Chapter 614: The Attack of the Green Demon Clan

"It seems I've caused everyone unnecessary worry; my sincerest apologies!"

Having spoken, the old man Bai cast a meaningful glance around the room.

Hearing the old man Bai's words and meeting his meaningful gaze, many people's eyes flickered, unsure of what they were thinking.

But regardless of their previous thoughts, their attitude toward the old man Bai at this moment was exceedingly pleasant.

Sensing the change, the old man Bai, who had expected it all along, sneered inwardly.

"Hmph, now let's see who in Dongyuncheng dares to make a move against the Bai family in the future!"

The reason he made such a grand display of his grandson's talent in this tavern.

Was not because he was too naive and inadvertently brought trouble upon the Bai family, but because he wanted to intimidate the numerous factions in Dongyuncheng after the City Lord departed.

The geographical location of Dongyuncheng is simply too remote, with extremely scarce cultivation resources produced in the surrounding areas.

To fight over those extremely rare resources outside the city, the methods employed by the numerous cultivators in Dongyuncheng have always been extremely bloody.

Previously, the City Lord of Dongyuncheng, a powerhouse at the Nascent Soul realm, had intimidated the major factions of Dongyuncheng, keeping various bloody tactics outside the city walls.

But now the City Lord of Dongyuncheng has left Dongyuncheng and will not return for some time.

After the City Lord of Dongyuncheng leaves, the struggles among the major factions in Dongyuncheng will likely become even more obvious, possibly affecting the order within the city.

And the Bai family is simply too weak within Dongyuncheng, merely an insignificant Qi Refining family in the city.

For the Bai family to protect itself, the old man Bai had no choice but to expose his grandson's talent in advance to intimidate the numerous factions of Dongyuncheng.

After all, his grandson has already left Dongyuncheng under the City Lord's escort; even if some ill-intentioned people within Dongyuncheng wanted to strike and eliminate him, it is already too late.

Given his grandson's talent, entering the Xuantian Sect is a certainty, and his future growth potential is extremely high.

Under these circumstances, as long as the leaders of the major factions in Dongyuncheng aren't foolish, they will not make a move against their small Bai family in the future.

He believed that what happened in this tavern today would spread to the ears of the leaders of the major factions in Dongyuncheng at the fastest speed.

At that time, as long as his grandson remains unharmed, and the Bai family avoids trouble and does not act too ostentatiously, they can naturally rest easy in Dongyuncheng from now on.

Thinking of this, sensing the envious gazes of the crowd, the old man Bai's face beamed with a very relaxed smile.

He seemed to have already seen the day when his grandson would grow up, and the Bai family would flourish under his protection.

While feeling self-satisfied, the old man Bai slightly opened his mouth, preparing to speak, when suddenly, deafening drumbeats echoed from somewhere:

"Boom!""Boom!""Boom!""What's going on? Where is this drum sound coming from?"

"Strange, why would Dongyuncheng suddenly sound continuous drumbeats for no reason?"

"Could something have happened?"

"This drum sound,,,,,,"

Just as the people in the tavern were filled with doubt and alarm, several old men in the crowd seemed to remember something; their faces instantly changed, and they cried out in panic:

"Not good, this is the war drum of our Dongyuncheng! More than nine beats of the drum... this, this, this is a Green Demon Clan invasion?"

Upon hearing this, everyone in the tavern turned pale with shock.

"The Green Demon Clan? How is that possible? Wasn't the Green Demon Clan already surrounded and exterminated by our Human Race's high command?"

"Yes? There have been no traces of the Green Demon Clan around our Dongyuncheng for over twenty years; how could they suddenly invade Dongyuncheng now?"

Decades ago, when the Di Li Xuan Realm suffered a demonic calamity, Dongyuncheng also encountered an invasion by the Green Demon Clan.

However, due to Dongyuncheng's relatively remote location, its spiritual energy density was far inferior to other regions, and its spiritual veins were extremely scarce.

Therefore, the Green Demon Clan members who came here back then were mostly at the Jin Dan or Purple Mansion realms, with only occasional appearances of one or two Nascent Soul realm Green Demon Clan members.

Furthermore, since the area where Dongyuncheng is located is far from other human settlements, only a few scattered small groups of Green Demon Clan members were attracted there.

Thus, when the demonic calamity suddenly erupted decades ago.

The City Lord of Dongyuncheng, utilizing the Fifth-Rank City-Protecting Great Formation of Dongyuncheng, ultimately managed to block the Green Demon Clan's invasion, barely protecting Dongyuncheng from being massacred by the Green Demon Clan.

Later, when the Human Race's high command began to purge the Green Demon Clan throughout the Di Li Xuan Realm, the Green Demon Clan members appearing around Dongyuncheng also began to vanish.

