Chapter 562: Ambush, the Merit of a Single Strike

On the other side, within the Human Race's Xuanli Realm.

At the very moment his Earth Shadow Clone was destroyed, Ye Qingxiao, who had been standing in mid-air not far from the border between the Xuanli Realm and the Blood Moon Realm, his gaze fixed on the Blood Moon Realm where demonic energy was dissipating, suddenly saw a sharp glint flash in his eyes. He spoke with profound meaning:

"Prince Xieyue? The Blood Moon Realm and the Xuedu Realm? So that's how it is."

Although his Earth Shadow Clone had been crushed by Prince Xieyue, the information he had gathered was limited.

But through this reconnaissance, he finally knew of Prince Xieyue, the mastermind behind the Green Demon Clan coalition, as well as the existence of the Blood Moon Realm and the Xuedu Realm.

Although he had not uncovered Prince Xieyue's specific plan,

having learned of the existence of the Blood Moon Realm and the Xuedu Realm, it was not difficult for Ye Qingxiao to guess that Prince Xieyue intended to pool the strength of both realms to crush the Xuanli Realm in one fell swoop.

Thinking of the numerous Green Demon Clan powerhouses his Earth Shadow Clone had sensed in the Blood Moon Realm, and comparing them one by one to the number of powerhouses during the Green Demon Clan's previous invasions of the Xuanli Realm,

Ye Qingxiao's thoughts raced, and he had already guessed that the Green Demon Clan had not used their full strength in those previous incursions.

It stood to reason that those previous invasions were merely Prince Xieyue using probing battles to gather information on the various powerhouses of the Xuanli Realm. After forming this hypothesis, a cold glint flashed in Ye Qingxiao's eyes. With a wave of his hand, he produced three Seventh-Order Upper Grade attack talismans, which floated in the air as he stroked them gently, murmuring to himself:

"Since you have no sense of martial honor and want to win by sheer numbers, don't blame me for striking first."

Having said this, Ye Qingxiao's figure flickered and vanished.

Not long after, the numerous cultivators of the Xuanli Realm, acting under Ye Qingxiao's orders, began to retreat thirty thousand miles.

As for Ye Qingxiao himself, he quietly returned to the border between the Xuanli Realm and the Blood Moon Realm, lurking in the shadows to await the arrival of the coalition forces from the Blood Moon and Xuedu Realms.

Seven days later.

Within the Blood Moon Realm, the Green Demon Clan cultivator army from the Xuedu Realm had now fully arrived.

Added to the army of the Blood Moon Realm, Prince Xieyue now had over fifty peak Deity Transformation Realm powerhouses under his command, nearly two hundred late-stage Deity Transformation Realm powerhouses, and a total of over eighteen hundred early and mid-stage Deity Transformation Realm powerhouses.

Among them, in order to deal with Ye Qingxiao and force out his hidden cards,

Prince Xieyue had arranged for a full thirty peak Deity Transformation Realm Green Demons and one hundred late-stage Deity Transformation Realm Green Demons to surround Ye Qingxiao.

Not only that, but for the sake of insurance, Prince Xieyue also sent messages to other top-tier powerhouses from the Green Demon Realm who were drifting outside the two-realm coalition.

He informed them that a total offensive against the Human Race's Xuanli Realm was imminent and invited them to join the action.

As for whether these powerhouses would act, Prince Xieyue was not worried.

As fellow Green Demon Clan powerhouses, they were still very interested in the operation to conquer a Human Race Small Thousand World.

Even if he couldn't convince all of them to cooperate in the attack on the Xuanli Realm, convincing just a portion of them would be enough.

After sending the information, Prince Xieyue did not wait for their replies.

Leading the coalition army of the Blood Moon and Xuedu Realms, he flew majestically toward the Xuanli Realm.

However, during their high-speed advance,

Prince Xieyue's gaze suddenly flickered. He led his few trusted subordinates to slow down, moving from the front of the coalition to a position in the middle-rear.

