Andro Province

It is one the 24 provinces in the demon territory. It is ruled and protected by the Seventy-Second Demon God Andromalius and his Devil Snake Clan.

## Description

Andro Province is located to the north of the Central Province, and quite close from this team section of the Major Jacques City of the Jacques Province. It is near the northern border of the continent, at the coast. But because it’s very far from the Alliance, the defenses there are not very tight. The biggest mission assigned to the demons there is to catch fish from the sea, to accommodate their deficiency of food.

## Location

### Swamps of Gloom

The Swamp of Gloom is located in the Northern part of the province and this was where Andromalius was present during Long Haochen's mission.

### An Unnamed Town

This little town was bustling, and quite a bit more lively than some cities in the demon territory. On the streets, an endless stream of demons moved about, among which the Devil Snakes were the most common. Among the other clans, the overwhelming majority were naturally Dual Bladed Demons. Perhaps because this place was relatively small, its entrance wasn’t restricted to Dual Bladed Demons like that of the large cities.

The things that could be bought in this little town were relatively limited. To demons, there appeared to be no notion of money, and everything was obtained through bartering. Long Haochen immediately took out some magical beast crystals to exchange them for clean water and dried fish. He also managed to buy some fruits with good luck. Then everyone looked for a relatively clean room to rest.

## Plot

After they created a chaos within Major Jacques City of Jacques Province they went towards the Andro Province to complete their last few slaughter missions which include killing the 72nd Demon God Andromalius who was at that time present in Swamps of Gloom which is located in the Northern part of the Andro Province.

After stopping at a nameless town to restock their supplies and rest since they have traveling for more than half a month to reach that town from the Major Jacques City. After resting they went towards Swamps of Gloom which is also known as 'Land of Death'.

After they finally entered the Swamps they realised that it will lot more difficult to traverse than they had originally imagined. It was because the poison mist there was lot dense and the visibility was very poor and they were attacked at every turn by magical beast.

Later when the Eleventh Holy Guard used his magic to freeze the vapour in the mist that the visibility improved considerably and he also froze the ground because the ground of the swamp was saggy and soft.

After they travelled a little bit more they were suddenly attacked by a snake magical beast which was huge in size. After battling it for no less than the quarter of an hour did they finally manage to kill it and from Eleventh Holy Guard came to know that it was a Forest Boa which was an ancient species and they were thought to be extinct and their internal pill is very precious as it can increase external spiritual energy of whoever takes it and Lin Xin also remember the recipe to make pill by using internal pill of Forest Boa as main ingredient. Its internal pill also has the ability to make poison mist disperse in an area of 30m.

After that they came across an area which had very sparse vegetation and only strange trees with huge buds. When Long Haochen went near it the bud suddenly opened their petals and attacked him however he was careful from the beginning so nothing happened to him but later all the trees started attacking and since Long Haochen's group was outside their attacking range they sprayed a pink colour mist towards them and they were not able to stop it in time and Chen Ying'er inhaled a little bit of it and became dazed and mindless and started to walk towards the trees though she was stopped by Wang Yuanyuan at the right time.

Then the Eleventh Holy Guard told them that it was also an ancient species thought to have gone extinct on the continent and its name was Devil Man-eating Flowers and that pink mist was a confusion mist and whomever inhales it will be confused and will walk towards it of his own accord.

When Long Haochen decided to withdraw from there as they were no match for that pink mist and wanted to take a detour then suddenly Hao Yue appeared and started to inhale that pink mist and after inhaling all them he started killing all the Man Eating Flowers and ate their essence after which he and Long Haochen went to their original world for Hao Yue's Evolution and the emergence of his fifth head. This time the process was short and after a little while they returned to the Swamps and since Hao Yue's fifth head was of Poison Attribute they don't have any need to fear the poison mist of the Swamps and they were moving forward by sitting on the back of Hao Yue.

Later after passing through a clear Lake they were suddenly attacked by a magical beast species that have powerful offensive power and Long Haochen and Hao Yue almost died but the silver lining was that these magical beast could not fly so they remained in the air at a high enough altitude and started to take detour but these magical beast still kept following them.

Then the Eleventh Holy Guard again proved his knowledge and he told them that it was also an ancient species of magical that were to be extinct on the continent and they were known as Saw Skate and they have dual attributes of space and wind and used an ability to attack known Space Cut that is why they have such offence and they are very offense oriented magical beast and they also have good defensive strength and their only weakness is that they can't fly.

They were once known as tyrants of the continent but they started to decline and their numbers going extinct because they met their nemesis, the Dragons. But they have a feeling of solidarity and since their attacks killed a few Saw Skates they would chase them to take revenge.

Since Long Haochen's group is unable to handle this many Saw Skates they teleported back to Tower of Eternity.

