Chapter 491 The Yellow Springs' Counterattack
Just as the battle at Biyun Sect was entering its most intense phase.
Shuiyunzhou—Shuiyun Xiandu.
The four early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators who had narrowly escaped from Wang Yu's clutches last time were temporarily stationed here, so the danger of guarding this place goes without saying.
The three lines of demonic invasion.
The Black Mountain Pass team is the strongest, with more than two Nascent Soul stage cultivators and quite a few Great Perfection cultivators.
In addition, many powerful members of the Refining Heaven Demon Sect would not voluntarily come to guard such a place if they were not atoning for their sins; they would rather stay in the sect.
At that time, they were unaware of what had happened within the sect.
Just as the four of them were sighing and idly passing the time, hurried footsteps suddenly sounded from the outer gate, and servants hired by the newly built city lord's mansion stumbled in.
"My lords, something terrible has happened! Something terrible has happened!"
"The demonic cultivators have reached the outskirts of Shuiyun Immortal Capital!!!"
The four of them suddenly stood up.
He asked in surprise and doubt, "How is that possible? Even if the demonic invasion is extremely fast, they still have to travel a certain distance. Are you sure the army is coming?"
The servant paused for a moment.
"It seems...it seems there were only a few people, anyway, the south city wall has been breached."
"Let's go take a look."
Hearing that there weren't many people, their courage instantly returned. As long as it wasn't someone like Wang Yu, they weren't afraid of ordinary late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators.
After all, there are still formations within the city. As long as we are vigilant and keep the formations ready to be activated at any time, the power of a fourth-order formation can hold out for a long time.
We can then ask the sect for help. That's the advantage of having a powerful backer; we don't have to worry about the enemy being too strong for us to handle.
They just overlooked a lot of things.
Seeing the four Nascent Soul cultivators soar into the sky simultaneously, the servant revealed a strange smile, his skin melting like water to expose the true face of the Yellow Springs Temple Master.
"The ancient teleportation array in Zehu Prefecture is indeed very useful."
As one of the earliest states occupied by the demonic path, this place has long been thoroughly explored by demonic cultivators, and numerous feng shui masters have searched it, discovering almost all the hidden ancient teleportation arrays.
Using this item, the Yellow Springs Temple Master, the Blood Demon Palace Master, and several late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators arrived at Water Cloud Immortal Capital ahead of schedule to carry out that plan.
When the abbot of Huangquan Temple leisurely walked into the core of the city lord's mansion.
A thought struck me.
He suddenly sensed the death sacrifice in the north, which meant that the conditions for his secret cooperation with the Five-Colored Holy Lord had already been fulfilled for him.
Now all that's left is a death sacrifice.
His idea of summoning the River of the Dead into the mortal world will be a complete success!
Near the southern city wall, four Nascent Soul cultivators arrived together and saw a river of blood rampaging through the southern city, turning all living beings in its path into dried corpses.
The blood was drawn into the Blood River, flowing into it and constantly growing stronger. Three somewhat familiar-looking figures stood above the Blood River, waiting for their arrival.
"etc……
"Those guys are...the Blood Demons!"
Three renowned late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators: Blood Essence, Blood Spring, and Blood Axe!
Such a scene is enough to fill one with utter terror.
The three of them had no intention of stepping forward. Instead, they activated the jade talismans in their hands, attempting to teleport directly back into the protective array of the city lord's mansion.
Unfortunately... we were a step too late.
Corroded by the power of the Yellow Springs, the array's spiritual light, now a turbid yellow, rapidly spread, turning the entire Shuiyunxian area into a death trap from which there was no escape.
The teleportation talisman was naturally no longer valid.
Blood Axe laughed loudly, his figure transforming into a streak of blood-red light. His natal magic weapon, the Blood Sea Demon Axe, slashed down fiercely, unleashing both brute force and demonic energy simultaneously.
It seemed to pierce through the dark clouds, as if creating the world from nothing.