Although other Deity Transformation Realm powerhouses noticed this and felt some disdain for Prince Xieyue's behavior, they said nothing.

Meanwhile, atop a mountain peak in the Blood Moon Realm that rose high into the demonic mist,

three Green Demons whose cultivation had reached the peak of the Deity Transformation Realm stood at the summit.

The leader among them, a Green Demon dressed in purple robes, was currently looking at the information sent by Prince Xieyue.

This purple-robed Green Demon also hailed from a Green Demon Dynasty in the Green Demon Realm.

However, unlike Prince Xieyue, he was not a prince of that dynasty, but the offspring of a Void Penetration Realm ancestor within the dynasty, named Xie Xinghun.

Xie Xinghun and Prince Xieyue did not come from the same Green Demon Dynasty.

Furthermore, the Green Demon Dynasty Prince Xieyue hailed from was not governed by a Tribulation Realm ancestor; on the surface, it was merely a Void Meditation Realm Green Demon King who held the position of dynasty ruler.

Therefore, even though Xieyue was a prince of a dynasty, Xie Xinghun did not fear him or obey his orders because of his status.

Looking at the content of the message Prince Xieyue had sent him, Xie Xinghun's mouth curled slightly as he said softly:

"The final battle to conquer that Human Race Small Thousand World is about to begin? This is somewhat interesting."

Immediately, he turned his head slightly to look at the two attendants behind him and spoke indifferently:

"Let's go! We shall go and join in the fun!"

With that, he took the lead and fled toward the border between the Blood Moon Realm and the Xuanli Realm.

Back at the spot, Xie Xinghun's two attendants watched his departing figure, exchanged a glance, and responded in unison:

"Yes, Young Master!"

Then, the two of them followed behind Xie Xinghun at high speed.

It was not just Xie Xinghun.

After receiving Prince Xieyue's message, a full five or six Green Demon Clan powerhouses whose strength and background were only slightly inferior to Prince Xieyue's led their subordinates toward the Xuanli Realm.

These Green Demon Clan powerhouses, even those with the worst status and background, were at least the offspring of a Void Penetration Realm great power.

However, unlike Prince Xieyue, most of these Green Demons had decent talent, and their descent to the lower realm was merely to change their environment and seek an opportunity to break through to the Void Penetration Realm.

Only one Green Demon named Jun Moyan had poor talent like Prince Xieyue, and he was also the offspring of a Void Meditation Realm great power from the Green Demon Realm.

It was just that Jun Moyan's father was not the ruler of a dynasty, but merely a Void Meditation Realm Green Demon King within one of the Green Demon Realm's dynasties.

Because of his poor talent, Jun Moyan was not favored in his family in the Green Demon Realm, which was why he had come to the lower realm to seek a sense of existence.

But even so, his strength and the resources he carried with him surpassed most Green Demon Clan powerhouses who came to the lower realm for training.

Besides this, there were other Deity Transformation Realm powerhouses from the Green Demon Realm in the Blood Moon Realm who moved upon hearing the news, following these powerful young masters toward the Xuanli Realm.

Ye Qingxiao, far away in the Xuanli Realm, was unaware of all this.

Ye Qingxiao was still lying in ambush at the border between the Xuanli Realm and the Blood Moon Realm, waiting for the arrival of the Green Demon Clan army.

As time passed, Ye Qingxiao, who had been hiding his figure and closing his eyes to rest at the border, suddenly opened his eyes and whispered:

"Finally here." A moment later, tens of thousands of Green Demon Realm troops were seen crossing the border between the two realms, preparing to officially step into the territory of the Xuanli Realm.

Scanning the tens of thousands of Green Demon Realm coalition forces obscurely, three Seventh-Order Upper Grade attack talismans slowly floated in front of Ye Qingxiao.

