Chapter 156: The Great Array of Heavenly Stars for Slaying Demons (Two-in-One, Please Subscribe)

One hundred miles outside the outskirts of Jinque City.

Accompanied by the final gunshot.

A giant wolf covered in black fur fell on the road of its escape with its brain cavity blown open.

Exorcist Mage Yunkong put away the sniper rifle, flew to the side of the giant wolf, and with a wave of his hand, summoned several Ice Swords to pierce into the giant wolf's body.

Then, without any hesitation, he began to skin and debone it, turning the giant wolf and the entire squad of Demon Beasts it led into his own spoils of war.

Relying on modern weapons combined with the enhancement of Divine Sense.

Even while multitasking, he still easily resolved this squad of Demon Beasts that had come to Jinque City to cause trouble.

As Exorcist Mage Yunkong cleaned up the traces and left.

This stretch of snowy land also returned to an environment of absolute silence.

Meanwhile, on the side of Su Ping's true body.

Under a punch of a supernatural ability containing the Greedy Wolf Divine Sense, he directly penetrated the black bull Demon Beast's heavy armor and shattered its Divine Soul.

He directly knocked this seemingly incredibly fierce Demon Beast to the ground, leaving it on the verge of death.

Su Ping grabbed the Demon Beast to the Demon Sealing Tower, but it was not acknowledged.

So he had no intention of sparing the life of this great demon.

Before long, this Foundation Establishment great demon became Su Ping's possession.

During this time, while killing this black bull Demon Beast, an invisible Mark flew out, attempting to possess Su Ping.

As a result, before the Greedy Wolf Divine Sense could open its mouth to swallow it.

The Evil-Warding Blessing of the Evil-Warding and Evil-Punishing Stone Lion took effect faster, directly annihilating this Mark!

At the same time, Su Ping also noticed that the heavy armor on this guy was all made of First Tier High Grade metal materials.

If taken to a large Market and sold to those sects, it would be worth at least nearly ten thousand Spirit Stones by weight!

The bones, fur, and bull horns were also high-grade artifact refining materials, which were also quite valuable.

As for the meat of this Foundation Establishment Demon Beast and its miscellaneous items.

Su Ping thought for a moment and decided it would be better to let his Juvenile Xuan Turtle Baxia benefit.

This guy still seemed to have great potential, and after growing up, it would also be a great help to him.

Pot Heaven.

After Su Ping threw the black bull Demon Beast near the Spirit Light Fish Pond.

The Juvenile Xuan Turtle smelled the meat, immediately crawled out of the fish pond, cheered, and then opened its mouth to tear into it.

While eating, this Juvenile Xuan Turtle maintained its palm-sized form, its mouth opening and closing rapidly.

Before long, it had eaten nearly half of the black bull Demon Beast's front leg.

The size of this front leg was at least a thousand times larger than the Juvenile Xuan Turtle's body.

After being devoured by the Juvenile Xuan Turtle, however, no change in its body size was seen.

It was evident that the Xuan Turtle's stomach could be called a spatial Storage Bag, and it came with a terrifying digestive ability.

As the master of the Juvenile Xuan Turtle, Su Ping could clearly feel that as it began to eat this Foundation Establishment Demon Beast, it was growing rapidly.

A mere few minutes of eating was already comparable to the growth progress of staying in the Spirit Light Fish Pond for several weeks.

"So the correct way to raise a Xuan Turtle is to let it gorge on high-quality meat?"

"And it's best if it's meat from a realm higher than its own!"

Da Hei poked its fish head out of the pond, its two large eyes looking pitifully at the Juvenile Xuan Turtle eating the feast.

Su Ping discovered Da Hei's resentment, smiled lightly, and threw out five Blood Qi Pills.

Da Hei hurriedly opened its mouth to swallow the pills, then let out two happy whimpers before diving to the bottom of the pond to slowly digest the medicinal power.

Su Ping rested for a while, and after recovering his exhausted Essence Spirit and Qi.

