“But isn’t the purpose of cultivators’ battles to protect these civilians so they can live and work in peace and not die in the flames of war?” Ji Mofan said. “Now, just to ensure that cultivators have ample supplies, we’re sacrificing the safety of civilians. Isn’t that putting the cart before the horse?”
No wonder he heard a healer shouting that he had sent several communication talismans last night, but they all went unanswered.
It turns out that Li Jinchu never intended to care about the lives of these commoners from the very beginning.
Li Jinchu was also troubled. Ji Mofan was a good person in every way, but when it came to certain things, he was stubborn and could not be persuaded by eight horses.
He wants to save people, that's fine, but what war doesn't kill people? If civilians use the medicine now, what will happen when there aren't enough cultivators on the battlefield later?
Even if civilians are sheltered in the rear, they will still be affected by the war.
A kind heart cannot command an army; Ji Mo Fan's personality destined him to make only this choice in such a situation.
Ji Mo Fan is not particularly kind-hearted.
Rather, he knew in his heart that this war was a farce instigated by Qu Jin alone from beginning to end.
Once Qu Jin is free from Xiao Wangyan's side in three days, whatever he wants to do, he will definitely be able to finish the battle quickly and decisively, preventing this war between immortals and demons from being like the one a thousand years ago.
After all, the combat power is completely unbalanced. Whichever side Qu Jin stands on will directly cause a one-sided situation.
He wanted to say this to Li Jinchu, but he wasn't sure he could convince him. Besides, there were other people around, so it wasn't convenient to say it aloud.
Li Jinchu was a shrewd man. He noticed that Ji Mofan's eyes kept glancing at the city guard captain beside him, and he realized that Ji Mofan wanted to talk to him alone.
So he waved to the captain to go up to the city wall and check on the rest of the city guard. After the captain left, he walked over to Ji Mofan and opened a soundproof barrier.
“There’s something wrong with the Demon Lord’s strength.” The moment the soundproof barrier took shape, Ji Mofan spoke softly, “Although he has been working hard to recover recently, he can still only use the power of the late stage of the Fusion Realm at most.”
"He only appears to be in the late stage of Mahayana on the surface, and he can't hold Qu Jin back. At most three days, the battle will quickly tilt in Qu Jin's favor."
Li Jinchu's pupils suddenly contracted.
He didn't consider why Ji Mofan would use such a vague description of factions to describe Qu Jin.
When an unstoppable force descends, the only thing left to gamble on is the humanity of a single, divine thought. But they cannot gamble, for a single thought from the other side can mean the difference between world peace and utter devastation.
Ji Mo Fan's concerns are valid, so the best course of action now is...
"What do you think? What should we do next?" Li Jinchu wanted to hear Ji Mofan's opinion first.
“Go to the Demon Realm.” Ji Mofan pointed in the direction outside the city. “We need to find out why the Demon Realm chose to invade our border at such a coincidental time.”
In the end, Li Jinchu still had Ji Mofan create an array that could directly connect to the Xiaoling Sect.
However, it wasn't placed in Pingnan Pass, but rather in Wangtian City, which is closer to the interior of the cultivation world.
Ji Mofan didn't actually want to venture into the Demon Realm again. He had said so much just now to get Li Jinchu to do the work. But Li Jinchu was clearly unwilling, and he tried to persuade him with a bunch of twisted and unfounded arguments.
One person said that Ji Mo Fan had spent a long time in the Demon Realm, so he must know more about the internal organizational structure of the Demon Realm.
He said that this idea was originally proposed by him, so naturally he had to see for himself whether it could be put into practice.
Anyway, after saying a lot of nice and bad things, the demonic cultivators were almost ready to launch their second attack. Ji Mo Fan had no choice but to go with him.
He casually picked up Lianrong as well. The little girl, who was otherwise unremarkable except for her cute appearance, turned into a big bird right under Li Jinchu's nose.
Li Jinchu was stunned for a moment.
"Is this a Xuan Bird?" He looked at Ji Mo Fan. "When did you find yourself an ancient mythical beast as your contracted animal?"
He could sense the contractual connection between Xuan Niao and Ji Mo Fan.
It wasn't that they were surprised by the ancient beasts; after all, their Xiaoling Sect had accumulated so many resources over the years, and the elders controlled several ancient beasts within the sect.
But someone as junior as him wouldn't get a chance.
In particular, that thing is basically a family heirloom of the Xiaoling Sect, and the person and the beast are still there.
But Ji Mo Fan is clearly much younger than him, yet he has already obtained such a powerful opportunity to contract a beast?
What incredible luck!
Li Jinchu has never been jealous of anyone in his life. He was born into the direct line of the Li family and possessed a single metal-attribute spiritual root, which was already a fortune that many people could only dream of.
But now, compared to Jimo Fan, it seems that it is not enough.
Ji Mofan, however, did not feel much about this, after all, he had watched the Xuan Bird grow from a tiny chick to its current size.
Li Jinchu asked him and he nodded, and even invited him to ride on the bird's back to the Demon Realm.
Li Jinchu didn't hesitate and quickly followed after her initial shock subsided.
The black bird silently took flight, soaring over the gathering demonic cultivators and traversing the southern border, which had almost become a no-man's land, brazenly venturing into the demonic realm.
The border town of the Demon Realm has changed drastically since Ji Mofan visited a few months ago.
This place has clearly become a transit point fully prepared for the great battle. The demon soldiers guarding the city patrol almost non-stop, and the streets and alleys are piled high with the protective gear and medicine needed for the battle.
Most of the civilians were sent away, and only a small number of people who were used to support the logistics of the soldiers in the city were gathered on the southernmost side.
Without sensing the presence of any demon generals in the city, Ji Mofan and Li Jinchu, both cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage, were able to infiltrate the border town without any hindrance.
"It's one thing for demonic cultivators to be so loosely organized when they run rampant in the cultivation world," Li Jinchu said, finding it strange, "but why is even their border town like that?"
Ji Mofan also found it strange. He wandered around the whole city and finally focused his attention on that small, temporary residential area for civilians.
Now, fewer than a hundred civilians have been left in the border town, and their main job every day is to cook food for the guards in the town.
The communal meals in the army didn't require any special skills. You just dumped all the vegetables in, stirred them, and cooked them until they were all mushy.
Most people in the Demon Realm don't have the habit of fasting; they need to prepare two meals a day.
At first, Li Jinchu didn't understand why Ji Mofan came to this place.
They couldn't possibly be here to try the food of the demon soldiers.
Not to mention the mediocre, mass-produced meals in the army, he felt that even the more refined meals in the Demon Realm would be beneath Ji Mofan's notice.
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