As time passed, they thought the Green Demon Clan members that had appeared outside Dongyuncheng had either been exterminated or fled the area.

They never expected Dongyuncheng to sound the war drum warning of a Green Demon Clan invasion at this time.

Ye Ye Xuanyun, originally sitting in a corner, paused in his heart upon hearing the exclamations of the cultivators of Dongyuncheng around him.

His mind went blank at that moment, his thoughts in chaos: "Green Demon Clan invasion? Green Demon Clan? Demons... this must be the demonic calamity recorded by our ancestors back then."

"It's over, how can the Green Demon Clan still exist in the outside world? Did I really make the wrong choice?"

Subconsciously looking at Ye Ye Ximing beside him, who had raised his head and was looking at him with a childish face, Ye Ye Xuanyun felt a wave of self-blame:

"Damn it, I shouldn't have violated the ancestral rules of Ye Family Village and brought Ming'er out of Ye Family Village."

"Ming'er is the hope of our Ye Family Village; if anything happens to Ming'er, how can I explain to everyone?"

Thinking of this, Ye Ye Xuanyun took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down, and thought: "There is still hope. Dongyuncheng is just a small city; the fact that there was time to issue a warning indicates that the invading Green Demon Clan members do not have high cultivation bases."

"Ming'er and I have trump cards brought from Ye Family Village; there must still be a chance to escape from the Green Demon Clan."

In a flash, a cultivator dressed as a scholar in the tavern seemed to realize something and said with a gloomy face:

"Damn it, it must be that batch of Green Demon Clan members from back then who set up a hidden outpost somewhere around Dongyuncheng and hid."

"Causing us to think that this group of Green Demon Clan members had been exterminated or had fled the territory of our Dongyuncheng."

"These years, our Dongyuncheng must have been under the surveillance of that group of Green Demon Clan members; the departure of the City Lord must have been detected by them."

"Therefore, these Green Demon Clan members, shortly after the City Lord departed, decisively launched an attack on our Dongyuncheng."

Upon hearing these words, the numerous cultivators in the tavern turned their angry gazes toward the old man Bai from before.

Actually, this person's guess was basically not far off.

When the Human Race's high command began to move to purge the Green Demon Clan in the Di Li Xuan Realm.

This batch of Green Demon Clan members around Dongyuncheng, upon hearing the news, decisively used the Demon Origin Trees they carried and a special concealment great formation as a foundation to establish a small outpost inside a mountain body not far from Dongyuncheng.

These years, this batch of Green Demon Clan members rested and recuperated inside the outpost while secretly spying on Dongyuncheng, this isolated city in a remote region, until a Nascent Soul realm Green Demon Clan powerhouse within the outpost, who had been paying close attention to Dongyuncheng, discovered that the only Nascent Soul realm cultivator in Dongyuncheng had left.

They then decisively organized the Green Demon Clan members within the outpost to launch an attack on Dongyuncheng.

This is how the current situation came to be.

It is not just the territory of Dongyuncheng; in fact, small outposts established by the Green Demon Clan now exist to varying degrees across all regions of the Earthly Profound Realm.

After all, the Earthly Profound Realm is simply too vast, while the Green Demon Realm is a great realm no less powerful than the Earthly Profound Realm in every aspect.

As long as the Green Demon Clan does not actively reveal themselves when ordinary human experts are probing, their concealment techniques give them a very high chance of remaining completely hidden.

It is not just the Green Demon Clan; the cultivators of the human race currently lurking in the Green Demon Realm are no different. Under the gradually calming situation between the two realms, the undercurrents occasionally surfacing in various places have never truly ceased.

And in the boundless sea area of the Earthly Profound Realm, where the sea surface is even more vast, this situation would be even worse.

Sensing everyone's gaze, the old man Bai, who had just been beaming with joy, instantly turned pale. He opened his mouth slightly as if to refute something, but ultimately fell silent.

Because once Dongyuncheng is breached by the Green Demon Clan, it will truly be the end of everything.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom-boom!"

"Not good, the Green Demon Clan has started attacking our Dongyuncheng."

Hearing the roar of energy coming from the high sky, the many cultivators inside the restaurant's expressions changed.

At this moment, they no longer had the heart to condemn or blame the old man Bai. One by one, they left the restaurant at great speed and flew out into the open sky.

Sitting in the corner, Ye Ye Xuanyun also felt a stir in his heart. He grabbed Ye Ye Ximing and followed the crowd out of the restaurant into the open, blending into the throng.

He also wanted to scout the situation in Dongyuncheng in advance to prepare for a breakout that might happen at any moment.

