Chapter 48 The first time cooperating with Bei Liyuan to know Li Youyang...
Bei Liyuan knew what Li Youyang was worried about and said, "Master, trust me. I can do it."
Li Youyang was silent for a moment, then said coldly, "Go ahead. Nangong Liuchu will tell the other two halls to cooperate with Li Yuan."
Morale was high at the moment, and many people wanted to go to the first battle. In the end, Bei Liyuan selected four Taiyi Golden Immortals and hundreds of people above the Earth Immortals to accompany him.
After Bei Liyuan left, Li Youyang sat at the table studying the map, while Nangong Liuchu stood quietly beside him.
One hour, two hours passed, Bei Liyuan did not send back any information, and there was no movement outside.
The other disciples in the hall couldn't help but become anxious. Many of them were already skeptical about obeying Li Youyang's orders. Now that Li Youyang had handed the position of commander to Bei Liyuan in the first battle, it was inevitable that they would think that he was nepotism.
"Two hours have passed, and there's still no movement. Is Bei Liyuan really capable?"
"If it's not possible, then it's not possible. At least send a message back so that others can take action."
"that is."
Li Youyang raised his eyes and said coldly, "Which sect are you from?"
"Duan Zilong of the Luoye Sect."
"Luo Ye Zong Chen Si."
Li Youyang asked again, "Who is the person in charge of the Luoye Sect for this secret realm trial?"
A man in a yellow robe stepped forward and said, "Zhou Cong greets Elder Li."
Li Youyang nodded gently. "These two have spoken recklessly and disturbed our minds. They will be punished with twenty lashes."
Duan Zilong was immediately annoyed: "Li Youyang, you really take yourself too seriously. The people here only obey you for the sake of Gong Bo and Fu Yue!"
Li Youyang's eyes darkened: "What did Brother Zhou say?"
Zhou Cong hurriedly said, "These two made the mistake and should be punished."
Li Youyang turned his head away and stopped looking at them. Zhou Cong took the two of them and stepped aside to whip them himself. After this, the other disciples fell silent.
…
There was still half a quarter of an hour left before three hours had passed, and there was still no movement outside.
With the previous experience as a lesson, the other disciples did not dare to ask and could only pace back and forth anxiously. Nangong Liuchu also became a little restless, but Li Youyang was the only one who did not show any panic.
Half a minute later, laughter was heard outside the hall.
"That sound! We won!"
The disciples couldn't help but cheer together and went out to greet them.
Only then did Li Youyang loosen his clenched fists.
Not long after, Bei Liyuan led a group of disciples into the main hall and bowed respectfully, "Master, I am honored to have fulfilled your mission."
Li Youyang stood up and patted his shoulder, saying softly, "Well done."
…
It was three days later when the Demon Leader of the Demon Devouring Palace received this news. Unlike the demon generals below, he was not as angry as before. Instead, he was more interested. "Interesting! I love to see the despair of those who hold hope in their hearts when they fall into darkness. How many demon soldiers are there nearby?"
"Seventy thousand."
"Seventy thousand? I don't like this number. Gather another thirty thousand demon soldiers to make it an even number. Yan, you will lead them personally. In an hour, surround and strangle those ants. Leave no one alive."
"yes."
During these three days, Li Youyang ordered his disciples to expand the Wanxiang Demon Subduing Formation to cover the four palaces within a radius of one hundred miles.
…
The Demon General Yan led the demon soldiers to surround and kill, but he did not rush to attack. Instead, he sent three thousand demon soldiers to test the inside first. The moment they entered, the three thousand demon soldiers turned into nothingness.
Demon General Yan frowned: "This is... the Wanxiang Demon Subduing Formation."
It seems there are indeed masters among the cultivators undergoing this training. The demons used the secret realm's restrictions to prevent high-level immortal cultivators from entering, but now they have countered them with a single formation. The demon soldiers are numerous, but most of them are Earthly Immortals or even lower. To annihilate them, there are only two options: break the formation or lure them out. Breaking the Wanxiang Demon Subduing Formation would be extremely costly: "Take out a hundred of the sect disciples you captured earlier."
After a shout, hundreds of disciples were escorted to the front of the formation by the demon soldiers.