However, Ye Qingxiao did not rush to activate these three Seventh-Order Upper Grade attack talismans. Instead, he let the dozen or so early and mid-stage Deity Transformation Realm powerhouses leading the Green Demon Clan army and those Nascent Soul Realm cultivators cross the border, patiently waiting for the large wave of Deity Transformation Realm Green Demons in the army to draw closer.

When the large wave of Deity Transformation Realm powerhouses in the Green Demon Clan army drew near, Ye Qingxiao became instantly focused.

While exerting his utmost to use secret techniques to hide himself, he slowly activated the three Seventh-Order Upper Grade attack talismans in front of him, masking the fluctuations caused by the activation.

In order not to be discovered prematurely by the peak Deity Transformation Realm powerhouses among the Green Demons, Ye Qingxiao did not wait for the peak Deity Transformation Realm powerhouses of the Green Demon Clan to get too close to him.

When the nearest peak Deity Transformation Realm powerhouse was still a hundred miles away, Ye Qingxiao decisively accelerated the activation of the three Seventh-Order Upper Grade attack talismans in front of him, blasting them toward the area in the Green Demon Clan army where the most Deity Transformation Realm powerhouses were gathered.

"Who?"

The energy fluctuations generated by the activation of the three Seventh-Order Upper Grade attack talismans instantly caught the attention of the few peak Deity Transformation Realm powerhouses at the very front of the Green Demon Clan.

Unfortunately, what responded to them were three strikes comparable to those of a Void Penetration Realm cultivator.

Although energy fluctuations would occur during the activation of the talismans, the time from the activation of the talismans to the descent of the attack was merely a flash.

Furthermore, in order to ambush them, Ye Qingxiao had masked and pre-activated a portion of the Dao patterns on the talismans.

This resulted in the fluctuations generated by the activation of the three Seventh-Order talismans being discovered by the peak Deity Transformation Realm powerhouses of the Green Demon Clan just as the attacks from the three talismans descended upon the Green Demon Clan army.

The Seventh-Order pressure carried by the activation of the three Seventh-Order Upper Grade talismans prevented the many Deity Transformation Realm powerhouses in the Green Demon Clan army from fleeing in time.

In the terrified eyes of the many Deity Transformation Realm powerhouses of the Green Demon Clan, they had only just felt the intense pressure and seen the scorching energy light before they were merged into the rule energy activated by the three talismans.

They died and vanished before they could even let out a wail.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom—!"

Amidst the continuous roar of energy, the space at the border between the Xuanli Realm and the Blood Moon Realm began to twist and shatter continuously, only to be reorganized and repaired under the intervention of the heaven and earth power of the two realms.

And this land, under the sweep of the aftermath of this attack, shattered and sank several thousand meters, turning the border between the two realms directly into a magma river spanning several thousand kilometers and reaching several thousand meters deep into the earth.

"This? What is going on?"

"That direction, it seems to be the border between the two realms?"

"Such strong energy fluctuations, this power has probably reached the Void Penetration level, right? What exactly happened at the border between the two realms?"

As the terrifying energy fluctuations generated by the three Seventh-Order Upper Grade attack talismans activated by Ye Qingxiao continued to spread,

the Human Race cultivators who had followed Ye Qingxiao's orders to retreat thirty thousand miles and the other Green Demon Clan powerhouses rushing toward the Xuanli Realm instantly sensed these terrifying energy fluctuations, and they all stood frozen in place, terrified.

After noticing that this energy began to dissipate gradually, the Human Race cultivators and other Green Demon Clan cultivators flew toward the border between the two realms in unison.

At this time, at the border between the Xuanli Realm and the Blood Moon Realm.

After the energy aftermath of the three Seventh-Order Upper Grade attack talismans gradually subsided, Ye Qingxiao's figure slowly appeared.

Witnessing the miserable state of the Green Demon Clan army with his own eyes, Ye Qingxiao felt no pity in his heart; his eyes were filled only with coldness.

