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On the other side, Liu Yan and several Xuantian Sect disciples tried repeatedly, but found that they could not ask for help from the outside.
The disciples, skilled at concealing their presence, who had been sent out to scout the surrounding environment, quickly returned.
"Senior brothers and sisters, I've checked outside, and it's definitely trapped by an array. I tried to get out through the life gate, but I was stopped and brought back."
Clearly, these demonic cultivators had anticipated that one of them could break the formation, which is why they concealed the Gate of Life.
Liu Yan looked at Jin Chengcheng: "Junior Sister Jin, most of the elders in your Jin family are skilled in formations. Would you be willing to go and take a look at the edge of the formation?"
Before Jin Chengcheng could speak, Yang Ming stepped forward: "Senior sister, we should go in this situation, but it might be dangerous for Chengcheng to go alone. I will go with her."
Jin Chengcheng's face was serious at this moment: "Senior Sister Liu, Yangming and I will go and find a few more fellow Daoists who know how to form formations. Maybe we can come up with a solution."
Upon hearing this, the leaders of the Xuantian Sect nodded in agreement.
Ruan Qingyu remained silent throughout, but the Phoenix Divine Fire within her dantian continued to spread, allowing her to immediately retaliate whenever a demonic cultivator attacked her.
Yun Yin stood guard to the side, his divine sense flying over the formation, spotting several familiar cultivators. He then glanced at the formation; he knew he could break it with a single move.
But if he were to make a move now, he would easily become a target for the demonic cultivators. Yun Yin's gaze swept across the sky, where there were clearly still cultivators who hadn't made a move.
Clearly, this group of demonic cultivators is just the beginning. To think that they would only send a few Nascent Soul cultivators to wipe out the righteous cultivators would be to greatly underestimate these sect's prodigies.
Liu Yan and Liu Feng stood together, their bodies surrounded by blood energy and magical artifacts. Any Golden Core demonic cultivators who approached were all blasted away.
Although not fatal, the demonic cultivator, paralyzed on the ground, was unable to fight again for a short period of time.
In other areas, demonic cultivators and righteous cultivators were also fighting. The odds were evenly split, but upon closer inspection, the righteous cultivators seemed to have a slight advantage.
"Fellow cultivators, hold on! Once we break the formation, we can retreat immediately!" Liu Yan shouted, making sure that nearby cultivators could hear her.
In an instant, the morale of the cultivators, who had been somewhat hesitant, soared. Knowing that the advantage lay with them, the cultivators who had been holding back their abilities all made their move.
Try your best to suppress this group of demonic cultivators in one go, so that the formation cultivators can deal with the formation more quickly.
"Hmph!" A cold snort rang out, and a blackish-purple sound wave rushed towards the righteous cultivators who were still fighting.
Instantly, the early-stage Golden Core cultivator coughed up blood and staggered a few steps. His opponent, a demonic cultivator, saw this and immediately snarled as he stepped forward and struck him with a palm.
In the blink of an eye, the righteous cultivators who had initially held the upper hand were all forced to retreat. Those who were weaker were even exploited, their dantian emptied out.
As soon as the demonic cultivator's attack came, Yun Yin rushed to Ruan Qingyu's side. Accompanied by a crackling sound of lightning, the demonic cultivator's method that had caused many cultivators to vomit blood disappeared without a trace.
Ruan Qingyu's face was ashen: "Could this person be a Nascent Soul cultivator?" Because her divine sense had the upper hand, she always released her divine sense first when fighting in order to find her opponent's weaknesses and fight accordingly.
Although Yunyin had blocked the attack, his divine sense withdrew a little too late and he immediately felt a sharp pain in his divine sense.
Yun Yin nodded: "Yes, that move just now was indeed made by a Nascent Soul cultivator."
"Yunyin, do you have a way to get the distress message out?"
Nodding, Yun Yin said, "After that Nascent Soul stage demonic cultivator came out, I sent out the information. We should be able to find Elder Mo Wen, whom we met before, as soon as possible."
Since entering the Xuantian Sect, only Mo Wen's aura has been remembered by him. As for the other elders, Ruan Qingyu was only at the Qi Refining stage when she entered the sect, so she had no chance to see them up close.
Thinking of Elder Mo Wen, Ruan Qingyu relaxed a little.
However, as time went on, the demonic cultivators' attacks seemed endless. In fact, these demonic cultivators were not weaker than them, but rather about the same level.
The four Nascent Soul stage demonic cultivators that everyone was most wary of didn't actually leave the fray; instead, they waited on the sidelines. Occasionally, a hint of amusement would flash across their faces, followed by the crushing death of a righteous cultivator.
Liu Yan was initially worried that Ruan Qingyu might be difficult to deal with alone, but when she glanced at her, she found that Ruan Qingyu was handling things with ease, and she felt a little relieved.
She was only distracted for a moment when two demonic cultivators attacked her from the east and west. Liu Yan's breath hitched, and she circulated her spiritual energy, completely enveloping herself.
Having dodged one attack, she planned to take the hits head-on from the next.
The expected pain did not occur; Liu Yan only heard a terrified scream beside her. Then she saw a series of agile figures fly past her—it was the Thunder Leopard that had been following Ruan Qingyu.
Knowing that demonic beasts rarely help outsiders without a master's command, Liu Yan felt a surge of gratitude towards Ruan Qingyu; this junior sister was truly formidable.
"Senior sister, don't worry about me. If I'm not able to keep up, I'll let you know." Ruan Qingyu's voice rang out from not far away. On the battlefield, even a split second could mean certain death.
