Following Xuan Hao leaving the Iron Sky Kingdom together with Yi Min, the rabbit demon beast happily waltzed inside the main palace and made itself at home inside a large empty guest room before starting to eat a few of the spirit stones from the interspatial ring Xuan Hao had given it before closing its eyes to focus on absorbing the pure qi inside the spirit stones.
Rustle~
Not too long after the rabbit demon beast had settled down like this, the squirrel cautiously appeared at the entrance to the guest room.
Squeak...
Scanning over the mostly empty guest room before spotting the rabbit demon beast, the squirrel let out a somewhat nervous squeaking sound before finding a place inside the guest room to settle down and cultivate on its own. Not daring to approach the rabbit demon beast and ask it for some of the spirit stones. This chapter's initial release occurred on the n0vell--Bjjn site.
Considering the training it had gone through since meeting the rabbit demon beast, it had learnt that it was wise to never ask it for any of its spirit stones and instead focus its attention on cultivating by itself. Even if it was slower to cultivate without the assistance of spirit stones, it felt happy as long as it could cultivate without being beaten up by the rabbit demon beast...
At this point in time, although the squirrel had grown far stronger compared to before it had accidentally stumbled inside the Sea of Mist and could in a sense be considered a powerful demon beast in a kingdom like the Iron Sky Kingdom, it had no clue about this and still thought of itself as weak, a side effect of it only having interacted with beings far more powerful than itself after starting its cultivation journey.
Whoosh~
As the squirrel and rabbit demon beast settled down and both focused on cultivating inside the main palace, the muscular man at the Domain Lord Realm and most trusted subordinate of Yi Min could not help escaping from the main palace after personally having escorted the rabbit demon beast into the main palace just a short time earlier.
Although he had been informed about the rabbit demon beast being a powerful demon beast in the Soul Ascension Realm, he had not believed it at first after seeing the cute looking rabbit the size of his hand and accidentally used his divine sense to scan the rabbit demon beast. Resulting in the rabbit demon beast using its terrifying divine sense to shatter part of his divine sense as punishment.
The only thing that puzzled Xuan Hao was what this friend of Pei Yang had done for him to hide away at the edge of the continent. Considering what Pei Yang had gone through, he had a feeling that it might also be related to the fact that he wanted to breakthrough to the Pseudo Saint Realm but had been stopped by the different major powers before being able to accomplish his goal.
In the end, this ended up making Xuan Hao even more curious about the thing needed to break through to the Pseudo Saint Realm. After all, he still had to reach the Pseudo Saint Realm in less than three months' time and also needed to find out what it was that the major powers were hiding regarding the breakthrough to the Pseudo Saint Realm.
"Hm? Demonic cultivators?"
Lost in his own thoughts while travelling through the Frozen Wasteland together with Yi Min, Xuan Hao could not help frowning upon noticing a large number of demonic cultivators gathered a short distance away from the temporary barrier he had created between the Azure Sky Kingdom and the Frozen Wasteland in the past.
"Indeed, there are at least three in the True Demon Realm. From the looks of it, they are preparing to invade the Azure Sky Kingdom..." Hearing what Xuan Hao muttered to himself, Yi Min curiously scanned the group of demonic cultivators in the distance with her divine sense before she said this with a worried expression on her face.
Three demonic cultivators in the True Demon Realm would be more than enough to make even her feel a shiver run down her spine. After all, compared to normal cultivators in the Soul Ascension Realm, demonic cultivators in the True Demon Realm were known to be stronger when it came to combat.
In a sense, only in the True Demon Realm could a demonic cultivator be considered to have abandoned their past and turned into a full-fledged demon intent on doing anything to increase its power.
As an example, Yi Min could clearly see one of the female demonic cultivators in the True Demon Realm happily draining the life energy out of a dozen unfortunate demonic cultivators in the First and Second Demonic Transformation Realm...
"Invade the Azure Sky Kingdom? Guess I will have to deal with them and strengthen the barrier I created back then..." Muttering this to himself as he glanced towards the gathering of demonic cultivators in the distance, Xuan Hao frowned visibly before abruptly coming to a stop.
"Xuan Hao...?"
Feeling like something big was about to happen, Yi Min could not help turning to Xuan Hao as she nervously uttered his name.
"It's nothing, I just plan to pay the little gathering over there a visit before we continue our journey..."