They went straight for one of them in the back of the heart.
The man didn't even have time to react. For someone at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, facing a late-stage cultivator was no more difficult than killing a chicken.
A flash of blood, and it was instantly cleaved in two.
Even the Nascent Soul cultivator was severely injured and fell unconscious into the Blood Axe Palm. The other three were also attacked at the same time.
Xue Yuan's natal magic weapon is the [Blood Sea Demon Sword]!
The three brothers all cultivated the Blood Sea Demon Scripture, but they refined different types of magical treasures. The eldest brother, Blood Spring, was a special type of natal magical treasure.
It is called "Blood River" and is also the most unique of its powers.
Four Nascent Soul cultivators from the Azure Cloud Sect were instantly killed by an axe and a sword, while the remaining two were surrounded by a sea of blood, disappearing silently as they floated within it.
The four storage rings fell into the hands of the three demons.
Blood Axe clicked his tongue in boredom: "These rotten bird eggs are far too weak."
The implication was that they hadn't had enough fun.
Xue Yuan said calmly, "The Biyun Sect has suffered heavy losses one after another. How many Nascent Soul experts can they still guard Shuiyun Prefecture? I thought we would encounter Ancestor Huangyun this time, but it seems they value the sect's location more."
Xuequan: "It's alright. Since the Crimson Heaven Demon Lord has gone to the Azure Cloud Sect's mountain gate, the Yellow Springs Abbot's plan is no longer hindered. After the sect master devoured Zhuo Shouyun, he has completed the final step of the Innate Blood Demon Body."
Before long, apart from the Refining Heaven Demon Sect...
Two new Nascent Soul cultivators will be born in the demonic path: the Master of the Yellow Springs Temple and the Master of the Blood Demon Palace!
This is also why the Northern Demon Saint Lord was willing to help.
If we then unite with the Hehuan Demon Sect, the Mingshan Sect, and the Northern Demon Clan, we can completely contend with the Liantian Demon Sect. The only downside is that the demon clan needs territory.
This matter still needs to be discussed later.
However, it's highly likely that the Northern Demon Clan will cede Taihu Beiyuan Prefecture and Chiyuan Feng Prefecture to the Northern Demon Clan. The Demonic Path can then make some territorial exchanges within its own ranks, which shouldn't be too troublesome.
"Let's begin... Once the massacre is over, we can all breathe a sigh of relief."
The master of Huangquan Temple requires a death sacrifice to summon the River of the Underworld through the power of an ancient ritual; there are already three such locations.
That is, Tianling Prefecture under the jurisdiction of Lei Huo Guan, Zehu Prefecture under the jurisdiction of Bi Yun Zong, and Lingxi Prefecture under the jurisdiction of Jian Zong.
In addition, there's the Biyun Sect's mountain gate in Beiyuan Prefecture, a prefecture city in Fengzhou under the jurisdiction of the Blood Demon Palace Master, and this last place, Shuiyun Immortal Capital.
Seven suicide sacrifices were carried out, resulting in countless deaths and injuries.
If we include even higher life forms like cultivators, the number of beings sacrificed would be at least several hundred million.
At that time.
The entire Shuiyunxian city was slaughtered by the Three Blood Demons in less than half an incense stick's time, leaving all living beings in the city dead and silent. The Yellow Spring Temple Master stood on the overlooking platform of the city lord's mansion.
He lit a Yellow Spring Incense stick, thicker than a human head, in his hand.
Wisps of blue smoke rose straight into the sky, a feature used by the Yellow Springs River to pinpoint the location of the descent to Shuiyun Xiandu.
In no time at all.
The sound of rushing water rose from the sky, and a long, gaping fissure appeared in space, from which turbid yellow water cascaded down like a waterfall. This fissure connected to the land of the underworld.
The legendary Netherworld and Reincarnation Land are also the birthplace of Yin Beasts. Generally, only the Yin-Yang Road or the Dead Man's Boat can directly reach these special worlds that represent death.