There he came to know that the weapon made from these Saw Skates are very powerful and are of Legendary tier without even processing though if a human uses it is of Glorious Tier but after processing it can be of Legendary Tier and also it is of spatial attribute and it can be of extreme use to Wang Yuanyuan so they decided they would kill a few Saw Skates.

Then they planned on how they would be able to kill the Saw Skates quickly and efficiently and whether they also have a powerful Saw Skate King among their ranks and what would they do if they encountered one.

Then Long Haochen went to the second floor and cleared its two test with the help of his group and gained the services of the Tenth Holy Guard - A Wind Element Warrior and the Ninth Holy Guard - an Earth Magician.

Long Haochen defeated the Tenth Holy Guard by himself but when they faced the Ninth Holy Guard who was an Earth Magician, he used Gravity Magic and it was very difficult for them to fly in the air let alone fight the the Ninth Holy Guard. As Long Haochen was preparing everyone to return to the first floor of the Tower and fight him by himself as he still has few trump cards but at that moment Cai'er who was not affected by the gravity entered into a dazed stated and attacked the Ninth Holy Guard with the scythe and used for the first time her first art of the seven arts of the God of Death.

After that they went to that Lake once again and used the speed of the Tenth Holy Guard to lure a bunch of Saw Skates from their habitat and when they were far enough from their habitat the Tenth Holy Guard accelerated his speed and leave them in the dust.

Since the Saw Skates couldn't chase him they started to return to their habitat but at that moment Long Haochen, Yating, Wang Yuanyuan, and Sima Xian attacked with full force killing a dozen Saw Skates and then left at full speed from there.

At this moment they were suddenly chased by a more powerful Saw Skate which was their king - Saw Skate King - and he was furious over the death of his subordinates. He chased after Long Haochen and he had the ability of Instant Teleportation and he was about to reach them when he suddenly sensed danger in the direction of his habitat where Lin Xin had used his Fire Phoenix to attack the habitat therefore to protect their home and his kin he returned and didn't chase Long Haochen's group further but still he lost one-third of his lake and since they are herbivores they eat the plants in the lake but now due to high temperature the plants were destroyed.

Taking this opportunity Long Haochen and his group reunited and were feeling happy and just as they were about to teleport to the Tower of Eternity the Saw Skate King came back and attacked but fortunately Hao Yue and Long Haochen sensed it and Hao Yue used his essence of disorder stopping Saw Skate King for 5 or more seconds which was enough time for Long Haochen to teleport everybody to the Tower of Eternity but they came very close to the death. And if they were a little bit delayed there were bound to be casualties.

Later after a staying a few days in the Tower, Long Haochen came out and fortunately the Saw Skate King didn't sense his presence and after going far from the habitat of the Saw Skate King did Long Haochen bring his comrades out.

After that due to Mcdull's ability of sensing treasure they were able to found the location of Andromalius who was having a faceoff against the Forest Boa King.

Recently Andromalius came to the Swamps of Gloom before this and he came to know that the Boa King is guarding a treasure. He thought that this is a treasure guarded by a tenth rank magical beast so it must be excellent and precious and it could help him in breaking through the ninth step so he crossed swords with him but the Boa King was more powerful than he imagined and he almost died that day.

Therefore this time he came prepared. He brought his elite soldiers of Devil Snake Clan and four Medusas were by his side and his own Demon God Pillar.

After that both cunning and calculative being fought against each other and used schemes against each other. Andromalius was originally at the peak of the 8th step but the Bao King was already at the ninth step.

But Andromalius used Demon God Transformation which boosted his external spiritual energy by 100,000 units and he was able to match the Boa King and with the help of his Medusas he was able to suppress him to some extent.

But the Boa King underestimated the toughness of the Demon God Pillar and used his internal pill to smash against it and suffered a terrible backlash and was further suppressed by Andromalius.

But during their battle due to shockwaves of spiritual energy Andromalius ordered his clansmen to leave the battlefield and Long Haochen used this opportunity to kill some Devil Snakes and the Medusa who were originally behind the Demon God Pillar was thrown into the swamps due to the shockwaves and using this opportunity Long Haochen sent the Tenth Holy Guard to kill these Medusas.

Now both of these kings were waiting, one was waiting within the swamps and another was waiting above his pillar and they were waiting for the other one to make a mistake. Andromalius used himself as bait as he went directly for the cave where the treasure was located forcing Boa King to act. The Boa King attacked with full force with his internal pill with the hope that it would scare the Demon God away and push him back.

However he miscalculated once again and Andromalius also attacked with his full force and did not hold back and used Demon God Incarnation attack which has a side effect of sealing the Demon God Transformation mode for sometime.