Whether it was a struggle between races or a struggle for the Great Dao, the situation between the Human Race and the Green Demon Clan was already one of life and death.

Therefore, when facing the Green Demon Clan, he would not show any mercy.

Under this wave of his ambush, the Green Demon Clan's army was directly destroyed by more than half by the three Seventh-Order Upper Grade talismans, and among them, nearly ninety percent of the Deity Transformation Realm Green Demons had fallen under Ye Qingxiao's deliberate targeting.

The other surviving Nascent Soul Realm and Deity Transformation Realm Green Demons were already fleeing toward the Blood Moon Realm with terrified expressions.

Ye Qingxiao's secret strike had directly crushed the conviction of the Green Demon Clan army.

Only Prince Xieyue, who was relatively far back, had reacted. Although he was caught off guard by Ye Qingxiao's sudden ambush,

Prince Xieyue, facing the sweeping aftermath of the Seventh-Order talismans, had also timely activated a Seventh-Order Upper Grade protective talisman to block the aftermath of the three Seventh-Order Upper Grade attack talismans, saving the trusted subordinates who were following him.

Watching the two-realm coalition he had painstakingly gathered die or flee under Ye Qingxiao's ambush, with tens of thousands of Green Demon Clan powerhouses completely ruined, Prince Xieyue's face turned unsightly. Looking at Ye Qingxiao's figure, he roared in fury:

"Human Ye Qingxiao, you are courting death."

Ye Qingxiao's strike had directly turned his decades of planning in the Blood Moon Realm into a joke.

At this moment, he was like a clown.

And if it weren't for him gathering the Deity Transformation Realm powerhouses of the Blood Moon and Xuedu Realms together, Ye Qingxiao's Seventh-Order talismans, while strong, would not have achieved such a battle result.

In his fury, Prince Xieyue directly activated one of his few remaining Seventh-Order attack talismans against Ye Qingxiao.

However, facing the Seventh-Order talisman activated by Prince Xieyue, Ye Qingxiao calmly took out another Seventh-Order talisman and activated it.

"Pop!" "Boom!" "Boom—!"

In Prince Xieyue's surprised eyes, the attack transformed from the Seventh-Order attack talisman he had activated was directly neutralized and dissolved by Ye Qingxiao's Seventh-Order talisman.

"You actually still have Seventh-Order talismans?"

Prince Xieyue had originally thought that Ye Qingxiao activating three Seventh-Order Upper Grade talismans at once was all the Seventh-Order talismans he carried with him.

He had not expected that Ye Qingxiao actually had other Seventh-Order talismans on him.

Taking a deep breath, Prince Xieyue thought to himself: "As expected of a Human Race powerhouse who makes this prince feel a hint of danger; the hidden cards he carries are indeed deep."

"Looking at his calm appearance, he probably still has quite a few Seventh-Order talismans on him, right?"

He now only had five Seventh-Order attack talismans left. Seeing Ye Qingxiao's calm expression, Prince Xieyue felt a drum beating in his heart.

He was worried that the number of Seventh-Order talismans he had left would not compare to Ye Qingxiao's.

On the opposite side, Ye Qingxiao felt Prince Xieyue's surprised gaze. On the surface, he was calm and unruffled, but in reality, he was already feeling a sense of urgency in his heart.

Because, excluding the four Seventh-Order talismans already used, he only had two Seventh-Order talismans left.

Once the last two Seventh-Order talismans were also exhausted, he would be powerless to resist Prince Xieyue's Seventh-Order talismans.

With his strength, if he were to face the attack of a Seventh-Order talisman directly, he would probably fall on the spot, right? For a moment, Ye Qingxiao felt an unprecedented sense of crisis in his heart. Subconsciously, he toyed with the small tower Ye Qingxuan had given him, feeling somewhat bitter in his heart:

"Qingxuan, Xueqing, I might not be able to return this time."

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