Chapter 443: A Grudge Must Be Avenged

Then she turned to Yan Mo again, smiling, "Uncle, you must protect my father, otherwise you know the consequences!"

Yan Mo quickly put on a smiling face, flattering, "Don't worry, absolutely, Auntie, miss, take care!"

The aunt vanished, and Yan Mo's smile did not waver at all.

"Lord Wei, so you're one of us after all! Haha, seeing you reminds me of the Bright King of old; he too, like you, took a famous beauty from the Demon Realm, enviable! No more digressions, Lord Wei, from now on I'll obey you; tell me what to do and I'll do it. If you want someone to die by the third watch, I'll make sure they don't live to the fifth watch!" Yan Mo said, patting his chest.

A wide holographic screen ahead displayed scenes of the celestial‑demon war, while in reality Wei Yuning was having a notorious demon cultivator deal with people from the Demon Realm.

Wei Yuning didn't know or understand the other great heavenly demons; the only one he was fairly clear about was the Li Tian Demon ravaging the Spirit Beast World battlefield. This demon's hands were literally stained with the blood of Yunyin Sect cultivators, some of whom were senior brothers Wei Yuning knew.

"Comrade Gao Geng, I'm not very interested in the other heavenly demons, but the Li Tian Demon… do you have a way to kill him?" he said calmly.

"Li Tian Demon? That guy with muscles all over his head?"

"Exactly, that's him!"

Gao Geng fell silent, tapping his forefinger on the chessboard, eyes closed, saying nothing.

Then an ancient book with a dark‑copper heavy cover floated before him, gray‑white mist shrouding the ancient tree around it, and the surrounding space showed vague signs of instability.

Wei Yuning carefully sensed the spatial changes, attempting to mend the space with his understanding of spatial Dao techniques, but found it had no effect.

He probed again with his divine sense, only to discover the space wasn't merely unstable but exhibited a strange "double‑shadow" phenomenon.

Suddenly, he recalled Uncle Master Xuyue's 'Way of Void and Reality', that is, the 'Way of Time'.

Sure enough, many things are like a layer of cellophane; with enough foundation and insight, a single poke will tear it.

Using his divine sense again, Wei Yuning instantly grasped the key; with deliberate intervention, the odd spatial fluctuation instantly returned to normal.

What Wei Yuning now lacks are realms, insight, experience, and knowledge; his internal spiritual energy is as vast as a sea of smoke, and once he finds the right method, few things can thwart him.

Gao Geng snapped his eyes open, his face shocked as he looked at Wei Yuning, growling, "You also understand the Way of Time?"

Wei Yuning smiled faintly, "That's the Way of Time? It's a very ordinary Dao technique; I learned it from my sect's uncle, and its name isn't 'Way of Time', it's called 'Way of Void and Reality'!"

"You… Lord Wei truly are exceptionally gifted; no wonder you earned that noble's favor. That makes things even better—earlier I had no good method, but now I do. Killing the Li Tian Demon is no problem, but I'll need Lord Wei's assistance; if we could draw a strand of Solar True Fire, that would be even better!" Gao Geng's expression shifted repeatedly before he finally said.

"Draw Solar True Fire?" Wei Yuning instinctively wanted to refuse.

Gao Geng saw Wei Yuning's expression, immediately understood his concern, and laughed, "We only need an attacking flame, not the primal power of Solar True Fire; Solar True Fire's effect on the Dark Clan is greater than you imagine!"

"Fine, if possible, I'd like to start tonight!" Wei Yuning said.

Gao Geng smiled and asked, "With Lord Wei's help, we can start anytime; but is it really necessary to be so urgent?"

"It's not truly urgent, but not avenging a grudge isn't my style!" Wei Yuning said seriously.

The distant Beast King City in the Spirit Beast World.

After losing three second‑generation divine beast ancestors, Beast King City finally relied on sheer numbers to slay the invading Abyss Clan. What most alarmed the city's six great families was that a second‑generation descendant of the Golden Dragon Clan also perished in the battle, and he was the most cultivated among all divine‑beast descendants.

But there was no alternative; only his special light‑type golden energy could completely eradicate the Abyss Lord's evil energy, and for the sake of the entire Beast King City, the Spirit Beast World, and the divine‑beast descendants' paradise, he had to trade his life for another.

After this battle, the Abyss Clan's vital energy was severely depleted, and they retreated to the Giant Spirit White‑Hair Clan's city to recuperate. Under the relentless assaults of Spirit Beast cultivators and human cultivators, the White‑Hair Clan and Abyss Clan's allied forces were again forced into the city's confines.

To avoid repeating mistakes, a high wall was erected around the city's perimeter; at intervals along the wall, dust‑silver was scattered, and star‑grass was deliberately planted in abundance. Moreover, patrol squads bearing Lingxi Horns, Buddhist cultivators mastering the Law‑Eye Divine Skill, human cultivators versed in the Spirit‑Connecting Eye, and spatial Dao cultivators also joined.

As for the immensely strong Giant Spirit White‑Hair Clan, they even gathered all the power‑type races of the continent to confront them: Dragon Clan, Elephant Clan, Qilin Clan, Giant Python Clan, and so on.

Without the White‑Hair Clan's scouting and sabotage, in direct confrontations the native strength of the Spirit Beast World actually gained the upper hand.

However, the victory in the central battlefield could not change the overall dominance of the Dark Clan.

Not to mention the ordinary White‑Hair Clan, White‑Shadow Clan, and mixed‑breeds hidden in remote places, the demons under the northern Dark Sky are the real long‑term threat.

Having lost the natural barrier of the outer‑realm battlefield, on the border shrouded by the Dark Sky, ordinary beings of the Spirit Beast World began to encounter countless low‑level demons face‑to‑face.

The Demon Realm's army, though not launching large‑scale offensives, still saw occasional small‑scale skirmishes erupt.

The demons' nature allows them to sustain war by war; the more they fight, the more troops they gain, but the living beings cannot keep up. Unless it's an experienced combat squad, they are no match for the fearless demons.

Fortunately, all are intelligent races; after five or six years of fighting, although the front line retreated thousands of miles, the native beings of the Spirit Beast World have also discovered various ways to counter the enemy.

Light, flame, and Wheel Blade are the three major anti‑enemy artifacts devised by the native intelligent creatures.

On the thousands‑of‑miles battlefield abutting the Dark Sky, vegetation was cleared, caves filled, and anything that could block sunlight was removed.

Few cultivators or beast cultivators possess fire spells, so other intelligent beings had to improvise; hand‑thrown fire‑oil bombs became their new invention.

However, these two methods only work against low‑level shadow demons or minor demon heads; if the enemy is a large corpse demon or green corpse demon—physically robust demons—sunlight and flame cause little harm, and only powerful cutting weapons can truly stop them.

Demons generally possess regeneration; ordinary physical damage has no effect and even provokes their ferocity, which is why Wheel Blade was developed under such circumstances.