He opened his eyes and found that the Juvenile Xuan Turtle had already finished eating that Foundation Establishment Demon Beast.

Its aura had also reached First Tier Perfection.

Just one step away, and it would be able to upgrade from the juvenile stage to a young Xuan Turtle!

If this step were taken by eating Qi Refining Demon Beasts, it could only slightly accelerate the process, and it would likely take a year or two to break through.

But if it ate the meat of a Foundation Establishment Demon Beast, perhaps it could be shortened to a few days?

Judging by the rare quality of the Xuan Turtle, once it promoted to a young Xuan Turtle, it would immediately become a Foundation Establishment great demon-level spirit pet, right?

Su Ping let the Juvenile Xuan Turtle grow larger.

Soon he saw that at First Tier Perfection, it could already transform into a great demon with a diameter of over five meters.

Continuing to grow, it was undoubtedly one step closer to the goal of becoming a Baxia carrying a great mountain.

After resting, Su Ping returned to the Cultivation World, though he did not take action immediately.

Instead, he released a swarm of rats to head toward Yunshan Market and the surrounding areas.

After one night.

Relying on the overlooked swarm of rats arriving in various areas to bring back local intelligence.

Plus the Immortal Crane flying to Jiuye Mountain Market from time to time to bring Transmission Jade Slips.

The situation gradually became clear in Su Ping's mind.

Something major had indeed happened at Yunshan Market!

Not long after the fleet from the Western Desert arrived at the Floating Airport, an Evil Calamity suddenly broke out.

Countless Evil Spirits surged out from within, causing the entire Yunshan Market to fall into chaos.

Originally, if it were just the Western Desert fleet, there would have been no major problem with the assistance of the Mountain Protection Array of Yunshan Market.

However!

At a critical moment, several Inner Sect Disciples of the Artifact Heart Sect inside Yunshan Market suddenly transformed into Evil Spirits, and then destroyed the core of the Array!

This caused Yunshan Market to immediately fall into a massive crisis.

Fortunately, that Xiao Mu Zhenren decisively took out a trump card to block the siege, and then piloted an Immortal Boat to carry most of the Elite disciples of the Artifact Heart Sect and escape.

This could be considered as salvaging a portion of the losses for the Artifact Heart Sect.

Next came the Demon Beast invasion; several small sects and small Markets were actually wiped out directly by that white-haired giant ape.

And the identity of that white-haired giant ape was also uncovered.

It was the young son of a Demon King in the Ten Thousand Mountains, with Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivation, and he possessed Heaven-Born Divine Strength, as well as a Vajra Indestructible Body!

He even had the top-tier Mountain-Moving Great Sage divine ability of the Demon Clan, with the power to move mountains and overturn seas.

He was also the leader of this Demon Beast group!

The Arrays of several Markets were all broken by this giant ape using his divine ability to assist, forcibly breaking the clever with brute force!

At this time, Su Ping felt somewhat fortunate that his Jiuye Mountain Market was small enough and inconspicuous enough.

Therefore, the other side just casually sent one Foundation Establishment Demon Beast and then paid no further attention to it.

The Artifact Heart Sect also began to pay a heavy price.

Besides re-assembling a fleet to besiege Yunshan Market in an attempt to take back this important stronghold.

They also issued a Bounty Order for that giant ape.

The bounty for that giant ape had already reached thirty thousand Spirit Stones plus one Spirit Tool.

Even so, Su Ping did not intend to wade into these muddy waters.

A Foundation Establishment Late Stage with such thick skin and flesh, plus the addition of a Saint Body, did not look like someone who could be kept behind by someone of the same realm.

Furthermore, as the young son of a Demon King, he likely had all sorts of life-saving trump cards on him, which was why he could be sent out to gain experience and merit with peace of mind.

In Su Ping's view, this bounty was probably just something to look at.

And in fact, that was indeed the case.

There was no Cultivator at the Foundation Establishment stage willing to run off and fight that giant ape to the death.

If they traveled together and could help guard a Market, relying on the Array and numerical advantage to make that giant ape know when to retreat, that was already considered putting in a great effort.

