After the age of Great Divide came the age of Everlasting Nights, the most treacherous time for everyone, countless Kingdoms appeared and disappeared, civilizations rose and fell.

The sudden death of many powerful cultivators caused a power vacuum, many cultivators tried to fill the vacuum but countless failed, and the quality of KI as well as a sudden decrease of treasures caused an age of unrest, turmoil, debauchery and anything unsavory.

During the period of time a type of cultivation gained favor among cultivators which was dubbed as the Path of Devil or the d.a.m.ned. Those cultivators indulged in debauchery, caused ma.s.s genocide, some even became cannibals, and as long as they could become stronger they did not care anything.

During that time of unrest two factions became most prominent they were dubbed as the factions of Righteousness and the faction of the d.a.m.ned which war against each other, even after the age had long since pa.s.sed the two factions are still locked in battle with each other, and it was also during the time that the three major realms received its name.

Deva Lok, Ma.n.u.shya Lok and Preta Lok, among the three realms Preta Lok became the main bastion for people who followed the way of the d.a.m.ned, whereas the Deva and Ma.n.u.shya became the home base for the others. Well even if it was referred to as such there were people who were residents of the Ma.n.u.shya and Deva Lok who are Devil pract.i.tioners but unlike the Preat realm they thrive in huge numbers, as the other two realms are in constant battle with them. The residents of Preta Lok are more often than not referred to as the 'Demons', due to their way of cultivation most of the time they end up distorting their own bodies more often than not taking on a distorted form, the abominations the lots of them develop various methods to disguise themselves using various methods.

Currently Ryuu eavesdropped on the group of four who were speaking with each other, a toad look alike, a blackened skeleton, a normal looking woman but half of it was like a snake and last but not least a very beautiful woman, until you looked at her stomach which looked as if it had been turned inside out.

Ryuu and his group hid behind wall as they heard them talking with each other, "When will his Majesty be released from this infernal prison I cannot wait to soothe his tired body personally with my body and soul.", the voice clearly a feminine in nature.

A squeaky voice spoke in annoyance, "You s.l.u.t did you thing that his Majesty would touch a s.l.u.t like you."

"How dare you speak as such I will crush you completely.", she flared her aura causing Ryuu and others to suck their breath the woman was at least mid tiered Immortal.

A gruff male voice spoke flaring his aura mid tiered aura he spoke, "Silence you two there is only a few hours left and it is incredibly crucial, if we fail then all those years we have spend here waiting for him to release will be for nothing. As such stop your petty rivalry the completion of the task is of supreme importance."

Another voice spoke, "I hope the anchor holds on after he is released because of his presence and the blast from the seal breaking is sure to cause the conduit to collapse, I so do not want to fall neither into the nothingness nor into the realm of those hippies."

The voice which scolded the duo spoke, "Relax you do not have to worry the anchor will hold on to us firmly on the event it collapses it will draw with it all those who had been tethered to it, but where is that Angroth he should be here by now, we are going to change places with the others who are currently carrying on the ritual it is almost time for them to rest and for us to take over the ritual."

Ryuu's eyes widen at what he heard this place was a prison of some Demon Emperor, and this people from Preta lok are trying to free him and from what he heard he knew he had to get out of here fast they only have a couple of hours to not only make it to outside, but also warn others to evacuate as soon as possible otherwise there will be a ma.s.sacre.

A conduit is a gateway between two realms that are used to travel between them and from what he had heard the prison was built in between them for some reason who built it and why was it build and more importantly who are they trying to free was no longer any concern for them.

Ryuu signaled them as the trio slowly tried to move away from the spot, only to freeze as they heard some shouting, "What do you mean we have intruders?"

"Every few years a few greedy stupid ingredients try to enter this place, they fuel our ritual so what if some enter this place send Elzomer usually sends his animals after them and have them killed and then collect their soul, we have done this many times before so what do you need.", spoke a woman in an irritated tone.

The other shouted out in anger, "You idiots someone has found their way here."

At that more shouts came as the trio left hurriedly, "We have to jump down from the city walls I have no doubt by now there will be people already guarding the entrance from this prison."

Suddenly they heard sounds of dogs barking and shouting with a quick glance they quickly climbed on top of one of the tall building as they watched a group of the ugliest looking dog look alike arrive, followed by a man with so many piercings on his body that he looked like a porcupine.

Ryuu tapped on the twin sisters indicating them to follow him as he made a mad dash to a nearby building as they followed him closely, he took out a vile of strange powder as he sprinkled on them before making a break for it while hiding in the shadows.

Meanwhile with the demons, "s.h.i.+t those rats were standing here that means they heard everything, we have to capture them if they reach the outside world they might blab it and we might get jeopardize there is still 16 hours left for the seal to break. We cannot let them escape."

"Leave it to us Xozran, we will take it from here you go and take over your s.h.i.+ft, your job is of crucial importance.", causing her to turn as she glanced before smirking at the new comers as she spoke, "Well then good luck with your hunt."

By the time Ryuu and his teammates had reached the top of the wall, the prison was already alive with activity as a siren had started wailing and more and more demons came out searching for them some had already taken to the sky and from the aura they released all of them were immortal and above causing Ryuu to swore, he might be able to take on a couple of Immortal level cultivators using his current level of strength but there is no way he would survive the onslaught of so many of them.

Ryuu whispered towards his teammates, "We will have to stealthily make our way out if we are caught we will be done for, I can at most take care of a couple of Immortals but the whole group is impossible for me."

The sisters cursed there weakness but they could do nothing they were outmatched and outnumbered they just hopped their luck will hold on.

Ryuu: "We have to at least have to gain a large distance between us and these demons or else we might get caught, before we can use anything that would release KI even escaping techniques release KI and at their current level they could easily catch up to us."

The trio jumped from top of the wall as they made a mad dash to the nearest cover a couple of rocks big enough to hide them, they did not have any luxury of time yet they cannot brazenly make a run for it.