"Trying to run?"
With a sinister smile, the demon ape with its hairy arms pulled up a more than twenty-meter-high tree next to it, then swung its arm and smashed it fiercely towards the fleeing armored soldier.
The aura rolled, and the thick snow was directly swept up from both sides.
Yet, the black-armored soldier who was fleeing suddenly turned and stopped, swiftly drawing his blade. A white blade of sword energy over a meter long, like a crescent moon, slashed through the air towards the incoming tree.
Everything happened in one smooth motion, as if it wasn’t a hasty move but a well-prepared one.
"Crack!"
The incoming tree was split in half by the sword energy, and the sound of splintering wood echoed.
Then, only to see the tree, large enough for two people to circle their arms around, was cleaved down the middle, splitting to both sides and kicking up snow dust. Meanwhile, in the middle of it all, the black-armored soldier remained unscathed, and his eyes beneath his helmet fixed on the demon ape, filled with eager anticipation.
The demon ape, provoked into a rage, took large strides forward, raising its long ape arms to strike at the tiny ant of an enemy. The gray-blue skin on its fist shimmered with a dark light as it quickly turned to stone.
The next second,
"Clang!" A metallic clash resonated.
The armored soldier raised his blade with both hands, the blade light as long as over a meter, blocking the millstone-sized stone fist. The demon ape’s fist was left with just a shallow red bloodstain, while the armored soldier was pushed back quickly by the force, sliding seven to eight meters away!
"Die!" The demon ape sneered seeing this, charging another massive punch downwards.
But just then,
"Shush"
"Shush"
On both sides of the demon ape seven to eight meters away, the snowy ground suddenly exploded, snowflakes scattering, as two shadows burst out, swiftly slicing two white lines like lightning.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh"
The two lines of sword energy cut through the void, emitting a sharp whistling sound.
The demon ape was shocked!
A roar of shock and anger came from its throat, and gray light surged all over its body as it quickly petrified, trying to withdraw its two arms to block, but it was too late!
"Slash"
The two white lines crossed and sliced through the demon ape’s petrified neck!
A crimson bloodline appeared in an instant, and a head flew up into the air.
Meanwhile, in other parts of the forest, the same scene was happening repeatedly.
The ferocious demon apes were lured into the trap and lost their lives.
The leading demon general, who was about to unleash a massacre, finally realized something was wrong when he saw this, snorting out thick white air, and let out a strange cry like the bleat of a deer from his throat.
The cry seemed to be a signal for the demon soldiers to retreat.
Only to see the demon apes, realizing something was wrong, fleeing in panic from the forest, leaping into the air, roaring. The black foul birds, a significant portion of their numbers lost to a volley of fire arrows from the sky, swooped down to catch the demon apes, then flapped their wings to rise back into the air.
And just at that moment,
"Activate the formation!"
A woman’s commanding cry rang out above the gorge.
As her voice fell, in the gorge among the mountains and forests, beams of spirit light rose from eight positions, shooting up into the sky and converging at the center. Then, like a waterfall, the spirit light poured down, forming a formation dome, cutting off the retreat of the fleeing demon apes, covering an area of several kilometers.
Next, the dense armored soldiers rushed out from all sides of the forest, bending bows and nocking arrows, launching a volley, turning the demons trapped within the formation into living targets.
And below in the abyss of the gorge,
"Kill!"
The battle cries shook the heavens.
"Rumble rumble"
"Rumble rumble"
The sound of hooves trembled the mountains and forests, and the battle cries struck fear into the fierce eyes of the demons.
In the abyss, rows of cold light iron-armored troops charged out, sweeping across as if treading on flat ground.
Leading ahead was a warrior in all red atop a dark red horse, a sword on his back and a red tassel spear in hand, soaring up into the air, plunging into those who had slipped through the net.
He swung the red tassel spear, and heads of apes, mingled with splattering demon blood, flew up!
Not long after, when Lian Nichang took the divine soul of a Heavenly Pass Dao Fruit Demon General from his brother the Contracted Demon, the ambush battle was finally over!
On the Bing Shen day, at 1:00 PM, thirteen hundred miles east of Zhen Nan Prefecture, at Luotian Gorge, "Red Plume General" Lian Nichang led the Three Passes Prefecture soldiers to thwart the first wave of reinforcements from the Demon army originating from Jingyuan Prefecture!
Executed three Heavenly Pass Demon Generals and over a thousand Demon Soldiers!
At this moment, within Luotian Gorge, the ground was littered with demon corpses, and the stench of blood wafted with the wind.