To hunt down that giant ape for a bounty?

People that stupid these days couldn't become Foundation Establishment!

That giant ape was also quite clever; after discovering his tracks were exposed and the cultivation sects had reacted to reinforce the large Market strongholds.

He simply scattered all his subordinates into dozens of small teams to head toward various mortal cities or small Market gathering places to harvest lives.

As for himself, he hid away like a ghost.

Just waiting for any cultivation teams that wanted to rescue those small places to receive a distress signal and leave their stations.

Then he would strike with thunderous momentum, often one against a hundred, catching those rescue teams off guard in the wilderness.

After some Foundation Establishment Cultivators also unfortunately fell because of this.

Even if their own Market was attacked, the Cultivators in the sect dared not sally forth to rescue them.

This caused a large number of mortals to lose their lives in just one short night.

Added to this extreme heavy snow weather.

It was not impossible that the population of this Jinzi Domain had dropped by an order of magnitude.

"This giant ape is very fast!"

"And its sensory ability should be very strong, otherwise it couldn't intercept the rescue teams every single time."

"However, it cannot teleport after all!"

"Therefore, for me, there is an opportunity to be exploited!"

"That giant ape is not easy to deal with!"

"But other Demon Beasts can still be hunted; anyway, I have Memory Illusion, I can afford to die!"

After making the decision in his heart, Su Ping prepared his combat supplies.

Then, he got up and left Jiuye Mountain Market.

…………

Jinshui City region, the family station where the Feng Family was located.

The Feng Family, which possessed a First-Tier High Grade Spirit Vein but had a somewhat small area covered by Spirit Qi, had built a fortress here, enclosing several hundred mu of Spirit Field.

As the foundation of the family's heritage.

For these past few hundred years, this foundation had supported quite a few Feng Family members to become Cultivators.

Even if the descendants were incompetent, they could still stably cling to the thighs of one or two Inner Sect Disciples and manage to be preserved.

At this very moment, the Old Ancestor of the Feng Family was pale-faced as he and the Elders gazed at the Demon Beasts appearing in the distance.

They had already sent out requests for help.

But most were politely declined.

Those on good terms followed up by secretly telling them the truth.

Letting the Feng Family know that in a certain sense, they, these small households in this region, had already been abandoned by those above.

To be saved, they would have to hold out until the Great Ability of the Golden Core stage from the Artifact Heart Sect arrived to clean up the mess.

It was just that, currently, not a single Golden Core Great Ability was free.

Especially the Golden Core Great Abilities of the Artifact Heart Sect responsible for this region, who came and went in a hurry every time.

Rumor had it that they were mostly entangled by a certain Island Secret Realm, consuming a massive amount of their energy and time.

This time, the rest had also gone to the Ten Thousand Mountains, which were in more critical danger, to repair the Arrays.

When they would return was simply not something these small families could guess.

"The Demon Beasts will not accept our surrender; all clansmen must fight to the death and not retreat!"

The Old Ancestor of the Feng Family raised a large axe and stood on the city wall to boost morale.

Then, as the two Foundation Establishment wolf demons among the Demon Beasts opened their mouths, they spat out beams of ice light.

The fortress Array immediately began to shake.

The several Elders presiding over the Dharma Array also had their vision go black one after another, and they vomited blood and collapsed to the ground.

There was no help for it; despite being Elders, they were actually mostly at the Qi Refining Middle-Late Stage.

The Old Ancestor of the Feng Family was also merely at ordinary Qi Refining Perfection, and had not cultivated any divine abilities.

Having had a Foundation Establishment cultivator in the ancestral line, but lacking one most of the time, was the norm for small sects and clans in the Cultivation World.

The two wolf demons also noticed this point and, grinning hideously, launched another attack.

After only seven or eight bombardments, the Feng Family fortress was hit directly after losing the protection of the Array.

Instantly, the ten-meter-high city wall collapsed with a boom, just like dregs of tofu!

"Fight them to the death!"

