In the eastern part of the Calamity Realm, Xuanzhou is the region where Wang Zhifan deduced his target was operating, and where the Demon Venerable, who had killed the Carefree Roaming Dragon, Tianhua, and the Great Desert Extremist Spear, recently appeared.

His information mainly came from the Daoist Wutian and Elder Fumo, two top practitioners who were adept in a variety of mysterious techniques. They had discovered that the cause of yesterday’s horrific event was a single Demon Venerable, one that seemed to have recently appeared in the Calamity Realm with incomprehensibly great power.

"I suspect that this Demon Venerable has some special abilities, but no matter what, I have to find it and kill it to prevent more human cultivators from falling prey to its cruelty."

Currently, Wang Zhifan had already teleported to the borders of Xuanzhou, which was once the landing site of the Demon Realm’s army. The first top-level city to be destroyed, Shuyue City, was located here.

However, Xuanzhou is vast, and after several months, the Demon Army has already scattered. Therefore, the current number of demons in Xuanzhou is not as much as most people think, yet it still remains more dangerous than most other areas in the Calamity Realm.

At this moment, Wang Zhifan was wearing the Wind Concealing Conical Hat, entering a stealthy state. He soared through the high skies while holding the Demon Sealing List, seeking out whereabouts of the suspected target, ignoring most enemies encountered along the way, and focusing on the confirmed hunting mission.

Soon, he approached a Demon Venerable marching below, accompanied by numerous Demon Generals and ordinary demons.

"It’s been a while since I’ve seen a Demon Venerable operating alone. However, its aura seems off, its strength rather average, so it shouldn’t be the target I’m searching for. I might as well take it out!"

Generally, Wang Zhifan wouldn’t make a move today to avoid alerting the target to his presence.

But the situation before him was different; this Demon Venerable was like a tempting takeaway placed on the ground, aromatic and irresistible, with no one else around for a large distance. He would feel guilty if he didn’t strike.

Thus, Wang Zhifan in his stealth state struck instantly, and when he did, it was in the most ruthless manner, not giving the opponent any chance to counterattack.

"Time Stop!"

"Annihilation Aura!"

He could be seen invisibly approaching above the Demon Venerable and, in the instant he drew the Epic Time Blade, activated its time-stop ability to freeze the Demon Venerable’s being, preventing it from utilizing spatial abilities to escape. After all, in this region, the demons had likely set up arrays everywhere, making it necessary to be cautious.

The activation of the Annihilation Aura from the Epic Demon King Battle Armor was to quickly deal with the surrounding Demon Generals and ordinary demons.

After several months of great battles, Wang Zhifan was well acquainted with the fact that this Annihilation Aura inflicted absurd damage, capable of dealing effective continuous damage to Demon Venerable level beings and nearly instantaneous death to those below. It was highly efficient and didn’t consume any of his own energy, making it even more convenient than using the Epic Ice Source Power.

Immediately, during the one-second duration of the time stop, Wang Zhifan wielded the Time Blade to launch a ferocious attack.

His movements were swift like a phantom, his blade’s sparkle as radiant as the dawn, each slash accurately hitting the vulnerable points of this Demon Venerable, while constantly evaluating whether to seamlessly connect to another time-stop skill, but chose to abandon this after observing the Demon Venerable’s condition.

The reason was that this Demon Venerable was dead before the end of the one second, as he had estimated, its strength truly ordinary, especially in terms of resilience, it was particularly lacking.

As for the Demon Generals and ordinary demons surrounding it, they died even quicker, being wiped out within one-tenth of a second after the Annihilation Aura was activated, and by the end of one second, even their corpses had disintegrated, dissolved entirely by the annihilation damage.

"This killing is becoming somewhat tedious... Onto the next one."

Feeling bored, Wang Zhifan proceeded to dispose of the Demon Venerable’s body with the Annihilation Aura and then continued his stealthy journey in search of enemies, heading to the next location marked on the Demon Sealing List where a Demon Venerable had appeared.

It could be said that the full-map feature of the Demon Sealing List was his biggest reason for coming to sift the seas with a needle, preventing this hunt from being entirely aimless, though it required a lot of time and carried considerable risk.

Thus, Wang Zhifan’s operation for the day continued neither quickly nor slowly. Along the way, he approached and observed many Demon Venerables while remaining stealthy.

Most Demon Venerables were grouped together, not convenient for him to make a move, only a few gave him the chance for a solo kill.

However, considering the secrecy of his own position, he didn’t always strike, often quietly leaving once he confirmed it wasn’t the target.

As time progressed from morning to afternoon, he had traversed most of Xuanzhou, inspecting roughly a hundred Demon Venerables, but luck wasn’t on his side. He hadn’t found the target, as the target didn’t seem to be in Xuanzhou.

"According to the Daoist Wutian, the Demon Venerable, after killing Tianhua, would carry traces of Tianhua Country’s fortune breath.

Yet among all these targets I’ve examined, not one bore the aura I witnessed on Tianhua during the Fire Spirit Island conference... Seems like I’ll need to broaden my exploration range after combing through Xuanzhou."

After pondering, Wang Zhifan discreetly took out the Demon Sealing List to communicate with several allies, hoping they could provide the latest intelligence to help narrow down his subsequent search area.

Among them, the Daoist Wutian quickly indicated that he was still calculating further, and results would soon be available to assist him.