The abbot of Huangquan Temple could hardly contain his excitement.
If the Yellow Springs River tributary within the temple weren't part of the sect's resources, preventing him from recklessly consuming and using it, he wouldn't have bothered with all this scheming.
Now that I've finally found an opportunity in the battle between good and evil, how could I not be emotionally stirred?
"The population of Chiyuan is still too small. The opportunities for us demonic cultivators will always lie in prosperous places like Taihu Lake. I would like to trouble the three fellow Daoists to protect this abbot."
The three Blood Demons nodded in unison.
"That's natural. The abbot's breakthrough is also a good thing for us. We will do our best to protect him."
It's quite bizarre.
The Reverse Spirit Blood Sect and the Yellow Spring Temple already had a deep-seated grudge, and their current cooperation was almost forced upon them by the Refining Heaven Demon Sect.
With success imminent, the Master of Huangquan Temple no longer hesitated.
Leaping into the Yellow Springs River flowing from the spatial rift, this method of breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage was not a secret of the Yellow Springs Temple, but rather a private communication between the temple master and the Yellow Springs.
It was an unexpected reward from the unseen world.
If one had to put it bluntly, it would be reasonable to say that Huang Quan himself gave him the method for breaking through.
This suggests that he was chosen by the "Will of the Underworld," or that he was a gift left in the Underworld by a powerful being; either explanation is plausible.
The truth of the matter is not important for now.
He immersed himself in the Yellow Springs River, absorbing the true water of the Yellow Springs. The white bone demon god dharma form belonging to the abbot rapidly improved, and his nascent soul also continued to grow stronger under the nourishment of the true water of the Yellow Springs.
The Dharma and its meaning grow and transform accordingly.
The level of life is also constantly rising, and the breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm seems exceptionally simple under the effect of the secret technique.
at the same time.
Fengzhou City, the giant city stained red with blood, was deathly silent. The Blood Demon Palace Master sat cross-legged on the square of the City Lord's Mansion, which was littered with dried corpses, and streams of blood demon energy surged wildly around him.
Three lightning-shaped blood lines appeared between his eyebrows.
From two bright and one dark, all became bright, which meant that his last gap had been filled: three Blood Demon Bodies and one Innate Blood Spirit Root.
Combined with the Blood Nerve Secret Technique, it successfully helped him forge a Divine Transformation-level spiritual body aptitude—the Innate Blood Demon Body!
If the ability of the innate demonic fetus body is the myriad transformations of the heavenly demons, then the ability of the innate blood demon body is to trace back to the source.
Tracing the origins of the Blood Demon Path... the Ancient Demon—[Blood]!
This connection makes the Blood Demon Lord seem like a descendant of the Ancient Blood Demon, a mysterious link that allows him to draw power from the Blood Demon.
He directly absorbed the blood of the ancient demon to break through the bottleneck of the Nascent Soul stage.
The ancient demons sealed in the Ice Prison Realm only possessed physical instincts and lacked subjective consciousness. This meant that the innate blood demon body should have obtained power through rituals such as "prayer" or "sacrifice".
Now... we can simply steal it without permission.
As the connection deepened, streams of pure and potent Blood Demon Essence rained down from the void, which the Blood Demon Palace Master refined without hindrance, making it the foundation of his power.
He then consumed another top-grade fourth-tier elixir from Dongjijing, relying on his inexhaustible reserve energy and spiritual aptitude to forcefully attempt to break through the bottleneck of the Nascent Soul stage.
The sound of waves crashing against the shore echoed from the small figure.
Those were wave after wave of demonic energy attacks.
Both sides are entering critical stages simultaneously. At this rate, it won't take long for either side to break through; it could be as short as two or three months, or as long as several years.
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Meanwhile, at the Biyun Sect's mountain gate.