The Old Ancestor of the Feng Family raised his large axe, and just after finishing this roar of despair, he was singled out and hit by a beam of ice light, causing his entire body to fly backward off the city wall, crashing through the roof of the manor and emitting a dull, loud thud!

Immediately after, he was unable to crawl out again.

This left the other clansmen looking at each other, all seeing fear and lingering dread in each other's eyes.

Even the clan leader, who was the best fighter, had been knocked flying in one blow; what ability did they have to resist?

Since that was the case... it would be better to just run away, right?

In the backyard of the manor, in a room with a hole in it.

That Old Ancestor of the Feng Family who had been knocked flying coughed up blood, crawled out of the ruins, and looked at his beloved wife and several young children in the room with eyes full of pain.

"Take the Hidden Qi Talisman I gave you, and while the clansmen outside are scattering and fleeing to attract the attention of those Demon Beasts, hurry and run through this tunnel."

"Go to the Jiuye Mountain Market in Jinque City; the eldest branch has opened a shop there..."

"Don't look at me like that; I have the highest cultivation in the Feng Family, the Talisman has little effect on me, and I can't hide from those two Foundation Establishment wolf demons!"

"Otherwise, do you think I don't want to run away and save my life!"

"I want to survive even more than you do, and I still want to see if I can break through to Foundation Establishment before I die of old age!"

The Old Ancestor of the Feng Family whispered, gripping his large axe tightly, preparing to kill his way out once things became chaotic outside, and to destroy the entrance to the tunnel.

This was the only thing he could do for them.

Only...

It seemed that although it was chaotic outside, there were no Demon Beasts entering the city and no screams from the clansmen?

"What is going on?"

"Could it be that reinforcements have arrived and the Demon Beasts have retreated?"

The Old Ancestor of the Feng Family waited for a few more seconds, only hearing a burst of surprised exclamations from the outside world.

He gritted his teeth and, after instructing those few people to enter the tunnel first,

gripped his axe and leaped out through the hole in the roof.

Then, he knew why there were no screams from the clansmen.

It was clearly on the snow outside the city.

A heroic man with fiery red hair was waving a great sword, easily chasing and hacking to death those fleeing Demon Beasts.

As for those two Foundation Establishment wolf demons.

They were clearly lying on the snow, separated head from body; their massive bodies were exceptionally striking and glaring under the sunlight.

In the eyes of the Old Ancestor of the Feng Family, very quickly, the fiery red man finished hacking the last Demon Beast to death, and then turned and walked toward the fortress.

"This person is definitely a Foundation Establishment Body Cultivator, and one from a major sect who has received true teachings!"

The Old Ancestor of the Feng Family still had some discernment, watching the other party walk over.

Knowing that even the Demon Beasts could not stop him, and that it was even more impossible to oppose him, he simply had his clansmen open the city gate and personally led a team to welcome him.

As it turned out, the other party stated that time was very tight and that it was very likely that more and stronger Demon Beasts would attack, telling them to leave quickly.

As for the reward, he was a person who loved to collect books.

Just pack up all the books and inheritances from the Feng Family's Sutra Repository and give him a copy.

This request was not just for looking at miscellaneous books.

However, the Old Ancestor of the Feng Family was decisive, agreeing directly and voluntarily offering the Inheritance Jade Slip related to the decryption of the Sutra Repository.

And not long after, while the Old Ancestor of the Feng Family was leading his clansmen to rush toward Jinque City,

Su Ping also controlled Fire Knight Alwin to collect the books and turned to deal with the Demon Beast corpses.

One hour later.

A giant white-haired ape leaped high and then landed outside the fortress with a bang.

The surroundings immediately shook violently as if there were an earthquake.

Before long, the already tottering fortress collapsed completely, revealing the already dilapidated manor.

"The traces have all disappeared; the one who killed those two idiots has a way to remove the soul-tracking Mark!"

The giant ape looked toward the direction of the Jiuye Mountain Market.

It could judge that the survivors of this outpost should have all gone in that direction.