"Snort snort"
Lian Nichang sat atop a chestnut horse and reached the summit of the gorge, gazing towards the snow-covered western horizon, her heroic brows and eyes reflecting gravity and sharpness.
"The demons of Jingyuan Prefecture have mobilized; it seems the forces at Zhen Nan Prefecture have already begun. What’s the situation?"
"Relay my orders!"
"Move the troops southwest, set another ambush three hundred miles away at Ghost Cry Mountain. I sense there’s a second wave of reinforcements; this position is exposed now, we can’t stay!"
"After this, the real challenge awaits!"
Lian Nichang gave her orders calmly and decisively. After the first ambush, she immediately relocated to prepare for the second, without hesitation, while joining forces to the southwest near Zhen Nan Prefecture and intercepting enemy reinforcements.
"Yes!"
"Giddy up, giddy up!"
"Transmit the order, all troops prepare to relocate..."
Meanwhile, while Lian Nichang’s southeast line encountered Jingyuan Prefecture demons, almost simultaneously, the southwest line was met by enemy reinforcements from Huxia Pass.
Strangely, these demon reinforcements were far less aggressive than those Lian Nichang faced, with only one Heavenly Pass Demon General and far fewer Demon Soldiers, merely three to four hundred, and none belonging to the Holy Clan.
Moreover, upon encountering the government’s soldiers, they abandoned dozens of corpses and fled in panic, showing no intention to fight.
This left the commanding Colonel frustrated; having meticulously planned traps and strategies, the demon troops fled before combat even began. Having fought countless battles against demons, he had never seen such cowardly Demon Soldiers.
A bit perplexing!
As the events at Zhen Nan Prefecture triggered a chain reaction outside the mountain, over at Yin Mountain, a storm rapidly brewed.
Now, within Yin Mountain, the exotic beasts and demons living there were all suffering.
Within Yin Mountain, the dogs of the Howling Sky Clan seemed frantic, searching everywhere for Spirit Essence, and any beast with even the slightest cultivation was captured and bled.
"Splash"
"Splash"
Under the dazzling silver trees of Yin Mountain, Heavenly Dogs poured beast blood on these trees, causing cries to echo everywhere.
"Not enough"
"Not enough."
From Sky Shrieking Cliff came agitated voices, "All worthless, you can’t even handle such a task, the Holy Tree still lacks essence...."
"Moreover, half the day has passed already, why have no other Holy Clan made a move! Where are our reinforcements?"
The Yin Mountain Demon’s wrathful voice hadn’t ceased since last night.
Before the frightened Great Demons, he was too angry for extra words.
They also didn’t know.
Also, the Ancestor wants to accelerate the transmission, perform a sacrifice prematurely, and they have issued orders to collect offerings for the Holy Tree, but the transmission array inside and outside the mountain is closed, and the big formation closed off, so no one including them could go out to hunt offerings, yet they dared not mention it, for the mastermind still hid within the two hundred mile Yin Mountain main meridian, if the big formation opened and he escaped, all efforts would be for nothing.
"Ancestor, I believe we can’t count on other Holy Clans, and now with the mountain sealed, we can’t gather enough offerings; there’s still one way." A Great Demon suggested sinisterly.
"What way?" The Yin Mountain Demon impatiently asked.
"Aren’t there a group of alien Demon Soldiers in the mountain? At this point, treat it as sacrifice for the Holy Clan, it’s their fortune." This Great Demon hinted, "And maybe even flush out that Human Clan’s Colonel!"
Upon hearing this, other Great Demons immediately buzzed with concern.
Exterminating subordinate Devil Races, such a taboo act, if spread, could lead to rebellion.
Opposite was silent for a long while, then the Demon spoke coldly, "Do it cleanly!"
"Yes!"
Eastern side of Yin Mountain, the sealed Hooked Snake encampment.
Chen Yuan’s refining of the Qi Fortune Spirit Treasure reached its critical moment
At this moment, within the Earth Divine Treasure, it’s as if chaos opened the heavens, a moon shot skyward, whirling, spilling light across the sky, each point forming a tiny vortex, sucking in yellow mist, gathering into a small stone ball, growing bit by bit.
With time passing, like the world beginning, clean energy ascended, turbid energy descended, yellow mist condensed into stones, then shot skyward, a dazzling starlight flickered, and a starry sky image appeared within Chen Yuan’s fourth Divine Treasure.
With the sound of magnanimous Dao resounding.
The fourth Divine Treasure formed!

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