Jin Qing deduced in secret, attempting to predict the future, but it was in vain.
However, she was certain of one thing: Bai Mang would definitely run.
This boy was never meant to be a small fish in a pond, he could never remain subservient to others.
Nor would he allow his fate to be controlled by someone else.
Therefore, she speculated that Bai Mang must already possess the ability to condense nether fire.
He used this as his capital to cross the Nether Pool.
The reason he waited for her to act and then beat her at her own game was simply to make everyone believe he was dead.
Such depth of thought was chilling.
As for how he had vanished, it was not difficult to guess.
Bai Mang was a formation master himself, especially skilled in isolation formations.
Thus, Jin Qing guessed that the moment he fell, he activated an isolation formation.
Furthermore, this formation was very likely applied directly to his physical body.
Bai Mang had used this formation before, and even her divine sense could not penetrate it, she could think of no other possibility.
In fact, Jin Qing had once even suspected that Bai Mang was not a demon at all, but came from outside the Demon Abyss.
He might even be the youth who saved Chi Ji as she had mentioned.
That single sword strike in the Ze Capital was not the work of some sword immortal as they had speculated.
Bai Mang had done it all himself.
He used a special divine ability to hide his cultivation, change his appearance, and deceive all living beings, in reality, his original identity was that of a ninth-stage sword cultivator.
If that were the case, everything could be explained.
How that sword strike came to be, why he could kill a seventh-stage lesser demon king with a single spear thrust.
And why he could see through her disguise and remain calm and composed even when facing a group of demon gods.
Even later, when Bai Mang was able to translate the primordial demon art, her suspicion of him never vanished.
Chi Ming said she was too hasty, and Jin Qing did not deny it.
To some extent, the reason she was so eager to test Bai Mang was not just to know if he had cultivated nether fire.
What she wanted to confirm even more was whether Bai Mang was truly a demon.
She did not believe Bai Mang's story, nor did she believe what Bai Mang allowed her to see, she only believed her own eyes.
The Ruoshui of the Nether Pool was ordinary to a demon.
But for creatures from outside the Demon Abyss, the power of the Ruoshui rivaled the laws of heaven and earth.
Even back then, when the Thunder Demon Lei Yunche fought his way to the Nether Capital, he could only stand on the southern bank of the Nether Pool and stare in frustration.
That was why the plan to throw Bai Mang into the depths of the Nether Pool was formed.
If he were not of the demon race, he would definitely resist and reveal his trump cards, otherwise, he would sink into the nether water and vanish.
If he were a demon, even if she could not test for nether fire, he would not lose his life, killing two birds with one stone.
Bai Mang was a talent and the greatest hope for the Demon Abyss in ten thousand years.
But she had to confirm that he was a demon.
The demon gods did not understand, and she did not explain.
Now.
She was certain that Bai Mang was a demon, even if he possessed many irrational abilities and methods.
The fact that he was a demon was beyond dispute.
Because he was still alive.
Since he was a demon, the doubts and worries in her heart could vanish like smoke.
The restoration of the demon race was just around the corner, provided, of course, that she found that brat first.
Then, she would do just like that sect outside the Demon Abyss and do everything in her power to elevate him.
She would raise him to a position that stood above all demons.
For this, she would not hesitate to offend the entire heavenly demon race, just as she had not hesitated to destroy the entire Jin family for Jin Yu.
She only did what she believed was right and paid whatever price was necessary.
She was paranoid and crazy.
Jin Qing stood at the peak of the tall building, overlooking the Nether Pool with a firm gaze and a determined tone as she talked to herself.
"You are a demon."
"The Demon Abyss is your home."
"You cannot escape..."
"I will definitely find you..."
...
The sky had no sun, moon, or stars, yet there were bands of light crisscrossing above the sea of clouds, gathering into a colorful sea of auroras within the mist.
There was the red of crimson, the green of emerald, and the brilliant white.
There was red, orange, yellow, green, blue, azure, purple, gold, white, and black.
Ten colors in total.
Thick, thin, wide, narrow, large, small, short, long...
It was like the land of the Demon Abyss during the day, colorful yet permeated with the profound depth of deep space.
Beneath his feet was a watery surface like a marsh, blooming with azure light.
It looked exactly like the color of nether fire, and where Xu Xian had landed, ripples spread across the surface, undulating outward in circles.
Between the two, there was nothing but empty space.
The world beneath the water had inverted gravity, the ground became the ceiling, and it was a whole new world.
The Ruoshui vanished here, trodden underfoot, as the laws returned to normal.
After a brief moment of shock, Xu Xian opened the mecha, stepped out, and stood on that watery surface, looking up at the ten-colored sea of auroras.
With every step he took, the water surface beneath his feet would respond, ripples rising like a touch screen.
When he leaned over to look, he could even see his own reflection faintly shimmering beneath the water.
He clicked his tongue in secret, "Tsk, this is quite interesting."
He was likely the only person in the world to see such a landscape.
If he went back and told the people of the Demon Abyss that there was another world beneath the Nether Pool, he wondered if they would believe him.
In any case, if it were him, he certainly wouldn't.
The Little Book Spirit was clearly much more knowledgeable than Xu Xian and did not find it too novel, treating it as ordinary.
"A grotto-heaven world is nothing to be surprised about, this space is likely a derived space of the Nether Pool, just like the Heaven Beyond the Sword of the Sword Mound or the cloud sea of the Sword Tower, a small world independent of the great universe."
Upon hearing this, Xu Xian grew interested and tested, "In that case, is this Nether Pool a dharma treasure?"
The Little Book Spirit spoke ambiguously, "Perhaps."
"A dharma treasure this large?" Xu Xian said subconsciously.
The Little Book Spirit said nonchalantly, "Is that so strange? Besides, this isn't even considered large, it is not impossible that the entire Demon Abyss is a dharma treasure, hmm... I have seen some where an entire astral continent was a single weapon."
Xu Xian marveled secretly.
As expected of the world of immortal cultivation, if you could imagine it, it could exist.
Existence was inherently rational.
While the Little Book Spirit was busy bragging and Xu Xian was busy feeling sentimental, celebrating that he did not have to rely on the mecha and the Heaven-Burning Sparrow to move and survive here, Xu Xian was suddenly startled.
He looked up at the empty sky and earth and slapped his thigh, "Holy crap, this is bad!"
The Little Book Spirit was puzzled, "What's wrong?"
Xu Xian pointed around and asked, "Where are the stones?"
The Little Book Spirit also reacted and looked around, but all it could see was sky, mist, light, and water, let alone a stone, there was not even a grain of dust.
Its tiny eyes widened, "Um... that's true, it seems there are no Shadow Soul Stones?"
Xu Xian was stunned, and his face instantly turned dark.
After going through so much trouble, cultivating demonic arts, cultivating nether fire, building a mecha, and calculating everything just so he could dive down and mine stones.
Well, look at that.
He came down and found nothing, what kind of joke was this?
He clutched his chest and stared at the Little Book Spirit, saying in pain, "What should I do? My chest hurts."
The Little Book Spirit did not know either, as it had not expected this, but it still forced itself to say, "How about we look around? We probably just haven't seen them, otherwise, where would those Shadow Soul Stones come from?"
Xu Xian thought about it and agreed, putting away the mecha and the Heaven-Burning Sparrow.
"Sigh... let's look."
Though, he felt that he was likely screwed.
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