running and they would mislead the chasers to some other direction.
“Here!”
Right next to the boundless Ancient Desert Sea, six war horses had long stopped the gallop and now leisurely moved along!
Having seen only the horses but not their owners, Qian Wutian felt suspicious. What was going on? Where were his trophies? Were they…
Qian Wutian looked back on the ground, and he realized that the trail of horse hoofs was much lighter than those ones before!
“What a shabby trick! They had long entered Ancient Desert Sea!” Qian Wutian knitted his brows and pulled the reins, planning to turn around and chase them in the opposite direction.
“Wait, something is wrong here! ” Having stopped the hothead by grabbing his reins, Qian Wuchen dismounted and walked to the six war horses! His eyebrows gradually went closer to each other as he took a closer look at those animals! Suddenly his pupils shank like stars in the night: “This is …”
Qian Wutian was confused by this man’s reaction. “What’s up? Is there anything wrong? There are just two extra war horses.”
Just two extra warhorses? Qian Wuchen rolled his eyes! But even if Qian Zhanxuan had come here, he might think they were just ordinary horses! To a horse connoisseur, they were nothing but ordinary!
Qian Wuchen was confident that throughout the whole Qian Family, there were no more than three warriors who could recognize what the horses really were! And he was the youngest!
It was a warhorse of the Demons! To be more accurate… Qian Wuchen’s heart fluttered with an excited heartbeat…It was a warhorse of the Lucifer Demons…And only the royal families were eligible to use it…
Judging from the appearance, one who hadn’t dealt with horses for a long time could not tell the differences. But with a closer look, Qian Wuchen identified a difference of the anus of …
“Demons…” Qian Wuchen whispered to himself. “It must belong to a certain royal member of the Lucifer Demons. I have seen it once on the Human-Demon Battlefront! That one belonged to the Ninth Prince of the Demon which looked extremely similar to this one here!”
Demon? Qian Wutian immediately flew to the horses, but he didn’t see anything unusual there! He could not help but ask. “Are you sure?”
“Yes, I’m pretty sure! How dare those Demons sneak into our Qian Region!” After Qian Wuchen discovered from this surprising fact, he fell into ecstasy. “We’ll be rich this time! I’m sure the owner of this horse is a Demon, and probably a prince or princess! We shall now immediately return and report … ”
“Moron!” Qian Wutian scolded. “A report bears how much rewards? But I’ll absolutely surpass Qian Wushan if I take this big boss back! Come, we’ll catch this Demon alive and kill Qian Jin at the same time!”
While at the same time, Qian Jin had already stepped into the shadow–the opening toad mouth!
As Qian Wuchen looked at Qian Wutian mounting on his horse and turning around for another journey, he shook his head and sighed! He had planned using this lunatic to kill Qian Jin only… But now, he was holding a wolf by the ears…
Qian Wuchen regretted! He could do it another time! He should never have come out with Qian Wutian! He had just been scared by Qian Jin at that moment! He couldn’t go back now because people had seen him leave with Qian Wutian… If he were to go back by himself and anything happened to the Qian genius…
There was no doubt that Qian Zhanxuan would split him into two halves in a gust of uncontrollable anger…There would no longer be a so-called bright future…
“They should be around here…”
Qian Wutian frowned at the shallow footprints on the ground! The heat waves were so strong that they had destroyed the traces for the hooves in a short period of time…
“Since it is near this place, the specific location is not that important.” Qian Wutian looked right and left. “Go here… We should be able to find them…”
Setting one foot in, they were immediately greeted with heat waves, which felt like pounding tides, except they were burning like fire!
Staring at the Ancient Desert Sea surrounded by nothing but sand, Qian Jin had relaxed a little bit. What the book said was true! They were now definitely not at the outbound of the desert.
But…Qian Jin searched around in confusion! He did not have a map! What was their location in this boundless yellow land?
“Where… are… we?” Duren Burg kept turning around while at the same time stayed vigilant as if he was having his guard up for some giant monsters in legends and fairy tales that ate human beings!