They sympathized with him for encountering such misfortune when he first arrived.
I pity him for not knowing how high the sky is and how he dares to question a demon king.
The gloating thing is that finally a new unlucky guy has arrived, who may be able to share some of their pain.
"Let me ask you a question! What kind of monster are you?" Ye Feng seemed to be completely unaware of the danger and still asked.
"Monster?" The elephant demon seemed to have heard some big joke and let out a roaring laugh, "Hahaha, little insect, it seems that you just ascended from some remote place in the lower world, right? Remember, here, we are "monsters" and the masters of this world! And you..."
Its gaze swept over Ye Feng and then over the group of slaves bound by chains, its tone full of contempt and disdain.
"You are 'slaves'! They are animals! They are tools!"
"Now, I will give you two choices." The elephant demon stretched out his thick fingers and tapped Ye Feng, "One, I will crush you to death right now and take away your soul. Take it out and light the sky lantern. Second, roll over obediently, put this on, and build a palace for the great Elephant Demon King. Maybe you can live a few more days." As it said, it rolled up a rune chain with its nose and threw it at Ye Feng's feet.
The chain was flashing with a strange black light, exuding an aura that imprisoned the soul and blocked spiritual power.
Ye Feng looked at the chains under his feet, and then at the numb slaves. He "struggled" for a long time, and finally, under the increasingly impatient gaze of the elephant demon, he bent down, picked up the chain, and put it on his neck.
A "click" sound.
The runes on the chain suddenly lit up, and a cold force instantly invaded his body, trying to block his Dantian Qihai and Consciousness Sea Soul.
However, when this power came into contact with Ye Feng's prototype of the "Heart of the World" that was as vast as the starry sky, it was like a mud cow entering the sea and disappeared without a trace in an instant.
Ye Feng's face showed a hint of "pain" at the right time, and his body shook as if his strength was being drained.
"Hmph, I guess you're wise." The elephant demon nodded with satisfaction, rolled his nose, and tied Ye Feng into the slave team.
Ye Feng staggered to the side of the old man who had sympathized with him before.
The old man glanced at him and moved his lips, but in the end it just turned into an inaudible sigh.
"Old man, what exactly is this place?" Ye Feng lowered his voice and asked "weakly".
There were waves in the old man's cloudy eyes, as if Ye Feng's tragic situation had brought back memories of when he first arrived. He hesitated for a moment, then replied in a low voice: "This is the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons, the realm of the Elephant Demon Mountain. We... are all coolies who were captured to build the 'Ten Thousand Demons Palace' for the Elephant Demon King."
"The Kingdom of Ten Thousand Monsters? The Elephant Demon King?" Ye Feng's eyes showed just the right amount of "confusion".
"Alas, you just ascended and you don't know anything." The old man sighed, "This upper realm is called the 'Sky Demon Realm' and is the world of the demon clan. We humans have no status here. Like If we are unlucky enough to ascend from the lower world and land on the territory of the demon clan, our only fate will be to become slaves."
"Isn't there... the territory of the immortals?" Ye Feng asked.
"The Immortal Realm? Yes, of course there is." A trace of yearning flashed in the old man's eyes, and then dimmed again, "But between the Immortal Realm and the Demonic Realm, there are endless galaxies and chaotic voids, and there are even barriers blocking the way. It's difficult to get there, it's as difficult as climbing to the sky. What's more, we can't even protect ourselves now."
While listening, Ye Feng secretly used his spiritual consciousness to carefully analyze the chain around his neck.
The material of this chain is very special, and it contains a power of law that he has never seen before, specifically targeting the soul and spiritual power system of human monks. Once worn, monks below the level of Earth Immortal will be almost completely destroyed and reduced to slaves.
Unfortunately, it met Ye Feng.
The foundation of his power is the "Heart of the World" in his body, the power of the stars, the power of the source, and the law of destruction... The levels of these powers are far higher than the restrictions on this chain.
He can break free at any time.
But now, he is more like a real hunter, putting on sheep's clothing, blending into the flock, and patiently observing everything around him.
The team moves on.
While chatting with the old man, Ye Feng had already gotten a rough idea of the team's situation.
There were three demons escorting them. The leader was the Elephant Demon King in the early stage of the Earth Immortal, named "Xiang Dali". The other two were wolf demons and tiger demons at the peak of the Human Immortal Realm, acting as supervisors.
There are thirty-seven human monks in the team, including him, the number is thirty-eight. The one with the highest level of cultivation is this old man named "Gu Tong", who is on the fourth level of the Immortal Realm. The rest of the people are of varying strengths. They all ascended to this area one after another in the past few decades and were then captured.
The destination is the main peak of Xiangmo Mountain.
The Elephant Demon King is the master of this territory, an unfathomable great demon in the Celestial Realm.
"Heavenly Realm..." Ye Feng secretly calculated in his heart.
Earthly immortals, heavenly immortals. It seems that the cultivation system of this upper realm is completely different from that of the lower realm.
After walking for about half a day, the scene ahead suddenly became clear.
A huge, continuous mountain range appeared on the horizon.
The main peak of the mountain range towers into the clouds, shaped like a prostrate elephant. The entire mountain was shrouded in demonic energy, forming a dark demonic cloud that covered the sky and the sun, exuding a tyrannical pressure.
On the mountainside of the main peak, a large-scale, rough and ferocious palace is under construction.
Countless figures as small as ants are busy on the huge construction site. They carried extremely heavy boulders and climbed up with difficulty under the whips of the demon overseers.
Those figures, without exception, are all human monks.
This is a purgatory on earth.
"We're here! Stay alert!"
Xiang Dali let out a roar and drove everyone towards the huge palace.
Ye Feng mingled in the crowd, raised his head, and looked calmly at the "Ten Thousand Demons Palace" that was being built, and at those fellow clan members who were wailing and screaming under the whip.
In the depths of his eyes, there was no anger or pity, only a cold calmness.
Like the sea before a storm.
The construction site of the Ten Thousand Demons Palace is even bigger and crueler than Ye Feng imagined.
This place is more like a combination of a huge open-pit mine and a slaughterhouse.
Thousands of human slaves perform the heaviest labor here. They were asked to mine an ore called "Obsidian Heavy Gold" from the foot of the mountain, and then transport it to the middle of the mountain for use in building the palace.
This kind of obsidian is heavy in gold and extremely dense. A piece of ore the size of a palm can weigh up to 10,000 kilograms. What slaves need to carry are often huge stones that are several feet high. If they hadn't all been monks, and their bodies were far superior to those of ordinary people, they might not even be able to lift a stone.
Even so, with the demon power corroded and spiritual power banned, their physical strength was depleted extremely quickly.