Chapter 1: Demon Island
Looking down from high in the sky, through the thin clouds, one can see the deep blue ocean beneath the white cloud mist. From this perspective, the entire expanse of the ocean is like a curved mirror, capable of reflecting the whole beautiful expanse of the sky.
In the vast ocean, there are scattered many lush and verdant islands. And below a patch of dark clouds, an island with a circumference of about twenty kilometers stands out as particularly special.
This is a somewhat regularly shaped diamond-shaped island. At the very center of the island is a straight mountain peak, which from a distance looks like a sword inserted upside down into this vast island.
The whole island is surrounded by steep cliffs on all four sides, and there is not a single flat beach.
The sea water below the cliffs is rough and turbulent, and one can often hear the angry howls of the waves crashing against the messy rocks.
This special structure at the edge of the island means that this is a completely closed island where it is simply impossible to dock a ship!
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On the southern side of the island, by a cliff that extends outward, a young boy of about fifteen years old, wearing a thin garment, sits on the outermost rock. He gazes at the unknown other side of the sea level, and in his longing eyes, there is still a trace of thought-provoking sadness.
This is a gloomy face that is very uncharacteristic of this age. However, he has always maintained this expression, without any pretense, truly revealing what is in his heart...
The waves crash against the cliffs, sometimes splashing up, and the cold sea wind blows in, pouring into the thin clothes of the young boy, lifting up his somewhat disheveled hair.
The young boy is like a statue sitting quietly on the sea cliff, his small figure facing the vast and turbulent ocean...
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I don't know how long had passed, when a sound like a horn came from the depths of the island's jungle.
"Woo~~~~~~~~~~"
When he heard this horn sound, the boy showed a bit of disgust, but still slowly stood up and walked towards the direction where the sound came from.
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The boy is thin and lean, but his movements are very agile. In this complex island jungle, he shuttles through with ease, and soon arrives at an open area in the jungle.
The open area is probably only about a hundred meters in circumference. The area is surrounded by a thick wooden wall made of pointed stakes that are thirty meters high, forming a camp similar to a village.
There is only one gate in the camp, and at the position of the gate stand four men wearing cyan clothes. These four men are probably all in their thirties and have nothing particularly outstanding about them.
What is worthy of attention, however, should be the wolf-shaped creatures with terrifying fangs beside these four men!!
"Ugh!! Ugh!!!!!!"
"Ugh woo!!!!!!!"
As soon as the four fanged wolves saw the boy coming in, they immediately showed their fierce expressions, opened their long mouths wide, exposing their white fangs completely, ready to pounce on this thin and small boy at any moment.
"Hurry up and get in there!! So slow, do you want to die? Humph. Your body is not even enough for my coyote's supper!!" One of the men with messy hair said viciously to the young boy.
The young boy dodged the coyotes that always wanted to pounce on him with fear, and quickly entered the camp.
Looking at the back of this young boy, the man with messy hair spat disdainfully and said, "I don't know who brought this kid here. He looks so weak that he can't even withstand the hardships of our Demon Camp."
"It was Lord Xia. I heard..." Another man with red hair deliberately paused, and then said in a very solemn voice,
"He is already a dead man."
"Already a dead man, humph. Among the little things here, which one isn't a dead man?" Gu Lei said indifferently.
"You don't understand this. This kid used to be the young master of a certain family. I don't know who he offended, but someone paid the people in our Demon Palace to deal with him.
"Lord Xia was in charge of this task. After successfully capturing this kid, he thought that since he was going to die anyway, it would be better to make him sign a soul contract with the White Demon, and then throw him here to be an additional slave on our Demon Island." The man with red hair said.
When it came to the White Demon, the three men beside him couldn't help but take a deep breath. One of the men specifically whispered:
"How could Lord Xia have something like the White Demon in his hands? And is that kid really so special that he can withstand the White Demon?"
"No way. If that kid had such ability, he would have been sent to the White Demon Island long ago, and he wouldn't be here with us.
"I don't know how Lord Xia got the White Demon, but I know that Lord Xia just regarded this kid as a sure-dead person and used him as an experiment. I believe that it won't be long before this kid is completely devoured by the White Demon." The man with red hair laughed, seemingly not caring at all about the boy's death.
"Ha, so that's how it is. It's better if he's dead. I've long been unhappy with this kid. By the way, Lord Xia doesn't seem to be simple. He actually has a Demon like the White Demon that we've never even seen before. You know, the leaders of other Demon Islands at most have one or two Blue Demons." Gu Lei said.
"Of course... Oh, it's almost time. Close the door. Tonight, we can hear the screams again, hehe..." The man with red hair laughed cruelly.
The other three men also laughed in agreement, showing an attitude of despising life.
