Chapter 1049 – Black Breath
Chapter 1049 – Black Breath
Cowering in the Abyssal City was not a long term solution after all.
These human devils were left with only two options after spending all the magic crystals on their bodies.
One was to take the initiative to leave the city and join the battle against the Extra-Terrestrial Heavenly Demons.
The second was to become a vassal of the Heavenly Demons or Earth Demons and live off the backs of others.
The stall owner gave Xu Chuniang a sympathetic glance, ”The situation in the city is more or less like this, with Abyssal City being located deep in the earth and with the formations set up by Lord Demon King, it’s quite safe overall.
But there is no free lunch under the sky, the maintenance of the city guard formation requires large amounts of magic crystals, wanting to stay in the city for the night, the cost is not cheap, most of the human devils are gathered in the south area of the city where the rents are low, and the situation there …… you will know if you go to take a look at it yourself.”
“Thanks a lot.”
Xu Chuniang took out the remaining one thousand magic crystals and handed them over to the stall owner, and after thanking the stall owner, she headed towards the south of the city.
Just as she stepped into the confines of the southern part of the city, she keenly sensed that the air had become much more chaotic, with a small amount of Immortal Qi mixed in with the surrounding demonic aura, as well as the kind of, indefinable, strange aura that she had sensed earlier.
However, this kind of breath was very weak, and one had to concentrate on feeling it carefully in order to feel a trace of it.
In addition, this place looked very desolate, and at a glance, there were only a few low houses, sandwiched between a bunch of rough caves.
Just as Xu Chuniang was surveying all of this, the door of one of the houses suddenly opened, and a demonic man about ten feet tall carefully bent over and walked out from the low room.
The demon swept a glance at her, his eyes revealing realization, “Newcomer?”
Xu Chuniang nodded, “I intend to rent a house.”
According to the stall owner from earlier, the overnight fees in this area south of the city were the cheapest.
“Rent a house?”
The demon laughed meaningfully and pointed at the low houses behind him, “Do you know how much a month’s rent needs to be for a house like this?”
Without waiting for her to answer, he quoted, “Six thousand magic crystals.”
Xu Chuniang was a bit surprised, she only spent two thousand magic crystals to buy quite a bit of information, she thought, magic crystals were very valuable.
She didn’t realize that the rent for a month for this kind of low and picked up house was actually so expensive.
All the magic crystals on her body added up to less than twenty thousand, if she really rented this house, she could only rent it for three months, this rent, it really wasn’t cheap.
Seeing Xu Chuniang subdued by the price, the demon was not surprised.
With his arms wrapped around him, he asked with interest, “How about it, ten thousand magic crystals a month, do you want to rent it or not? I can choose the best one for you if you rent it.”
Xu Chuniang didn’t care about the other party’s attitude, “Is there a cheaper one?”
“Cheaper? Naturally, there is, see these caves behind me?”
The demon sidestepped and looked towards his back, “Speaking of which, the space in these caves is much larger than a house, it’s just that the effect of resisting the black breath is much worse than that of a wooden house.”
“Black Breath?”
Xu Chuniang subconsciously repeated, quite certain that this was the first time she had heard this word.
“Do you even know what Black Breath is?”
The demon gave her an odd look, “Black Breath is a mysterious substance that exists outside of the domain, filling all corners of the domain, and is a great tonic for the Heavenly Demons outside of the domain, and its specific effects should be similar to the demonic qi that we use in our cultivation.” “I see, I understand.”
Xu Chuniang thought of the indefinable aura she felt, so it was called Black Breath ah.
“You said just now that these caves are less effective at resisting black breath than the wooden huts, and that the black breath is unfavorable to us?”
“More than unfavorable, this black breath is simply the nemesis of our demon race!”
Talking about Black Breath, the devil had an obscure and abhorrent look on his face, “When this thing arrives in our body, it will devour the demonic qi to strengthen our own body, it’s horrible!”
Xu Chuniang was taken aback, “Is this black breath so powerful?”
The devil sighed, “Isn’t it true that, in the vastness of this domain, there is not only devil qi and immortal qi, but also the mysterious and bizarre black breath, as devil cultivators, if we accidentally inhaled immortal qi, it would be just a matter of time, at most it would be difficult to bear for ten days and half a month.
If we accidentally inhale the black breath, we can easily lose our demonic energy and damage our demonic seed, and if we inhale too much black breath in a short period of time, it can even cause our cultivation to regress and our realm to fall!”
After listening to the other party’s account, Xu Chuniang realized the terrifying nature of the black breath, it seems that outside of this domain, it is not only the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Devil that is threatening!
The devil’s heart was in his heart, “To put it bluntly, the main reason why the rents in this area of South City are cheap is because there are gaps in the city guard formation, and here, coincidentally, is at the place of the loopholes, where the Black Breath from outside is able to burrow in along with the gaps.
At the beginning of the construction of these wooden houses and caves, they all added something unique to the domain, which has the effect of resisting the Black Breath.”
Xu Chuniang looked towards the cave behind him, “How many magic crystals do you need per month to rent these caves?”
“There are three rules for the caves, upper, middle and lower, of which the upper class caves are the largest and most expensive, requiring three thousand magic crystals per month, the middle is second, requiring only one thousand, and the lower class is again, a monthly rent of five hundred is sufficient.”
The devil proposed, “If you don’t have many magic crystals on you, just rent a lower class cave, the utility of these caves to resist black breath is not bad, it is just a little crowded.”
Xu Chuniang was a bit strange, “Is the space inside the inferior caves very narrow?”
“That’s not …… true.”
The Devil said with a desire to speak, “Inferior cave dwellings, one needs to share a room with the remaining seven people, so naturally, it’s a bit cramped.
In fact, not only the inferior cave, the medium cave also needs to share with others, only the number of people living together is slightly less, unless you rent the superior cave, in order to enjoy a whole cave alone.”
Xu Chuniang couldn’t imagine what it would be like to share a cave mansion with the remaining seven people.
People who cultivated the Dao had bright ears and eyes, so if they shared a room, not only would there be no secrets to speak of, but it would also be difficult to enter into a state of cultivation.
The demon seemed to have guessed what she was thinking and explained.
“In fact, many people couldn’t accept it when they first came here, and would rather pay out more magic crystals than share a room with other people, but when the magic crystals they had on them were pretty much used up, they had to settle for the next best thing.
At the end of the day, there are plenty of people who can’t even afford to live in a lower class cave.”
“Let’s wait until it really comes to that, I’ll take a superior grade cave dwelling and rent it for a month first.”
“Okay.”
The demon took the magic crystals Xu Chuniang handed over and dryly threw her a stone talisman order.
“The number on the talisman order corresponds to the corresponding cave, remember, the cave can’t completely block the black breath, the daily cultivation time in the house, it’s best not to exceed three hours, once the cultivation time is too long, the cultivation will instead be injured by the black breath gathered in the body.”
(End of chapter)