The Caiyun Mountains, ravaged by war and now even more devastated, are filled with raging spiritual energy. The battle between the Dharma Giants has ceased.
This is because almost all of the Six Elders of Caiyun were killed or injured.
Only two critically injured and dying Great Perfection cultivators survived, namely the two patriarchs, Hongyun and Huangyun. This battle truly marked the annihilation of the Biyun Sect.
With a solemn expression, Venerable Jianhe withdrew his Dharma Heaven and Earth.
With a single charge, Jianhe forced back the Five-Colored Saint Lord and others who were besieging Hongyun and Huangyun, protecting the two behind him and forming a standoff.
During his battle with Chi Tian, he discovered a strange problem.
That is, no matter what move he makes, Chi Tian has a way to deal with it, and can even immediately counterattack. This level of combat experience is not just about being well-versed in this art.
Instead, it was largely based on anticipation. As soon as he made his move, Chi Tian guessed what he was going to do, which is why he had no time to help the Six Elders of Caiyun.
They could only watch helplessly as they were devoured by the demon race and the experts of the demonic cultivators.
This is unreasonable!
Looking back, he had never fought against Chi Tian. After breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, he devoted himself to supernatural techniques and secret arts, gradually improving his abilities.
Even if Chi Tian knew about his skills and supernatural abilities when he was weak, there was no reason why he could do this.
Therefore.
That leaves only two possibilities.
First, Chi Tian's combat talent is astonishing; he can accurately predict every move of the enemy during battle.
Secondly, there is a traitor within the Sword Sect.
Moreover, the traitor held a very high position and even frequently came into contact with him. After excluding the Nascent Soul Venerable of the Sword Sect, only those few sword disciples and a personal disciple he had taken in many years ago were the most suspicious.
Considering that Chi Tian was repeatedly tricked by Wang Yu and lost face in Dongjijing, he didn't seem like someone with such combat wisdom, and that his arrogant nature hadn't affected his mentality by talking nonsense.
Something just doesn't look right.
Therefore, deep down, Venerable Jianhe leaned more towards the second possibility.
If this is true...
This means there's a big problem. The Sword Sect's overall strategy and tactics are likely under the enemy's control, which explains why this war between good and evil has lasted for so many years.
There's a reason why Taihu Lake has always been at a disadvantage.
My thoughts raced through my mind.
On the surface, Venerable Jianhe remained calm, but in secret he was communicating with the two Biyun Ancestors, Hongyun and Huangyun, through telepathic communication.
"The fall of Biyun is a foregone conclusion. The situation of the Crimson Heaven Demon Lord is strange and very different from before. Are you willing to follow me back to the Sword Sect to make further plans?"
That's what they said, but how could the two of them dare to refuse?
We are at their mercy, like fish on a chopping board. How can those two possibly rebuild the Biyun Sect before their lives end? Let alone reclaim the territory of the four states.
If Venerable Jianhe abandons them, he will surely die.
Huang Yun, the old ancestor, gave a bitter smile.
"As Your Excellency commands."
Old Ancestor Hongyun's eyes darted around, and he secretly transmitted his voice to Huang Yun.
"In the Battle of Ice River Pass, quite a few of our sect's Nascent Soul cultivators should have successfully escaped. It's impossible for the demonic villains to have killed more than twenty Nascent Soul cultivators since they arrived at the mountain gate so quickly."
"As long as there are five or six left, there is still hope. This time, we must shift the blame onto Venerable Sword River and make the Sword Sect compensate us. It would be best if we could borrow someone to take back the territory of the four states!"
Huang Yun, the old ancestor, was almost dumbfounded when he heard this.
It's truly unexpected that even at a time like this, Ancestor Hongyun is still thinking about preserving everything; it seems that the words "choice" and "failure" don't exist in his dictionary.
As expected, the result was as predicted.
This secret communication was directly overheard by Venerable Jianhe's even more powerful divine sense, and his expression immediately turned ugly.
(End of this chapter)
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