Upon hearing this, Liu Yan felt somewhat ashamed, realizing that she had indeed been careless.
As the demonic cultivators were continuously killed, Ruan Qingyu's side gradually attracted the attention of more and more demonic cultivators.
"A mere early-stage Golden Core cultivator possesses such great abilities?" A demonic cultivator, shrouded entirely in black gauze, murmured, his gaze towards Ruan Qingyu filled with covetousness.
"Why don't you come with me and we'll find out?" said the demon cultivator who was familiar with the black-veiled demon cultivator, as he slashed off half of the arm of the cultivator he had just fought with.
The black-veiled demon cultivator didn't speak, and in the next moment he disappeared from the spot, while the demon cultivator who made the suggestion was about to follow.
Suddenly, he noticed a swordsman blocking his way, and his brow furrowed. A righteous swordsman, indeed, could be quite troublesome.
Before he could habitually provoke him, the swordsman swung his sword, forcing him to retreat and dodge. In the blink of an eye, the two were locked in combat.
On this side, the black-veiled demonic cultivator bypassed the attacks of dozens of cultivators and flashed to Ruan Qingyu's side.
Yun Yin roared and stood in front of Ruan Qingyu, reminding her in his mind: "This person's cultivation is strange, he should be more than just the late Golden Core stage."
Upon hearing that the cultivator was at the late stage of the Golden Core realm, Ruan Qingyu narrowed her eyes, and the Phoenix Divine Flame, which had been quiet all along, instantly began to boil.
“Little brat from the Xuantian Sect, you look delicious,” the black-veiled demonic cultivator said, his hoarse voice trembling slightly.
The trembling wasn't out of fear, but rather a strong sense of anticipation for the delicious food that was about to be eaten.
Seeing the black flames rising from the black-veiled demonic cultivator's body, Ruan Qingyu cautiously took a step back. The phoenix divine fire in her palm now spread throughout her entire body, making her appear from a distance as if she were wearing a suit of golden-red armor.
A fiery phoenix palm strike was unleashed at the black-veiled demonic cultivator, causing the surrounding temperature to rise continuously. The righteous cultivators and demonic cultivators who were fighting not far away all retreated.
This attack, which affected the spiritual power of others over a wide area, attracted the attention of many people.
The few Nascent Soul demon cultivators who were originally floating quietly in the sky couldn't help but look over, and they all nodded in understanding after seeing the black-veiled demon cultivator.
"Ling Sha still prefers to fight fire-attribute cultivators." A Nascent Soul demon cultivator withdrew his gaze and said idly, it wasn't their turn to make a move yet.
"If eating humans could nourish yourself, you would also like this kind of food." Sensing the disdain in the first person's tone, the other person spoke up.
The leader among the Nascent Soul demonic cultivators merely raised an eyelid. There was no such thing as a leader among demonic cultivators, and they would never have cooperated if it weren't for the enormous benefits involved.
Feeling the scorching heat rushing towards her, Ling Sha also unleashed a palm strike. Black flames formed a giant hand, and the two collided, drying out the surrounding air.
This person's cultivation was far superior to her own. Recalling what Yun Yin had just said, Ruan Qingyu dared not be distracted in the slightest. Flaming wings sprouted from her back, carrying her away from where she stood.
In an instant, the stone she had just been standing on was engulfed by a black fireball.
Ruan Qingyu kept dodging, but Ling Sha always managed to catch up to where she was hiding. If it were a clash of spiritual energy, Ruan Qingyu could certainly do it too, but all around her were sect cultivators engaged in battle.
This demonic cultivator didn't care about other demonic cultivators, but Ruan Qingyu also had to consider other cultivators. Bound by these constraints, she could only avoid Ling Sha's killing moves by constantly moving between open spaces.
Fortunately, the area enclosed by the formation was large enough, and Ruan Qingyu ran all the way to finally arrive at an open space near the edge of the formation.
She dodged another fireball flying from behind with a somersault, and the grove of trees beneath her was instantly reduced to dust.
"Yunyin, cover my retreat," Ruan Qingyu instructed in her mind.
As soon as she finished speaking, a black lightning bolt shot towards Ling Sha's location. In the blink of an eye, dozens of purple lightning bolts flew out, like thunder descending upon the world.
Ling Sha's eyes, veiled in black gauze, narrowed slightly. She had been focused on hunting down Ruan Qingyu, but now, with Yun Yin's intervention, her attacks had naturally become vulnerable.
Before they could deploy their shields, they were engulfed by lightning and then slammed into the edge of the formation.
With a tremendous rumble, the formation flickered, and the previously transparent and invisible formation wall shook, appearing before everyone.
Yangming, who was protecting Jin Chengcheng, flew forward with his divine sense and saw Ruan Qingyu fighting against Ling Sha. Shocked, he looked at Jin Chengcheng and said, "Junior Sister Ruan actually used the force to break out of this formation."
Knowing this was a good opportunity, the array cultivators who were still studying the Life and Death Gate of array formations were overjoyed.
"Now that the formation has been severely damaged, we will surely be able to break it successfully!"
"Even if we can't find an exit, we can find a weak point and attack it together, and the formation will naturally be activated."
Black blood trickled from Ling Sha's lips, but the black veil she wore remained intact. It was originally a decent defensive magic artifact, but the lightning was incredibly powerful.
It actually bypassed the defensive magic artifact and severely injured the body hidden under the black veil.
“I underestimated you.” Ling Sha coughed, and her spiritual power surged. In the blink of an eye, the black veil turned blood red.
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