The internecine outcome of this battle was that Forest Boa King died and Andromalius had a hole blasted through his chest. When Andromalius went to pick up the internal pill of the Boa King after making sure that Boa King died, he was suddenly attacked by the Boa King who was pretending to be dead as he had severed his own connection with his internal pill to fool Andromalius.

This attack caught Andromalius off-guard and since he was not in the Demon God Transformation mode he was heavily wounded on his back but the Boa King also died after this attack due to his wounds.

Now Long Haochen enters the scene after having arrived long ago and used deceit and schemes against Andromalius as he had used against Boa King.

He sent the Tenth Holy Guard in the cave first which caught Andromalius's eye and he became furious but he was cautious enough not to give chase and called his own clansmen first but this time Long Haochen used Yating as a bait. Yating pulled the internal pill of the Boa King towards her and entered inside the cave.

This made Andromalius furious as without using the internal pill of the Boa King he couldn't even recover let alone breaking through the ninth step. He was injured this badly and it was also due to the existence of the internal pill that he was this reckless against the Boa King.

So he gave chase inside and after her entered Long Haochen also entered the cave and summoned Hao Yue to guard the cave.

At this time outside the cave the remaining Devil Snakes finally arrived on the battlefield and they saw their Demon God going into the cave but they were trapped and frozen inside the swamp by Ninth and Eleventh Holy Guard and was also bombarded with magic by Hao Yue and then the Forest Boas also attacked them in grief and rage of their king's death.

Inside the cave Long Haochen used attract ability of Saint Spritual Stove so that Andromalius could only attack him. After that Yating, Tenth Holy Guard and him attacked Andromalius and further injured him. Twelfth took the place of Long Haochen while he summoned his rest of the team.

Now the whole team attacked Andromalius with their full force and further add more injuries to his body.

Andromalius realized that he could die here today and decide to leave and used Demonic Great Collapse Spell to heal himself rapidly and reached his peak but it will only be for a few moments as he was seriously injured before and this spell also had terrible side effects and therefore he also used the Self Sealing Spell of the Demon God Pillar but it was neutralized by Hao Yue and after that Long Haochen killed him with one sword strike as he has released the seal on Aria Of the Goddess of Light for the first time and Andromalius became its first sacrifice.

After that they cleaned the battlefield recovering the corpses of magical beasts and demons alike and after that Long Haochen decided to give a try to destroy the Demon God Pillar. But before him Hao Yue was already mad with anger and wrath seeing this Demon God Pillar and he used an attack that depleted all his spiritual energy to attack the Demon God Pillar.

At first it seemed that nothing happened and everyone became gloomy but soon after that Demon God Pillar started to break and finally it was destroyed.

In the shared history of demon and humankind this was the first time that the Demon God Pillar was destroyed. There were times that Demon Gods were killed and it has happened many times in the long history but the Demon God Pillar has never been destroyed and it was because of this that the demons were able to rule the continent and suppressed the humans because even if a Demon God is killed as long his Demon Pillar remains a new Demon God will born.

But now it has finally happened and for the first time a Demon God Pillar was destroyed and from now on there are only 71 Demon God Pillar's and there will only 71 Demon Gods. From now on, no Devil Snake Demon God will be born as his Demon Crown was swallowed by Hao Yue and its pillar was also destroyed by Hao Yue.

After that Long Haochen entered inside the cave and finally saw what the treasure was. It was actually a snail magical beast.

After Ninth Holy Guard told them what it was they came to realize that it was a type of a Starlight Divine Beast particularly a very rare type of Starlight Divine Beast which has only appeared three times on the continent and every time it appeared it changed the rulers of the continent one way or another. It was Divine Snail of Sun and Moon which is also known as Peaceful Divine Beast as it has no attack power and can only defend but nobody can break it's defense.

After realizing what type of magical beast it was and it's history Long Haochen decided to let it remain here as it's enemies are dead and it is more safe here and he currently doesn't have the capability to protect it.

Seeing his purity and sincerity the Divine Snail was moved and decided to sacrifice his life for him and it transform into a shield which was Divine Snail Shield of Sun And Moon and used his last remaining vital power to cleanse the soul of Long Haochen. Though he aslo said that he was at the end of his lifespan and Long Haochen doesn't need to feel sorry for him.

But before sacrificing his life he told all about his ancestors and their story and his story and adviced Long Haochen to be tolerant towards others and towards himself and we also came to know that he was descended during the time Slumbering Calamity Elux, the creator of Tower of Eternity was the Scion of Light.

After that Long Haochen and his group wanted to leave as fast as possible from the Swamps of Gloom. They decided they would breakthrough the air and use their spiritual wing to quickly leave this place.

But when they were ascending in the air they were attacked by almost a billion small size poisonous insects known as Poison Flying Insect who were the main reason for the poisonous miasma and mist in the Swamps as they continuously release poison from their bodies and since they have such huge number of million of millions of these insects.