However, according to the map in its memory, there seemed to be only one market with a First Grade Low Grade Spiritual Vein in that direction?

The white-haired giant ape knew that its time was tight; the longer it dragged on, the greater the probability of a Golden Core appearing.

In the remaining time, it was clearly not cost-effective to go and kill some weaklings and small markets!

It still wanted to rely on Merit to compete for sacred land resources in the future!

The white-haired giant ape was just preparing to leave.

Suddenly, its body shuddered slightly; it had once again sensed that a Foundation Establishment subordinate it brought out had been slain!

It was enraged, and disregarding the aftereffects, it unleashed its full divine ability.

A gray-white giant ape phantom, the size of a small hill, emerged from its body.

The surrounding landscape of earth and mountains fell into its mind in the blink of an eye.

Then, it saw a red-haired man pulling a large sword out of the right eye of a great wild boar demon beast.

It wanted to see more clearly.

Pfft!

The divine ability was obstructed, and the scene shattered and vanished instantly.

Roar!

"Don't run!"

The white-haired giant ape leaped violently and vanished from where it stood.

Fire Knight Alwin, who was just finishing off the last demon beast, also felt that he was being spied upon.

He calmly packed the corpses of these demon beasts into a Storage Bag and threw it to Su Ping's main body for safekeeping.

Afterward, the main body and this Memory Illusion kept their distance and began to rush toward another destination.

As for the white-haired giant ape?

Su Ping, lacking absolute certainty, chose to ignore it!

After slaughtering two more groups of demon beasts.

Su Ping discovered through the vision of the rats that those demon beasts were beginning to gather together.

Clearly, the white-haired giant ape had discovered the Fire Knight's objective, yet it kept striking empty air.

With no other choice, it could only opt to have its scattered subordinates regroup.

Su Ping also knew when to stop while he was ahead.

After confirming there were no loopholes, Su Ping simply found a mountain cave, returned to the Pot Heaven for a trip, and gave all the flesh and blood of the Foundation Establishment demon beasts to the Juvenile Xuan Turtle.

Afterward, he went back to check and saw that the Fire Knight still had some duration left.

Out of curiosity, Su Ping had him head to the outskirts of Yunshan Market.

It was also there that Su Ping was surprised to see a scene that the rats' vision could neither see nor sense.

The sky above Yunshan Market was already a sheet of blood red.

Over a hundred Immortal Boats were besieging a large Evil Spirit emerging from the mountaintop.

At the same time, Su Ping could see a white-haired, white-bearded Golden Core Great Ability holding a Bronze Small Tripod, locked in a great battle with a black-robed evil cultivator in the air.

The shockwaves from both sides were being sucked into the old man's small tripod.

Thereby preventing the besieging Immortal Boats from being damaged.

"It seems the Artifact Heart Sect is still concerned about Yunshan Market; they are clearly somewhat constrained."

"However, looking at it now, that Golden Core Great Ability holds the advantage, and with so many Immortal Boats... it looks like the Artifact Heart Sect should be able to retake Yunshan Market in the end?"

"Also, these surrounding mountain forests feel somewhat strange... it seems there is an Array set up on the outskirts?"

Just as Su Ping was thinking this, preparing to go to a higher vantage point to investigate further.

He suddenly discovered that further away, in the direction of the Overseas Islands.

Another batch of fully armed Immortal Boats had actually arrived.

The decoration style of these Immortal Boats was slightly different from the Artifact Heart Sect's.

As soon as they appeared, they threw the Artifact Heart Sect's fleet into chaos, causing more than half of the ships to turn and face the enemy.

"That is... the fleet of the Demon Heart Sect, one of the largest Demon Sects in Nanhuang!"

Because Su Ping wanted to take a trip to Nanhuang, he had crammed basic common knowledge.

He recognized the origin of the opposing side from some conspicuous decorations.

Then he knew that the Artifact Heart Sect was going to be in trouble this time.

As a Demon Sect, the Demon Heart Sect acted with unscrupulous abandon.