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The young man who sat quietly on the cliff was named Chu Mu. He should have been a youthful and energetic young man, but he had been honed into a hidden cold blade.
Chu Mu appeared on this island indeed because he had been captured. And the reason he wasn't killed was entirely because Lord Xia, the person those men mentioned, had done a devilish experiment on Chu Mu!
In fact, within the entire island, except for those few deacons just now, other children around ten years old like Chu Mu had all undergone this devilish experiment, that is, signing a soul contract with a Demon!
This world is a world of soul pets. People with talent can become soul pet masters.
Soul pet masters can sign soul contracts with soul pets, making the soul pets fight for them.
Soul pets and humans have a master-servant relationship, and humans can order soul pets to do anything.
However, on this Green Demon Island, things are different. This is a place completely isolated from the outside world.
Every once in a while, many young people like Chu Mu will be sent to this world that is completely cut off from the outside, to undergo these inhumane and evil experiments.
Demons are the evil soul pets they talk about. Evil soul pets are very special existences among soul pets. They can also sign soul contracts with humans and fight for them.
However, they possess the terrifying ability to devour the souls of their masters!
The children who are trapped here, on the first day they arrive, will be forced to sign soul contracts with Demons.
After a certain period of time, the Demon that grows up in the host body will eat the master's soul as food. Losing one's soul means death for a human!
And the only way to avoid having one's soul devoured by the Demon is to improve one's own strength, make one's cultivation level stronger, and make one's soul stronger.
In other words, one must always be stronger than the Demon to have a chance to survive!!
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This is the cruelest hell. What the children have to face is not the earnest teachings of teachers, but a group of fierce and brutal people who will take their lives at any moment!
Here, the weak will soon become the food of the evil soul pet Demons, and the strong will keep being chased by the Demons, being chased...
This is like a nightmare that one can never wake up from!!
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There is no moon tonight. The sea wind whips the low-hanging dark clouds in the sky, driving them to the farther sea.
The trees sway in the strong wind, always making a 呜呜 sound, like a woman in deep grief crying.
In the camp, on the open ground, a hundred young boys and girls in their teens stand shakily in the howling wind. Their clothes are all very thin. There is a bit of numb strength and firmness on their faces, and in their blank eyes, there is also a trace of wild sharpness.
The hundred people form a ten-by-ten formation and stand in neat rows.
Around them, there are ten adult deacons standing close to the wooden stake fence.
These deacons all stand in place. All that can be seen on their faces is coldness and indifference. Their eyes are fixed on these hundred young boys and girls, monitoring them at any time.
Near the position of the wooden stake gate, there stand three men wearing dark long clothes. These three men all have very cold expressions.
The burly middle-aged man standing in the middle takes a few steps forward, sweeps his cold gaze over this group of children, and a cruel smile appears on his face. He opens his mouth and says:
"Today is the physical fitness training. You have to face the fierce soul pets by yourselves today.
"I can tell you that we will only keep fifty people here for the next training. This means that half of you will die in today's test!"
"Haha, enjoy the joy of death. Only those who are tempered between life and death are qualified to enter our Demon Palace!"
After hearing these words from the middle-aged man, expressions of panic immediately appeared on the faces of the hundred children, and they looked around at the ten adult men with unease in their eyes.
A hundred people, and only fifty can survive, which means that each person has only a fifty percent chance of survival. How cruel this is!!
However, these villains will not show any mercy to these children at all. After the middle-aged man gives the order, the ten deacons standing inside the wooden stake fence immediately recite a series of strange incantations.
Every time they move their lips, a semi-transparent glowing symbol will strangely appear around them. The symbol is like a character, projecting a blue pattern on the ground, and the pattern flashes with a series of gorgeous light curtains...
"Roar!! Roar!!!!!!!!!!"
"Roar!!!!!!!! Roar roar!!!!!!!!!!"
Suddenly, a series of heart-pounding wolf howls ring out, and a fierce wind carrying the stench of ferocious beasts instantly sweeps through this not-so-spacious camp, hitting the seemingly extremely thin boys sharply!
The white claws sink into the muddy ground, the gray fur stands on end, and the fangs exposed outside the fierce mouths are ferocious and sharp!!
After the ten deacons complete the summoning, ten predators—fang wolves— 赫然 appear in the camp! These are the fierce soul pets famous for their sharp and terrifying fangs!!
Seeing these ten fanged wolves howling continuously around them, the faces of the boys all turned pale. Even several girls bit their lips and tears flowed out.
Whether for soul pets or these children who are powerless, fanged wolves are extremely terrifying creatures. For food, they will not hesitate to attack any creature they can deal with until they kill it.
And in most areas, an adult soul pet master can hardly deal with a fanged wolf alone without a soul pet, let alone these unarmed teenagers who have not learned any skills.