No hope for eternal life

Chapter 488 Lion Madness

After walking all the way, Hu Qian finally brought Mu Changsheng to his fiefdom - the Hutou Mountains: "The Hutou Mountains stretch for nearly a thousand miles, this is your fiefdom. It is close enough to the king's cave, it is definitely a good place. Other brothers can't get it even if they want it."

"This is a warning to me that I am very close to the Ape Demon King. I must be careful." Mu Changsheng said to himself. In fact, when he heard that his fiefdom was only five hundred miles away from the Ape Demon King's cave, he understood the Ape Demon King's plan. The other party still had some distrust of him, so he kept him under his nose and watched his every move. For a cultivator in the supernatural power realm, a distance of five hundred miles is the same as no distance.

Mu Changsheng was not panicked about this. As foreign demon cultivators, they were naturally suspicious, so it was normal that they were not trusted.

On the surface, Mu Changsheng said inconspicuously: "Haha, Brother Hu is right, I have to thank Brother Hu for introducing me this time."

"Brother Yuan, you are too polite. You and I are both from the demon race, so we should help each other." Hu Qian exchanged some greetings and left. Under the surveillance of the Ape Demon King, they couldn't say much, not even able to communicate with each other.

After Hu Qian left, Mu Changsheng began to take care of his own fiefdom, building caves, growing spiritual medicines, etc. Although he was under the invisible surveillance of the Ape Demon King, Mu Changsheng could still use the Fire Spirit Pearl to continue to refine his body in secret. Outsiders who used their spiritual sense to scan Mu Changsheng's body could only see the illusion created by the God-Concealing Robe and had no idea what Mu Changsheng was really doing.

After finishing some basic maintenance, Mu Changsheng began to practice in seclusion. For cultivators, seclusion is the norm. What Mu Changsheng has to do now is to wait for the spiritual vein of the Heavenly Demon Realm to appear. By then, the Ape Demon King will not have the leisure to monitor him every day.

However, before Mu Changsheng had been in seclusion for two days, an uninvited guest came to his door.

A lion demon with a green face and a lion's head and a human body was seen waving a big knife. He chopped open the door of Mu Changsheng's cave with one knife and shouted, "Newcomer, come out quickly."

Mu Changsheng understood what was going on as soon as he heard the shouting. The person he wanted to establish his authority against had come to him on his own.

So, Mu Changsheng walked out of the cave and said to the lion demon calmly: "Brother Lion, you smashed the door of my cave as soon as you came. Where did you get so angry?"

"You're still asking where your anger comes from?" The lion demon snorted coldly, "How can you get such a large and good place like the Tiger Head Mountain Range? What qualifications do you have to get this land?"

"A good place?" Mu Changsheng sneered in his heart. If possible, he certainly didn't want to be next to the Ape Demon King. However, since the Ape Demon King gave him this fiefdom, he had to accept it. He even had to protect this fiefdom, because the demon clan has always had the habit of grabbing territory. If he couldn't protect the territory, he would be considered weak and could be bullied, let alone establish his authority.

"Then what does Brother Shi want to do?" Mu Changsheng asked casually.

The lion demon leaned on the ground with his long sword and said with a strange smile: "It's very simple. You and I are both at the peak of the tribulation. Don't say I'm bullying you. Go to the life and death stage. If you win, I will admit that you are qualified to get this fief. Then not only me, but other fellow demons will also recognize your qualifications, and no one will bother you again. But if you lose, you will give me half of your fief. However, don't blame me for not reminding you that my strength is firmly ranked in the top three among the more than 20 peak tribulation cultivators in the Ape Demon Domain. Life and death are not a matter of life and death on the life and death stage. If you are afraid of death, just give me one-third of the fief."

Mu Changsheng had previously learned about the Life and Death Arena mentioned by the Lion Demon from Hu Qian. The demon race is warlike and they believe that the line between life and death can forge a strong man, so they specially built the Life and Death Arena for the demon cultivators to compete at will, regardless of life or death.

Mu Changsheng was certainly not afraid of competing with a cultivator at the peak of the Tribulation Crossing Stage, and he immediately said, "I can compete with you on the Life and Death Stage, but I have one condition."

"What conditions?" asked the lion demon.

"If you win, you can get half of my fiefdom, but if I win, I won't get any substantial benefits except recognition. So my condition is that if I win, you need to lose one hundred thousand top-grade spirit stones to me." Mu Changsheng said lightly.

"One hundred thousand top-grade spirit stones!" The lion demon's eyes focused, and he couldn't help but look at Mu Changsheng again.

The Heavenly Demon Realm supports most of the demon race, and top-grade spirit stones are extremely scarce, so 100,000 top-grade spirit stones is a considerable number even for a lion demon at the peak of tribulation.

"Half of your fiefdom is not worth a hundred thousand top-grade spirit stones." The lion demon said coldly, implying that the two items in the bet were not of equal value.

"Then I will give you half of the fiefdom and 50,000 top-grade spirit stones." Mu Changsheng said without hesitation.

"Very good, it seems that you are very confident. I would like to see what methods you have." The lion demon agreed after thinking for a moment, looking very confident.

The competition between Mu Changsheng and the lion demon attracted the attention of many demon cultivators. All the demons wanted to see the strength of Mu Changsheng, the "newcomer".

On the stage of life and death, Mu Changsheng and the lion demon have already sworn an oath to their inner demons that they cannot use any external force during the competition.

"Lion Maniac, teach this outsider a lesson." The monsters in the audience started to make a noise.

"Just wait and see." The green-faced lion demon named Lion Mad snorted coldly and looked at Mu Changsheng: "You haven't made a move yet, do you want me to make the first move?"

"It doesn't matter who strikes first." Mu Changsheng replied calmly.

"Okay, take my move of turning the tide first." Shi Kuang threw out the long sword, which changed into countless shapes in the air, making it difficult to distinguish the real from the fake. It attacked Mu Changsheng from all directions.

If Mu Changsheng used the Eight Realms Divine Sense, he would naturally be able to easily distinguish the real and fake sword shadows, but that would risk exposing his identity, so he did not plan to use his divine sense, and there was no need to distinguish the real and fake sword shadows, he could just block them all.

Mu Changsheng moved his ten fingers together, and countless fire lines flew out from his fingertips, weaving a dense fire net around his body. Any attack that wanted to hit him had to cross this fire net first. The power of this fire net came from the innate magical power in his body. A cultivator at the peak of tribulation was destined to be unbreakable.

Mu Changsheng got the inspiration for this move from the Black Demon. The Black Demon condensed the flames into substance and protected his body like golden light. The advantage of doing this is that when outsiders' attacks fall on the golden light, they only know that the golden light is extremely solid, but they don't know how much energy is contained in it.

Just like that, Shi Kuang's long sword chopped on Mu Changsheng's fire net, but naturally could not break through it. Instead, it was swallowed by Mu Changsheng's flames. If Mu Changsheng had not controlled his strength, he could have directly turned Shi Kuang's long sword into slag.