Xiao Hei, upon discovering that Xiao Fei was unwilling to flee, did not stand his ground with heartfelt pleas to stay together, like "If you don't go, I won't go either."
He knew his time to escape was running out and instead quickened his pace. Such hesitant actions were not befitting a cultivator.
Just as he escaped into the inter-dimensional passage, he heard a colossal roar from behind, and the entire continent of the Giant World was shattered into pieces by a single punch.
Then, the inter-dimensional passage behind him also began to collapse. Xiao Hei could only frantically paddle with his four limbs, rushing to escape to the Tian Yuan Realm before the passage completely disintegrated.
Upon returning to the Tian Yuan Realm, Xiao Hei suddenly felt like a stray dog with no home.
As for returning to the Immortal Realm master, he had no intention of doing so for the time being. Being beaten would be the least of his worries; he might even be made into dog meat to entertain guests.
Although he was loyal to his master, the bond between a dog and its master was one-sided. The master owed no loyalty to a mere dog.
With nowhere else to go, he decided to wander aimlessly through the myriad realms.
...
At the very moment the peerless expert descended upon the Giant World, Xiao Fei's clone, left behind in the Tian Yuan Realm, immediately set off towards the Great Array of Sealing Heaven in the Eastern Continent.
He had previously shown his face in the Tian Yuan Realm, and it was highly probable that numerous powerful beings from the Upper Realms would be drawn to the Tian Yuan Realm.
This would spell a catastrophic disaster for the Tian Yuan Realm once again.
Therefore, he planned to travel to the Demon Realm through the inter-dimensional passage of the Eastern Continent, preferably in a high-profile manner.
His intention was to lure all those Upper Realm experts, who were like flies, to the Demon Realm.
However, when he successfully passed through the Great Array of Sealing Heaven and reached the mouth of the Demon Sealing Well, he encountered a dilemma.
In the past, he had idly poisoned these Demon Sealing Wells, causing the accumulation of toxins within the passage to increase.
Now, it had become a problem for him as well.
Even the high-grade detoxification pills he refined with ten-thousand-year-old spiritual herbs were not particularly effective.
For this reason, he had to have a clone in his spatial dimension refine a large sack of high-grade detoxification pills, intending to overcome quality with quantity.
Xiao Fei walked to the mouth of a Demon Sealing Well, gritted his teeth, steeled his heart, and jumped in.
...
In a city within the Demon Realm, humans and demons coexisted, with demons being the dominant species and humans holding a low status, relegated to performing the most menial tasks.
Xiao Fei was currently lounging lazily at the entrance of a medicinal garden, basking in the sun. He felt as if bathing in sunlight and then taking a nap would be even more blissful.
Human cultivators in the Tian Yuan Realm often kept a couple of demonic beasts to guard their gates.
In the Demon Realm, demons also had this habit, but they preferred to use human cultivators as gatekeepers.
However, many ambitious human cultivators were unwilling to guard gates for others.
The pay for guarding gates was low, and one could barely earn a few spirit stones.
Furthermore, guarding a gate required constant vigilance, hindering cultivation and consuming too much time.
Therefore, only elderly cultivators who were physically weak and had lost their fighting spirit would apply for gatekeeping positions.
But Xiao Fei paid no mind to this. He had a clone in his spatial dimension that was diligently cultivating, aiming to break through to the Mahayana stage.
Xiao Fei was hired by a Nascent Soul stage great demon. The medicinal garden he was guarding did not contain any particularly rare items.
Xiao Fei had secretly sneaked in to take a look. It paled in comparison to the spiritual herbs in his spatial dimension. The most valuable was only a 6,000-year-old spiritual herb.
The rest were spiritual herbs that were one to two thousand years old, some even less than a thousand years old, none of which caught his eye.
This made Xiao Fei abandon any thoughts of stealing from his employer.
His main task now was to conceal his identity, and such an inconspicuous and leisurely job was perfect for him.
As he lay on the grass, lazily sunbathing, a demon mother and son passed by. Upon seeing Xiao Fei on the grass, they pointed and chattered.
"Son, you are to inherit the family's legacy in the future. You must cultivate diligently every moment.
Look at this person; he's guarding a gate at such a young age, with no future at all."
Xiao Fei's laws spread out, easily enveloping the demon mother and son, who remained completely unaware.
After being enveloped by the laws, the mother and son suddenly stumbled and fell. Just as they struggled to get up, they fell again.
As Xiao Fei was mischievously toying with them, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart.
His consciousness connected with the Creation Jade Disk, and he quickly learned about the events unfolding in the Giant World at that moment.
The Giant World had been invaded by an unknown powerful being, and the world was destroyed. The body he had left there had self-destructed.
The surviving descendants of the giants from the previous battle should all be dead. Even if a few had miraculously survived, their numbers would be extremely small.
"Alas..."
Xiao Fei sighed deeply.
He once thought he possessed an entire world and was quite formidable. Just as he was basking in his success, he was dealt a heavy blow.
True powerhouses could crush him with a single finger and destroy his world with a single punch.
Feeling disheartened, he casually took out a bottle of wine and gulped it down.
Just then, a figure approached from afar.
This person was gaunt, stood upright on two legs, had a goatee, and a pair of sharp, knife-like horns on his head.
It was Xiao Fei's employer here, the Nascent Soul stage Blade Ram demon.
The Blade Ram tribe was not skilled in combat and had a gentle disposition. They were renowned in the Demon Realm for their expertise in cultivating spiritual herbs.
"That Xiao Dafei!"
Upon hearing the Blade Ram call him, Xiao Fei quickly got up and cupped his hands in greeting.
"Greetings, Senior Yang!"
This Blade Ram was named Yang Chen, and his acquaintances called him Apothecary Yang.
Xiao Fei's current displayed cultivation was only at the Nascent Soul stage, so he could only address the other as senior.
"It's like this, the spiritual herbs in my medicinal garden need to be harvested entirely, and our employment contract ends here.
Next, I need to travel to Phoenix City. If you don't mind, I would still like to hire you as a随队护卫 (accompanying guard)."
Phoenix City was one of the top cities in the Demon Realm. This location was still tens of thousands of miles away from Phoenix City.
"If Senior deems me worthy, I naturally accept."
Xiao Fei thought that since he had nothing else to do, he might as well go to Phoenix City to have a look.
His current location was a remote area with rather limited information. If he wanted to understand this world better, he should visit the central metropolises.
"Here! This is your remuneration for guarding the medicinal garden during this period!"
Yang Chen said, producing a storage bag containing several hundred high-grade spirit stones.
"Thank you, Senior!"
"No need for pleasantries, this is what you've earned!"
Yang Chen stroked his goatee and said with a smile. Among the demon race, it was rare for someone to speak to a human with such a kind tone.
Xiao Fei found this gaunt old man quite agreeable, which was why he restrained himself from turning his employer into roast lamb at midnight.
In recent years, Yang Chen had been preparing to break through from the Nascent Soul stage to the Void Refinement stage, a process that required the consumption of vast amounts of treasures.
Therefore, he intended to harvest all the spiritual herbs in his medicinal garden and trade them in Phoenix City.
However, the journey was extremely perilous, passing through several dangerous areas. Moreover, there were many demon hunters in the Demon Realm who sought to kill demons for their treasures.
Carrying so many spiritual herbs on the road would easily attract such hunters.