My gorgeous wife Chapter 2236 - 2204: The Cruel Demon Realm

Christina... come to think of it, Li Chen still remembered that back then he had entered the Ancient Battle Realm’s God Subduing Swamp together with Christina.

It was just that, because he went in search of the Heaven and Earth Locking Technique, Li Chen entered that abyss and came out ahead of time.

Later, after returning to the Heaven Realm, all Li Chen knew was that the Four Emperors Territory had ejected all the Trailblazers, everyone had come out; as for the rest, he didn’t know.

As for the Little Secret Realm, Li Chen hadn’t gone to see it; he had only heard that the Little Secret Realm was also connected to the Four Emperors Territory, and that the people inside the Little Secret Realm were all ejected one after another when the Four Emperors Territory erupted.

It was just that, because of the special location of the God Subduing Swamp, Li Chen had thought Christina was still in that minor world at the bottom of the God Subduing Swamp at this point in time.

"Christina has come back from the Ancient Battle Realm?" After thinking about it, Li Chen couldn’t help asking.

Upon hearing this, Beyoncé was stunned: "You really... don’t know?"

Li Chen chuckled softly: "She and I... should count as friends, I guess. We’re not exactly that close, and after we split up in the Ancient Battle Realm, we never met again. It’s been, what, over three hundred years now?"

Hearing Li Chen’s words, Beyoncé’s expression shifted.

She wanted to find a powerful helper too, but after so many years in the Demon Realm, after experiencing so much scheming and betrayal, she had never seen any pie falling from the sky. So toward Li Chen she still maintained considerable vigilance and did not believe him just because of a few casual sentences.

Seeing that Beyoncé was still being extremely cautious, Li Chen smiled and undid the restrictions around them: "You can go. I was just asking in passing. As a friend, I’ll help where I can, but since you’re unwilling to talk, I won’t make things hard for you."

Seeing that Li Chen had actually undone the restrictions around them, Beyoncé’s expression changed again.

She could tell that the strength of the two people before her probably far exceeded her imagination, but since this concerned her elder sister’s safety, she didn’t dare talk recklessly.

"Are you... really my sister’s friend?"

Li Chen shrugged and smiled, but didn’t reply.

Beyoncé gritted her teeth, turned around and left, disappearing into the city.

"Boss, not going after her?" At the side, Ning Wangyang unhurriedly sipped his wine and asked casually.

"No need." Li Chen shook his head: "Just ordinary friends. If I can help, I’ll help; since the other side doesn’t want our help, there’s no need for us to butt in like we’re bored and looking for trouble. If I did that for everyone, I might as well stop cultivating and go be a saint."

Ning Wangyang tugged at the corner of his mouth to show that he was laughing.

This boss of his, honestly...

The two of them went to the main street and before long had obtained some of the information they needed.

The intel they needed wasn’t anything secret, just some rough information about the overall situation in the Demon Realm.

"To enter a lower-layer space, you have to pass through a passage."

Li Chen nodded, casually tossed a Jade Slip into his Ring, and nodded toward Ning Wangyang: "Let’s go."

"Alright!"

After leaving the city, Li Chen took Ning Wangyang and directly opened a space gate to depart.

Outside the city, Beyoncé watched the two departing figures from afar, bit her lip, and in the end still didn’t act.

...

From one Demon Realm space layer to the next was very simple; you just had to pass through a passage.

The difficult part was surviving in deeper Demon Realm space layers.

You had to know, the deeper you went in the Demon Realm, the more experts there were, and the higher the density of experts. Trying to bite off a chunk of meat from these experts and win a bit of living space for yourself became increasingly difficult.

The Demon Realm was different from other Great Realms; here, the strong lived every day in a situation of "snatching territory."

Of course, that had nothing to do with Li Chen and the others.

Because they had no intention of grabbing territory in the Demon Realm at all. This time, they had come for revenge.

Amusingly enough, even just passing through the passages, Li Chen and Ning Wangyang had run into several groups of robbers lying in ambush.

After disposing of a few waves of people, the two simply released Demon King level aura fluctuations, and no one blocked their way after that.

The reason they didn’t release Abyssal Lord Level aura fluctuations was naturally to avoid alerting the enemy in advance. After all, they were heading deep into the Demon Realm spaces; if they displayed too strong a cultivation, it would naturally be noticed.

Being noticed wasn’t the real problem; what Li Chen feared was that the news would reach Behemoth’s ears, turning this surprise attack into walking into an ambush.

Within the eighteen layers of the Demon Realm’s spaces, in a short span, the two of them directly traversed twelve layers in one breath. As they passed through one Demon Realm space after another, Li Chen saw many sights completely different from those of the Immortal Domain of the Heaven Realm.

Leaving the Immortal Domain aside, the Heaven Realm already counted as having a fierce and valiant populace. Because the Great Realms had shattered into a hundred and eight pieces back during the Flourishing Era, the Heaven and Earth Laws were incomplete, and on some Low-Level Star Continents Spiritual Energy was especially scarce, so the struggles between Martial Artist and Martial Artist were extremely intense.

Sometimes, just for the sake of a decent Spiritual Object, a great battle could erupt at the drop of a hat, and there were even times when several different parties joined the fray.

But compared with the Demon Realm, the competition in the Heaven Realm could only be called civilized and harmonious.

Here, life-and-death battles were practically everywhere you looked.

Forget Spiritual Objects and Treasures; sometimes a mere disagreement in words could ignite a life-and-death war.

Faced with the strong, the weak practically didn’t even dare breathe; the hierarchy of Rank was rigid to the extreme. Yet once given the chance, the weak would also try everything they could to seize it, overturn the strong in one stroke, and use the opportunity to rise.

Li Chen had already witnessed several such incidents of stabbing someone in the back along the way.

Because of this, he finally understood why Beyoncé didn’t dare believe him easily.

Growing up and cultivating in a place like this, who would dare to trust others lightly?

Vaguely, Li Chen also came to understand why Christina back then had been so cautious, and why, when he went to rescue her, she had shown such a strange expression.

"So this is also... people shaped by the land they live in?"

Li Chen and Ning Wangyang stood in the void, secretly shaking their heads.

At this moment, not far away, another good show was taking place—powerful enemies pressing in from the front, while someone stabbed them in the back.

They had already reached the twelfth layer Demon Realm space, and what Li Chen found interesting was that this was a conflict between two Abyssal Lords.

The two Abyssal Lords had been locked in a fierce battle; when one side was recovering, he was sneak-attacked by a Sixth-Order Demon King under his command and severely injured in an instant. The subsequent battle turned into an almost one-sided slaughter.

"The living conditions in the Demon Realm are too vicious." Even Ning Wangyang couldn’t help but shake his head.

He wasn’t saying the Demon Realm was poor in Spiritual Objects, but that its internal infighting was simply too intense.

Li Chen, however, tugged at the corner of his mouth: "Precisely because of this kind of environment, those who come out of the Demon Realm are all more treacherous and cunning than the last, and generally quite powerful as well—like Behemoth."

"Isn’t that so?"

Ning Wangyang’s lips twitched, but in the end he said nothing.

As for what happened to him back then, it was hard for him to say clearly who was right and who was wrong.