But with the help of Divine Snail Shield of Sun and Moon which can transform a unidirectional defense such as Shield Wall into a multidirectional defensive move as the shield can expand itself to ten metres of diameter which gave them a great advantage and only with it's help did they manage to get out of the Swamps of Gloom.

After they went towards north of the Swamp so that they don't have to face the demon powerhouse and reinforcements and after almost the cold region they moved westwards towards Temple Alliance's Exorcist Mountain Pass.

They reached the Demon Resisting Mountain Range after more than 15 days and the came to know that the demon has gathered more than one millions stronghold of demon army. They also have 8 Demon Gods within their rank this time and among them at least 2 are within the top 10 rank.

After that they decided to take a detour to enter the Exorcist Mountain Pass and when they took a detour they spotted the existence of the Second Demon Emperor Legion whose commander was a Fiend King of the 9th step, Safen and they were mounting a sneak attack on Exorcist Mountain Pass.

Han Yu went to immediately notify the Demon Resisting Mountain Range and Long Haochen would try to halt them for a while.

With Sima Xian and Wang Yuanyuan attacking from the flank and on top of the mountain they were able to stop them and after that they immediately retreated.

Later Long Haochen poured his spiritual energy into Yating and she used a light elemental spell which attracted the attention of the demons.

Many demons went after them including a Fiend Commander of the 8th step but Long Haochen only defended passively with the help of the Divine Snail Shield of Sun And Moon to allow to complete her spell and the fiend commander of the 8th was unable to break his defence even after using his Conjoined Link Magic.

After which Long Haochen deliberately showed a weak front to lure the Fiend Commander and killed him when he was a safe distance from the demon army.

On the other side the Fiend King was able to block the spell of Yating but due to the spell the surroundings became filled with dense light essence which was the real goal of Long Haochen and this killed and injured quite a few demons.

Later the Ninth Holy Guard after fusing with soul powers of the other three Holy Guards - 10th, 11th and 12th- reached the ninth step and used a spell comparable to forbidden spell and was able to break a mountain upon the demon army.

Of course it was a not real forbidden spell otherwise not only one mountain would have broken but a whole mountain range would have been within it's range.

The Ninth Holy Guard used a lot of similar abilities which he stacked and finally manage to accomplish the task though it need calculation, intelligence, precision, ability and the spiritual energy and not everyone could do it.

This move damaged the Second Demon Emperor Legion greatly. In this whole ambush they lost a total of a third of their soldiers and many more were injured and not in a condition to fight. So they have not choice but to retreat and not mount a sneak attack on the Exorcist City.

After which Long Haochen returned to Assassin Temple where he came to know that the Demon God Emperor had announced Holy War and his only condition to stop this Holy War is Long Haochen himself.

But the Alliance had not complied with this demand and particularly Knight Temple told the Alliance that if they were to hand him over they would leave the Alliance. The Warrior Temple's Head Qiu Yonghao flipped the table and said that if the Knight Temple were to abandon Long Haochen they would shelter him. The Assassin Temple was no different as Sheng Yue announced that Long Haochen is his Great Grandson-in-Law and would not allow to come any harm to him.

Long Haochen was moved by this and told everything to the Alliance about Hao Yue's ability to break demon God Pillar and why the Demon God Emperor was using him as excuse to start the Holy War. Further he also told that Hao Yue and he has a blood contract so if he dies Hao Yue does too.

But then also, the Alliance does not hand him over to the Demon God Emperor and was willing to face the demon race in this Holy War because it is the first time they had the ability to destroy the demon God Pillar in 6000 years.

They thought that once he grows up he would be the cornerstone of the human resistance against Demons and he would be a huge threat to the demons.

Since his own speed of growth is beyond belief as well and they thought that one day he could be a powerhouse of the similar stature as the Demon God Emperor. He could finally lead the humans and the Temple Alliance to completely destroy the demons and allow peace to finally return to the continent of Shengmo Dalu.

But the Alliance disbanded their Demon Hunt Squad because they didn't believe that they had the ability to protect themselves in the demon territory, now that the Demon God Emperor and the whole Demon Race is looking for him. And they were to return to their Temples where they would train until they pass the test of their Temples and gain their acknowledgement.

But the Alliance gave Long Haochen's Demon Hunt Squad opportunity to reform under some conditions. The condition being that everyone must reach at least the 7th step and Long Haochen being the captain reach at least 8th Step.

They also had to do complete some tasks in their own Temple such as Long Haochen had to obtain a Gold Essence Foundation Armor first before reforming his Demon Hunt Squad.

Long Haochen and his comrades were unwilling to disband and seperate but they had not choice since they were too weak and everyone leaves for their own Temple with the hope of reforming their squad as soon as possible.