Ye Luyao's initiative to tell Tang Yunqing surprised him, and he also realized that after sacrificing his life twice to save him, Ye Luyao's attitude towards him had changed significantly.
This would have a long-term impact on how the two would get along in the future.
As Ye Luyao told Tang Yunqing some information about the demons, the battle in the distance became increasingly intense, and the number of participants increased, gradually spreading to the surrounding areas, allowing Tang Yunqing to finally witness the demons with his own eyes.
The first demon he saw was tall, dressed in purple robes, with a bare face. He looked exactly like a human. However, upon closer inspection, one could discover that his pupils were purple, giving one a ghostly feeling, and his movements were elusive like a ghost.
As the purple robes fluttered, a tail was faintly visible at the end of his spine.
"It's a dragon's tail."
While Tang Yunqing frowned and pondered, Ye Luyao, beside him, answered, "It's the Dragon Demon Clan."
"Warcraft Star also has dragons?" Tang Yunqing was surprised.
"Hmm." Ye Luyao nodded.
After seeing the first dragon demon clan, Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao saw more than a dozen dragon demon clans one after another, all of whom had thick dragon tails.
"All dragon demons?" Tang Yunqing touched his chin.
"It can't be a coincidence." Ye Luyao said, "When the Warcraft Star fell and shattered the Fairy Continent, the Demon Race tried to unite the Falan clan, but they faced opposition from all races and ultimately failed. In that battle, our clan's Great Heavenly God-level ancestor at the time had a fierce battle with the Dragon Demon Clan's powerhouses, ultimately leading to the abandonment of the Dragon Court. And when we came to the Dragon Court, perhaps they also held their ancestor's instructions?"
"Perhaps." Tang Yunqing thought about it.
The battle continued, and more and more enforcers and sages surrounded them from all sides, but the dozen dragon demons remained fearless, much less had the slightest intention of retreating. Until a moment later, the mirage of the Dragon Court in the sky slowly disappeared, and they finally intended to retreat.
But at this point, they were no longer able to retreat even if they wanted to; they had fallen into the encirclement of the human race.
By the time the dust had finally settled, this group of dragon demons had left behind a total of five corpses, which were taken away by law enforcement officers and prepared to be brought back for study. After all, compared to some other races, humanity knew far too little about demons.
The crisis had been lifted. Tang Yunqing ordered the boat to stop, and he and Ye Luyao jumped into the sea, preparing to dive to the bottom of the sea to find traces of the Dragon Court.
Speaking of which, when they first saw the mirage of the Dragon Court, they were first attacked by Bai Zeyan, then had to evacuate to the ground to treat the wounded, and then went to the temple to promote the code, so they hadn't explored this place thoroughly at all.
However, during this period, Chen Xiyao had arranged for people to survey the area, but found nothing.
But now it seemed clearly not the case.
The water of the Skull Sea was muddy, and the water was filled with sediment and scattered bones, most of which belonged to the human race, a small number of major ocean races, and a small number of demon bones.
These bones proved the unusual nature of this place.
In fact, these dry bones weren't always there, but had only recently appeared. The reason they existed was because the law enforcement officers in the vast area of the City of Truth loved to explore the unknown, and places like the Sea of Skeletons had been surveyed by countless people, but no anomalies had ever been discovered.
That was until Bai Zeyan condensed the demon dragon and numerous skeletal monsters from the sea.
The appearance of these dry bones made Chen Xiyao very happy, as they could allow humanity to obtain a wealth of information related to other races, and could allow humanity to gain a deeper understanding of the sea race and the demons.
As for the fact that there were still so many dry bones left in the sea, it was truly because there were too many to salvage.
Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao searched underwater for a long time, but found nothing.
Logically speaking, this shouldn't be the case. Tang Yunqing carried the Sea Dragon Ball, a code added by him, and his perception of the water element was greatly enhanced. Ye Luyao was of the Sea Dragon clan, and he was naturally extremely sensitive to anything related to water.
However, a full day passed, and the two of them had searched the entire water area, still finding no sign of the Dragon Court.
Until the third day.
Tang Yunqing, who was searching the underwater carpet, suddenly froze in place and suddenly heard a burst of heartbeats in his ears, like landslides and thunder, filled with mysterious laws, very similar to the heartbeats he had heard when he saw the dragon egg in the Sea Dragon Ball earlier.
The heartbeats quickly ended, but a strong sense of calling followed.
Tang Yunqing followed the summoning sense to the surface, assessed the direction downward, and discovered that the summoning sense was coming from the direction of the "Death Desert."
"What's wrong?"
As Tang Yunqing frowned and stared in the direction of the Death Desert, Ye Luyao noticed his abnormality, so she swam towards him from the bottom of the water and asked loudly.
Tang Yunqing didn't hide the truth and told Ye Luyao.
"Let's follow that sense of calling," Ye Luyao said immediately.