Demon General Yan said coldly: "I heard that the disciples of the immortal sect value the friendship between fellow disciples the most. I will give you three breaths of time. If you are unwilling to come out to rescue them, then... I will wipe them all out, one..."
"Disciples of the Immortal Sect are of the same blood, so why would we need three breaths?" Bei Liyuan said coldly as he followed Li Youyang out of the hall.
Demon General Yan curled his lips and said, "Alright, I knew that the people of the Immortal Sect are not heartless and ungrateful. How about this, two out of three fights? If you win, we will release these disciples. If you lose, you will hand over the person who set up this Wanxiang Demon Subduing Formation. How do you do it?"
Among the hundred disciples pushed out by the demons, each sect had several. They definitely wanted to save them, but what if they lost...
"Okay." Li Youyang responded coldly.
Everyone looked at Li Youyang with a little more admiration in their eyes.
Demon General Yan looked at Li Youyang and asked, "Are you the one who set up this formation?"
"yes."
Demon General Yan narrowed his eyes. He hadn't established his foundation yet, so he said with interest: "Yan."
A red-robed demon general stepped forward and said, "In the first round, who will die?"
Fu Yue looked at Li Youyang and asked, "Elder Li, can you trust me?"
Li Youyang nodded: "Go ahead."
Fu Yue held the magic sword in his hand and went to fight: "I am Fu Yue, and I have come to learn from you, Your Excellency's skills."
After a cup of tea, the demon general was defeated. Just as the monks were about to cheer, another demon general suddenly stepped forward to fight with Fu Yue.
The monks were furious: "Didn't you say it was a best-of-three match? That demon general had clearly already lost..."
Mozu Yan curled his lips: "I don't remember saying that only one person can fight in a round."
"Doesn't that mean the demons can keep fighting until every last one is killed?"
“Shameless!”
Li Youyang said coldly, "Can we send one person out that time, or can you demons attack in groups?"
The demon clan Yan said gently: "If we can attack you monks in groups again, it will be too much to bully you cultivators. I can guarantee that the demon clan will only send one person at a time."
Li Youyang looked at Gong Bo and said, "Switch Fu Yue back."
Gong Bo went forward with a sword in hand, and Fu Yue hurriedly took a breath after returning.
The demon general was furious. Li Youyang said, "The rules don't say you can't make substitutions mid-game."
Demon General Yan curled his lips: "He is right."
The demon swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.
The next long period of time was filled with one-on-one fights, with both sides constantly replacing their opponents. However, the human cultivators were far fewer than the demons, and they soon showed signs of fatigue.
A disciple couldn't help but step forward and said, "Elder Li, this is not a solution. We don't have as many people as them. If we continue fighting, we will end up..."
Fu Yue interrupted coldly: "Quiet, Elder Li has his own arrangements."
The disciple silently clenched his fist and retreated.
After three days and three nights, Fu Yue, Gong Bo, and the other high-level disciples were exhausted. Zhao Jing Fangfang withdrew and said, "Elder Li, who will go up next?"
Fu Yue stood up: "Elder Li, I'll do it."
Li Youyang: "Regulate your breathing."
After three breaths, no one came to fight, so Mozu Yan laughed and said, "Are the immortal sect cultivators planning to admit defeat?"
The other disciples couldn't help but start complaining, "We just told you this method wouldn't work, but Elder Li insisted on going his own way. What should we do now?"
"That's right, we shouldn't have listened to him. Not only can we not save those one hundred fellow disciples, but we might as well get involved."
"What do you mean? If it weren't for Elder Li, we might have been killed by the demons long ago. Now it's just a momentary misjudgment..."
"It was just a momentary mistake. Don't you see what time it is? Is this mistake allowed? The lives of so many of us are in his hands."
boom!
"What's that sound? It seems to be from the demon clan!"
“Boom! Boom!”
There were loud noises coming from inside the demon clan, followed by the screams of the demon soldiers.
Demon Yan frowned: "Yan, go and see what's going on."
Just as Demon General Yan was about to make a move, there was a loud bang beside him, and two thunderbolts fell from the sky. Demon General Yan raised his hands and formed a formation to protect himself: "This is... the Myriad Thunder Formation!"
