Chapter 544: Release the Realm Beast
Despite the playful tone of the announcement, all the demons felt as if they had plunged into a pool of ice water. So cold was the chill that their bones froze over.
It was not that the Demon Clan didn’t consider the humans having another mobile fortress; just that the chance was too small.
The Demon Clan thought Shangri-La was a true realm artifact. It is said that all realm artifacts granted their master the full might of a realm, but that was simply a misconception. Realm artifacts refined from realm essence and an entire realm were two different concepts. Realm artifacts refined from realm essence were known as false realm artifacts, and those refined from a realm were true realm artifacts.
The late Demon Empress Bluefeather’s Sacred Fire Grotto was a false realm artifact, despite harboring a realm within itself. It was considered a special realm artifact because it could house a realm within itself, but the realm had its problem. It didn’t have pure spiritual qi, only fire spiritual qi. Creatures could still absorb it, but their conversion efficiency would be incredibly low except for the fire attribute.
The Realm Dragon Scales and Metal Source Talons had the same defects. Although their defensive and offensive means exceeded the Sacred Fire Grotto, they did not have an inner realm within them. And, they predominantly had wood spiritual qi and metal spiritual qi.
Shangri-La was different. It was all-accommodating, and only true realm artifacts could display this characteristic. And it was not forged from any ordinary realm, but a high realm infinitely close to an immortal rank realm, or an immortal rank realm. There was no way a regular high rank realm could sustain so many immortals and for so long.
In the Demon Clan’s estimation, it was impossible for Shangri-La to be refined from an immortal rank realm. Even when the primordial era first ended, there were only a few immortal rank realms. Because of war, a few shattered. The Buddhists took one, and the Demon Clan took one, which became the True Dragon Realm, Phoenix Realm, and Qilin Realm.
In their eyes, the Immortal Court must have refined the embryonic form of Shangri-La over a million years ago. Throughout the following years, they must have siphoned the realm essence of the Huang Realm or used many lower realms as materials to increase its power.
Such an act would obviously incur a large amount of Karmic Sin. In fact, the Demon Clan suspected the Immortal Court had trouble becoming the hegemon of the Huang Realm, while it was still the Buzhou Immortal Sect precisely because of their Karmic Sins. Why else would they be so unlucky and have so many opponents in the Huang Realm while the Numinous Sword Sect succeeded long ago?