"But Longting isn't here?" Tang Yunqing extended his right hand and pointed underwater.
"It might not be there. The illusion doesn't explain anything, but the sense of calling is different," Ye Luyao said.
"That's not it..." Tang Yunqing thought for a moment and said, "Then let's go. Anyway, it won't delay anything."
Indeed, although the two were searching for the Dragon Court, this wasn't their only goal. Tang Yunqing had to break through to Rank Seven as soon as possible. If he couldn't advance to Rank Seven, even if he found the Dragon Court and obtained the Heart of the Ocean, it would be useless.
Having made their decision, the two immediately resigned from the Skeleton Sea commander on the spot and asked him to help inform Chen Xiyao of their whereabouts.
The Reaper Desert is the largest desert in the western part of the jurisdiction. The entire desert is approximately 700 kilometers long from east to west and approximately 400 kilometers wide from north to south. It doesn't rain all year round, but storms occasionally occur, often rolling up 100-meter-high sand walls, destroying the rare plants, animals, and adventurers in the desert.
For this reason, this desert, which originally had a different name, was later called the Death Desert.
Deepening into the Reaper Desert is no small feat. Not only must one be wary of hurricanes, sand walls, and strange beasts in the desert, but also consider food and drink, and the high possibility of getting lost.
However, Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao followed their calling, and it was unlikely they would get lost. Furthermore, the most important sources of food and water were also provided by spatial storage treasures like Ye Luyao's bottomless pit. So, when they ventured deep into the Death Desert, there were no worries at all.
The desert was vast and dead, the scorching sun blazing down on the earth constantly, baking the sea of scorching yellow sand. Occasionally, a gust of wind swept past, stirring up dust and sand, darkening the sky. But most of the time, Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao left only a series of footprints in the eternal desert.
After walking in the desert for a long time, they had no way of telling the time, and could only determine the time of sunrise and moonset.
Five sunrises and five moonsets made Tang Yunqing question the sense of calling. In five days, at their speed, they could have completely traversed the entire desert, but the calling still came from the same direction, never changing. Tang Yunqing could be sure that this calling definitely did not originate from the Dragon Court. After all, this wasn't just thousands of miles away from the location of the Dragon Court Mirage? But if it wasn't the Dragon Court, what was it? Tang Yunqing was puzzled.
Fortunately, he had traveled deep into the Desert of Death and encountered nothing along the way.
First of all, knowledge has naturally increased, and the master of the code of truth is an important point of knowledge, because only sufficient knowledge can prove the truth.
Tang Yunqing had never been to a desert before, and he didn't know that there was actually abundant vegetation in the desert, that there were many places beneath the desert with ample water sources, that there were many powerful strange beasts in the desert, and that the desert also had streams.
The stream Tang Yunqing spoke of didn't refer to the kind of desert that constantly migrated downwind, but rather to sand that flowed like water. Its scope was extremely wide, and it included not only sand sea fish, but also sand walruses and sand whales, which greatly surprised Tang Yunqing.
It was precisely because of the connection between the sand sea and the creatures within that Tang Yunqing became suspicious and prepared to continue moving forward in the direction of his sense of calling.
This desert was indeed strange, and the creatures in the sand sea might have evolved after the cataclysm, and there might actually be remnants of a sea tribe.
Because of the connection between the sand sea and the creatures within, Tang Yunqing had to take a detour.
In fact, they wanted to use their divine power and dragon power to walk or swim, but this sea of sand possessed a strange power, frantically absorbing their divine power and dragon power. The speed of this power shocked them both. Now that it wasn't a life-and-death situation, neither of them could save their lives, so they couldn't activate the special abilities of the sea dragon balls to restore their divine power and dragon power. This circle allowed Tang Yunqing and Ye Luyao to find a city.
"Quicksand City."
Tang Yunqing didn't know that such a city existed in the City of Truth. After entering the city, he asked someone, only to learn that the two had arrived in the territory of the "City of Justice," one of the twelve main cities.
Quicksand City wasn't large; the entire city was sandy yellow, and the city walls looked like they were made of mud and sand. Due to the hot weather, the people dressed relatively coolly, and their temperaments were more fiery and straightforward.
For them, seeing strangers was rare.
Quicksand City is located in a remote desert, sparsely populated and lacking in resources. Not to mention the people of the City of Truth, even the people of the City of Justice are reluctant to come. "Do you know the origin of the quicksand sea?"
After Tang Yunqing inquired about the most basic information, he finally couldn't resist asking about the strange quicksand sea.
"That desert is evil, you'd better stay away from it. From the time I remember until now, every year there will be people who can't open their eyes and die there."
The passerby first persuaded a few words, and then said, "This quicksand sea has existed since the cataclysm. I don't know when it began. There's a legend that at the end of the quicksand sea, there's an oasis city with buried treasure. This has attracted countless adventurers to explore it over the years, but there have been no successful examples to date."