After dealing with the ten years’ worth of spoils from his Explorer Avatar,
Ye Qingxuan recondensed the avatar.
Then, through the realm gate of his other avatar—the Mysterious Merchant—he sent the Explorer Avatar back to the mysterious shop outside Star Battle City.
This time, Ye Qingxuan didn’t plan to send his Explorer Avatar to the Third Demon Domain World.
His avatar was already on the wanted list there. Any unusual movement would trigger a crackdown by the Green Demon Clan’s experts in that domain.
So Ye Qingxuan decided to send his Explorer Avatar to another demon domain opened by the Xuantian Sect—Demon Domain World No. 9.
His Explorer Avatar had never been to Demon Domain World No. 9 before, so for now, he was still on the white list.
The only downside was that he’d have to give up on that Green Demon Clan tribe he’d scouted in the Third Demon Domain—the one with a Nascent Soul realm overseer.
In the demon domain, he was restricted at every turn, so his exploration moved at a snail’s pace.
Not counting those Green Demon experts who’d actively hunted him down,
that tribe with a Nascent Soul realm overseer was the first such tribe he’d ever discovered.
But when he teleported into the demon domain, there was no fixed landing point.
Typically, passing through a spatial passage into the demon domain meant a random drop into some remote, sparsely populated area with thin demonic aura.
Even if he went back to the Third Demon Domain, he wouldn’t necessarily land in the same region as before.
So although Ye Qingxuan felt a twinge of regret, it was more of a passing thought than anything deeply emotional.
Arriving once more at the teleportation plaza in Star Battle City, Ye Qingxuan went through the motions—taking the formation disc and the ten Purification Spirit Trees.
Then he stepped into the spatial passage leading to Demon Domain World No. 9.
Although most cultivators entering the two demon domain worlds from Star Battle City were at the Spirit Transformation realm,
Ye Qingxuan’s Explorer Avatar had the Divine Ability Seed of Deception to mask his cultivation, so no one could sense his true level.
Thus, no one in the teleportation plaza was surprised that a Golden Core realm cultivator like Ye Qingxuan’s avatar dared to enter the demon domain.
Since this was his first trip to Demon Domain World No. 9, Ye Qingxuan’s main consciousness also descended into the Explorer Avatar, wanting to personally experience the differences between the two demon domains.
In Demon Domain World No. 9,
at the edge of a mountain range, a spatial rift suddenly tore open, and Ye Qingxuan’s Explorer Avatar emerged once more.
The moment he appeared—before his feet even touched the ground—Ye Qingxuan had already activated his Divine Ability Seed of Deception to conceal his presence.
After a quick scan of his surroundings, he picked a direction and swiftly moved away from his landing point.
In a small thousand realm like the demon domain, the ripples from a spatial rift were highly sensitive to Spirit Transformation realm experts.
In such realms, even a Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivator could already tear through space and perform short-distance teleportation.
Let alone those Spirit Transformation cultivators who stood at the very top of the small thousand realm.
So in the demon domain, Ye Qingxuan couldn’t afford even a moment’s carelessness.
He certainly didn’t want to get caught by a Spirit Transformation expert the moment he set foot in Demon Domain World No. 9.
Only after he’d reached a hidden cave deep in the mountains did Ye Qingxuan have the time to carefully sense the differences between the two demon domain worlds.
Though Ye Qingxuan was only at the Golden Core realm,
he had already condensed his Immortal Soul ahead of time, granting him a perception of the heavens and earth far beyond that of ordinary cultivators.
This time, with his main consciousness also descending into the Ninth Demon Domain, his sensitivity to the outside world was naturally incomparable to that of regular cultivators.
In Ye Qingxuan’s perception,
the space of Demon Domain World No. 9 was more stable than that of the Third Demon Domain, and both the elemental energies and the demonic aura in the air were somewhat more active.
Ye Qingxuan deduced that the energy level of Demon Domain World No. 9 was slightly higher than that of the Third Demon Domain World.
It was likely that the Green Demon Clan experts in the Ninth Demon Domain World were also more numerous than those in the Third.
This also meant that the Spirit Transformation teams from the Earth Mystic Realm might have a harder time in Demon Domain World No. 9.
After sensing the gap between the two demon domains,
Ye Qingxuan crossed one arm and rested his other hand on his chin, a thoughtful gleam in his eyes.
In Demon Domain World No. 9, he was still on the white list for now.
As long as he didn’t cause too much of a stir early on, and didn’t alert the experts in this domain, he wouldn’t face a crackdown.
But once he made it onto the blacklist,
the moment he made a move—even with an isolation array in place—the Green Demon Clan’s experts would instantly detect the fluctuations and come hunting him down with Spirit Transformation power.
So his early actions had to maximize their payoff.
With that thought, Ye Qingxuan lowered his hands and chuckled softly:
“In that case, I’ll leave the Green Demons below the Golden Core realm alone for now and focus mainly on tribes with Golden Core and Nascent Soul realm overseers.”
If he could take down just one Nascent Soul Green Demon tribe, that alone would be worth more than his Explorer Avatar’s entire ten-year haul from the Third Demon Domain World last time.
Decision made,
Ye Qingxuan kept his Divine Ability Seed of Deception running at all times, while clutching a top-grade spirit stone in his hand to continuously replenish the spiritual energy he was expending.
With the top-grade spirit stone fueling him, the spiritual energy consumed by the Divine Ability Seed of Deception could be restored swiftly.
Cautiously leaving the cave, Ye Qingxuan began a slow exploration of the other areas within the mountain range.
The region he’d landed in back in the Third Demon Domain had been mostly flat plains.
This time, the area he’d dropped into in Demon Domain World No. 9 was mainly mountainous.
That worked to his advantage, though—it gave him plenty of places to quickly hide if danger arose.
While his Divine Ability Seed of Deception could conceal his aura and even his physical form from enemies,
there was a difference between hiding behind an obstacle and hiding directly in front of an enemy.
If he hid right in front of someone and they had a special technique or eye-based ability, they might see right through him.
But with something in between, it weakened the enemy’s detection to some degree.
So in a mountainous terrain like this, combined with his Divine Ability Seed of Deception, it was like adding wings to a tiger.
As he moved stealthily forward, the mountains seemed perpetually caught in twilight—dim and gloomy.
Along the way, Ye Qingxuan spotted all sorts of oddly shaped demonic beasts, and occasionally heard some blood-curdling screeches in the distance.
It sent a chill down the spine, a suffocating sense of dread pressing in.
Three days later,
Ye Qingxuan finally encountered his first Green Demon Clan tribe in Demon Domain World No. 9.
But the strongest overseer in this tribe was only a Foundation Establishment realm Green Demon—not Ye Qingxuan’s primary target.
To avoid spooking the prey too early, he simply bypassed them and continued his deeper probe into the mountains.