At the same time, as fellow large sects of Nanhuang, the relationship between this Demon Heart Sect and the Artifact Heart Sect was definitely not good.

Sure enough, the Demon Heart Sect's fleet launched an attack.

Simultaneously, more than ten Foundation Establishment cultivators and a Golden Core Great Ability with an even more imposing aura flew out.

Su Ping consciously had Fire Knight Alwin retreat far away from Yunshan.

Not long after, a crimson, sun-like ball of light appeared above Yunshan.

Immediately, the Artifact Heart Sect's Golden Core transformed into a streak of Golden Light and flew out from the ball of light.

Yet, not long after flying out, it was seized by black chains that struck first by arriving later, and was then dragged back into the ball of light.

As for the surrounding Immortal Boats, they fell to the ground like rain, causing raging fires and billowing dust.

In the next moment, Su Ping also felt a Divine Sense sweep toward him.

Su Ping did not hesitate and immediately canceled the Memory Illusion.

He let Fire Knight Alwin vanish into thin air from where he stood.

This left the Demon Heart Sect Golden Core, who was in a rather good mood after the great victory, feeling stunned.

The black-robed evil cultivator of the Black Underworld Sect, holding the Artifact Heart Sect Golden Core—which had turned into a small wooden puppet—in his left hand, flew over and asked curiously.

Upon learning that a cultivator had dodged this old friend's Divine Sense.

He also became interested, stretched out his chicken-claw-like right hand, and silently cast a spell.

Not long after.

The black-robed evil cultivator's eyes widened, and with a crack, three fingers on his right hand snapped off.

"I can't calculate it, I absolutely cannot calculate it!"

"What exactly is the background of the cultivator who just appeared there? Why can't I calculate it!"

"Perhaps they have some kind of shielding Spirit Tool or even a Spirit Treasure."

The Golden Core of the Demon Heart Sect comforted his ally, then turned his head to look at Yunshan Market:

"The old ghost of the Artifact Heart Sect is trapped in that overseas Secret Realm."

"This Yunshan Market should belong to my Saint Heart Sect!"

"The world is changing drastically now; the era of those hypocrites should come to an end!"

"Only when our Saint Path flourishes can we truly save this realm!"

This Golden Core spread his arms, his spirit soaring, his eyes shining.

It was as if he saw a future where the Demonic Path swept across the world.

However, their triumph did not last more than three seconds.

After the entire fleet of the Demon Heart Sect entered Yunshan Market.

The sky suddenly shifted and the stars moved!

Thousands of stars suddenly appeared in the sky.

Then, an array covering a radius of one hundred miles around Yunshan was activated!

A Giant Immortal Boat simultaneously appeared high in the sky.

The Sect Master and Supreme Elder of the Artifact Heart Sect stood on the deck, looking down with triumph at the powerhouses of the Demon Heart Sect and Black Underworld Sect, who were now trapped like turtles in a jar.

The Supreme Elder of the Artifact Heart Sect unfolded a golden scroll with both hands.

Instantly, from all directions in the sky, more than a dozen thousand-meter-tall Giant Spirit Gods, shining with Golden Light and appearing fully armed, emerged from the golden radiance.

The sound of demon-slaying could even be faintly heard as far away as Jinque City, a thousand miles away.

"Under the vast righteous path and the brilliant heavenly might, how can you Heavenly Demons and outsiders run rampant? You shall all be... executed!"

Afterward, the direction of Yunshan was submerged by purple thunderous light.

Su Ping, who had run back to Jiuye Mountain Market and was contemplating whether to order everyone to migrate overseas, also saw this astonishing scene.

Having a fair amount of knowledge about arrays, he confirmed what kind of array this was:

"This is... the Immortal Sect's Zhou Tian Star Demon-Slaying Array?"

"An array of this kind could never be set up in a single day, and it likely wasn't just the strength of the Artifact Heart Sect alone."

"I suspect other sects, and perhaps even high-level figures within the Immortal Sect, participated and provided support."

"The goal..."

"Is it to trap the Demon Heart Sect, which was the last to enter the fray?"