This formation wasn't complicated, but it took time to set up. That was why the opponent hadn't thought about winning before the previous encounter. What they wanted was time: "Kill him."
The demon general Yan nodded and slashed at the hundred cultivators with his sword, but was blocked by a formation. Then a sky-lifting sword seal slashed down from the air, and the demon general could only dodge and escape. Then the thunder became louder, and the demon soldiers suffered heavy casualties.
Demon General Yan gave Li Youyang a cold look and said in a deep voice, "Retreat."
Seeing the dismal end of the demon army, the monks in the hall cheered, and many monks began to feel ashamed of what they had just said.
Just when the demon army retreated to a place a thousand miles away from the Four Palaces, tens of thousands of heavenly thunders fell at the same time, causing more than 50% of the demon soldiers to suffer direct casualties.
The demon general Yan’s face was as black as ink.
"What do you think this place is? You can come and go as you please."
Beiliyuan and Nangong Liuchu blocked the way of Demon General Yan.
Demon General Yan sneered: "I am angry, well, killing you will calm my anger a little."
As he spoke, he summoned a silver spear and said, "This spear is a magic weapon I have just refined. It is called Silver Snow and has not yet been sharpened. Today I will use your blood to sacrifice it!" As he spoke, he swung the spear and a terrifying demonic wave surged towards the two of them.
Bei Liyuan formed seals with his hands, and the immortal sword turned into a giant that held up the sky and rushed forward. There was a loud bang, and the forces of immortal and demon exploded from the air, and the two men were shocked back.
Then a crimson blood boundary appeared in the sky. In an instant, the world turned into a purgatory on earth. The blood-red sky mixed with a strong bloody smell rolled and wailed, rushing straight towards Beiliyuan.
Bei Liyuan's sword finger moved quickly, and the immortal sword instantly turned into billions of sword shadows to meet the scarlet sky.
As the sword shadow passed by, there were continuous sounds of shattering. The crimson blood realm gradually disintegrated and finally could no longer hold on. The moment the purgatory collapsed, the soaring sword force rushed straight towards the Demon General Yan. The Demon General Yan waved his spear to block it. After a full quarter of an hour, the sword force finally stopped. The Demon General Yan stood up and gasped, with beads of sweat dripping down his temples.
"I didn't expect that there is such a powerful cultivator in this secret realm. Then I will never let you go out alive." As he said this, he threw out the spear and formed seals with his hands. The spear turned from silver to black, and a mighty demonic aura flowed through the spear, and the whole world began to tremble.
Boom! Boom! The sky suddenly darkened, and thunder and lightning rushed in.
Nangong Liuchu could no longer bear the pressure, and a trace of blood oozed from the corner of his lips. Bei Liyuan whispered, "Senior Brother, retreat first."
Nangong Liuchu retreated on his sword.
The eyes of the demon general Yan were cold, he formed a seal with his sword fingers, and his long spear pierced through the rolling demonic energy and headed straight for Beiliyuan.
Bei Liyuan recalled the magic sword, and instantly the magic sword turned into a water shield to protect him.
The spear struck the water shield, but upon impact, there was a profound silence, like a stone sinking into the ocean, leaving no ripples. However, the spear didn't stop, and Bei Liyuan was forced back by it. Seeing this, Demon General Yan formed seals with his hands, increasing the spear's demonic power even more, slowly piercing the water shield and aiming straight at Bei Liyuan's throat.
Bei Liyuan frowned, formed seals with his palms, and powerful spiritual power burst out. He held the immortal sword in his hand and blocked the silver spear with the sword. He was constantly forced back, and there was a faint red on the corners of his lips.
At this moment, a firework exploded in the void, and Bei Liyuan made a feint and left the battle.
Demon General Yan was about to give chase, but another demon general flashed to his side and said, "Ninety percent of the one hundred thousand demon soldiers have been killed. The remaining demon soldiers have no way of escaping."
"What?!"
"In addition to the Myriad Thunder Formation, they also used some kind of forbidden magic. Those below the level of Taiyi Golden Immortal cannot leave."
The demon general Yan clenched his fist.
The demon general continued, "We underestimated the enemy this time. Staying here will be useless. We should leave first and make plans later."
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