RUSH!
Dark silver ingots poured down like a river.
The Golden Core Immortal Descendant was worth 6,700 taels, and the thirteen Core Formation Realm instructors from the Martial Arts Academy were valued at 6,500 taels.
This was Yu Mingxuan’s accumulation over many years at the Qiankun Martial Arts Academy, now all converted into Lin Shu’s foundation.
’He’s actually worth more than Zhao Zhiyue?’
Lin Shu was a little surprised.
Somehow, Yu Mingxuan’s strength was even greater than that of the Golden-striped Profound Tiger whose claw had nearly taken his life.
’I really couldn’t tell.’
If he hadn’t been worried about his opponent causing too much of a commotion and wanted to end the fight quickly, he wouldn’t have even needed to borrow the Calamity-Crossing Cyan Simurgh’s Magical Power. The Demon Lion Suppressing Treasure Body alone would have been enough to slay this Immortal Descendant.
’It really doesn’t work, after all.’
Lin Shu turned back to look at the Demon Generals covering the mountain.
He had deliberately brought them here to test his previous theory and see if he could farm some Merit Coins on the side.
Now, it seemed that path was closed to him.
’It makes sense, when I think about it.’
If the order had come from him, then it was as if he, the Demon Monarch, was part of the equation.
And Yu Mingxuan clearly lacked the strength to harm these Demon Generals while under his watch.
’Making easy money is so hard...’
"Lord Demon Monarch!"
The Gray Crow Demon General instinctively took two steps back. As he looked at the desolate corpse of the Cyan Simurgh that had fallen into the valley, his facial features couldn’t help but twitch.
He had never imagined that he and the others would one day witness the fall of a Yu Family Mountain God with their own eyes.
It was common knowledge that these Wind-Riding Cyan Simurghs were supremely powerful.
Furthermore, after mastering the Wind-Riding Mountain Patrol Divine Technique, even if a Demon Monarch could defeat them, killing them was another matter entirely.
Across all of Yongzhou, cultivation resources made from the corpse of a Wind-Riding Cyan Simurgh were exceptionally rare and expensive, far surpassing those from the Silver-eyed White Wolf Immortal, another Half-Life Immortal!
This alone showed just how difficult the Mountain God Clan Descendants were to provoke.
And yet this Vice Mountain Master of the Qiankun Martial Arts Academy, a famous and influential figure in Anren Prefecture, had been as pitiful as a common mongrel bird in the hands of this young Demon Monarch.
The Demon Monarch’s earlier casual remark, "slaughter him," hadn’t been an act of feigned composure; he had genuinely looked down on Yu Mingxuan from the bottom of his heart.
The two of them weren’t on the same level at all!
"Thank you for slaying the immortal, Lord Demon Monarch!"
The expressions of the Demon Crowd shifted from stunned disbelief to wild joy, then erupted into a unified cheer.
Ever since the three great Fierce Demons recklessly seized Dragon Ridge, the Group of Demons in the Nine Prefectures of Yongzhou had suffered a terrible calamity.
Forget fighting the Court; even surviving had become difficult.
Now that Anren Prefecture had lost another great general, its control over the surrounding mountains would weaken accordingly.
The Demon Crowd gradually began to see a sliver of hope for escape.
Although they had yet to find a suitable place to live for the time being.
After moving far away from the Prefecture City, it would be difficult to find the corpses of Immortal Descendants to extend their lives and raise their Realms. But they could worry about that later; it was far better than being trapped in the mountains, watching helplessly as their demon people and Demon Soldiers were slaughtered to the last.
Lin Shu gave a slight nod, then looked with some difficulty at the enormous Cyan Simurgh corpse.
’The last time I killed Yu Qiheng, it was too perilous for me to notice. So, after an Immortal Descendant enters the Golden Core Realm, their Immortal Body becomes their true form?’
Previously, Yu Qing and Yu Kui had reverted to their human forms after death, and he could easily pack them up and take them away. This massive bird corpse, however, was not so easy to carry.
He raised his palm and received the items brought to him by two wisps of his Soul-Splitting technique.
The first was the Divine Blade Jade, and the second was Yu Mingxuan’s Jade Storage Ring.
"Good stuff."
Lin Shu infused it with his Divine Soul and discovered that this Storage Ring was far more advanced than the Storage Bag he had so carefully selected for himself.
With a casual flick of his finger, the massive Cyan Simurgh corpse was sucked into the ring.
As for the Divine Blade Jade, it was worthy of being a Yu Family Magical Treasure. It was extremely compatible with the Cyan Simurgh Magical Power, which made up for his regret at not having enough Merit Coins to practice the Cyan Simurgh Sword Formulas.
"Everyone, dismiss for now."
After carefully putting away the Storage Ring, Lin Shu looked again at the awe-filled Demon Crowd.
After speculating that Young Master Qi was likely just tied up for the moment and might soon enter the world, his way of thinking was gradually changing.
’If I want to befriend Demon King Su Xin and resist the Half-Life Immortal Families together, I’ll have to abandon my old way of thinking of only looking out for myself.’
’The reasoning is simple.’
’You can’t sit on the fence, swaying from side to side, and still expect others to risk their lives for you.’
’A Great Demon with such profound cultivation could never be a fool.’
On his way back, Lin Shu had thought long and hard. If he wanted to prove his own worth, he might really have to consider how to defend Dragon Ridge.
Whether or not he could actually defend it was one thing.
But this was indeed a good opportunity to rally the Group of Demons.
Only when a large number of Demons gathered together, abandoning their previous ideas of hiding themselves away, could they hope to become a force to be reckoned with.
’Perhaps this was Demon King Su Xin’s original intention.’
’She knows more than I do and has foreseen the tragic future of the Yongzhou Demons, so she wants to make a desperate, all-or-nothing stand.’
"Tsk."
Lin Shu watched the Demon Crowd respectfully disperse, then gazed into the distance in the direction of Anren Prefecture.
Bi Hai and the other Demon Monarch’s plan was to repel the Court’s first offensive and then, while their enemies were in disarray and needed time to regroup, quickly retreat with their Demon Soldiers and demon people.
’But... what if I could take actual control of Anren Prefecture?’
’The Group of Demons would no longer have to flee aimlessly. They could even use the prefecture as a stronghold, an outpost for Dragon Ridge!’
’The Nine Mansions and One Pass... what’s the point of only occupying the Border Region?’
Lin Shu lowered his gaze and rubbed the bridge of his nose, somewhat startled by his own audacious idea.

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