At this moment, all the cultivators within Dongyuncheng had risen into the air, looking out at the situation with tense expressions.

More than a dozen experts at the Jin Dan realm led a group of cultivators at the Purple Mansion realm, suppressing their inner fear and staring with grim faces at the Green Demon Clan outside Dongyuncheng.

Above Dongyuncheng, an amber-colored array barrier had fully reactivated, completely enveloping the entire city.

Outside the array barrier were dozens of Green Demon Clan members wreathed in demonic qi. They gazed fiercely at the humans within Dongyuncheng and recklessly launched attacks against the city's array barrier.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

"Bang! Boom-boom!"

Since the city's great array had lost the guidance of a Nascent Soul cultivator, its power had greatly diminished.

Under the bombardment of these Green Demon Clan members, the array barrier formed by Dongyuncheng's city defense array began to wobble, with cracks spreading everywhere.

Noticing this, a cultivator at the peak of the Jin Dan realm within Dongyuncheng suddenly rose into the air again, reaching the highest point. He shouted anxiously to the many cultivators of Dongyuncheng: "Quickly, channel your spiritual power into the array barrier to stabilize the city defense array and accelerate the repair of the barrier!"

"I have already sent a message to notify my lord the City Lord. As long as we hold out for a while until the City Lord returns, our Dongyuncheng will be saved."

This person was the strongest under the City Lord of Dongyuncheng, the Commander of the City Guard.

"Quick, everyone, act now!"

"The array barrier of Dongyuncheng must not break, or none of us will be able to escape."

"That's right. When the nest is overturned, no egg remains intact. Once Dongyuncheng falls, the Green Demon Clan will surely spare none of us."

"Hold on! As long as the City Lord returns, we will be saved."

"Yes, everyone must not give up. If we all act together to maintain the city defense array, we can definitely hold out until the City Lord returns."

Hearing his words, the many cultivators of Dongyuncheng finally reacted, flying to a spot near the array barrier and beginning to channel their own spiritual power into it.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom-boom!"

"Vroom! Vroom! Vroom!"

On one side was the fierce bombardment by the Green Demon Clan; on the other was the repair effort fueled by the spiritual energy transmitted by all the cultivators of Dongyuncheng.

The city defense array of Dongyuncheng, which had been gradually heading toward collapse, finally reached a stalemate.

Constant cracking and crumbling, countered by a continuous flow of spiritual power providing support and repair, temporarily stabilized the situation in Dongyuncheng.

"Humans, it is merely futile struggle."

Seeing this, a Nascent Soul-level Green Demon Clan member in the high sky looked down with disdain.

With a thought, under the leadership of this Nascent Soul-level Green Demon Clan member, all the Green Demon Clan members surrounding Dongyuncheng instantly intensified their assault.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

"Bang! Bang! Boom-boom!"

Successive explosions of energy instantly erupted at various points above Dongyuncheng, and the sound of these explosions grew increasingly dense.

"Quick, increase the flow of spiritual power! We must not let the Green Demon Clan break through our city defense array!"

Helplessly, the many human cultivators within Dongyuncheng could only follow suit and increase their channeling of spiritual power.

Soon, the faces of some human cultivators with weak cultivation bases turned completely pale, as the spiritual power within their bodies began to face exhaustion.

Among the crowd below, Ye Ye Xuanyun, carrying Ye Ye Ximing, pretended to channel a small amount of spiritual power into the array barrier of Dongyuncheng while carefully observing the Green Demon Clan outside the city.

After confirming the cultivation auras of the dozens of Green Demon Clan members outside Dongyuncheng, Ye Ye Xuanyun immediately breathed a sigh of relief:

"Good, there are only two Nascent Soul-level Green Demon Clan members."

"With the trump cards I brought from Ye Family Village, the other Jin Dan and Purple Mansion-level Green Demon Clan members are nothing to fear."

With a thought, Ye Ye Xuanyun, carrying Ye Ye Ximing, slowly flew toward a corner far away from those two Nascent Soul-level Green Demon Clan members.

Although there were many Jin Dan-level Green Demon Clan members in that direction, Ye Ye Xuanyun was not worried that these Jin Dan-level enemies would pose a danger to him and Ye Ye Ximing.

While moving, Ye Ye Xuanyun also secretly transmitted a message to Ye Ye Ximing, giving him some instructions: "Ming'er, remember, once the array barrier of Dongyuncheng is broken, immediately activate your fifth-grade teleportation talisman to leave Dongyuncheng."

"After escaping Dongyuncheng, I will wait for you in Yunhaizhou City."

"If you cannot find me in Yunhaizhou City, simply look for an opportunity to go to Xuantian Sect. Wait until you have grown strong enough before returning to Ye Family Village."

(End of this chapter)