Immortal and Demon Cultivation

There are some discrepancies in the records of how many islands there are in Devil Lake in ancient books.

According to the mountain and river geography chapter in "Shenmo Yizhi", there are more than 13,600 islands of various sizes in Devil Lake.

According to the record in "Shan Hai Jing·Dahuang Xi Jing", the number of islands is 45,400.

The record in "Jiuzhou Tuzhi" is more than 12,300.

In "Xiyu Tuzhi·Devil Lake Chapter" published by the Demon Cult more than 2,000 years ago, there are 6,439 islands.

Why are there deviations in the records of islands in Devil Lake in different data books? The main reason is that the recording methods are different.

Some people analyze that the islands recorded in the oldest Shenmo Yizhi and the later compiled Jiuzhou Tuzhi should be islands that are more than ten feet above the water surface.

The records in Shanhai Jing are all islands protruding from the lake, even including reefs.

So the number of records in Shanhai Jing is the largest.

Some people also say that the reason why the Shanhaijing records more islands than other books is because the water level of the Devil Lake is different in each period.

Perhaps it was because the water level of the Devil Lake was at a historical low when the Shanhaijing was compiled, so the number of islands recorded was about three times that in the Shenmo Yizhi.

In fact, the record of the islands in the Devil Lake compiled and published by the Demon Cult is the most reliable.

However, the Demon Cult records the number, size, and location of islands suitable for humans or cultivators to live.

Some small and abrupt islands are not suitable for cultivators to live in seclusion, so they are not recorded.

This information was compiled by the Demon Cult more than 2,000 years ago. Now, the more than 6,000 or 8,000 islands recorded are almost all occupied by the Demon Cult's scattered cultivators.

Some people say that at least 80,000 scattered demons of the Demon Cult live in seclusion in the Devil Lake. Although the number is a bit exaggerated, the discrepancy should not be too large. If there is no 80,000, there should be as many as 50,000 or 60,000.

Over the past thousands of years, countless world-famous super demons have come from Devil Lake.

Now some of the super demons of the Demon Cult, such as Qianye Shengjun, Du Jiuniang, Mo Jiukui, Hu Jiumei, etc., have already settled in Devil Lake.

Even the Black Mountain Old Demon of Dahei Mountain is said to have occupied a small island on Devil Lake. Every three to five years, he will come here to spend vacation, surf, sunbathe, etc.

This is the most concentrated gathering place for scattered demons of the Demon Cult. Although there are also a large number of scattered demons in the West Sea, the West Sea is too big, and the islands are scattered in the vast ocean, which is far less concentrated than Devil Lake.

The Five Poison Sect has always occupied the southern part of the Dead Marsh and the Western Regions. They have long been coveting the scattered cultivators living in Devil Lake.

In recent years, Wan Duzi has been bullied by Nangong Fu so much that he has long wanted to move.

And for his new home, Wan Duzi chose the vicinity of Devil Lake.

Of course, it must not be too close to Devil Lake.

The Demon Cult has its own rules and codes of conduct. The Devil Lake is a gathering place for scattered demons, and no sect of the Demon Cult can appear within 800 miles.

The new home of the Five Poison Sect was chosen about a thousand miles northwest of the Devil Lake.

This location is really well chosen. Although it is far away from the small and medium-sized sects of the Holy Cult, the control over the small and medium-sized sects in the southern part of the Western Region will be greatly weakened.

But it is more than 10,000 miles closer to the Devil Lake.

A distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor. As long as the Five Poison Sect really settles down here, they can often visit the Devil Lake, and every now and then, they can recruit a few big demons to become the elders of the sect and worship them, and their strength will also increase.

Moreover, if they move to the vicinity of the Devil Lake, Nangong Bat will not be able to bully them.

Nangong Bat has been harassing and oppressing the Five Poison Sect for many years because the Devil Lake is more than 10,000 miles away from the Poison Dragon Valley. The road is too far away and out of reach.

If the two become close neighbors, Nangong Bat will have no chance to sing.

Ye Xiaochuan had not taken the independent cultivators of Devil Lake seriously before. Since Ye Cha made a future development plan for him, he began to pay attention to the independent cultivators of Devil Lake.

There are tens of thousands of independent cultivators in Devil Lake, and there are many super masters. His own Guixuan Sect has already decided on its development route. On the surface, it will erode from the south to the north, and secretly start with independent cultivators.

Devil Lake is located in the southwestern border of the southern part of the Western Regions, and it is a hard bone.

After all, Joker Girl is an independent cultivator of Gu Ming Mountain. It is obviously not practical to want her to secretly recruit independent cultivators from Devil Lake.

Ye Xiaochuan not only took out the map, but also took out the "Unpolished Jade List". According to the important people on the list, he kept drawing circles on the islands on the map with a pen.

This time he went to Qingling Mountain and passed by Devil Lake, just to meet several important people on the list in person.

According to the list of scattered cultivators provided by Harley Quinn, in addition to the Buddhist ghost Qi Changshu who lives in seclusion here, the remaining two of the four ghosts, the peach blossom ghost Wu Xueshuang and the green-faced ghost Wen He, also live in seclusion in the Devil Lake.

Ye Xiaochuan does not plan to deal with Qi Changshu now. Qi Changshu has a close relationship with Senior Xuanhu. If he meets him now, he will definitely not help him to cure Tianyu Pili because of the grudge between Xuanhu and Ye Cha.

However, Wu Xueshuang and Wen He can be met.

In the last battle of Shenshan, dozens of scattered cultivators of the Ghost Sect showed up to help Ye Xiaochuan, but there were no Wu Xueshuang and Wen He.

The two of them are among the four ghosts of the Demon Sect, as famous as Qi Changshu and the late Yuchi Jing. They are definitely peerless strongmen at the peak of the immortal realm.

Masters of this level must be won over by all means.

Ye Cha said that they are all descendants of the Ghost Sect, and even if they are unwilling to join the Ghost Xuan Sect, they will not betray Ye Xiaochuan.

Ye Xiaochuan deeply agrees with this.

As he deals with more and more people from the Demon Sect, he gradually understands the teachings of the Demon Sect. They are not as vicious as the righteous way or the Middle-earth Hundred Faith think, and they are still very moral.

When Tian Yu Pili ate a piece of baked naan by himself, Ye Xiaochuan also circled the people he wanted to meet privately this time.

Without exception, all of them are predecessors of the Ghost Sect, and all of them are descendants of the former Ghost King Ye Cha.

More than a dozen people were circled, but Ye Xiaochuan had limited time to come out this time. He was still worried about the upcoming catastrophe and did not dare to stay outside for too long.

In the end, he decided to focus his main attention on Wu Xue Shuang and Wen He.

If time permits, he can meet some other predecessors of the Ghost Sect in private.

Tianyu and Pili stretched their heads to see the many circles drawn by Ye Xiaochuan on the map.

They looked carefully at some of the marked islands.

Tianyu said, "There are a few islands that my grandfather and I have been to before. This seems to be Qing Liao Island where an old woman named Wen He lives, and this is Qian Xue Island where Wu Xue Shuang lives.

Master Ye, why did you mark these islands where powerful masters live?"