It wouldn't be worth it to let a Martial Saint senior hold a grudge against Shang Yanting just for a few talismans.

Having figured things out, the raccoon slung its little backpack over its shoulder, sighed, and prepared to go out again.

Where to?

Shang Yanting asked without even looking up.

Jia Xitong: "To maintain good interpersonal relationships in this family."

Hearing her weathered tone, Shang Yanting couldn't help but laugh. "Just kidding, you don't need to go."

"But what about Senior Mo Hongyun..."

"Didn't you already say that Senior Hongyun is the Martial Saint of Yimeng Academy, not our Dingtian Academy? We don't need to curry favor with him."

"You're the one who said you offended Senior Mo, and you're also the one who said you don't need to worry about him. You're such a contradictory person."

Jia Xitong was speechless.

"I was just teasing you."

"Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?"

The raccoon lowered its head and rammed its head hard into Uncle Carl's shin with the little braid he had made.

She was angry.

Shang Yanting smiled and picked her up. Just as he was about to say something more, the sound of a bell being struck came from the Heavenly Palace.

Two short and one long, that is the cause of disaster.

A dense, overwhelming mass of black clouds blotted out the sun. A red glow emanated from the west as Wan Zhi rode in, riding a flock of crows with blood-red eyes.

As Karl and Mo Hongyun took flight, tens of thousands of blood-red crows flew towards the Heavenly Palace.

They scattered and attacked the martial arts practitioners in various corners of the Heavenly Palace. Even where Shang Yanting was, crows were frantically pecking at the closed doors and windows.

Upon seeing this, Shang Yanting picked up the raccoon and put it in his arms. At the same time, the crows broke through the window and began attacking Shang Yanting.

These crows are not real crows, but rather transformed from demonic energy.

No matter how you break them apart, they will immediately come back together.

Shang Yanting discovered that spiritual power had no effect on them at all, while the other martial artists who were being attacked were surrounded and attacked by the blood crows.

At this moment, a claw emerged from Shang Yanting's collar and pulled out a stack of Purifying and Demon-Slaying Talismans.

He took the talisman and threw it at the Blood Raven. The Purifying and Demon-Slaying Talisman immediately ignited upon contact with the Blood Raven. At the same time, the Blood Raven also burst into flames, and both vanished simultaneously.

"Dear host, I think I should come out."

The raccoon looked at the situation before it and felt that it couldn't do without the raccoon.

Shang Yanting: ...

To be honest, these blood crows aren't particularly powerful, but ordinary martial artists can't kill them. They can wear down martial artists bit by bit.

The raccoon spread its four wings and first rescued Niu Chuanchuan and Li Tuo, who were also trapped. Then, it went on a killing spree, and all the blood crows it encountered died under its Wuxiang Brush.

The raccoon single-handedly killed most of the blood crows formed from demonic energy. Originally, only Karl and Mo Hongyun were fighting in the air, but more and more martial artists who had escaped their predicament came to help.

After rescuing several more martial arts practitioners, the raccoon ran away quickly amidst their shocked gazes, continuing to save the next unfortunate martial arts practitioner.

As more and more people gathered, Wan Zhi frowned deeply.

He opened his third eye and looked down, only to see that particularly annoying monster interfering with his plans again.

"Demonic cultivator, take this!"

A furious shout pulled him back to the battlefield. Having already revealed his purpose, Wan Zhi no longer pretended.

He didn't leave them all behind at Prison Pool because he was overly cautious. The Five Great Gods had been dead for so long; how could a mere Purifying Demon-Slaying Talisman possibly have any effect on them?

All the martial artists in the Heavenly Palace today must leave their lives here.

Then he'll frame the demonic cultivators for it, and the martial cultivators and demonic cultivators will surely clash. Wan Zhi has already planned out the aftermath; no one can stop him from proving himself a god through slaughter!

Before Jia Xitong could finish rescuing the martial arts practitioners trapped by the blood crows, a light, even more dazzling than daylight, suddenly shone from above.

The magical and spiritual energies collided violently, and the residual force knocked over all the martial artists around them.

Looking up, one could see Uncle Karl and Mo Hongyun locked in a magical duel with Wan Zhi. Unlike their previous minor skirmishes, they were now unleashing their full power. Mo Hongyun placed his seventh chess piece, while Uncle Karl held his pipe. Together, they attacked Wan Zhi, whose demonic eye opened once more, turning the world crimson.

His magic power far exceeded that of the two of them, causing them to crush the martial artists below.

The two martial saints were on the verge of collapse, and the other martial cultivators were suffering from reversed blood flow under the pressure of spiritual and magical power.

Not only that, the Heavenly Palace also began to shake, its eaves and walls began to crack and collapse, and pieces of land fell into the sea. This magical treasure, known as the Temple of Heaven in the Sky, could no longer maintain its original state under the impact of the immense power of cultivation. In the blink of an eye, it collapsed into ruins and sank into the sea.

Bang--!

A deafening sound rang out, and the two martial saints were blasted dozens of meters away, spitting blood, and became Wan Zhi's defeated opponents.

Seeing this, Jia Xitong took out the few remaining Purifying and Demon-Slaying Talismans he had and scattered them in the sky, repeating his old trick.

However, she was quickly captured.

An invisible giant hand tightly gripped the raccoon's head, lifting it into the air. Wan Zhi stared at this seemingly weak monster, which was as small as an ant, and gritted his teeth.

"You despicable monster!"

Thinking about what she had done to him before, Wan Zhi even wanted to torture her slowly, not letting her die so comfortably.

The next second, a gigantic body slammed into it. Wan Zhi thought he had seen a dragon, so he flinched and was thrown a great distance.

As someone who has survived from that era to the present, don't be fooled by Wan Zhi's current arrogance; back then, he was so weak that no one dared to mess with him.

They feared the Five Great Gods, but they feared the Dragon Clan even more.

But who could blame him for living so long? He reopened the seal once more, and now there are no cultivators who can rival him. And that enormous figure from before, disregarding that it was a trick conjured by Yan Qinghuan, was only trying to rescue the little beast.

"Young friend Yan, we haven't settled our accounts yet."

He also disliked Shang Yanting because of his hatred for him.

Shang Yanting threw the raccoon in his hand fiercely off the battlefield, and summoned the pair of Heaven-Rank magic weapons. The aura of slaughter and destruction emanating from them instantly piqued Wan Zhi's interest. "I quite like your magic weapon."

Shang Yanting didn't answer, but instead charged towards him with a flourish of his sword. Karl and Mo Hongyun arrived again at that moment, and the situation immediately became three against one. Jia Xitong, who had been thrown far away, flew back again.

Li Tuo then blocked her path, saying, "It's too dangerous here at Xitong, let me take you there first!"

But who here isn't in danger?

Jia Xitong gripped the Formless Brush tightly in her claws, and held the Purifying Demon-Slaying Talisman in her hand. Although her strength wasn't as high as the three people above her, her talismanic techniques were specifically designed to counter demonic cultivators!

"Get out of the way!"

She was going to betray Wan Zhi.

---Aside---

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